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

6 months to
15 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 316 423
Rank change year-on-year -28 +107 -110
Contract jobs citing Amazon RDS 240 454 522
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.80% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.30% 4.45% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 332 368
10th Percentile £400 £450 £438
25th Percentile £413 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £588 £573
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% +2.62% +9.05%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £652
90th Percentile £675 £761 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.48% +15.00% +1.01%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £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 7,263 10,212 17,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.07% 17.88% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,202 7,271 12,451
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 180 194
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.37
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £22.43
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £61.60 £73.75 £64.94
90th Percentile £74.00 £82.55 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £56.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year -29.76% +62.71% +43.44%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -47 189 £513 -14.58% 110
London -19 128 £513 -14.58% 43
Work from Home -2 103 £507 -15.50% 70
UK excluding London +1 83 £498 -13.48% 70
Scotland +45 30 £494 -3.89% 3
North of England -2 24 £463 -19.57% 25
Yorkshire +7 12 £507 -11.05% 14
North West +19 11 £448 -16.74% 10
South East -3 11 £530 -9.79% 17
South West +18 9 £550 -8.33% 6
Midlands +31 5 £450 -14.29% 15
West Midlands +17 3 £450 -17.62% 13
East of England +11 3 £625 +8.70% 2
East Midlands - 2 £450 - 2
Wales +23 1 £425 -43.33% 1
North East +2 1 £600 -14.29% 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 10 (4.17%) Confluence
1 10 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.33%) nginx
3 7 (2.92%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.50%) Apache
5 4 (1.67%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.25%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.83%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.42%) Drupal
8 1 (0.42%) GemFire
8 1 (0.42%) SAS
8 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 224 (93.33%) AWS
2 128 (53.33%) Amazon S3
3 113 (47.08%) Serverless
4 102 (42.50%) Amazon EC2
5 99 (41.25%) AWS Lambda
6 55 (22.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 50 (20.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 49 (20.42%) Azure
9 46 (19.17%) Route 53
10 36 (15.00%) Amazon EKS
11 32 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 31 (12.92%) AWS Step Functions
13 30 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
13 30 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
14 28 (11.67%) Amazon MSK
15 22 (9.17%) Entra ID
16 18 (7.50%) Amazon ECR
16 18 (7.50%) CloudFront
17 16 (6.67%) OpenShift
18 15 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.92%) Network Security
2 17 (7.08%) DNS
2 17 (7.08%) Firewall
3 15 (6.25%) DHCP
4 8 (3.33%) VPN
5 6 (2.50%) SMTP
6 5 (2.08%) AMQP
6 5 (2.08%) HTTP
7 4 (1.67%) LAN
7 4 (1.67%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (1.67%) SSH
7 4 (1.67%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.25%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.25%) WLAN
9 2 (0.83%) SMS
10 1 (0.42%) SAN
10 1 (0.42%) SSL
10 1 (0.42%) WAN
10 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (21.67%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (18.75%) Amazon Redshift
3 36 (15.00%) DynamoDB
4 22 (9.17%) MySQL
5 21 (8.75%) Amazon Athena
5 21 (8.75%) Parquet
6 15 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (5.83%) MongoDB
8 13 (5.42%) NoSQL
8 13 (5.42%) Relational Database
9 12 (5.00%) Data Lake
9 12 (5.00%) SQL Server
10 9 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (3.75%) InfluxDB
11 8 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (3.33%) Hadoop
12 7 (2.92%) Big Data
12 7 (2.92%) BigQuery
12 7 (2.92%) Oracle Database
12 7 (2.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 50 (20.83%) Git
2 48 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 20 (8.33%) GitLab
4 9 (3.75%) JIRA
4 9 (3.75%) SonarQube
5 7 (2.92%) Maven
6 6 (2.50%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.50%) JUnit
6 6 (2.50%) webpack
7 5 (2.08%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.08%) Mockito
7 5 (2.08%) Postman
7 5 (2.08%) Selenium
8 4 (1.67%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.67%) Mercurial
9 3 (1.25%) EasyMock
9 3 (1.25%) JMeter
9 3 (1.25%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.25%) NeoLoad
9 3 (1.25%) TestNG
General
1 31 (12.92%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.67%) Public Sector
3 19 (7.92%) Finance
4 7 (2.92%) Telecoms
5 4 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (1.67%) Banking
5 4 (1.67%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.25%) Electronics
6 3 (1.25%) Marketing
7 2 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.83%) Law
7 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.42%) Back Office
8 1 (0.42%) Legal
8 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 57 (23.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 36 (15.00%) Data Engineer
3 36 (15.00%) Developer
4 27 (11.25%) AWS DevOps
5 21 (8.75%) Architect
5 21 (8.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 19 (7.92%) DBA
6 19 (7.92%) Senior
7 18 (7.50%) Lead
8 11 (4.58%) AWS Architect
9 10 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (3.75%) AWS Developer
10 9 (3.75%) Python Developer
11 8 (3.33%) Administrator
11 8 (3.33%) Backend Developer
11 8 (3.33%) Java Developer
11 8 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.17%) JSON
1 22 (9.17%) REST
2 20 (8.33%) Node.js
3 19 (7.92%) Apache Avro
3 19 (7.92%) AWS CDK
3 19 (7.92%) Kafka
4 16 (6.67%) Spring
5 15 (6.25%) Spring Boot
6 13 (5.42%) LDAP
7 10 (4.17%) React
7 10 (4.17%) RESTful
8 9 (3.75%) Django
8 9 (3.75%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (2.50%) GraphQL
9 6 (2.50%) Hibernate
9 6 (2.50%) JPA
9 6 (2.50%) Laravel
10 5 (2.08%) Redux
10 5 (2.08%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.42%) Clustering
1 13 (5.42%) Replication
2 11 (4.58%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.58%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (2.92%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.92%) PKI
5 5 (2.08%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.67%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.67%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.67%) Smart Meter
7 3 (1.25%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.25%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.25%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.83%) Cybercrime
8 2 (0.83%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.83%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 41 (17.08%) Linux
2 27 (11.25%) Windows
3 15 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 12 (5.00%) Unix
5 11 (4.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.67%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.25%) CentOS
7 3 (1.25%) Debian
8 2 (0.83%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (39.58%) DevOps
2 77 (32.08%) CI/CD
3 54 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (19.58%) Agile
5 35 (14.58%) ETL
6 33 (13.75%) High Availability
7 32 (13.33%) Containerisation
7 32 (13.33%) Data Modelling
8 31 (12.92%) Microservices
9 26 (10.83%) Scrum
10 25 (10.42%) Analytics
11 23 (9.58%) Migration
12 22 (9.17%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (8.33%) Data Ingestion
13 20 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
14 18 (7.50%) Kanban
15 16 (6.67%) Configuration Management
15 16 (6.67%) Observability
15 16 (6.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 108 (45.00%) Python
2 91 (37.92%) SQL
3 59 (24.58%) Java
4 40 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 37 (15.42%) TypeScript
6 28 (11.67%) Bash
7 12 (5.00%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.58%) Go
9 9 (3.75%) Shell Script
10 8 (3.33%) C
11 5 (2.08%) PHP
12 4 (1.67%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.25%) C++
13 3 (1.25%) Ruby
14 2 (0.83%) Lua
14 2 (0.83%) Perl
14 2 (0.83%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.42%) C#
15 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 90 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 72 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 29 (12.08%) AWS Certification
4 24 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 13 (5.42%) Degree
6 9 (3.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (2.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.50%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.42%) OCP
10 1 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.50%) GDPR
2 4 (1.67%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.25%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.83%) SLA
5 1 (0.42%) IFRS
5 1 (0.42%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (26.67%) Docker
2 30 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.75%) Hyper-V
4 8 (3.33%) Terminal Services
5 6 (2.50%) BitLocker
5 6 (2.50%) Microsoft App-V
5 6 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.83%) Varnish
7 2 (0.83%) vSphere
8 1 (0.42%) HDFS
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 74 (30.83%) Kubernetes
2 71 (29.58%) Terraform
3 39 (16.25%) Grafana
4 33 (13.75%) Ansible
5 32 (13.33%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.58%) Progress Chef
7 7 (2.92%) Docker Swarm
7 7 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (2.50%) vCenter Server
8 6 (2.50%) vMotion
9 4 (1.67%) Kibana
9 4 (1.67%) Puppet
10 3 (1.25%) Kustomize
10 3 (1.25%) Packer
11 2 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.83%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.83%) Salt
12 1 (0.42%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.42%) FreeIPA
12 1 (0.42%) Icinga
Vendors
1 36 (15.00%) Oracle
2 30 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 17 (7.08%) Red Hat
4 15 (6.25%) VMware
5 9 (3.75%) Google
6 7 (2.92%) Citrix
7 6 (2.50%) Infoblox
8 5 (2.08%) SAP
8 5 (2.08%) Splunk
9 4 (1.67%) Ab Initio
9 4 (1.67%) Cisco
9 4 (1.67%) Commvault
9 4 (1.67%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.67%) Informatica
9 4 (1.67%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.25%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.25%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.83%) Databricks
11 2 (0.83%) Meraki
11 2 (0.83%) SaltStack
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