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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 296 366
Rank change year-on-year -103 +70 -29
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 300 287 211
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.87% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.64% 4.81% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 206 138
10th Percentile £400 £410 £409
25th Percentile £448 £463 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £657 £600 £600
90th Percentile £788 £640 £679
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £500 £494
% change year-on-year -8.00% +1.21% -10.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 £68.25 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 - -

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 8,243 5,967 6,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.08% 18.12% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,501 3,995 4,734
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% -1.47%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £710 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 93 86
10th Percentile £16.42 £22.85 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.00 £29.33 £20.88
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +14.29% -36.36%
75th Percentile £60.50 £65.00 £61.19
90th Percentile £75.40 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.30% +18.30% -45.21%

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 17 September 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
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 17 September 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 -107 240 £530 +0.90% 276
London -63 152 £550 -8.33% 167
Work from Home -59 104 £530 -3.68% 149
UK excluding London -136 91 £460 -8.00% 158
North of England -68 30 £500 -2.44% 40
Midlands -66 26 £459 -3.37% 20
West Midlands -69 23 £459 -3.37% 11
Yorkshire -35 17 £500 - 9
South West -39 12 £488 -10.14% 24
Scotland -25 10 £425 -14.59% 23
South East -81 10 £460 -20.00% 22
North East -36 7 £425 -2.86% 10
North West -46 6 £600 +9.09% 21
East of England -35 4 £348 -36.82% 14
East Midlands -10 2 £449 +18.16% 9
Wales - 1 £550 - 6

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 23 (7.67%) Confluence
2 17 (5.67%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.33%) Apache
4 9 (3.00%) Apache Spark
5 7 (2.33%) SAS
5 7 (2.33%) SharePoint
6 6 (2.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (2.00%) WebLogic
6 6 (2.00%) WebLogic Portal
7 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (1.33%) nginx
9 3 (1.00%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (1.00%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.67%) Camunda
11 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.00%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (2.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.00%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.33%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 287 (95.67%) AWS
2 186 (62.00%) Amazon S3
3 167 (55.67%) AWS Lambda
4 166 (55.33%) Serverless
5 120 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
6 113 (37.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 75 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
7 75 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 73 (24.33%) Amazon EKS
9 59 (19.67%) Azure
10 55 (18.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 55 (18.33%) GitHub
11 45 (15.00%) Amazon SQS
12 38 (12.67%) GitHub Actions
13 32 (10.67%) AWS KMS
14 29 (9.67%) Route 53
15 27 (9.00%) AWS Step Functions
16 26 (8.67%) Amazon EventBridge
17 22 (7.33%) GCP
18 17 (5.67%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.33%) Firewall
2 14 (4.67%) DNS
3 10 (3.33%) VPN
4 7 (2.33%) DHCP
4 7 (2.33%) Network Security
5 6 (2.00%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.67%) SMTP
7 4 (1.33%) HTTP
7 4 (1.33%) NetScaler
7 4 (1.33%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.67%) FTP
8 2 (0.67%) IMAP
8 2 (0.67%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.67%) SSH
8 2 (0.67%) SSL
9 1 (0.33%) AMQP
9 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.33%) IPsec
9 1 (0.33%) OpenVPN
9 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (24.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 65 (21.67%) DynamoDB
4 38 (12.67%) MySQL
5 26 (8.67%) Amazon Athena
5 26 (8.67%) SQL Server
6 25 (8.33%) MongoDB
7 22 (7.33%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (7.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (5.67%) Redis
10 16 (5.33%) Data Lake
11 13 (4.33%) Big Data
12 12 (4.00%) Power BI
12 12 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (3.33%) NoSQL
15 9 (3.00%) Relational Database
16 8 (2.67%) Apache Iceberg
16 8 (2.67%) Pentaho
17 7 (2.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 86 (28.67%) Jenkins
2 63 (21.00%) Git
3 49 (16.33%) GitLab
4 35 (11.67%) JIRA
5 17 (5.67%) JUnit
6 16 (5.33%) Maven
7 15 (5.00%) Bitbucket
7 15 (5.00%) Mockito
8 12 (4.00%) SonarQube
9 10 (3.33%) Claude Code
10 8 (2.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (2.33%) DbUnit
12 6 (2.00%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.00%) Cucumber
12 6 (2.00%) jMock
12 6 (2.00%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (1.67%) Flyway
13 5 (1.67%) Gradle
13 5 (1.67%) Postman
14 4 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 86 (28.67%) Social Skills
2 66 (22.00%) Public Sector
3 37 (12.33%) Finance
4 29 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.00%) Banking
6 10 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.00%) Back Office
7 9 (3.00%) Front Office
8 7 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.00%) Legal
10 4 (1.33%) Billing
10 4 (1.33%) Local Government
11 3 (1.00%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.00%) Law
11 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.67%) Marketing
12 2 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.33%) Retail
13 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 73 (24.33%) AWS Engineer
2 57 (19.00%) Senior
3 48 (16.00%) Architect
4 45 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 42 (14.00%) Developer
6 41 (13.67%) Data Engineer
7 33 (11.00%) DBA
8 28 (9.33%) AWS Architect
9 27 (9.00%) AWS DevOps
10 25 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 25 (8.33%) Lead
11 22 (7.33%) Java Developer
12 20 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (6.00%) AWS Data Engineer
14 17 (5.67%) Technical Architect
15 15 (5.00%) Administrator
15 15 (5.00%) Technical Leader
16 14 (4.67%) Full-Stack Developer
16 14 (4.67%) Senior Data Engineer
16 14 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (48.00%) Terraform
2 42 (14.00%) React
2 42 (14.00%) REST
3 34 (11.33%) Spring
3 34 (11.33%) Spring Boot
4 33 (11.00%) Node.js
5 32 (10.67%) RESTful
6 26 (8.67%) AngularJS
7 23 (7.67%) .NET
8 22 (7.33%) AWS CDK
9 18 (6.00%) Kafka
10 17 (5.67%) FastAPI
11 15 (5.00%) ActiveMQ
11 15 (5.00%) SOAP
12 12 (4.00%) GraphQL
12 12 (4.00%) Hibernate
12 12 (4.00%) JPA
13 11 (3.67%) .NET Core
14 10 (3.33%) JSON
14 10 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 73 (24.33%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.33%) Replication
3 27 (9.00%) Product Ownership
4 24 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.67%) AI Agents
6 10 (3.33%) Clustering
6 10 (3.33%) NHS
7 8 (2.67%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.33%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.00%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.00%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.00%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.67%) PKI
10 5 (1.67%) PropTech
10 5 (1.67%) Reinsurance
11 4 (1.33%) Autonomous Agent
11 4 (1.33%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 57 (19.00%) Linux
2 26 (8.67%) Windows
3 13 (4.33%) Windows Server
4 12 (4.00%) Unix
5 10 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.00%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (1.67%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.33%) AIX
8 4 (1.33%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.33%) CentOS
9 1 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.33%) VMS
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (64.33%) CI/CD
2 147 (49.00%) DevOps
3 138 (46.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 120 (40.00%) Agile
5 73 (24.33%) Microservices
6 63 (21.00%) Containerisation
7 59 (19.67%) Data Modelling
8 58 (19.33%) Observability
9 55 (18.33%) Performance Tuning
10 51 (17.00%) Event-Driven
11 50 (16.67%) Migration
12 49 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 49 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 48 (16.00%) Software Engineering
14 45 (15.00%) High Availability
15 42 (14.00%) Data Pipeline
16 39 (13.00%) Data Integration
16 39 (13.00%) Technical Leadership
17 38 (12.67%) Scrum
18 35 (11.67%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 132 (44.00%) Python
2 93 (31.00%) SQL
3 72 (24.00%) Java
4 41 (13.67%) TypeScript
5 31 (10.33%) Bash
6 27 (9.00%) JavaScript
7 25 (8.33%) PowerShell
8 19 (6.33%) Groovy
9 17 (5.67%) C#
10 12 (4.00%) Scala
11 8 (2.67%) PL/SQL
11 8 (2.67%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.33%) Perl
13 3 (1.00%) Go
13 3 (1.00%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.67%) Bicep
14 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.67%) Ruby
15 1 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 113 (37.67%) Security Cleared
2 95 (31.67%) SC Cleared
3 55 (18.33%) AWS Certification
4 34 (11.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (8.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (5.67%) Degree
7 11 (3.67%) Azure Certification
8 10 (3.33%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.33%) CISM
10 7 (2.33%) CISSP
11 6 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.67%) PMP
14 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.00%) QA
3 7 (2.33%) NIST
4 5 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.00%) GDPR
5 3 (1.00%) HL7
5 3 (1.00%) NCSC
5 3 (1.00%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.00%) SLA
6 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.67%) PMO
6 2 (0.67%) WCAG
7 1 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 98 (32.67%) Docker
2 16 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.33%) Postfix
4 6 (2.00%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.00%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.00%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.00%) Terminal Services
6 3 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.67%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.67%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.67%) Squid
7 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.33%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 77 (25.67%) Kubernetes
2 59 (19.67%) Grafana
3 43 (14.33%) Prometheus
4 29 (9.67%) Ansible
5 10 (3.33%) Kibana
6 8 (2.67%) Istio
7 7 (2.33%) Argo
8 6 (2.00%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.67%) Puppet
10 4 (1.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 4 (1.33%) Packer
10 4 (1.33%) Rancher
11 3 (1.00%) Nagios
11 3 (1.00%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.00%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.00%) vMotion
12 2 (0.67%) Consul
12 2 (0.67%) Nessus
12 2 (0.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 32 (10.67%) Oracle
2 31 (10.33%) Microsoft
3 21 (7.00%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.33%) Dynatrace
5 12 (4.00%) Informatica
6 10 (3.33%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (3.00%) Databricks
7 9 (3.00%) VMware
8 8 (2.67%) Atlassian
8 8 (2.67%) Google
9 7 (2.33%) Denodo
9 7 (2.33%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.33%) Splunk
9 7 (2.33%) Talend
10 6 (2.00%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.67%) Amplitude
12 4 (1.33%) Brio
12 4 (1.33%) Cisco
12 4 (1.33%) Citrix
13 3 (1.00%) HP