Amazon RDS Contract Job Trends in Wales

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Amazon RDS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 45 50
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +16
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 1 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.22% 0.74% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.04% 4.55% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.00%
75th Percentile £488 - £475
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £515 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -4.28% +0.09% -5.70%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 49 66 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 10.56% 16.38% 22.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 54 80
10th Percentile £309 £176 £207
25th Percentile £403 £245 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +25.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £538
90th Percentile £676 £624 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £25.70 £25.23 -
25th Percentile £30.00 £25.44 -
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.84 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.77% +52.00% -27.66%
75th Percentile £85.00 £26.19 -
90th Percentile £86.50 £26.38 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +58.50% -31.69% -12.04%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon RDS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in Wales

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Amazon RDS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 26 December 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
West Wales - 1 £475 - 1
Amazon RDS
UK

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Due Diligence
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform