Amazon RDS Contracts in the West Midlands

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Amazon RDS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon RDS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 109 135
Rank change year-on-year +23 +26 +23
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 11 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.82% 0.10% 0.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.21% 0.66% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £505 £357 £522
25th Percentile £513 £389 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £568
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -20.70% +22.70%
75th Percentile £563 £504 £576
90th Percentile £570 £532 -
England median daily rate £575 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +4.80%

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 211 302 414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.69% 15.51% 17.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 232 283
10th Percentile £295 £301 £350
25th Percentile £410 £358 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +13.51%
75th Percentile £600 £577 £588
90th Percentile £690 £700 £698
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £15.80 - £24.13
25th Percentile £16.57 - £24.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £40.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% +60.40% -
75th Percentile £19.00 - £30.48
90th Percentile - - £33.24
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend 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 1 May 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
Solihull - 4 £500 - 1
Staffordshire - 3 £550 - 6
Birmingham +17 1 - - 6
Herefordshire - 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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (90.91%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (81.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (81.82%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (54.55%) AWS KMS
4 6 (54.55%) Route 53
5 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (27.27%) Serverless
6 2 (18.18%) AWS CodeCommit
6 2 (18.18%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 2 (18.18%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (18.18%) Boomi
6 2 (18.18%) OCI
6 2 (18.18%) PaaS
6 2 (18.18%) SaaS
7 1 (9.09%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (63.64%) DynamoDB
3 5 (45.45%) Relational Database
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (27.27%) RDBMS
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Jenkins
2 7 (63.64%) JUnit
2 7 (63.64%) Mockito
3 4 (36.36%) Maven
4 3 (27.27%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (27.27%) DbUnit
4 3 (27.27%) Git
4 3 (27.27%) jMock
4 3 (27.27%) SonarQube
5 2 (18.18%) JIRA
6 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 7 (63.64%) Java Developer
3 4 (36.36%) AWS Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Lead
4 2 (18.18%) Lead Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Python Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) Hibernate
1 7 (63.64%) REST
1 7 (63.64%) Spring
1 7 (63.64%) Spring Boot
1 7 (63.64%) Web Services
2 4 (36.36%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (36.36%) JPA
2 4 (36.36%) RESTful
2 4 (36.36%) SOAP
2 4 (36.36%) Spring Cloud
3 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
3 3 (27.27%) Bootstrap
3 3 (27.27%) HTML
3 3 (27.27%) jQuery
3 3 (27.27%) PowerMock
3 3 (27.27%) Spring Batch
3 3 (27.27%) Spring Integration
3 3 (27.27%) WireMock
4 2 (18.18%) Django
4 2 (18.18%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 9 (81.82%) Microservices
3 7 (63.64%) Scrum
3 7 (63.64%) TDD
4 6 (54.55%) BDD
4 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 6 (54.55%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (54.55%) Kanban
5 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
5 5 (45.45%) DevOps
6 4 (36.36%) Risk Management
7 3 (27.27%) Architectural Design
7 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
7 3 (27.27%) ETL
7 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (27.27%) Open Source
7 3 (27.27%) SDLC
7 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Java
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
4 3 (27.27%) Python
5 2 (18.18%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Docker
2 4 (36.36%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Grafana
2 4 (36.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Atlassian
1 3 (27.27%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle