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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 77 105
Rank change year-on-year -35 +28 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 42 24 5
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.29% 1.62% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.53% 9.16% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 2
10th Percentile £370 £451 £357
25th Percentile £408 £463 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% +5.56% -20.70%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £504
90th Percentile £540 - £532
England median daily rate £500 £550 £507
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.48% -15.50%

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 643 262 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.78% 17.71% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 165 226
10th Percentile £357 £289 £288
25th Percentile £413 £410 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £570 £595 £597
90th Percentile £670 £638 £716
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 2
10th Percentile £33.38 £16.67 £34.59
25th Percentile £42.50 £18.74 £35.57
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.33 £37.22
Median % change year-on-year +53.43% -21.19% +47.39%
75th Percentile £53.75 £33.88 £38.86
90th Percentile £68.00 £34.54 £39.84
England median hourly rate £39.50 £33.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.93% -16.26% -31.09%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -7 15 £500 +5.26%
Birmingham -26 12 £475 - 5
Shropshire - 12 £430 -
Herefordshire -3 3 £538 -
Staffordshire -3 1 £313 -43.18% 1
Coventry -17 1 - -
Warwickshire - 1 £477 -
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 (26.19%) Confluence
2 5 (11.90%) SAS
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 41 (97.62%) AWS
2 33 (78.57%) Amazon S3
3 30 (71.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 28 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
5 21 (50.00%) AWS KMS
6 19 (45.24%) Route 53
7 18 (42.86%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (23.81%) Azure
9 8 (19.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (16.67%) Serverless
11 5 (11.90%) Amazon ELB
12 4 (9.52%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (9.52%) Amazon Glacier
12 4 (9.52%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (9.52%) Power Platform
13 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (7.14%) OpenShift
14 2 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (4.76%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) DHCP
1 1 (2.38%) DNS
1 1 (2.38%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 18 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (40.48%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (28.57%) Pentaho
5 4 (9.52%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (9.52%) Apache Iceberg
5 4 (9.52%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (9.52%) Data Lake
5 4 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (9.52%) Power BI
6 1 (2.38%) MySQL
6 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (54.76%) Git
2 22 (52.38%) Jenkins
3 18 (42.86%) SonarQube
4 17 (40.48%) JUnit
4 17 (40.48%) Maven
4 17 (40.48%) Mockito
5 13 (30.95%) DbUnit
5 13 (30.95%) JIRA
5 13 (30.95%) jMock
6 11 (26.19%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (11.90%) GitLab
8 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
8 1 (2.38%) Burp Suite
8 1 (2.38%) Metasploit
8 1 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (2.38%) sqlmap
General
1 19 (45.24%) Public Sector
2 11 (26.19%) Social Skills
3 9 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (45.24%) Developer
2 17 (40.48%) Java Developer
3 12 (28.57%) Senior
4 11 (26.19%) Data Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) Senior Developer
6 6 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (11.90%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (9.52%) AWS Data Engineer
8 4 (9.52%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (9.52%) Technical Delivery Manager
8 4 (9.52%) Technical Manager
9 3 (7.14%) Site Engineer
9 3 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 2 (4.76%) Lead
10 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 1 (2.38%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 1 (2.38%) Digital Delivery Manager
11 1 (2.38%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 1 (2.38%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (42.86%) REST
2 17 (40.48%) ActiveMQ
2 17 (40.48%) AngularJS
2 17 (40.48%) Hibernate
2 17 (40.48%) JPA
2 17 (40.48%) SOAP
2 17 (40.48%) Spring
2 17 (40.48%) Spring Batch
2 17 (40.48%) Spring Boot
2 17 (40.48%) Spring Integration
2 17 (40.48%) Web Services
3 16 (38.10%) Spring Cloud
4 13 (30.95%) Node.js
4 13 (30.95%) PowerMock
5 11 (26.19%) Bootstrap
5 11 (26.19%) RESTful
6 1 (2.38%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.38%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (11.90%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (40.48%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Unix
2 1 (2.38%) Windows
2 1 (2.38%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) Agile
2 21 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 21 (50.00%) DevOps
2 21 (50.00%) Scrum
3 19 (45.24%) Containerisation
4 18 (42.86%) Microservices
5 17 (40.48%) TDD
6 15 (35.71%) Kanban
6 15 (35.71%) Open Source
7 14 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (30.95%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (28.57%) BPMN
10 11 (26.19%) BDD
10 11 (26.19%) ETL
11 10 (23.81%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (21.43%) Biometrics
12 9 (21.43%) Decision-Making
13 7 (16.67%) Generative AI
14 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 5 (11.90%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 30 (71.43%) SQL
2 17 (40.48%) Java
3 8 (19.05%) Python
4 3 (7.14%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.38%) Bash
5 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 32 (76.19%) SC Cleared
3 6 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 5 (11.90%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.38%) NIST
2 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (54.76%) Docker
2 11 (26.19%) Postfix
3 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (59.52%) Grafana
2 10 (23.81%) Terraform
3 9 (21.43%) Prometheus
4 4 (9.52%) Ansible
4 4 (9.52%) Kubernetes
4 4 (9.52%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.38%) Argo
5 1 (2.38%) Istio
5 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (40.48%) Jaspersoft
2 14 (33.33%) Atlassian
3 11 (26.19%) Informatica
3 11 (26.19%) Oracle
4 8 (19.05%) Talend
5 6 (14.29%) ServiceNow
6 5 (11.90%) Denodo
7 4 (9.52%) Dynatrace
8 1 (2.38%) AVEVA
8 1 (2.38%) Microsoft