Amazon RDS Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 133 164
Rank change year-on-year +44 +31 -8
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 34 30 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.60% 1.12% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.95% 5.38% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 26 10
10th Percentile £413 £463 £323
25th Percentile £431 £497 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £528 £535
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% -1.40% +7.00%
75th Percentile £509 £641 £578
90th Percentile £575 £688 £624
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +9.52%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 380 558 614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.90% 20.81% 17.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 426 446
10th Percentile £322 £389 £363
25th Percentile £400 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £644 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £24.60 £19.83 £16.75
25th Percentile £29.04 £27.94 £17.50
Median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +34.62% -35.00%
75th Percentile £45.72 £67.66 £48.00
90th Percentile £50.54 £69.25 £58.80
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -33.33% +36.52% +62.90%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS in Scotland

Amazon RDS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon RDS in Scotland

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in Scotland

Amazon RDS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 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
Glasgow +16 15 £524 -1.18% 1
Edinburgh +28 14 £445 -15.24% 4
Renfrewshire 0 3 - -
Amazon RDS
UK

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 30 (88.24%) AWS
2 23 (67.65%) Amazon S3
3 15 (44.12%) AWS CloudFormation
3 15 (44.12%) Serverless
4 13 (38.24%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (38.24%) OpenShift
5 12 (35.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (35.29%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (29.41%) Azure
7 9 (26.47%) Entra ID
8 8 (23.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 7 (20.59%) AWS CodePipeline
10 6 (17.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 6 (17.65%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (17.65%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (11.76%) AWS CodeBuild
11 4 (11.76%) AWS CodeCommit
12 3 (8.82%) AWS Direct Connect
12 3 (8.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) DHCP
1 3 (8.82%) DNS
1 3 (8.82%) Firewall
1 3 (8.82%) SMTP
1 3 (8.82%) VPN
2 1 (2.94%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (52.94%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (35.29%) MongoDB
3 8 (23.53%) Informix
4 5 (14.71%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (14.71%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (14.71%) Oracle Database
5 4 (11.76%) InfluxDB
6 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (2.94%) MariaDB
8 1 (2.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) webpack
2 3 (8.82%) GitLab
3 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (32.35%) Public Sector
2 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Banking
3 1 (2.94%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Data Engineer
1 8 (23.53%) Database Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Developer
3 4 (11.76%) PL/SQL Developer
3 4 (11.76%) Senior
3 4 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Specialist
4 3 (8.82%) Azure Specialist
4 3 (8.82%) Database Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Lead
4 3 (8.82%) Oracle Developer
4 3 (8.82%) SQL Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Technical Leader
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Specialist
5 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Development Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (2.94%) SQL Database Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (44.12%) AWS CDK
2 6 (17.65%) REST
3 4 (11.76%) CSS
3 4 (11.76%) HTML
3 4 (11.76%) Node.js
3 4 (11.76%) React
4 3 (8.82%) GraphQL
4 3 (8.82%) LDAP
4 3 (8.82%) OAuth
4 3 (8.82%) PostGIS
5 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.94%) CSS3
5 1 (2.94%) HTML5
5 1 (2.94%) Redux
5 1 (2.94%) RESTful
5 1 (2.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Replication
2 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.82%) Clustering
3 3 (8.82%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.82%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Unix
2 4 (11.76%) Windows
2 4 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 3 (8.82%) Linux
3 3 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) Scrum
2 12 (35.29%) Agile
2 12 (35.29%) Kanban
3 11 (32.35%) High Availability
4 10 (29.41%) Migration
5 8 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
7 6 (17.65%) Cloud Operations
8 5 (14.71%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (14.71%) Community of Practice
8 5 (14.71%) Cost Control
8 5 (14.71%) Database Optimisation
9 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (11.76%) Roadmaps
10 3 (8.82%) Full Stack Development
10 3 (8.82%) Identity Access Management
10 3 (8.82%) Inclusive Design
10 3 (8.82%) Planning and Forecasting
10 3 (8.82%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (64.71%) SQL
2 16 (47.06%) TypeScript
3 5 (14.71%) PL/SQL
4 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
5 3 (8.82%) Python
6 1 (2.94%) Bash
6 1 (2.94%) Java
6 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) AWS Certification
1 5 (14.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 3 (8.82%) Azure Certification
2 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.94%) QA
3 1 (2.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.76%) Docker
2 4 (11.76%) Hyper-V
3 3 (8.82%) BitLocker
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (8.82%) Terminal Services
3 3 (8.82%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (41.18%) Grafana
2 12 (35.29%) Ansible
3 3 (8.82%) vCenter Server
3 3 (8.82%) vMotion
Vendors
1 19 (55.88%) Oracle
2 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.76%) Commvault
3 4 (11.76%) Red Hat
4 3 (8.82%) Citrix
4 3 (8.82%) Infoblox
4 3 (8.82%) VMware
5 1 (2.94%) Cisco
5 1 (2.94%) Meraki