Amazon Redshift Contracts

Amazon Redshift
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Amazon Redshift skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon Redshift over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 417 500
Rank change year-on-year +49 +83 -53
Contract jobs citing Amazon Redshift 153 185 214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.42% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.76% 2.53% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 144 177
10th Percentile £400 £358 £450
25th Percentile £450 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £663
90th Percentile £788 £700 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £30.50 -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,544 7,303 10,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.75% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,832 5,193 7,664
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 144 183
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.55 £70.88
90th Percentile £74.75 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

Amazon Redshift
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon Redshift in the UK

Amazon Redshift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon Redshift in the UK

Amazon Redshift
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon Redshift over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon Redshift in the UK

Amazon Redshift
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Amazon Redshift in the UK

Amazon Redshift
Top 13 Contract 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 30 April 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 +27 127 £524 +4.80% 192
London +29 98 £575 +15.00% 143
Work from Home +36 50 £512 -2.57% 78
UK excluding London +40 36 £475 - 50
North of England +25 16 £475 +2.70% 12
North West +9 14 £475 - 7
Scotland +19 11 £425 -15.00% 3
Midlands +14 6 £475 +32.68% 7
South East +33 3 £482 -18.99% 14
East Midlands +9 3 £459 +8.00% 2
West Midlands +7 3 £575 +60.61% 5
Yorkshire +13 1 £550 +22.22% 5
North East - 1 £450 -

Amazon Redshift
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 21 (13.73%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (10.46%) Apache Spark
3 14 (9.15%) Apache
4 5 (3.27%) Confluence
5 2 (1.31%) SAS
5 2 (1.31%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.65%) JBoss
6 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.65%) Luigi
6 1 (0.65%) nginx
6 1 (0.65%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.65%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.65%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 142 (92.81%) AWS
2 72 (47.06%) Amazon S3
3 54 (35.29%) AWS Lambda
4 53 (34.64%) Serverless
5 46 (30.07%) AWS CloudFormation
6 42 (27.45%) Amazon EC2
7 40 (26.14%) Snowflake
8 30 (19.61%) IaaS
9 29 (18.95%) PaaS
10 21 (13.73%) dbt
11 19 (12.42%) GCP
12 18 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
12 18 (11.76%) Amazon EMR
13 17 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
14 14 (9.15%) Power Platform
15 13 (8.50%) Azure
16 11 (7.19%) Amazon Kinesis
17 9 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 8 (5.23%) AWS Data Pipeline
19 6 (3.92%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
2 34 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (12.42%) Amazon Athena
3 19 (12.42%) BigQuery
3 19 (12.42%) Tableau
4 17 (11.11%) Big Data
5 15 (9.80%) Data Lake
6 14 (9.15%) Power BI
7 13 (8.50%) DynamoDB
7 13 (8.50%) Hadoop
8 11 (7.19%) NoSQL
9 10 (6.54%) Relational Database
10 9 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
10 9 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (3.92%) Apache Hive
11 6 (3.92%) Looker
12 5 (3.27%) Data Mart
12 5 (3.27%) Data Vault
12 5 (3.27%) Oracle Database
12 5 (3.27%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 16 (10.46%) Git
2 11 (7.19%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.54%) GitLab
4 6 (3.92%) Artifactory
4 6 (3.92%) JIRA
5 3 (1.96%) ERwin
6 2 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.31%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.65%) Appium
7 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.65%) JUnit
7 1 (0.65%) Postman
7 1 (0.65%) ScalaTest
7 1 (0.65%) Selenium
7 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (19.61%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.99%) Finance
3 23 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 14 (9.15%) Front Office
6 9 (5.88%) Banking
7 3 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.96%) Marketing
7 3 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.96%) Retail
7 3 (1.96%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.65%) Aviation
8 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Legal
8 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (37.25%) Data Engineer
2 54 (35.29%) AWS Engineer
3 24 (15.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (15.03%) AWS DevOps
4 23 (15.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 20 (13.07%) Senior
6 16 (10.46%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (9.80%) Architect
7 15 (9.80%) Lead
8 14 (9.15%) Python Engineer
9 13 (8.50%) AWS Data Engineer
10 10 (6.54%) Data Architect
11 9 (5.88%) DevOps Manager
11 9 (5.88%) Finance Manager
11 9 (5.88%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 8 (5.23%) Analyst
12 8 (5.23%) Data Modeller
13 6 (3.92%) Cloud Architect
14 5 (3.27%) Data Analyst
14 5 (3.27%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (16.34%) Kafka
2 15 (9.80%) PySpark
3 5 (3.27%) J2EE
3 5 (3.27%) Pandas
4 4 (2.61%) Apache Avro
4 4 (2.61%) JSON
5 3 (1.96%) React
6 2 (1.31%) Node.js
6 2 (1.31%) pytest
6 2 (1.31%) Shiny
7 1 (0.65%) Django
7 1 (0.65%) Flask
7 1 (0.65%) jQuery
7 1 (0.65%) LAMP
7 1 (0.65%) MDX
7 1 (0.65%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.65%) REST
7 1 (0.65%) RESTful
7 1 (0.65%) Sass
7 1 (0.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.23%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.58%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (3.27%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.27%) Renewable Energy
3 5 (3.27%) Tandem
4 3 (1.96%) Derivative
4 3 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.31%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.31%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.31%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.31%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.65%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.65%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.65%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.92%) Linux
1 6 (3.92%) Unix
2 1 (0.65%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (0.65%) CentOS
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (39.22%) ETL
2 56 (36.60%) Data Pipeline
3 52 (33.99%) Data Modelling
4 50 (32.68%) CI/CD
5 47 (30.72%) Analytics
5 47 (30.72%) DevOps
6 40 (26.14%) Agile
7 39 (25.49%) Infrastructure as Code
8 38 (24.84%) Data Engineering
9 37 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (21.57%) Containerisation
11 27 (17.65%) Data Governance
12 26 (16.99%) Business Intelligence
13 24 (15.69%) Cloud Security
14 23 (15.03%) Visualisation
15 22 (14.38%) Data Science
15 22 (14.38%) Stakeholder Management
16 20 (13.07%) Software Engineering
17 19 (12.42%) Data Architecture
18 17 (11.11%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 110 (71.90%) Python
2 81 (52.94%) SQL
3 18 (11.76%) Java
4 16 (10.46%) JavaScript
5 11 (7.19%) Scala
6 8 (5.23%) Bash
7 6 (3.92%) Go
8 5 (3.27%) R
9 4 (2.61%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.31%) ANSI SQL
10 2 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.31%) Lua
10 2 (1.31%) Perl
10 2 (1.31%) PHP
10 2 (1.31%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.31%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.65%) HiveQL
11 1 (0.65%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.65%) VB
Qualifications
1 34 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 34 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.46%) Degree
3 13 (8.50%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.65%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.65%) PMP
6 1 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.03%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.58%) QA
3 2 (1.31%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.31%) GDPR
4 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
System Software
1 33 (21.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.65%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 54 (35.29%) Terraform
2 29 (18.95%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.88%) Ansible
3 9 (5.88%) Grafana
4 8 (5.23%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.65%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 16 (10.46%) Oracle
2 14 (9.15%) Databricks
3 11 (7.19%) Informatica
4 6 (3.92%) Google
5 5 (3.27%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.61%) Talend
7 3 (1.96%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.96%) SAP
8 2 (1.31%) Confluent
8 2 (1.31%) Sage
8 2 (1.31%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.31%) Splunk
8 2 (1.31%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.65%) Actifio
9 1 (0.65%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.65%) Denodo
9 1 (0.65%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.65%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.65%) Virgin Media