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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 352 368
Rank change year-on-year -37 +16 +83
Permanent jobs citing Amazon RDS 231 356 324
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.72% 0.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.88% 3.98% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 120 213 285
10th Percentile £28,500 £36,600 £31,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £75,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +30.43% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £102,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £118,750 £99,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +21.74% -11.54%

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 5,952 8,939 9,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.42% 18.03% 20.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,909 5,102 7,448
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £115,000 £97,087
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025. 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 +102 108 £58,750 +30.56% 58
London -83 63 £75,000 -16.67% 73
West Midlands +40 22 £66,250 -4.41% 46
Midlands +37 22 £66,250 -4.41% 87
North of England -21 22 £57,500 +15.00% 115
North East +7 13 £29,000 -42.00% 9
East of England +12 8 £30,000 -45.77% 79
South East +6 5 £42,500 +13.33% 117
Yorkshire +1 5 £60,000 +35.52% 50
North West -15 4 £69,401 +6.77% 56
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
1 102 (44.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (4.33%) Confluence
3 9 (3.90%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.03%) Tomcat
4 7 (3.03%) WebSphere
5 6 (2.60%) IIS
5 6 (2.60%) SharePoint
5 6 (2.60%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (1.73%) nginx
7 3 (1.30%) Apache
8 2 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.43%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (1.73%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.87%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.43%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Shopify
2 1 (0.43%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 141 (61.04%) Azure
2 119 (51.52%) Microsoft 365
3 116 (50.22%) AWS
4 72 (31.17%) Amazon S3
5 68 (29.44%) Amazon EC2
6 67 (29.00%) AWS Lambda
6 67 (29.00%) Serverless
7 39 (16.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 38 (16.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 34 (14.72%) Amazon ECS
10 32 (13.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 27 (11.69%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (8.66%) Amazon ECR
13 16 (6.93%) Route 53
14 14 (6.06%) AWS KMS
15 13 (5.63%) Amazon ELB
15 13 (5.63%) GCP
16 12 (5.19%) AWS Step Functions
16 12 (5.19%) dbt
17 11 (4.76%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 107 (46.32%) DNS
2 91 (39.39%) DHCP
3 40 (17.32%) Firewall
4 33 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 26 (11.26%) VLAN
6 18 (7.79%) Wireless
7 17 (7.36%) VPN
8 11 (4.76%) FTP
8 11 (4.76%) HTTP
8 11 (4.76%) SMTP
8 11 (4.76%) SSH
9 7 (3.03%) SSL
10 6 (2.60%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (2.60%) IPsec
10 6 (2.60%) VoIP
11 5 (2.16%) AMQP
12 4 (1.73%) IMAP
12 4 (1.73%) NAS
12 4 (1.73%) OpenLDAP
13 3 (1.30%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.82%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (8.66%) SQL Server
3 18 (7.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 15 (6.49%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (6.49%) DynamoDB
4 15 (6.49%) NoSQL
5 13 (5.63%) Redis
6 11 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (4.33%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (4.33%) Big Data
8 9 (3.90%) Hadoop
9 8 (3.46%) Apache Hive
9 8 (3.46%) DB2
10 5 (2.16%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.16%) MySQL
11 4 (1.73%) InfluxDB
11 4 (1.73%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.30%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.87%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 35 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 16 (6.93%) Git
3 11 (4.76%) GitLab
3 11 (4.76%) Vagrant
4 10 (4.33%) JIRA
5 3 (1.30%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.87%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.87%) Subversion
7 1 (0.43%) Gatling
7 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 150 (64.94%) Social Skills
2 91 (39.39%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (14.72%) Finance
4 16 (6.93%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.49%) Banking
6 11 (4.76%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.90%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.60%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.16%) Electronics
10 5 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.16%) Law
10 5 (2.16%) Marketing
11 3 (1.30%) Advertising
11 3 (1.30%) Back Office
11 3 (1.30%) Retail
12 2 (0.87%) Billing
12 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 84 (36.36%) Systems Engineer
2 44 (19.05%) Senior
3 32 (13.85%) AWS Engineer
4 29 (12.55%) Support Engineer
5 19 (8.23%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (7.79%) Data Engineer
7 17 (7.36%) Developer
7 17 (7.36%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (6.93%) IT Support
9 14 (6.06%) 2nd Line Support
9 14 (6.06%) IT Engineer
10 13 (5.63%) Senior Data Engineer
11 12 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (5.19%) IT Support Engineer
12 11 (4.76%) AWS Data Engineer
12 11 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
13 10 (4.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 10 (4.33%) Technical Engineer
13 10 (4.33%) Technical Support
13 10 (4.33%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.63%) Kafka
2 11 (4.76%) Django
2 11 (4.76%) RESTful
3 10 (4.33%) LDAP
3 10 (4.33%) RabbitMQ
4 9 (3.90%) Spring
4 9 (3.90%) Spring Boot
5 8 (3.46%) AWS CDK
5 8 (3.46%) boto
5 8 (3.46%) Node.js
5 8 (3.46%) Spark Streaming
6 6 (2.60%) LAPP Stack
6 6 (2.60%) WebSphere MQ
7 5 (2.16%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (2.16%) React
7 5 (2.16%) Vue
8 4 (1.73%) Loki
8 4 (1.73%) Next.js
8 4 (1.73%) REST
9 3 (1.30%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 84 (36.36%) Legacy Systems
2 20 (8.66%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.36%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (6.49%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.46%) e-Learning
7 6 (2.60%) Clustering
8 5 (2.16%) Replication
9 4 (1.73%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.73%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.30%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.30%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.30%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.30%) Web3
11 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.87%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 136 (58.87%) Linux
2 117 (50.65%) Windows
3 102 (44.16%) Windows Server
4 84 (36.36%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (7.79%) Unix
6 11 (4.76%) VMS
7 9 (3.90%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (2.60%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.73%) Android
10 4 (1.73%) Apple iOS
10 4 (1.73%) Ubuntu
10 4 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (49.78%) Problem-Solving
2 101 (43.72%) Migration
3 95 (41.13%) Customer Service
4 84 (36.36%) Customer Experience
4 84 (36.36%) Email Filtering
4 84 (36.36%) Kalman Filter
4 84 (36.36%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 84 (36.36%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 84 (36.36%) Web Filtering
5 76 (32.90%) CI/CD
6 75 (32.47%) DevOps
7 51 (22.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 35 (15.15%) Containerisation
9 31 (13.42%) Observability
10 26 (11.26%) Agile
11 24 (10.39%) Platform Engineering
11 24 (10.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 23 (9.96%) Disaster Recovery
13 22 (9.52%) Cloud Security
14 21 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 80 (34.63%) Python
2 41 (17.75%) Java
3 27 (11.69%) SQL
4 25 (10.82%) PowerShell
5 16 (6.93%) Bash
6 11 (4.76%) Go
6 11 (4.76%) Groovy
7 10 (4.33%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.33%) Scala
7 10 (4.33%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.03%) Perl
9 6 (2.60%) C#
10 3 (1.30%) C
10 3 (1.30%) PHP
10 3 (1.30%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.87%) Ruby
12 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 122 (52.81%) Security Cleared
2 115 (49.78%) SC Cleared
3 30 (12.99%) AWS Certification
4 21 (9.09%) Degree
5 8 (3.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (3.46%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.60%) ACMT
6 6 (2.60%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (2.16%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.30%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (0.87%) IIBA
9 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (38.96%) Cyber Essentials
2 88 (38.10%) PCI DSS
3 9 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.46%) GDPR
5 6 (2.60%) SLA
6 3 (1.30%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.30%) QA
6 3 (1.30%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.87%) Data Quality
System Software
1 114 (49.35%) Active Directory
2 106 (45.89%) Hyper-V
3 84 (36.36%) Terminal Server
4 57 (24.68%) Docker
5 28 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (3.46%) HDFS
7 6 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (2.16%) DFS Replication
9 4 (1.73%) Dovecot
9 4 (1.73%) Firmware
9 4 (1.73%) Postfix
9 4 (1.73%) Squid
9 4 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.43%) iptables
10 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 59 (25.54%) Terraform
2 38 (16.45%) Kubernetes
3 29 (12.55%) Prometheus
4 27 (11.69%) Grafana
4 27 (11.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (5.19%) FortiGate
6 9 (3.90%) Ansible
7 6 (2.60%) Autotask
7 6 (2.60%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (2.60%) vCenter Server
8 5 (2.16%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.73%) Nessus
9 4 (1.73%) PaperCut
9 4 (1.73%) Proxmox
10 3 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.87%) Nagios
12 1 (0.43%) Argo
12 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 115 (49.78%) Microsoft
2 113 (48.92%) VMware
3 103 (44.59%) Veeam
4 85 (36.80%) Splunk
5 84 (36.36%) Brocade
5 84 (36.36%) Nimble Storage
5 84 (36.36%) SolarWinds
5 84 (36.36%) Tanium
6 23 (9.96%) Cisco
7 12 (5.19%) Google
7 12 (5.19%) Oracle
7 12 (5.19%) SonicWALL
7 12 (5.19%) WatchGuard
8 11 (4.76%) ServiceNow
9 10 (4.33%) Datto
10 8 (3.46%) Databricks
11 7 (3.03%) Apple
11 7 (3.03%) IBM
11 7 (3.03%) Red Hat
12 6 (2.60%) Sophos