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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 109 126
Rank change year-on-year +28 +17 +39
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 26 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.68% 0.24% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.89% 1.66% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 3
10th Percentile £435 £357 £522
25th Percentile £463 £389 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £568
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -20.70% +16.41%
75th Percentile £500 £504 £576
90th Percentile - £532 -
England median daily rate £543 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +3.33% -12.50% +4.35%

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 263 301 366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.03% 14.60% 16.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 221 241
10th Percentile £293 £308 £313
25th Percentile £408 £358 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £594
90th Percentile £638 £706 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £16.67 £34.59 £24.13
25th Percentile £18.74 £35.57 £24.31
Median hourly rate £29.33 £37.22 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.19% +47.39% -
75th Percentile £33.88 £38.86 £30.48
90th Percentile £34.54 £39.84 £33.24
England median hourly rate £34.00 £39.25 £58.05
% change year-on-year -13.38% -32.38% +53.56%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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 +23 13 £475 +35.71% 10
Solihull - 9 £450 - 2
Staffordshire +2 2 £550 - 3
Coventry -1 1 - - 2
Herefordshire - 1 - - 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 10 (38.46%) Confluence
2 2 (7.69%) nginx
3 1 (3.85%) Apache
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 26 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 26 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (76.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 18 (69.23%) AWS KMS
4 14 (53.85%) Amazon SQS
5 12 (46.15%) Route 53
6 11 (42.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (30.77%) Amazon ELB
8 6 (23.08%) Amazon Glacier
9 5 (19.23%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (19.23%) Serverless
10 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (7.69%) AWS CodeCommit
11 2 (7.69%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 2 (7.69%) Boomi
11 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (7.69%) PaaS
11 2 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) SMTP
2 7 (26.92%) DNS
3 6 (23.08%) Firewall
3 6 (23.08%) FTP
3 6 (23.08%) HTTP
3 6 (23.08%) SSH
4 2 (7.69%) IMAP
4 2 (7.69%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (3.85%) DHCP
5 1 (3.85%) iSCSI
5 1 (3.85%) LAN
5 1 (3.85%) VLAN
5 1 (3.85%) VSAN
5 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (57.69%) Amazon Aurora
1 15 (57.69%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (42.31%) DynamoDB
3 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.85%) Big Data
4 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (88.46%) Jenkins
2 21 (80.77%) Git
3 13 (50.00%) Maven
4 12 (46.15%) JUnit
5 11 (42.31%) SonarQube
6 10 (38.46%) JIRA
6 10 (38.46%) Mockito
7 8 (30.77%) Vagrant
8 7 (26.92%) Bitbucket Server
8 7 (26.92%) DbUnit
8 7 (26.92%) jMock
9 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
General
1 17 (65.38%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (61.54%) Developer
2 13 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 8 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (23.08%) AWS Developer
4 6 (23.08%) Lead
4 6 (23.08%) Lead Developer
4 6 (23.08%) Lead Java Developer
5 4 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (11.54%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (11.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Senior
6 3 (11.54%) Senior Developer
7 2 (7.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Python Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Python Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
1 13 (50.00%) REST
1 13 (50.00%) SOAP
1 13 (50.00%) Spring
1 13 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 12 (46.15%) JPA
3 11 (42.31%) Web Services
4 10 (38.46%) Hibernate
4 10 (38.46%) Spring Cloud
5 9 (34.62%) AngularJS
5 9 (34.62%) Bootstrap
5 9 (34.62%) RESTful
5 9 (34.62%) Spring Batch
5 9 (34.62%) Spring Integration
6 7 (26.92%) PowerMock
7 2 (7.69%) Django
7 2 (7.69%) LDAP
7 2 (7.69%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (26.92%) Replication
3 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (61.54%) Linux
2 8 (30.77%) Amazon Linux
2 8 (30.77%) VMS
3 7 (26.92%) Windows
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.85%) SUSE
4 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (80.77%) DevOps
2 15 (57.69%) Agile
2 15 (57.69%) Microservices
3 13 (50.00%) Scrum
3 13 (50.00%) TDD
4 12 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (42.31%) Containerisation
6 9 (34.62%) Change Management
6 9 (34.62%) Configuration Management
6 9 (34.62%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (30.77%) BDD
7 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
7 8 (30.77%) Cloud Security
8 7 (26.92%) Kanban
8 7 (26.92%) Open Source
8 7 (26.92%) Risk Management
9 6 (23.08%) Patch Management
9 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
11 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 21 (80.77%) Java
2 16 (61.54%) SQL
3 11 (42.31%) Python
4 9 (34.62%) PowerShell
5 8 (30.77%) Groovy
6 6 (23.08%) Perl
7 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 2 (7.69%) R
8 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (65.38%) Security Cleared
2 16 (61.54%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 23 (88.46%) Docker
2 10 (38.46%) Postfix
3 7 (26.92%) Active Directory
4 6 (23.08%) DFS Replication
5 2 (7.69%) Dovecot
5 2 (7.69%) Squid
6 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (69.23%) Grafana
1 18 (69.23%) Prometheus
2 9 (34.62%) Terraform
3 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.69%) Nessus
4 1 (3.85%) Ansible
4 1 (3.85%) PowerCLI
4 1 (3.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (30.77%) ServiceNow
3 7 (26.92%) Atlassian
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle
5 1 (3.85%) Databricks
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.85%) Veeam
5 1 (3.85%) VMware