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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 325 352
Rank change year-on-year +19 +27 -10
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 296 232 276
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.82% 0.65% 0.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.69% 3.61% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 144 207
10th Percentile £380 £437 £413
25th Percentile £438 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £625
90th Percentile £638 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £550
% change year-on-year -2.01% -11.86% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £68.25 - -
25th Percentile £71.19 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
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 6,318 6,430 7,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.41% 18.01% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,344 4,251 5,359
10th Percentile £326 £340 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £527 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -1.50% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 86 144
10th Percentile £20.71 £18.25 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.10 £21.57
Median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +37.90% -31.69% -7.64%
75th Percentile £67.13 £55.25 £64.65
90th Percentile £83.95 £65.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.36 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +79.49% -40.45% +2.99%

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 7 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 7 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Top 16 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 7 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 +10 225 £500 -11.50% 109
UK excluding London +34 124 £475 -2.01% 108
London -31 109 £513 -14.58% 18
Work from Home -21 92 £555 +2.97% 87
Midlands 0 44 £475 -6.77% 14
West Midlands 0 36 £475 -6.77% 8
North of England -21 30 £500 -23.08% 27
South East +1 17 £449 +12.13% 28
North West -4 16 £413 -38.89% 19
Scotland -1 14 £358 -24.11% 6
East of England -4 10 £550 - 9
Yorkshire -34 9 £518 -11.91% 7
South West -6 8 £523 -12.97% 19
East Midlands -11 8 £380 -24.00% 5
North East -1 5 £450 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 29 (9.80%) Confluence
2 11 (3.72%) nginx
3 9 (3.04%) Apache
3 9 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.35%) IIS
4 4 (1.35%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.34%) CICS
5 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (3.72%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (2.03%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Maximo
2 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 289 (97.64%) AWS
2 198 (66.89%) Amazon S3
3 179 (60.47%) Amazon EC2
4 172 (58.11%) Serverless
5 171 (57.77%) AWS Lambda
6 117 (39.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 107 (36.15%) Amazon ECS
8 106 (35.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 95 (32.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 91 (30.74%) GitHub
11 87 (29.39%) Amazon EKS
12 67 (22.64%) GitHub Actions
13 43 (14.53%) Azure
14 42 (14.19%) Route 53
15 29 (9.80%) AWS Step Functions
16 26 (8.78%) Datadog
17 25 (8.45%) Amazon Kinesis
18 24 (8.11%) Amazon ELB
18 24 (8.11%) AWS Fargate
18 24 (8.11%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (12.84%) Firewall
2 35 (11.82%) DNS
3 24 (8.11%) HTTP
4 21 (7.09%) SMTP
5 20 (6.76%) FTP
5 20 (6.76%) SSH
6 11 (3.72%) IMAP
6 11 (3.72%) OpenLDAP
6 11 (3.72%) VPN
7 6 (2.03%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (1.35%) Internet
8 4 (1.35%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.01%) Network Security
10 2 (0.68%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.34%) DHCP
11 1 (0.34%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.34%) LAN
11 1 (0.34%) VLAN
11 1 (0.34%) VSAN
11 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (26.69%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (16.22%) Amazon Aurora
2 48 (16.22%) DynamoDB
3 36 (12.16%) MySQL
4 30 (10.14%) SQL Server
5 29 (9.80%) Relational Database
6 26 (8.78%) NoSQL
7 21 (7.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (6.76%) Amazon Athena
9 18 (6.08%) MongoDB
10 12 (4.05%) RDBMS
10 12 (4.05%) Redis
11 10 (3.38%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (3.04%) Hadoop
13 8 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (2.70%) DB2
14 7 (2.36%) BigQuery
14 7 (2.36%) Oracle Database
15 6 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (2.03%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 135 (45.61%) Jenkins
2 91 (30.74%) Git
3 76 (25.68%) GitLab
4 41 (13.85%) JIRA
5 21 (7.09%) Vagrant
6 13 (4.39%) Bitbucket
7 12 (4.05%) Maven
8 11 (3.72%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (2.70%) Cypress.io
9 8 (2.70%) SonarQube
10 7 (2.36%) JUnit
11 5 (1.69%) Gradle
11 5 (1.69%) SonarLint
12 4 (1.35%) Terragrunt
13 3 (1.01%) Gatling
14 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.68%) CircleCI
15 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
15 1 (0.34%) RStudio
15 1 (0.34%) webpack
General
1 89 (30.07%) Social Skills
2 44 (14.86%) Public Sector
3 42 (14.19%) Finance
4 19 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.41%) Banking
6 12 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.35%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.68%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.68%) Legal
9 2 (0.68%) Marketing
9 2 (0.68%) Publishing
10 1 (0.34%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.34%) Games
10 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.34%) Military
10 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (28.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 82 (27.70%) AWS Engineer
3 52 (17.57%) AWS DevOps
4 45 (15.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 42 (14.19%) Senior
6 41 (13.85%) Developer
7 39 (13.18%) Platform Engineer
8 33 (11.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 26 (8.78%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 25 (8.45%) Architect
10 25 (8.45%) Lead
11 19 (6.42%) Data Engineer
12 17 (5.74%) AWS Developer
12 17 (5.74%) Site Engineer
13 16 (5.41%) Senior DevOps
13 16 (5.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 15 (5.07%) Java Developer
14 15 (5.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 14 (4.73%) Software Engineer
16 10 (3.38%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (13.85%) Kafka
2 37 (12.50%) Node.js
3 32 (10.81%) RESTful
4 30 (10.14%) Elastic Stack
5 21 (7.09%) Spring Boot
6 18 (6.08%) React
7 17 (5.74%) Spring
8 15 (5.07%) AWS CDK
9 12 (4.05%) LDAP
10 10 (3.38%) CSS
10 10 (3.38%) Jest
10 10 (3.38%) REST
11 8 (2.70%) Django
11 8 (2.70%) GraphQL
11 8 (2.70%) Keycloak
11 8 (2.70%) PySpark
11 8 (2.70%) Sass
12 7 (2.36%) JSON
12 7 (2.36%) Lambda Expressions
12 7 (2.36%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.53%) Replication
2 33 (11.15%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.39%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.36%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.36%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.03%) Clustering
7 6 (2.03%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.69%) N-Tier
8 5 (1.69%) PKI
9 4 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.35%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.01%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.01%) Derivative
10 3 (1.01%) NHS
11 2 (0.68%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.68%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 91 (30.74%) Linux
2 29 (9.80%) Windows
3 24 (8.11%) Amazon Linux
4 22 (7.43%) VMS
5 13 (4.39%) Unix
6 11 (3.72%) Ubuntu
7 7 (2.36%) Windows Server
8 5 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (1.35%) CentOS
9 4 (1.35%) Solaris
10 1 (0.34%) AIX
10 1 (0.34%) Android
10 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.34%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (63.18%) CI/CD
2 163 (55.07%) DevOps
3 129 (43.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 99 (33.45%) Containerisation
5 81 (27.36%) Agile
6 64 (21.62%) Microservices
7 57 (19.26%) Configuration Management
8 51 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
9 49 (16.55%) Observability
10 46 (15.54%) Platform Engineering
11 43 (14.53%) Migration
12 36 (12.16%) Performance Tuning
13 35 (11.82%) Cloud Security
13 35 (11.82%) Software Engineering
14 34 (11.49%) Event-Driven
15 30 (10.14%) Change Management
16 28 (9.46%) Analytics
16 28 (9.46%) Cost Optimisation
16 28 (9.46%) Secrets Management
17 26 (8.78%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 171 (57.77%) Python
2 80 (27.03%) Java
2 80 (27.03%) SQL
3 55 (18.58%) Bash
4 47 (15.88%) PowerShell
5 30 (10.14%) JavaScript
6 28 (9.46%) Groovy
7 23 (7.77%) Shell Script
8 20 (6.76%) Perl
9 19 (6.42%) Go
10 18 (6.08%) TypeScript
11 11 (3.72%) Ruby
12 7 (2.36%) C#
13 6 (2.03%) JSX
14 3 (1.01%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.68%) C
15 2 (0.68%) PHP
16 1 (0.34%) Bicep
16 1 (0.34%) COBOL
16 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 92 (31.08%) Security Cleared
2 76 (25.68%) SC Cleared
3 60 (20.27%) AWS Certification
4 28 (9.46%) Degree
5 20 (6.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 13 (4.39%) Azure Certification
7 12 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (3.38%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.68%) OCP
12 2 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.34%) MCSE
13 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.34%) PMP
13 1 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.42%) QA
2 12 (4.05%) GDPR
3 8 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.36%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.36%) NCSC
5 5 (1.69%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.01%) NIST
6 3 (1.01%) SLA
7 2 (0.68%) GxP
7 2 (0.68%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.68%) WCAG
8 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 140 (47.30%) Docker
2 20 (6.76%) DFS Replication
3 14 (4.73%) Active Directory
4 11 (3.72%) Dovecot
4 11 (3.72%) Postfix
4 11 (3.72%) Squid
5 8 (2.70%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.01%) NFS
7 1 (0.34%) HDFS
7 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 178 (60.14%) Terraform
2 103 (34.80%) Kubernetes
3 86 (29.05%) Grafana
4 75 (25.34%) Prometheus
5 42 (14.19%) Ansible
6 22 (7.43%) Progress Chef
7 20 (6.76%) Puppet
8 11 (3.72%) Nessus
9 10 (3.38%) Proxmox
10 8 (2.70%) Packer
11 5 (1.69%) Argo
12 4 (1.35%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (1.35%) Kibana
12 4 (1.35%) Rancher
13 3 (1.01%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.34%) Consul
14 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
14 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
14 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (9.46%) Oracle
2 27 (9.12%) ServiceNow
3 25 (8.45%) Microsoft
4 15 (5.07%) IBM
5 12 (4.05%) Splunk
6 11 (3.72%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (3.38%) Dynatrace
7 10 (3.38%) PagerDuty
8 8 (2.70%) Confluent
9 5 (1.69%) Gigya
10 4 (1.35%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.35%) Okta
10 4 (1.35%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.35%) Sybase
11 3 (1.01%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.01%) Databricks
11 3 (1.01%) Google
11 3 (1.01%) SAP
11 3 (1.01%) UiPath
12 2 (0.68%) Blue Prism