Amazon RDS Job Trends in the North West

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Amazon RDS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 172 186
Rank change year-on-year -8 +14 +44
Permanent jobs citing Amazon RDS 4 36 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.062% 0.71% 0.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.81% 4.71% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 10
10th Percentile £56,500 £57,750 £45,550
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,401 £69,308 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +15.51% +9.09%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £70,625
90th Percentile - £88,900 £74,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +30.43% -11.54%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 493 765 829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.69% 15.11% 18.62%
Number of salaries quoted 375 388 689
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,151 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,900 £83,400
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.08%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in the North West

Amazon RDS
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Amazon RDS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon RDS within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Manchester 0 3 £73,801 +6.48% 4
Amazon RDS
England

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) dbt
3 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (50.00%) Pulumi
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (25.00%) PaaS
4 1 (25.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Redis
2 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google