Amazon RDS Contract Job Trends

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Amazon RDS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 314 354
Rank change year-on-year -6 +40 -12
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 291 234 257
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.79% 0.69% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.56% 3.81% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 145 187
10th Percentile £378 £431 £413
25th Percentile £430 £496 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +1.29% -3.47%
75th Percentile £577 £675 £613
90th Percentile £635 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £543
% change year-on-year -0.68% -11.92% +8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Amazon RDS falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,382 6,134 7,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.31% 18.00% 16.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,393 4,051 5,218
10th Percentile £325 £341 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £766 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 84 141
10th Percentile £20.72 £18.74 £16.61
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.43 £21.64
Median hourly rate £47.61 £30.40 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +56.61% -34.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £69.44 £64.50 £64.53
90th Percentile £85.00 £66.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.10 £27.24 £46.18
% change year-on-year +105.97% -41.02% +1.49%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon RDS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in the UK

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon RDS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon RDS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon RDS over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon RDS within the UK over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -9 218 £510 -8.52% 57
UK excluding London +42 125 £475 -0.68% 54
London -34 105 £513 -12.77% 15
Work from Home -26 89 £565 +4.82% 36
Midlands -3 44 £475 -6.77% 4
West Midlands -2 36 £475 -6.77% 4
North of England -28 29 £500 -23.08% 15
South East -3 19 £475 +11.76% 14
North West -12 16 £413 -38.89% 6
Scotland +2 15 £358 -24.11% 1
Yorkshire -42 9 £518 -11.91% 8
South West +3 8 £525 -12.62% 15
East Midlands -13 8 £380 -24.00%
East of England -15 8 £550 - 1
North East -7 4 £500 - 1
Wales +1 1 £475 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (9.28%) Confluence
2 11 (3.78%) nginx
3 9 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.41%) Apache
5 2 (0.69%) IIS
5 2 (0.69%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.34%) CICS
6 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (3.78%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (1.37%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Maximo
2 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 286 (98.28%) AWS
2 195 (67.01%) Amazon S3
3 176 (60.48%) Amazon EC2
4 174 (59.79%) Serverless
5 172 (59.11%) AWS Lambda
6 115 (39.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 109 (37.46%) Amazon ECS
8 108 (37.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 96 (32.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 93 (31.96%) Amazon EKS
11 91 (31.27%) GitHub
12 68 (23.37%) GitHub Actions
13 48 (16.49%) Azure
14 43 (14.78%) Route 53
15 26 (8.93%) AWS Step Functions
15 26 (8.93%) Datadog
16 23 (7.90%) AWS Fargate
17 22 (7.56%) Amazon ELB
17 22 (7.56%) AWS KMS
18 21 (7.22%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 37 (12.71%) Firewall
2 33 (11.34%) DNS
3 23 (7.90%) HTTP
4 19 (6.53%) SMTP
5 18 (6.19%) FTP
5 18 (6.19%) SSH
6 13 (4.47%) VPN
7 11 (3.78%) IMAP
7 11 (3.78%) OpenLDAP
8 6 (2.06%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (1.37%) Internet
9 4 (1.37%) Network Security
9 4 (1.37%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.03%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.69%) LAN
11 2 (0.69%) WAN
12 1 (0.34%) DHCP
12 1 (0.34%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.34%) VLAN
12 1 (0.34%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (26.80%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (16.49%) Amazon Aurora
3 47 (16.15%) DynamoDB
4 35 (12.03%) MySQL
5 29 (9.97%) Relational Database
5 29 (9.97%) SQL Server
6 26 (8.93%) NoSQL
7 23 (7.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 21 (7.22%) Amazon Athena
9 20 (6.87%) MongoDB
10 12 (4.12%) Redis
11 11 (3.78%) RDBMS
12 9 (3.09%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (3.09%) Hadoop
12 9 (3.09%) Oracle Database
13 7 (2.41%) BigQuery
13 7 (2.41%) Data Lake
14 6 (2.06%) Couchbase
15 5 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 132 (45.36%) Jenkins
2 88 (30.24%) Git
3 79 (27.15%) GitLab
4 41 (14.09%) JIRA
5 19 (6.53%) Vagrant
6 14 (4.81%) Bitbucket
7 12 (4.12%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (3.44%) Maven
9 8 (2.75%) Cypress.io
10 7 (2.41%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.72%) Gradle
11 5 (1.72%) SonarLint
12 4 (1.37%) JUnit
12 4 (1.37%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.69%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.69%) Gatling
14 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
14 1 (0.34%) RStudio
14 1 (0.34%) webpack
General
1 86 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 44 (15.12%) Public Sector
3 42 (14.43%) Finance
4 17 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.84%) Banking
5 12 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.37%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.69%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.69%) Legal
8 2 (0.69%) Marketing
8 2 (0.69%) Publishing
9 1 (0.34%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.34%) Games
9 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.34%) Military
9 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (29.21%) AWS Engineer
2 83 (28.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 53 (18.21%) AWS DevOps
4 46 (15.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 41 (14.09%) Senior
6 39 (13.40%) Platform Engineer
7 33 (11.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 33 (11.34%) Developer
8 26 (8.93%) Architect
8 26 (8.93%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 24 (8.25%) Lead
10 19 (6.53%) Data Engineer
11 18 (6.19%) Site Engineer
12 17 (5.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 16 (5.50%) Senior DevOps
14 15 (5.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 14 (4.81%) AWS Developer
15 14 (4.81%) Software Engineer
16 12 (4.12%) DBA
17 10 (3.44%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (14.78%) Kafka
2 37 (12.71%) Node.js
3 32 (11.00%) RESTful
4 30 (10.31%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (6.87%) React
6 19 (6.53%) Spring Boot
7 16 (5.50%) AWS CDK
8 15 (5.15%) Spring
9 12 (4.12%) LDAP
10 10 (3.44%) CSS
11 9 (3.09%) Jest
11 9 (3.09%) REST
12 8 (2.75%) Django
12 8 (2.75%) GraphQL
12 8 (2.75%) JSON
12 8 (2.75%) Keycloak
12 8 (2.75%) PySpark
12 8 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (2.41%) Lambda Expressions
13 7 (2.41%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.75%) Replication
2 37 (12.71%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.12%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (3.09%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.06%) Clustering
7 6 (2.06%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (2.06%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.72%) N-Tier
8 5 (1.72%) PKI
9 4 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.37%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.03%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.03%) Derivative
10 3 (1.03%) NHS
11 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 95 (32.65%) Linux
2 25 (8.59%) Windows
3 22 (7.56%) Amazon Linux
4 20 (6.87%) VMS
5 13 (4.47%) Unix
6 11 (3.78%) Ubuntu
7 8 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.72%) Windows Server
9 4 (1.37%) CentOS
9 4 (1.37%) Solaris
10 1 (0.34%) AIX
10 1 (0.34%) Android
10 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.34%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (65.29%) CI/CD
2 162 (55.67%) DevOps
3 134 (46.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 101 (34.71%) Containerisation
5 76 (26.12%) Agile
6 61 (20.96%) Microservices
7 58 (19.93%) Configuration Management
8 50 (17.18%) Observability
9 49 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (15.12%) Platform Engineering
11 43 (14.78%) Migration
12 39 (13.40%) Performance Tuning
13 38 (13.06%) Event-Driven
14 37 (12.71%) Software Engineering
15 36 (12.37%) Cloud Security
16 30 (10.31%) Cost Optimisation
17 28 (9.62%) Change Management
17 28 (9.62%) Secrets Management
18 27 (9.28%) Mentoring
18 27 (9.28%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 170 (58.42%) Python
2 83 (28.52%) SQL
3 75 (25.77%) Java
4 57 (19.59%) Bash
5 46 (15.81%) PowerShell
6 27 (9.28%) JavaScript
6 27 (9.28%) Shell Script
7 26 (8.93%) Groovy
8 20 (6.87%) Go
9 19 (6.53%) Perl
9 19 (6.53%) TypeScript
10 12 (4.12%) Ruby
11 8 (2.75%) C#
12 6 (2.06%) JSX
13 3 (1.03%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.69%) C
14 2 (0.69%) PHP
15 1 (0.34%) Bicep
15 1 (0.34%) COBOL
15 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (30.58%) Security Cleared
2 73 (25.09%) SC Cleared
3 61 (20.96%) AWS Certification
4 28 (9.62%) Degree
5 21 (7.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (5.15%) Azure Certification
7 12 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (3.09%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.72%) OCP
10 5 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.34%) MySQL Certification
13 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.50%) GDPR
1 16 (5.50%) QA
2 9 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.75%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.41%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.41%) NCSC
5 6 (2.06%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.72%) NIST
7 3 (1.03%) SLA
8 2 (0.69%) GxP
8 2 (0.69%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.69%) WCAG
9 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 138 (47.42%) Docker
2 18 (6.19%) DFS Replication
3 12 (4.12%) Active Directory
4 11 (3.78%) Dovecot
4 11 (3.78%) Postfix
4 11 (3.78%) Squid
5 8 (2.75%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.03%) NFS
8 2 (0.69%) HDFS
9 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 180 (61.86%) Terraform
2 104 (35.74%) Kubernetes
3 86 (29.55%) Grafana
4 74 (25.43%) Prometheus
5 45 (15.46%) Ansible
6 23 (7.90%) Progress Chef
7 21 (7.22%) Puppet
8 11 (3.78%) Nessus
9 10 (3.44%) Proxmox
10 8 (2.75%) Packer
11 6 (2.06%) Argo
12 4 (1.37%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (1.37%) Kibana
12 4 (1.37%) Rancher
13 3 (1.03%) Data Guard
13 3 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (1.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (1.03%) Oracle RMAN
14 2 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.69%) systemd
Vendors
1 31 (10.65%) Oracle
2 24 (8.25%) ServiceNow
3 23 (7.90%) Microsoft
4 13 (4.47%) IBM
5 12 (4.12%) Splunk
6 11 (3.78%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (3.44%) Dynatrace
7 10 (3.44%) PagerDuty
8 8 (2.75%) Confluent
9 7 (2.41%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.72%) Gigya
11 4 (1.37%) CloudEndure
11 4 (1.37%) Okta
12 3 (1.03%) Cloudera
12 3 (1.03%) Databricks
12 3 (1.03%) Google
12 3 (1.03%) SAP
12 3 (1.03%) Sybase
13 2 (0.69%) Informatica
13 2 (0.69%) Qualys