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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 300 358
Rank change year-on-year -27 +58 -40
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 286 235 256
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 0.75% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.47% 4.05% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 148 189
10th Percentile £365 £425 £405
25th Percentile £413 £474 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% +1.67% -8.70%
75th Percentile £578 £625 £600
90th Percentile £638 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £498 £530
% change year-on-year +0.40% -6.04% +4.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £68.25 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £85.00 - -

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 6,398 5,804 7,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.55% 18.45% 16.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,401 3,819 5,146
10th Percentile £335 £355 £350
25th Percentile £412 £425 £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 £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 88 182
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.69 £21.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £42.35
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -17.35% -25.53%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.33 £77.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £28.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year +91.97% -28.38% -27.27%

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 30 January 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 30 January 2026.

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 30 January 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 -23 226 £525 -4.55% 123
London -38 119 £513 -8.07% 38
UK excluding London 0 117 £500 +0.40% 104
Work from Home -31 82 £575 +8.49% 96
Midlands -28 37 £500 -5.57% 11
West Midlands -17 33 £513 -3.12% 9
North of England -37 33 £500 -4.76% 20
North West -7 18 £450 +20.00% 8
South East -11 17 £475 +11.76% 35
South West -11 12 £606 +7.66% 13
Scotland -6 11 £358 -24.95% 3
Yorkshire -45 11 £509 -13.40% 10
North East -11 4 £500 - 2
East of England -17 4 £538 +8.86% 15
East Midlands -24 4 £375 -34.78% 2
Wales -2 2 £488 - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 21 (7.34%) Confluence
2 8 (2.80%) nginx
3 6 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.05%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (2.80%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 286 (100.00%) AWS
2 183 (63.99%) Amazon S3
3 167 (58.39%) Serverless
4 166 (58.04%) AWS Lambda
5 165 (57.69%) Amazon EC2
6 112 (39.16%) Amazon ECS
7 101 (35.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 101 (35.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 93 (32.52%) Amazon EKS
9 83 (29.02%) GitHub
10 80 (27.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 61 (21.33%) GitHub Actions
12 44 (15.38%) Azure
13 43 (15.03%) Route 53
14 27 (9.44%) Amazon Kinesis
14 27 (9.44%) AWS Fargate
15 25 (8.74%) AWS Step Functions
16 23 (8.04%) Datadog
17 21 (7.34%) Amazon MSK
18 17 (5.94%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (10.84%) Firewall
2 26 (9.09%) DNS
3 14 (4.90%) HTTP
4 12 (4.20%) FTP
4 12 (4.20%) SMTP
4 12 (4.20%) SSH
5 8 (2.80%) IMAP
5 8 (2.80%) OpenLDAP
5 8 (2.80%) VPN
6 4 (1.40%) Network Security
7 3 (1.05%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.35%) Internet
8 1 (0.35%) LAN
8 1 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (25.52%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (18.18%) DynamoDB
3 46 (16.08%) Amazon Aurora
4 42 (14.69%) MySQL
5 30 (10.49%) NoSQL
6 29 (10.14%) Relational Database
7 25 (8.74%) MongoDB
8 24 (8.39%) SQL Server
9 23 (8.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (5.59%) Amazon Athena
10 16 (5.59%) Redis
11 11 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
11 11 (3.85%) Hadoop
11 11 (3.85%) RDBMS
12 10 (3.50%) Oracle Database
13 8 (2.80%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (2.10%) BigQuery
15 6 (2.10%) Couchbase
15 6 (2.10%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 126 (44.06%) Jenkins
2 77 (26.92%) Git
3 73 (25.52%) GitLab
4 35 (12.24%) JIRA
5 13 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 13 (4.55%) Maven
6 12 (4.20%) Sonatype Nexus
6 12 (4.20%) Vagrant
7 8 (2.80%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.80%) Gradle
7 8 (2.80%) JUnit
8 7 (2.45%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.75%) SonarLint
10 4 (1.40%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (1.40%) Snyk
10 4 (1.40%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.05%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.05%) git-flow
12 2 (0.70%) Gatling
12 2 (0.70%) Storybook
General
1 74 (25.87%) Social Skills
2 42 (14.69%) Finance
3 38 (13.29%) Public Sector
4 17 (5.94%) Banking
5 16 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.05%) Legal
9 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.70%) Military
9 2 (0.70%) Publishing
10 1 (0.35%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.35%) Front Office
10 1 (0.35%) Games
10 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.35%) Marketing
10 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (24.83%) AWS Engineer
2 64 (22.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (13.99%) Senior
4 38 (13.29%) AWS DevOps
5 36 (12.59%) Developer
6 34 (11.89%) Platform Engineer
7 32 (11.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 27 (9.44%) Architect
8 27 (9.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 25 (8.74%) Software Engineer
10 23 (8.04%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 21 (7.34%) Data Engineer
11 21 (7.34%) Site Engineer
12 20 (6.99%) Lead
12 20 (6.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 18 (6.29%) DBA
14 13 (4.55%) Java Developer
14 13 (4.55%) Java Engineer
14 13 (4.55%) Oracle DBA
14 13 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (17.48%) Kafka
2 32 (11.19%) RESTful
3 31 (10.84%) Spring Boot
4 30 (10.49%) Node.js
5 27 (9.44%) React
5 27 (9.44%) Spring
6 21 (7.34%) Elastic Stack
7 15 (5.24%) REST
8 14 (4.90%) AWS CDK
9 11 (3.85%) CSS
10 10 (3.50%) FastAPI
11 9 (3.15%) Jest
11 9 (3.15%) LDAP
11 9 (3.15%) Next.js
12 8 (2.80%) .NET
12 8 (2.80%) Flask
12 8 (2.80%) GraphQL
12 8 (2.80%) Keycloak
12 8 (2.80%) PySpark
13 7 (2.45%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 51 (17.83%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.84%) Replication
3 22 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.15%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.15%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.45%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.10%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.75%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.40%) Clustering
9 4 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.40%) NHS
9 4 (1.40%) PKI
10 3 (1.05%) Derivative
10 3 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.70%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.70%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 1 (0.35%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 82 (28.67%) Linux
2 16 (5.59%) Windows
3 15 (5.24%) Amazon Linux
4 13 (4.55%) VMS
5 11 (3.85%) Unix
6 8 (2.80%) Ubuntu
7 7 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.40%) CentOS
9 3 (1.05%) Solaris
10 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.35%) Android
11 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (65.73%) CI/CD
2 141 (49.30%) DevOps
3 128 (44.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (33.57%) Containerisation
5 79 (27.62%) Agile
6 70 (24.48%) Microservices
7 50 (17.48%) Observability
8 48 (16.78%) Configuration Management
9 46 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (16.08%) Software Engineering
10 44 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
11 41 (14.34%) Event-Driven
12 37 (12.94%) Migration
12 37 (12.94%) Platform Engineering
13 33 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 32 (11.19%) Cost Optimisation
15 31 (10.84%) High Availability
16 30 (10.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 28 (9.79%) Analytics
17 28 (9.79%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 154 (53.85%) Python
2 93 (32.52%) SQL
3 79 (27.62%) Java
4 50 (17.48%) Bash
5 39 (13.64%) PowerShell
6 29 (10.14%) Shell Script
7 21 (7.34%) Go
8 20 (6.99%) JavaScript
9 19 (6.64%) Groovy
10 16 (5.59%) TypeScript
11 15 (5.24%) Perl
12 12 (4.20%) Ruby
13 10 (3.50%) C#
14 8 (2.80%) PL/SQL
15 6 (2.10%) JSX
16 3 (1.05%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.70%) C
18 1 (0.35%) Bicep
18 1 (0.35%) PHP
18 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 91 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 72 (25.17%) SC Cleared
3 53 (18.53%) AWS Certification
4 18 (6.29%) Degree
5 16 (5.59%) DV Cleared
6 14 (4.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (4.55%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.75%) OCP
10 5 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.70%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.70%) PMP
13 1 (0.35%) CEH
13 1 (0.35%) CISSP
13 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.59%) GDPR
2 15 (5.24%) QA
3 11 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.50%) NIST
5 8 (2.80%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.45%) Accessibility
7 6 (2.10%) NCSC
8 3 (1.05%) SLA
9 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.70%) GxP
10 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 137 (47.90%) Docker
2 12 (4.20%) DFS Replication
3 8 (2.80%) Dovecot
3 8 (2.80%) Postfix
3 8 (2.80%) Squid
3 8 (2.80%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (2.45%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.40%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.05%) NFS
6 3 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 169 (59.09%) Terraform
2 107 (37.41%) Kubernetes
3 69 (24.13%) Grafana
4 60 (20.98%) Prometheus
5 43 (15.03%) Ansible
6 20 (6.99%) Progress Chef
7 15 (5.24%) Puppet
8 8 (2.80%) Nessus
8 8 (2.80%) Proxmox
9 7 (2.45%) Data Guard
9 7 (2.45%) Packer
10 5 (1.75%) Argo
11 4 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (1.40%) Kibana
11 4 (1.40%) Rancher
12 3 (1.05%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (1.05%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.70%) systemd
Vendors
1 36 (12.59%) Oracle
2 18 (6.29%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.94%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.85%) Splunk
5 10 (3.50%) PagerDuty
6 8 (2.80%) Confluent
6 8 (2.80%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.80%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (2.45%) IBM
8 6 (2.10%) Sybase
9 5 (1.75%) Gigya
9 5 (1.75%) Talend
10 4 (1.40%) AVEVA
10 4 (1.40%) CloudEndure
10 4 (1.40%) Okta
10 4 (1.40%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.05%) Databricks
11 3 (1.05%) Informatica
11 3 (1.05%) SAP
11 3 (1.05%) Tenable