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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 96 104
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 +43
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 31 11 6
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.36% 0.71% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.33% 4.04% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 6 6
10th Percentile - £477 £398
25th Percentile £463 £480 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £418
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +22.04% -29.12%
75th Percentile £550 £530 £426
90th Percentile £575 £540 -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%

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 423 272 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.50% 17.44% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 172 210
10th Percentile £400 £363 £306
25th Percentile £463 £425 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +10.53% -7.32%
75th Percentile £575 £624 £628
90th Percentile £650 £700 £698
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Median hourly rate £36.00 £18.00 £31.04
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -42.01% +158.67%
England median hourly rate £51.36 £42.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +22.29% -9.05% -16.04%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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
Birmingham - 14 £475 - 5
Herefordshire - 9 £550 - 1
Shropshire -40 4 - - 5
Warwickshire - 1 £450 -
Solihull - 1 - -
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 15 (48.39%) Confluence
2 9 (29.03%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (29.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) AWS
2 27 (87.10%) Amazon S3
3 26 (83.87%) Amazon EC2
4 16 (51.61%) Amazon ELB
4 16 (51.61%) Azure
4 16 (51.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 15 (48.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 15 (48.39%) AWS KMS
6 10 (32.26%) Route 53
7 9 (29.03%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (29.03%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (29.03%) OpenShift
8 6 (19.35%) Amazon Glacier
8 6 (19.35%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (19.35%) Serverless
9 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.23%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (3.23%) GCP
9 1 (3.23%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 15 (48.39%) DNS
1 15 (48.39%) Firewall
1 15 (48.39%) FTP
1 15 (48.39%) HTTP
1 15 (48.39%) SMTP
1 15 (48.39%) SSH
2 9 (29.03%) IMAP
2 9 (29.03%) OpenLDAP
3 4 (12.90%) Network Security
4 1 (3.23%) Kerberos
4 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (41.94%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (29.03%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (16.13%) Relational Database
4 4 (12.90%) InfluxDB
5 3 (9.68%) MongoDB
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (6.45%) MySQL
6 2 (6.45%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (3.23%) Apache Hive
7 1 (3.23%) Big Data
7 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
7 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
7 1 (3.23%) Impala
7 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (80.65%) Jenkins
2 15 (48.39%) Git
2 15 (48.39%) JIRA
2 15 (48.39%) Vagrant
3 5 (16.13%) GitLab
4 2 (6.45%) Gatling
General
1 15 (48.39%) Public Sector
2 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
3 11 (35.48%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) AWS Engineer
1 15 (48.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 15 (48.39%) Platform Engineer
2 13 (41.94%) AWS DevOps
2 13 (41.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 13 (41.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (29.03%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 9 (29.03%) Site Engineer
3 9 (29.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 7 (22.58%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Lead
5 2 (6.45%) QA Leader
5 2 (6.45%) Senior
5 2 (6.45%) Test Leader
6 1 (3.23%) Administrator
6 1 (3.23%) Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) Data Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) LDAP
2 4 (12.90%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (9.68%) RESTful
3 3 (9.68%) Spring
3 3 (9.68%) Spring Boot
4 2 (6.45%) JSON
4 2 (6.45%) MACH
4 2 (6.45%) Playwright
4 2 (6.45%) Spring Batch
4 2 (6.45%) WireMock
5 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.23%) REST
5 1 (3.23%) XML
5 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (48.39%) Replication
2 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (77.42%) Linux
2 15 (48.39%) Amazon Linux
2 15 (48.39%) VMS
2 15 (48.39%) Windows
3 9 (29.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (77.42%) Configuration Management
2 22 (70.97%) CI/CD
3 16 (51.61%) DevOps
4 15 (48.39%) Change Management
4 15 (48.39%) Cloud Security
4 15 (48.39%) Patch Management
4 15 (48.39%) Platform Engineering
5 11 (35.48%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (29.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (19.35%) Containerisation
8 4 (12.90%) Agile
8 4 (12.90%) Migration
8 4 (12.90%) Observability
8 4 (12.90%) Service Management
8 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Task Automation
9 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
10 2 (6.45%) End-to-End Testing
10 2 (6.45%) Event-Driven
10 2 (6.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 24 (77.42%) SQL
2 22 (70.97%) Python
3 16 (51.61%) Java
4 15 (48.39%) Groovy
4 15 (48.39%) PowerShell
5 9 (29.03%) Shell Script
6 6 (19.35%) Perl
7 4 (12.90%) Go
8 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
8 1 (3.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (74.19%) Security Cleared
2 19 (61.29%) SC Cleared
3 11 (35.48%) AWS Certification
4 10 (32.26%) Degree
5 9 (29.03%) Azure Certification
6 7 (22.58%) DV Cleared
7 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.45%) QA
System Software
1 24 (77.42%) Docker
2 15 (48.39%) DFS Replication
3 9 (29.03%) Dovecot
3 9 (29.03%) Postfix
3 9 (29.03%) Squid
4 6 (19.35%) Active Directory
5 1 (3.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (83.87%) Grafana
2 25 (80.65%) Terraform
3 24 (77.42%) Prometheus
4 11 (35.48%) Kubernetes
5 9 (29.03%) Ansible
5 9 (29.03%) Nessus
5 9 (29.03%) Progress Chef
5 9 (29.03%) Proxmox
6 2 (6.45%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (6.45%) Kibana
6 2 (6.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (48.39%) ServiceNow
2 9 (29.03%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (12.90%) Oracle
4 2 (6.45%) Dynatrace
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.45%) PagerDuty
4 2 (6.45%) Splunk
5 1 (3.23%) Cloudera
5 1 (3.23%) Talend