Amazon RDS Job Trends in the South West

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Amazon RDS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 119 244
Rank change year-on-year +6 +125 +7
Permanent jobs citing Amazon RDS 87 33 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.23% 1.26% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.26% 6.86% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 19 28 38
10th Percentile £50,400 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £37,500 £43,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £42,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -27.66% +109.82%
75th Percentile £73,125 £47,500 £70,938
90th Percentile £85,250 £64,125 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -7.14%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 570 481 1,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.06% 18.34% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 279 341 1,010
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,498 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £66,137
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in the South West

Amazon RDS
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Amazon RDS
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in the South West over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon RDS in the South West

Amazon RDS
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 10 April 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
Wiltshire 0 27 - - 1
Somerset -11 27 - -
Bristol -6 14 £72,500 +61.11% 3
Devon - 7 £52,500 -
Gloucestershire -24 3 £92,500 +57.45% 3
Dorset - 2 - - 1
Cornwall - 1 £47,000 -
Amazon RDS
England

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

Application Platforms
1 63 (72.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.60%) IIS
3 2 (2.30%) Apache
3 2 (2.30%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.15%) Confluence
4 1 (1.15%) Drupal
4 1 (1.15%) nginx
4 1 (1.15%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 70 (80.46%) Azure
2 63 (72.41%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (27.59%) AWS
4 22 (25.29%) Amazon S3
5 21 (24.14%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (21.84%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (21.84%) Serverless
7 10 (11.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (9.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (6.90%) SaaS
10 5 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (5.75%) CloudFront
11 4 (4.60%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (4.60%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (4.60%) GitHub
11 4 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (2.30%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (72.41%) DHCP
1 63 (72.41%) DNS
2 4 (4.60%) Network Security
3 2 (2.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.90%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.15%) InfluxDB
2 1 (1.15%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (1.15%) MySQL
2 1 (1.15%) Redis
2 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (9.20%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.60%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.15%) Gatling
3 1 (1.15%) JIRA
3 1 (1.15%) JMeter
3 1 (1.15%) Vagrant
General
1 70 (80.46%) Social Skills
2 67 (77.01%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 63 (72.41%) Systems Engineer
2 7 (8.05%) Developer
3 6 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (6.90%) Java Developer
4 5 (5.75%) Senior
5 4 (4.60%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (4.60%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (4.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.45%) Head of Engineering
6 3 (3.45%) Head of Software Engineering
6 3 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (2.30%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 2 (2.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (2.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.30%) Infrastructure Support
7 2 (2.30%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 2 (2.30%) Support Engineer
8 1 (1.15%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (1.15%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 1 (1.15%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.90%) Spring
1 6 (6.90%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.15%) .NET
2 1 (1.15%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.15%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.15%) Express.js
2 1 (1.15%) Loki
2 1 (1.15%) Memcached
2 1 (1.15%) NestJS
2 1 (1.15%) Node.js
2 1 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.15%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 63 (72.41%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (10.34%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.45%) IoT
3 3 (3.45%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.30%) Cyberattack
4 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 71 (81.61%) Windows
2 69 (79.31%) Linux
3 65 (74.71%) Windows Server 2016
4 64 (73.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (74.71%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (73.56%) Migration
3 63 (72.41%) Customer Experience
3 63 (72.41%) Customer Service
3 63 (72.41%) Email Filtering
3 63 (72.41%) Kalman Filter
3 63 (72.41%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 63 (72.41%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 63 (72.41%) Web Filtering
4 17 (19.54%) CI/CD
5 15 (17.24%) DevOps
6 14 (16.09%) Containerisation
7 10 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (9.20%) Mentoring
9 7 (8.05%) Agile
9 7 (8.05%) Cloud Security
10 6 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (6.90%) Design Patterns
10 6 (6.90%) Front End Development
11 5 (5.75%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.69%) Python
2 9 (10.34%) PowerShell
3 7 (8.05%) Bash
3 7 (8.05%) Java
4 6 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.60%) PHP
6 3 (3.45%) SQL
7 1 (1.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 67 (77.01%) Security Cleared
2 64 (73.56%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.75%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.30%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.15%) Degree
5 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (72.41%) Cyber Essentials
1 63 (72.41%) PCI DSS
2 5 (5.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.45%) ISO 9001
3 3 (3.45%) QA
4 2 (2.30%) GDPR
4 2 (2.30%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 66 (75.86%) Active Directory
2 63 (72.41%) Hyper-V
2 63 (72.41%) Terminal Server
3 17 (19.54%) Docker
4 4 (4.60%) iptables
5 3 (3.45%) Firmware
6 2 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (12.64%) Kubernetes
1 11 (12.64%) Terraform
2 6 (6.90%) Ansible
2 6 (6.90%) Grafana
2 6 (6.90%) Progress Chef
2 6 (6.90%) Prometheus
3 5 (5.75%) Puppet
4 1 (1.15%) Consul
4 1 (1.15%) Packer
Vendors
1 66 (75.86%) Microsoft
2 65 (74.71%) VMware
3 63 (72.41%) Brocade
3 63 (72.41%) Nimble Storage
3 63 (72.41%) SolarWinds
3 63 (72.41%) Splunk
3 63 (72.41%) Tanium
3 63 (72.41%) Veeam
4 1 (1.15%) Google
4 1 (1.15%) TOWER Software