Amazon RDS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 245 246 347
Rank change year-on-year +1 +101 -149
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 103 235 301
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.70% 0.98% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.63% 5.17% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 185 213
10th Percentile £404 £450 £441
25th Percentile £425 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +2.39% +11.62%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £688
90th Percentile £610 £725 £743
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 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 WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,835 4,548 9,402
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.37% 18.87% 21.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,093 3,337 6,861
10th Percentile £356 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.46% -0.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 78 88
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.31 £19.35
25th Percentile £22.52 £41.44 £21.63
Median hourly rate £37.75 £64.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.47% +29.65% +65.83%
75th Percentile £58.50 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%

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 1 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 53 (51.46%) Amazon S3
3 47 (45.63%) Amazon EC2
4 45 (43.69%) Serverless
5 40 (38.83%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (26.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 27 (26.21%) Azure
7 22 (21.36%) Route 53
8 20 (19.42%) Amazon ECS
8 20 (19.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 19 (18.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (17.48%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (13.59%) Entra ID
12 13 (12.62%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (11.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 12 (11.65%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (10.68%) CloudFront
15 10 (9.71%) Azure Sentinel
15 10 (9.71%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (9.71%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.74%) 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 27 (26.21%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (19.42%) Amazon Redshift
3 10 (9.71%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (7.77%) DynamoDB
4 8 (7.77%) MySQL
5 7 (6.80%) MongoDB
5 7 (6.80%) SQL Server
6 6 (5.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (5.83%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (4.85%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (4.85%) Informix
7 5 (4.85%) Oracle Database
8 4 (3.88%) Hadoop
8 4 (3.88%) MariaDB
8 4 (3.88%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.91%) Big Data
9 3 (2.91%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.91%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.94%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 20 (19.42%) Jenkins
2 17 (16.50%) Git
3 9 (8.74%) GitLab
4 5 (4.85%) JIRA
5 4 (3.88%) webpack
6 3 (2.91%) Maven
7 2 (1.94%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.94%) JUnit
7 2 (1.94%) Snyk
7 2 (1.94%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.97%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.97%) EasyMock
8 1 (0.97%) Gradle
8 1 (0.97%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.97%) Mockito
8 1 (0.97%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.97%) Postman
8 1 (0.97%) Selenium
8 1 (0.97%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.97%) TestNG
General
1 12 (11.65%) Public Sector
1 12 (11.65%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.80%) Finance
3 5 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing
4 2 (1.94%) Retail
5 1 (0.97%) Banking
5 1 (0.97%) Electronics
5 1 (0.97%) Front Office
5 1 (0.97%) Marketing
5 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (23.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (21.36%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (13.59%) AWS DevOps
3 14 (13.59%) Senior
4 13 (12.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 13 (12.62%) DBA
5 9 (8.74%) Architect
6 8 (7.77%) Developer
6 8 (7.77%) Lead
7 7 (6.80%) Consultant
8 6 (5.83%) AWS Specialist
8 6 (5.83%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Azure Specialist
9 5 (4.85%) Cloud Specialist
10 4 (3.88%) Administrator
10 4 (3.88%) AWS Consultant
10 4 (3.88%) DV Cleared DBA
10 4 (3.88%) PostgreSQL DBA
10 4 (3.88%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (3.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.74%) AWS CDK
2 7 (6.80%) LDAP
2 7 (6.80%) Node.js
3 6 (5.83%) React
3 6 (5.83%) REST
4 5 (4.85%) Kafka
5 4 (3.88%) CSS
5 4 (3.88%) HTML
6 3 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.91%) GraphQL
6 3 (2.91%) OAuth
6 3 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.91%) SailPoint
6 3 (2.91%) Spring
6 3 (2.91%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.94%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.94%) AWS SAM
7 2 (1.94%) Laravel
7 2 (1.94%) OpenID
7 2 (1.94%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.68%) Data Centre
2 9 (8.74%) Replication
3 5 (4.85%) Clustering
4 4 (3.88%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.91%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.91%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.91%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.94%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.94%) IoT
6 2 (1.94%) Life Science
6 2 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.94%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (20.39%) Linux
2 11 (10.68%) Windows
3 5 (4.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.85%) 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 36 (34.95%) DevOps
2 32 (31.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 29 (28.16%) CI/CD
4 17 (16.50%) High Availability
5 16 (15.53%) Agile
6 15 (14.56%) Migration
6 15 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (13.59%) Containerisation
8 13 (12.62%) Analytics
8 13 (12.62%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (10.68%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (9.71%) Capacity Planning
10 10 (9.71%) Cloud Operations
10 10 (9.71%) Scrum
11 9 (8.74%) Cost Control
11 9 (8.74%) Kanban
11 9 (8.74%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (7.77%) Service Design
13 7 (6.80%) Database Security
13 7 (6.80%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 38 (36.89%) Python
2 32 (31.07%) SQL
3 17 (16.50%) Java
4 15 (14.56%) JavaScript
5 14 (13.59%) Bash
5 14 (13.59%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.85%) Go
7 4 (3.88%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.91%) PHP
9 2 (1.94%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.97%) C
10 1 (0.97%) C++
10 1 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.97%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (25.24%) Security Cleared
2 22 (21.36%) AWS Certification
3 20 (19.42%) SC Cleared
4 9 (8.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (5.83%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.83%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.91%) Degree
7 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.97%) OCP
8 1 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.94%) Accessibility
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%) 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 31 (30.10%) 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 33 (32.04%) Kubernetes
1 33 (32.04%) Terraform
2 16 (15.53%) Grafana
3 15 (14.56%) 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 27 (26.21%) Oracle
2 17 (16.50%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.80%) VMware
4 5 (4.85%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.88%) CyberArk
5 4 (3.88%) Google
6 3 (2.91%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.94%) Cisco
7 2 (1.94%) Commvault
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%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.97%) Citrix
8 1 (0.97%) HP
8 1 (0.97%) Informatica
8 1 (0.97%) SAP
8 1 (0.97%) Veeam