Amazon RDS Contracts in the South West

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 167 153
Rank change year-on-year +24 -14 -34
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 9 7 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.28% 0.19% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.89% 1.47% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 18
10th Percentile £523 £506 £425
25th Percentile £525 £572 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 - £575
90th Percentile £600 £716 £589
England median daily rate £525 £600 £573
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.80% +9.05%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 311 476 606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.82% 13.07% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 348 443
10th Percentile £325 £363 £345
25th Percentile £419 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £521 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% +4.25% -
75th Percentile £650 £625 £597
90th Percentile £725 £714 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 21
10th Percentile £16.53 £18.63 £49.28
25th Percentile - £34.35 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% -5.87% +62.47%
75th Percentile £55.75 £75.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.09% +36.58% +70.00%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Amazon RDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS in the South West

Amazon RDS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Amazon RDS in the South West

Amazon RDS
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Gloucestershire - 8 £550 - 1
Bristol +20 1 - - 4
Amazon RDS
England

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 9 (100.00%) Serverless
2 7 (77.78%) OpenShift
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeCommit
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Network Security
2 5 (55.56%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) InfluxDB
1 6 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Site Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 6 (66.67%) Event-Driven
3 6 (66.67%) Observability
3 6 (66.67%) Service Management
4 5 (55.56%) Configuration Management
5 1 (11.11%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (11.11%) Data Transformation
5 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) Go
2 6 (66.67%) Java
2 6 (66.67%) Python
3 5 (55.56%) Shell Script
4 4 (44.44%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) DV Cleared
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Grafana
1 8 (88.89%) Kubernetes
1 8 (88.89%) Prometheus
1 8 (88.89%) Terraform
2 7 (77.78%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (66.67%) Ansible
3 6 (66.67%) Progress Chef