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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 308 367
Rank change year-on-year -27 +59 -50
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 295 230 240
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.75% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.42% 4.03% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 149 179
10th Percentile £368 £419 £400
25th Percentile £410 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% +2.29% -10.64%
75th Percentile £575 £627 £600
90th Percentile £634 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.20% -4.76% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £71.65 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 6,673 5,704 7,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.29% 18.56% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,592 3,829 5,158
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
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 126 92 174
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.07 £16.04
25th Percentile £29.06 £24.94 £21.64
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.31 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.58% -9.87% -24.01%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £62.88
90th Percentile £85.63 £70.00 £77.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £30.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +87.50% -25.47% -28.04%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -27 233 £513 -6.82% 83
UK excluding London -24 122 £489 -2.20% 66
London -40 120 £513 -10.87% 32
Work from Home -35 86 £550 +1.85% 47
Midlands -22 47 £500 -5.48% 14
West Midlands -26 41 £500 -5.48% 13
North of England -44 28 £500 -4.76% 20
South East -15 20 £447 -0.67% 18
North West -26 13 £394 +5.00% 10
Scotland -4 12 £358 -24.95% 2
Yorkshire -52 11 £518 -11.91% 8
South West -15 10 £538 -10.54% 8
East Midlands -20 6 £383 -13.66% 1
North East -18 4 £500 - 2
East of England -21 3 £538 +8.86% 2
Wales -3 2 £488 - 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 26 (8.81%) Confluence
2 4 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.36%) nginx
3 3 (1.02%) Apache
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.36%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 295 (100.00%) AWS
2 195 (66.10%) Amazon S3
3 178 (60.34%) Amazon EC2
4 165 (55.93%) Serverless
5 164 (55.59%) AWS Lambda
6 110 (37.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 103 (34.92%) Amazon ECS
8 98 (33.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 92 (31.19%) Amazon EKS
10 90 (30.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 77 (26.10%) GitHub
12 62 (21.02%) GitHub Actions
13 42 (14.24%) Azure
13 42 (14.24%) Route 53
14 24 (8.14%) Amazon Kinesis
15 23 (7.80%) AWS Fargate
16 21 (7.12%) Amazon SQS
16 21 (7.12%) AWS KMS
17 20 (6.78%) Amazon MSK
18 18 (6.10%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.47%) Firewall
2 19 (6.44%) DNS
3 8 (2.71%) HTTP
3 8 (2.71%) VPN
4 6 (2.03%) FTP
4 6 (2.03%) SMTP
4 6 (2.03%) SSH
5 4 (1.36%) IMAP
5 4 (1.36%) Network Security
5 4 (1.36%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (1.02%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.34%) Internet
7 1 (0.34%) LAN
7 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (22.71%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 40 (13.56%) Amazon Aurora
4 39 (13.22%) MySQL
5 26 (8.81%) Relational Database
6 25 (8.47%) NoSQL
7 24 (8.14%) MongoDB
7 24 (8.14%) SQL Server
8 22 (7.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (5.08%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (3.73%) Oracle Database
11 10 (3.39%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (3.39%) Hadoop
11 10 (3.39%) Redis
12 9 (3.05%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (3.05%) Power BI
13 7 (2.37%) DB2
14 6 (2.03%) Couchbase
14 6 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (2.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 121 (41.02%) Jenkins
2 82 (27.80%) Git
3 70 (23.73%) GitLab
4 38 (12.88%) JIRA
5 18 (6.10%) JUnit
6 15 (5.08%) Maven
7 13 (4.41%) Bitbucket
8 12 (4.07%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (3.05%) Mockito
9 9 (3.05%) SonarQube
10 7 (2.37%) Cypress.io
11 6 (2.03%) DbUnit
11 6 (2.03%) jMock
11 6 (2.03%) Vagrant
12 5 (1.69%) Snyk
13 4 (1.36%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.36%) Oracle APEX
14 3 (1.02%) Cucumber
14 3 (1.02%) git-flow
14 3 (1.02%) Terragrunt
General
1 78 (26.44%) Social Skills
2 48 (16.27%) Public Sector
3 44 (14.92%) Finance
4 23 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.42%) Banking
6 15 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.03%) Legal
8 5 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.68%) Military
10 2 (0.68%) Publishing
11 1 (0.34%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.34%) Front Office
11 1 (0.34%) Games
11 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (21.02%) AWS Engineer
2 55 (18.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 43 (14.58%) Developer
4 42 (14.24%) Senior
5 30 (10.17%) AWS DevOps
6 28 (9.49%) Platform Engineer
7 25 (8.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 24 (8.14%) Java Developer
9 23 (7.80%) DBA
9 23 (7.80%) Software Engineer
10 22 (7.46%) Architect
11 21 (7.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 21 (7.12%) Data Engineer
11 21 (7.12%) Lead
11 21 (7.12%) Site Engineer
12 20 (6.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 19 (6.44%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 14 (4.75%) AWS Developer
14 14 (4.75%) Senior DevOps
14 14 (4.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (15.25%) Kafka
2 38 (12.88%) Spring
3 37 (12.54%) Spring Boot
4 36 (12.20%) RESTful
5 34 (11.53%) Node.js
6 25 (8.47%) React
7 23 (7.80%) REST
8 20 (6.78%) Elastic Stack
9 15 (5.08%) AWS CDK
10 12 (4.07%) AngularJS
10 12 (4.07%) Hibernate
10 12 (4.07%) JPA
10 12 (4.07%) Spring Cloud
11 11 (3.73%) CSS
12 10 (3.39%) FastAPI
12 10 (3.39%) SOAP
13 9 (3.05%) .NET
13 9 (3.05%) Django
13 9 (3.05%) Jest
13 9 (3.05%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 47 (15.93%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.15%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (8.81%) Replication
4 8 (2.71%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.03%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (2.03%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.03%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.69%) Clustering
8 4 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.36%) NHS
9 3 (1.02%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.02%) Derivative
9 3 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.02%) PKI
10 2 (0.68%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.68%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.34%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 86 (29.15%) Linux
2 13 (4.41%) Unix
3 10 (3.39%) Windows
4 9 (3.05%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (2.37%) VMS
6 6 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.36%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.02%) CentOS
8 3 (1.02%) Solaris
9 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (63.05%) CI/CD
2 135 (45.76%) DevOps
3 125 (42.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 97 (32.88%) Containerisation
5 96 (32.54%) Agile
6 70 (23.73%) Microservices
7 50 (16.95%) Observability
8 47 (15.93%) Performance Tuning
9 44 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (14.58%) Software Engineering
11 42 (14.24%) Configuration Management
11 42 (14.24%) Migration
12 36 (12.20%) Cost Optimisation
13 33 (11.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 32 (10.85%) ETL
14 32 (10.85%) Event-Driven
14 32 (10.85%) High Availability
15 30 (10.17%) Platform Engineering
16 29 (9.83%) TDD
17 27 (9.15%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 140 (47.46%) Python
2 102 (34.58%) SQL
3 80 (27.12%) Java
4 50 (16.95%) Bash
5 33 (11.19%) PowerShell
6 28 (9.49%) Shell Script
7 21 (7.12%) JavaScript
8 19 (6.44%) Go
9 15 (5.08%) TypeScript
10 13 (4.41%) Perl
11 12 (4.07%) Groovy
11 12 (4.07%) Ruby
12 9 (3.05%) C#
13 8 (2.71%) PL/SQL
14 6 (2.03%) JSX
15 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.34%) Bicep
16 1 (0.34%) PHP
16 1 (0.34%) R
16 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 103 (34.92%) Security Cleared
2 87 (29.49%) SC Cleared
3 57 (19.32%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (4.75%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.07%) Azure Certification
6 12 (4.07%) Degree
7 9 (3.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.69%) OCP
9 5 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.36%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.34%) MySQL Certification
13 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.34%) PMP
13 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.42%) QA
2 14 (4.75%) GDPR
3 11 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.73%) NIST
4 8 (2.71%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.37%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.69%) NCSC
7 4 (1.36%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.36%) PMO
8 3 (1.02%) SLA
9 2 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.68%) GxP
10 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 135 (45.76%) Docker
2 9 (3.05%) Postfix
3 8 (2.71%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (2.03%) DFS Replication
5 5 (1.69%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.36%) Dovecot
6 4 (1.36%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (1.36%) Squid
7 3 (1.02%) NFS
7 3 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.68%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 154 (52.20%) Terraform
2 100 (33.90%) Kubernetes
3 68 (23.05%) Grafana
4 53 (17.97%) Prometheus
5 42 (14.24%) Ansible
6 20 (6.78%) Progress Chef
7 15 (5.08%) Puppet
8 8 (2.71%) Data Guard
9 6 (2.03%) Argo
9 6 (2.03%) Packer
10 4 (1.36%) Kibana
10 4 (1.36%) Nessus
10 4 (1.36%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.36%) Proxmox
11 3 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.02%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.02%) Rancher
12 2 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.68%) systemd
Vendors
1 39 (13.22%) Oracle
2 20 (6.78%) ServiceNow
3 18 (6.10%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.73%) Jaspersoft
5 10 (3.39%) PagerDuty
6 9 (3.05%) Splunk
7 8 (2.71%) Confluent
7 8 (2.71%) Sybase
8 7 (2.37%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.37%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.37%) IBM
8 7 (2.37%) Talend
9 5 (1.69%) Informatica
10 4 (1.36%) AVEVA
10 4 (1.36%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.36%) Databricks
10 4 (1.36%) Qualys
10 4 (1.36%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.36%) Tenable
11 3 (1.02%) Okta