Amazon RDS Contracts in Edinburgh

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Amazon RDS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon RDS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 64 92
Rank change year-on-year +13 +28 +29
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 16 8 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.56% 0.98% 1.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.11% 5.48% 6.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 19
10th Percentile £419 £408 £403
25th Percentile £453 £416 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £496
Median % change year-on-year +8.01% -11.29% -0.80%
75th Percentile £499 £469 £613
90th Percentile £638 £483 £688
Scotland median daily rate £494 £496 £514
% change year-on-year -0.35% -3.55% +0.29%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

Amazon RDS falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 144 146 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.04% 17.91% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 106 256
10th Percentile £413 £381 £402
25th Percentile £450 £431 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £497 £489
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% +1.64% -2.20%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £544
90th Percentile £612 £669 £625
Scotland median daily rate £471 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.04% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.32 - -
Median hourly rate £27.35 - -
75th Percentile £28.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £26.50 £37.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.51% +5.91% +34.62%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS in Edinburgh

Amazon RDS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon RDS in Edinburgh

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in Edinburgh

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (62.50%) Serverless
3 7 (43.75%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (25.00%) OpenShift
6 3 (18.75%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (18.75%) Snowflake
7 2 (12.50%) Azure
7 2 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (31.25%) Oracle Database
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
5 2 (12.50%) PowerCenter
6 1 (6.25%) GIS
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) Cypress.io
General
1 9 (56.25%) Public Sector
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Data Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (18.75%) DBA
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (6.25%) Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Architect
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Data Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) AWS CDK
2 3 (18.75%) PostGIS
2 3 (18.75%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) Next.js
3 2 (12.50%) Node.js
3 2 (12.50%) React
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Licensing
2 3 (18.75%) Replication
3 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Migration
2 7 (43.75%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) Data Migration
2 7 (43.75%) Kanban
2 7 (43.75%) Scrum
2 7 (43.75%) TDD
3 6 (37.50%) Computer Science
3 6 (37.50%) Cost Optimisation
3 6 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (31.25%) Data Integration
4 5 (31.25%) Data Transformation
4 5 (31.25%) Human-Centred Design
4 5 (31.25%) Inclusive Design
4 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) Code Coverage
5 4 (25.00%) Code Quality
5 4 (25.00%) Database Migration
5 4 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (25.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
2 3 (18.75%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) T-SQL
2 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
3 2 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) AWS Certification
1 6 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
2 4 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Grafana
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) Teradata
3 2 (12.50%) Informatica
4 1 (6.25%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) TSYS