Redshift Spectrum Contract Job Trends

Amazon Redshift Spectrum
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Redshift Spectrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 - 587
Rank change year-on-year - - +161
Contract jobs citing Redshift Spectrum 8 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.020% - 0.007%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.12% - 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.40%
75th Percentile £550 - £475
90th Percentile £573 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £450

All Database & BI Skills
UK

Redshift Spectrum 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 6,653 5,702 7,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.34% 18.51% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,563 3,816 5,100
10th Percentile £340 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 90 174
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.81 £16.04
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.81 £21.64
Median hourly rate £54.00 £38.31 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.97% -9.87% -24.01%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.93 £62.88
90th Percentile £85.10 £70.38 £77.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.85 £30.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +82.83% -25.47% -28.04%

Redshift Spectrum
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Redshift Spectrum job vacancy trend in the UK

Redshift Spectrum
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Redshift Spectrum
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Redshift Spectrum within the UK over the 6 months to 19 February 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
London - 8 £525 - 3
England - 8 £525 - 4
Work from Home - 3 - - 2

Redshift Spectrum
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 4 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (75.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 6 (75.00%) Serverless
3 5 (62.50%) Amazon EMR
4 4 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (37.50%) AWS CodePipeline
5 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
5 3 (37.50%) Snowflake
6 2 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (25.00%) Azure
6 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (25.00%) GitHub
6 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (12.50%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) 4G
1 1 (12.50%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 8 (100.00%) Data Lake
2 5 (62.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon QuickSight
3 3 (37.50%) Power BI
3 3 (37.50%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (37.50%) Tableau
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (12.50%) Apache Hudi
5 1 (12.50%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (12.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 6 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
4 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (12.50%) Billing
5 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Lead
3 2 (25.00%) Lead Data Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Kafka
1 4 (50.00%) PySpark
2 3 (37.50%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Freedom of Information Act
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Analytics
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 8 (100.00%) ETL
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (62.50%) Data Architecture
3 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Data Ingestion
3 5 (62.50%) DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
4 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (50.00%) Event-Driven
4 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
5 3 (37.50%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (37.50%) Data Science
5 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (37.50%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Databricks