The first table below looks at the demand for Amazon RDS skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Amazon RDS over the 3 months to 17 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 London 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
Rank 372 405 -
Rank change year-on-year
+33 -
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 13 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.060% 0.004% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.288% 0.020% -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 0
Average daily rate £286 - -
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
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
4514 4988 6187
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 20.91% 18.63% 19.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3132 3217 3949
Average daily rate £438 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £598
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 40 57
Average hourly rate £22.50 £26.00 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.46% -1.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.30 £18.20 £16.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £47.50 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
Amazon RDS
England

Amazon RDS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 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
City of London - 6 £238 -
Amazon RDS
England

Amazon RDS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 25 (96.15%) Amazon EC2
2 24 (92.31%) MySQL
3 17 (65.38%) Python
3 17 (65.38%) Ruby
4 14 (53.85%) Linux
5 13 (50.00%) Puppet
6 12 (46.15%) Amazon DynamoDB
6 12 (46.15%) Perl
6 12 (46.15%) Publishing
6 12 (46.15%) Subversion
7 11 (42.31%) Hadoop
7 11 (42.31%) Amazon AWS
8 10 (38.46%) Git (software)
9 9 (34.62%) Amazon S3
10 8 (30.77%) Route 53
10 8 (30.77%) MongoDB
10 8 (30.77%) Redis
10 8 (30.77%) Internet
10 8 (30.77%) Web Services
10 8 (30.77%) TDD
10 8 (30.77%) Scrum
11 7 (26.92%) Oracle EBS
11 7 (26.92%) Automated Testing
11 7 (26.92%) JavaScript
11 7 (26.92%) JSON
11 7 (26.92%) Selenium
11 7 (26.92%) jQuery
11 7 (26.92%) Security Testing
11 7 (26.92%) Oracle
11 7 (26.92%) Percona

Amazon RDS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 8 (30.77%) Web Services
2 7 (26.92%) JSON
2 7 (26.92%) jQuery
2 7 (26.92%) HTML5
3 6 (23.08%) CSS3
3 6 (23.08%) CSS
3 6 (23.08%) Ajax
4 4 (15.38%) SOAP
5 2 (7.692%) REST
6 1 (3.846%) J2EE
6 1 (3.846%) Node.js
6 1 (3.846%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (3.846%) Java EE
6 1 (3.846%) POSIX
6 1 (3.846%) Hibernate
6 1 (3.846%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 25 (96.15%) Amazon EC2
2 11 (42.31%) Amazon AWS
3 9 (34.62%) Amazon S3
4 8 (30.77%) Route 53
5 1 (3.846%) Adobe CQ
5 1 (3.846%) Apache
5 1 (3.846%) nginx
Business Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) Internet
2 2 (7.692%) DNS
3 1 (3.846%) HTTP
3 1 (3.846%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (92.31%) MySQL
2 12 (46.15%) Amazon DynamoDB
3 11 (42.31%) Hadoop
4 8 (30.77%) MongoDB
4 8 (30.77%) Redis
5 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.846%) Couchbase
6 1 (3.846%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.846%) SimpleDB
6 1 (3.846%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (46.15%) Subversion
2 10 (38.46%) Git (software)
3 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
3 7 (26.92%) Selenium
4 1 (3.846%) JMeter
4 1 (3.846%) Maven
General
1 12 (46.15%) Publishing
2 3 (11.54%) Marketing
3 1 (3.846%) Billing
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Linux Engineer
1 12 (46.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (42.31%) Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Web Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Front-End Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Front-End Web Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Mobile Developer
4 2 (7.692%) MySQL Developer
4 2 (7.692%) Ruby Developer
5 1 (3.846%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.846%) Analyst
5 1 (3.846%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.846%) Architect
5 1 (3.846%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.846%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.846%) Salesforce.com Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Mathematics
2 1 (3.846%) Open Source
2 1 (3.846%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 14 (53.85%) Linux
2 1 (3.846%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Scrum
1 8 (30.77%) TDD
2 7 (26.92%) Automated Testing
2 7 (26.92%) Security Testing
2 7 (26.92%) BDD
3 3 (11.54%) Data Modelling
3 3 (11.54%) Data Analysis
4 2 (7.692%) E-Commerce
4 2 (7.692%) Marketing Intelligence
4 2 (7.692%) Data Analytics
4 2 (7.692%) Analytics
5 1 (3.846%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (3.846%) Kanban
5 1 (3.846%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (3.846%) Use Case
5 1 (3.846%) Stress Testing
5 1 (3.846%) Configuration Management
5 1 (3.846%) Workflow
5 1 (3.846%) TOGAF
5 1 (3.846%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) Python
1 17 (65.38%) Ruby
2 12 (46.15%) Perl
3 7 (26.92%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.692%) Java
5 1 (3.846%) C++
5 1 (3.846%) PHP
5 1 (3.846%) Bash shell
Systems Management
1 13 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (3.846%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Oracle
1 7 (26.92%) Percona
2 4 (15.38%) Google
3 1 (3.846%) hybris
3 1 (3.846%) Adobe
3 1 (3.846%) Informatica
3 1 (3.846%) Salesforce.com
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