Amazon RDS Contracts

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 311 417
Rank change year-on-year -57 +106 -112
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 241 493 529
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.83% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.30% 4.58% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 354 381
10th Percentile £403 £450 £438
25th Percentile £413 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £589 £570
Median % change year-on-year -12.95% +3.29% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.48% +15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - £52.50 -
25th Percentile - £59.35 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £84.09 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +52.89% +37.50%
75th Percentile - £88.30 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £55.00 £55.00

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,303 10,763 17,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.75% 18.03% 20.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,193 7,663 12,744
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.78% +9.96%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.56% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 183 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +59.00%
75th Percentile £58.55 £70.88 £61.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £35.00
% change year-on-year -31.09% +65.84% +45.83%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon RDS within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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 -55 192 £525 -12.50% 88
London -25 136 £525 -12.50% 41
Work from Home -12 109 £513 -14.58% 54
UK excluding London +8 75 £498 -13.48% 54
Scotland +32 29 £496 -3.55% 9
North of England -5 17 £450 -21.74% 16
North West +25 14 £449 -16.51% 8
South East -6 11 £530 -9.79% 9
South West +14 9 £550 -8.33% 8
Midlands +29 6 £500 -8.47% 7
East Midlands - 4 £600 - 1
West Midlands +26 2 £450 -20.70% 6
East of England +11 2 £650 +13.04% 6
Yorkshire 0 2 - - 8
Wales +14 1 £425 -43.33% 1
North East +8 1 £600 -7.69% 1

Amazon RDS
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 11 (4.56%) Confluence
1 11 (4.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.32%) nginx
3 4 (1.66%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.24%) Apache
5 2 (0.83%) GemFire
5 2 (0.83%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.41%) Drupal
6 1 (0.41%) SAS
6 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 225 (93.36%) AWS
2 124 (51.45%) Amazon S3
3 112 (46.47%) Serverless
4 108 (44.81%) Amazon EC2
5 105 (43.57%) AWS Lambda
6 58 (24.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 53 (21.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 47 (19.50%) Route 53
9 42 (17.43%) Azure
10 34 (14.11%) Amazon EKS
11 33 (13.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 32 (13.28%) Amazon ECS
13 31 (12.86%) Amazon SQS
13 31 (12.86%) AWS Step Functions
14 28 (11.62%) Amazon MSK
15 22 (9.13%) Entra ID
16 19 (7.88%) CloudFront
17 17 (7.05%) OpenShift
18 16 (6.64%) Amazon ECR
19 15 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.30%) Firewall
1 20 (8.30%) Network Security
2 18 (7.47%) DNS
3 16 (6.64%) DHCP
4 13 (5.39%) VPN
5 6 (2.49%) LAN
5 6 (2.49%) SMTP
6 5 (2.07%) AMQP
6 5 (2.07%) HTTP
6 5 (2.07%) WLAN
7 4 (1.66%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (1.66%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.66%) Wireless
8 3 (1.24%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (1.24%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.24%) WAN
9 2 (0.83%) SMS
9 2 (0.83%) SSL
9 2 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (21.99%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (15.77%) Amazon Redshift
2 38 (15.77%) DynamoDB
3 21 (8.71%) Parquet
4 17 (7.05%) Amazon Aurora
5 16 (6.64%) Relational Database
6 15 (6.22%) MySQL
7 14 (5.81%) MongoDB
7 14 (5.81%) NoSQL
8 12 (4.98%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (3.73%) InfluxDB
10 9 (3.73%) RDBMS
11 8 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (3.32%) Power BI
12 7 (2.90%) Oracle Database
12 7 (2.90%) SQL Server
13 6 (2.49%) Data Lake
13 6 (2.49%) Informix
14 5 (2.07%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 47 (19.50%) Jenkins
2 41 (17.01%) Git
3 21 (8.71%) GitLab
4 10 (4.15%) JIRA
5 7 (2.90%) Maven
5 7 (2.90%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.49%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.49%) JUnit
6 6 (2.49%) webpack
7 5 (2.07%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.07%) Mockito
7 5 (2.07%) Postman
7 5 (2.07%) Selenium
8 4 (1.66%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.66%) Mercurial
9 3 (1.24%) EasyMock
9 3 (1.24%) JMeter
9 3 (1.24%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.24%) NeoLoad
9 3 (1.24%) TestNG
General
1 33 (13.69%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.86%) Public Sector
3 25 (10.37%) Finance
4 10 (4.15%) Telecoms
5 7 (2.90%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.49%) Electronics
6 6 (2.49%) Marketing
7 5 (2.07%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.66%) Banking
9 2 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.83%) Law
9 2 (0.83%) Retail
10 1 (0.41%) Back Office
10 1 (0.41%) Front Office
10 1 (0.41%) Legal
10 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (23.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (16.60%) AWS Engineer
3 38 (15.77%) Developer
4 36 (14.94%) Data Engineer
5 28 (11.62%) AWS DevOps
6 23 (9.54%) Architect
7 22 (9.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 21 (8.71%) Lead
9 20 (8.30%) Senior
10 19 (7.88%) AWS Architect
10 19 (7.88%) DBA
11 11 (4.56%) Lead Architect
12 10 (4.15%) AWS Developer
13 9 (3.73%) Python Developer
14 8 (3.32%) Administrator
14 8 (3.32%) Backend Developer
14 8 (3.32%) Cloud Architect
14 8 (3.32%) Java Developer
15 7 (2.90%) Platform Engineer
15 7 (2.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.54%) JSON
1 23 (9.54%) REST
2 20 (8.30%) Node.js
3 19 (7.88%) Apache Avro
3 19 (7.88%) AWS CDK
4 17 (7.05%) Spring
5 16 (6.64%) Spring Boot
6 12 (4.98%) Kafka
6 12 (4.98%) LDAP
7 11 (4.56%) React
8 9 (3.73%) Django
8 9 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (3.73%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (3.73%) RESTful
9 7 (2.90%) Hibernate
9 7 (2.90%) JPA
10 6 (2.49%) GraphQL
11 5 (2.07%) Guice
11 5 (2.07%) Redux
11 5 (2.07%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.81%) Replication
2 12 (4.98%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.56%) Clustering
4 10 (4.15%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.32%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.90%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.90%) PKI
7 5 (2.07%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.66%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.66%) Smart Meter
9 3 (1.24%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.24%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.24%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.83%) Cybercrime
10 2 (0.83%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.83%) IoT
10 2 (0.83%) Life Science
10 2 (0.83%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 42 (17.43%) Linux
2 26 (10.79%) Windows
3 17 (7.05%) Windows Server
4 12 (4.98%) Unix
5 11 (4.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.07%) CentOS
7 4 (1.66%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (1.66%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.24%) Debian
8 3 (1.24%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.83%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (36.10%) DevOps
2 75 (31.12%) CI/CD
3 52 (21.58%) Agile
4 47 (19.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (13.69%) Microservices
6 28 (11.62%) ETL
6 28 (11.62%) High Availability
7 27 (11.20%) Scrum
8 26 (10.79%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (10.37%) Data Modelling
9 25 (10.37%) Migration
10 24 (9.96%) Containerisation
11 20 (8.30%) Data Ingestion
11 20 (8.30%) Performance Tuning
12 18 (7.47%) Analytics
12 18 (7.47%) Kanban
13 17 (7.05%) Software Engineering
14 16 (6.64%) Configuration Management
14 16 (6.64%) Data Pipeline
14 16 (6.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 102 (42.32%) Python
2 83 (34.44%) SQL
3 53 (21.99%) Java
4 39 (16.18%) JavaScript
5 36 (14.94%) TypeScript
6 25 (10.37%) Bash
7 13 (5.39%) Go
8 12 (4.98%) PowerShell
9 9 (3.73%) Shell Script
10 8 (3.32%) C
11 5 (2.07%) PHP
12 4 (1.66%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.24%) C++
13 3 (1.24%) Ruby
14 2 (0.83%) Lua
14 2 (0.83%) Perl
14 2 (0.83%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.41%) HiveQL
15 1 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 91 (37.76%) Security Cleared
2 73 (30.29%) SC Cleared
3 31 (12.86%) AWS Certification
4 24 (9.96%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.98%) Degree
6 9 (3.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 8 (3.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.49%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.41%) OCP
10 1 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.90%) GDPR
2 4 (1.66%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.24%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.24%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.83%) SLA
5 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.41%) IFRS
5 1 (0.41%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.41%) NCSC
5 1 (0.41%) NIST
5 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (26.97%) Docker
2 28 (11.62%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.73%) Terminal Services
4 8 (3.32%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.49%) BitLocker
5 6 (2.49%) Microsoft App-V
5 6 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.49%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (1.24%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.24%) vSphere
8 2 (0.83%) Varnish
9 1 (0.41%) HDFS
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 75 (31.12%) Kubernetes
2 71 (29.46%) Terraform
3 39 (16.18%) Grafana
4 36 (14.94%) Ansible
5 30 (12.45%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.56%) Progress Chef
7 7 (2.90%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (2.49%) Puppet
8 6 (2.49%) vCenter Server
8 6 (2.49%) vMotion
9 4 (1.66%) Kibana
9 4 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.24%) Kustomize
10 3 (1.24%) Packer
11 2 (0.83%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.83%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.83%) Salt
12 1 (0.41%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.41%) FreeIPA
12 1 (0.41%) Icinga
Vendors
1 35 (14.52%) Oracle
2 21 (8.71%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.64%) VMware
4 15 (6.22%) Red Hat
5 8 (3.32%) SAP
6 7 (2.90%) Citrix
7 6 (2.49%) Infoblox
7 6 (2.49%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.07%) Cisco
8 5 (2.07%) Splunk
9 4 (1.66%) Ab Initio
9 4 (1.66%) Commvault
10 3 (1.24%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.83%) Databricks
11 2 (0.83%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.83%) Google
11 2 (0.83%) HP
11 2 (0.83%) Informatica
11 2 (0.83%) Qualys
11 2 (0.83%) SaltStack