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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 81 102
Rank change year-on-year -51 +21 +20
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 40 32 5
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.16% 1.92% 0.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.68% 11.64% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 20 2
10th Percentile £370 £446 £357
25th Percentile £425 £459 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £494 £488 £504
90th Percentile £520 £500 £532
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -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 704 275 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.34% 16.51% 16.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 174 216
10th Percentile £352 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £671 £625 £719
England median daily rate £500 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 2
10th Percentile - £16.67 £34.59
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.74 £35.57
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.33 £37.22
Median % change year-on-year +53.43% -21.19% +32.23%
75th Percentile £53.75 £33.88 £38.86
90th Percentile £74.50 £34.54 £39.84
England median hourly rate £39.00 £34.65 £37.50
% change year-on-year +12.55% -7.60% -31.82%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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
Solihull -9 15 £500 +11.11% 1
Birmingham -26 13 £475 - 3
Shropshire -40 9 £439 -
Warwickshire - 5 £477 - 2
Staffordshire -6 1 £313 -
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 11 (27.50%) Confluence
2 5 (12.50%) SAS
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 39 (97.50%) AWS
2 34 (85.00%) Amazon S3
3 29 (72.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 28 (70.00%) Amazon EC2
5 21 (52.50%) AWS KMS
6 20 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
7 18 (45.00%) Route 53
8 11 (27.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (25.00%) Azure
10 7 (17.50%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (17.50%) Serverless
11 5 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
11 5 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (10.00%) Amazon Glacier
12 4 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (10.00%) Power Platform
13 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (5.00%) GitHub
15 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (2.50%) DHCP
2 1 (2.50%) DNS
2 1 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (52.50%) DynamoDB
2 18 (45.00%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (42.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (22.50%) Pentaho
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (10.00%) Apache Iceberg
5 4 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (10.00%) Data Lake
5 4 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (10.00%) Power BI
6 1 (2.50%) MySQL
6 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (57.50%) Git
2 18 (45.00%) Jenkins
2 18 (45.00%) SonarQube
3 17 (42.50%) JUnit
3 17 (42.50%) Maven
3 17 (42.50%) Mockito
4 13 (32.50%) DbUnit
4 13 (32.50%) JIRA
4 13 (32.50%) jMock
5 11 (27.50%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (12.50%) GitLab
7 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.50%) Burp Suite
7 1 (2.50%) Metasploit
7 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.50%) sqlmap
General
1 19 (47.50%) Public Sector
2 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 9 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (15.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Finance
5 1 (2.50%) Front Office
5 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (47.50%) Developer
2 17 (42.50%) Java Developer
3 12 (30.00%) Senior
4 9 (22.50%) Data Engineer
5 7 (17.50%) Senior Developer
6 6 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (15.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (10.00%) Architect
8 4 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
8 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
8 4 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (10.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
8 4 (10.00%) Technical Manager
9 2 (5.00%) Lead
9 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 1 (2.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 1 (2.50%) Digital Delivery Manager
10 1 (2.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 1 (2.50%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (45.00%) REST
2 17 (42.50%) ActiveMQ
2 17 (42.50%) AngularJS
2 17 (42.50%) Hibernate
2 17 (42.50%) JPA
2 17 (42.50%) SOAP
2 17 (42.50%) Spring
2 17 (42.50%) Spring Batch
2 17 (42.50%) Spring Boot
2 17 (42.50%) Spring Integration
2 17 (42.50%) Web Services
3 16 (40.00%) Spring Cloud
4 13 (32.50%) Node.js
4 13 (32.50%) PowerMock
5 11 (27.50%) Bootstrap
5 11 (27.50%) RESTful
6 1 (2.50%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (35.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.50%) Derivative
4 1 (2.50%) Equities
4 1 (2.50%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (45.00%) Linux
2 5 (12.50%) Windows
3 4 (10.00%) AIX
4 1 (2.50%) Unix
4 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (65.00%) Agile
1 26 (65.00%) DevOps
2 22 (55.00%) CI/CD
2 22 (55.00%) Scrum
3 18 (45.00%) Containerisation
3 18 (45.00%) Microservices
4 17 (42.50%) TDD
5 16 (40.00%) Kanban
6 15 (37.50%) Open Source
7 14 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (32.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (30.00%) BPMN
10 11 (27.50%) BDD
11 10 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (22.50%) Biometrics
12 9 (22.50%) Decision-Making
12 9 (22.50%) ETL
13 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (62.50%) SQL
2 17 (42.50%) Java
3 8 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (2.50%) Bash
4 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (72.50%) Security Cleared
2 26 (65.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.00%) AWS Certification
4 5 (12.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
2 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (47.50%) Docker
2 11 (27.50%) Postfix
3 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (55.00%) Grafana
2 10 (25.00%) Terraform
3 5 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.50%) Ansible
4 1 (2.50%) Argo
4 1 (2.50%) Istio
4 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (42.50%) Jaspersoft
2 14 (35.00%) Atlassian
3 8 (20.00%) Informatica
3 8 (20.00%) Oracle
4 6 (15.00%) ServiceNow
5 5 (12.50%) Denodo
5 5 (12.50%) Talend
6 4 (10.00%) Cisco
6 4 (10.00%) Dynatrace
6 4 (10.00%) VMware
7 1 (2.50%) Charles River
7 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.50%) Murex