Amazon RDS Contracts

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon RDS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon RDS over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 323 413
Rank change year-on-year -17 +90 -89
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 249 423 538
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.75% 0.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.41% 4.27% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 306 367
10th Percentile £400 £450 £431
25th Percentile £415 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £671
90th Percentile £660 £756 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £588 £500
% change year-on-year -15.91% +17.50% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £60.45 £53.50
25th Percentile - £79.89 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £84.09 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year - +43.13% -
75th Percentile - £88.30 £61.25
90th Percentile - - £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Amazon RDS is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,300 9,902 17,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 17.66% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,235 7,035 12,303
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% -0.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £754 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 179 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.45
25th Percentile £20.77 £33.70 £21.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £56.88 £73.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.75 £80.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.86%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon RDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
England -44 193 £513 -14.58% 125
London -15 132 £513 -14.58% 60
Work from Home +1 103 £500 -16.67% 73
UK excluding London +2 87 £494 -15.91% 71
Scotland +42 33 £478 -9.91% 10
North of England +6 24 £450 -23.40% 26
Yorkshire +11 14 £507 -11.05% 13
South West +8 11 £575 -4.17% 5
South East -16 10 £530 -10.74% 13
North West +20 9 £448 -14.76% 12
Midlands +22 5 £450 -14.29% 12
West Midlands +12 3 £450 -17.62% 10
East of England +5 3 £625 +8.70% 5
East Midlands - 2 £450 - 2
Wales +18 1 £425 -43.33%
North East +3 1 £600 -14.29% 1

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.02%) Confluence
2 8 (3.21%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.61%) Apache
4 4 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.61%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 2 (0.80%) nginx
5 2 (0.80%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.40%) GemFire
6 1 (0.40%) SAS
6 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 236 (94.78%) AWS
2 141 (56.63%) Amazon S3
3 117 (46.99%) Serverless
4 104 (41.77%) Amazon EC2
5 101 (40.56%) AWS Lambda
6 52 (20.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 50 (20.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 48 (19.28%) Azure
9 42 (16.87%) Route 53
10 36 (14.46%) Amazon EKS
10 36 (14.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 33 (13.25%) Amazon ECS
12 30 (12.05%) AWS Step Functions
13 28 (11.24%) Amazon SQS
14 27 (10.84%) Amazon MSK
15 20 (8.03%) Entra ID
16 19 (7.63%) OpenShift
17 18 (7.23%) Amazon ECR
18 17 (6.83%) CloudFront
18 17 (6.83%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.63%) Network Security
2 14 (5.62%) Firewall
3 13 (5.22%) DNS
4 12 (4.82%) DHCP
5 6 (2.41%) AMQP
5 6 (2.41%) VPN
6 4 (1.61%) HTTP
6 4 (1.61%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (1.61%) SMTP
6 4 (1.61%) SSH
6 4 (1.61%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.20%) LAN
7 3 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (1.20%) WLAN
8 2 (0.80%) SMS
9 1 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.40%) NAS
9 1 (0.40%) SAN
9 1 (0.40%) SSL
9 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (23.69%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (18.47%) Amazon Redshift
3 36 (14.46%) DynamoDB
4 26 (10.44%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (8.03%) Parquet
6 18 (7.23%) MySQL
6 18 (7.23%) Oracle Database
7 15 (6.02%) MongoDB
8 13 (5.22%) Relational Database
9 12 (4.82%) Data Lake
9 12 (4.82%) NoSQL
10 11 (4.42%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (4.42%) SQL Server
11 10 (4.02%) InfluxDB
12 9 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (3.61%) Hadoop
13 8 (3.21%) Big Data
13 8 (3.21%) BigQuery
14 7 (2.81%) Power BI
15 6 (2.41%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 49 (19.68%) Git
2 43 (17.27%) Jenkins
3 22 (8.84%) GitLab
4 8 (3.21%) JIRA
5 7 (2.81%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.41%) webpack
7 5 (2.01%) Maven
8 4 (1.61%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.61%) JUnit
8 4 (1.61%) Mercurial
9 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.20%) JMeter
9 3 (1.20%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.20%) Mockito
9 3 (1.20%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.80%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.80%) Mocha
10 2 (0.80%) Snyk
10 2 (0.80%) Terragrunt
General
1 29 (11.65%) Public Sector
2 26 (10.44%) Social Skills
3 20 (8.03%) Finance
4 5 (2.01%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.01%) Banking
4 5 (2.01%) Telecoms
5 2 (0.80%) Front Office
5 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (0.80%) Law
5 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
5 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (0.80%) Retail
6 1 (0.40%) Back Office
6 1 (0.40%) Electronics
6 1 (0.40%) Legal
6 1 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 57 (22.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (15.66%) AWS Engineer
3 35 (14.06%) Data Engineer
3 35 (14.06%) Developer
4 28 (11.24%) AWS DevOps
5 26 (10.44%) DBA
6 24 (9.64%) Architect
7 22 (8.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 21 (8.43%) Senior
9 16 (6.43%) Lead
10 12 (4.82%) AWS Architect
11 11 (4.42%) Python Developer
12 10 (4.02%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (3.61%) AWS Developer
13 9 (3.61%) Consultant
13 9 (3.61%) Oracle DBA
13 9 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
14 8 (3.21%) Administrator
14 8 (3.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 7 (2.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.43%) JSON
2 20 (8.03%) Node.js
3 19 (7.63%) Apache Avro
3 19 (7.63%) AWS CDK
3 19 (7.63%) REST
4 18 (7.23%) Kafka
5 13 (5.22%) Spring
6 12 (4.82%) LDAP
7 11 (4.42%) Spring Boot
8 10 (4.02%) RabbitMQ
8 10 (4.02%) RESTful
9 8 (3.21%) Django
9 8 (3.21%) React
10 7 (2.81%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (2.41%) GraphQL
11 6 (2.41%) Laravel
12 5 (2.01%) Lambda Expressions
13 4 (1.61%) JPA
13 4 (1.61%) pytest
13 4 (1.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.22%) Replication
2 12 (4.82%) Clustering
2 12 (4.82%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (3.61%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (2.81%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.01%) PKI
7 4 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (1.61%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.61%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.61%) Smart Meter
8 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.20%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.80%) Cybercrime
9 2 (0.80%) IoT
9 2 (0.80%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 39 (15.66%) Linux
2 24 (9.64%) Windows
3 16 (6.43%) Unix
4 12 (4.82%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.20%) CentOS
7 2 (0.80%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.80%) Debian
7 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (37.75%) DevOps
2 74 (29.72%) CI/CD
3 54 (21.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (18.88%) Agile
5 36 (14.46%) ETL
5 36 (14.46%) Migration
6 33 (13.25%) Data Modelling
7 32 (12.85%) Containerisation
8 31 (12.45%) High Availability
9 29 (11.65%) Microservices
10 27 (10.84%) Analytics
11 25 (10.04%) Scrum
12 24 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (8.43%) Disaster Recovery
14 20 (8.03%) Data Ingestion
14 20 (8.03%) Performance Tuning
15 18 (7.23%) Kanban
16 17 (6.83%) Technical Leadership
17 16 (6.43%) Data Integration
18 15 (6.02%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 110 (44.18%) Python
2 98 (39.36%) SQL
3 55 (22.09%) Java
4 38 (15.26%) JavaScript
5 36 (14.46%) TypeScript
6 26 (10.44%) Bash
7 12 (4.82%) Go
8 10 (4.02%) PowerShell
9 9 (3.61%) Shell Script
10 8 (3.21%) C
10 8 (3.21%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.01%) PHP
12 3 (1.20%) C++
12 3 (1.20%) Ruby
13 2 (0.80%) C#
13 2 (0.80%) Lua
13 2 (0.80%) Perl
14 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.40%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (36.55%) Security Cleared
2 72 (28.92%) SC Cleared
3 31 (12.45%) AWS Certification
4 23 (9.24%) DV Cleared
5 13 (5.22%) Degree
6 9 (3.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (2.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.40%) OCP
10 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.41%) GDPR
2 4 (1.61%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.80%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.80%) SLA
5 1 (0.40%) IFRS
5 1 (0.40%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (25.30%) Docker
2 29 (11.65%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.81%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.41%) Terminal Services
4 6 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.61%) BitLocker
5 4 (1.61%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.80%) vSphere
8 1 (0.40%) HDFS
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.40%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 78 (31.33%) Kubernetes
2 70 (28.11%) Terraform
3 42 (16.87%) Grafana
4 33 (13.25%) Prometheus
5 32 (12.85%) Ansible
6 11 (4.42%) Progress Chef
7 8 (3.21%) Docker Swarm
7 8 (3.21%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.61%) Kibana
8 4 (1.61%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.61%) vMotion
9 3 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.80%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.80%) Puppet
10 2 (0.80%) Salt
11 1 (0.40%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.40%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.40%) Packer
Vendors
1 49 (19.68%) Oracle
2 30 (12.05%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.62%) Red Hat
4 12 (4.82%) VMware
5 10 (4.02%) Google
6 5 (2.01%) Citrix
7 4 (1.61%) Ab Initio
7 4 (1.61%) Commvault
7 4 (1.61%) CyberArk
7 4 (1.61%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.61%) Infoblox
7 4 (1.61%) Informatica
7 4 (1.61%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.61%) SAP
7 4 (1.61%) Splunk
8 3 (1.20%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.20%) Cisco
9 2 (0.80%) HP
9 2 (0.80%) Qualys
9 2 (0.80%) SaltStack