Amazon RDS Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) UK
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	498	548	588
Rank change year-on-year	+50	+40
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS	89	104	48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.19%	0.20%	0.086%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	0.86%	0.90%	0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted	56	79	34
Median daily rate	£475	£475	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£412	£375	£383
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£625	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£450	£435	£450
% change year-on-year	+3.44%	-3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Median hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	-	-

Amazon RDS is in the database and business intelligence skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database and business intelligence skills.

Contract Database & Business Intelligence Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for database and business intelligence skills	10379	11588	13176
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	22.43%	21.84%	23.51%
Number of daily rates quoted	6780	7853	8607
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£300	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£383	£350
% change year-on-year	+4.57%	+9.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted	142	193	183
Median hourly rate	£31.50	£31.27	£27.78
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+0.73%	+12.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.20	£12.00	£16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£49.00	£52.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£38.00	£30.50	£26.00
% change year-on-year	+24.59%	+17.30%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Amazon RDS as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Amazon RDS.

Contractor daily rate trend for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Amazon RDS over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Top 30 Contract Locations

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 over the 3 months to 25 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+32	88	£475	-	36
London	-19	56	£505	+1.00%	19
South West	+14	13	£450	+38.46%	3
Croydon	-	9	£450	-
South East	+44	8	£450	+28.57%	3
Exeter	-	7	£438	-
Devon	-	7	£438	-
North West	+21	6	£488	+11.42%
Oxfordshire	-	6	£450	-	1
Oxford	-	4	£450	-	1
Bristol	-4	3	£450	+38.46%	1
East of England	-10	3	£475	-	4
Manchester	-	3	£450	-
Merseyside	-3	2	-	-
Liverpool	-4	2	-	-
City of London	-7	2	£454	-11.02%	3
Gloucestershire	-	2	-	-	1
West Midlands	-	2	£500	-	6
Warrington	+19	1	£525	+34.61%
Cheshire	+19	1	£525	+20.68%
West End of London	+9	1	£500	-4.76%
Norfolk	+4	1	£588	+38.23%	1
Cambridge	+3	1	£350	-28.20%
Norwich	+2	1	£588	+38.23%	1
Cambridgeshire	+2	1	£350	-28.20%
Bedfordshire	-	1	£475	-	2
Nottingham	-	1	£500	-	1
Kidlington	-	1	£450	-
Taunton	-	1	-	-
Staines	-	1	£513	-	1

Amazon RDS
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Amazon RDS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Amazon RDS.

1	166 (97.08%)	Amazon AWS
2	121 (70.76%)	Amazon EC2
3	92 (53.80%)	Amazon S3
3	92 (53.80%)	DevOps
4	84 (49.12%)	Linux
5	64 (37.43%)	AWS CloudFormation
5	64 (37.43%)	Agile Software Development
6	59 (34.50%)	Jenkins
6	59 (34.50%)	Puppet
7	52 (30.41%)	Java
8	48 (28.07%)	Docker
9	47 (27.49%)	Continuous Integration
10	46 (26.90%)	Virtual Private Cloud
11	44 (25.73%)	Ansible
12	43 (25.15%)	Terraform

13	41 (23.98%)	Git (software)
14	40 (23.39%)	Python
14	40 (23.39%)	Amazon CloudWatch
15	37 (21.64%)	Web Services
16	36 (21.05%)	PostgreSQL
16	36 (21.05%)	AWS Lambda
16	36 (21.05%)	Amazon ELB
17	35 (20.47%)	Bash Shell
18	34 (19.88%)	Route 53
18	34 (19.88%)	Configuration Management
18	34 (19.88%)	Windows
19	33 (19.30%)	SQL
20	32 (18.71%)	Continuous Delivery
20	32 (18.71%)	Microservices
21	30 (17.54%)	SQL Server

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	25 (14.62%)	nginx
2	24 (14.04%)	Elasticsearch
3	22 (12.87%)	Confluence
4	21 (12.28%)	Apache
5	13 (7.60%)	Tomcat
6	10 (5.85%)	IIS
7	5 (2.92%)	SharePoint
8	4 (2.34%)	Apache Pig
8	4 (2.34%)	Exchange Server 2013
8	4 (2.34%)	MS Exchange
9	3 (1.75%)	Apache Airflow
9	3 (1.75%)	Apache Spark
9	3 (1.75%)	Exchange Server 2007
9	3 (1.75%)	Exchange Server 2010
9	3 (1.75%)	Luigi
9	3 (1.75%)	Oracle SOA Suite
10	2 (1.17%)	Apache Qpid
10	2 (1.17%)	Lightstreamer
10	2 (1.17%)	WebORB
11	1 (0.58%)	OpenStack

Applications
1	2 (1.17%)	Microsoft Excel
1	2 (1.17%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
2	1 (0.58%)	HipChat

Business Applications
1	6 (3.51%)	Oracle Applications
2	2 (1.17%)	SAP MDG
2	2 (1.17%)	SAP MDM
3	1 (0.58%)	Dynamics AX
3	1 (0.58%)	Dynamics CRM
3	1 (0.58%)	Oracle EBS
3	1 (0.58%)	SAP ERP

Cloud Services
1	166 (97.08%)	Amazon AWS
2	121 (70.76%)	Amazon EC2
3	92 (53.80%)	Amazon S3
4	64 (37.43%)	AWS CloudFormation
5	46 (26.90%)	Virtual Private Cloud
6	40 (23.39%)	Amazon CloudWatch
7	36 (21.05%)	Amazon ELB
7	36 (21.05%)	AWS Lambda
8	34 (19.88%)	Route 53
9	29 (16.96%)	Amazon SQS
10	28 (16.37%)	Microsoft Azure
11	27 (15.79%)	CloudFront
12	24 (14.04%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
13	20 (11.70%)	Amazon ElastiCache
13	20 (11.70%)	PaaS
14	15 (8.77%)	AWS CloudTrail
15	11 (6.43%)	Amazon Kinesis
15	11 (6.43%)	GitHub
16	9 (5.26%)	IaaS
17	8 (4.68%)	Amazon EMR

Communications & Networking
1	21 (12.28%)	VPN
2	20 (11.70%)	HTTP
3	19 (11.11%)	DNS
4	15 (8.77%)	TCP/IP
5	13 (7.60%)	OpenLDAP
6	11 (6.43%)	SSH
7	10 (5.85%)	Firewall
7	10 (5.85%)	OpenVPN
8	7 (4.09%)	SSL
9	6 (3.51%)	Internet
10	5 (2.92%)	Intrusion Detection
10	5 (2.92%)	Network Security
10	5 (2.92%)	WAN
11	4 (2.34%)	Remote Desktop
11	4 (2.34%)	VLAN
12	3 (1.75%)	MPLS
13	2 (1.17%)	LAN
14	1 (0.58%)	LDAP
14	1 (0.58%)	SAN
14	1 (0.58%)	SMTP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	36 (21.05%)	PostgreSQL
2	30 (17.54%)	SQL Server
3	26 (15.20%)	Amazon DynamoDB
4	17 (9.94%)	Amazon Redshift
5	16 (9.36%)	MySQL
6	11 (6.43%)	Relational Database
7	10 (5.85%)	NoSQL
8	8 (4.68%)	MongoDB
9	6 (3.51%)	Data Warehouse
9	6 (3.51%)	RDBMS
9	6 (3.51%)	Redis
10	5 (2.92%)	Big Data
11	4 (2.34%)	Apache Hive
11	4 (2.34%)	Azure SQL Database
12	3 (1.75%)	Hadoop
12	3 (1.75%)	SQL Server 2008
12	3 (1.75%)	SQL Server 2014
13	2 (1.17%)	InterSystems Cache
13	2 (1.17%)	Oracle BI EE
13	2 (1.17%)	Spotfire

Development Applications
1	59 (34.50%)	Jenkins
2	41 (23.98%)	Git (software)
3	30 (17.54%)	JIRA
4	19 (11.11%)	Maven
5	15 (8.77%)	Ant
5	15 (8.77%)	Sonatype Nexus
6	14 (8.19%)	Bitbucket
7	12 (7.02%)	TeamCity
8	11 (6.43%)	JUnit
8	11 (6.43%)	Liquibase
8	11 (6.43%)	SonarQube
9	10 (5.85%)	Atlassian Bamboo
9	10 (5.85%)	Octopus Deploy
10	7 (4.09%)	Eclipse
10	7 (4.09%)	Vagrant
11	6 (3.51%)	Oracle Forms
11	6 (3.51%)	Visual Studio
12	4 (2.34%)	Artifactory
13	3 (1.75%)	GitLab
13	3 (1.75%)	Subversion

General
1	21 (12.28%)	Finance
2	4 (2.34%)	Front Office
2	4 (2.34%)	Publishing
3	3 (1.75%)	Marketing
4	2 (1.17%)	Advertising
4	2 (1.17%)	Banking
4	2 (1.17%)	Pharmaceutical
4	2 (1.17%)	Retail
5	1 (0.58%)	Back Office
5	1 (0.58%)	Multimedia
5	1 (0.58%)	Telecoms

Job Titles
1	71 (41.52%)	DevOps Engineer
2	46 (26.90%)	AWS Engineer
3	45 (26.32%)	Developer
4	39 (22.81%)	AWS DevOps
5	38 (22.22%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
6	21 (12.28%)	Architect
7	15 (8.77%)	Cloud Engineer
8	14 (8.19%)	AWS Developer
8	14 (8.19%)	Consultant
9	11 (6.43%)	AWS Architect
10	10 (5.85%)	Cloud Architect
11	7 (4.09%)	.NET Developer
11	7 (4.09%)	Cloud Consultant
12	6 (3.51%)	AWS Consultant
12	6 (3.51%)	Java Developer
12	6 (3.51%)	Node.js Developer
12	6 (3.51%)	Senior DevOps
12	6 (3.51%)	Senior DevOps Engineer
13	4 (2.34%)	Automation Engineer
13	4 (2.34%)	Azure Consultant

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	37 (21.64%)	Web Services
2	26 (15.20%)	Elastic Stack
3	24 (14.04%)	Node.js
4	21 (12.28%)	.NET
5	16 (9.36%)	REST
6	15 (8.77%)	HTML
7	13 (7.60%)	CSS
8	10 (5.85%)	MCollective
9	8 (4.68%)	JSON
10	7 (4.09%)	LAMP
11	6 (3.51%)	AngularJS
11	6 (3.51%)	jQuery
11	6 (3.51%)	Kafka
12	5 (2.92%)	.NET Framework
12	5 (2.92%)	ASP.NET
12	5 (2.92%)	Entity Framework
12	5 (2.92%)	HTML5
12	5 (2.92%)	LEMP Stack
12	5 (2.92%)	Twitter Bootstrap
13	4 (2.34%)	XML

Miscellaneous
1	22 (12.87%)	Linux Command Line
2	9 (5.26%)	Greenfield Project
3	7 (4.09%)	Public Cloud
4	6 (3.51%)	Clustering
4	6 (3.51%)	Computer Science
4	6 (3.51%)	User Experience
5	5 (2.92%)	Data Centre
6	4 (2.34%)	Data Structures
7	3 (1.75%)	Analytical Skills
7	3 (1.75%)	PKI
7	3 (1.75%)	Replication
8	2 (1.17%)	Algorithms
8	2 (1.17%)	AS400
8	2 (1.17%)	iSeries
9	1 (0.58%)	Cloud Native
9	1 (0.58%)	CMDB
9	1 (0.58%)	Enterprise Software
9	1 (0.58%)	Management Information System
9	1 (0.58%)	Reference Data
9	1 (0.58%)	Social Network

Operating Systems
1	84 (49.12%)	Linux
2	34 (19.88%)	Windows
3	15 (8.77%)	CentOS
4	8 (4.68%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4	8 (4.68%)	Unix
4	8 (4.68%)	Windows Server
5	6 (3.51%)	Windows Server 2008
5	6 (3.51%)	Windows Server 2012
6	3 (1.75%)	CoreOS
6	3 (1.75%)	Windows Server 2003
7	2 (1.17%)	Apple iOS
7	2 (1.17%)	Ubuntu
8	1 (0.58%)	Android
8	1 (0.58%)	Debian
8	1 (0.58%)	VMS

Processes & Methodologies
1	92 (53.80%)	DevOps
2	64 (37.43%)	Agile Software Development
3	47 (27.49%)	Continuous Integration
4	34 (19.88%)	Configuration Management
5	32 (18.71%)	Continuous Delivery
5	32 (18.71%)	Microservices
6	28 (16.37%)	Migration
7	21 (12.28%)	Scrum
8	20 (11.70%)	Load Balancing
9	18 (10.53%)	Auto-Scaling
10	14 (8.19%)	Coaching
10	14 (8.19%)	High Availability
11	13 (7.60%)	E-Commerce
12	11 (6.43%)	ETL
12	11 (6.43%)	Mentoring
12	11 (6.43%)	Stakeholder Management
13	10 (5.85%)	Analytics
13	10 (5.85%)	Service Management
13	10 (5.85%)	SOA
14	9 (5.26%)	Test Automation

Programming Languages
1	52 (30.41%)	Java
2	40 (23.39%)	Python
3	35 (20.47%)	Bash Shell
4	33 (19.30%)	SQL
5	19 (11.11%)	PowerShell
6	15 (8.77%)	Ruby
7	13 (7.60%)	C#
8	12 (7.02%)	Groovy
9	9 (5.26%)	PHP
10	7 (4.09%)	JavaScript
11	5 (2.92%)	Perl
12	4 (2.34%)	Go
12	4 (2.34%)	T-SQL
13	3 (1.75%)	ES6
13	3 (1.75%)	Scala
14	2 (1.17%)	Apex Code
14	2 (1.17%)	C++
14	2 (1.17%)	PL/SQL
15	1 (0.58%)	Shell Script
15	1 (0.58%)	TypeScript

Qualifications
1	24 (14.04%)	Security Cleared
2	22 (12.87%)	SC Cleared
3	14 (8.19%)	AWS Certification
4	6 (3.51%)	DV Cleared
5	4 (2.34%)	BPSS Clearance
5	4 (2.34%)	Cisco Certification
5	4 (2.34%)	Degree
6	3 (1.75%)	CCNA
6	3 (1.75%)	CCNP
6	3 (1.75%)	MCSE
6	3 (1.75%)	Microsoft Certification
7	2 (1.17%)	CCIE
7	2 (1.17%)	MCITP
7	2 (1.17%)	MCP
8	1 (0.58%)	(ISC)2 CCSP
8	1 (0.58%)	CISA
8	1 (0.58%)	CISM
8	1 (0.58%)	CISSP
8	1 (0.58%)	Computer Science Degree
8	1 (0.58%)	Master's Degree

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	12 (7.02%)	QA
2	3 (1.75%)	PCI DSS
2	3 (1.75%)	SLA
3	2 (1.17%)	Data Quality
3	2 (1.17%)	ISO 20022
4	1 (0.58%)	Disclosure Scotland
4	1 (0.58%)	GCP
4	1 (0.58%)	ISO/IEC 27001

System Software
1	48 (28.07%)	Docker
2	13 (7.60%)	Squid
3	12 (7.02%)	vCloud
3	12 (7.02%)	Virtual Machines
4	11 (6.43%)	Active Directory
5	10 (5.85%)	Postfix
6	3 (1.75%)	HDFS
6	3 (1.75%)	Terminal Services
6	3 (1.75%)	VMware Infrastructure
7	2 (1.17%)	Corosync
7	2 (1.17%)	vSphere
8	1 (0.58%)	Hyper-V
8	1 (0.58%)	LXC
8	1 (0.58%)	Xen

Systems Management
1	59 (34.50%)	Puppet
2	44 (25.73%)	Ansible
3	43 (25.15%)	Terraform
4	22 (12.87%)	Kibana
5	21 (12.28%)	Opscode Chef
6	20 (11.70%)	Kubernetes
6	20 (11.70%)	logstash
7	13 (7.60%)	Sysdig
7	13 (7.60%)	ZABBIX
8	11 (6.43%)	Docker Swarm
9	10 (5.85%)	Rancher
9	10 (5.85%)	Rsyslog
10	8 (4.68%)	Graphite
11	6 (3.51%)	Grafana
12	5 (2.92%)	Packer
13	4 (2.34%)	Consul
13	4 (2.34%)	Prometheus
13	4 (2.34%)	StatsD
14	3 (1.75%)	rkt
14	3 (1.75%)	Rundeck

Vendors
1	25 (14.62%)	Oracle
2	23 (13.45%)	Microsoft
3	16 (9.36%)	VMware
4	11 (6.43%)	Sonatype
5	9 (5.26%)	Atlassian
6	7 (4.09%)	Red Hat
7	6 (3.51%)	New Relic
8	5 (2.92%)	Cisco
8	5 (2.92%)	Google
9	3 (1.75%)	ForgeRock
9	3 (1.75%)	SaltStack
9	3 (1.75%)	SAP
10	2 (1.17%)	Assembla
10	2 (1.17%)	Embarcadero
10	2 (1.17%)	Informatica
10	2 (1.17%)	MicroStrategy
10	2 (1.17%)	Rackspace
10	2 (1.17%)	Salesforce.com
10	2 (1.17%)	Talend
11	1 (0.58%)	Cognizant