The first table below looks at the demand for Amazon RDS skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Amazon RDS over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
Rank 452 569 -
Rank change year-on-year
+117 -
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 62 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.147% 0.002% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.708% 0.010% -
Number of daily rates quoted 55 0 0
Average daily rate £275 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
8756 10415 11337
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 20.74% 19.20% 20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5377 6138 6447
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £260 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £529 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 244 362
Average hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £31.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -12.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.31 £13.50 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
Amazon RDS
UK

Amazon RDS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Amazon RDS across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

England Amazon RDS Jobs Demand Trend

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Amazon RDS across the England region.

England Amazon RDS Daily Rate Trend

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Amazon RDS across the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

England Amazon RDS Daily Rate Histogram

Amazon RDS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon RDS within the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Yorkshire - 49 £275 -
London +43 13 £281 -
Amazon RDS
UK

Amazon RDS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Amazon RDS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Amazon RDS.

1 75 (94.94%) Amazon EC2
2 74 (93.67%) MySQL
3 61 (77.22%) Amazon AWS
4 59 (74.68%) Amazon S3
5 58 (73.42%) MongoDB
5 58 (73.42%) Redis
5 58 (73.42%) Route 53
6 57 (72.15%) Ruby
6 57 (72.15%) Web Services
6 57 (72.15%) Python
7 54 (68.35%) Linux
8 50 (63.29%) Internet
9 46 (58.23%) Puppet
10 42 (53.16%) TDD
10 42 (53.16%) Oracle
11 41 (51.90%) C++
11 41 (51.90%) PHP
11 41 (51.90%) Apache
11 41 (51.90%) DNS
11 41 (51.90%) Node.js
11 41 (51.90%) Bash shell
11 41 (51.90%) Kanban
11 41 (51.90%) nginx
12 40 (50.63%) Scrum
13 36 (45.57%) Security Testing
14 35 (44.30%) Perl
15 34 (43.04%) Configuration Management
15 34 (43.04%) Percona
16 31 (39.24%) Client/Server
17 30 (37.97%) Java

Amazon RDS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Amazon RDS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Amazon RDS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 57 (72.15%) Web Services
2 41 (51.90%) Node.js
3 24 (30.38%) HTML5
3 24 (30.38%) jQuery
4 18 (22.78%) CSS3
4 18 (22.78%) CSS
4 18 (22.78%) POSIX
5 16 (20.25%) SOAP
6 14 (17.72%) REST
7 13 (16.46%) Spring
7 13 (16.46%) J2EE
7 13 (16.46%) Hibernate
8 12 (15.19%) JSON
9 11 (13.92%) Ajax
10 6 (7.595%) LAMP
10 6 (7.595%) Java EE
11 2 (2.532%) ASP
12 1 (1.266%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 75 (94.94%) Amazon EC2
2 61 (77.22%) Amazon AWS
3 59 (74.68%) Amazon S3
4 58 (73.42%) Route 53
5 41 (51.90%) Apache
5 41 (51.90%) nginx
6 13 (16.46%) Adobe CQ
7 7 (8.861%) Apache Solr
7 7 (8.861%) Tomcat
8 3 (3.797%) Windows Azure
Business Applications
1 30 (37.97%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (63.29%) Internet
2 41 (51.90%) DNS
3 25 (31.65%) HTTP
4 17 (21.52%) DHCP
4 17 (21.52%) SSL
4 17 (21.52%) TCP/IP
5 12 (15.19%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.266%) SSH
6 1 (1.266%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (93.67%) MySQL
2 58 (73.42%) MongoDB
2 58 (73.42%) Redis
3 18 (22.78%) Couchbase
3 18 (22.78%) SimpleDB
3 18 (22.78%) NoSQL
3 18 (22.78%) RDBMS
4 12 (15.19%) Amazon DynamoDB
5 11 (13.92%) Hadoop
6 3 (3.797%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.797%) OLTP
6 3 (3.797%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.797%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (3.797%) SQL Server 2005
6 3 (3.797%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (3.797%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (3.797%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (3.797%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (3.797%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 27 (34.18%) Git (software)
2 24 (30.38%) Jenkins
3 13 (16.46%) Maven
4 12 (15.19%) Subversion
4 12 (15.19%) Selenium
5 1 (1.266%) JMeter
General
1 25 (31.65%) Telecoms
2 12 (15.19%) Publishing
3 3 (3.797%) Marketing
4 1 (1.266%) Billing
Job Titles
1 30 (37.97%) Developer
2 18 (22.78%) Software Engineer
3 13 (16.46%) Linux Engineer
3 13 (16.46%) Java Developer
4 12 (15.19%) Web Developer
4 12 (15.19%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (13.92%) Front-End Developer
5 11 (13.92%) Front-End Web Developer
5 11 (13.92%) Mobile Developer
6 9 (11.39%) Operations Engineer
7 3 (3.797%) SQL DBA
7 3 (3.797%) DBA
8 2 (2.532%) Ruby Developer
8 2 (2.532%) MySQL Developer
8 2 (2.532%) Administrator
8 2 (2.532%) Software Developer
8 2 (2.532%) Linux Administrator
9 1 (1.266%) PHP Developer
9 1 (1.266%) Architect
9 1 (1.266%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 31 (39.24%) Client/Server
2 3 (3.797%) Mathematics
3 2 (2.532%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 54 (68.35%) Linux
2 4 (5.063%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (53.16%) TDD
2 41 (51.90%) Kanban
3 40 (50.63%) Scrum
4 36 (45.57%) Security Testing
5 34 (43.04%) Configuration Management
6 25 (31.65%) Test Automation
7 24 (30.38%) BDD
8 18 (22.78%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (21.52%) Load Balancing
10 16 (20.25%) Incident Management
10 16 (20.25%) Capacity Management
11 13 (16.46%) SOA
12 12 (15.19%) Automated Testing
13 7 (8.861%) Software Engineering
14 6 (7.595%) Performance Testing
15 3 (3.797%) Data Modelling
15 3 (3.797%) Business Intelligence
15 3 (3.797%) Data Analysis
16 2 (2.532%) Analytics
16 2 (2.532%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 57 (72.15%) Ruby
1 57 (72.15%) Python
2 41 (51.90%) C++
2 41 (51.90%) PHP
2 41 (51.90%) Bash shell
3 35 (44.30%) Perl
4 30 (37.97%) Java
5 24 (30.38%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.797%) SQL
6 3 (3.797%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (2.532%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (3.797%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (58.23%) Puppet
2 1 (1.266%) Nagios
Vendors
1 42 (53.16%) Oracle
2 34 (43.04%) Percona
3 13 (16.46%) hybris
3 13 (16.46%) Adobe
4 4 (5.063%) Google
5 3 (3.797%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.266%) Informatica
6 1 (1.266%) Salesforce.com
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