Amazon RDS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 305 308 357
Rank change year-on-year +3 +49 +10
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 87 127 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.56% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.31% 3.78% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 103 101
10th Percentile £410 £463 £413
25th Percentile £425 £513 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.30% +17.50% +8.70%
75th Percentile £575 £610 £609
90th Percentile £604 £698 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £84.09 £58.75
% change year-on-year - +43.13% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,626 3,356 5,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.45% 14.77% 17.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,836 2,382 3,820
10th Percentile £313 £325 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £669 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 109 126
10th Percentile £13.67 £21.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.86%
75th Percentile £56.56 £73.71 £57.19
90th Percentile £72.75 £78.00 £75.00
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Amazon RDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS in the UK excluding London

Amazon RDS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon RDS in the UK excluding London

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in the UK excluding London

Amazon RDS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon RDS in the UK excluding London

Amazon RDS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
Scotland +44 34 £475 -9.95% 6
North of England +9 25 £450 -23.40% 28
Yorkshire +6 15 £507 -11.05% 12
South West +14 11 £575 -4.17% 6
North West +12 9 £448 -14.76% 15
South East -13 8 £480 -20.00% 11
Midlands +21 5 £450 -14.29% 10
West Midlands +12 3 £450 -20.70% 8
East of England +1 3 £625 +8.70% 5
East Midlands +13 2 £450 +100.00% 2
Wales +19 1 £425 -43.33%
North East +4 1 £600 -14.29% 1
Amazon RDS
UK

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (10.34%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.45%) Apache
3 3 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.45%) Confluence
4 2 (2.30%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.15%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 76 (87.36%) AWS
2 64 (73.56%) Amazon S3
3 48 (55.17%) Serverless
4 42 (48.28%) Amazon EC2
5 33 (37.93%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (33.33%) Azure
7 24 (27.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (24.14%) OpenShift
9 15 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (14.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (13.79%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (12.64%) AWS CodePipeline
12 11 (12.64%) Entra ID
12 11 (12.64%) GCP
13 9 (10.34%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
14 8 (9.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 8 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (8.05%) CloudFront
15 7 (8.05%) Power Platform
15 7 (8.05%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.05%) Firewall
1 7 (8.05%) Network Security
2 6 (6.90%) AMQP
3 5 (5.75%) DHCP
3 5 (5.75%) DNS
3 5 (5.75%) VPN
4 4 (4.60%) SMTP
5 2 (2.30%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (1.15%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.15%) NAS
6 1 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.15%) SAN
6 1 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.29%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (17.24%) Amazon Athena
2 15 (17.24%) Amazon Redshift
3 12 (13.79%) MongoDB
4 11 (12.64%) InfluxDB
5 10 (11.49%) Hadoop
6 9 (10.34%) Big Data
6 9 (10.34%) BigQuery
6 9 (10.34%) Data Lake
7 8 (9.20%) Informix
8 7 (8.05%) MySQL
8 7 (8.05%) Power BI
8 7 (8.05%) Relational Database
9 5 (5.75%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (5.75%) Oracle Database
10 4 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
12 1 (1.15%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 22 (25.29%) Jenkins
2 16 (18.39%) Git
3 12 (13.79%) GitLab
4 4 (4.60%) webpack
5 3 (3.45%) JIRA
6 2 (2.30%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.30%) JUnit
6 2 (2.30%) Maven
6 2 (2.30%) Mockito
7 1 (1.15%) Bitbucket
General
1 13 (14.94%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.60%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.30%) Banking
4 2 (2.30%) Finance
5 1 (1.15%) Legal
5 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (20.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (16.09%) Data Engineer
3 13 (14.94%) Architect
4 9 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (10.34%) Developer
4 9 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (9.20%) Database Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (6.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Senior
8 4 (4.60%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Lead
8 4 (4.60%) PL/SQL Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Site Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Database Developer
9 3 (3.45%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.24%) AWS CDK
2 9 (10.34%) Kafka
3 8 (9.20%) LDAP
3 8 (9.20%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (8.05%) Node.js
5 6 (6.90%) REST
6 4 (4.60%) CSS
6 4 (4.60%) GraphQL
6 4 (4.60%) HTML
6 4 (4.60%) React
6 4 (4.60%) XML
7 3 (3.45%) OAuth
7 3 (3.45%) PostGIS
8 2 (2.30%) .NET
8 2 (2.30%) RESTful
8 2 (2.30%) Spring
8 2 (2.30%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.30%) WireMock
9 1 (1.15%) CSS3
9 1 (1.15%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.20%) Replication
2 7 (8.05%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.05%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (5.75%) Clustering
4 4 (4.60%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.60%) PKI
4 4 (4.60%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.60%) Smart Meter
5 2 (2.30%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.84%) Linux
2 14 (16.09%) Windows
3 10 (11.49%) Unix
4 8 (9.20%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.15%) CentOS
7 1 (1.15%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (37.93%) DevOps
2 27 (31.03%) CI/CD
3 22 (25.29%) High Availability
4 21 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (22.99%) Agile
6 19 (21.84%) Scrum
7 17 (19.54%) Analytics
7 17 (19.54%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (18.39%) Containerisation
8 16 (18.39%) Data Modelling
8 16 (18.39%) ETL
9 15 (17.24%) Data Integration
10 14 (16.09%) Kanban
11 13 (14.94%) Migration
12 12 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (12.64%) Translating Business Requirements
14 10 (11.49%) Configuration Management
14 10 (11.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 9 (10.34%) Capacity Planning
15 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (58.62%) SQL
2 32 (36.78%) Python
3 21 (24.14%) Java
4 17 (19.54%) TypeScript
5 7 (8.05%) Go
5 7 (8.05%) Shell Script
6 6 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.90%) PL/SQL
7 5 (5.75%) Bash
7 5 (5.75%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.60%) C
9 3 (3.45%) Ruby
10 1 (1.15%) C#
10 1 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.15%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 18 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.94%) DV Cleared
3 12 (13.79%) AWS Certification
4 8 (9.20%) SC Cleared
5 6 (6.90%) Degree
6 5 (5.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (4.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) GDPR
2 3 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.30%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.30%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.15%) QA
4 1 (1.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (24.14%) Docker
2 13 (14.94%) Active Directory
3 6 (6.90%) Hyper-V
4 5 (5.75%) Terminal Services
5 4 (4.60%) BitLocker
5 4 (4.60%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (4.60%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.15%) HDFS
7 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (1.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (31.03%) Terraform
2 26 (29.89%) Grafana
3 25 (28.74%) Kubernetes
4 21 (24.14%) Ansible
5 13 (14.94%) Prometheus
6 8 (9.20%) Docker Swarm
7 7 (8.05%) Progress Chef
8 4 (4.60%) vCenter Server
8 4 (4.60%) vMotion
Vendors
1 21 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 20 (22.99%) Oracle
3 11 (12.64%) Google
4 7 (8.05%) VMware
5 5 (5.75%) Citrix
6 4 (4.60%) Ab Initio
6 4 (4.60%) Commvault
6 4 (4.60%) Infoblox
6 4 (4.60%) Informatica
6 4 (4.60%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.30%) Cisco
7 2 (2.30%) HP
7 2 (2.30%) Meraki
7 2 (2.30%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.15%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.15%) Denodo
8 1 (1.15%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (1.15%) Splunk
8 1 (1.15%) Symantec
8 1 (1.15%) Talend