Amazon RDS Contracts in England

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 303 411
Rank change year-on-year -45 +108 -121
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 194 414 413
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.82% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.15% 4.56% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 295 306
10th Percentile £405 £450 £438
25th Percentile £413 £504 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £573
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.80% +9.05%
75th Percentile £609 £688 £655
90th Percentile £725 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £589 £570
% change year-on-year -12.95% +3.29% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - £52.50 -
25th Percentile - £59.35 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £84.09 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +52.89% -
75th Percentile - £88.30 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £84.09 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +52.89% +37.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,163 9,072 14,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.67% 17.97% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,417 6,507 10,368
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £656
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 166 169
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £33.05 £22.38
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.09% +36.58% +70.00%
75th Percentile £56.74 £70.19 £61.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.64%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS in England

Amazon RDS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon RDS in England

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in England

Amazon RDS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS in England.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon RDS in England

Amazon RDS
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
London -21 137 £525 -12.50% 41
North of England -1 18 £450 -21.74% 14
North West +25 15 £449 -16.51% 6
South East -4 11 £530 -9.79% 8
South West +17 9 £550 -8.33% 8
Midlands +28 6 £500 -8.47% 7
East Midlands - 4 £600 - 1
West Midlands +29 2 £450 -20.70% 6
East of England +7 2 £650 +13.04% 5
Yorkshire 0 2 - - 8
North East +9 1 £600 -7.69% 1
Amazon RDS
UK

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (5.67%) Confluence
2 8 (4.12%) nginx
3 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.06%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.55%) Apache
6 2 (1.03%) GemFire
6 2 (1.03%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.52%) Drupal
7 1 (0.52%) SAS
7 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 185 (95.36%) AWS
2 100 (51.55%) Amazon S3
3 94 (48.45%) Serverless
4 88 (45.36%) Amazon EC2
4 88 (45.36%) AWS Lambda
5 52 (26.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 41 (21.13%) Route 53
7 38 (19.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 31 (15.98%) AWS Step Functions
9 28 (14.43%) Amazon MSK
10 27 (13.92%) Amazon SQS
10 27 (13.92%) Azure
11 26 (13.40%) Amazon ECS
11 26 (13.40%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (10.31%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (7.73%) Amazon ECR
14 14 (7.22%) CloudFront
15 11 (5.67%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (5.67%) GitHub
16 10 (5.15%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.73%) Firewall
2 14 (7.22%) Network Security
3 12 (6.19%) DNS
4 10 (5.15%) DHCP
5 7 (3.61%) VPN
6 6 (3.09%) LAN
7 5 (2.58%) AMQP
7 5 (2.58%) HTTP
7 5 (2.58%) WLAN
8 4 (2.06%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (2.06%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.06%) Wireless
9 3 (1.55%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (1.55%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (1.55%) WAN
10 2 (1.03%) SMS
10 2 (1.03%) SSL
10 2 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.52%) SAN
11 1 (0.52%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (19.07%) DynamoDB
1 37 (19.07%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (18.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (10.82%) Parquet
4 16 (8.25%) Relational Database
5 14 (7.22%) MySQL
5 14 (7.22%) NoSQL
6 12 (6.19%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (4.64%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (4.64%) RDBMS
8 8 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (4.12%) Power BI
9 7 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (3.61%) SQL Server
10 6 (3.09%) Data Lake
10 6 (3.09%) InfluxDB
10 6 (3.09%) MongoDB
11 5 (2.58%) Oracle Database
12 4 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 40 (20.62%) Jenkins
2 34 (17.53%) Git
3 16 (8.25%) GitLab
4 10 (5.15%) JIRA
5 7 (3.61%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.09%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.09%) Maven
7 5 (2.58%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.58%) JUnit
7 5 (2.58%) Mockito
7 5 (2.58%) Postman
7 5 (2.58%) Selenium
8 4 (2.06%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.06%) Mercurial
9 3 (1.55%) EasyMock
9 3 (1.55%) JMeter
9 3 (1.55%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.55%) NeoLoad
9 3 (1.55%) TestNG
10 2 (1.03%) Cypress.io
General
1 25 (12.89%) Finance
2 22 (11.34%) Public Sector
3 20 (10.31%) Social Skills
4 10 (5.15%) Telecoms
5 7 (3.61%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.09%) Electronics
6 6 (3.09%) Marketing
7 5 (2.58%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.06%) Banking
9 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.03%) Law
9 2 (1.03%) Retail
10 1 (0.52%) Back Office
10 1 (0.52%) Front Office
10 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (25.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (19.59%) AWS Engineer
3 33 (17.01%) Developer
4 28 (14.43%) AWS DevOps
4 28 (14.43%) Data Engineer
5 23 (11.86%) Architect
6 22 (11.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 19 (9.79%) AWS Architect
8 18 (9.28%) DBA
9 16 (8.25%) Lead
10 15 (7.73%) Senior
11 11 (5.67%) Lead Architect
12 10 (5.15%) AWS Developer
13 9 (4.64%) Python Developer
14 8 (4.12%) Backend Developer
14 8 (4.12%) Cloud Architect
15 7 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
15 7 (3.61%) Java Developer
15 7 (3.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 6 (3.09%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.86%) JSON
2 19 (9.79%) Apache Avro
3 16 (8.25%) Node.js
3 16 (8.25%) REST
3 16 (8.25%) Spring
4 15 (7.73%) Spring Boot
5 12 (6.19%) Kafka
6 9 (4.64%) Django
6 9 (4.64%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (4.64%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (4.12%) AWS CDK
7 8 (4.12%) RESTful
8 7 (3.61%) Hibernate
8 7 (3.61%) JPA
8 7 (3.61%) LDAP
8 7 (3.61%) React
9 5 (2.58%) Guice
9 5 (2.58%) Spring Security
9 5 (2.58%) WireMock
10 4 (2.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.19%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (4.12%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (3.09%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.09%) Replication
4 5 (2.58%) Clustering
4 5 (2.58%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.06%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.06%) Smart Meter
6 3 (1.55%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.55%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.55%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.03%) Cybercrime
7 2 (1.03%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.03%) IoT
7 2 (1.03%) Life Science
7 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 36 (18.56%) Linux
2 19 (9.79%) Windows
3 11 (5.67%) Unix
4 10 (5.15%) Windows Server
5 8 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.55%) CentOS
6 3 (1.55%) Debian
6 3 (1.55%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (38.66%) DevOps
2 57 (29.38%) CI/CD
3 41 (21.13%) Agile
4 30 (15.46%) Microservices
5 28 (14.43%) ETL
5 28 (14.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (12.89%) Data Modelling
8 20 (10.31%) Data Ingestion
9 19 (9.79%) Performance Tuning
10 17 (8.76%) Containerisation
11 16 (8.25%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (7.73%) Analytics
12 15 (7.73%) Configuration Management
12 15 (7.73%) High Availability
12 15 (7.73%) Observability
12 15 (7.73%) Test Automation
13 14 (7.22%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (6.70%) Scrum
14 13 (6.70%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 92 (47.42%) Python
2 65 (33.51%) SQL
3 44 (22.68%) Java
4 34 (17.53%) JavaScript
5 24 (12.37%) Bash
6 23 (11.86%) TypeScript
7 13 (6.70%) Go
8 8 (4.12%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.61%) C
10 6 (3.09%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.55%) C++
11 3 (1.55%) PHP
11 3 (1.55%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.55%) Ruby
12 2 (1.03%) Lua
12 2 (1.03%) Perl
12 2 (1.03%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.52%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 84 (43.30%) Security Cleared
2 66 (34.02%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.86%) AWS Certification
4 19 (9.79%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.67%) Degree
6 8 (4.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.03%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.52%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.61%) GDPR
2 4 (2.06%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.03%) SLA
4 1 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.52%) IFRS
4 1 (0.52%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.52%) NCSC
4 1 (0.52%) NIST
System Software
1 51 (26.29%) Docker
2 14 (7.22%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.55%) Terminal Services
4 3 (1.55%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.03%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.03%) Varnish
5 2 (1.03%) vSphere
6 1 (0.52%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.52%) HDFS
6 1 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 67 (34.54%) Kubernetes
2 61 (31.44%) Terraform
3 28 (14.43%) Ansible
4 24 (12.37%) Prometheus
5 23 (11.86%) Grafana
6 11 (5.67%) Progress Chef
7 7 (3.61%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (3.09%) Puppet
9 4 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.55%) Kibana
10 3 (1.55%) Kustomize
10 3 (1.55%) Packer
11 2 (1.03%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.03%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.03%) Salt
12 1 (0.52%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.52%) vMotion
Vendors
1 20 (10.31%) Oracle
2 12 (6.19%) Red Hat
3 10 (5.15%) VMware
4 8 (4.12%) SAP
5 7 (3.61%) Microsoft
6 6 (3.09%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.58%) Cisco
8 4 (2.06%) Ab Initio
8 4 (2.06%) Splunk
9 3 (1.55%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.03%) Citrix
10 2 (1.03%) Databricks
10 2 (1.03%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.03%) Google
10 2 (1.03%) HP
10 2 (1.03%) Informatica
10 2 (1.03%) Qualys
10 2 (1.03%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.52%) Infoblox
11 1 (0.52%) Veeam
111 Amazon RDS jobs Nationwide