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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 362 369
Rank change year-on-year -22 +7 +84
Permanent jobs citing Amazon RDS 229 354 324
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.71% 0.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.87% 3.97% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 118 211 285
10th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £31,125
25th Percentile £43,438 £47,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £74,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.75% +29.57% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £102,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £118,750 £97,500
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 5,921 8,919 9,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.38% 17.99% 20.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,883 5,081 7,402
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,250
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 £100,000 £115,000 £97,261
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.43% +4.63% -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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +93 107 £62,500 +38.89% 13
London -110 63 £75,000 -16.67% 29
West Midlands +34 22 £66,250 -4.41% 6
Midlands +32 22 £66,250 -4.41% 7
North of England -17 22 £57,500 +15.00% 21
North East +11 13 £29,000 -42.00% 2
East of England +14 7 £27,500 -50.29% 6
South East +1 5 £42,500 +13.33% 23
Yorkshire -7 5 £60,000 +35.52% 10
North West -15 4 £69,401 +6.77% 9
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
1 101 (44.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (4.37%) Confluence
3 9 (3.93%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.06%) Tomcat
4 7 (3.06%) WebSphere
5 6 (2.62%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (2.18%) IIS
6 5 (2.18%) SharePoint
7 4 (1.75%) nginx
8 3 (1.31%) Apache
9 2 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.44%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.87%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.44%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (1.31%) Shopify
2 1 (0.44%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 139 (60.70%) Azure
2 117 (51.09%) Microsoft 365
3 116 (50.66%) AWS
4 72 (31.44%) Amazon S3
5 68 (29.69%) Amazon EC2
6 67 (29.26%) AWS Lambda
6 67 (29.26%) Serverless
7 39 (17.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 38 (16.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 34 (14.85%) Amazon ECS
10 32 (13.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 27 (11.79%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (8.73%) Amazon ECR
13 16 (6.99%) Route 53
14 14 (6.11%) AWS KMS
15 13 (5.68%) Amazon ELB
15 13 (5.68%) GCP
16 12 (5.24%) AWS Step Functions
16 12 (5.24%) dbt
17 11 (4.80%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 106 (46.29%) DNS
2 90 (39.30%) DHCP
3 38 (16.59%) Firewall
4 32 (13.97%) TCP/IP
5 25 (10.92%) VLAN
6 17 (7.42%) Wireless
7 16 (6.99%) VPN
8 11 (4.80%) FTP
8 11 (4.80%) HTTP
8 11 (4.80%) SMTP
8 11 (4.80%) SSH
9 7 (3.06%) SSL
10 5 (2.18%) AMQP
10 5 (2.18%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (2.18%) IPsec
10 5 (2.18%) VoIP
11 4 (1.75%) IMAP
11 4 (1.75%) NAS
11 4 (1.75%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (1.31%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.92%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.30%) SQL Server
3 18 (7.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 15 (6.55%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (6.55%) DynamoDB
4 15 (6.55%) NoSQL
5 13 (5.68%) Redis
6 11 (4.80%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (4.37%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (4.37%) Big Data
8 9 (3.93%) Hadoop
9 8 (3.49%) Apache Hive
9 8 (3.49%) DB2
10 5 (2.18%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.18%) MySQL
11 4 (1.75%) InfluxDB
11 4 (1.75%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.31%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.87%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 35 (15.28%) Jenkins
2 16 (6.99%) Git
3 11 (4.80%) GitLab
3 11 (4.80%) Vagrant
4 10 (4.37%) JIRA
5 3 (1.31%) 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 (0.44%) Gatling
7 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 149 (65.07%) Social Skills
2 91 (39.74%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (14.41%) Finance
4 15 (6.55%) Banking
4 15 (6.55%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.80%) Financial Institution
6 8 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (3.49%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.18%) Law
7 5 (2.18%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.75%) Electronics
8 4 (1.75%) Marketing
9 3 (1.31%) Advertising
9 3 (1.31%) Back Office
9 3 (1.31%) Retail
10 2 (0.87%) Billing
10 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Legal
11 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 84 (36.68%) Systems Engineer
2 43 (18.78%) Senior
3 32 (13.97%) AWS Engineer
4 28 (12.23%) Support Engineer
5 19 (8.30%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (7.86%) Data Engineer
7 17 (7.42%) Developer
7 17 (7.42%) Platform Engineer
8 15 (6.55%) IT Support
9 13 (5.68%) 2nd Line Support
9 13 (5.68%) IT Engineer
9 13 (5.68%) Senior Data Engineer
10 12 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (4.80%) AWS Data Engineer
11 11 (4.80%) IT Support Engineer
11 11 (4.80%) Linux Engineer
12 10 (4.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (4.37%) Technical Engineer
12 10 (4.37%) Technical Support
12 10 (4.37%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.68%) Kafka
2 11 (4.80%) Django
2 11 (4.80%) RESTful
3 10 (4.37%) LDAP
3 10 (4.37%) RabbitMQ
4 9 (3.93%) Spring
4 9 (3.93%) Spring Boot
5 8 (3.49%) AWS CDK
5 8 (3.49%) boto
5 8 (3.49%) Node.js
5 8 (3.49%) Spark Streaming
6 6 (2.62%) LAPP Stack
6 6 (2.62%) WebSphere MQ
7 5 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (2.18%) React
7 5 (2.18%) Vue
8 4 (1.75%) Loki
8 4 (1.75%) Next.js
8 4 (1.75%) REST
9 3 (1.31%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 84 (36.68%) Legacy Systems
2 20 (8.73%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.42%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (6.55%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (4.80%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.49%) e-Learning
7 5 (2.18%) Clustering
7 5 (2.18%) Replication
8 4 (1.75%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.75%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.31%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.31%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.31%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.31%) Web3
10 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.87%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 135 (58.95%) Linux
2 115 (50.22%) Windows
3 100 (43.67%) Windows Server
4 84 (36.68%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (7.86%) Unix
6 11 (4.80%) VMS
7 9 (3.93%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (2.18%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.75%) Android
10 4 (1.75%) Apple iOS
10 4 (1.75%) Ubuntu
10 4 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (50.22%) Problem-Solving
2 100 (43.67%) Migration
3 95 (41.48%) Customer Service
4 84 (36.68%) Customer Experience
4 84 (36.68%) Email Filtering
4 84 (36.68%) Kalman Filter
4 84 (36.68%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 84 (36.68%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 84 (36.68%) Web Filtering
5 76 (33.19%) CI/CD
6 75 (32.75%) DevOps
7 51 (22.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 34 (14.85%) Containerisation
9 31 (13.54%) Observability
10 26 (11.35%) Agile
11 24 (10.48%) Platform Engineering
11 24 (10.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 22 (9.61%) Cloud Security
12 22 (9.61%) Disaster Recovery
13 21 (9.17%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 80 (34.93%) Python
2 41 (17.90%) Java
3 27 (11.79%) SQL
4 24 (10.48%) PowerShell
5 16 (6.99%) Bash
6 11 (4.80%) Go
6 11 (4.80%) Groovy
7 10 (4.37%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.37%) Scala
7 10 (4.37%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.06%) Perl
9 6 (2.62%) C#
10 3 (1.31%) C
10 3 (1.31%) PHP
10 3 (1.31%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.87%) Ruby
12 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 122 (53.28%) Security Cleared
2 115 (50.22%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.10%) AWS Certification
4 21 (9.17%) Degree
5 8 (3.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (3.49%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.62%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.18%) ACMT
7 5 (2.18%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (1.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.31%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (0.87%) IIBA
9 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.44%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (38.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 88 (38.43%) PCI DSS
3 9 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.49%) GDPR
5 6 (2.62%) SLA
6 3 (1.31%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.31%) QA
6 3 (1.31%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.87%) Data Quality
System Software
1 113 (49.34%) Active Directory
2 105 (45.85%) Hyper-V
3 84 (36.68%) Terminal Server
4 56 (24.45%) Docker
5 27 (11.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (3.49%) HDFS
7 5 (2.18%) DFS Replication
7 5 (2.18%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.75%) Dovecot
8 4 (1.75%) Firmware
8 4 (1.75%) Postfix
8 4 (1.75%) Squid
8 4 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.44%) iptables
9 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 59 (25.76%) Terraform
2 37 (16.16%) Kubernetes
3 29 (12.66%) Prometheus
4 27 (11.79%) Grafana
5 25 (10.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (5.24%) FortiGate
7 9 (3.93%) Ansible
8 6 (2.62%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (2.18%) Autotask
9 5 (2.18%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.18%) vCenter Server
10 4 (1.75%) Nessus
10 4 (1.75%) PaperCut
10 4 (1.75%) Proxmox
11 3 (1.31%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.87%) Nagios
13 1 (0.44%) Argo
13 1 (0.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 113 (49.34%) Microsoft
2 112 (48.91%) VMware
3 102 (44.54%) Veeam
4 85 (37.12%) Splunk
5 84 (36.68%) Brocade
5 84 (36.68%) Nimble Storage
5 84 (36.68%) SolarWinds
5 84 (36.68%) Tanium
6 22 (9.61%) Cisco
7 12 (5.24%) Google
7 12 (5.24%) SonicWALL
7 12 (5.24%) WatchGuard
8 11 (4.80%) Oracle
8 11 (4.80%) ServiceNow
9 9 (3.93%) Datto
10 8 (3.49%) Databricks
11 7 (3.06%) IBM
11 7 (3.06%) Red Hat
12 6 (2.62%) Apple
13 5 (2.18%) Sophos