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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 244 232 348
Rank change year-on-year -12 +116 -153
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 103 260 299
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.68% 1.03% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.56% 5.44% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 197 213
10th Percentile £404 £450 £450
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £584 £660 £675
90th Percentile £691 £725 £743
UK median daily rate £505 £588 £570
% change year-on-year -14.04% +3.07% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £52.50 £53.50
25th Percentile - £59.35 £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 median hourly rate - £84.09 £58.75
% change year-on-year - +43.13% +46.88%

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 2,891 4,781 9,580
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.15% 19.03% 21.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,125 3,492 6,964
10th Percentile £356 £381 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 83 83
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.20 £19.20
25th Percentile £22.61 £41.75 £22.08
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £46.67
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +39.28% +50.55%
75th Percentile £63.00 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £68.20
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £42.92
% change year-on-year -32.54% +38.16% +59.07%

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 8 May 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%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.91%) nginx
3 2 (1.94%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.94%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.97%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 98 (95.15%) AWS
2 50 (48.54%) Amazon EC2
3 46 (44.66%) Amazon S3
4 40 (38.83%) Serverless
5 39 (37.86%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (27.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 26 (25.24%) Route 53
7 26 (25.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 23 (22.33%) Azure
9 17 (16.50%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (15.53%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (15.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (12.62%) Entra ID
11 13 (12.62%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (11.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 12 (11.65%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (10.68%) CloudFront
14 10 (9.71%) Azure Sentinel
14 10 (9.71%) Dynamics 365
15 9 (8.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.68%) Firewall
2 7 (6.80%) Network Security
3 5 (4.85%) DHCP
3 5 (4.85%) DNS
4 4 (3.88%) LAN
4 4 (3.88%) VPN
4 4 (3.88%) WLAN
5 3 (2.91%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.94%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (1.94%) Wireless
7 1 (0.97%) HTTP
7 1 (0.97%) NAS
7 1 (0.97%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.97%) SAN
7 1 (0.97%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.97%) WAN
7 1 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (26.21%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (14.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (8.74%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (8.74%) MySQL
4 8 (7.77%) DynamoDB
4 8 (7.77%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.83%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.85%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (4.85%) Informix
6 5 (4.85%) MariaDB
6 5 (4.85%) Oracle Database
6 5 (4.85%) RDBMS
6 5 (4.85%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.88%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.91%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.94%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.94%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.94%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 24 (23.30%) Jenkins
2 15 (14.56%) Git
3 8 (7.77%) GitLab
4 6 (5.83%) JIRA
5 4 (3.88%) Maven
5 4 (3.88%) webpack
6 3 (2.91%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.91%) JUnit
6 3 (2.91%) Postman
6 3 (2.91%) Selenium
7 2 (1.94%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.94%) EasyMock
7 2 (1.94%) Mockito
7 2 (1.94%) Snyk
7 2 (1.94%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.94%) TestNG
8 1 (0.97%) Gradle
8 1 (0.97%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.97%) Terragrunt
General
1 16 (15.53%) Public Sector
2 13 (12.62%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.77%) Finance
4 5 (4.85%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.88%) Electronics
5 4 (3.88%) Marketing
5 4 (3.88%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (23.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (21.36%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (13.59%) AWS DevOps
4 13 (12.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 13 (12.62%) DBA
4 13 (12.62%) Lead
5 12 (11.65%) Senior
6 11 (10.68%) Developer
7 8 (7.77%) Architect
8 6 (5.83%) AWS Architect
8 6 (5.83%) AWS Specialist
8 6 (5.83%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.83%) Lead Architect
9 5 (4.85%) Azure Specialist
9 5 (4.85%) Cloud Specialist
10 4 (3.88%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (3.88%) DV Cleared DBA
10 4 (3.88%) Lead Cloud Architect
10 4 (3.88%) PostgreSQL DBA
10 4 (3.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.68%) AWS CDK
2 8 (7.77%) REST
3 7 (6.80%) Node.js
3 7 (6.80%) React
4 5 (4.85%) LDAP
4 5 (4.85%) Spring
4 5 (4.85%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.88%) CSS
5 4 (3.88%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (3.88%) HTML
6 3 (2.91%) GraphQL
6 3 (2.91%) Guice
6 3 (2.91%) Kafka
6 3 (2.91%) OAuth
7 2 (1.94%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.94%) JAX-RS
7 2 (1.94%) JPA
7 2 (1.94%) Laravel
7 2 (1.94%) Mustache
7 2 (1.94%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.74%) Data Centre
1 9 (8.74%) Replication
2 5 (4.85%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.88%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.91%) Clustering
4 3 (2.91%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.91%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.94%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (1.94%) IoT
5 2 (1.94%) Life Science
5 2 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.94%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.97%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 22 (21.36%) Linux
2 11 (10.68%) Windows
3 6 (5.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (5.83%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.85%) Unix
5 3 (2.91%) CentOS
6 2 (1.94%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.97%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (33.01%) DevOps
2 32 (31.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 30 (29.13%) CI/CD
4 18 (17.48%) Agile
5 15 (14.56%) High Availability
6 13 (12.62%) Migration
6 13 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (10.68%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (10.68%) Scrum
7 11 (10.68%) Software Engineering
8 10 (9.71%) Capacity Planning
8 10 (9.71%) Cloud Operations
9 9 (8.74%) Analytics
9 9 (8.74%) Containerisation
9 9 (8.74%) Cost Control
9 9 (8.74%) Disaster Recovery
9 9 (8.74%) Kanban
10 8 (7.77%) Microservices
10 8 (7.77%) Roadmaps
10 8 (7.77%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 34 (33.01%) Python
2 30 (29.13%) SQL
3 18 (17.48%) Java
4 17 (16.50%) JavaScript
4 17 (16.50%) TypeScript
5 14 (13.59%) Bash
6 6 (5.83%) Go
7 3 (2.91%) PHP
7 3 (2.91%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.94%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.97%) C
9 1 (0.97%) C++
9 1 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.97%) HiveQL
9 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.97%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (28.16%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.33%) SC Cleared
3 18 (17.48%) AWS Certification
4 9 (8.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (5.83%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.83%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.94%) Degree
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.97%) OCP
7 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%) 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 30 (29.13%) Docker
2 16 (15.53%) 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 35 (33.98%) Terraform
2 30 (29.13%) Kubernetes
3 17 (16.50%) Ansible
4 16 (15.53%) Grafana
5 9 (8.74%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.88%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.88%) Puppet
7 2 (1.94%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.94%) Packer
7 2 (1.94%) Salt
7 2 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.97%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.97%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.97%) FreeIPA
8 1 (0.97%) Icinga
8 1 (0.97%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (22.33%) Oracle
2 13 (12.62%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.80%) VMware
4 6 (5.83%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.88%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.88%) SAP
6 3 (2.91%) 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%) Splunk
8 1 (0.97%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.97%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.97%) Denodo
8 1 (0.97%) Google
8 1 (0.97%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (0.97%) Talend
8 1 (0.97%) Veeam