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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 297 352
Rank change year-on-year -103 +55 +2
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 286 296 220
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.90% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.51% 4.95% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 218 147
10th Percentile £400 £419 £409
25th Percentile £428 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £541 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +1.17% -6.96%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £768 £650 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -7.50% -1.38% -11.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - £80.25 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £80.63 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £82.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £85.63 -
90th Percentile - £86.75 -
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 8,158 5,984 7,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.17% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,435 4,045 4,978
10th Percentile £356 £344 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £651
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 91 102
10th Percentile £15.95 £20.75 £15.10
25th Percentile £23.05 £24.76 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% +1.55% -34.35%
75th Percentile £61.31 £62.88 £56.88
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.70 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -38.77%

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 August 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 11 August 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 -105 236 £500 -6.28% 102
London -78 139 £537 -7.41% 51
UK excluding London -100 104 £463 -7.50% 66
Work from Home -77 97 £513 -7.66% 62
Midlands -47 45 £472 -0.63% 9
West Midlands -50 38 £469 -1.26% 8
North of England -63 31 £456 -16.05% 23
Yorkshire -32 18 £500 - 6
Scotland -18 9 £425 -13.98% 6
South West -38 8 £542 -7.19% 9
South East -83 8 £440 -23.57% 12
North West -44 7 £525 -4.63% 12
East Midlands -9 6 £498 +31.05% 1
North East -37 6 £425 -5.56% 5
East of England -26 4 £348 -36.82% 6
Wales - 1 £550 - 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 27 (9.44%) Confluence
2 8 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.80%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.45%) SAS
3 7 (2.45%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.75%) Apache
6 3 (1.05%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.40%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 275 (96.15%) AWS
2 185 (64.69%) Amazon S3
3 159 (55.59%) AWS Lambda
4 158 (55.24%) Serverless
5 125 (43.71%) Amazon EC2
6 115 (40.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 84 (29.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 67 (23.43%) Amazon ECS
9 66 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
10 54 (18.88%) Azure
10 54 (18.88%) GitHub
11 47 (16.43%) Amazon SQS
12 46 (16.08%) AWS CloudFormation
13 40 (13.99%) AWS KMS
14 35 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (10.14%) Route 53
16 24 (8.39%) AWS Step Functions
17 22 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
18 19 (6.64%) Power Platform
19 18 (6.29%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.90%) Firewall
2 9 (3.15%) DNS
3 7 (2.45%) DHCP
3 7 (2.45%) VPN
4 6 (2.10%) Network Security
5 4 (1.40%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.40%) SMTP
5 4 (1.40%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.70%) HTTP
6 2 (0.70%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.70%) SSL
7 1 (0.35%) AMQP
7 1 (0.35%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (25.87%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (23.08%) Amazon Aurora
2 66 (23.08%) DynamoDB
3 32 (11.19%) MySQL
4 24 (8.39%) Amazon Athena
5 19 (6.64%) Power BI
5 19 (6.64%) SQL Server
6 18 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 17 (5.94%) MongoDB
8 15 (5.24%) Data Lake
8 15 (5.24%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (4.55%) Big Data
9 13 (4.55%) Redis
10 11 (3.85%) Pentaho
11 10 (3.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (3.15%) Tableau
13 8 (2.80%) Apache Iceberg
13 8 (2.80%) NoSQL
14 7 (2.45%) Relational Database
15 6 (2.10%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 89 (31.12%) Jenkins
2 66 (23.08%) Git
3 42 (14.69%) GitLab
4 36 (12.59%) JIRA
5 24 (8.39%) JUnit
6 22 (7.69%) Mockito
7 20 (6.99%) Maven
8 19 (6.64%) SonarQube
9 12 (4.20%) DbUnit
10 11 (3.85%) Bitbucket Server
10 11 (3.85%) jMock
11 10 (3.50%) Bitbucket
11 10 (3.50%) Claude Code
12 7 (2.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (2.10%) Postman
13 6 (2.10%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (1.40%) Cucumber
14 4 (1.40%) Cypress.io
14 4 (1.40%) Flyway
15 3 (1.05%) Gradle
General
1 83 (29.02%) Social Skills
2 73 (25.52%) Public Sector
3 38 (13.29%) Finance
4 30 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.69%) Banking
6 9 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.45%) Legal
8 6 (2.10%) Front Office
9 5 (1.75%) Back Office
9 5 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.05%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.70%) Law
11 2 (0.70%) Local Government
11 2 (0.70%) Marketing
12 1 (0.35%) Billing
12 1 (0.35%) Games
12 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (21.68%) AWS Engineer
2 52 (18.18%) Senior
3 45 (15.73%) Developer
4 42 (14.69%) Architect
5 35 (12.24%) Data Engineer
5 35 (12.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 27 (9.44%) AWS Architect
6 27 (9.44%) Java Developer
7 25 (8.74%) DBA
8 23 (8.04%) AWS DevOps
9 22 (7.69%) Lead
10 20 (6.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 18 (6.29%) Cloud Engineer
12 17 (5.94%) Technical Architect
13 13 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (4.20%) AWS Data Engineer
14 12 (4.20%) Senior Developer
15 11 (3.85%) Administrator
15 11 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 11 (3.85%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.38%) REST
2 41 (14.34%) Node.js
2 41 (14.34%) RESTful
3 39 (13.64%) Spring
3 39 (13.64%) Spring Boot
4 38 (13.29%) React
5 31 (10.84%) AngularJS
6 25 (8.74%) AWS CDK
7 22 (7.69%) Kafka
8 21 (7.34%) SOAP
9 19 (6.64%) .NET
9 19 (6.64%) ActiveMQ
10 16 (5.59%) Hibernate
10 16 (5.59%) JPA
10 16 (5.59%) Spring Batch
10 16 (5.59%) Spring Integration
10 16 (5.59%) Web Services
11 14 (4.90%) FastAPI
11 14 (4.90%) GraphQL
11 14 (4.90%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 64 (22.38%) Cloud Native
2 30 (10.49%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 19 (6.64%) Replication
5 9 (3.15%) NHS
6 8 (2.80%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.80%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.45%) Fixed Income
7 7 (2.45%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.10%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (1.75%) Clustering
9 5 (1.75%) PKI
10 4 (1.40%) Autonomous Agent
10 4 (1.40%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.05%) Derivative
11 3 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.05%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.05%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 54 (18.88%) Linux
2 21 (7.34%) Windows
3 14 (4.90%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.15%) Unix
5 6 (2.10%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (1.40%) AIX
7 3 (1.05%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.35%) CentOS
8 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (59.79%) CI/CD
2 126 (44.06%) Agile
3 121 (42.31%) DevOps
4 106 (37.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 79 (27.62%) Microservices
6 58 (20.28%) Containerisation
7 48 (16.78%) Data Modelling
8 47 (16.43%) Observability
9 44 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
10 42 (14.69%) Migration
11 41 (14.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (14.34%) Event-Driven
11 41 (14.34%) High Availability
12 39 (13.64%) Scrum
13 38 (13.29%) Data Pipeline
13 38 (13.29%) ETL
13 38 (13.29%) Software Engineering
14 37 (12.94%) Stakeholder Management
15 32 (11.19%) Technical Leadership
16 30 (10.49%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 117 (40.91%) Python
2 88 (30.77%) SQL
3 78 (27.27%) Java
4 37 (12.94%) TypeScript
5 31 (10.84%) Bash
6 24 (8.39%) JavaScript
7 22 (7.69%) PowerShell
8 17 (5.94%) C#
9 14 (4.90%) Groovy
10 11 (3.85%) Shell Script
11 9 (3.15%) Scala
12 6 (2.10%) Perl
13 4 (1.40%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.05%) Go
15 2 (0.70%) Ruby
16 1 (0.35%) Bicep
16 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (41.96%) Security Cleared
2 100 (34.97%) SC Cleared
3 43 (15.03%) AWS Certification
4 26 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 21 (7.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (5.94%) Degree
7 10 (3.50%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.80%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.05%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.70%) CISM
11 2 (0.70%) CISSP
11 2 (0.70%) PMP
12 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.99%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.45%) PMO
3 6 (2.10%) QA
4 4 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.40%) NIST
4 4 (1.40%) SLA
5 3 (1.05%) GDPR
5 3 (1.05%) HL7
5 3 (1.05%) NCSC
5 3 (1.05%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.70%) WCAG
7 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 92 (32.17%) Docker
2 13 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.15%) Postfix
4 6 (2.10%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.40%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.40%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.40%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 121 (42.31%) Terraform
2 72 (25.17%) Kubernetes
3 58 (20.28%) Grafana
4 37 (12.94%) Prometheus
5 23 (8.04%) Ansible
6 8 (2.80%) Argo
6 8 (2.80%) Kibana
7 7 (2.45%) Istio
8 5 (1.75%) Puppet
9 4 (1.40%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.40%) vMotion
10 3 (1.05%) Foglight
10 3 (1.05%) Nagios
10 3 (1.05%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.05%) Rancher
11 2 (0.70%) Consul
11 2 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.70%) Packer
11 2 (0.70%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 28 (9.79%) ServiceNow
2 24 (8.39%) Microsoft
3 21 (7.34%) Oracle
4 15 (5.24%) Dynatrace
4 15 (5.24%) Jaspersoft
5 13 (4.55%) Atlassian
6 11 (3.85%) Informatica
7 10 (3.50%) VMware
8 9 (3.15%) Databricks
9 7 (2.45%) Denodo
9 7 (2.45%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.45%) Splunk
10 6 (2.10%) Talend
11 5 (1.75%) Amplitude
11 5 (1.75%) Citrix
11 5 (1.75%) Google
12 4 (1.40%) Cisco
12 4 (1.40%) HP
12 4 (1.40%) OpenAI
12 4 (1.40%) Symantec