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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 292 351
Rank change year-on-year -87 +59 +1
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 289 285 245
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.88% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.57% 4.82% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 214 177
10th Percentile £397 £421 £393
25th Percentile £426 £463 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £539 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.69% +5.59% -15.00%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £771 £650 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £520 £490
% change year-on-year -8.27% +6.23% -16.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £71.00 £80.25 -
25th Percentile £72.13 £80.63 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £82.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.70% - -
75th Percentile £91.25 £85.63 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £86.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 - -

All Database & BI 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 8,086 5,917 7,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.37% 18.23% 17.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,351 4,014 5,378
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 102 139
10th Percentile £15.99 £19.71 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.25 £25.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -6.67% -31.82%
75th Percentile £64.00 £64.31 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £31.25
% change year-on-year +20.89% +1.25% -40.48%

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 15 July 2026.

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 15 July 2026.

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 15 July 2026. 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 -95 237 £500 -5.21% 103
London -55 135 £525 -4.55% 29
UK excluding London -95 110 £477 -8.27% 95
Work from Home -85 92 £500 -9.26% 83
Midlands -36 49 £475 - 10
West Midlands -49 42 £472 -0.63% 7
North of England -53 33 £463 -13.87% 28
Yorkshire -38 20 £500 - 7
North West -43 9 £535 -2.73% 10
South East -74 9 £440 -23.57% 21
Scotland -18 8 £425 -15.10% 7
South West -34 8 £542 -7.19% 15
East Midlands -9 6 £519 +36.58% 3
North East -36 4 £425 -5.56% 11
East of England -28 3 £350 -36.36% 7
Wales - 2 £525 - 3

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 30 (10.38%) Confluence
2 7 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.42%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.42%) SAS
2 7 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.38%) Apache
5 3 (1.04%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 279 (96.54%) AWS
2 186 (64.36%) Amazon S3
3 160 (55.36%) AWS Lambda
4 159 (55.02%) Serverless
5 132 (45.67%) Amazon EC2
6 102 (35.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 74 (25.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 72 (24.91%) Amazon ECS
9 66 (22.84%) Amazon EKS
10 58 (20.07%) GitHub
11 52 (17.99%) Azure
12 49 (16.96%) Amazon SQS
13 44 (15.22%) AWS CloudFormation
14 38 (13.15%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (12.46%) Route 53
16 32 (11.07%) AWS KMS
17 25 (8.65%) AWS Step Functions
18 20 (6.92%) Amazon EventBridge
19 19 (6.57%) Power Platform
20 18 (6.23%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.50%) Firewall
2 8 (2.77%) DNS
3 7 (2.42%) DHCP
3 7 (2.42%) VPN
4 5 (1.73%) Network Security
5 4 (1.38%) SMTP
6 3 (1.04%) NetScaler
6 3 (1.04%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.69%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.35%) AMQP
8 1 (0.35%) HTTP
8 1 (0.35%) IPsec
8 1 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (25.61%) DynamoDB
2 69 (23.88%) PostgreSQL
3 62 (21.45%) Amazon Aurora
4 30 (10.38%) MySQL
5 24 (8.30%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (6.57%) Power BI
7 17 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (5.54%) SQL Server
9 13 (4.50%) Data Lake
9 13 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (4.15%) Big Data
11 11 (3.81%) Pentaho
12 10 (3.46%) MongoDB
12 10 (3.46%) Relational Database
12 10 (3.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (3.11%) Tableau
14 8 (2.77%) Apache Iceberg
14 8 (2.77%) NoSQL
15 7 (2.42%) Redis
16 6 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 88 (30.45%) Jenkins
2 69 (23.88%) Git
3 40 (13.84%) GitLab
4 39 (13.49%) JIRA
5 27 (9.34%) JUnit
6 24 (8.30%) Maven
6 24 (8.30%) Mockito
7 21 (7.27%) SonarQube
8 14 (4.84%) DbUnit
9 13 (4.50%) jMock
10 11 (3.81%) Bitbucket Server
11 10 (3.46%) Claude Code
12 7 (2.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (2.42%) Bitbucket
12 7 (2.42%) Postman
13 6 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (1.73%) Cucumber
15 4 (1.38%) Flyway
15 4 (1.38%) Gradle
16 3 (1.04%) Artifactory
General
1 76 (26.30%) Social Skills
2 64 (22.15%) Public Sector
3 39 (13.49%) Finance
4 29 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.92%) Banking
6 9 (3.11%) Legal
6 9 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.73%) Front Office
9 4 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.04%) Back Office
10 3 (1.04%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Law
11 2 (0.69%) Local Government
11 2 (0.69%) Marketing
12 1 (0.35%) Games
12 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (20.07%) AWS Engineer
2 49 (16.96%) Senior
3 48 (16.61%) Developer
4 42 (14.53%) Architect
5 33 (11.42%) Data Engineer
6 31 (10.73%) DevOps Engineer
7 29 (10.03%) Java Developer
8 27 (9.34%) AWS Architect
9 22 (7.61%) Lead
10 20 (6.92%) DBA
11 19 (6.57%) AWS DevOps
12 18 (6.23%) Cloud Engineer
13 16 (5.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 16 (5.54%) Technical Architect
14 15 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
15 14 (4.84%) Software Engineer
16 12 (4.15%) Python Engineer
16 12 (4.15%) Senior Developer
17 11 (3.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 10 (3.46%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (16.26%) REST
2 45 (15.57%) Spring
2 45 (15.57%) Spring Boot
3 41 (14.19%) RESTful
4 38 (13.15%) React
5 36 (12.46%) Node.js
6 29 (10.03%) AngularJS
7 26 (9.00%) AWS CDK
8 25 (8.65%) SOAP
9 22 (7.61%) Kafka
10 21 (7.27%) ActiveMQ
11 19 (6.57%) Hibernate
11 19 (6.57%) JPA
11 19 (6.57%) Web Services
12 18 (6.23%) GraphQL
12 18 (6.23%) Spring Batch
12 18 (6.23%) Spring Integration
13 17 (5.88%) .NET
13 17 (5.88%) Spring Cloud
14 13 (4.50%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 68 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 34 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (9.69%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.15%) Replication
5 10 (3.46%) NHS
5 10 (3.46%) Virtual Team
6 8 (2.77%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.08%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.73%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.73%) Clustering
8 5 (1.73%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.38%) Autonomous Agent
9 4 (1.38%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.38%) PKI
10 3 (1.04%) Derivative
10 3 (1.04%) Equities
10 3 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.04%) PropTech
11 2 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 57 (19.72%) Linux
2 21 (7.27%) Windows
3 14 (4.84%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.77%) Unix
5 5 (1.73%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.04%) AIX
6 3 (1.04%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.35%) CentOS
7 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (58.13%) CI/CD
2 125 (43.25%) Agile
3 123 (42.56%) DevOps
4 95 (32.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 85 (29.41%) Microservices
6 65 (22.49%) Containerisation
7 46 (15.92%) Observability
8 43 (14.88%) Scrum
9 42 (14.53%) Event-Driven
10 41 (14.19%) Performance Tuning
11 39 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (13.49%) Migration
12 38 (13.15%) ETL
13 37 (12.80%) Software Engineering
14 36 (12.46%) Data Modelling
15 35 (12.11%) Stakeholder Management
16 34 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
17 32 (11.07%) High Availability
18 31 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
18 31 (10.73%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 109 (37.72%) Python
2 85 (29.41%) SQL
3 81 (28.03%) Java
4 32 (11.07%) TypeScript
5 24 (8.30%) Bash
6 21 (7.27%) PowerShell
7 20 (6.92%) JavaScript
8 16 (5.54%) C#
9 11 (3.81%) Shell Script
10 10 (3.46%) Groovy
11 6 (2.08%) Scala
12 5 (1.73%) Perl
13 4 (1.38%) Go
13 4 (1.38%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.69%) Ruby
15 1 (0.35%) Bicep
15 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 108 (37.37%) Security Cleared
2 93 (32.18%) SC Cleared
3 37 (12.80%) AWS Certification
4 19 (6.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (5.88%) Degree
6 14 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (3.11%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.11%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.04%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.69%) PMP
11 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.50%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.77%) QA
3 7 (2.42%) PMO
4 4 (1.38%) GDPR
4 4 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.38%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.38%) SLA
5 3 (1.04%) HL7
5 3 (1.04%) NCSC
6 2 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.69%) NIST
7 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 98 (33.91%) Docker
2 12 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.81%) Postfix
4 6 (2.08%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.38%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.38%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.38%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 114 (39.45%) Terraform
2 68 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 54 (18.69%) Grafana
4 36 (12.46%) Prometheus
5 24 (8.30%) Ansible
6 7 (2.42%) Argo
7 5 (1.73%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.73%) Puppet
8 4 (1.38%) Istio
8 4 (1.38%) Kibana
8 4 (1.38%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.38%) vMotion
9 3 (1.04%) Foglight
9 3 (1.04%) Nagios
9 3 (1.04%) Rancher
10 2 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.69%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.35%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 26 (9.00%) ServiceNow
2 25 (8.65%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.96%) Oracle
4 17 (5.88%) Jaspersoft
5 15 (5.19%) Atlassian
6 14 (4.84%) Dynatrace
7 10 (3.46%) Informatica
8 9 (3.11%) Databricks
8 9 (3.11%) VMware
9 7 (2.42%) Denodo
9 7 (2.42%) Salesforce
10 6 (2.08%) Splunk
10 6 (2.08%) Talend
11 5 (1.73%) Amplitude
11 5 (1.73%) Citrix
11 5 (1.73%) Google
12 4 (1.38%) Brio
12 4 (1.38%) HP
12 4 (1.38%) OpenAI
12 4 (1.38%) Symantec