Amazon RDS Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 135 164
Rank change year-on-year +39 +29 -17
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 30 32 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.38% 1.14% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.69% 5.33% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 29 7
10th Percentile £413 £439 £316
25th Percentile £438 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -2.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £660 £569
90th Percentile £600 £690 £623
UK median daily rate £508 £588 £570
% change year-on-year -13.62% +3.07% +8.57%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 390 600 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.96% 21.36% 16.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 479 409
10th Percentile £325 £400 £360
25th Percentile £405 £437 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +0.51% +14.71%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £563
90th Percentile £657 £678 £628
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £24.60 £19.83 £13.33
25th Percentile £29.04 £27.94 £16.03
Median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +34.62% -35.00%
75th Percentile £45.72 £67.66 £38.25
90th Percentile £50.54 £69.25 £43.20
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £43.38
% change year-on-year -32.54% +36.70% +62.27%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 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
Glasgow +5 13 £525 -18.60% 2
Edinburgh +30 9 £435 -12.40% 2
Renfrewshire +1 5 - -
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 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 24 (80.00%) AWS
2 15 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 14 (46.67%) Serverless
4 13 (43.33%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (40.00%) Azure
6 11 (36.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (36.67%) Entra ID
7 9 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (30.00%) OpenShift
8 8 (26.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 6 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
9 6 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (10.00%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (10.00%) AWS CodeCommit
11 3 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) DHCP
1 5 (16.67%) DNS
1 5 (16.67%) Firewall
1 5 (16.67%) SMTP
1 5 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (26.67%) MongoDB
3 6 (20.00%) Informix
4 5 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (10.00%) InfluxDB
5 3 (10.00%) Oracle Database
6 2 (6.67%) MariaDB
6 2 (6.67%) MySQL
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) webpack
2 3 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (3.33%) Git
3 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (3.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Data Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Database Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Lead
2 4 (13.33%) Senior
2 4 (13.33%) Senior Data Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Technical Leader
3 3 (10.00%) AWS Specialist
3 3 (10.00%) Azure Specialist
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Specialist
4 2 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Development Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (40.00%) AWS CDK
2 6 (20.00%) REST
3 5 (16.67%) LDAP
4 4 (13.33%) CSS
4 4 (13.33%) HTML
4 4 (13.33%) Node.js
4 4 (13.33%) React
5 3 (10.00%) GraphQL
5 3 (10.00%) OAuth
5 3 (10.00%) PostGIS
6 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.33%) CSS3
6 1 (3.33%) HTML5
6 1 (3.33%) Redux
6 1 (3.33%) RESTful
6 1 (3.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Replication
2 5 (16.67%) Clustering
2 5 (16.67%) PKI
3 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Windows
1 6 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (13.33%) Linux
3 3 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Scrum
2 13 (43.33%) High Availability
3 11 (36.67%) Agile
3 11 (36.67%) Kanban
4 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (30.00%) Migration
5 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
5 8 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
7 5 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (16.67%) Cost Control
7 5 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
7 5 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (16.67%) Project Delivery
8 4 (13.33%) Community of Practice
8 4 (13.33%) DevOps
8 4 (13.33%) Roadmaps
9 3 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
9 3 (10.00%) Inclusive Design
9 3 (10.00%) Planning and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) SQL
2 13 (43.33%) TypeScript
3 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 4 (13.33%) Python
5 2 (6.67%) Java
6 1 (3.33%) Bash
6 1 (3.33%) C
6 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 5 (16.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 5 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 5 (16.67%) BitLocker
3 5 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
3 5 (16.67%) Terminal Services
3 5 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (13.33%) Docker
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Grafana
2 8 (26.67%) Ansible
3 5 (16.67%) vCenter Server
3 5 (16.67%) vMotion
4 1 (3.33%) FreeIPA
4 1 (3.33%) Icinga
4 1 (3.33%) Kibana
4 1 (3.33%) Puppet
4 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) Oracle
2 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.67%) Citrix
3 5 (16.67%) Infoblox
3 5 (16.67%) VMware
4 4 (13.33%) Commvault
5 3 (10.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.33%) Cisco
6 1 (3.33%) Meraki
6 1 (3.33%) Splunk