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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 314 413
Rank change year-on-year -20 +99 -86
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 241 448 526
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.79% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.30% 4.41% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 324 371
10th Percentile £400 £450 £438
25th Percentile £413 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £663
90th Percentile £675 £771 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.48% +15.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £53.50
25th Percentile - £79.89 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £84.09 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year - +43.13% +46.88%
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 7,304 10,170 17,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.15% 17.86% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,237 7,238 12,433
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £549
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £751 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +11.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 178 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £22.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +27.37% +75.24%
75th Percentile £61.53 £73.41 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £79.28 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £56.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year -29.08% +61.14% +45.83%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -33 192 £520 -13.33% 130
London -18 130 £525 -12.50% 63
Work from Home -11 102 £504 -15.38% 90
UK excluding London +10 82 £498 -13.48% 83
Scotland +37 28 £487 -6.35% 5
North of England +12 25 £450 -21.74% 26
Yorkshire +3 13 £507 -11.05% 17
North West +21 11 £448 -16.74% 8
South East +11 11 £530 -9.79% 26
South West +7 9 £550 -8.33% 5
Midlands +22 5 £450 -14.29% 16
West Midlands +21 3 £450 -17.62% 14
East of England +3 3 £625 +8.70% 3
East Midlands - 2 £450 - 2
Wales +18 1 £425 -43.33%
North East +4 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 9 (3.73%) Confluence
1 9 (3.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.32%) nginx
3 7 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.49%) Apache
5 4 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.66%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 4 (1.66%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.83%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.41%) Drupal
7 1 (0.41%) GemFire
7 1 (0.41%) SAS
7 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 226 (93.78%) AWS
2 131 (54.36%) Amazon S3
3 114 (47.30%) Serverless
4 105 (43.57%) Amazon EC2
5 100 (41.49%) AWS Lambda
6 56 (23.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 51 (21.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 49 (20.33%) Azure
9 46 (19.09%) Route 53
10 36 (14.94%) Amazon EKS
11 33 (13.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 31 (12.86%) Amazon ECS
12 31 (12.86%) AWS Step Functions
13 30 (12.45%) Amazon SQS
14 28 (11.62%) Amazon MSK
15 22 (9.13%) Entra ID
16 18 (7.47%) Amazon ECR
16 18 (7.47%) CloudFront
17 16 (6.64%) GCP
17 16 (6.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.88%) Network Security
2 16 (6.64%) DNS
2 16 (6.64%) Firewall
3 14 (5.81%) DHCP
4 7 (2.90%) VPN
5 5 (2.07%) AMQP
5 5 (2.07%) HTTP
5 5 (2.07%) SMTP
5 5 (2.07%) SSH
6 4 (1.66%) LAN
6 4 (1.66%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (1.66%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.24%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (1.24%) WLAN
8 2 (0.83%) SMS
9 1 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.41%) NAS
9 1 (0.41%) WAN
9 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (21.99%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (18.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 36 (14.94%) DynamoDB
4 22 (9.13%) Amazon Athena
5 21 (8.71%) MySQL
5 21 (8.71%) Parquet
6 14 (5.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (5.39%) MongoDB
8 12 (4.98%) Data Lake
8 12 (4.98%) NoSQL
8 12 (4.98%) Relational Database
8 12 (4.98%) SQL Server
9 9 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (3.73%) InfluxDB
10 8 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (3.32%) Hadoop
11 7 (2.90%) Big Data
11 7 (2.90%) BigQuery
11 7 (2.90%) Oracle Database
11 7 (2.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 50 (20.75%) Git
2 49 (20.33%) Jenkins
3 20 (8.30%) GitLab
4 9 (3.73%) SonarQube
5 8 (3.32%) JIRA
6 7 (2.90%) Maven
7 6 (2.49%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.49%) JUnit
7 6 (2.49%) webpack
8 5 (2.07%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.07%) Mockito
8 5 (2.07%) Postman
8 5 (2.07%) Selenium
9 4 (1.66%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.66%) Mercurial
10 3 (1.24%) EasyMock
10 3 (1.24%) JMeter
10 3 (1.24%) LoadRunner
10 3 (1.24%) NeoLoad
10 3 (1.24%) TestNG
General
1 29 (12.03%) Social Skills
2 26 (10.79%) Public Sector
3 20 (8.30%) Finance
4 7 (2.90%) Telecoms
5 4 (1.66%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (1.66%) Banking
5 4 (1.66%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.24%) Electronics
6 3 (1.24%) Marketing
7 2 (0.83%) Front Office
7 2 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.83%) Law
7 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.41%) Back Office
8 1 (0.41%) Legal
8 1 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 58 (24.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (16.60%) AWS Engineer
3 36 (14.94%) Data Engineer
3 36 (14.94%) Developer
4 27 (11.20%) AWS DevOps
5 22 (9.13%) Architect
6 21 (8.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 20 (8.30%) Senior
8 19 (7.88%) DBA
9 18 (7.47%) Lead
10 12 (4.98%) AWS Architect
11 11 (4.56%) Python Developer
12 10 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (3.32%) Administrator
13 8 (3.32%) AWS Developer
13 8 (3.32%) Backend Developer
13 8 (3.32%) Consultant
13 8 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (2.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (2.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.13%) JSON
2 21 (8.71%) REST
3 20 (8.30%) Node.js
4 19 (7.88%) Apache Avro
4 19 (7.88%) AWS CDK
4 19 (7.88%) Kafka
5 16 (6.64%) Spring
6 14 (5.81%) Spring Boot
7 13 (5.39%) LDAP
8 10 (4.15%) React
8 10 (4.15%) RESTful
9 9 (3.73%) Django
9 9 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (3.73%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (2.49%) GraphQL
10 6 (2.49%) Laravel
11 5 (2.07%) Hibernate
11 5 (2.07%) JPA
11 5 (2.07%) Redux
11 5 (2.07%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.39%) Clustering
1 13 (5.39%) Replication
2 12 (4.98%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.15%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (3.32%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (2.90%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.49%) PKI
7 5 (2.07%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.66%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.66%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.66%) Smart Meter
9 3 (1.24%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.24%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.24%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.83%) Cybercrime
10 2 (0.83%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.83%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 41 (17.01%) Linux
2 27 (11.20%) Windows
3 14 (5.81%) Windows Server
4 12 (4.98%) Unix
5 10 (4.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.24%) CentOS
6 3 (1.24%) Debian
6 3 (1.24%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.83%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (39.42%) DevOps
2 78 (32.37%) CI/CD
3 54 (22.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (19.50%) Agile
5 35 (14.52%) ETL
6 32 (13.28%) Containerisation
6 32 (13.28%) Data Modelling
7 31 (12.86%) High Availability
8 30 (12.45%) Microservices
9 27 (11.20%) Analytics
10 25 (10.37%) Scrum
11 24 (9.96%) Migration
12 23 (9.54%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (8.30%) Data Ingestion
13 20 (8.30%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (8.30%) Performance Tuning
14 18 (7.47%) Kanban
15 16 (6.64%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (6.64%) Test Automation
16 15 (6.22%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 110 (45.64%) Python
2 92 (38.17%) SQL
3 58 (24.07%) Java
4 40 (16.60%) JavaScript
5 37 (15.35%) TypeScript
6 28 (11.62%) Bash
7 11 (4.56%) Go
7 11 (4.56%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.73%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.32%) C
10 5 (2.07%) PHP
11 4 (1.66%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.24%) C++
12 3 (1.24%) Ruby
13 2 (0.83%) Lua
13 2 (0.83%) Perl
14 1 (0.41%) C#
14 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.41%) Scala
14 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (36.93%) Security Cleared
2 71 (29.46%) SC Cleared
3 30 (12.45%) AWS Certification
4 23 (9.54%) DV Cleared
5 13 (5.39%) Degree
6 9 (3.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (2.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.49%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.41%) OCP
10 1 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.49%) GDPR
2 4 (1.66%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.24%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.24%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.83%) SLA
5 1 (0.41%) IFRS
5 1 (0.41%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (26.56%) Docker
2 30 (12.45%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.32%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.90%) Terminal Services
5 6 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.07%) BitLocker
6 5 (2.07%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (2.07%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.66%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.83%) Varnish
8 2 (0.83%) vSphere
9 1 (0.41%) HDFS
9 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 75 (31.12%) Kubernetes
2 71 (29.46%) Terraform
3 39 (16.18%) Grafana
4 33 (13.69%) Ansible
5 32 (13.28%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.56%) Progress Chef
7 8 (3.32%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.90%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (2.07%) vCenter Server
9 5 (2.07%) vMotion
10 4 (1.66%) Kibana
11 3 (1.24%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (1.24%) Kustomize
11 3 (1.24%) Packer
11 3 (1.24%) Puppet
12 2 (0.83%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.83%) Salt
13 1 (0.41%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 37 (15.35%) Oracle
2 29 (12.03%) Microsoft
3 17 (7.05%) Red Hat
4 14 (5.81%) VMware
5 9 (3.73%) Google
6 6 (2.49%) Citrix
6 6 (2.49%) SAP
7 5 (2.07%) Infoblox
8 4 (1.66%) Ab Initio
8 4 (1.66%) Cisco
8 4 (1.66%) Commvault
8 4 (1.66%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.66%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.66%) Informatica
8 4 (1.66%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.66%) Splunk
9 3 (1.24%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.83%) Meraki
10 2 (0.83%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.83%) ServiceNow