DynamoDB Contract Job Trends

Amazon DynamoDB (DDB)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring DynamoDB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 383 451
Rank change year-on-year -50 +68 +26
Contract jobs citing DynamoDB 211 139 123
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.48% 0.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.89% 2.51% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 96 96
10th Percentile £347 £383 £377
25th Percentile £409 £413 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.62% -8.09% -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £613
90th Percentile £693 £644 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £519 £550
% change year-on-year -13.25% -5.68% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £51.40 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +117.14% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.00 - -

All Database & BI 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 7,290 5,531 7,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.18% 18.99% 17.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,918 3,799 5,202
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £486 £475
% change year-on-year -2.31% +2.37% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 98 145
10th Percentile £15.94 £20.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.59 £23.69 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £33.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% -15.49% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.81 £65.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.63 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +48.55% -20.90% -29.76%

DynamoDB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

DynamoDB job vacancy trend in the UK

DynamoDB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DynamoDB

DynamoDB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DynamoDB over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DynamoDB in the UK

DynamoDB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DynamoDB

DynamoDB
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DynamoDB over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DynamoDB in the UK

DynamoDB
Top 16 Contract Job 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 16 May 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 -65 163 £500 +4.98% 81
UK excluding London -43 109 £450 -13.25% 43
Work from Home +1 80 £475 +2.70% 49
London -55 73 £525 +10.53% 41
North of England -45 38 £475 -8.43% 24
Midlands -45 36 £440 -7.37% 7
North West -17 28 £450 -10.00% 12
West Midlands -49 22 £469 +4.22% 6
Scotland +2 15 £329 -37.33%
East Midlands -15 14 £400 -25.51% 1
South East -61 12 £538 +7.50% 9
Yorkshire -54 9 £525 - 10
South West -36 5 £606 -4.94% 2
Wales - 2 £425 -
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
North East - 1 £308 - 2

DynamoDB
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 22 (10.43%) Confluence
2 9 (4.27%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.84%) SAS
4 4 (1.90%) CICS
5 3 (1.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.42%) nginx
6 2 (0.95%) Apache
6 2 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.47%) CMS
7 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 209 (99.05%) AWS
2 146 (69.19%) Serverless
3 132 (62.56%) AWS Lambda
4 105 (49.76%) Amazon S3
5 64 (30.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 64 (30.33%) Amazon ECS
5 64 (30.33%) GitHub
6 59 (27.96%) Amazon SQS
7 47 (22.27%) GitHub Actions
8 44 (20.85%) AWS Step Functions
9 41 (19.43%) Amazon EC2
10 35 (16.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 34 (16.11%) Amazon EKS
11 34 (16.11%) Azure
12 32 (15.17%) Amazon EventBridge
13 23 (10.90%) Route 53
14 22 (10.43%) Amazon Kinesis
15 20 (9.48%) AWS KMS
16 16 (7.58%) AWS CodePipeline
17 15 (7.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.37%) DNS
2 2 (0.95%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) CTI
3 1 (0.47%) Internet
3 1 (0.47%) LAN
3 1 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.47%) VPN
3 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (32.70%) Amazon RDS
2 56 (26.54%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (19.91%) Amazon Aurora
3 42 (19.91%) NoSQL
4 34 (16.11%) Amazon Athena
5 29 (13.74%) MySQL
6 17 (8.06%) Amazon Redshift
6 17 (8.06%) MongoDB
6 17 (8.06%) Relational Database
7 14 (6.64%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (6.16%) Big Data
9 12 (5.69%) Redis
10 10 (4.74%) Data Lake
11 8 (3.79%) Aerospike
11 8 (3.79%) Power BI
12 7 (3.32%) DocumentDB
12 7 (3.32%) SQL Server
13 6 (2.84%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (2.84%) DB2
13 6 (2.84%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 49 (23.22%) Git
2 45 (21.33%) Jenkins
3 41 (19.43%) GitLab
4 26 (12.32%) JIRA
4 26 (12.32%) JUnit
5 23 (10.90%) Maven
6 19 (9.00%) SonarQube
7 18 (8.53%) Mockito
8 11 (5.21%) DbUnit
8 11 (5.21%) jMock
9 9 (4.27%) Bitbucket Server
10 8 (3.79%) Cypress.io
10 8 (3.79%) Gradle
11 7 (3.32%) Claude Code
11 7 (3.32%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.90%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.90%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (1.42%) Jasmine
13 3 (1.42%) Postman
14 2 (0.95%) Selenium
General
1 61 (28.91%) Social Skills
2 38 (18.01%) Finance
3 36 (17.06%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.74%) Banking
6 4 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.42%) Retail
8 2 (0.95%) French Language
8 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.95%) Legal
8 2 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Billing
9 1 (0.47%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.47%) Front Office
9 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 68 (32.23%) Developer
2 42 (19.91%) AWS Engineer
2 42 (19.91%) Senior
3 31 (14.69%) Java Developer
4 20 (9.48%) Architect
5 18 (8.53%) AWS Architect
5 18 (8.53%) Data Engineer
5 18 (8.53%) Senior Developer
6 16 (7.58%) AWS Developer
6 16 (7.58%) Software Engineer
7 15 (7.11%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (6.64%) Lead
9 13 (6.16%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (5.69%) AWS Data Engineer
11 11 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (5.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (5.21%) Java Engineer
11 11 (5.21%) Senior Java Developer
12 10 (4.74%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (4.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (25.59%) Spring Boot
2 53 (25.12%) Node.js
2 53 (25.12%) Spring
3 45 (21.33%) RESTful
4 38 (18.01%) Kafka
5 36 (17.06%) React
5 36 (17.06%) REST
6 25 (11.85%) AngularJS
7 24 (11.37%) SOAP
8 19 (9.00%) Hibernate
8 19 (9.00%) JPA
8 19 (9.00%) Spring Cloud
8 19 (9.00%) Web Services
9 17 (8.06%) .NET
9 17 (8.06%) AWS CDK
9 17 (8.06%) Jest
10 16 (7.58%) OAuth
11 15 (7.11%) ActiveMQ
11 15 (7.11%) GraphQL
11 15 (7.11%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 65 (30.81%) Cloud Native
2 48 (22.75%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (7.58%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.32%) NHS
5 6 (2.84%) DataPower
5 6 (2.84%) Mainframe
5 6 (2.84%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.90%) Online Banking
7 4 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.42%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.95%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.95%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.95%) IVR
9 2 (0.95%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.47%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.47%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.43%) Linux
2 8 (3.79%) Unix
3 4 (1.90%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (62.09%) CI/CD
2 93 (44.08%) DevOps
3 89 (42.18%) Microservices
4 88 (41.71%) Agile
5 67 (31.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 56 (26.54%) Event-Driven
7 53 (25.12%) Containerisation
8 45 (21.33%) Observability
9 42 (19.91%) Test Automation
10 41 (19.43%) TDD
11 34 (16.11%) Data Modelling
11 34 (16.11%) Software Engineering
12 33 (15.64%) Full-Stack Development
13 32 (15.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 29 (13.74%) Scrum
15 28 (13.27%) Migration
16 27 (12.80%) Performance Tuning
17 24 (11.37%) Problem-Solving
17 24 (11.37%) Stakeholder Management
18 22 (10.43%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 88 (41.71%) Python
2 76 (36.02%) Java
3 57 (27.01%) SQL
4 52 (24.64%) TypeScript
5 20 (9.48%) C#
6 18 (8.53%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.27%) Bash
8 8 (3.79%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.37%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.90%) JCL
10 4 (1.90%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.42%) Go
11 3 (1.42%) Scala
12 1 (0.47%) Bicep
12 1 (0.47%) Groovy
12 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.47%) PHP
12 1 (0.47%) Ruby
12 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (22.27%) Security Cleared
2 34 (16.11%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.43%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (5.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (2.37%) AWS Certified Developer
6 5 (2.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (2.37%) Degree
7 4 (1.90%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.69%) QA
2 7 (3.32%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.32%) PCI DSS
3 6 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.90%) GDPR
4 4 (1.90%) NIST
5 3 (1.42%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.95%) NCSC
7 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (29.86%) Docker
2 10 (4.74%) Postfix
3 4 (1.90%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.42%) ISA Server
4 3 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.95%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 74 (35.07%) Terraform
2 42 (19.91%) Kubernetes
3 38 (18.01%) Grafana
4 21 (9.95%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.32%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.90%) Ansible
6 4 (1.90%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.95%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.95%) linkerd
7 2 (0.95%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.47%) Argo
8 1 (0.47%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 15 (7.11%) Databricks
2 14 (6.64%) Jaspersoft
3 13 (6.16%) Atlassian
3 13 (6.16%) Oracle
4 12 (5.69%) Splunk
5 7 (3.32%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.84%) Denodo
7 5 (2.37%) Ab Initio
7 5 (2.37%) Informatica
7 5 (2.37%) Teradata
8 3 (1.42%) Adobe
8 3 (1.42%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.42%) SAP
8 3 (1.42%) Tenable
9 2 (0.95%) IBM
9 2 (0.95%) Sybase
10 1 (0.47%) Avaya
10 1 (0.47%) Cisco
10 1 (0.47%) Genesys
10 1 (0.47%) Virgin Media