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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 92 110
Rank change year-on-year -25 +18 +34
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 31 13 4
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.24% 0.86% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.57% 5.06% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 7 4
10th Percentile £412 £477 £393
25th Percentile £463 £484 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £418
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +26.71% -36.06%
75th Percentile £550 £540 £426
90th Percentile £575 £560 -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -10.42%

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 472 257 274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.80% 16.96% 14.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 161 206
10th Percentile £365 £375 £300
25th Percentile £450 £425 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £646 £688 £699
England median daily rate £500 £545 £538
% change year-on-year -8.21% +1.35% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 £18.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% - -
England median hourly rate £47.61 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +17.56% -4.71% -25.26%

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 February 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 6 February 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 - 11 £550 -
Birmingham - 9 £475 - 4
Shropshire -37 6 £405 -17.35% 1
Solihull -2 1 - - 1
Warwickshire - 1 £450 -
Coventry - 1 - - 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 10 (32.26%) Confluence
2 7 (22.58%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (80.65%) Amazon S3
3 23 (74.19%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (45.16%) Azure
5 12 (38.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 11 (35.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (35.48%) Amazon ELB
6 11 (35.48%) OpenShift
7 10 (32.26%) AWS KMS
8 9 (29.03%) Route 53
9 8 (25.81%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (22.58%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (19.35%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (19.35%) Serverless
12 3 (9.68%) Amazon Glacier
13 2 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
14 1 (3.23%) AWS CodePipeline
14 1 (3.23%) AWS Direct Connect
14 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (32.26%) DNS
1 10 (32.26%) Firewall
1 10 (32.26%) FTP
1 10 (32.26%) HTTP
1 10 (32.26%) SMTP
1 10 (32.26%) SSH
2 7 (22.58%) IMAP
2 7 (22.58%) OpenLDAP
3 4 (12.90%) Network Security
4 1 (3.23%) Kerberos
4 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (32.26%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (22.58%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (12.90%) InfluxDB
3 4 (12.90%) Relational Database
4 3 (9.68%) MongoDB
4 3 (9.68%) Pentaho
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (6.45%) MySQL
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (3.23%) Apache Hive
6 1 (3.23%) Big Data
6 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.23%) Impala
Development Applications
1 23 (74.19%) Jenkins
2 10 (32.26%) Git
2 10 (32.26%) JIRA
2 10 (32.26%) Vagrant
3 5 (16.13%) GitLab
4 2 (6.45%) Gatling
General
1 10 (32.26%) Public Sector
1 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 9 (29.03%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) AWS Engineer
1 11 (35.48%) Site Engineer
1 11 (35.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 10 (32.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 10 (32.26%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (25.81%) AWS DevOps
3 8 (25.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 8 (25.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (22.58%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) Data Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Lead
6 2 (6.45%) QA Leader
6 2 (6.45%) Senior
6 2 (6.45%) Test Leader
7 1 (3.23%) Administrator
7 1 (3.23%) Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Consultant
7 1 (3.23%) Data Consultant
7 1 (3.23%) Informatica Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) LDAP
2 4 (12.90%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (6.45%) JSON
3 2 (6.45%) MACH
3 2 (6.45%) Playwright
3 2 (6.45%) RESTful
3 2 (6.45%) Spring
3 2 (6.45%) Spring Batch
3 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.45%) WireMock
4 1 (3.23%) REST
4 1 (3.23%) XML
4 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Replication
2 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 21 (67.74%) Linux
2 10 (32.26%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (32.26%) VMS
2 10 (32.26%) Windows
3 7 (22.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (70.97%) CI/CD
2 21 (67.74%) Configuration Management
3 11 (35.48%) DevOps
3 11 (35.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 10 (32.26%) Change Management
4 10 (32.26%) Cloud Security
4 10 (32.26%) Patch Management
4 10 (32.26%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (29.03%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (19.35%) Containerisation
7 5 (16.13%) ETL
8 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (12.90%) Migration
8 4 (12.90%) Observability
8 4 (12.90%) Service Management
8 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Task Automation
9 3 (9.68%) Agile
9 3 (9.68%) Generative AI
10 2 (6.45%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (83.87%) SQL
2 18 (58.06%) Python
3 12 (38.71%) Java
4 11 (35.48%) Shell Script
5 10 (32.26%) Groovy
5 10 (32.26%) PowerShell
6 4 (12.90%) Go
7 3 (9.68%) Perl
8 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
8 1 (3.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (74.19%) Security Cleared
2 19 (61.29%) SC Cleared
3 9 (29.03%) AWS Certification
4 7 (22.58%) Azure Certification
4 7 (22.58%) Degree
4 7 (22.58%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.45%) QA
System Software
1 21 (67.74%) Docker
2 10 (32.26%) DFS Replication
3 7 (22.58%) Dovecot
3 7 (22.58%) Postfix
3 7 (22.58%) Squid
4 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
5 1 (3.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (74.19%) Grafana
1 23 (74.19%) Terraform
2 22 (70.97%) Prometheus
3 13 (41.94%) Kubernetes
4 11 (35.48%) Ansible
4 11 (35.48%) Progress Chef
5 7 (22.58%) Nessus
5 7 (22.58%) Proxmox
6 2 (6.45%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (6.45%) Kibana
6 2 (6.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) ServiceNow
2 7 (22.58%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (19.35%) Oracle
4 4 (12.90%) Talend
5 3 (9.68%) Informatica
6 2 (6.45%) Dynatrace
6 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
6 2 (6.45%) PagerDuty
6 2 (6.45%) Splunk
7 1 (3.23%) AVEVA
7 1 (3.23%) Cloudera