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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 327 345
Rank change year-on-year +12 +18 -20
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 290 236 258
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.70% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.55% 3.88% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 145 187
10th Percentile £376 £428 £413
25th Percentile £425 £485 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.28% +0.09% -5.70%
75th Percentile £578 £675 £600
90th Percentile £638 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £543
% change year-on-year -0.42% -12.15% +8.60%
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 and Business Intelligence 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 6,380 6,079 7,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.16% 18.01% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,401 4,013 5,148
10th Percentile £325 £341 £350
25th Percentile £408 £425 £430
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 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 84 143
10th Percentile £20.73 £18.74 £16.22
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.66 £22.44
Median hourly rate £50.00 £31.55 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +58.50% -31.69% -12.04%
75th Percentile £72.00 £64.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.63 £77.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.75 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +113.64% -40.45% -6.71%

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 2025. 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 -13 220 £513 -6.86% 210
UK excluding London +16 120 £475 -0.42% 197
London -27 110 £516 -10.22% 32
Work from Home -21 90 £575 +6.88% 186
Midlands -15 42 £475 -6.77% 29
West Midlands -7 34 £475 -6.77% 15
North of England -40 29 £500 -14.89% 46
South East +4 19 £475 +11.76% 52
North West -17 16 £413 -19.51% 22
Scotland -2 13 £358 -24.11% 5
Yorkshire -32 9 £518 -11.91% 21
South West 0 8 £525 -12.62% 28
East Midlands -13 8 £380 -24.00% 12
East of England -16 7 £550 +25.71% 30
North East -8 4 £500 - 3
Wales -1 1 £475 - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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 25 (8.62%) Confluence
2 10 (3.45%) nginx
3 7 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.72%) Apache
5 2 (0.69%) IIS
5 2 (0.69%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.34%) CICS
6 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (3.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (1.03%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Maximo
2 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 285 (98.28%) AWS
2 193 (66.55%) Amazon S3
3 174 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
3 174 (60.00%) Serverless
4 173 (59.66%) AWS Lambda
5 112 (38.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 108 (37.24%) Amazon ECS
7 107 (36.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 94 (32.41%) Amazon EKS
9 93 (32.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 92 (31.72%) GitHub
11 68 (23.45%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (16.55%) Azure
13 42 (14.48%) Route 53
14 26 (8.97%) AWS Step Functions
14 26 (8.97%) Datadog
15 23 (7.93%) AWS Fargate
16 21 (7.24%) Amazon Kinesis
17 20 (6.90%) Amazon ELB
17 20 (6.90%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (12.41%) Firewall
2 32 (11.03%) DNS
3 22 (7.59%) HTTP
4 17 (5.86%) FTP
4 17 (5.86%) SMTP
4 17 (5.86%) SSH
5 13 (4.48%) VPN
6 10 (3.45%) IMAP
6 10 (3.45%) OpenLDAP
7 6 (2.07%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (1.38%) Internet
8 4 (1.38%) Network Security
8 4 (1.38%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.03%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.69%) LAN
10 2 (0.69%) WAN
11 1 (0.34%) DHCP
11 1 (0.34%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.34%) VLAN
11 1 (0.34%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (26.55%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (16.21%) Amazon Aurora
3 46 (15.86%) DynamoDB
4 35 (12.07%) MySQL
5 29 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 29 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 26 (8.97%) NoSQL
7 23 (7.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 21 (7.24%) Amazon Athena
9 20 (6.90%) MongoDB
10 12 (4.14%) Redis
11 11 (3.79%) Oracle Database
11 11 (3.79%) RDBMS
12 9 (3.10%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (3.10%) Hadoop
13 7 (2.41%) BigQuery
13 7 (2.41%) Data Lake
13 7 (2.41%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (2.07%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 129 (44.48%) Jenkins
2 86 (29.66%) Git
3 78 (26.90%) GitLab
4 39 (13.45%) JIRA
5 17 (5.86%) Vagrant
6 14 (4.83%) Bitbucket
7 12 (4.14%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (3.45%) Maven
9 8 (2.76%) Cypress.io
10 7 (2.41%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.72%) Gradle
11 5 (1.72%) SonarLint
12 4 (1.38%) JUnit
12 4 (1.38%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.69%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.69%) Gatling
13 2 (0.69%) Snyk
14 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
14 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 87 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 45 (15.52%) Public Sector
3 42 (14.48%) Finance
4 17 (5.86%) Banking
5 16 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.38%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.69%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.69%) Legal
9 2 (0.69%) Marketing
9 2 (0.69%) Publishing
10 1 (0.34%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.34%) Games
10 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.34%) Military
10 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (29.31%) AWS Engineer
2 80 (27.59%) DevOps Engineer
3 51 (17.59%) AWS DevOps
4 44 (15.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 39 (13.45%) Senior
6 38 (13.10%) Platform Engineer
7 35 (12.07%) Developer
8 32 (11.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 26 (8.97%) Architect
10 25 (8.62%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 24 (8.28%) Lead
12 18 (6.21%) Site Engineer
13 17 (5.86%) Data Engineer
13 17 (5.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 16 (5.52%) Senior DevOps
14 16 (5.52%) Software Engineer
15 15 (5.17%) AWS Developer
15 15 (5.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 14 (4.83%) DBA
17 10 (3.45%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (14.83%) Kafka
2 36 (12.41%) Node.js
3 32 (11.03%) RESTful
4 29 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
5 22 (7.59%) React
6 19 (6.55%) Spring Boot
7 15 (5.17%) AWS CDK
7 15 (5.17%) Spring
8 11 (3.79%) CSS
8 11 (3.79%) LDAP
9 10 (3.45%) Django
10 9 (3.10%) Jest
10 9 (3.10%) REST
11 8 (2.76%) FastAPI
11 8 (2.76%) GraphQL
11 8 (2.76%) JSON
11 8 (2.76%) Keycloak
11 8 (2.76%) PySpark
11 8 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.41%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.45%) Cloud Native
1 39 (13.45%) Replication
2 18 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.14%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (3.10%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.07%) Clustering
6 6 (2.07%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (2.07%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.72%) N-Tier
7 5 (1.72%) PKI
8 4 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.03%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.03%) Derivative
9 3 (1.03%) NHS
10 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.69%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 90 (31.03%) Linux
2 24 (8.28%) Windows
3 20 (6.90%) Amazon Linux
4 18 (6.21%) VMS
5 11 (3.79%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.79%) Unix
6 8 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.72%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.38%) CentOS
8 4 (1.38%) Solaris
9 1 (0.34%) AIX
9 1 (0.34%) Android
9 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.34%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (64.83%) CI/CD
2 159 (54.83%) DevOps
3 134 (46.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (35.17%) Containerisation
5 80 (27.59%) Agile
6 61 (21.03%) Microservices
7 56 (19.31%) Configuration Management
8 50 (17.24%) Observability
9 49 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (14.48%) Migration
10 42 (14.48%) Platform Engineering
11 40 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
12 39 (13.45%) Software Engineering
13 37 (12.76%) Event-Driven
14 36 (12.41%) Cloud Security
15 30 (10.34%) Cost Optimisation
16 29 (10.00%) High Availability
17 27 (9.31%) Analytics
17 27 (9.31%) Mentoring
17 27 (9.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 168 (57.93%) Python
2 84 (28.97%) SQL
3 72 (24.83%) Java
4 56 (19.31%) Bash
5 44 (15.17%) PowerShell
6 27 (9.31%) Shell Script
7 26 (8.97%) JavaScript
8 24 (8.28%) Groovy
9 20 (6.90%) Go
10 18 (6.21%) Perl
10 18 (6.21%) TypeScript
11 12 (4.14%) Ruby
12 8 (2.76%) C#
13 6 (2.07%) JSX
14 3 (1.03%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.03%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.69%) C
15 2 (0.69%) PHP
16 1 (0.34%) COBOL
16 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 90 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 74 (25.52%) SC Cleared
3 60 (20.69%) AWS Certification
4 26 (8.97%) Degree
5 21 (7.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (5.17%) Azure Certification
7 12 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (3.79%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.72%) OCP
11 5 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (1.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.34%) MySQL Certification
14 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.52%) GDPR
1 16 (5.52%) QA
2 9 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.76%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.41%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.41%) NCSC
5 6 (2.07%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.72%) NIST
7 3 (1.03%) SLA
8 2 (0.69%) GxP
8 2 (0.69%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.69%) WCAG
9 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 137 (47.24%) Docker
2 17 (5.86%) DFS Replication
3 11 (3.79%) Active Directory
4 10 (3.45%) Dovecot
4 10 (3.45%) Postfix
4 10 (3.45%) Squid
5 8 (2.76%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.03%) NFS
8 2 (0.69%) HDFS
9 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 180 (62.07%) Terraform
2 104 (35.86%) Kubernetes
3 83 (28.62%) Grafana
4 71 (24.48%) Prometheus
5 45 (15.52%) Ansible
6 23 (7.93%) Progress Chef
7 21 (7.24%) Puppet
8 10 (3.45%) Nessus
8 10 (3.45%) Proxmox
9 8 (2.76%) Packer
10 6 (2.07%) Argo
11 4 (1.38%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (1.38%) Kibana
11 4 (1.38%) Rancher
12 3 (1.03%) Data Guard
12 3 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (1.03%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.69%) systemd
Vendors
1 33 (11.38%) Oracle
2 23 (7.93%) Microsoft
3 22 (7.59%) ServiceNow
4 13 (4.48%) IBM
5 12 (4.14%) Splunk
6 10 (3.45%) Dynatrace
6 10 (3.45%) Jaspersoft
6 10 (3.45%) PagerDuty
7 8 (2.76%) Confluent
8 7 (2.41%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.72%) Gigya
10 4 (1.38%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.38%) Okta
11 3 (1.03%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.03%) Databricks
11 3 (1.03%) Google
11 3 (1.03%) SAP
11 3 (1.03%) Sybase
12 2 (0.69%) Qualys
12 2 (0.69%) UiPath