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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 113 112
Rank change year-on-year +22 -1 +44
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 40 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.02% 0.16% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.57% 0.99% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 0 7
10th Percentile £450 - £400
25th Percentile £463 - £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £418
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.47%
75th Percentile £488 - £426
90th Percentile £500 - £471
England median daily rate £500 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -7.06% -6.43% -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 418 303 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 21.15% 16.17% 15.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 192 212
10th Percentile £368 £326 £313
25th Percentile £450 £372 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £578 £625 £646
90th Percentile £650 £724 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
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 £42.00 £34.47 £50.50
% change year-on-year +21.85% -31.75% +1.00%

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 23 October 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 23 October 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 - 2
Solihull - 7 £450 -
Shropshire - 2 - - 2
Coventry - 1 - -
Herefordshire - 1 £550 -
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
3 1 (2.50%) Apache
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (30.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 38 (95.00%) Amazon EC2
2 38 (95.00%) Amazon S3
3 32 (80.00%) AWS KMS
4 31 (77.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 26 (65.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 24 (60.00%) Amazon ELB
7 20 (50.00%) 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 9 (22.50%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (7.50%) 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
12 1 (2.50%) Datadog
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 24 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (55.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (20.00%) DynamoDB
4 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.50%) Big Data
5 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (90.00%) Jenkins
2 35 (87.50%) Git
3 24 (60.00%) JIRA
3 24 (60.00%) Vagrant
4 10 (25.00%) Maven
5 9 (22.50%) JUnit
5 9 (22.50%) SonarQube
6 7 (17.50%) Mockito
7 5 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (12.50%) DbUnit
7 5 (12.50%) jMock
8 2 (5.00%) GitLab
9 1 (2.50%) Gatling
General
1 29 (72.50%) Public Sector
2 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
3 10 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.50%) Finance
5 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (55.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 20 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
3 19 (47.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 17 (42.50%) AWS DevOps
4 17 (42.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 12 (30.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 11 (27.50%) Developer
6 11 (27.50%) Java Developer
7 10 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 5 (12.50%) Lead
9 4 (10.00%) Lead Developer
9 4 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
9 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 3 (7.50%) AWS Developer
11 2 (5.00%) Senior
12 1 (2.50%) Administrator
12 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 1 (2.50%) Senior Java Developer
12 1 (2.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) LDAP
1 12 (30.00%) Spring
1 12 (30.00%) Spring Boot
2 10 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
2 10 (25.00%) REST
2 10 (25.00%) SOAP
3 9 (22.50%) JPA
4 8 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 8 (20.00%) RESTful
4 8 (20.00%) Spring Batch
4 8 (20.00%) Web Services
5 7 (17.50%) Bootstrap
5 7 (17.50%) Hibernate
5 7 (17.50%) Spring Cloud
5 7 (17.50%) Spring Integration
6 5 (12.50%) PowerMock
7 1 (2.50%) Playwright
7 1 (2.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 23 (57.50%) Replication
2 7 (17.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
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 34 (85.00%) DevOps
2 25 (62.50%) Change Management
2 25 (62.50%) Configuration Management
2 25 (62.50%) Platform Engineering
3 24 (60.00%) Cloud Security
4 22 (55.00%) Patch Management
5 18 (45.00%) CI/CD
6 13 (32.50%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (30.00%) Agile
8 11 (27.50%) Microservices
8 11 (27.50%) Scrum
8 11 (27.50%) TDD
9 9 (22.50%) Containerisation
10 7 (17.50%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (15.00%) BDD
12 5 (12.50%) Kanban
12 5 (12.50%) Open Source
13 4 (10.00%) Risk Management
13 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 3 (7.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 25 (62.50%) PowerShell
1 25 (62.50%) Python
2 24 (60.00%) Groovy
2 24 (60.00%) Java
2 24 (60.00%) SQL
3 12 (30.00%) Perl
4 1 (2.50%) Scala
4 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (77.50%) Security Cleared
2 30 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (32.50%) Degree
4 12 (30.00%) AWS Certification
5 10 (25.00%) Azure Certification
6 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
7 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 17 (42.50%) 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 2 (5.00%) Ansible
6 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
7 1 (2.50%) Kibana
7 1 (2.50%) PowerCLI
7 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 17 (42.50%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (12.50%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.50%) Databricks
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%) Veeam
5 1 (2.50%) VMware