DynamoDB Contracts

Amazon DynamoDB (DDB)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring DynamoDB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DynamoDB over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 468 466
Rank change year-on-year +84 -2 -31
Contract jobs citing DynamoDB 164 118 222
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.27% 0.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.82% 1.55% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 94 169
10th Percentile £368 £376 £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -9.48%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £608
90th Percentile £675 £671 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -9.09% -3.93% +3.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £35.38 - £56.50
25th Percentile £35.94 - -
Median hourly rate £46.25 - £78.00
75th Percentile £61.25 - £87.00
90th Percentile £72.50 - £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.00

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

DynamoDB 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,821 7,599 9,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.28% 17.55% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,940 5,418 6,874
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 153 175
10th Percentile £19.82 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.38 £20.49 £33.70
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -34.78% +52.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £51.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £76.50 £72.50 £81.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £30.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.47% -45.45% +57.14%

DynamoDB
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DynamoDB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DynamoDB in the UK

DynamoDB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DynamoDB.

Daily rate trend for DynamoDB in the UK

DynamoDB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DynamoDB over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DynamoDB in the UK

DynamoDB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DynamoDB.

Hourly rate trend for DynamoDB in the UK

DynamoDB
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DynamoDB over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DynamoDB in the UK

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Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DynamoDB within the UK over the 6 months to 6 July 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
England +84 139 £500 - 295
London +31 77 £505 +1.00% 172
UK excluding London +93 65 £500 -9.09% 130
Work from Home +61 65 £475 -13.64% 171
Midlands +32 20 £488 -18.75% 9
North of England +12 20 £500 - 77
West Midlands +20 14 £488 -18.75% 2
North West +9 11 £500 +11.11% 62
Scotland - 10 £525 - 3
Yorkshire +13 9 £519 -25.89% 12
East of England +33 7 £600 -4.00% 6
South East +44 6 £455 -20.87% 23
South West +42 5 £573 - 5
East Midlands - 5 £459 - 7

DynamoDB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (3.66%) Apache
1 6 (3.66%) Confluence
2 5 (3.05%) CMS
2 5 (3.05%) Headless CMS
3 3 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.61%) JBoss
4 1 (0.61%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 163 (99.39%) AWS
2 131 (79.88%) Serverless
3 129 (78.66%) AWS Lambda
4 110 (67.07%) Amazon S3
5 58 (35.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 56 (34.15%) Amazon SQS
7 37 (22.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 35 (21.34%) Amazon ECS
9 31 (18.90%) GitHub
10 29 (17.68%) Amazon EC2
11 27 (16.46%) AWS Step Functions
12 23 (14.02%) Amazon Cognito
13 20 (12.20%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (10.37%) Amazon Kinesis
15 15 (9.15%) AWS KMS
16 13 (7.93%) Route 53
17 12 (7.32%) AWS Fargate
17 12 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
18 10 (6.10%) Amazon EventBridge
19 9 (5.49%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.71%) HTTP
2 7 (4.27%) DNS
2 7 (4.27%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.66%) VPN
4 4 (2.44%) DHCP
5 3 (1.83%) SSL
6 2 (1.22%) Firewall
6 2 (1.22%) Network Security
7 1 (0.61%) Broadband
7 1 (0.61%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (27.44%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (23.78%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (12.80%) Amazon Aurora
4 18 (10.98%) NoSQL
5 17 (10.37%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (10.37%) MongoDB
6 12 (7.32%) MySQL
7 11 (6.71%) Relational Database
8 10 (6.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (3.66%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (3.66%) Data Lake
10 6 (3.66%) Parquet
11 4 (2.44%) Power BI
12 3 (1.83%) Big Data
12 3 (1.83%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.83%) Tableau
13 2 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (1.22%) DB2
13 2 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (18.90%) Jenkins
2 25 (15.24%) Git
3 19 (11.59%) JUnit
4 18 (10.98%) Maven
5 10 (6.10%) SonarQube
6 9 (5.49%) Mockito
7 8 (4.88%) Bitbucket Server
7 8 (4.88%) DbUnit
7 8 (4.88%) jMock
8 7 (4.27%) Cucumber
8 7 (4.27%) GitLab
8 7 (4.27%) JIRA
9 6 (3.66%) Bitbucket
9 6 (3.66%) git-flow
10 5 (3.05%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.83%) Mocha
11 3 (1.83%) Postman
11 3 (1.83%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.61%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.61%) REST Assured
General
1 36 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.80%) Public Sector
3 16 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.49%) Finance
5 8 (4.88%) Banking
6 7 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.22%) Aviation
8 2 (1.22%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.22%) Military
8 2 (1.22%) Publishing
8 2 (1.22%) Retail
8 2 (1.22%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.61%) Back Office
9 1 (0.61%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (40.85%) Developer
2 29 (17.68%) AWS Developer
2 29 (17.68%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (15.24%) Java Developer
4 23 (14.02%) Lead
4 23 (14.02%) Senior
5 19 (11.59%) Architect
6 18 (10.98%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (9.15%) Software Engineer
8 14 (8.54%) AWS Architect
9 12 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (7.32%) Senior Developer
10 10 (6.10%) Node.js Developer
11 9 (5.49%) Data Engineer
11 9 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.88%) Backend Developer
12 8 (4.88%) Lead Developer
13 7 (4.27%) Lead Java Developer
13 7 (4.27%) Python Developer
14 6 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (25.61%) Node.js
2 37 (22.56%) RESTful
3 34 (20.73%) React
4 29 (17.68%) AWS CDK
4 29 (17.68%) Spring
5 24 (14.63%) Kafka
6 23 (14.02%) GraphQL
7 21 (12.80%) Spring Boot
8 20 (12.20%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (11.59%) AngularJS
9 19 (11.59%) REST
10 18 (10.98%) Web Services
11 15 (9.15%) Jest
11 15 (9.15%) JSON
11 15 (9.15%) WebSockets
12 13 (7.93%) CSS
12 13 (7.93%) Hibernate
12 13 (7.93%) SOAP
13 12 (7.32%) HTML
14 11 (6.71%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.20%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.49%) Mobile App
4 7 (4.27%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (4.27%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.83%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.83%) IVR
6 3 (1.83%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.83%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.83%) Replication
6 3 (1.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (1.83%) Vector Graphics
7 2 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.22%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.61%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.61%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.54%) Linux
2 4 (2.44%) Unix
3 3 (1.83%) Android
3 3 (1.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (46.95%) CI/CD
2 76 (46.34%) Agile
3 63 (38.41%) DevOps
4 50 (30.49%) Microservices
5 49 (29.88%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (26.83%) Containerisation
7 38 (23.17%) Clean Code
8 36 (21.95%) Mentoring
9 34 (20.73%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (18.29%) Event-Driven
11 29 (17.68%) Full-Stack Development
12 21 (12.80%) Continuous Integration
12 21 (12.80%) Test Automation
13 19 (11.59%) Software Engineering
14 18 (10.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 18 (10.98%) Scrum
14 18 (10.98%) TDD
15 16 (9.76%) Data Pipeline
15 16 (9.76%) User Experience
16 15 (9.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (46.34%) Python
2 52 (31.71%) Java
3 49 (29.88%) JavaScript
4 40 (24.39%) SQL
5 39 (23.78%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.88%) T-SQL
7 7 (4.27%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.66%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.44%) Perl
10 3 (1.83%) Dart
10 3 (1.83%) R
10 3 (1.83%) Scala
11 2 (1.22%) C#
12 1 (0.61%) Bash
12 1 (0.61%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (20.73%) AWS Certification
2 24 (14.63%) Security Cleared
3 23 (14.02%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.66%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.66%) Degree
6 4 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.22%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.22%) MCSE
7 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.10%) QA
2 6 (3.66%) GDPR
3 4 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.22%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.22%) NIST
4 2 (1.22%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 55 (33.54%) Docker
2 9 (5.49%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 37 (22.56%) Terraform
2 20 (12.20%) Kubernetes
3 19 (11.59%) Prometheus
4 12 (7.32%) Grafana
5 6 (3.66%) Ansible
6 2 (1.22%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.22%) Puppet
7 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (6.10%) Atlassian
2 8 (4.88%) CA Agile Central
2 8 (4.88%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (4.88%) Oracle
3 6 (3.66%) ServiceNow
3 6 (3.66%) Splunk
4 3 (1.83%) MuleSoft
4 3 (1.83%) Virgin Media
5 2 (1.22%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.22%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.22%) Sybase
6 1 (0.61%) Google
6 1 (0.61%) Informatica
6 1 (0.61%) New Relic
6 1 (0.61%) Salesforce