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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 354 310 419
Rank change year-on-year -44 +109 -125
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 190 392 411
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.80% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.06% 4.46% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 280 302
10th Percentile £404 £450 £438
25th Percentile £415 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £573
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.80% +9.05%
75th Percentile £593 £688 £650
90th Percentile £706 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £508 £588 £570
% change year-on-year -13.62% +3.07% +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 £58.75
% change year-on-year - +43.13% +46.88%

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 6,215 8,781 13,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.89% 17.90% 19.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,475 6,308 10,113
10th Percentile £355 £372 £369
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 £788 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 167 166
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.63
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.35 £21.31
Median hourly rate £40.25 £58.59 £42.92
Median % change year-on-year -31.30% +36.52% +71.67%
75th Percentile £60.81 £73.73 £62.15
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.13 £60.00 £42.92
% change year-on-year -33.13% +39.80% +59.07%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -31 135 £525 -12.50% 41
North of England -2 18 £450 -21.74% 21
North West +15 12 £449 -14.52% 9
South East +1 11 £530 -9.79% 14
South West +15 9 £550 -8.33% 5
Midlands +34 5 £450 -14.29% 14
Yorkshire -1 5 £450 -21.05% 12
East of England +7 3 £625 +8.70% 3
East Midlands - 3 £450 - 2
West Midlands +19 2 £450 -17.62% 12
North East +2 1 £600 -11.11%
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 (5.79%) Confluence
2 8 (4.21%) nginx
3 6 (3.16%) Apache
4 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.11%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.58%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 2 (1.05%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.53%) Drupal
7 1 (0.53%) GemFire
7 1 (0.53%) SAS
7 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.58%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 182 (95.79%) AWS
2 101 (53.16%) Amazon S3
3 88 (46.32%) Serverless
4 87 (45.79%) Amazon EC2
5 82 (43.16%) AWS Lambda
6 54 (28.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 43 (22.63%) Route 53
8 34 (17.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 31 (16.32%) AWS Step Functions
10 29 (15.26%) Azure
11 28 (14.74%) Amazon MSK
12 27 (14.21%) Amazon EKS
13 26 (13.68%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (13.16%) Amazon ECS
15 18 (9.47%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (8.42%) Amazon ECR
17 13 (6.84%) CloudFront
18 11 (5.79%) Amazon Kinesis
18 11 (5.79%) Entra ID
18 11 (5.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.89%) Firewall
2 13 (6.84%) Network Security
3 11 (5.79%) DNS
4 9 (4.74%) DHCP
5 6 (3.16%) LAN
6 5 (2.63%) AMQP
6 5 (2.63%) HTTP
6 5 (2.63%) VPN
6 5 (2.63%) WLAN
7 4 (2.11%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (2.11%) SSH
7 4 (2.11%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.11%) Wireless
8 3 (1.58%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (1.58%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.58%) WAN
9 2 (1.05%) SMS
9 2 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.53%) SMTP
10 1 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (18.42%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (17.89%) DynamoDB
3 33 (17.37%) Amazon Redshift
4 21 (11.05%) Parquet
5 19 (10.00%) MySQL
6 14 (7.37%) Relational Database
7 13 (6.84%) NoSQL
8 12 (6.32%) SQL Server
9 11 (5.79%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (4.74%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (3.68%) Power BI
12 7 (3.68%) RDBMS
13 6 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (3.16%) InfluxDB
13 6 (3.16%) MongoDB
14 5 (2.63%) Data Lake
15 4 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (2.11%) Oracle Database
16 2 (1.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (19.47%) Jenkins
2 36 (18.95%) Git
3 16 (8.42%) GitLab
4 10 (5.26%) JIRA
5 9 (4.74%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.16%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.16%) Maven
7 5 (2.63%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.63%) JUnit
7 5 (2.63%) Mockito
7 5 (2.63%) Postman
7 5 (2.63%) Selenium
8 4 (2.11%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.11%) Mercurial
9 3 (1.58%) EasyMock
9 3 (1.58%) JMeter
9 3 (1.58%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.58%) NeoLoad
9 3 (1.58%) TestNG
10 2 (1.05%) Cypress.io
General
1 22 (11.58%) Finance
1 22 (11.58%) Public Sector
2 17 (8.95%) Social Skills
3 9 (4.74%) Telecoms
4 6 (3.16%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.63%) Electronics
5 5 (2.63%) Marketing
6 3 (1.58%) Banking
7 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.05%) Law
7 2 (1.05%) Retail
8 1 (0.53%) Back Office
8 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (26.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (19.47%) AWS Engineer
3 32 (16.84%) Developer
4 27 (14.21%) AWS DevOps
4 27 (14.21%) Data Engineer
5 21 (11.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 18 (9.47%) Architect
7 17 (8.95%) DBA
8 15 (7.89%) AWS Architect
8 15 (7.89%) Lead
8 15 (7.89%) Senior
9 10 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.74%) AWS Developer
10 9 (4.74%) Lead Architect
10 9 (4.74%) Python Developer
11 8 (4.21%) Backend Developer
12 7 (3.68%) Java Developer
12 7 (3.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 6 (3.16%) Administrator
13 6 (3.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.58%) JSON
2 19 (10.00%) Apache Avro
3 16 (8.42%) Node.js
3 16 (8.42%) REST
3 16 (8.42%) Spring
4 15 (7.89%) Spring Boot
5 12 (6.32%) Kafka
6 9 (4.74%) Django
6 9 (4.74%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (4.74%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (4.21%) LDAP
7 8 (4.21%) RESTful
8 7 (3.68%) AWS CDK
8 7 (3.68%) Hibernate
8 7 (3.68%) JPA
9 6 (3.16%) React
10 5 (2.63%) Guice
10 5 (2.63%) Spring Security
10 5 (2.63%) WireMock
11 4 (2.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.32%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (4.21%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (3.68%) Clustering
3 7 (3.68%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.63%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.63%) Replication
5 4 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.11%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.11%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.11%) Smart Meter
6 3 (1.58%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.58%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.58%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.05%) Cybercrime
7 2 (1.05%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.05%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.05%) IoT
7 2 (1.05%) Life Science
8 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 38 (20.00%) Linux
2 22 (11.58%) Windows
3 11 (5.79%) Unix
4 10 (5.26%) Windows Server
5 8 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.58%) CentOS
6 3 (1.58%) Debian
6 3 (1.58%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (40.53%) DevOps
2 59 (31.05%) CI/CD
3 38 (20.00%) Agile
4 30 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (15.26%) Microservices
6 27 (14.21%) ETL
7 25 (13.16%) Data Modelling
8 23 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (10.53%) Data Ingestion
10 18 (9.47%) Performance Tuning
11 17 (8.95%) Containerisation
11 17 (8.95%) Observability
12 15 (7.89%) Configuration Management
12 15 (7.89%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (7.89%) High Availability
13 14 (7.37%) Analytics
13 14 (7.37%) Test Automation
14 13 (6.84%) Scrum
15 12 (6.32%) Business Intelligence
15 12 (6.32%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 91 (47.89%) Python
2 66 (34.74%) SQL
3 43 (22.63%) Java
4 34 (17.89%) JavaScript
5 27 (14.21%) Bash
6 24 (12.63%) TypeScript
7 12 (6.32%) Go
8 8 (4.21%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.68%) C
10 6 (3.16%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.58%) C++
11 3 (1.58%) PHP
11 3 (1.58%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.58%) Ruby
12 2 (1.05%) Lua
12 2 (1.05%) Perl
12 2 (1.05%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.53%) C#
13 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 86 (45.26%) Security Cleared
2 68 (35.79%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.58%) AWS Certification
4 19 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 12 (6.32%) Degree
6 7 (3.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.53%) OCP
10 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.16%) GDPR
2 3 (1.58%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.05%) SLA
4 1 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.53%) IFRS
4 1 (0.53%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 49 (25.79%) Docker
2 19 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.58%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.05%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.05%) Terminal Services
5 2 (1.05%) Varnish
6 1 (0.53%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.53%) HDFS
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (35.26%) Kubernetes
2 58 (30.53%) Terraform
3 28 (14.74%) Ansible
4 26 (13.68%) Prometheus
5 23 (12.11%) Grafana
6 11 (5.79%) Progress Chef
7 7 (3.68%) Docker Swarm
7 7 (3.68%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.63%) Puppet
9 3 (1.58%) Kibana
9 3 (1.58%) Kustomize
9 3 (1.58%) Packer
10 2 (1.05%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.05%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.05%) Salt
11 1 (0.53%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.53%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.53%) vMotion
Vendors
1 20 (10.53%) Oracle
2 14 (7.37%) Red Hat
3 9 (4.74%) VMware
4 8 (4.21%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.68%) SAP
6 6 (3.16%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.63%) Cisco
8 4 (2.11%) Ab Initio
8 4 (2.11%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.11%) Informatica
8 4 (2.11%) Splunk
9 3 (1.58%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.58%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.05%) Citrix
10 2 (1.05%) Databricks
10 2 (1.05%) Google
10 2 (1.05%) HP
10 2 (1.05%) Qualys
10 2 (1.05%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.53%) Sage