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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 288 358
Rank change year-on-year -95 +70 -25
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 275 256 248
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.87% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.66% 4.64% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 185 182
10th Percentile £397 £425 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £523 £480
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.85% -18.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.13 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £91.25 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 - -

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 7,509 5,512 7,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.12% 18.83% 17.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,024 3,745 5,279
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £762 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 102 152
10th Percentile £14.34 £19.72 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.91 £23.50 £20.77
Median hourly rate £43.00 £34.19 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.77% -14.53% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £65.34 £55.63
90th Percentile £81.43 £77.38 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.84% -9.60% -40.26%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -95 235 £500 -9.09% 74
London -62 135 £523 -9.13% 25
UK excluding London -80 105 £475 -9.09% 59
Work from Home -74 81 £500 -13.04% 219
Midlands -33 51 £469 -1.26% 8
West Midlands -37 44 £469 -1.26% 6
North of England -57 27 £419 -19.24% 17
Yorkshire -49 14 £400 -20.00% 5
South West -27 11 £580 +6.91% 16
South East -65 10 £459 -20.17% 12
North West -34 9 £445 -18.12% 9
East Midlands -23 6 £519 +66.88% 2
North East - 4 £425 - 3
Scotland -22 3 £313 -37.40%
Wales - 3 £500 - 3
East of England -34 2 - - 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 29 (10.55%) Confluence
2 7 (2.55%) SAS
3 6 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.45%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.09%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.36%) Apache
7 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 269 (97.82%) AWS
2 170 (61.82%) Amazon S3
3 154 (56.00%) AWS Lambda
3 154 (56.00%) Serverless
4 129 (46.91%) Amazon EC2
5 98 (35.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 73 (26.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 72 (26.18%) Amazon ECS
8 71 (25.82%) Amazon EKS
9 57 (20.73%) GitHub
10 48 (17.45%) Amazon SQS
11 47 (17.09%) Azure
12 45 (16.36%) AWS CloudFormation
13 40 (14.55%) Route 53
14 36 (13.09%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (10.55%) AWS KMS
16 19 (6.91%) AWS CloudTrail
16 19 (6.91%) AWS Step Functions
17 18 (6.55%) Amazon Kinesis
17 18 (6.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.00%) DNS
2 9 (3.27%) Firewall
3 7 (2.55%) VPN
4 6 (2.18%) DHCP
5 4 (1.45%) Network Security
6 3 (1.09%) SMTP
6 3 (1.09%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.73%) HTTP
7 2 (0.73%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.36%) AMQP
8 1 (0.36%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.36%) LAN
8 1 (0.36%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.36%) SSL
8 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (28.73%) DynamoDB
2 72 (26.18%) PostgreSQL
3 63 (22.91%) Amazon Aurora
4 33 (12.00%) MySQL
5 19 (6.91%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (6.55%) Power BI
6 18 (6.55%) SQL Server
7 16 (5.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (5.82%) MongoDB
8 15 (5.45%) NoSQL
9 14 (5.09%) Pentaho
10 10 (3.64%) Data Lake
10 10 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (3.64%) Redis
10 10 (3.64%) Relational Database
10 10 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (3.27%) Big Data
11 9 (3.27%) Tableau
12 6 (2.18%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (2.18%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 87 (31.64%) Jenkins
2 67 (24.36%) Git
3 44 (16.00%) GitLab
4 35 (12.73%) JIRA
5 28 (10.18%) JUnit
6 23 (8.36%) Mockito
7 22 (8.00%) Maven
8 21 (7.64%) SonarQube
9 14 (5.09%) DbUnit
10 13 (4.73%) jMock
11 11 (4.00%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (2.55%) Claude Code
13 6 (2.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (2.18%) Cucumber
13 6 (2.18%) Postman
13 6 (2.18%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (1.82%) git-flow
14 5 (1.82%) Snyk
15 4 (1.45%) Flyway
15 4 (1.45%) Oracle APEX
General
1 69 (25.09%) Social Skills
2 61 (22.18%) Public Sector
3 29 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (10.55%) Finance
4 15 (5.45%) Banking
5 11 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.64%) Legal
7 6 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.09%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.73%) Front Office
10 2 (0.73%) Law
10 2 (0.73%) Local Government
11 1 (0.36%) Billing
11 1 (0.36%) Games
11 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.36%) Marketing
11 1 (0.36%) Military
11 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (19.64%) AWS Engineer
1 54 (19.64%) Developer
2 45 (16.36%) Senior
3 34 (12.36%) Architect
4 31 (11.27%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (10.55%) Java Developer
6 28 (10.18%) AWS Architect
7 27 (9.82%) Data Engineer
8 24 (8.73%) DBA
9 20 (7.27%) Software Engineer
10 18 (6.55%) AWS DevOps
10 18 (6.55%) Lead
11 16 (5.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 15 (5.45%) Senior Developer
12 15 (5.45%) Technical Architect
13 12 (4.36%) AWS Developer
13 12 (4.36%) Python Developer
14 11 (4.00%) Analyst
14 11 (4.00%) Python Engineer
15 10 (3.64%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (17.82%) Spring
1 49 (17.82%) Spring Boot
2 45 (16.36%) REST
2 45 (16.36%) RESTful
3 36 (13.09%) React
4 34 (12.36%) Node.js
5 30 (10.91%) AngularJS
6 29 (10.55%) Kafka
7 23 (8.36%) Hibernate
7 23 (8.36%) JPA
7 23 (8.36%) SOAP
8 21 (7.64%) AWS CDK
8 21 (7.64%) Spring Cloud
9 19 (6.91%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (6.91%) Web Services
10 18 (6.55%) GraphQL
10 18 (6.55%) Spring Batch
10 18 (6.55%) Spring Integration
11 14 (5.09%) .NET
12 13 (4.73%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 66 (24.00%) Cloud Native
2 32 (11.64%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.64%) Replication
5 8 (2.91%) NHS
6 7 (2.55%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.18%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.45%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.45%) Clustering
8 4 (1.45%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.09%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.09%) PKI
10 2 (0.73%) Autonomous Agent
10 2 (0.73%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.73%) PropTech
10 2 (0.73%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.36%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 50 (18.18%) Linux
2 11 (4.00%) Windows
3 8 (2.91%) Unix
3 8 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.45%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.09%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.36%) CentOS
6 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (59.27%) CI/CD
2 121 (44.00%) Agile
3 115 (41.82%) DevOps
4 91 (33.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 84 (30.55%) Microservices
6 68 (24.73%) Containerisation
7 48 (17.45%) Scrum
8 45 (16.36%) Observability
9 41 (14.91%) Performance Tuning
10 40 (14.55%) Event-Driven
10 40 (14.55%) Software Engineering
11 36 (13.09%) Stakeholder Management
12 35 (12.73%) ETL
13 33 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (12.00%) TDD
14 32 (11.64%) Migration
15 31 (11.27%) High Availability
16 30 (10.91%) Kanban
16 30 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
17 29 (10.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 98 (35.64%) SQL
2 92 (33.45%) Python
3 87 (31.64%) Java
4 27 (9.82%) TypeScript
5 21 (7.64%) Bash
6 20 (7.27%) JavaScript
6 20 (7.27%) PowerShell
7 14 (5.09%) C#
8 12 (4.36%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.91%) Groovy
9 8 (2.91%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.18%) Scala
11 5 (1.82%) Go
11 5 (1.82%) Perl
11 5 (1.82%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.09%) Ruby
13 1 (0.36%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 117 (42.55%) Security Cleared
2 97 (35.27%) SC Cleared
3 36 (13.09%) AWS Certification
4 18 (6.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (5.09%) DV Cleared
6 13 (4.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (4.73%) Degree
7 9 (3.27%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.09%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.73%) PMP
11 1 (0.36%) CEH
11 1 (0.36%) CISSP
11 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.36%) OCP
11 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.36%) QA
2 9 (3.27%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.27%) NIST
3 8 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.91%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.55%) PMO
5 6 (2.18%) GDPR
6 4 (1.45%) SLA
7 3 (1.09%) NCSC
8 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.36%) HL7
8 1 (0.36%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 104 (37.82%) Docker
2 11 (4.00%) Postfix
3 8 (2.91%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.82%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.45%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.09%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.09%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.09%) Terminal Services
6 3 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.36%) HDFS
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 114 (41.45%) Terraform
2 77 (28.00%) Kubernetes
3 56 (20.36%) Grafana
4 37 (13.45%) Prometheus
5 20 (7.27%) Ansible
6 8 (2.91%) Argo
7 7 (2.55%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.18%) Data Guard
9 5 (1.82%) Puppet
10 4 (1.45%) Istio
10 4 (1.45%) Kibana
11 3 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.09%) Foglight
11 3 (1.09%) Rancher
11 3 (1.09%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.09%) vMotion
12 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.73%) Nagios
12 2 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.73%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 34 (12.36%) Oracle
2 22 (8.00%) ServiceNow
3 17 (6.18%) Jaspersoft
4 16 (5.82%) Microsoft
5 15 (5.45%) Atlassian
6 13 (4.73%) Dynatrace
6 13 (4.73%) Informatica
7 9 (3.27%) Talend
8 8 (2.91%) Databricks
9 7 (2.55%) Denodo
10 6 (2.18%) Splunk
11 5 (1.82%) Sybase
12 4 (1.45%) AVEVA
12 4 (1.45%) Brio
12 4 (1.45%) Citrix
12 4 (1.45%) Google
12 4 (1.45%) Qualys
12 4 (1.45%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.45%) Tenable
12 4 (1.45%) VMware