Amazon RDS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Amazon RDS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon RDS over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 232 348
Rank change year-on-year -16 +116 -144
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 105 258 298
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.70% 1.02% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.65% 5.38% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 196 209
10th Percentile £404 £450 £450
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £581 £653 £675
90th Percentile £690 £725 £743
UK median daily rate £505 £588 £573
% change year-on-year -14.04% +2.62% +9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £52.50 £53.50
25th Percentile - £59.35 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £84.09 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year - +43.13% +46.88%
75th Percentile - £88.30 £61.25
90th Percentile - - £62.00
UK median hourly rate - £84.09 £58.75
% change year-on-year - +43.13% +46.88%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Amazon RDS is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,877 4,794 9,525
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.13% 19.03% 21.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,121 3,498 6,912
10th Percentile £356 £381 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £732
UK median daily rate £525 £542 £548
% change year-on-year -3.05% -1.23% +9.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 85 92
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.61 £43.50 £23.38
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +36.84% +41.79%
75th Percentile £63.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% +30.20% +66.79%

Amazon RDS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon RDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon RDS trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon RDS.

Amazon RDS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Amazon RDS over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Amazon RDS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon RDS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon RDS.

Amazon RDS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (5.71%) Confluence
2 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.86%) nginx
3 2 (1.90%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.90%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 2 (1.90%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.95%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 100 (95.24%) AWS
2 50 (47.62%) Amazon EC2
3 46 (43.81%) Amazon S3
4 40 (38.10%) Serverless
5 39 (37.14%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (26.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 26 (24.76%) Route 53
7 26 (24.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 25 (23.81%) Azure
9 17 (16.19%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (15.24%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (15.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (14.29%) Entra ID
12 13 (12.38%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (11.43%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 12 (11.43%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (10.48%) CloudFront
15 10 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
15 10 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
16 9 (8.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.48%) Firewall
2 7 (6.67%) Network Security
3 5 (4.76%) DHCP
3 5 (4.76%) DNS
4 4 (3.81%) LAN
4 4 (3.81%) VPN
4 4 (3.81%) WLAN
5 3 (2.86%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.90%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (1.90%) SSH
6 2 (1.90%) Wireless
7 1 (0.95%) HTTP
7 1 (0.95%) NAS
7 1 (0.95%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.95%) SAN
7 1 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.95%) WAN
7 1 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (27.62%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (10.48%) MySQL
4 9 (8.57%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (7.62%) DynamoDB
5 8 (7.62%) MongoDB
6 7 (6.67%) SQL Server
7 6 (5.71%) Relational Database
8 5 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (4.76%) Informix
8 5 (4.76%) MariaDB
8 5 (4.76%) Oracle Database
8 5 (4.76%) RDBMS
9 4 (3.81%) Amazon QuickSight
9 4 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.86%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.90%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.90%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (22.86%) Jenkins
2 15 (14.29%) Git
3 8 (7.62%) GitLab
4 6 (5.71%) JIRA
5 4 (3.81%) Maven
5 4 (3.81%) webpack
6 3 (2.86%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.86%) JUnit
6 3 (2.86%) Postman
6 3 (2.86%) Selenium
7 2 (1.90%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.90%) EasyMock
7 2 (1.90%) Mockito
7 2 (1.90%) Snyk
7 2 (1.90%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.90%) TestNG
8 1 (0.95%) Gradle
8 1 (0.95%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.95%) Terragrunt
General
1 17 (16.19%) Public Sector
2 13 (12.38%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.57%) Finance
4 6 (5.71%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.76%) Electronics
5 5 (4.76%) Marketing
5 5 (4.76%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (22.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (20.95%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
4 13 (12.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 13 (12.38%) DBA
4 13 (12.38%) Lead
5 12 (11.43%) Senior
6 11 (10.48%) Developer
7 8 (7.62%) Architect
8 6 (5.71%) AWS Architect
8 6 (5.71%) AWS Specialist
8 6 (5.71%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Lead Architect
9 5 (4.76%) Azure Specialist
9 5 (4.76%) Cloud Specialist
10 4 (3.81%) Administrator
10 4 (3.81%) DV Cleared DBA
10 4 (3.81%) Lead Cloud Architect
10 4 (3.81%) PostgreSQL DBA
10 4 (3.81%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.48%) AWS CDK
2 8 (7.62%) REST
3 7 (6.67%) Node.js
3 7 (6.67%) React
4 6 (5.71%) LDAP
5 5 (4.76%) Spring
5 5 (4.76%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.81%) CSS
6 4 (3.81%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (3.81%) HTML
7 3 (2.86%) GraphQL
7 3 (2.86%) Guice
7 3 (2.86%) Kafka
7 3 (2.86%) OAuth
8 2 (1.90%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.90%) AWS SAM
8 2 (1.90%) OpenAPI
8 2 (1.90%) Redux
8 2 (1.90%) Swagger
8 2 (1.90%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 9 (8.57%) Replication
3 5 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.81%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.81%) Clustering
5 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.86%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.86%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.90%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.90%) IoT
6 2 (1.90%) Life Science
6 2 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.95%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 24 (22.86%) Linux
2 13 (12.38%) Windows
3 6 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (5.71%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.76%) Unix
5 3 (2.86%) CentOS
6 2 (1.90%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.95%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (32.38%) DevOps
2 32 (30.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 30 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 18 (17.14%) Agile
5 15 (14.29%) High Availability
6 14 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (12.38%) Migration
8 11 (10.48%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (10.48%) Scrum
8 11 (10.48%) Software Engineering
9 10 (9.52%) Capacity Planning
9 10 (9.52%) Cloud Operations
9 10 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (8.57%) Analytics
10 9 (8.57%) Containerisation
10 9 (8.57%) Cost Control
10 9 (8.57%) Kanban
11 8 (7.62%) Microservices
11 8 (7.62%) Roadmaps
11 8 (7.62%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 34 (32.38%) Python
2 30 (28.57%) SQL
3 18 (17.14%) Java
4 17 (16.19%) JavaScript
4 17 (16.19%) TypeScript
5 14 (13.33%) Bash
6 6 (5.71%) Go
7 4 (3.81%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.86%) PHP
9 2 (1.90%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.95%) C
10 1 (0.95%) C++
10 1 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.95%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 24 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 20 (19.05%) AWS Certification
4 9 (8.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (5.71%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.71%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.86%) Degree
7 2 (1.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.95%) OCP
8 1 (0.95%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.90%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.90%) GDPR
1 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.90%) SLA
2 1 (0.95%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.95%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.95%) IFRS
2 1 (0.95%) IFRS 17
2 1 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (28.57%) Docker
2 18 (17.14%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.90%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.90%) Terminal Services
5 2 (1.90%) vSphere
6 1 (0.95%) HDFS
6 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 35 (33.33%) Terraform
2 30 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 17 (16.19%) Ansible
4 16 (15.24%) Grafana
5 9 (8.57%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.81%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.81%) Puppet
7 3 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.90%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.90%) Packer
8 2 (1.90%) Salt
9 1 (0.95%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.95%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.95%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.95%) FreeIPA
9 1 (0.95%) Icinga
9 1 (0.95%) Kibana
Vendors
1 25 (23.81%) Oracle
2 13 (12.38%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.67%) VMware
4 6 (5.71%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.76%) SAP
6 4 (3.81%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.86%) Cisco
7 3 (2.86%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.90%) Commvault
8 2 (1.90%) Databricks
8 2 (1.90%) Meraki
8 2 (1.90%) Qualys
8 2 (1.90%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.90%) Splunk
9 1 (0.95%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.95%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (0.95%) Citrix
9 1 (0.95%) Denodo
9 1 (0.95%) Informatica
9 1 (0.95%) Nimble Storage