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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 288 359
Rank change year-on-year -85 +71 -34
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 279 262 239
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.88% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.64% 4.72% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 193 174
10th Percentile £386 £425 £387
25th Percentile £425 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £575
90th Percentile £714 £650 £646
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -9.14% +9.38% -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 7,664 5,546 7,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.21% 18.63% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,109 3,780 5,361
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 101 155
10th Percentile £14.85 £19.59 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.01 £20.88
Median hourly rate £41.71 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.17% -12.50% -31.73%
75th Percentile £69.58 £66.00 £53.94
90th Percentile £78.31 £78.70 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.38 £31.85 £34.47
% change year-on-year +20.51% -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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -83 241 £500 -9.09% 49
London -36 139 £525 -8.70% 20
UK excluding London -86 105 £477 -9.14% 45
Work from Home -68 85 £500 -11.19% 30
Midlands -31 49 £469 -1.26% 8
West Midlands -34 42 £469 -1.26% 6
North of England -55 30 £425 -18.03% 11
Yorkshire -47 18 £500 - 3
South West -23 12 £580 +6.91% 8
South East -64 9 £440 -23.57% 7
North West -37 8 £390 -29.09% 5
East Midlands -17 6 £519 +66.88% 2
North East -33 4 £425 -5.56% 3
East of England -31 3 £350 -36.36% 1
Scotland -25 2 - -
Wales - 2 £525 - 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 (10.39%) Confluence
2 7 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.51%) SAS
3 6 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.15%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.79%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.08%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 270 (96.77%) AWS
2 173 (62.01%) Amazon S3
3 151 (54.12%) AWS Lambda
4 150 (53.76%) Serverless
5 124 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
6 98 (35.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 73 (26.16%) Amazon ECS
8 70 (25.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 69 (24.73%) Amazon EKS
10 58 (20.79%) GitHub
11 50 (17.92%) Amazon SQS
12 49 (17.56%) Azure
13 41 (14.70%) AWS CloudFormation
14 40 (14.34%) Route 53
15 37 (13.26%) GitHub Actions
16 29 (10.39%) AWS KMS
17 20 (7.17%) AWS Step Functions
18 19 (6.81%) Power Platform
19 18 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
20 17 (6.09%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.30%) DNS
2 11 (3.94%) Firewall
3 7 (2.51%) DHCP
4 6 (2.15%) VPN
5 4 (1.43%) Network Security
5 4 (1.43%) 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 77 (27.60%) DynamoDB
2 74 (26.52%) PostgreSQL
3 66 (23.66%) Amazon Aurora
4 34 (12.19%) MySQL
5 19 (6.81%) Amazon Athena
5 19 (6.81%) Power BI
6 16 (5.73%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (5.73%) SQL Server
7 14 (5.02%) MongoDB
7 14 (5.02%) NoSQL
7 14 (5.02%) Pentaho
8 11 (3.94%) Big Data
8 11 (3.94%) Redis
9 10 (3.58%) Data Lake
9 10 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (3.58%) Relational Database
9 10 (3.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (3.23%) Tableau
11 7 (2.51%) Apache Iceberg
12 6 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 85 (30.47%) Jenkins
2 66 (23.66%) Git
3 41 (14.70%) GitLab
4 34 (12.19%) JIRA
5 28 (10.04%) JUnit
6 23 (8.24%) Mockito
7 22 (7.89%) Maven
8 21 (7.53%) SonarQube
9 14 (5.02%) DbUnit
10 13 (4.66%) jMock
11 11 (3.94%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (2.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (2.51%) Claude Code
13 6 (2.15%) Cucumber
13 6 (2.15%) Postman
13 6 (2.15%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (1.79%) git-flow
15 4 (1.43%) Flyway
15 4 (1.43%) Oracle APEX
15 4 (1.43%) Snyk
General
1 70 (25.09%) Social Skills
2 60 (21.51%) Public Sector
3 31 (11.11%) Finance
4 30 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.73%) Banking
6 11 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.58%) Legal
8 6 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.43%) 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 54 (19.35%) Developer
2 53 (19.00%) AWS Engineer
3 45 (16.13%) Senior
4 36 (12.90%) Architect
5 31 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 31 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 30 (10.75%) Java Developer
7 27 (9.68%) AWS Architect
8 25 (8.96%) DBA
9 19 (6.81%) Lead
9 19 (6.81%) Software Engineer
10 18 (6.45%) AWS DevOps
11 15 (5.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 15 (5.38%) Technical Architect
12 14 (5.02%) Senior Developer
13 12 (4.30%) Python Engineer
14 11 (3.94%) AWS Developer
14 11 (3.94%) Cloud Architect
14 11 (3.94%) Python Developer
14 11 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (17.56%) Spring
1 49 (17.56%) Spring Boot
2 48 (17.20%) REST
3 44 (15.77%) RESTful
4 37 (13.26%) React
5 32 (11.47%) Node.js
6 31 (11.11%) AngularJS
7 28 (10.04%) Kafka
8 23 (8.24%) Hibernate
8 23 (8.24%) JPA
8 23 (8.24%) SOAP
9 21 (7.53%) AWS CDK
9 21 (7.53%) Spring Cloud
10 19 (6.81%) ActiveMQ
10 19 (6.81%) Web Services
11 18 (6.45%) GraphQL
11 18 (6.45%) Spring Batch
11 18 (6.45%) Spring Integration
12 14 (5.02%) .NET
12 14 (5.02%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 66 (23.66%) Cloud Native
2 34 (12.19%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (8.60%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.94%) Replication
5 9 (3.23%) NHS
5 9 (3.23%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.15%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.79%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.79%) Clustering
8 4 (1.43%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.43%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.43%) PKI
9 3 (1.08%) Autonomous Agent
9 3 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
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 (17.20%) Linux
2 15 (5.38%) Windows
3 12 (4.30%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.87%) Unix
5 4 (1.43%) 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
1 159 (56.99%) CI/CD
2 121 (43.37%) Agile
3 115 (41.22%) DevOps
4 88 (31.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 85 (30.47%) Microservices
6 68 (24.37%) Containerisation
7 46 (16.49%) Scrum
8 45 (16.13%) Observability
9 44 (15.77%) Performance Tuning
10 40 (14.34%) Event-Driven
11 38 (13.62%) Software Engineering
12 36 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
13 35 (12.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (12.54%) ETL
14 32 (11.47%) High Availability
15 31 (11.11%) Migration
15 31 (11.11%) TDD
16 30 (10.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 30 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
17 28 (10.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 95 (34.05%) Python
1 95 (34.05%) SQL
2 84 (30.11%) Java
3 27 (9.68%) TypeScript
4 21 (7.53%) Bash
5 20 (7.17%) JavaScript
6 19 (6.81%) PowerShell
7 13 (4.66%) C#
8 10 (3.58%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.87%) Groovy
9 8 (2.87%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.15%) Scala
11 4 (1.43%) Go
11 4 (1.43%) Perl
11 4 (1.43%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.72%) Ruby
13 1 (0.36%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 116 (41.58%) Security Cleared
2 96 (34.41%) SC Cleared
3 33 (11.83%) AWS Certification
4 17 (6.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (5.73%) Degree
6 15 (5.38%) DV Cleared
7 13 (4.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.87%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.08%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.72%) PMP
13 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.30%) QA
2 11 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.51%) NIST
3 7 (2.51%) PCI DSS
3 7 (2.51%) PMO
4 4 (1.43%) SLA
5 3 (1.08%) GDPR
5 3 (1.08%) NCSC
6 2 (0.72%) HL7
7 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.36%) Solvency II
System Software
1 103 (36.92%) Docker
2 11 (3.94%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.94%) Postfix
3 6 (2.15%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.43%) BitLocker
5 4 (1.43%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (1.43%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.43%) Terminal Services
5 4 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 109 (39.07%) Terraform
2 75 (26.88%) Kubernetes
3 54 (19.35%) Grafana
4 36 (12.90%) Prometheus
5 19 (6.81%) Ansible
6 7 (2.51%) Argo
7 6 (2.15%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.79%) Data Guard
8 5 (1.79%) Puppet
9 4 (1.43%) Istio
9 4 (1.43%) Kibana
9 4 (1.43%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.43%) vMotion
10 3 (1.08%) Foglight
10 3 (1.08%) Nagios
10 3 (1.08%) Rancher
11 2 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.72%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.36%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (11.47%) Oracle
2 22 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.89%) ServiceNow
3 17 (6.09%) Jaspersoft
4 15 (5.38%) Atlassian
5 14 (5.02%) Dynatrace
6 13 (4.66%) Informatica
7 9 (3.23%) Talend
8 8 (2.87%) Databricks
9 7 (2.51%) Denodo
10 6 (2.15%) Salesforce
10 6 (2.15%) Splunk
11 5 (1.79%) Citrix
11 5 (1.79%) Google
11 5 (1.79%) Sybase
11 5 (1.79%) VMware
12 4 (1.43%) AVEVA
12 4 (1.43%) Brio
12 4 (1.43%) HP
12 4 (1.43%) Symantec