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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 244 242 343
Rank change year-on-year -2 +101 -138
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 103 247 299
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.70% 1.00% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.58% 5.26% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 189 211
10th Percentile £404 £450 £450
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -15.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £681
90th Percentile £655 £725 £743
UK median daily rate £503 £588 £573
% change year-on-year -14.47% +2.62% +9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £53.50
25th Percentile - £79.89 £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 2,875 4,698 9,504
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.43% 19.06% 21.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,118 3,428 6,908
10th Percentile £357 £385 £370
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £545
% change year-on-year -3.67% - +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 80 91
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.16 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.61 £43.75 £23.05
Median hourly rate £40.25 £66.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.02% +38.95% +41.79%
75th Percentile £63.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +30.43% +73.58%

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 16 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 5 (4.85%) Confluence
2 3 (2.91%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.91%) nginx
2 3 (2.91%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 2 (1.94%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.94%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.97%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 98 (95.15%) AWS
2 48 (46.60%) Amazon EC2
3 47 (45.63%) Amazon S3
4 43 (41.75%) Serverless
5 39 (37.86%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (27.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 27 (26.21%) Azure
8 24 (23.30%) Route 53
9 22 (21.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 17 (16.50%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (16.50%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (16.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (13.59%) Entra ID
12 13 (12.62%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (11.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 12 (11.65%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (10.68%) CloudFront
15 10 (9.71%) Azure Sentinel
15 10 (9.71%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (9.71%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.74%) Firewall
2 7 (6.80%) Network Security
3 5 (4.85%) DHCP
3 5 (4.85%) DNS
4 3 (2.91%) LAN
4 3 (2.91%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (2.91%) SSH
4 3 (2.91%) WLAN
5 2 (1.94%) VPN
6 1 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.97%) HTTP
6 1 (0.97%) NAS
6 1 (0.97%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.97%) SAN
6 1 (0.97%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (27.18%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (18.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (10.68%) MySQL
4 9 (8.74%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (7.77%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (7.77%) DynamoDB
6 7 (6.80%) MongoDB
6 7 (6.80%) SQL Server
7 5 (4.85%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (4.85%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (4.85%) Informix
7 5 (4.85%) MariaDB
7 5 (4.85%) Oracle Database
8 4 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (3.88%) Hadoop
8 4 (3.88%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.91%) Big Data
9 3 (2.91%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.91%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (23.30%) Jenkins
2 18 (17.48%) Git
3 7 (6.80%) GitLab
4 5 (4.85%) JIRA
5 4 (3.88%) Maven
5 4 (3.88%) webpack
6 3 (2.91%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.91%) JUnit
6 3 (2.91%) Postman
6 3 (2.91%) Selenium
7 2 (1.94%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.94%) EasyMock
7 2 (1.94%) Mockito
7 2 (1.94%) Snyk
7 2 (1.94%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.94%) TestNG
8 1 (0.97%) Gradle
8 1 (0.97%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.97%) Terragrunt
General
1 13 (12.62%) Public Sector
2 12 (11.65%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.80%) Finance
4 4 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.88%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.91%) Electronics
5 3 (2.91%) Marketing
5 3 (2.91%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.97%) Banking
6 1 (0.97%) Front Office
6 1 (0.97%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (22.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (20.39%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (12.62%) AWS DevOps
3 13 (12.62%) DBA
3 13 (12.62%) Senior
4 12 (11.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 10 (9.71%) Developer
5 10 (9.71%) Lead
6 8 (7.77%) Architect
7 6 (5.83%) AWS Specialist
7 6 (5.83%) Consultant
7 6 (5.83%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Azure Specialist
8 5 (4.85%) Cloud Specialist
9 4 (3.88%) Administrator
9 4 (3.88%) DV Cleared DBA
9 4 (3.88%) Lead Architect
9 4 (3.88%) PostgreSQL DBA
9 4 (3.88%) Technical Leader
10 3 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.68%) AWS CDK
2 7 (6.80%) LDAP
2 7 (6.80%) Node.js
2 7 (6.80%) React
2 7 (6.80%) REST
3 6 (5.83%) Kafka
4 4 (3.88%) CSS
4 4 (3.88%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (3.88%) HTML
4 4 (3.88%) Spring
4 4 (3.88%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.91%) GraphQL
5 3 (2.91%) Guice
5 3 (2.91%) OAuth
5 3 (2.91%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.94%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.94%) Laravel
6 2 (1.94%) Mustache
6 2 (1.94%) OpenID
6 2 (1.94%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.68%) Data Centre
2 9 (8.74%) Replication
3 5 (4.85%) Clustering
4 4 (3.88%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.91%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.91%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.91%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.94%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.94%) IoT
6 2 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.97%) Life Science
7 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 23 (22.33%) Linux
2 12 (11.65%) Windows
3 6 (5.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.85%) Unix
5 4 (3.88%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.94%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (1.94%) CentOS
7 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (34.95%) DevOps
2 34 (33.01%) Infrastructure as Code
3 30 (29.13%) CI/CD
4 17 (16.50%) High Availability
5 16 (15.53%) Agile
6 14 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (12.62%) Analytics
7 13 (12.62%) Containerisation
7 13 (12.62%) Disaster Recovery
8 12 (11.65%) Migration
9 11 (10.68%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (9.71%) Capacity Planning
10 10 (9.71%) Cloud Operations
10 10 (9.71%) Scrum
11 9 (8.74%) Cost Control
11 9 (8.74%) Kanban
11 9 (8.74%) Software Engineering
12 8 (7.77%) Service Design
12 8 (7.77%) Technical Leadership
13 7 (6.80%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 37 (35.92%) Python
2 32 (31.07%) SQL
3 20 (19.42%) Java
4 17 (16.50%) JavaScript
4 17 (16.50%) TypeScript
5 14 (13.59%) Bash
6 5 (4.85%) Go
7 4 (3.88%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.91%) PHP
9 2 (1.94%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.97%) C
10 1 (0.97%) C++
10 1 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.97%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (27.18%) Security Cleared
2 22 (21.36%) SC Cleared
3 20 (19.42%) AWS Certification
4 9 (8.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (5.83%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.83%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.91%) Degree
7 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.97%) OCP
8 1 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.94%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.94%) GDPR
1 2 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.94%) SLA
2 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.97%) IFRS
2 1 (0.97%) IFRS 17
2 1 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (29.13%) Docker
2 17 (16.50%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.85%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.94%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.94%) Terminal Services
5 2 (1.94%) vSphere
6 1 (0.97%) HDFS
6 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.97%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 34 (33.01%) Terraform
2 29 (28.16%) Kubernetes
3 16 (15.53%) Grafana
4 15 (14.56%) Ansible
5 9 (8.74%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.88%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.91%) Puppet
8 2 (1.94%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (1.94%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.94%) Packer
8 2 (1.94%) Salt
9 1 (0.97%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.97%) FreeIPA
9 1 (0.97%) Icinga
9 1 (0.97%) Kibana
Vendors
1 26 (25.24%) Oracle
2 16 (15.53%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.80%) VMware
4 6 (5.83%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.88%) CyberArk
5 4 (3.88%) Google
6 3 (2.91%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.91%) SAP
7 2 (1.94%) Cisco
7 2 (1.94%) Commvault
7 2 (1.94%) Databricks
7 2 (1.94%) Meraki
7 2 (1.94%) Qualys
7 2 (1.94%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.94%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.94%) Splunk
8 1 (0.97%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.97%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (0.97%) Denodo
8 1 (0.97%) Nimble Storage