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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 294 343
Rank change year-on-year -31 +49 -16
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 280 234 252
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.75% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.50% 4.09% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 144 186
10th Percentile £368 £427 £409
25th Percentile £417 £477 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £538 £528
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% +1.94% -10.29%
75th Percentile £579 £633 £600
90th Percentile £638 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £496 £530
% change year-on-year -0.60% -6.42% +4.69%
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 £89.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 6,229 5,725 7,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.71% 18.30% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,298 3,767 5,044
10th Percentile £333 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 79 162
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.78 £16.01
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £21.64
Median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -22.22% -20.86%
75th Percentile £74.37 £64.61 £63.56
90th Percentile £84.10 £67.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.36 £28.65 £42.50
% change year-on-year +72.29% -32.59% -22.73%

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 January 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 20 January 2026.

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 January 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 -11 220 £520 -5.45% 158
London -39 119 £513 -10.09% 31
UK excluding London +2 113 £493 -0.60% 143
Work from Home -32 80 £575 +7.68% 94
Midlands -18 37 £475 -10.29% 19
West Midlands -13 32 £500 -5.48% 11
North of England -36 28 £500 -4.76% 31
South East -9 17 £475 +11.76% 42
North West -15 14 £450 +20.00% 11
South West +4 12 £606 +7.66% 17
Scotland -3 12 £358 -24.95% 6
Yorkshire -42 10 £509 -13.40% 15
East Midlands -23 5 £378 -34.35% 7
North East -10 4 £500 - 5
East of England -15 4 £538 +22.86% 20
Wales -5 2 £488 - 9
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 22 (7.86%) Confluence
2 9 (3.21%) nginx
3 6 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.07%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (3.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (1.07%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 280 (100.00%) AWS
2 180 (64.29%) Amazon S3
3 166 (59.29%) Serverless
4 165 (58.93%) AWS Lambda
5 159 (56.79%) Amazon EC2
6 108 (38.57%) Amazon ECS
7 100 (35.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 100 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 90 (32.14%) Amazon EKS
9 80 (28.57%) GitHub
10 79 (28.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 60 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
12 45 (16.07%) Azure
13 43 (15.36%) Route 53
14 27 (9.64%) Amazon Kinesis
14 27 (9.64%) AWS Step Functions
15 23 (8.21%) AWS Fargate
16 22 (7.86%) Amazon MSK
16 22 (7.86%) Datadog
17 18 (6.43%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (11.79%) Firewall
2 30 (10.71%) DNS
3 17 (6.07%) HTTP
4 14 (5.00%) FTP
4 14 (5.00%) SMTP
4 14 (5.00%) SSH
5 9 (3.21%) IMAP
5 9 (3.21%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (2.86%) VPN
7 4 (1.43%) Network Security
8 3 (1.07%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.71%) Internet
9 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.36%) LAN
10 1 (0.36%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (25.71%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (17.86%) Amazon Aurora
2 50 (17.86%) DynamoDB
3 42 (15.00%) MySQL
4 30 (10.71%) NoSQL
5 28 (10.00%) Relational Database
6 25 (8.93%) MongoDB
7 23 (8.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (8.21%) SQL Server
8 17 (6.07%) Amazon Athena
9 16 (5.71%) Redis
10 11 (3.93%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (3.93%) Hadoop
10 11 (3.93%) RDBMS
11 10 (3.57%) Oracle Database
12 8 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (2.14%) BigQuery
13 6 (2.14%) Couchbase
13 6 (2.14%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 124 (44.29%) Jenkins
2 75 (26.79%) Git
3 70 (25.00%) GitLab
4 35 (12.50%) JIRA
5 14 (5.00%) Vagrant
6 13 (4.64%) Bitbucket
7 12 (4.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (3.57%) Maven
9 8 (2.86%) Cypress.io
10 7 (2.50%) SonarQube
11 6 (2.14%) JUnit
12 5 (1.79%) Gradle
12 5 (1.79%) SonarLint
13 4 (1.43%) Oracle APEX
13 4 (1.43%) Snyk
13 4 (1.43%) Terragrunt
14 2 (0.71%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.71%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.71%) Gatling
14 2 (0.71%) Storybook
General
1 78 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.64%) Finance
2 41 (14.64%) Public Sector
3 16 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (5.71%) Banking
4 13 (4.64%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.07%) Legal
7 2 (0.71%) Health Technology
7 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.71%) Military
7 2 (0.71%) Publishing
8 1 (0.36%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.36%) Front Office
8 1 (0.36%) Games
8 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.36%) Marketing
8 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (26.43%) AWS Engineer
2 65 (23.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 39 (13.93%) Developer
5 36 (12.86%) Senior
6 35 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
7 34 (12.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 29 (10.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 26 (9.29%) Architect
10 24 (8.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 22 (7.86%) Software Engineer
12 21 (7.50%) Data Engineer
13 20 (7.14%) Lead
14 19 (6.79%) Site Engineer
15 18 (6.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 17 (6.07%) DBA
17 15 (5.36%) AWS Developer
18 14 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
18 14 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 13 (4.64%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (17.14%) Kafka
2 35 (12.50%) RESTful
3 33 (11.79%) Node.js
4 24 (8.57%) Spring Boot
5 23 (8.21%) React
6 21 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
7 20 (7.14%) Spring
8 15 (5.36%) REST
9 14 (5.00%) AWS CDK
10 12 (4.29%) CSS
11 10 (3.57%) FastAPI
11 10 (3.57%) LDAP
12 9 (3.21%) Jest
12 9 (3.21%) Next.js
13 8 (2.86%) .NET
13 8 (2.86%) Django
13 8 (2.86%) Flask
13 8 (2.86%) Keycloak
13 8 (2.86%) PySpark
14 7 (2.50%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 47 (16.79%) Cloud Native
2 33 (11.79%) Replication
3 22 (7.86%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.50%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.14%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (1.79%) N-Tier
8 4 (1.43%) Clustering
8 4 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.43%) NHS
8 4 (1.43%) PKI
9 3 (1.07%) Derivative
9 3 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.71%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.71%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 79 (28.21%) Linux
2 17 (6.07%) Amazon Linux
2 17 (6.07%) Windows
3 15 (5.36%) VMS
4 11 (3.93%) Unix
5 9 (3.21%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.43%) CentOS
8 3 (1.07%) Solaris
9 2 (0.71%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.36%) Android
10 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (65.00%) CI/CD
2 138 (49.29%) DevOps
3 125 (44.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (33.57%) Containerisation
5 75 (26.79%) Agile
6 70 (25.00%) Microservices
7 51 (18.21%) Observability
8 49 (17.50%) Configuration Management
9 45 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (15.71%) Software Engineering
11 42 (15.00%) Event-Driven
12 41 (14.64%) Performance Tuning
13 38 (13.57%) Platform Engineering
14 34 (12.14%) Migration
15 31 (11.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 31 (11.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 30 (10.71%) Analytics
16 30 (10.71%) Cloud Security
16 30 (10.71%) Cost Optimisation
16 30 (10.71%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 163 (58.21%) Python
2 90 (32.14%) SQL
3 77 (27.50%) Java
4 52 (18.57%) Bash
5 40 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 27 (9.64%) Shell Script
7 22 (7.86%) JavaScript
8 21 (7.50%) Go
8 21 (7.50%) Groovy
9 17 (6.07%) TypeScript
10 16 (5.71%) Perl
11 12 (4.29%) Ruby
12 9 (3.21%) C#
13 8 (2.86%) PL/SQL
14 6 (2.14%) JSX
15 3 (1.07%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.71%) C
17 1 (0.36%) Bicep
17 1 (0.36%) R
17 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 91 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 72 (25.71%) SC Cleared
3 55 (19.64%) AWS Certification
4 19 (6.79%) Degree
5 16 (5.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (5.71%) DV Cleared
6 14 (5.00%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.79%) OCP
9 5 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.36%) CEH
13 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.36%) PMP
13 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.71%) GDPR
2 14 (5.00%) QA
3 11 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.57%) NIST
5 8 (2.86%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.86%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.14%) NCSC
7 4 (1.43%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.07%) SLA
9 2 (0.71%) GxP
9 2 (0.71%) WCAG
10 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 133 (47.50%) Docker
2 14 (5.00%) DFS Replication
3 9 (3.21%) Dovecot
3 9 (3.21%) Postfix
3 9 (3.21%) Squid
4 8 (2.86%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (1.43%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.07%) NFS
6 3 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.71%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 168 (60.00%) Terraform
2 104 (37.14%) Kubernetes
3 70 (25.00%) Grafana
4 61 (21.79%) Prometheus
5 42 (15.00%) Ansible
6 20 (7.14%) Progress Chef
7 17 (6.07%) Puppet
8 9 (3.21%) Nessus
8 9 (3.21%) Proxmox
9 7 (2.50%) Data Guard
9 7 (2.50%) Packer
10 5 (1.79%) Argo
11 4 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (1.43%) Kibana
11 4 (1.43%) Rancher
12 3 (1.07%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.07%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (1.07%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.71%) systemd
Vendors
1 36 (12.86%) Oracle
2 19 (6.79%) ServiceNow
3 17 (6.07%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.93%) Splunk
5 10 (3.57%) PagerDuty
6 9 (3.21%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (2.86%) Confluent
7 8 (2.86%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.50%) IBM
9 5 (1.79%) Gigya
9 5 (1.79%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.79%) Sybase
9 5 (1.79%) Talend
10 4 (1.43%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.43%) Okta
11 3 (1.07%) AVEVA
11 3 (1.07%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.07%) Databricks
11 3 (1.07%) Qualys
11 3 (1.07%) SAP