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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 283 343
Rank change year-on-year -97 +60 -5
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 277 261 249
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.88% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.65% 4.73% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 189 181
10th Percentile £386 £425 £400
25th Percentile £423 £469 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £575
90th Percentile £705 £650 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £520 £480
% change year-on-year -8.65% +8.33% -18.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.13 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% - -
75th Percentile £91.25 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
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 7,595 5,517 7,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.18% 18.69% 17.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,070 3,752 5,332
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £650
90th Percentile £700 £756 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 103 155
10th Percentile £14.85 £19.84 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.01 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -12.50% -31.73%
75th Percentile £69.44 £65.81 £53.94
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.46 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.85 £34.47
% change year-on-year +20.11% -7.60% -39.48%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -93 236 £500 -9.09% 58
London -49 135 £525 -8.70% 22
UK excluding London -90 106 £475 -8.65% 45
Work from Home -86 84 £500 -13.04% 34
Midlands -33 49 £469 -1.26% 8
West Midlands -35 42 £469 -1.26% 6
North of England -44 29 £425 -15.00% 10
Yorkshire -41 16 £450 -10.00% 3
South West -19 12 £580 +6.91% 10
North West -35 9 £445 -18.12% 5
South East -70 9 £440 -23.57% 12
East Midlands -14 6 £519 +66.88% 2
North East -31 4 £425 -5.56% 2
Scotland -27 3 £313 -37.40% 1
East of England -30 3 £350 -36.36% 1
Wales - 3 £500 - 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 (10.47%) Confluence
2 7 (2.53%) SAS
3 6 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.81%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.81%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.08%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 269 (97.11%) AWS
2 171 (61.73%) Amazon S3
3 152 (54.87%) AWS Lambda
3 152 (54.87%) Serverless
4 126 (45.49%) Amazon EC2
5 98 (35.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 74 (26.71%) Amazon ECS
7 72 (25.99%) Amazon EKS
7 72 (25.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 56 (20.22%) GitHub
9 50 (18.05%) Amazon SQS
10 48 (17.33%) Azure
11 44 (15.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 40 (14.44%) Route 53
13 35 (12.64%) GitHub Actions
14 29 (10.47%) AWS KMS
15 20 (7.22%) AWS Step Functions
16 19 (6.86%) Power Platform
17 18 (6.50%) Amazon Kinesis
18 17 (6.14%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.97%) DNS
2 10 (3.61%) Firewall
3 6 (2.17%) DHCP
4 5 (1.81%) VPN
5 4 (1.44%) Network Security
6 3 (1.08%) SMTP
6 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.72%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.36%) AMQP
8 1 (0.36%) HTTP
8 1 (0.36%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (28.16%) DynamoDB
2 74 (26.71%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (23.47%) Amazon Aurora
4 34 (12.27%) MySQL
5 19 (6.86%) Amazon Athena
5 19 (6.86%) Power BI
6 17 (6.14%) SQL Server
7 15 (5.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (5.42%) MongoDB
7 15 (5.42%) NoSQL
8 14 (5.05%) Pentaho
9 11 (3.97%) Redis
10 10 (3.61%) Data Lake
10 10 (3.61%) Relational Database
10 10 (3.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (3.25%) Big Data
11 9 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (3.25%) Tableau
12 7 (2.53%) Apache Iceberg
13 6 (2.17%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 86 (31.05%) Jenkins
2 68 (24.55%) Git
3 43 (15.52%) GitLab
4 35 (12.64%) JIRA
5 28 (10.11%) JUnit
6 23 (8.30%) Mockito
7 22 (7.94%) Maven
8 21 (7.58%) SonarQube
9 14 (5.05%) DbUnit
10 13 (4.69%) jMock
11 11 (3.97%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (2.53%) Claude Code
13 6 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (2.17%) Cucumber
13 6 (2.17%) Postman
13 6 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (1.81%) git-flow
15 4 (1.44%) Flyway
15 4 (1.44%) Oracle APEX
15 4 (1.44%) Snyk
General
1 70 (25.27%) Social Skills
2 61 (22.02%) Public Sector
3 31 (11.19%) Finance
4 29 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.78%) Banking
6 11 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.61%) Legal
8 6 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.08%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.72%) Front Office
11 2 (0.72%) Law
11 2 (0.72%) Local Government
12 1 (0.36%) Billing
12 1 (0.36%) Games
12 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.36%) Marketing
12 1 (0.36%) Military
12 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (19.86%) Developer
2 54 (19.49%) AWS Engineer
3 47 (16.97%) Senior
4 36 (13.00%) Architect
5 31 (11.19%) DevOps Engineer
6 30 (10.83%) Java Developer
7 29 (10.47%) Data Engineer
8 28 (10.11%) AWS Architect
9 24 (8.66%) DBA
10 20 (7.22%) Software Engineer
11 18 (6.50%) AWS DevOps
11 18 (6.50%) Lead
12 16 (5.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 15 (5.42%) Senior Developer
13 15 (5.42%) Technical Architect
14 12 (4.33%) AWS Developer
14 12 (4.33%) Python Developer
14 12 (4.33%) Python Engineer
15 11 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
16 10 (3.61%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (18.05%) Spring
1 50 (18.05%) Spring Boot
2 47 (16.97%) REST
3 45 (16.25%) RESTful
4 36 (13.00%) React
5 34 (12.27%) Node.js
6 31 (11.19%) AngularJS
7 29 (10.47%) Kafka
8 23 (8.30%) Hibernate
8 23 (8.30%) JPA
8 23 (8.30%) SOAP
9 22 (7.94%) AWS CDK
10 21 (7.58%) Spring Cloud
11 19 (6.86%) ActiveMQ
11 19 (6.86%) Web Services
12 18 (6.50%) GraphQL
12 18 (6.50%) Spring Batch
12 18 (6.50%) Spring Integration
13 14 (5.05%) .NET
14 13 (4.69%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 66 (23.83%) Cloud Native
2 34 (12.27%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (9.03%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.61%) Replication
5 8 (2.89%) NHS
5 8 (2.89%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.81%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.44%) Clustering
8 4 (1.44%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.08%) Autonomous Agent
9 3 (1.08%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.08%) PKI
9 3 (1.08%) PropTech
10 2 (0.72%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.72%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.36%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 48 (17.33%) Linux
2 13 (4.69%) Windows
3 10 (3.61%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.89%) Unix
5 4 (1.44%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.08%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.36%) CentOS
7 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (57.76%) CI/CD
2 119 (42.96%) Agile
3 114 (41.16%) DevOps
4 89 (32.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 87 (31.41%) Microservices
6 68 (24.55%) Containerisation
7 47 (16.97%) Scrum
8 45 (16.25%) Observability
9 42 (15.16%) Performance Tuning
10 41 (14.80%) Event-Driven
11 40 (14.44%) Software Engineering
12 35 (12.64%) ETL
12 35 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
13 34 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (11.55%) High Availability
14 32 (11.55%) Migration
14 32 (11.55%) TDD
15 31 (11.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 30 (10.83%) Problem-Solving
17 29 (10.47%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 96 (34.66%) SQL
2 93 (33.57%) Python
3 86 (31.05%) Java
4 28 (10.11%) TypeScript
5 21 (7.58%) Bash
5 21 (7.58%) JavaScript
6 20 (7.22%) PowerShell
7 13 (4.69%) C#
8 10 (3.61%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.89%) Groovy
9 8 (2.89%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.17%) Scala
11 5 (1.81%) Perl
12 4 (1.44%) Go
12 4 (1.44%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.08%) Ruby
14 1 (0.36%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 116 (41.88%) Security Cleared
2 96 (34.66%) SC Cleared
3 35 (12.64%) AWS Certification
4 18 (6.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (5.05%) Degree
5 14 (5.05%) DV Cleared
6 13 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.89%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.08%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.72%) PMP
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.36%) CEH
11 1 (0.36%) CISSP
11 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.33%) QA
2 10 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.89%) NIST
3 8 (2.89%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.53%) PMO
5 4 (1.44%) GDPR
5 4 (1.44%) SLA
6 3 (1.08%) NCSC
7 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.36%) HL7
7 1 (0.36%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 103 (37.18%) Docker
2 11 (3.97%) Postfix
3 9 (3.25%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.81%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.44%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.08%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.08%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.08%) Terminal Services
6 3 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 111 (40.07%) Terraform
2 77 (27.80%) Kubernetes
3 55 (19.86%) Grafana
4 37 (13.36%) Prometheus
5 20 (7.22%) Ansible
6 8 (2.89%) Argo
7 6 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.81%) Data Guard
9 4 (1.44%) Istio
9 4 (1.44%) Kibana
9 4 (1.44%) Puppet
10 3 (1.08%) Foglight
10 3 (1.08%) Rancher
10 3 (1.08%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.08%) vMotion
11 2 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.72%) Nagios
11 2 (0.72%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (11.91%) Oracle
2 22 (7.94%) ServiceNow
3 18 (6.50%) Microsoft
4 17 (6.14%) Jaspersoft
5 15 (5.42%) Atlassian
6 14 (5.05%) Dynatrace
7 13 (4.69%) Informatica
8 9 (3.25%) Talend
9 8 (2.89%) Databricks
10 7 (2.53%) Denodo
11 6 (2.17%) Splunk
12 5 (1.81%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.81%) Sybase
13 4 (1.44%) AVEVA
13 4 (1.44%) Brio
13 4 (1.44%) Citrix
13 4 (1.44%) Google
13 4 (1.44%) VMware
14 3 (1.08%) Qualys
14 3 (1.08%) Tenable