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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 291 369
Rank change year-on-year -110 +78 -4
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 283 292 220
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.89% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.46% 4.95% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 211 150
10th Percentile £400 £413 £409
25th Percentile £431 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £600
90th Percentile £788 £650 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £461 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -7.75% -1.38% -4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - £70.60 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £74.13 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £83.75 -
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
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 8,175 5,898 6,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.24% 18.01% 18.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,437 3,953 4,879
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 94 100
10th Percentile £15.90 £21.22 £14.93
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.02 £19.77
Median hourly rate £38.50 £38.85 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +19.52% -40.91%
75th Percentile £61.13 £64.94 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £79.63 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £34.19 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.87% +13.97% -42.86%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -114 230 £533 +1.43% 184
London -63 143 £550 -6.38% 113
Work from Home -67 96 £525 -4.55% 115
UK excluding London -119 89 £461 -7.75% 115
North of England -52 33 £481 -3.75% 31
Midlands -71 26 £469 -1.26% 14
West Midlands -64 23 £469 -1.26% 5
Yorkshire -22 19 £500 - 8
South West -37 10 £542 -0.14% 17
Scotland -25 9 £425 -14.59% 13
South East -71 8 £460 -20.00% 19
North East -40 7 £425 -2.86% 11
North West -58 7 £525 -4.55% 12
East of England -28 4 £348 -36.82% 11
East Midlands -17 2 £449 +18.16% 9
Wales - 1 £550 - 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 23 (8.13%) Confluence
2 15 (5.30%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.53%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.83%) Apache
5 7 (2.47%) SAS
5 7 (2.47%) SharePoint
6 6 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.06%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (1.06%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.71%) Camunda
8 2 (0.71%) nginx
9 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.41%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 272 (96.11%) AWS
2 182 (64.31%) Amazon S3
3 157 (55.48%) AWS Lambda
4 156 (55.12%) Serverless
5 113 (39.93%) Amazon EC2
6 109 (38.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 79 (27.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 72 (25.44%) Amazon ECS
9 68 (24.03%) Amazon EKS
10 54 (19.08%) Azure
11 52 (18.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 50 (17.67%) GitHub
13 41 (14.49%) Amazon SQS
14 35 (12.37%) GitHub Actions
15 32 (11.31%) AWS KMS
16 28 (9.89%) Route 53
17 26 (9.19%) AWS Step Functions
18 23 (8.13%) Amazon EventBridge
19 20 (7.07%) GCP
20 18 (6.36%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.36%) Firewall
2 11 (3.89%) DNS
3 7 (2.47%) DHCP
3 7 (2.47%) VPN
4 6 (2.12%) Network Security
4 6 (2.12%) SMTP
5 4 (1.41%) HTTP
5 4 (1.41%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.41%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.71%) FTP
6 2 (0.71%) IMAP
6 2 (0.71%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (0.71%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.71%) SSH
6 2 (0.71%) SSL
7 1 (0.35%) AMQP
7 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.35%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (27.92%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (25.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 61 (21.55%) DynamoDB
4 36 (12.72%) MySQL
5 25 (8.83%) Amazon Athena
5 25 (8.83%) SQL Server
6 23 (8.13%) MongoDB
7 21 (7.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 21 (7.42%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (6.01%) Data Lake
9 15 (5.30%) Redis
10 13 (4.59%) Big Data
10 13 (4.59%) Power BI
10 13 (4.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (2.83%) Apache Iceberg
11 8 (2.83%) NoSQL
11 8 (2.83%) Pentaho
11 8 (2.83%) Relational Database
12 7 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (2.12%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 85 (30.04%) Jenkins
2 55 (19.43%) Git
3 46 (16.25%) GitLab
4 32 (11.31%) JIRA
5 15 (5.30%) JUnit
6 14 (4.95%) Mockito
7 13 (4.59%) Maven
8 12 (4.24%) Bitbucket
8 12 (4.24%) SonarQube
9 10 (3.53%) Claude Code
10 8 (2.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (2.47%) DbUnit
12 6 (2.12%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.12%) jMock
12 6 (2.12%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (1.77%) Postman
14 4 (1.41%) Cucumber
14 4 (1.41%) Cypress.io
15 3 (1.06%) Artifactory
15 3 (1.06%) Gradle
General
1 84 (29.68%) Social Skills
2 66 (23.32%) Public Sector
3 33 (11.66%) Finance
4 27 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.77%) Banking
6 7 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.47%) Front Office
6 7 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.12%) Back Office
7 6 (2.12%) Legal
8 4 (1.41%) Billing
9 3 (1.06%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.71%) Law
10 2 (0.71%) Local Government
10 2 (0.71%) Marketing
11 1 (0.35%) Games
11 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.35%) Military
11 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (25.09%) AWS Engineer
2 51 (18.02%) Senior
3 46 (16.25%) Architect
4 43 (15.19%) DevOps Engineer
5 38 (13.43%) Developer
6 37 (13.07%) Data Engineer
7 28 (9.89%) AWS Architect
7 28 (9.89%) DBA
8 27 (9.54%) AWS DevOps
9 23 (8.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 22 (7.77%) Lead
11 20 (7.07%) Cloud Engineer
12 17 (6.01%) Java Developer
12 17 (6.01%) Technical Architect
13 16 (5.65%) AWS Data Engineer
14 15 (5.30%) Administrator
15 13 (4.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 13 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (4.59%) Technical Leader
16 11 (3.89%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (49.47%) Terraform
2 39 (13.78%) React
3 37 (13.07%) REST
4 35 (12.37%) Node.js
5 32 (11.31%) RESTful
6 31 (10.95%) Spring
6 31 (10.95%) Spring Boot
7 24 (8.48%) AngularJS
7 24 (8.48%) AWS CDK
8 20 (7.07%) .NET
9 19 (6.71%) Kafka
10 16 (5.65%) FastAPI
11 13 (4.59%) SOAP
12 12 (4.24%) ActiveMQ
13 11 (3.89%) JSON
14 10 (3.53%) GraphQL
15 9 (3.18%) .NET Core
15 9 (3.18%) Hibernate
15 9 (3.18%) Spring Batch
15 9 (3.18%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 71 (25.09%) Cloud Native
2 29 (10.25%) Product Ownership
3 25 (8.83%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (8.83%) Replication
4 11 (3.89%) NHS
5 9 (3.18%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.83%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.47%) Fixed Income
7 7 (2.47%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.12%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (2.12%) PKI
9 5 (1.77%) Clustering
10 4 (1.41%) Autonomous Agent
10 4 (1.41%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.41%) Reinsurance
11 3 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.06%) PropTech
11 3 (1.06%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 51 (18.02%) Linux
2 22 (7.77%) Windows
3 14 (4.95%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.18%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (2.12%) Unix
7 4 (1.41%) AIX
7 4 (1.41%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.06%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.35%) CentOS
9 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.35%) VMS
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (65.72%) CI/CD
2 135 (47.70%) DevOps
3 131 (46.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 113 (39.93%) Agile
5 72 (25.44%) Microservices
6 56 (19.79%) Containerisation
7 53 (18.73%) Data Modelling
7 53 (18.73%) Observability
8 49 (17.31%) Performance Tuning
9 47 (16.61%) High Availability
10 46 (16.25%) Software Engineering
11 44 (15.55%) Event-Driven
12 43 (15.19%) Data Pipeline
12 43 (15.19%) Stakeholder Management
13 42 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (14.84%) Migration
14 36 (12.72%) Technical Leadership
15 34 (12.01%) ETL
16 33 (11.66%) Data Integration
16 33 (11.66%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 126 (44.52%) Python
2 80 (28.27%) SQL
3 71 (25.09%) Java
4 40 (14.13%) TypeScript
5 29 (10.25%) Bash
6 24 (8.48%) PowerShell
7 23 (8.13%) JavaScript
8 17 (6.01%) C#
8 17 (6.01%) Groovy
9 10 (3.53%) Scala
9 10 (3.53%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.47%) Perl
11 3 (1.06%) Go
11 3 (1.06%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.71%) Ruby
13 1 (0.35%) Bicep
13 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 109 (38.52%) Security Cleared
2 88 (31.10%) SC Cleared
3 50 (17.67%) AWS Certification
4 32 (11.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (9.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (6.01%) Degree
7 12 (4.24%) DV Cleared
8 10 (3.53%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.12%) CISM
10 6 (2.12%) CISSP
11 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.06%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.71%) PMP
13 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.13%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.47%) NIST
3 6 (2.12%) QA
4 4 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.06%) GDPR
5 3 (1.06%) HL7
5 3 (1.06%) NCSC
5 3 (1.06%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.06%) PMO
5 3 (1.06%) SLA
6 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.71%) WCAG
7 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 94 (33.22%) Docker
2 14 (4.95%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.47%) Postfix
4 6 (2.12%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.41%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.41%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.41%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.71%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.71%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.71%) Squid
8 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 74 (26.15%) Kubernetes
2 57 (20.14%) Grafana
3 42 (14.84%) Prometheus
4 27 (9.54%) Ansible
5 9 (3.18%) Istio
5 9 (3.18%) Kibana
6 8 (2.83%) Argo
7 5 (1.77%) Puppet
8 4 (1.41%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.41%) vMotion
9 3 (1.06%) Nagios
9 3 (1.06%) Packer
9 3 (1.06%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.06%) Rancher
10 2 (0.71%) Consul
10 2 (0.71%) Foglight
10 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.71%) Nessus
10 2 (0.71%) Sysdig
10 2 (0.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (9.89%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.42%) ServiceNow
3 19 (6.71%) Oracle
4 15 (5.30%) Dynatrace
5 11 (3.89%) Databricks
5 11 (3.89%) Informatica
6 10 (3.53%) Jaspersoft
6 10 (3.53%) VMware
7 8 (2.83%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.83%) Google
8 7 (2.47%) Denodo
8 7 (2.47%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.47%) Splunk
9 6 (2.12%) Talend
10 5 (1.77%) Amplitude
10 5 (1.77%) Citrix
11 4 (1.41%) Cisco
11 4 (1.41%) HP
11 4 (1.41%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.41%) Symantec