Amazon RDS Job Trends in England

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Amazon RDS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 410 417
Rank change year-on-year -22 +7 +72
Permanent jobs citing Amazon RDS 209 243 407
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.33% 0.58% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.39% 3.10% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 112 180 365
10th Percentile £40,125 £37,950 £31,125
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £97,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,250 £119,625 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
England

Amazon RDS falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,172 7,845 13,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.65% 18.86% 18.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,907 4,769 10,914
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,813 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,125 £87,500 £75,833
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -8.00%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon RDS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in England

Amazon RDS
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon RDS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in England over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon RDS in England

Amazon RDS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon RDS within the England region over the 6 months to 7 March 2026. 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
South West +54 88 £62,500 +38.89% 10
London -51 66 £75,338 -16.29% 35
North of England -15 22 £60,000 -13.52% 17
West Midlands +17 14 £50,000 -26.97% 10
East of England +12 14 £61,325 +10.86% 6
Midlands +4 14 £50,000 -24.60% 13
North East -10 9 £29,000 -58.20% 2
Yorkshire -32 8 £57,500 +64.29% 6
North West -11 5 £73,801 +6.37% 9
South East -14 3 £42,500 +13.33% 23
Amazon RDS
UK

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 82 (39.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.31%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.87%) Apache
4 5 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.39%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.91%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.91%) WebSphere
6 3 (1.44%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.96%) IIS
8 1 (0.48%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.48%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Shopify
2 1 (0.48%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 117 (55.98%) AWS
1 117 (55.98%) Azure
2 86 (41.15%) Microsoft 365
3 73 (34.93%) AWS Lambda
3 73 (34.93%) Serverless
4 68 (32.54%) Amazon S3
5 64 (30.62%) Amazon EC2
6 45 (21.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 38 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
8 31 (14.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 29 (13.88%) Amazon EKS
9 29 (13.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 22 (10.53%) Amazon ECR
11 17 (8.13%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 16 (7.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 16 (7.66%) GCP
12 16 (7.66%) SaaS
13 15 (7.18%) dbt
13 15 (7.18%) PaaS
14 14 (6.70%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 80 (38.28%) DNS
2 76 (36.36%) DHCP
3 37 (17.70%) TCP/IP
4 19 (9.09%) Firewall
5 17 (8.13%) VLAN
6 7 (3.35%) Wireless
7 6 (2.87%) BGP
7 6 (2.87%) VPN
8 4 (1.91%) Network Security
8 4 (1.91%) SSL
9 3 (1.44%) AMQP
9 3 (1.44%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.96%) LAN
10 2 (0.96%) NAS
10 2 (0.96%) SAN
10 2 (0.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.00%) NoSQL
2 20 (9.57%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (8.13%) DynamoDB
3 17 (8.13%) Redis
4 14 (6.70%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (5.74%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (4.78%) SQL Server
7 8 (3.83%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (3.35%) Big Data
9 6 (2.87%) Hadoop
10 5 (2.39%) Apache Hive
10 5 (2.39%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.39%) MySQL
11 4 (1.91%) DB2
11 4 (1.91%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.48%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.48%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 27 (12.92%) Jenkins
2 16 (7.66%) GitLab
3 10 (4.78%) CircleCI
4 7 (3.35%) Git
5 4 (1.91%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 131 (62.68%) Social Skills
2 80 (38.28%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (14.35%) Finance
4 25 (11.96%) Banking
5 13 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (5.26%) Financial Institution
7 9 (4.31%) Advertising
8 6 (2.87%) Back Office
8 6 (2.87%) Law
8 6 (2.87%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.87%) Retail
9 5 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.44%) Billing
10 3 (1.44%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.44%) Military
11 1 (0.48%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Music Industry
11 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (33.49%) Systems Engineer
2 43 (20.57%) Senior
3 32 (15.31%) AWS Engineer
4 28 (13.40%) Developer
5 20 (9.57%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (8.13%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (7.18%) Support Engineer
8 14 (6.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (6.22%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.74%) Senior Developer
11 10 (4.78%) AWS Data Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.31%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (4.31%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.31%) Java Developer
12 9 (4.31%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 8 (3.83%) Linux Engineer
13 8 (3.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 7 (3.35%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.05%) RESTful
2 20 (9.57%) Kafka
3 16 (7.66%) RabbitMQ
4 14 (6.70%) Django
5 11 (5.26%) Spring
5 11 (5.26%) Spring Boot
5 11 (5.26%) web3js
6 10 (4.78%) gRPC
7 8 (3.83%) Node.js
8 7 (3.35%) AWS CDK
8 7 (3.35%) Loki
9 6 (2.87%) React
10 5 (2.39%) boto
10 5 (2.39%) REST
10 5 (2.39%) Spark Streaming
10 5 (2.39%) Vue
11 4 (1.91%) Next.js
11 4 (1.91%) OpenAPI
11 4 (1.91%) PySpark
12 3 (1.44%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 70 (33.49%) Legacy Systems
2 31 (14.83%) Cloud Native
3 17 (8.13%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.74%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (5.26%) Blockchain
5 11 (5.26%) Web3
6 8 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.87%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.39%) e-Learning
8 5 (2.39%) IoT
9 4 (1.91%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.44%) Blog
10 3 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.44%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.44%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.96%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 103 (49.28%) Linux
2 92 (44.02%) Windows
3 84 (40.19%) Windows Server
4 74 (35.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (8.61%) Unix
6 4 (1.91%) Android
6 4 (1.91%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.91%) VMS
7 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (46.89%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (41.63%) CI/CD
3 85 (40.67%) Migration
4 77 (36.84%) DevOps
5 76 (36.36%) Customer Service
6 71 (33.97%) Infrastructure as Code
7 70 (33.49%) Customer Experience
7 70 (33.49%) Email Filtering
7 70 (33.49%) Kalman Filter
7 70 (33.49%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 70 (33.49%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 70 (33.49%) Web Filtering
8 46 (22.01%) Observability
9 43 (20.57%) Containerisation
10 26 (12.44%) Platform Engineering
10 26 (12.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 25 (11.96%) Agile
11 25 (11.96%) Disaster Recovery
12 24 (11.48%) Software Engineering
13 23 (11.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 68 (32.54%) Python
2 31 (14.83%) Java
3 20 (9.57%) SQL
4 18 (8.61%) Go
5 17 (8.13%) PowerShell
6 16 (7.66%) Bash
7 12 (5.74%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.78%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.87%) Scala
10 5 (2.39%) PHP
11 3 (1.44%) C#
12 1 (0.48%) C
12 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 91 (43.54%) Security Cleared
2 87 (41.63%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.05%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.66%) Degree
5 13 (6.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.91%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.91%) Network+ Certification
8 3 (1.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (1.44%) IIBA
8 3 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.48%) OCP
10 1 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (36.36%) PCI DSS
2 70 (33.49%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.87%) SOC 2
4 5 (2.39%) GDPR
5 4 (1.91%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.91%) QA
6 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.44%) SLA
7 2 (0.96%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 92 (44.02%) Active Directory
2 84 (40.19%) Hyper-V
3 70 (33.49%) Terminal Server
4 57 (27.27%) Docker
5 20 (9.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (3.83%) Firmware
7 5 (2.39%) HDFS
8 4 (1.91%) iptables
8 4 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.91%) vSphere
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 62 (29.67%) Terraform
2 45 (21.53%) Kubernetes
3 25 (11.96%) Prometheus
4 16 (7.66%) Grafana
5 13 (6.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (5.74%) Ansible
7 9 (4.31%) AWS Copilot
8 7 (3.35%) FortiGate
9 5 (2.39%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.91%) Puppet
10 4 (1.91%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (1.91%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.96%) VxRail
11 2 (0.96%) WSUS
12 1 (0.48%) Argo
12 1 (0.48%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.48%) Istio
12 1 (0.48%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 93 (44.50%) Microsoft
2 91 (43.54%) VMware
3 79 (37.80%) Veeam
4 74 (35.41%) SolarWinds
5 70 (33.49%) Brocade
5 70 (33.49%) Nimble Storage
5 70 (33.49%) Splunk
5 70 (33.49%) Tanium
6 15 (7.18%) Google
7 9 (4.31%) Cisco
8 7 (3.35%) SonicWALL
8 7 (3.35%) WatchGuard
9 5 (2.39%) Databricks
10 4 (1.91%) ConnectWise
10 4 (1.91%) Draytek
10 4 (1.91%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.91%) IBM
11 3 (1.44%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.44%) WooCommerce
11 3 (1.44%) Zerto