Amazon RDS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 321 369
Rank change year-on-year +14 +48 -21
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 82 134 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.58% 0.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.20% 3.76% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 112 95
10th Percentile £410 £446 £411
25th Percentile £425 £485 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.48% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £613 £593
90th Percentile £608 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £503 £588 £573
% change year-on-year -14.47% +2.62% +9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,561 3,566 5,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.60% 15.31% 17.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,817 2,552 3,860
10th Percentile £314 £335 £331
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.31%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 113 139
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.39 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.68 £31.69 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% +43.44%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £75.70 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.54% +31.77% +69.81%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Amazon RDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS in the UK excluding London

Amazon RDS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon RDS in the UK excluding London

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in the UK excluding London

Amazon RDS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon RDS in the UK excluding London

Amazon RDS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Scotland +36 30 £494 -3.89% 4
North of England 0 23 £450 -21.74% 25
North West +27 11 £448 -14.76% 9
Yorkshire +7 11 £507 -11.05% 15
South East -2 11 £530 -9.79% 16
South West +10 9 £550 -8.33% 6
Midlands +24 5 £450 -14.29% 17
West Midlands +20 3 £450 -17.62% 15
East of England +13 3 £625 +8.70% 3
East Midlands - 2 £450 - 2
Wales +20 1 £425 -43.33% 1
North East +2 1 £600 -14.29% 1
Amazon RDS
UK

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (9.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (7.32%) Apache Spark
3 5 (6.10%) Apache
4 3 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.66%) Confluence
5 2 (2.44%) nginx
5 2 (2.44%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.22%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 69 (84.15%) AWS
2 53 (64.63%) Amazon S3
3 45 (54.88%) Serverless
4 41 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
5 34 (41.46%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (34.15%) Azure
7 19 (23.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (20.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 16 (19.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (19.51%) OpenShift
10 13 (15.85%) Entra ID
11 12 (14.63%) AWS CodePipeline
12 11 (13.41%) Route 53
13 10 (12.20%) CloudFront
14 9 (10.98%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (9.76%) GCP
15 8 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (8.54%) Power Platform
17 6 (7.32%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 6 (7.32%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.98%) DNS
1 9 (10.98%) Firewall
2 7 (8.54%) DHCP
2 7 (8.54%) VPN
3 6 (7.32%) Network Security
3 6 (7.32%) SMTP
4 5 (6.10%) AMQP
5 2 (2.44%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (1.22%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.22%) NAS
6 1 (1.22%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.22%) SAN
6 1 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (23.17%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (14.63%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (10.98%) Amazon Athena
3 9 (10.98%) InfluxDB
3 9 (10.98%) MySQL
4 8 (9.76%) MongoDB
5 7 (8.54%) Data Lake
5 7 (8.54%) Hadoop
5 7 (8.54%) Power BI
6 6 (7.32%) Big Data
6 6 (7.32%) BigQuery
6 6 (7.32%) Informix
6 6 (7.32%) Relational Database
7 5 (6.10%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.66%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.44%) MariaDB
11 1 (1.22%) Apache Hive
11 1 (1.22%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (23.17%) Jenkins
2 16 (19.51%) Git
3 12 (14.63%) GitLab
4 4 (4.88%) webpack
5 3 (3.66%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.66%) JIRA
6 2 (2.44%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.44%) JUnit
6 2 (2.44%) Maven
6 2 (2.44%) Mockito
7 1 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.22%) Terragrunt
General
1 19 (23.17%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.20%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.10%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.44%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.22%) Banking
5 1 (1.22%) Electronics
5 1 (1.22%) Finance
5 1 (1.22%) Legal
5 1 (1.22%) Marketing
5 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (24.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (18.29%) Data Engineer
3 10 (12.20%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (10.98%) Architect
5 7 (8.54%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (8.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 7 (8.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 6 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (7.32%) Lead
6 6 (7.32%) Senior
6 6 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (6.10%) Developer
7 5 (6.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Database Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Technical Leader
9 3 (3.66%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.85%) AWS CDK
2 10 (12.20%) LDAP
3 9 (10.98%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (8.54%) Node.js
4 7 (8.54%) REST
5 6 (7.32%) Kafka
6 4 (4.88%) CSS
6 4 (4.88%) GraphQL
6 4 (4.88%) HTML
6 4 (4.88%) React
6 4 (4.88%) XML
7 3 (3.66%) OAuth
7 3 (3.66%) PostGIS
8 2 (2.44%) .NET
8 2 (2.44%) Django
8 2 (2.44%) HornetQ
8 2 (2.44%) RESTful
8 2 (2.44%) Spring
8 2 (2.44%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.44%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.76%) Replication
2 7 (8.54%) Clustering
2 7 (8.54%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.32%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (7.32%) PKI
4 4 (4.88%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.88%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.22%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (26.83%) Linux
2 16 (19.51%) Windows
3 10 (12.20%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (7.32%) Unix
5 4 (4.88%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (4.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (3.66%) Debian
7 1 (1.22%) CentOS
7 1 (1.22%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (41.46%) DevOps
2 28 (34.15%) CI/CD
3 21 (25.61%) High Availability
4 19 (23.17%) Agile
4 19 (23.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (21.95%) Scrum
6 15 (18.29%) Analytics
7 14 (17.07%) Containerisation
7 14 (17.07%) Disaster Recovery
8 13 (15.85%) Data Modelling
8 13 (15.85%) ETL
8 13 (15.85%) Kanban
9 12 (14.63%) Data Integration
9 12 (14.63%) Migration
10 11 (13.41%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (12.20%) Configuration Management
12 9 (10.98%) Capacity Planning
12 9 (10.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 8 (9.76%) Service Management
13 8 (9.76%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 40 (48.78%) SQL
2 31 (37.80%) Python
3 18 (21.95%) Java
4 15 (18.29%) TypeScript
5 8 (9.76%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.76%) Shell Script
6 7 (8.54%) Bash
6 7 (8.54%) PowerShell
7 6 (7.32%) Go
8 5 (6.10%) C
9 3 (3.66%) Ruby
10 2 (2.44%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.22%) C#
11 1 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.22%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 20 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.07%) DV Cleared
3 12 (14.63%) AWS Certification
4 11 (13.41%) SC Cleared
5 6 (7.32%) Degree
6 5 (6.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (4.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.32%) GDPR
2 3 (3.66%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.66%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.66%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (24.39%) Docker
2 15 (18.29%) Active Directory
3 8 (9.76%) Hyper-V
4 7 (8.54%) Terminal Services
5 6 (7.32%) BitLocker
5 6 (7.32%) Microsoft App-V
5 6 (7.32%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (4.88%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (2.44%) Varnish
9 1 (1.22%) HDFS
9 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (1.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (32.93%) Terraform
2 23 (28.05%) Kubernetes
3 21 (25.61%) Grafana
4 19 (23.17%) Ansible
5 12 (14.63%) Prometheus
6 7 (8.54%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (7.32%) Progress Chef
7 6 (7.32%) vCenter Server
7 6 (7.32%) vMotion
8 2 (2.44%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.22%) FreeIPA
9 1 (1.22%) Icinga
9 1 (1.22%) Kibana
9 1 (1.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 15 (18.29%) Oracle
3 9 (10.98%) VMware
4 8 (9.76%) Google
5 7 (8.54%) Citrix
6 6 (7.32%) Infoblox
6 6 (7.32%) Red Hat
7 4 (4.88%) Ab Initio
7 4 (4.88%) Cisco
7 4 (4.88%) Commvault
7 4 (4.88%) Informatica
8 2 (2.44%) HP
8 2 (2.44%) Meraki
8 2 (2.44%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.44%) Splunk
9 1 (1.22%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.22%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (1.22%) Symantec
9 1 (1.22%) Talend
9 1 (1.22%) Veeam