Amazon RDS Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 95 100 131
Rank change year-on-year +5 +31 +29
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 21 29 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.29% 1.31% 1.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.87% 7.29% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 29
10th Percentile £425 £419 £439
25th Percentile £450 £452 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £496 £514
Median % change year-on-year -0.35% -3.55% +0.29%
75th Percentile £563 £547 £660
90th Percentile £638 £602 £690
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £589
% change year-on-year +7.32% -12.95% +3.29%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 358 398 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.03% 17.95% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 295 486
10th Percentile £300 £325 £400
25th Percentile £408 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £538 £558 £550
90th Percentile £589 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £20.72 £24.60 £19.83
25th Percentile £22.42 £29.04 £27.94
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +5.91% +34.62%
75th Percentile £28.07 £45.72 £67.66
90th Percentile £28.25 £50.54 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS in Scotland

Amazon RDS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon RDS in Scotland

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in Scotland

Amazon RDS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh +13 16 £475 +8.01%
Glasgow -6 4 £530 +1.00% 1
Amazon RDS
UK

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (85.71%) Amazon S3
3 13 (61.90%) Serverless
4 12 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (23.81%) AWS CodePipeline
7 5 (23.81%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (19.05%) OpenShift
9 3 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (14.29%) Snowflake
10 2 (9.52%) Azure
10 2 (9.52%) GCP
11 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (23.81%) Oracle Database
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 2 (9.52%) MariaDB
5 2 (9.52%) MySQL
5 2 (9.52%) PowerCenter
6 1 (4.76%) GIS
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) GitLab
2 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.52%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.76%) Git
4 1 (4.76%) JIRA
4 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.76%) webpack
General
1 11 (52.38%) Public Sector
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (14.29%) DBA
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Developer
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Architect
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Developer
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (4.76%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) AWS CDK
2 4 (19.05%) REST
3 3 (14.29%) Node.js
3 3 (14.29%) PostGIS
3 3 (14.29%) React
4 2 (9.52%) Next.js
4 2 (9.52%) RESTful
4 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.76%) CSS
5 1 (4.76%) CSS3
5 1 (4.76%) HTML
5 1 (4.76%) HTML5
5 1 (4.76%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (4.76%) Redux
5 1 (4.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle Licensing
2 3 (14.29%) Replication
3 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) CentOS
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Migration
2 8 (38.10%) Agile
2 8 (38.10%) Data Migration
2 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (38.10%) Kanban
2 8 (38.10%) Scrum
3 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (33.33%) DevOps
3 7 (33.33%) TDD
4 6 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 6 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
4 6 (28.57%) Data Integration
4 6 (28.57%) Data Transformation
4 6 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (23.81%) Human-Centred Design
5 5 (23.81%) Inclusive Design
5 5 (23.81%) User Experience
6 4 (19.05%) High Availability
6 4 (19.05%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) SQL
2 7 (33.33%) Python
3 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
3 4 (19.05%) TypeScript
4 3 (14.29%) Java
4 3 (14.29%) T-SQL
5 2 (9.52%) Bash
6 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 6 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (28.57%) Degree
3 4 (19.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.52%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (4.76%) NCSC
3 1 (4.76%) NIST
3 1 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Docker
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Grafana
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (14.29%) Terraform
3 2 (9.52%) Ansible
4 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.76%) Packer
4 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Teradata
3 2 (9.52%) Informatica
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) TSYS