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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 302 358
Rank change year-on-year -105 +56 -12
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 297 281 210
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.85% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.60% 4.67% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 199 136
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £437 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £533
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -3.76% -3.18%
75th Percentile £672 £600 £600
90th Percentile £788 £640 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £494 £494
% change year-on-year -6.79% -0.10% -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 8,254 6,022 6,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.04% 18.25% 17.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,512 4,040 4,691
10th Percentile £355 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £532
Median % change year-on-year - -6.02% -1.48%
75th Percentile £615 £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 272 87 91
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.13 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% +15.69% -36.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £60.78
90th Percentile £74.97 £83.00 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £37.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.39% +24.93% -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 25 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 25 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 -111 234 £527 +2.08% 246
London -64 149 £550 +1.15% 132
Work from Home -57 104 £530 -3.68% 133
UK excluding London -134 89 £460 -6.79% 144
North of England -52 29 £500 -2.44% 39
Midlands -66 24 £453 -4.63% 16
West Midlands -57 22 £459 -3.37% 9
Yorkshire -26 17 £500 - 7
Scotland -27 11 £409 -17.21% 14
South East -82 11 £460 -20.00% 26
South West -36 10 £431 -18.82% 26
North East -40 6 £419 -1.47% 8
North West -59 6 £600 +9.09% 24
East of England -38 5 £345 -37.27% 13
East Midlands -15 1 £358 -5.79% 7
Wales - 1 £550 - 4

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 24 (8.08%) Confluence
2 17 (5.72%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.37%) Apache
4 9 (3.03%) Apache Spark
5 7 (2.36%) SAS
6 6 (2.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (2.02%) SharePoint
6 6 (2.02%) WebLogic
6 6 (2.02%) WebLogic Portal
7 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (1.35%) nginx
9 3 (1.01%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (1.01%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.67%) Camunda
11 1 (0.34%) Appian
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.02%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (2.02%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.01%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.34%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 284 (95.62%) AWS
2 184 (61.95%) Amazon S3
3 165 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
4 164 (55.22%) Serverless
5 119 (40.07%) Amazon EC2
6 111 (37.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 77 (25.93%) Amazon ECS
7 77 (25.93%) Amazon EKS
8 76 (25.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 57 (19.19%) Azure
10 56 (18.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 55 (18.52%) GitHub
12 46 (15.49%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (13.13%) GitHub Actions
14 31 (10.44%) AWS KMS
15 29 (9.76%) Route 53
16 27 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
17 26 (8.75%) AWS Step Functions
18 21 (7.07%) GCP
19 18 (6.06%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.73%) Firewall
2 14 (4.71%) DNS
3 10 (3.37%) VPN
4 7 (2.36%) DHCP
5 6 (2.02%) Network Security
5 6 (2.02%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.68%) SMTP
7 4 (1.35%) HTTP
7 4 (1.35%) NetScaler
7 4 (1.35%) 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 (0.34%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.34%) IPsec
9 1 (0.34%) OpenVPN
9 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (29.97%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (25.25%) Amazon Aurora
3 63 (21.21%) DynamoDB
4 37 (12.46%) MySQL
5 27 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
6 25 (8.42%) MongoDB
6 25 (8.42%) SQL Server
7 22 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (7.07%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (6.06%) Redis
10 16 (5.39%) Data Lake
11 13 (4.38%) Big Data
12 12 (4.04%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (4.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (3.70%) NoSQL
14 9 (3.03%) Power BI
15 8 (2.69%) Apache Iceberg
15 8 (2.69%) Pentaho
16 7 (2.36%) Oracle Database
16 7 (2.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 86 (28.96%) Jenkins
2 65 (21.89%) Git
3 51 (17.17%) GitLab
4 35 (11.78%) JIRA
5 17 (5.72%) JUnit
6 16 (5.39%) Maven
7 15 (5.05%) Bitbucket
7 15 (5.05%) Mockito
8 11 (3.70%) SonarQube
9 10 (3.37%) Claude Code
10 8 (2.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (2.36%) Cucumber
12 6 (2.02%) DbUnit
12 6 (2.02%) Gradle
12 6 (2.02%) Postman
12 6 (2.02%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (1.68%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (1.68%) Flyway
13 5 (1.68%) jMock
14 4 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 84 (28.28%) Social Skills
2 63 (21.21%) Public Sector
3 35 (11.78%) Finance
4 25 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.08%) Banking
6 11 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.03%) Back Office
7 9 (3.03%) Front Office
8 6 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.02%) Legal
9 4 (1.35%) Billing
9 4 (1.35%) Local Government
10 3 (1.01%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.01%) Law
10 3 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Marketing
11 2 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.34%) German Language
12 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (25.59%) AWS Engineer
2 57 (19.19%) Senior
3 49 (16.50%) Architect
4 45 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
5 40 (13.47%) Developer
6 39 (13.13%) Data Engineer
7 32 (10.77%) DBA
8 29 (9.76%) AWS Architect
9 28 (9.43%) AWS DevOps
10 26 (8.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 24 (8.08%) Lead
12 22 (7.41%) Java Developer
13 21 (7.07%) Cloud Engineer
14 18 (6.06%) AWS Data Engineer
15 17 (5.72%) Technical Architect
16 15 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
16 15 (5.05%) Technical Leader
17 14 (4.71%) Administrator
17 14 (4.71%) Senior Data Engineer
18 13 (4.38%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (49.16%) Terraform
2 43 (14.48%) REST
3 41 (13.80%) React
4 34 (11.45%) Spring
4 34 (11.45%) Spring Boot
5 32 (10.77%) RESTful
6 29 (9.76%) Node.js
7 24 (8.08%) .NET
7 24 (8.08%) AngularJS
8 23 (7.74%) AWS CDK
9 20 (6.73%) Kafka
10 17 (5.72%) FastAPI
11 14 (4.71%) ActiveMQ
11 14 (4.71%) GraphQL
11 14 (4.71%) SOAP
12 12 (4.04%) Hibernate
12 12 (4.04%) JPA
13 11 (3.70%) .NET Core
14 10 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
15 9 (3.03%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 73 (24.58%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 27 (9.09%) Replication
3 23 (7.74%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.04%) AI Agents
5 10 (3.37%) Clustering
5 10 (3.37%) NHS
6 8 (2.69%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.36%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.02%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.02%) Fixed Income
8 6 (2.02%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.68%) PKI
9 5 (1.68%) PropTech
9 5 (1.68%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.35%) Autonomous Agent
10 4 (1.35%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.01%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 54 (18.18%) Linux
2 26 (8.75%) Windows
3 13 (4.38%) Windows Server
4 12 (4.04%) Unix
5 10 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.03%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (1.68%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.35%) AIX
8 4 (1.35%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.34%) CentOS
9 1 (0.34%) VMS
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (65.66%) CI/CD
2 147 (49.49%) DevOps
3 141 (47.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 118 (39.73%) Agile
5 73 (24.58%) Microservices
6 63 (21.21%) Containerisation
7 61 (20.54%) Observability
8 57 (19.19%) Data Modelling
9 54 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
10 51 (17.17%) Event-Driven
11 50 (16.84%) Migration
12 48 (16.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 48 (16.16%) Stakeholder Management
13 47 (15.82%) Software Engineering
14 43 (14.48%) High Availability
15 41 (13.80%) Data Pipeline
16 39 (13.13%) Data Integration
17 38 (12.79%) Scrum
17 38 (12.79%) Technical Leadership
18 36 (12.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 131 (44.11%) Python
2 89 (29.97%) SQL
3 68 (22.90%) Java
4 40 (13.47%) TypeScript
5 32 (10.77%) Bash
6 27 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 24 (8.08%) PowerShell
8 19 (6.40%) Groovy
9 18 (6.06%) C#
10 12 (4.04%) Scala
11 8 (2.69%) PL/SQL
12 7 (2.36%) Perl
12 7 (2.36%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.01%) Go
13 3 (1.01%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.01%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.67%) Bicep
14 2 (0.67%) Ruby
15 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 108 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 91 (30.64%) SC Cleared
3 55 (18.52%) AWS Certification
4 34 (11.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (8.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (6.40%) Degree
7 11 (3.70%) Azure Certification
8 10 (3.37%) DV Cleared
9 9 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.36%) CISM
10 7 (2.36%) CISSP
11 6 (2.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.67%) PMP
14 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.42%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.37%) QA
3 7 (2.36%) NIST
4 5 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.35%) GDPR
5 4 (1.35%) SLA
6 3 (1.01%) HL7
6 3 (1.01%) NCSC
6 3 (1.01%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.67%) WCAG
8 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 98 (33.00%) Docker
2 16 (5.39%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.02%) Hyper-V
3 6 (2.02%) Postfix
3 6 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.01%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.01%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.01%) Terminal Services
5 3 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.67%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.67%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.67%) Squid
6 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 78 (26.26%) Kubernetes
2 59 (19.87%) Grafana
3 43 (14.48%) Prometheus
4 27 (9.09%) Ansible
5 10 (3.37%) Kibana
6 8 (2.69%) Istio
7 7 (2.36%) Argo
8 6 (2.02%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.68%) Puppet
10 4 (1.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 4 (1.35%) Packer
10 4 (1.35%) Rancher
11 3 (1.01%) Nagios
11 3 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.01%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.01%) vMotion
12 2 (0.67%) Nessus
12 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 32 (10.77%) Oracle
2 30 (10.10%) Microsoft
3 22 (7.41%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.39%) Dynatrace
5 12 (4.04%) Informatica
6 9 (3.03%) Jaspersoft
6 9 (3.03%) VMware
7 8 (2.69%) Databricks
7 8 (2.69%) Splunk
8 7 (2.36%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.36%) Denodo
8 7 (2.36%) Google
8 7 (2.36%) OpenAI
8 7 (2.36%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.36%) Talend
9 5 (1.68%) Amplitude
10 4 (1.35%) Brio
10 4 (1.35%) Cisco
10 4 (1.35%) Citrix
11 3 (1.01%) HP