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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 308 356
Rank change year-on-year -28 +48 -34
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 272 222 243
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.70% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.40% 3.84% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 135 179
10th Percentile £368 £425 £413
25th Percentile £425 £477 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -1.01% -5.57%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £600
90th Percentile £640 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £530
% change year-on-year -0.42% -10.00% +6.00%
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 - - -
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 6,178 5,775 7,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.98% 18.17% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,254 3,809 5,028
10th Percentile £329 £350 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
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% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 76 153
10th Percentile £19.60 £19.71 £16.12
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £21.64
Median hourly rate £48.72 £35.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +39.20% -24.21% -16.04%
75th Percentile £73.13 £64.73 £64.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.88 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £28.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +100.00% -37.74% -7.73%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -5 212 £525 -4.55% 135
London -23 112 £520 -8.77% 26
UK excluding London +4 110 £475 -0.42% 124
Work from Home -32 83 £575 +6.88% 110
Midlands -15 36 £475 -10.21% 12
West Midlands -10 30 £500 -1.86% 11
North of England -21 28 £500 -4.76% 26
South East +7 17 £475 +11.76% 40
North West -15 15 £425 +13.33% 11
Scotland -4 12 £358 -24.11% 5
South West -5 11 £566 -5.88% 12
Yorkshire -39 9 £518 -11.91% 10
East Midlands -17 6 £380 -33.91% 1
North East -7 4 £500 - 5
East of England -15 4 £538 +22.86% 22
Wales -1 1 £475 - 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 23 (8.46%) Confluence
2 9 (3.31%) nginx
3 6 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.10%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.37%) CICS
5 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (3.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (1.10%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 271 (99.63%) AWS
2 178 (65.44%) Amazon S3
3 164 (60.29%) Serverless
4 163 (59.93%) AWS Lambda
5 157 (57.72%) Amazon EC2
6 102 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
7 100 (36.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 99 (36.40%) AWS CloudFormation
9 92 (33.82%) Amazon EKS
10 84 (30.88%) GitHub
11 81 (29.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 63 (23.16%) GitHub Actions
13 46 (16.91%) Azure
14 44 (16.18%) Route 53
15 26 (9.56%) AWS Step Functions
16 25 (9.19%) Amazon Kinesis
17 23 (8.46%) AWS Fargate
17 23 (8.46%) Datadog
18 21 (7.72%) Amazon MSK
19 18 (6.62%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (12.50%) Firewall
2 33 (12.13%) DNS
3 20 (7.35%) HTTP
4 15 (5.51%) FTP
4 15 (5.51%) SMTP
4 15 (5.51%) SSH
5 9 (3.31%) IMAP
5 9 (3.31%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (2.94%) VPN
7 4 (1.47%) Internet
7 4 (1.47%) Network Security
7 4 (1.47%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.10%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.37%) LAN
9 1 (0.37%) NAS
9 1 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (27.21%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (18.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 48 (17.65%) DynamoDB
4 40 (14.71%) MySQL
5 29 (10.66%) Relational Database
6 28 (10.29%) NoSQL
7 24 (8.82%) SQL Server
8 23 (8.46%) MongoDB
9 22 (8.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
10 16 (5.88%) Redis
11 11 (4.04%) RDBMS
12 10 (3.68%) Oracle Database
13 9 (3.31%) Apache Cassandra
13 9 (3.31%) Hadoop
14 8 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (2.57%) BigQuery
16 6 (2.21%) Couchbase
16 6 (2.21%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 125 (45.96%) Jenkins
2 82 (30.15%) Git
3 73 (26.84%) GitLab
4 37 (13.60%) JIRA
5 15 (5.51%) Vagrant
6 14 (5.15%) Bitbucket
7 12 (4.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (3.68%) Maven
9 8 (2.94%) Cypress.io
10 7 (2.57%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.84%) Gradle
11 5 (1.84%) SonarLint
12 4 (1.47%) JUnit
12 4 (1.47%) Terragrunt
13 3 (1.10%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (1.10%) Snyk
14 2 (0.74%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.74%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.74%) Gatling
14 2 (0.74%) git-flow
General
1 78 (28.68%) Social Skills
2 42 (15.44%) Public Sector
3 40 (14.71%) Finance
4 17 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.88%) Banking
6 13 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.10%) Legal
9 2 (0.74%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.74%) Marketing
9 2 (0.74%) Military
9 2 (0.74%) Publishing
10 1 (0.37%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.37%) Games
10 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 73 (26.84%) AWS Engineer
2 71 (26.10%) DevOps Engineer
3 43 (15.81%) AWS DevOps
4 38 (13.97%) Senior
5 36 (13.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 36 (13.24%) Platform Engineer
6 35 (12.87%) Developer
7 30 (11.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 27 (9.93%) Architect
9 24 (8.82%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 21 (7.72%) Lead
11 20 (7.35%) Software Engineer
12 18 (6.62%) Site Engineer
13 17 (6.25%) Data Engineer
13 17 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
13 17 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 16 (5.88%) DBA
14 16 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 15 (5.51%) AWS Developer
16 12 (4.41%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (16.54%) Kafka
2 35 (12.87%) Node.js
3 33 (12.13%) RESTful
4 26 (9.56%) Elastic Stack
5 23 (8.46%) React
6 21 (7.72%) Spring Boot
7 17 (6.25%) Spring
8 14 (5.15%) AWS CDK
9 13 (4.78%) REST
10 12 (4.41%) CSS
11 10 (3.68%) FastAPI
11 10 (3.68%) LDAP
12 9 (3.31%) Django
12 9 (3.31%) Jest
12 9 (3.31%) Next.js
13 8 (2.94%) Flask
13 8 (2.94%) Keycloak
13 8 (2.94%) PySpark
14 7 (2.57%) Lambda Expressions
14 7 (2.57%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.44%) Cloud Native
2 34 (12.50%) Replication
3 22 (8.09%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.31%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.21%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (2.21%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.21%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.84%) N-Tier
8 4 (1.47%) Clustering
8 4 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.47%) PKI
9 3 (1.10%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.10%) Derivative
9 3 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.10%) NHS
10 2 (0.74%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.74%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.74%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 84 (30.88%) Linux
2 19 (6.99%) Windows
3 18 (6.62%) Amazon Linux
4 16 (5.88%) VMS
5 11 (4.04%) Unix
6 9 (3.31%) Ubuntu
7 7 (2.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.47%) CentOS
8 4 (1.47%) Solaris
9 2 (0.74%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.37%) AIX
10 1 (0.37%) Android
10 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (65.07%) CI/CD
2 142 (52.21%) DevOps
3 123 (45.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (34.93%) Containerisation
5 75 (27.57%) Agile
6 61 (22.43%) Microservices
7 54 (19.85%) Observability
8 52 (19.12%) Configuration Management
9 44 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (15.81%) Software Engineering
11 41 (15.07%) Performance Tuning
12 39 (14.34%) Event-Driven
12 39 (14.34%) Platform Engineering
13 34 (12.50%) Migration
14 33 (12.13%) Cost Optimisation
15 30 (11.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 29 (10.66%) Cloud Security
17 28 (10.29%) High Availability
17 28 (10.29%) Secrets Management
18 27 (9.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 162 (59.56%) Python
2 86 (31.62%) SQL
3 72 (26.47%) Java
4 54 (19.85%) Bash
5 41 (15.07%) PowerShell
6 27 (9.93%) Shell Script
7 23 (8.46%) JavaScript
8 22 (8.09%) Groovy
9 20 (7.35%) Go
10 17 (6.25%) Perl
10 17 (6.25%) TypeScript
11 12 (4.41%) Ruby
12 8 (2.94%) C#
13 7 (2.57%) PL/SQL
14 6 (2.21%) JSX
15 3 (1.10%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.74%) C
16 2 (0.74%) PHP
17 1 (0.37%) Bicep
17 1 (0.37%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 86 (31.62%) Security Cleared
2 68 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 51 (18.75%) AWS Certification
4 20 (7.35%) Degree
5 15 (5.51%) DV Cleared
6 14 (5.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (5.15%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.84%) OCP
8 5 (1.84%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.47%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.10%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.37%) CEH
12 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.25%) QA
2 15 (5.51%) GDPR
3 13 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.31%) NIST
5 8 (2.94%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.57%) NCSC
6 7 (2.57%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.84%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.10%) SLA
9 2 (0.74%) GxP
9 2 (0.74%) WCAG
10 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 134 (49.26%) Docker
2 15 (5.51%) DFS Replication
3 9 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.31%) Dovecot
3 9 (3.31%) Postfix
3 9 (3.31%) Squid
4 8 (2.94%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (1.10%) NFS
5 3 (1.10%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.74%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 166 (61.03%) Terraform
2 104 (38.24%) Kubernetes
3 78 (28.68%) Grafana
4 65 (23.90%) Prometheus
5 44 (16.18%) Ansible
6 22 (8.09%) Progress Chef
7 20 (7.35%) Puppet
8 9 (3.31%) Nessus
8 9 (3.31%) Proxmox
9 8 (2.94%) Packer
10 6 (2.21%) Data Guard
11 5 (1.84%) Argo
12 4 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (1.47%) Kibana
12 4 (1.47%) Rancher
13 3 (1.10%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (1.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (1.10%) Oracle RMAN
14 2 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.74%) systemd
Vendors
1 33 (12.13%) Oracle
2 20 (7.35%) ServiceNow
3 18 (6.62%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.41%) Splunk
5 10 (3.68%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.68%) PagerDuty
6 9 (3.31%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (2.94%) Confluent
8 7 (2.57%) IBM
8 7 (2.57%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.84%) Gigya
10 4 (1.47%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.47%) Okta
11 3 (1.10%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.10%) Databricks
11 3 (1.10%) Google
11 3 (1.10%) SAP
11 3 (1.10%) Sybase
12 2 (0.74%) Qualys
12 2 (0.74%) UiPath