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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 105 110
Rank change year-on-year +14 +5 +45
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 42 9 6
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.96% 0.47% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.81% 2.96% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 5 6
10th Percentile £450 - £398
25th Percentile £463 £477 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £418
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +17.37% -36.06%
75th Percentile £500 £529 £426
90th Percentile £558 £530 -
England median daily rate £500 £551 £575
% change year-on-year -9.17% -4.26% -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 428 304 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.00% 15.85% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 191 207
10th Percentile £386 £350 £313
25th Percentile £453 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -7.32%
75th Percentile £581 £621 £600
90th Percentile £651 £713 £692
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £30.70 - -
25th Percentile £32.74 £17.00 -
Median hourly rate £34.43 £25.97 £31.04
Median % change year-on-year +32.60% -16.35% +158.67%
75th Percentile £35.24 £34.20 -
90th Percentile £35.69 £34.68 -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £35.00 £47.70
% change year-on-year +28.57% -26.62% -4.50%

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 November 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 November 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 - 25 £475 - 3
Herefordshire - 6 £550 - 5
Shropshire -39 4 - - 1
Solihull - 4 £450 -
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 (57.14%) Confluence
2 12 (28.57%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (28.57%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) AWS
2 38 (90.48%) Amazon S3
3 36 (85.71%) Amazon EC2
4 29 (69.05%) AWS KMS
5 28 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 25 (59.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 24 (57.14%) Amazon ELB
8 17 (40.48%) Route 53
9 16 (38.10%) Azure
10 13 (30.95%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (28.57%) Amazon Glacier
11 12 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (14.29%) OpenShift
13 5 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (11.90%) Serverless
14 4 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
15 1 (2.38%) Amazon EventBridge
15 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
15 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
15 1 (2.38%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 24 (57.14%) SMTP
2 23 (54.76%) DNS
3 22 (52.38%) Firewall
3 22 (52.38%) FTP
3 22 (52.38%) HTTP
3 22 (52.38%) SSH
4 12 (28.57%) IMAP
4 12 (28.57%) OpenLDAP
5 3 (7.14%) Network Security
6 1 (2.38%) DHCP
6 1 (2.38%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.38%) LAN
6 1 (2.38%) VLAN
6 1 (2.38%) VSAN
6 1 (2.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (47.62%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (38.10%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (9.52%) DynamoDB
3 4 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 3 (7.14%) InfluxDB
4 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (4.76%) MySQL
5 2 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 34 (80.95%) Jenkins
2 28 (66.67%) Git
3 24 (57.14%) JIRA
3 24 (57.14%) Vagrant
4 4 (9.52%) GitLab
4 4 (9.52%) JUnit
4 4 (9.52%) Maven
4 4 (9.52%) SonarQube
5 3 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (7.14%) DbUnit
5 3 (7.14%) jMock
5 3 (7.14%) Mockito
6 2 (4.76%) Gatling
General
1 25 (59.52%) Public Sector
2 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 12 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Legal
5 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (52.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (47.62%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (45.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 19 (45.24%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (40.48%) AWS DevOps
4 17 (40.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 12 (28.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 10 (23.81%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 6 (14.29%) Site Engineer
7 6 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (11.90%) Developer
8 5 (11.90%) Java Developer
9 3 (7.14%) Lead
9 3 (7.14%) Senior
10 2 (4.76%) Data Engineer
10 2 (4.76%) QA Leader
10 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 2 (4.76%) Test Leader
11 1 (2.38%) Lead Java Developer
11 1 (2.38%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (28.57%) LDAP
2 7 (16.67%) RESTful
2 7 (16.67%) Spring
2 7 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 6 (14.29%) Spring Batch
4 5 (11.90%) REST
5 4 (9.52%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (9.52%) AngularJS
5 4 (9.52%) Hibernate
5 4 (9.52%) JPA
5 4 (9.52%) SOAP
5 4 (9.52%) Spring Integration
5 4 (9.52%) Web Services
6 3 (7.14%) Bootstrap
6 3 (7.14%) PowerMock
6 3 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (7.14%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (4.76%) MACH
7 2 (4.76%) Playwright
7 2 (4.76%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 23 (54.76%) Replication
2 4 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.38%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 34 (80.95%) Linux
2 24 (57.14%) Amazon Linux
2 24 (57.14%) VMS
3 23 (54.76%) Windows
4 11 (26.19%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.38%) SUSE
5 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (71.43%) Configuration Management
2 29 (69.05%) DevOps
3 25 (59.52%) Change Management
4 24 (57.14%) Cloud Security
4 24 (57.14%) Platform Engineering
5 22 (52.38%) Patch Management
6 21 (50.00%) CI/CD
7 14 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (19.05%) Agile
8 8 (19.05%) Containerisation
9 6 (14.29%) Migration
9 6 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (11.90%) Microservices
10 5 (11.90%) Scrum
10 5 (11.90%) TDD
11 4 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
12 3 (7.14%) BDD
12 3 (7.14%) Kanban
12 3 (7.14%) Open Source
12 3 (7.14%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (69.05%) Python
1 29 (69.05%) SQL
2 25 (59.52%) Java
2 25 (59.52%) PowerShell
3 24 (57.14%) Groovy
4 12 (28.57%) Perl
5 6 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 3 (7.14%) Go
7 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (73.81%) Security Cleared
2 28 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 14 (33.33%) AWS Certification
4 12 (28.57%) Degree
5 10 (23.81%) Azure Certification
6 6 (14.29%) DV Cleared
7 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 33 (78.57%) Docker
2 22 (52.38%) DFS Replication
3 15 (35.71%) Postfix
4 13 (30.95%) Active Directory
5 12 (28.57%) Dovecot
5 12 (28.57%) Squid
6 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (83.33%) Grafana
2 33 (78.57%) Prometheus
3 31 (73.81%) Terraform
4 12 (28.57%) Nessus
5 10 (23.81%) Proxmox
6 8 (19.05%) Kubernetes
7 6 (14.29%) Ansible
7 6 (14.29%) Progress Chef
8 2 (4.76%) Kibana
9 1 (2.38%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (2.38%) PowerCLI
9 1 (2.38%) Puppet
9 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (57.14%) ServiceNow
2 15 (35.71%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (9.52%) Oracle
4 3 (7.14%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.76%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.76%) PagerDuty
5 2 (4.76%) Splunk
6 1 (2.38%) IBM
6 1 (2.38%) Talend
6 1 (2.38%) Veeam
6 1 (2.38%) VMware