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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 308 363
Rank change year-on-year -5 +55 -13
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 84 124 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.54% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.27% 3.64% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 99 100
10th Percentile £411 £450 £412
25th Percentile £427 £503 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.48% +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £631 £603
90th Percentile £603 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -15.25% +2.61% +9.52%
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 2,568 3,411 5,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.46% 14.93% 17.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,818 2,436 3,850
10th Percentile £313 £338 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 105 130
10th Percentile £13.61 £21.53 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £57.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% +64.29% +43.44%
75th Percentile £59.50 £70.00 £61.61
90th Percentile £73.50 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% +30.20% +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 28 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 28 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 +40 30 £480 -9.43% 10
North of England +6 23 £450 -21.74% 30
Yorkshire +6 13 £507 -11.05% 16
South West +7 11 £575 -4.17% 6
South East -6 11 £530 -9.79% 17
North West +21 9 £448 -16.74% 13
Midlands +22 5 £450 -14.29% 14
East of England +8 3 £625 +8.70% 6
West Midlands +7 3 £450 -17.62% 11
East Midlands - 2 £450 - 3
Wales +14 1 £425 -43.33%
North East +1 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 7 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (5.95%) Apache
4 3 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.57%) Confluence
5 2 (2.38%) nginx
5 2 (2.38%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.19%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 73 (86.90%) AWS
2 60 (71.43%) Amazon S3
3 45 (53.57%) Serverless
4 42 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
5 33 (39.29%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (32.14%) Azure
7 21 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (21.43%) OpenShift
9 16 (19.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 15 (17.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (13.10%) Entra ID
12 10 (11.90%) AWS CodePipeline
12 10 (11.90%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (11.90%) CloudFront
12 10 (11.90%) Route 53
13 9 (10.71%) GCP
14 8 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (8.33%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
15 7 (8.33%) Power Platform
16 6 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.33%) DNS
1 7 (8.33%) Firewall
1 7 (8.33%) Network Security
2 6 (7.14%) AMQP
3 5 (5.95%) DHCP
3 5 (5.95%) VPN
4 4 (4.76%) SMTP
5 2 (2.38%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (1.19%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.19%) NAS
6 1 (1.19%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.19%) SAN
6 1 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (15.48%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (13.10%) Amazon Athena
4 10 (11.90%) InfluxDB
5 9 (10.71%) MongoDB
6 8 (9.52%) Hadoop
7 7 (8.33%) Big Data
7 7 (8.33%) BigQuery
7 7 (8.33%) Data Lake
7 7 (8.33%) MySQL
7 7 (8.33%) Power BI
7 7 (8.33%) Relational Database
8 6 (7.14%) Informix
9 5 (5.95%) Oracle Database
10 4 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (1.19%) Power Query
11 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (23.81%) Jenkins
2 16 (19.05%) Git
3 12 (14.29%) GitLab
4 4 (4.76%) webpack
5 3 (3.57%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.57%) JIRA
6 2 (2.38%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.38%) JUnit
6 2 (2.38%) Maven
6 2 (2.38%) Mockito
General
1 16 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.90%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.76%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.38%) Banking
4 2 (2.38%) Finance
5 1 (1.19%) Legal
5 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (23.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 11 (13.10%) Architect
4 8 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 7 (8.33%) Developer
5 7 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (7.14%) Senior
7 5 (5.95%) Database Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Lead
8 4 (4.76%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Site Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.48%) AWS CDK
2 10 (11.90%) RabbitMQ
3 8 (9.52%) LDAP
4 7 (8.33%) Kafka
4 7 (8.33%) Node.js
5 6 (7.14%) REST
6 4 (4.76%) CSS
6 4 (4.76%) GraphQL
6 4 (4.76%) HTML
6 4 (4.76%) React
6 4 (4.76%) XML
7 3 (3.57%) OAuth
7 3 (3.57%) PostGIS
8 2 (2.38%) .NET
8 2 (2.38%) Django
8 2 (2.38%) HornetQ
8 2 (2.38%) RESTful
8 2 (2.38%) Spring
8 2 (2.38%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.38%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.52%) Replication
2 7 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (5.95%) Clustering
4 4 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.76%) PKI
4 4 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.76%) Smart Meter
5 2 (2.38%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.19%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (26.19%) Linux
2 14 (16.67%) Windows
3 8 (9.52%) Unix
3 8 (9.52%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.57%) Debian
6 2 (2.38%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.19%) CentOS
7 1 (1.19%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.19%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (39.29%) DevOps
2 27 (32.14%) CI/CD
3 20 (23.81%) High Availability
4 19 (22.62%) Agile
4 19 (22.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (21.43%) Scrum
6 15 (17.86%) Analytics
6 15 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
7 14 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 14 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 14 (16.67%) ETL
8 13 (15.48%) Data Integration
8 13 (15.48%) Kanban
8 13 (15.48%) Migration
9 11 (13.10%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (11.90%) Configuration Management
10 10 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 9 (10.71%) Capacity Planning
11 9 (10.71%) Translating Business Requirements
12 8 (9.52%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (53.57%) SQL
2 33 (39.29%) Python
3 19 (22.62%) Java
4 15 (17.86%) TypeScript
5 9 (10.71%) Shell Script
6 7 (8.33%) Bash
6 7 (8.33%) Go
6 7 (8.33%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.95%) C
7 5 (5.95%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.76%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.57%) Ruby
10 1 (1.19%) C#
10 1 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.19%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 18 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.48%) DV Cleared
3 12 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 8 (9.52%) SC Cleared
5 6 (7.14%) Degree
6 5 (5.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) GDPR
2 3 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.38%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (25.00%) Docker
2 13 (15.48%) Active Directory
3 6 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 5 (5.95%) Terminal Services
5 4 (4.76%) BitLocker
5 4 (4.76%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (2.38%) Varnish
8 1 (1.19%) HDFS
8 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (1.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (32.14%) Terraform
2 25 (29.76%) Kubernetes
3 23 (27.38%) Grafana
4 21 (25.00%) Ansible
5 13 (15.48%) Prometheus
6 8 (9.52%) Docker Swarm
7 7 (8.33%) Progress Chef
8 4 (4.76%) vCenter Server
8 4 (4.76%) vMotion
9 2 (2.38%) HAProxy
10 1 (1.19%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (22.62%) Microsoft
2 17 (20.24%) Oracle
3 9 (10.71%) Google
4 7 (8.33%) VMware
5 6 (7.14%) Red Hat
6 5 (5.95%) Citrix
7 4 (4.76%) Ab Initio
7 4 (4.76%) Cisco
7 4 (4.76%) Commvault
7 4 (4.76%) Infoblox
7 4 (4.76%) Informatica
8 2 (2.38%) HP
8 2 (2.38%) Meraki
8 2 (2.38%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.19%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.19%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (1.19%) Splunk
9 1 (1.19%) Symantec
9 1 (1.19%) Talend
9 1 (1.19%) Veeam