Amazon RDS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 193 237 235
Rank change year-on-year +44 -2 +115
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 111 108 266
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.12% 0.70% 1.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.29% 3.71% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 82 200
10th Percentile £462 £405 £450
25th Percentile £509 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £519 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.66% -13.54% +6.19%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £661
90th Percentile £709 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £589
% change year-on-year +7.32% -12.95% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £52.50
25th Percentile - - £59.35
Median hourly rate - - £84.09
75th Percentile - - £88.30
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £84.09
% change year-on-year - - +52.89%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,098 2,911 4,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 18.97% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,137 3,601
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 79
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.57
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Amazon RDS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon RDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon RDS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon RDS.

Amazon RDS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Amazon RDS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Amazon RDS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon RDS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon RDS.

Amazon RDS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (4.50%) Confluence
2 4 (3.60%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.70%) Apache
4 2 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.80%) Camunda
4 2 (1.80%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.90%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.80%) SAP MM
1 2 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 108 (97.30%) AWS
2 73 (65.77%) Amazon S3
3 59 (53.15%) AWS CloudFormation
4 57 (51.35%) Serverless
5 55 (49.55%) AWS Lambda
6 43 (38.74%) Amazon EC2
7 33 (29.73%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (20.72%) Amazon SQS
9 22 (19.82%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (12.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (12.61%) GitHub
11 12 (10.81%) Route 53
12 11 (9.91%) AWS CodePipeline
12 11 (9.91%) Azure
12 11 (9.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (7.21%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (6.31%) SaaS
15 6 (5.41%) CloudFront
15 6 (5.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (15.32%) DNS
2 10 (9.01%) HTTP
2 10 (9.01%) TCP/IP
3 7 (6.31%) Firewall
3 7 (6.31%) Internet
3 7 (6.31%) VPN
4 3 (2.70%) IPsec
4 3 (2.70%) Kerberos
4 3 (2.70%) SSL
5 1 (0.90%) DHCP
5 1 (0.90%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (22.52%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (16.22%) Amazon Aurora
3 14 (12.61%) Amazon Redshift
4 13 (11.71%) MySQL
5 10 (9.01%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (8.11%) NoSQL
7 8 (7.21%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (6.31%) DynamoDB
9 5 (4.50%) Big Data
9 5 (4.50%) MongoDB
9 5 (4.50%) Oracle Database
9 5 (4.50%) Power BI
9 5 (4.50%) Relational Database
9 5 (4.50%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.70%) Couchbase
10 3 (2.70%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.70%) OLTP
10 3 (2.70%) Pentaho
11 2 (1.80%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 21 (18.92%) Jenkins
2 12 (10.81%) GitLab
3 8 (7.21%) Git
4 7 (6.31%) JIRA
5 3 (2.70%) Maven
6 2 (1.80%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.80%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.90%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.90%) Flyway
7 1 (0.90%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.90%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.90%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.90%) webpack
General
1 35 (31.53%) Public Sector
2 24 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 18 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.71%) Finance
5 10 (9.01%) Banking
6 9 (8.11%) Front Office
7 3 (2.70%) Military
8 2 (1.80%) Electronics
8 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.80%) Marketing
8 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.90%) Aviation
9 1 (0.90%) Billing
9 1 (0.90%) German Language
9 1 (0.90%) Local Government
9 1 (0.90%) Police
9 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (29.73%) Architect
2 23 (20.72%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (19.82%) AWS Architect
4 20 (18.02%) AWS Engineer
4 20 (18.02%) Senior
5 16 (14.41%) AWS DevOps
5 16 (14.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 14 (12.61%) Data Engineer
6 14 (12.61%) Developer
7 13 (11.71%) Senior DevOps
7 13 (11.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 12 (10.81%) Python Engineer
9 9 (8.11%) DevOps Manager
9 9 (8.11%) Finance Manager
9 9 (8.11%) Technical Architect
10 8 (7.21%) DBA
10 8 (7.21%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.50%) Senior Manager
12 4 (3.60%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.61%) Node.js
2 13 (11.71%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (9.91%) AWS CDK
4 10 (9.01%) React
5 9 (8.11%) Kafka
5 9 (8.11%) Spring Boot
6 7 (6.31%) AngularJS
6 7 (6.31%) REST
7 6 (5.41%) Nunjucks
8 5 (4.50%) RESTful
8 5 (4.50%) Spring
9 3 (2.70%) Express.js
9 3 (2.70%) OAuth
9 3 (2.70%) OAuth2
9 3 (2.70%) OpenID
9 3 (2.70%) SAML
9 3 (2.70%) Sass
9 3 (2.70%) Svelte
9 3 (2.70%) Web Services
9 3 (2.70%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.41%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.60%) Replication
3 3 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.70%) iPad
4 2 (1.80%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.80%) Life Science
5 1 (0.90%) FMCG
5 1 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.90%) IoT
5 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Licensing
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle Licensing
5 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.12%) Linux
2 8 (7.21%) Windows
3 2 (1.80%) Unix
3 2 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.90%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (38.74%) DevOps
2 41 (36.94%) CI/CD
3 38 (34.23%) Agile
3 38 (34.23%) Containerisation
4 28 (25.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (19.82%) High Availability
7 21 (18.92%) Migration
8 20 (18.02%) Open Source
8 20 (18.02%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
10 16 (14.41%) ETL
10 16 (14.41%) Software Engineering
11 14 (12.61%) Microservices
12 13 (11.71%) Deployment Automation
13 11 (9.91%) Data Migration
13 11 (9.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 10 (9.01%) Configuration Management
14 10 (9.01%) Data Modelling
14 10 (9.01%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 46 (41.44%) Python
2 29 (26.13%) SQL
3 23 (20.72%) JavaScript
4 20 (18.02%) Java
5 11 (9.91%) Bash
6 8 (7.21%) PowerShell
6 8 (7.21%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.70%) Scala
8 2 (1.80%) ABAP
8 2 (1.80%) C#
8 2 (1.80%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.80%) R
8 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.80%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.90%) HiveQL
9 1 (0.90%) Perl
9 1 (0.90%) RPG
9 1 (0.90%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 50 (45.05%) SC Cleared
1 50 (45.05%) Security Cleared
2 22 (19.82%) AWS Certification
3 21 (18.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (4.50%) Degree
5 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.60%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.80%) GDPR
3 2 (1.80%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.80%) NCSC
3 2 (1.80%) QA
3 2 (1.80%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (38.74%) Docker
2 4 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.70%) RACF
4 1 (0.90%) HDFS
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (45.95%) Terraform
2 36 (32.43%) Kubernetes
3 24 (21.62%) Ansible
4 16 (14.41%) Grafana
4 16 (14.41%) Progress Chef
4 16 (14.41%) Puppet
5 12 (10.81%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.70%) Packer
6 3 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.90%) Argo
7 1 (0.90%) Istio
7 1 (0.90%) Kibana
7 1 (0.90%) logstash
7 1 (0.90%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 10 (9.01%) Oracle
2 9 (8.11%) Red Hat
3 6 (5.41%) SAP
4 5 (4.50%) VMware
5 4 (3.60%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.70%) Informatica
6 3 (2.70%) Talend
7 2 (1.80%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.80%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.80%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.80%) New Relic
7 2 (1.80%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.90%) Denodo
8 1 (0.90%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (0.90%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.90%) Splunk
8 1 (0.90%) Teradata