Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon RDS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon RDS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 433 495 402
Rank change year-on-year +62 -93 -21
Permanent jobs citing Amazon RDS 545 593 1,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.58% 0.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.99% 2.74% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 368 430 599
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,200 £41,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% -8.00% +38.89%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,197 21,669 43,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.35% 21.34% 27.93%
Number of salaries quoted 12,547 13,515 21,192
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £79,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon RDS within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +67 500 £65,000 -7.14% 105
UK excluding London +53 363 £50,000 -13.04% 64
Work from Home +43 232 £65,000 -8.45% 63
London +24 168 £80,000 -11.11% 45
North of England +72 136 £46,000 +2.22% 20
North West +35 73 £80,000 +23.08% 9
South East +41 65 £65,000 - 14
Midlands +17 58 £51,250 -14.58% 14
West Midlands +21 39 £58,500 +14.15% 12
Yorkshire +63 38 £43,000 +32.31% 11
South West -12 38 £60,000 +76.47% 5
East of England +10 31 £32,500 -43.48% 6
North East +20 25 £32,500 -31.83%
Scotland -62 21 £41,500 -36.15% 3
East Midlands -9 19 £47,500 -26.92% 2
Wales +10 7 £60,000 -35.14% 1
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 3

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 61 (11.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (8.99%) SharePoint
3 46 (8.44%) WebLogic
4 10 (1.83%) Confluence
4 10 (1.83%) IIS
4 10 (1.83%) OpenStack
5 9 (1.65%) nginx
6 2 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.18%) Moodle
7 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) Notion
Business Applications
1 46 (8.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 441 (80.92%) AWS
2 262 (48.07%) Amazon S3
3 214 (39.27%) Azure
4 213 (39.08%) Amazon EC2
5 174 (31.93%) Serverless
6 173 (31.74%) AWS Lambda
7 155 (28.44%) Amazon EKS
8 97 (17.80%) Microsoft 365
8 97 (17.80%) Route 53
9 91 (16.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 89 (16.33%) Amazon SQS
11 72 (13.21%) Amazon ECR
11 72 (13.21%) OCI
12 65 (11.93%) Amazon ECS
13 58 (10.64%) IBM Cloud
14 52 (9.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 50 (9.17%) Entra ID
15 50 (9.17%) OpenShift
15 50 (9.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 41 (7.52%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 93 (17.06%) DNS
2 61 (11.19%) TCP/IP
3 50 (9.17%) Firewall
4 49 (8.99%) SSL
5 46 (8.44%) BGP
6 43 (7.89%) VPN
7 36 (6.61%) DHCP
8 31 (5.69%) SAN
9 25 (4.59%) Remote Desktop
10 19 (3.49%) VLAN
10 19 (3.49%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (2.75%) LAN
11 15 (2.75%) WAN
12 12 (2.20%) Wireless
13 10 (1.83%) HTTP
14 8 (1.47%) MQTT
15 7 (1.28%) FTP
15 7 (1.28%) VoIP
16 6 (1.10%) LTE
16 6 (1.10%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (18.90%) Relational Database
2 88 (16.15%) RDBMS
3 81 (14.86%) MySQL
4 71 (13.03%) SQL Server
5 70 (12.84%) Amazon Redshift
6 59 (10.83%) Oracle Database
7 54 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
8 53 (9.72%) DynamoDB
9 33 (6.06%) MongoDB
10 30 (5.50%) Amazon Aurora
11 29 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
12 17 (3.12%) NoSQL
13 12 (2.20%) DB2
14 8 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (1.10%) BigQuery
15 6 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (0.92%) InfluxDB
17 2 (0.37%) Data Lake
17 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 99 (18.17%) Git
2 88 (16.15%) Jenkins
3 46 (8.44%) GitLab
4 32 (5.87%) Artifactory
5 29 (5.32%) Postman
6 15 (2.75%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.39%) Subversion
8 12 (2.20%) JIRA
9 10 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.92%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.92%) Selenium
11 3 (0.55%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.55%) JUnit
11 3 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.55%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.37%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.37%) Hudson
12 2 (0.37%) Metasploit
12 2 (0.37%) Snyk
12 2 (0.37%) sqlmap
General
1 201 (36.88%) Social Skills
2 89 (16.33%) Finance
3 84 (15.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 59 (10.83%) Public Sector
5 32 (5.87%) Front Office
6 31 (5.69%) Law
7 14 (2.57%) Legal
7 14 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (2.20%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.65%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (1.47%) Games
10 8 (1.47%) Marketing
11 7 (1.28%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.55%) Japanese Language
12 3 (0.55%) Retail
12 3 (0.55%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.18%) Advertising
14 1 (0.18%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 137 (25.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 119 (21.83%) AWS Engineer
3 114 (20.92%) Lead
4 100 (18.35%) Senior
5 69 (12.66%) Architect
6 64 (11.74%) AWS DevOps
7 62 (11.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 57 (10.46%) Support Engineer
9 56 (10.28%) Solutions Architect
10 53 (9.72%) Developer
11 50 (9.17%) Cloud Engineer
12 49 (8.99%) Senior DevOps
12 49 (8.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 46 (8.44%) IT Engineer
13 46 (8.44%) Lead Architect
13 46 (8.44%) Lead Solutions Architect
14 44 (8.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 37 (6.79%) IT Support
16 36 (6.61%) IT Support Engineer
16 36 (6.61%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (14.50%) Spring Boot
2 63 (11.56%) RabbitMQ
3 53 (9.72%) Spring
4 46 (8.44%) RESTful
5 35 (6.42%) GraphQL
6 32 (5.87%) J2EE
7 30 (5.50%) Django
7 30 (5.50%) React
8 29 (5.32%) JSON
9 28 (5.14%) .NET
10 23 (4.22%) Node.js
11 15 (2.75%) CSS
11 15 (2.75%) HTML
12 12 (2.20%) Middleware
12 12 (2.20%) Spring XD
13 10 (1.83%) .NET Framework
13 10 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
13 10 (1.83%) LDAP
14 8 (1.47%) AngularJS
14 8 (1.47%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 69 (12.66%) Hybrid Cloud
2 59 (10.83%) Blockchain
3 58 (10.64%) e-Learning
4 56 (10.28%) Enterprise Software
5 47 (8.62%) Cloud Native
5 47 (8.62%) Public Cloud
6 32 (5.87%) Tandem
7 29 (5.32%) Data Centre
7 29 (5.32%) Management Information System
8 19 (3.49%) Clustering
9 16 (2.94%) Driving Licence
10 15 (2.75%) Enterprise Storage
11 12 (2.20%) Client/Server
11 12 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (2.20%) iPad
11 12 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (2.20%) Smartphone
12 10 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (1.65%) IoT
14 8 (1.47%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 145 (26.61%) Windows
2 123 (22.57%) Linux
3 71 (13.03%) Windows Server
4 52 (9.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (5.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 30 (5.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 26 (4.77%) Windows Server 2012
8 21 (3.85%) Windows 10
9 13 (2.39%) Android
9 13 (2.39%) Apple iOS
10 10 (1.83%) Ubuntu
10 10 (1.83%) Unix
11 9 (1.65%) Debian
12 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.37%) Solaris
12 2 (0.37%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.18%) CentOS
13 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (43.49%) Agile
2 212 (38.90%) DevOps
3 186 (34.13%) CI/CD
4 149 (27.34%) Problem-Solving
5 123 (22.57%) Containerisation
6 119 (21.83%) Software Engineering
7 112 (20.55%) Mentoring
8 103 (18.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 89 (16.33%) Migration
10 86 (15.78%) Open Source
11 82 (15.05%) Test Automation
12 76 (13.94%) SDLC
13 74 (13.58%) Project Management
14 70 (12.84%) Secrets Management
15 69 (12.66%) Coaching
16 67 (12.29%) Artificial Intelligence
17 66 (12.11%) Observability
18 64 (11.74%) Computer Science
18 64 (11.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 61 (11.19%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 167 (30.64%) Python
2 120 (22.02%) Java
3 64 (11.74%) SQL
4 55 (10.09%) Go
5 34 (6.24%) Bash
6 32 (5.87%) PHP
7 26 (4.77%) JavaScript
7 26 (4.77%) PowerShell
8 19 (3.49%) C#
8 19 (3.49%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.02%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.47%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.47%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.28%) Ruby
12 6 (1.10%) R
13 5 (0.92%) C++
13 5 (0.92%) JSX
14 3 (0.55%) C
14 3 (0.55%) Rust
15 2 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 100 (18.35%) AWS Certification
2 76 (13.94%) Degree
3 70 (12.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 69 (12.66%) SC Cleared
4 69 (12.66%) Security Cleared
5 65 (11.93%) Azure Certification
6 64 (11.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (5.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (5.32%) DBS Check
9 13 (2.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 10 (1.83%) OCP
10 10 (1.83%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (1.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (0.92%) CCNA
12 5 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.92%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.73%) MCSE
13 4 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.06%) SLA
2 11 (2.02%) GDPR
3 8 (1.47%) NIST
4 7 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.73%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.55%) QA
7 3 (0.55%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.37%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.37%) PMO
9 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 127 (23.30%) Docker
2 97 (17.80%) Active Directory
3 89 (16.33%) Hyper-V
4 52 (9.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (1.10%) Firmware
9 4 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.37%) pfSense
11 2 (0.37%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.37%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 214 (39.27%) Terraform
2 195 (35.78%) Kubernetes
3 69 (12.66%) Prometheus
4 37 (6.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (4.59%) Ansible
6 22 (4.04%) Grafana
7 16 (2.94%) Failover Clustering
8 15 (2.75%) Progress Chef
9 12 (2.20%) Puppet
10 11 (2.02%) Packer
11 7 (1.28%) Salt
11 7 (1.28%) SCOM
12 5 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.92%) Foglight
12 5 (0.92%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.92%) WSUS
13 4 (0.73%) PowerCLI
13 4 (0.73%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 122 (22.39%) Microsoft
2 99 (18.17%) Oracle
3 66 (12.11%) VMware
4 64 (11.74%) Red Hat
5 61 (11.19%) Dynatrace
6 58 (10.64%) IBM
7 53 (9.72%) Citrix
8 46 (8.44%) Sparx
9 27 (4.95%) Veeam
10 23 (4.22%) Cisco
11 18 (3.30%) HP
12 17 (3.12%) Nimble Storage
13 15 (2.75%) Google
14 12 (2.20%) Sybase
15 11 (2.02%) Atlassian
16 10 (1.83%) Meraki
17 9 (1.65%) Aruba
17 9 (1.65%) Dell
18 7 (1.28%) Commvault
18 7 (1.28%) Mitel