Amazon Redshift Contract Job Trends

Amazon Redshift
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Amazon Redshift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 444 388
Rank change year-on-year -4 -56 +132
Contract jobs citing Amazon Redshift 218 108 211
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.33% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.68% 1.81% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 77 152
10th Percentile £371 £400 £358
25th Percentile £434 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £568 £538 £600
90th Percentile £663 £607 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £485
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.06% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.50 £36.25 -
Median hourly rate £69.00 £37.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +84.00% - -
75th Percentile £71.50 £38.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.00 - -

All Database & BI Skills
UK

Amazon Redshift 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 8,142 5,954 7,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.39% 18.29% 17.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,384 4,034 5,342
10th Percentile £351 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 100 133
10th Percentile £16.63 £19.56 £14.05
25th Percentile £25.20 £25.94 £20.75
Median hourly rate £42.75 £36.25 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.93% -5.84% -30.00%
75th Percentile £67.88 £64.63 £51.91
90th Percentile £77.05 £77.62 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.25 £31.64 £32.75
% change year-on-year +27.21% -3.39% -37.62%

Amazon Redshift
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon Redshift relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Amazon Redshift job vacancy trend in the UK

Amazon Redshift
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon Redshift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon Redshift over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon Redshift in the UK

Amazon Redshift
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon Redshift.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon Redshift within the UK over the 6 months to 18 July 2026. 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 -30 191 £495 +4.21% 26
London -2 116 £515 +8.42% 12
Work from Home +7 95 £480 +1.05% 16
UK excluding London -79 73 £450 -5.26% 19
Midlands -27 35 £420 -11.58% 1
West Midlands -31 31 £415 -24.55%
South East -47 14 £492 +22.39% 8
North of England -90 11 £475 - 9
North West -58 7 £488 +2.63% 5
South West - 7 £530 - 1
East Midlands -13 4 £495 +7.84% 1
East of England -19 4 £475 +5.56% 1
Scotland - 4 £430 -
North East -32 3 £463 +6.32% 1
Yorkshire -48 1 £638 +29.11% 3

Amazon Redshift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 38 (17.43%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (16.06%) Confluence
3 32 (14.68%) Apache Spark
4 17 (7.80%) Apache
5 16 (7.34%) SAS
6 2 (0.92%) nginx
7 1 (0.46%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.29%) BambooHR
1 5 (2.29%) NetSuite
1 5 (2.29%) Sage X3
2 3 (1.38%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.46%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 174 (79.82%) AWS
2 128 (58.72%) Amazon S3
3 97 (44.50%) Serverless
4 94 (43.12%) AWS Lambda
5 50 (22.94%) Azure
6 49 (22.48%) dbt
6 49 (22.48%) Snowflake
7 45 (20.64%) Amazon EMR
8 43 (19.72%) Power Platform
9 35 (16.06%) GitHub
10 34 (15.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 34 (15.60%) GCP
11 26 (11.93%) Amazon Kinesis
12 25 (11.47%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (11.01%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (9.17%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (8.26%) AWS Step Functions
15 18 (8.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 16 (7.34%) Amazon Bedrock
17 15 (6.88%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.38%) Firewall
1 3 (1.38%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (0.46%) 4G
2 1 (0.46%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (43.12%) Data Warehouse
2 69 (31.65%) Amazon Athena
3 60 (27.52%) Data Lake
4 43 (19.72%) Power BI
5 39 (17.89%) BigQuery
6 24 (11.01%) MySQL
7 19 (8.72%) Big Data
7 19 (8.72%) Pentaho
8 18 (8.26%) Metadata
9 17 (7.80%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (7.34%) DynamoDB
11 15 (6.88%) Tableau
12 14 (6.42%) Apache Iceberg
13 13 (5.96%) Data Vault
13 13 (5.96%) PostgreSQL
14 11 (5.05%) Snowflake Schema
15 10 (4.59%) Looker
16 9 (4.13%) Amazon Aurora
16 9 (4.13%) Amazon QuickSight
16 9 (4.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 50 (22.94%) Git
1 50 (22.94%) GitLab
2 31 (14.22%) JIRA
3 20 (9.17%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.67%) SonarQube
5 7 (3.21%) Artifactory
5 7 (3.21%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.46%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.46%) ERwin
7 1 (0.46%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.46%) RStudio
7 1 (0.46%) Snyk
General
1 51 (23.39%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.89%) Public Sector
3 31 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (14.22%) Finance
4 12 (5.50%) Telecoms
5 11 (5.05%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (4.59%) Banking
7 8 (3.67%) Retail
8 7 (3.21%) Billing
8 7 (3.21%) Legal
8 7 (3.21%) Marketing
9 6 (2.75%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.38%) Military
12 2 (0.92%) Law
12 2 (0.92%) Police
13 1 (0.46%) iGaming
13 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 106 (48.62%) Data Engineer
2 50 (22.94%) AWS Engineer
3 42 (19.27%) Senior
4 30 (13.76%) AWS Data Engineer
5 29 (13.30%) Architect
6 28 (12.84%) Senior Data Engineer
7 21 (9.63%) Data Architect
8 14 (6.42%) Analyst
9 13 (5.96%) AWS Architect
9 13 (5.96%) Lead
10 12 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (5.05%) AWS Data Architect
11 11 (5.05%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.13%) Support Engineer
13 7 (3.21%) Data Analyst
13 7 (3.21%) Informatica Engineer
13 7 (3.21%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 6 (2.75%) AWS DevOps
15 5 (2.29%) Gen AI Engineer
15 5 (2.29%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (19.72%) PySpark
2 22 (10.09%) Kafka
3 7 (3.21%) REST
4 3 (1.38%) AWS CDK
4 3 (1.38%) Gherkin
4 3 (1.38%) pytest
5 2 (0.92%) ADO
5 2 (0.92%) Apache Avro
5 2 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.92%) Pandas
5 2 (0.92%) Protocol Buffers
5 2 (0.92%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.92%) Spark Streaming
5 2 (0.92%) TensorFlow
5 2 (0.92%) XML
6 1 (0.46%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.46%) JSON
6 1 (0.46%) NumPy
6 1 (0.46%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.46%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.14%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (3.67%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.29%) Distributed Architecture
4 5 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.29%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.38%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (1.38%) NHS
6 2 (0.92%) Legacy Code
6 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.92%) PACS
6 2 (0.92%) Reference Data
6 2 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.46%) Clustering
7 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.46%) Replication
7 1 (0.46%) Smart Meter
7 1 (0.46%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.13%) Linux
2 6 (2.75%) Unix
3 2 (0.92%) Windows
3 2 (0.92%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (58.72%) CI/CD
2 110 (50.46%) Analytics
2 110 (50.46%) Data Engineering
3 103 (47.25%) ETL
4 94 (43.12%) Data Modelling
5 89 (40.83%) Data Pipeline
6 76 (34.86%) Business Intelligence
7 70 (32.11%) Agile
8 68 (31.19%) DevOps
9 58 (26.61%) Infrastructure as Code
10 44 (20.18%) AI
11 43 (19.72%) Machine Learning
12 42 (19.27%) Stakeholder Management
13 38 (17.43%) Data Architecture
13 38 (17.43%) Migration
14 37 (16.97%) Data Governance
15 32 (14.68%) Data Science
15 32 (14.68%) Observability
16 28 (12.84%) Validation
17 27 (12.39%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 150 (68.81%) SQL
2 137 (62.84%) Python
3 19 (8.72%) Java
4 18 (8.26%) Bash
5 12 (5.50%) Scala
6 7 (3.21%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.83%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.38%) Go
8 3 (1.38%) HiveQL
9 2 (0.92%) Bicep
9 2 (0.92%) R
9 2 (0.92%) Ruby
10 1 (0.46%) C
10 1 (0.46%) COBOL
10 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (33.49%) Security Cleared
2 64 (29.36%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.17%) AWS Certification
4 12 (5.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (4.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 8 (3.67%) Degree
7 3 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.38%) CSPO
8 2 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.92%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.92%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.92%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (38.07%) Data Quality
2 19 (8.72%) GDPR
3 14 (6.42%) QA
4 3 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.92%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.92%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.46%) IFRS
6 1 (0.46%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.46%) NCSC
6 1 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (11.47%) Docker
2 5 (2.29%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.29%) HDFS
3 3 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 79 (36.24%) Terraform
2 41 (18.81%) Grafana
3 21 (9.63%) Kubernetes
4 16 (7.34%) Ansible
4 16 (7.34%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.21%) Puppet
6 5 (2.29%) Salt
7 2 (0.92%) Istio
7 2 (0.92%) linkerd
8 1 (0.46%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.46%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 40 (18.35%) Databricks
2 27 (12.39%) Informatica
3 21 (9.63%) Denodo
4 20 (9.17%) Talend
5 19 (8.72%) Microsoft
6 17 (7.80%) Oracle
7 9 (4.13%) Google
8 7 (3.21%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.29%) PagerDuty
9 5 (2.29%) Sage
9 5 (2.29%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.29%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.29%) Workday
10 4 (1.83%) Palantir
10 4 (1.83%) Tenable
11 3 (1.38%) Cognos
11 3 (1.38%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.38%) IBM
11 3 (1.38%) SAP
11 3 (1.38%) Splunk