Amazon RDS Contracts with Work from Home 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 239 240 345
Rank change year-on-year +1 +105 -133
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 103 231 301
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.70% 0.97% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.53% 5.17% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 183 212
10th Percentile £404 £453 £431
25th Percentile £425 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £599
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +0.25% +14.00%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £699
90th Percentile £610 £725 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +9.52%
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 median hourly rate - £84.09 £58.75
% change year-on-year - +43.13% -

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 2,914 4,470 9,288
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.75% 18.72% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,132 3,273 6,790
10th Percentile £356 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 78 85
10th Percentile £18.20 £23.86 £19.00
25th Percentile £22.25 £41.44 £21.17
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.93% +37.89% +58.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £43.95
% change year-on-year -31.73% +33.31% +62.78%

Amazon RDS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon RDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon RDS trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Amazon RDS over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 6 (5.83%) Confluence
2 3 (2.91%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.91%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 2 (1.94%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.97%) nginx
4 1 (0.97%) SAS
4 1 (0.97%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 99 (96.12%) AWS
2 55 (53.40%) Amazon S3
3 50 (48.54%) Amazon EC2
4 45 (43.69%) Serverless
5 40 (38.83%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (28.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 26 (25.24%) Azure
8 22 (21.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (21.36%) Route 53
9 20 (19.42%) Amazon ECS
9 20 (19.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 18 (17.48%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (13.59%) Entra ID
12 13 (12.62%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (11.65%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (10.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 10 (9.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 10 (9.71%) Azure Sentinel
15 10 (9.71%) CloudFront
15 10 (9.71%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.77%) Firewall
2 7 (6.80%) Network Security
3 5 (4.85%) DHCP
3 5 (4.85%) DNS
4 3 (2.91%) LAN
4 3 (2.91%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (2.91%) SSH
4 3 (2.91%) WLAN
5 2 (1.94%) VPN
6 1 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.97%) HTTP
6 1 (0.97%) NAS
6 1 (0.97%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.97%) SAN
6 1 (0.97%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (27.18%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (18.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 10 (9.71%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (8.74%) MongoDB
5 8 (7.77%) DynamoDB
5 8 (7.77%) MySQL
6 7 (6.80%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (6.80%) Informix
6 7 (6.80%) SQL Server
7 6 (5.83%) Amazon QuickSight
8 5 (4.85%) Data Lake
8 5 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (3.88%) Hadoop
9 4 (3.88%) MariaDB
9 4 (3.88%) Oracle Database
9 4 (3.88%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.91%) Big Data
10 3 (2.91%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.91%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 19 (18.45%) Jenkins
2 17 (16.50%) Git
3 9 (8.74%) GitLab
4 5 (4.85%) JIRA
5 3 (2.91%) Maven
5 3 (2.91%) webpack
6 2 (1.94%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.94%) JUnit
6 2 (1.94%) Snyk
6 2 (1.94%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.97%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.97%) EasyMock
7 1 (0.97%) Gradle
7 1 (0.97%) JMeter
7 1 (0.97%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.97%) Mockito
7 1 (0.97%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.97%) Postman
7 1 (0.97%) Selenium
7 1 (0.97%) TestNG
General
1 14 (13.59%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.62%) Public Sector
3 7 (6.80%) Finance
4 5 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.94%) Retail
6 1 (0.97%) Banking
6 1 (0.97%) Electronics
6 1 (0.97%) Front Office
6 1 (0.97%) Marketing
6 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (23.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (21.36%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (12.62%) AWS DevOps
3 13 (12.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 13 (12.62%) DBA
3 13 (12.62%) Senior
4 9 (8.74%) Architect
5 8 (7.77%) Developer
6 7 (6.80%) Consultant
7 6 (5.83%) AWS Specialist
7 6 (5.83%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Azure Specialist
8 5 (4.85%) Cloud Specialist
8 5 (4.85%) Database Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Lead
9 4 (3.88%) Administrator
9 4 (3.88%) AWS Consultant
9 4 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) DV Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.68%) AWS CDK
2 7 (6.80%) LDAP
3 6 (5.83%) Node.js
4 5 (4.85%) Kafka
4 5 (4.85%) React
4 5 (4.85%) REST
5 3 (2.91%) CSS
5 3 (2.91%) HTML
5 3 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.91%) SailPoint
5 3 (2.91%) Spring
5 3 (2.91%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.94%) .NET
6 2 (1.94%) CodeIgniter
6 2 (1.94%) Django
6 2 (1.94%) Laravel
6 2 (1.94%) Middleware
6 2 (1.94%) OAuth
6 2 (1.94%) OpenID
6 2 (1.94%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.68%) Data Centre
1 11 (10.68%) Replication
2 5 (4.85%) Clustering
3 4 (3.88%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.91%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.91%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.91%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.94%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.94%) IoT
5 2 (1.94%) Life Science
5 2 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.94%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (20.39%) Linux
2 11 (10.68%) Windows
3 6 (5.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.88%) Unix
4 4 (3.88%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.94%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.94%) CentOS
6 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.98%) DevOps
2 33 (32.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (26.21%) CI/CD
4 18 (17.48%) Agile
4 18 (17.48%) High Availability
5 16 (15.53%) Migration
6 14 (13.59%) Containerisation
6 14 (13.59%) Disaster Recovery
6 14 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (11.65%) Analytics
8 11 (10.68%) Kanban
8 11 (10.68%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (10.68%) Scrum
9 10 (9.71%) Capacity Planning
9 10 (9.71%) Cloud Operations
10 9 (8.74%) Cost Control
11 8 (7.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (7.77%) Service Design
11 8 (7.77%) Technical Leadership
12 7 (6.80%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 36 (34.95%) Python
2 33 (32.04%) SQL
3 17 (16.50%) Java
4 15 (14.56%) TypeScript
5 13 (12.62%) Bash
5 13 (12.62%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.88%) Go
6 4 (3.88%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.91%) PHP
8 2 (1.94%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.97%) C
9 1 (0.97%) C++
9 1 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.97%) HiveQL
9 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (24.27%) Security Cleared
2 22 (21.36%) AWS Certification
3 19 (18.45%) SC Cleared
4 9 (8.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (5.83%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.83%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.94%) Degree
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.97%) OCP
7 1 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.94%) GDPR
1 2 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.94%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.94%) SLA
2 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.97%) IFRS
2 1 (0.97%) IFRS 17
2 1 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (29.13%) Docker
2 18 (17.48%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.85%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.94%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.94%) Terminal Services
5 2 (1.94%) vSphere
6 1 (0.97%) HDFS
6 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.97%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 32 (31.07%) Kubernetes
1 32 (31.07%) Terraform
2 18 (17.48%) Grafana
3 16 (15.53%) Ansible
4 9 (8.74%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.88%) Progress Chef
5 4 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.94%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (1.94%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.94%) Puppet
6 2 (1.94%) Salt
7 1 (0.97%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.97%) Kibana
7 1 (0.97%) Packer
Vendors
1 29 (28.16%) Oracle
2 17 (16.50%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.80%) VMware
4 6 (5.83%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.88%) CyberArk
5 4 (3.88%) Google
6 3 (2.91%) Commvault
6 3 (2.91%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.94%) Cisco
7 2 (1.94%) Databricks
7 2 (1.94%) Meraki
7 2 (1.94%) Qualys
7 2 (1.94%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.94%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.97%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.97%) Informatica
8 1 (0.97%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (0.97%) Splunk
8 1 (0.97%) Talend
8 1 (0.97%) Veeam