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 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 380 470 474
Rank change year-on-year +90 +4 -64
Contract jobs citing DynamoDB 140 130 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.30% 0.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.53% 1.78% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 105 184
10th Percentile £397 £379 £404
25th Percentile £413 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £563 £613 £600
90th Percentile £641 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -7.95% -3.51% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £43.60
25th Percentile - - £56.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 5,544 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%

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 30 April 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
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 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 +54 107 £475 -5.00% 282
London +9 63 £475 -5.00% 162
Work from Home +61 56 £475 -5.00% 171
UK excluding London +81 49 £506 -7.95% 124
North of England +32 16 £519 -1.19% 70
Midlands +36 14 £475 -20.83% 18
Scotland +21 13 £525 - 1
North West +10 11 £500 -4.76% 48
West Midlands +24 10 £450 -25.00% 7
South East +43 5 £500 -13.04% 17
Yorkshire - 5 £525 - 17
East Midlands - 4 £537 - 11
South West +47 3 £638 -20.31% 13
Wales - 1 £400 - 1

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 9 (6.43%) Apache
2 5 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.57%) Confluence
3 3 (2.14%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.71%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 133 (95.00%) AWS
2 102 (72.86%) AWS Lambda
2 102 (72.86%) Serverless
3 91 (65.00%) Amazon S3
4 47 (33.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 42 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
6 32 (22.86%) GitHub
7 25 (17.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (16.43%) AWS Step Functions
9 18 (12.86%) Amazon Cognito
10 14 (10.00%) AWS KMS
11 13 (9.29%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (7.86%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (7.14%) Route 53
14 9 (6.43%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (5.71%) Amazon Glacier
15 8 (5.71%) Amazon Kinesis
15 8 (5.71%) Azure
16 7 (5.00%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.86%) HTTP
2 4 (2.86%) DHCP
2 4 (2.86%) DNS
2 4 (2.86%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.86%) VPN
3 1 (0.71%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (22.14%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (17.86%) Amazon Athena
4 24 (17.14%) NoSQL
5 16 (11.43%) MongoDB
6 14 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (9.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (8.57%) MySQL
8 12 (8.57%) Parquet
9 11 (7.86%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (7.86%) Relational Database
10 8 (5.71%) Amazon QuickSight
11 7 (5.00%) Data Lake
12 6 (4.29%) Power BI
13 5 (3.57%) Tableau
14 4 (2.86%) RDBMS
15 3 (2.14%) Apache Iceberg
15 3 (2.14%) Big Data
15 3 (2.14%) Flink
15 3 (2.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 21 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 16 (11.43%) Git
3 8 (5.71%) JUnit
3 8 (5.71%) Mockito
4 7 (5.00%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.57%) Cypress.io
5 5 (3.57%) git-flow
5 5 (3.57%) JIRA
5 5 (3.57%) Maven
6 4 (2.86%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.86%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (2.86%) DbUnit
6 4 (2.86%) GitLab
6 4 (2.86%) jMock
7 3 (2.14%) ERwin
7 3 (2.14%) Mocha
7 3 (2.14%) Postman
7 3 (2.14%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
General
1 25 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.71%) Public Sector
3 10 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.43%) Finance
5 7 (5.00%) Banking
5 7 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.14%) Marketing
8 2 (1.43%) Back Office
8 2 (1.43%) Electronics
8 2 (1.43%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.43%) Military
8 2 (1.43%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.71%) Aviation
9 1 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.71%) Retail
9 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.71%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 62 (44.29%) Developer
2 28 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 22 (15.71%) AWS Developer
4 17 (12.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 15 (10.71%) Senior
6 14 (10.00%) Java Developer
6 14 (10.00%) Lead
7 13 (9.29%) Architect
8 11 (7.86%) Data Engineer
8 11 (7.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 10 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (7.14%) Node.js Developer
9 10 (7.14%) Senior Developer
10 8 (5.71%) Cloud Developer
10 8 (5.71%) Python Developer
10 8 (5.71%) Software Engineer
10 8 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.29%) AWS Architect
11 6 (4.29%) Backend Developer
11 6 (4.29%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (30.71%) Node.js
1 43 (30.71%) React
2 32 (22.86%) AWS CDK
3 23 (16.43%) RESTful
4 22 (15.71%) Kafka
5 20 (14.29%) JSON
6 14 (10.00%) HTML
7 13 (9.29%) AngularJS
7 13 (9.29%) GraphQL
7 13 (9.29%) REST
7 13 (9.29%) Spring
7 13 (9.29%) Web Services
8 12 (8.57%) ActiveMQ
8 12 (8.57%) Spring Boot
9 11 (7.86%) CSS
9 11 (7.86%) WebSockets
10 10 (7.14%) Hibernate
11 8 (5.71%) Jest
12 7 (5.00%) .NET
12 7 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.43%) Cloud Native
1 9 (6.43%) Mobile App
2 7 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.86%) NHS
5 3 (2.14%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.14%) Derivative
5 3 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.14%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (2.14%) Vector Graphics
6 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.71%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.71%) Replication
7 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.71%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.86%) Linux
2 6 (4.29%) Unix
3 3 (2.14%) Android
3 3 (2.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (52.14%) CI/CD
2 60 (42.86%) Agile
3 49 (35.00%) DevOps
4 38 (27.14%) Microservices
5 36 (25.71%) Full-Stack Development
6 32 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (22.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (17.14%) Containerisation
9 23 (16.43%) Event-Driven
10 21 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
11 19 (13.57%) Clean Code
11 19 (13.57%) Software Engineering
12 18 (12.86%) Data Modelling
12 18 (12.86%) ETL
12 18 (12.86%) Mentoring
13 17 (12.14%) Test Automation
14 13 (9.29%) Analytics
14 13 (9.29%) SDLC
15 12 (8.57%) Continuous Integration
15 12 (8.57%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 78 (55.71%) Python
2 40 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 39 (27.86%) SQL
4 33 (23.57%) TypeScript
5 31 (22.14%) Java
6 6 (4.29%) Perl
6 6 (4.29%) T-SQL
7 5 (3.57%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.14%) C#
8 3 (2.14%) Dart
8 3 (2.14%) R
8 3 (2.14%) Scala
9 2 (1.43%) Lua
9 2 (1.43%) PHP
10 1 (0.71%) Bash
10 1 (0.71%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (19.29%) AWS Certification
2 24 (17.14%) Security Cleared
3 23 (16.43%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.86%) Degree
5 8 (5.71%) AWS Certified Developer
6 6 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.71%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.57%) QA
2 4 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.71%) GDPR
3 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
System Software
1 38 (27.14%) Docker
2 5 (3.57%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 42 (30.00%) Terraform
2 15 (10.71%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.57%) Grafana
5 3 (2.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (6.43%) Oracle
1 9 (6.43%) Splunk
2 6 (4.29%) Atlassian
3 4 (2.86%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (2.14%) Confluent
4 3 (2.14%) IBM
4 3 (2.14%) Informatica
4 3 (2.14%) MuleSoft
4 3 (2.14%) Virgin Media
5 2 (1.43%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.43%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.43%) SAP
6 1 (0.71%) Google
6 1 (0.71%) Intel
6 1 (0.71%) New Relic
6 1 (0.71%) Zuora