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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 79 112
Rank change year-on-year -31 +33 +31
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 40 16 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.38% 1.20% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.84% 7.48% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 7 2
10th Percentile £404 £477 £389
25th Percentile £453 £484 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £529 £408
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% +29.82% -28.19%
75th Percentile £548 £540 £422
90th Percentile £575 £560 £425
England median daily rate £513 £565 £525
% change year-on-year -9.29% +7.62% -12.50%

All Database & BI 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 585 214 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.25% 16.09% 14.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 143 226
10th Percentile £358 £356 £309
25th Percentile £425 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £572 £600 £587
90th Percentile £645 £685 £693
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile - £15.80 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £16.57 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £18.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -55.56% +64.47%
75th Percentile £62.50 £19.00 -
90th Percentile £71.50 - -
England median hourly rate £49.36 £33.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.01% -15.49% -31.91%

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 30 March 2026.

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 30 March 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
Herefordshire -5 11 £550 -
Solihull -3 10 £500 - 2
Birmingham -12 9 £494 -
Shropshire -40 9 £404 -17.65%
Warwickshire - 1 £450 -
Coventry - 1 - -
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 7 (17.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 31 (77.50%) Amazon S3
3 29 (72.50%) Amazon EC2
4 17 (42.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (35.00%) AWS KMS
6 13 (32.50%) Azure
7 12 (30.00%) Route 53
8 11 (27.50%) OpenShift
9 10 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (17.50%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (17.50%) Serverless
12 6 (15.00%) Amazon ELB
13 4 (10.00%) Amazon Glacier
14 2 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
15 1 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
15 1 (2.50%) AWS CodePipeline
15 1 (2.50%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (2.50%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (32.50%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (25.00%) DynamoDB
3 6 (15.00%) Pentaho
4 4 (10.00%) InfluxDB
4 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (7.50%) MongoDB
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (5.00%) MySQL
6 2 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (2.50%) Apache Hive
7 1 (2.50%) Big Data
7 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.50%) Impala
Development Applications
1 23 (57.50%) Jenkins
2 15 (37.50%) Git
3 10 (25.00%) JUnit
3 10 (25.00%) Maven
3 10 (25.00%) Mockito
3 10 (25.00%) SonarQube
4 8 (20.00%) DbUnit
4 8 (20.00%) jMock
5 7 (17.50%) JIRA
6 6 (15.00%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (12.50%) GitLab
8 2 (5.00%) Gatling
9 1 (2.50%) Burp Suite
9 1 (2.50%) Metasploit
9 1 (2.50%) sqlmap
General
1 13 (32.50%) Public Sector
2 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Site Engineer
1 11 (27.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 10 (25.00%) Developer
2 10 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 8 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (10.00%) Senior
5 4 (10.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 4 (10.00%) Technical Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Lead
7 2 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) QA Leader
7 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Test Leader
8 1 (2.50%) Administrator
8 1 (2.50%) Analyst
8 1 (2.50%) Consultant
8 1 (2.50%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) Spring
1 12 (30.00%) Spring Batch
1 12 (30.00%) Spring Boot
2 11 (27.50%) REST
3 10 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
3 10 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 10 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 10 (25.00%) JPA
3 10 (25.00%) SOAP
3 10 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
3 10 (25.00%) Spring Integration
3 10 (25.00%) Web Services
4 8 (20.00%) Node.js
4 8 (20.00%) PowerMock
4 8 (20.00%) RESTful
5 6 (15.00%) Bootstrap
6 4 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (5.00%) JSON
7 2 (5.00%) Playwright
7 2 (5.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 19 (47.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (55.00%) CI/CD
2 16 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 15 (37.50%) Agile
4 11 (27.50%) Configuration Management
4 11 (27.50%) DevOps
4 11 (27.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 10 (25.00%) Microservices
5 10 (25.00%) Scrum
5 10 (25.00%) TDD
6 8 (20.00%) BPMN
6 8 (20.00%) ETL
6 8 (20.00%) Kanban
6 8 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (17.50%) Open Source
8 6 (15.00%) BDD
8 6 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (15.00%) Generative AI
8 6 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (12.50%) Biometrics
9 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 30 (75.00%) SQL
2 19 (47.50%) Java
3 11 (27.50%) Shell Script
4 9 (22.50%) Python
5 4 (10.00%) Go
6 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.50%) DV Cleared
4 5 (12.50%) AWS Certification
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (52.50%) Docker
2 7 (17.50%) Postfix
3 1 (2.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (57.50%) Grafana
2 14 (35.00%) Prometheus
2 14 (35.00%) Terraform
3 13 (32.50%) Kubernetes
4 11 (27.50%) Ansible
4 11 (27.50%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (5.00%) Kibana
5 2 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
2 9 (22.50%) Oracle
3 8 (20.00%) Atlassian
4 7 (17.50%) Talend
5 6 (15.00%) Informatica
6 5 (12.50%) ServiceNow
7 2 (5.00%) Dynatrace
7 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
7 2 (5.00%) PagerDuty
7 2 (5.00%) Splunk
8 1 (2.50%) AVEVA
8 1 (2.50%) Cloudera