Amazon RDS Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 105 104
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 +56
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 40 10 6
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.98% 0.53% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.43% 3.31% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 5 6
10th Percentile £450 - £398
25th Percentile £463 £477 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £418
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +17.37% -33.39%
75th Percentile £488 £529 £426
90th Percentile £500 £530 -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 424 302 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 21.00% 15.88% 15.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 191 202
10th Percentile £365 £340 £313
25th Percentile £449 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £583 £624 £600
90th Percentile £650 £713 £688
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.14% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £30.70 £34.04 -
25th Percentile £32.74 £34.20 -
Median hourly rate £34.43 £34.47 £31.04
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +11.03% +158.67%
75th Percentile £35.24 £34.73 -
90th Percentile £35.69 £34.89 -
England median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £47.70
% change year-on-year +24.29% -26.62% -4.61%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Amazon RDS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in the West Midlands

Amazon RDS
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Birmingham - 28 £475 - 3
Solihull - 6 £450 -
Shropshire -41 3 - - 1
Herefordshire - 2 £550 - 4
Amazon RDS
England

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 24 (60.00%) Confluence
2 12 (30.00%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (30.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 37 (92.50%) Amazon EC2
2 37 (92.50%) Amazon S3
3 31 (77.50%) AWS KMS
4 29 (72.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 25 (62.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 24 (60.00%) Amazon ELB
7 19 (47.50%) Route 53
8 13 (32.50%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (30.00%) Amazon Glacier
9 12 (30.00%) Azure
9 12 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
11 2 (5.00%) Serverless
12 1 (2.50%) Amazon EventBridge
12 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudTrail
12 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (60.00%) SMTP
2 23 (57.50%) DNS
3 22 (55.00%) Firewall
3 22 (55.00%) FTP
3 22 (55.00%) HTTP
3 22 (55.00%) SSH
4 12 (30.00%) IMAP
4 12 (30.00%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (2.50%) DHCP
5 1 (2.50%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.50%) LAN
5 1 (2.50%) VLAN
5 1 (2.50%) VSAN
5 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (57.50%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (52.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (17.50%) DynamoDB
4 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (87.50%) Jenkins
2 33 (82.50%) Git
3 24 (60.00%) JIRA
3 24 (60.00%) Vagrant
4 9 (22.50%) Maven
5 8 (20.00%) JUnit
5 8 (20.00%) SonarQube
6 6 (15.00%) Mockito
7 4 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (10.00%) DbUnit
7 4 (10.00%) jMock
8 2 (5.00%) GitLab
9 1 (2.50%) Gatling
General
1 29 (72.50%) Public Sector
2 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Finance
4 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (55.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (47.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 19 (47.50%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (42.50%) AWS DevOps
4 17 (42.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 12 (30.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 10 (25.00%) Developer
6 10 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 10 (25.00%) Java Developer
7 5 (12.50%) Lead
8 4 (10.00%) Lead Developer
8 4 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
9 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 2 (5.00%) AWS Developer
10 2 (5.00%) Senior
10 2 (5.00%) Site Engineer
10 2 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 1 (2.50%) QA Leader
11 1 (2.50%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) LDAP
2 11 (27.50%) Spring
2 11 (27.50%) Spring Boot
3 9 (22.50%) ActiveMQ
3 9 (22.50%) REST
3 9 (22.50%) SOAP
4 8 (20.00%) JPA
5 7 (17.50%) AngularJS
5 7 (17.50%) RESTful
5 7 (17.50%) Spring Batch
5 7 (17.50%) Web Services
6 6 (15.00%) Bootstrap
6 6 (15.00%) Hibernate
6 6 (15.00%) Spring Cloud
6 6 (15.00%) Spring Integration
7 4 (10.00%) PowerMock
8 1 (2.50%) JSON
8 1 (2.50%) Playwright
8 1 (2.50%) WireMock
8 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (57.50%) Replication
2 6 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (77.50%) Linux
2 24 (60.00%) Amazon Linux
2 24 (60.00%) VMS
3 23 (57.50%) Windows
4 11 (27.50%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.50%) SUSE
5 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (80.00%) DevOps
2 26 (65.00%) Configuration Management
3 25 (62.50%) Change Management
4 24 (60.00%) Cloud Security
4 24 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
5 22 (55.00%) Patch Management
6 18 (45.00%) CI/CD
7 12 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (27.50%) Agile
9 10 (25.00%) Microservices
9 10 (25.00%) Scrum
9 10 (25.00%) TDD
10 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
11 6 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
12 5 (12.50%) BDD
13 4 (10.00%) Kanban
13 4 (10.00%) Migration
13 4 (10.00%) Open Source
14 3 (7.50%) Risk Management
14 3 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 24 (60.00%) Groovy
2 24 (60.00%) Java
2 24 (60.00%) Python
2 24 (60.00%) SQL
3 12 (30.00%) Perl
4 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (77.50%) Security Cleared
2 30 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (30.00%) AWS Certification
3 12 (30.00%) Degree
4 10 (25.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 36 (90.00%) Docker
2 22 (55.00%) DFS Replication
3 16 (40.00%) Postfix
4 13 (32.50%) Active Directory
5 12 (30.00%) Dovecot
5 12 (30.00%) Squid
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (82.50%) Grafana
2 32 (80.00%) Prometheus
3 27 (67.50%) Terraform
4 12 (30.00%) Nessus
5 10 (25.00%) Proxmox
6 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
7 2 (5.00%) Ansible
7 2 (5.00%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.50%) Kibana
8 1 (2.50%) PowerCLI
8 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 16 (40.00%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (10.00%) Atlassian
4 3 (7.50%) Oracle
5 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.50%) IBM
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.50%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.50%) Splunk
5 1 (2.50%) Talend
5 1 (2.50%) Veeam
5 1 (2.50%) VMware