Amazon RDS Contracts

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Amazon RDS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon RDS over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 358 314
Rank change year-on-year +64 -44 +102
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 250 239 466
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.85% 0.56% 0.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.52% 3.28% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 175 337
10th Percentile £425 £400 £450
25th Percentile £475 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £505 £588
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -14.04% +2.62%
75th Percentile £616 £575 £675
90th Percentile £654 £688 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £498 £575
% change year-on-year +7.94% -13.48% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £52.50
25th Percentile - - £59.35
Median hourly rate - - £84.09
75th Percentile - - £88.30
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00

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 5,535 7,285 10,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.92% 16.94% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,813 5,210 7,378
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.75%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.16% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 145 188
10th Percentile £20.47 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.69 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.81 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% -33.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £65.62 £61.60 £73.72
90th Percentile £76.63 £74.00 £80.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £56.95
% change year-on-year -20.90% -29.76% +62.71%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon RDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS.

Daily rate trend for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Top 14 Contract 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 12 May 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 +67 188 £575 +9.52% 359
London +30 129 £600 +14.29% 243
Work from Home +50 105 £600 +17.07% 180
UK excluding London +39 67 £537 +7.94% 169
Scotland +3 21 £494 - 11
South East +48 15 £575 +8.49% 53
Midlands +25 13 £525 +16.67% 22
West Midlands +31 12 £550 +22.22% 17
South West +41 8 £584 +6.14% 15
North of England +7 7 £500 +11.11% 48
North West +7 6 £456 +1.62% 29
East of England +24 4 £500 -20.00% 20
Yorkshire +9 1 £500 +8.11% 14
East Midlands +6 1 £311 -30.89% 3

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (6.40%) Apache
1 16 (6.40%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (4.00%) Confluence
4 9 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.60%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.80%) Camunda
6 2 (0.80%) nginx
7 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.40%) CMS
7 1 (0.40%) IIS
7 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.80%) SAP MM
1 2 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 246 (98.40%) AWS
2 146 (58.40%) Amazon S3
3 121 (48.40%) Serverless
4 118 (47.20%) AWS Lambda
5 101 (40.40%) Amazon EC2
6 88 (35.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 52 (20.80%) Amazon EKS
8 47 (18.80%) Amazon SQS
9 40 (16.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 31 (12.40%) Amazon ECS
11 29 (11.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 28 (11.20%) GitHub
13 24 (9.60%) Route 53
14 23 (9.20%) Azure
15 22 (8.80%) AWS CodePipeline
15 22 (8.80%) AWS Step Functions
16 19 (7.60%) GCP
16 19 (7.60%) PaaS
17 18 (7.20%) OpenShift
18 15 (6.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (14.00%) DNS
2 26 (10.40%) VPN
3 19 (7.60%) Firewall
4 18 (7.20%) TCP/IP
5 17 (6.80%) DHCP
6 13 (5.20%) HTTP
7 9 (3.60%) Internet
7 9 (3.60%) SMTP
8 4 (1.60%) Kerberos
9 3 (1.20%) IPsec
9 3 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (1.20%) SSL
10 1 (0.40%) NAS
10 1 (0.40%) SAN
10 1 (0.40%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (30.40%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (16.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 32 (12.80%) DynamoDB
4 27 (10.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 25 (10.00%) Big Data
5 25 (10.00%) MySQL
6 24 (9.60%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (9.20%) NoSQL
7 23 (9.20%) Relational Database
8 19 (7.60%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (5.60%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (4.80%) Data Lake
10 12 (4.80%) Oracle Database
11 11 (4.40%) SQL Server
12 10 (4.00%) Hadoop
13 8 (3.20%) Power BI
14 7 (2.80%) MongoDB
14 7 (2.80%) Tableau
15 5 (2.00%) Amazon QuickSight
16 4 (1.60%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 47 (18.80%) Jenkins
2 27 (10.80%) GitLab
3 18 (7.20%) Git
4 13 (5.20%) JIRA
5 9 (3.60%) Maven
6 8 (3.20%) JUnit
6 8 (3.20%) Mockito
7 6 (2.40%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.00%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.00%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.60%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.60%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (1.60%) DbUnit
9 4 (1.60%) jMock
10 3 (1.20%) ERwin
11 2 (0.80%) Postman
11 2 (0.80%) Selenium
11 2 (0.80%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.40%) Storybook
12 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 59 (23.60%) Public Sector
2 50 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 46 (18.40%) Finance
4 27 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.40%) Banking
6 9 (3.60%) Front Office
7 5 (2.00%) Billing
8 4 (1.60%) Marketing
9 3 (1.20%) Military
9 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.80%) Electronics
10 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.80%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.80%) Retail
10 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.40%) Aviation
11 1 (0.40%) Local Government
11 1 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 50 (20.00%) Developer
2 42 (16.80%) Architect
3 41 (16.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (16.00%) AWS Engineer
5 38 (15.20%) Senior
6 34 (13.60%) Data Engineer
7 25 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
7 25 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 24 (9.60%) AWS Architect
9 17 (6.80%) Lead
10 16 (6.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (6.40%) Senior DevOps
11 15 (6.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 14 (5.60%) DBA
13 13 (5.20%) Python Engineer
14 12 (4.80%) .NET Developer
14 12 (4.80%) Java Developer
15 11 (4.40%) AWS Developer
16 10 (4.00%) AWS Data Engineer
16 10 (4.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.20%) Node.js
2 22 (8.80%) REST
3 21 (8.40%) Spring Boot
4 20 (8.00%) React
5 19 (7.60%) Elastic Stack
6 17 (6.80%) AWS CDK
7 16 (6.40%) Kafka
7 16 (6.40%) Spring
8 15 (6.00%) .NET
9 13 (5.20%) RESTful
10 12 (4.80%) .NET Framework
10 12 (4.80%) Entity Framework
10 12 (4.80%) Web Services
11 11 (4.40%) AngularJS
11 11 (4.40%) Hibernate
11 11 (4.40%) Nunjucks
12 8 (3.20%) Express.js
12 8 (3.20%) hapi
12 8 (3.20%) Sass
12 8 (3.20%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.60%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.20%) PKI
3 11 (4.40%) Data Centre
4 10 (4.00%) Clustering
4 10 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.80%) Replication
6 5 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.20%) Derivative
7 3 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.20%) Oracle Licensing
7 3 (1.20%) Tandem
8 2 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.80%) Life Science
8 2 (0.80%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.40%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 45 (18.00%) Linux
2 26 (10.40%) Windows
3 15 (6.00%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.40%) Unix
5 4 (1.60%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.80%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.40%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (40.00%) DevOps
2 92 (36.80%) CI/CD
3 80 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (31.20%) Containerisation
5 74 (29.60%) Agile
6 51 (20.40%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (17.60%) Migration
8 43 (17.20%) ETL
9 39 (15.60%) High Availability
10 36 (14.40%) Microservices
11 32 (12.80%) Continuous Integration
11 32 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (12.40%) Data Pipeline
12 31 (12.40%) Open Source
13 25 (10.00%) Data Modelling
14 23 (9.20%) Data Migration
14 23 (9.20%) Software Engineering
15 22 (8.80%) Data Engineering
15 22 (8.80%) TDD
16 21 (8.40%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 107 (42.80%) Python
2 80 (32.00%) SQL
3 50 (20.00%) Java
4 37 (14.80%) JavaScript
5 26 (10.40%) PowerShell
6 21 (8.40%) Bash
7 15 (6.00%) C#
8 14 (5.60%) PL/SQL
9 11 (4.40%) RPG
9 11 (4.40%) RPG IV
9 11 (4.40%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.20%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.40%) Perl
12 5 (2.00%) Go
12 5 (2.00%) Scala
12 5 (2.00%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.60%) R
14 2 (0.80%) ABAP
14 2 (0.80%) Lua
14 2 (0.80%) Rust
Qualifications
1 89 (35.60%) Security Cleared
2 76 (30.40%) SC Cleared
3 40 (16.00%) AWS Certification
4 30 (12.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 27 (10.80%) Degree
6 14 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (4.40%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.40%) OCP
10 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.40%) VCAP
10 1 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.40%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.80%) NCSC
3 6 (2.40%) GDPR
4 5 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.00%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.20%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.80%) QA
7 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.40%) NIST
7 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (40.00%) Docker
2 20 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.60%) BitLocker
4 9 (3.60%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.60%) Microsoft App-V
4 9 (3.60%) Terminal Services
4 9 (3.60%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (2.00%) Postfix
5 5 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.60%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (1.20%) RACF
7 3 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.40%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 100 (40.00%) Terraform
2 89 (35.60%) Kubernetes
3 46 (18.40%) Ansible
4 31 (12.40%) Puppet
5 24 (9.60%) Grafana
5 24 (9.60%) Prometheus
6 23 (9.20%) Progress Chef
7 10 (4.00%) Nagios
8 9 (3.60%) vCenter Server
8 9 (3.60%) vMotion
9 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.60%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.60%) Packer
11 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.80%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 1 (0.40%) Apache Ranger
13 1 (0.40%) Argo
13 1 (0.40%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.40%) Istio
13 1 (0.40%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 28 (11.20%) Oracle
2 18 (7.20%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.80%) Google
4 13 (5.20%) VMware
5 10 (4.00%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.60%) Citrix
6 9 (3.60%) HP
6 9 (3.60%) Symantec
7 8 (3.20%) Informatica
8 6 (2.40%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.40%) SAP
9 5 (2.00%) Jaspersoft
10 4 (1.60%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.60%) Solace
10 4 (1.60%) Teradata
10 4 (1.60%) TIBCO
11 3 (1.20%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.20%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.20%) Splunk
11 3 (1.20%) Talend