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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 106 118
Rank change year-on-year +25 +12 +35
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 40 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.18% 0.26% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.94% 1.55% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 2 4
10th Percentile £450 £357 -
25th Percentile £463 £389 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £418
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +7.78% -20.48%
75th Percentile £488 £504 £454
90th Percentile £500 £532 £504
England median daily rate £525 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -2.42% -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 335 322 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.24% 16.87% 15.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 212 215
10th Percentile £315 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £625 £622
90th Percentile £631 £713 £700
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
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% -
75th Percentile £35.24 £34.73 -
90th Percentile £35.69 £34.89 -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -31.82% +22.22%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Amazon RDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +24 28 £475 +35.71% 1
Solihull - 7 £450 -
Staffordshire +3 1 - -
Coventry -6 1 - -
Herefordshire - 1 - -
Shropshire - 1 - -
Amazon RDS
England

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (62.50%) Confluence
2 12 (30.00%) nginx
3 1 (2.50%) Apache
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (30.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 39 (97.50%) Amazon EC2
2 39 (97.50%) Amazon S3
3 33 (82.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 32 (80.00%) AWS KMS
5 27 (67.50%) 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%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (27.50%) Azure
11 10 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (12.50%) Serverless
13 3 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudTrail
14 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
14 1 (2.50%) Boomi
14 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%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.50%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 36 (90.00%) Jenkins
2 35 (87.50%) Git
3 25 (62.50%) JIRA
4 24 (60.00%) Vagrant
5 10 (25.00%) Maven
6 9 (22.50%) JUnit
6 9 (22.50%) SonarQube
7 7 (17.50%) Mockito
8 5 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (12.50%) DbUnit
8 5 (12.50%) jMock
9 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
9 1 (2.50%) GitLab
General
1 29 (72.50%) Public Sector
2 14 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Finance
5 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
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 13 (32.50%) Developer
6 12 (30.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 11 (27.50%) Java Developer
8 10 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 5 (12.50%) AWS Developer
10 4 (10.00%) Lead
10 4 (10.00%) Lead Developer
10 4 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
10 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 2 (5.00%) Senior
11 2 (5.00%) Senior Developer
12 1 (2.50%) Administrator
12 1 (2.50%) Python Developer
12 1 (2.50%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) LDAP
2 11 (27.50%) Spring
2 11 (27.50%) Spring Boot
3 10 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
3 10 (25.00%) REST
3 10 (25.00%) SOAP
4 9 (22.50%) JPA
5 8 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 8 (20.00%) RESTful
5 8 (20.00%) Web Services
6 7 (17.50%) Bootstrap
6 7 (17.50%) Hibernate
6 7 (17.50%) Spring Batch
6 7 (17.50%) Spring Cloud
6 7 (17.50%) Spring Integration
7 5 (12.50%) PowerMock
8 1 (2.50%) Django
8 1 (2.50%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 23 (57.50%) Replication
2 7 (17.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 30 (75.00%) 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 35 (87.50%) 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%) Agile
6 13 (32.50%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (30.00%) Microservices
8 11 (27.50%) Scrum
8 11 (27.50%) TDD
9 10 (25.00%) Containerisation
10 9 (22.50%) 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%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 26 (65.00%) Python
2 25 (62.50%) PowerShell
3 24 (60.00%) Groovy
3 24 (60.00%) Java
4 23 (57.50%) SQL
5 12 (30.00%) Perl
6 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.50%) R
6 1 (2.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 30 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (32.50%) Degree
3 12 (30.00%) AWS Certification
4 10 (25.00%) Azure Certification
5 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
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 31 (77.50%) Grafana
1 31 (77.50%) Prometheus
2 26 (65.00%) Terraform
3 12 (30.00%) Nessus
4 10 (25.00%) Proxmox
5 1 (2.50%) Ansible
5 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.50%) PowerCLI
5 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%) IBM
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.50%) Veeam
5 1 (2.50%) VMware