Amazon RDS Job Trends in the Midlands

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 172 247
Rank change year-on-year -84 +75 -27
Permanent jobs citing Amazon RDS 10 60 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.070% 1.05% 0.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.03% 7.59% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 8 35 31
10th Percentile - £66,178 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £71,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - +63.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £74,375
90th Percentile £87,250 - £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 971 791 1,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.79% 13.80% 11.17%
Number of salaries quoted 654 558 805
10th Percentile £32,250 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,125 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.91% -3.81%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,625 £76,250 £79,200
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% -0.80% -3.85%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Amazon RDS
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Amazon RDS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Amazon RDS in the Midlands

Amazon RDS
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon RDS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
West Midlands -82 10 £75,000 +3.45% 8
Amazon RDS
England

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
5 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) MySQL
2 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (30.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (30.00%) Power BI
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Administrator
3 3 (30.00%) DBA
3 3 (30.00%) Senior DBA
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Software Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) CloudOps Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Python Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Python Software Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Architect
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) REST
1 2 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (30.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Analytics
1 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (50.00%) ETL
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) AI
3 3 (30.00%) Business Continuity
3 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Database Security
3 3 (30.00%) Database Tuning
3 3 (30.00%) Logistics
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Server Monitoring
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) GDPR
2 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (10.00%) GxP
3 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (10.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform