Amazon RDS Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon RDS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 388 426
Rank change year-on-year -37 +38 +61
Permanent jobs citing Amazon RDS 158 105 333
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.39% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.23% 2.46% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 80 85 257
10th Percentile £41,000 £30,350 £30,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.89% +6.74% -5.80%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,886 4,266 11,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.72% 16.04% 17.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,768 2,993 8,247
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,585 £31,825
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Amazon RDS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon RDS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon RDS in the UK excluding London

Amazon RDS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon RDS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
South West -4 79 £61,250 +53.13% 6
North of England -51 24 £60,000 -16.60% 18
East of England -35 15 £42,500 -19.05% 6
Wales -17 12 £73,801 +9.13%
West Midlands -25 12 £50,000 -26.06% 4
Midlands -31 12 £50,000 -23.08% 7
Scotland -15 10 £73,801 -0.94% 1
North West -29 9 £95,000 +27.09% 9
Yorkshire -53 9 £57,500 -36.11% 6
North East -35 6 £47,500 -31.54% 3
South East -54 4 £60,000 +4.35% 10
Northern Ireland -42 2 £73,801 +34.18%
Amazon RDS
UK

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 70 (44.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.06%) IIS
3 7 (4.43%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.27%) Apache
6 1 (0.63%) Confluence
6 1 (0.63%) Drupal
6 1 (0.63%) JBoss
6 1 (0.63%) nginx
6 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 105 (66.46%) Azure
2 79 (50.00%) AWS
3 71 (44.94%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (31.65%) AWS Lambda
4 50 (31.65%) Serverless
5 43 (27.22%) Amazon EC2
6 42 (26.58%) Amazon S3
7 37 (23.42%) Amazon ECS
8 36 (22.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 33 (20.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (14.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (10.76%) Amazon ECR
11 17 (10.76%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (9.49%) GCP
12 15 (9.49%) PaaS
13 14 (8.86%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 13 (8.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 13 (8.23%) dbt
14 13 (8.23%) Pulumi
15 11 (6.96%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 72 (45.57%) DHCP
1 72 (45.57%) DNS
2 26 (16.46%) TCP/IP
3 9 (5.70%) Firewall
4 5 (3.16%) VLAN
5 4 (2.53%) LAN
5 4 (2.53%) NAS
5 4 (2.53%) Network Security
5 4 (2.53%) SAN
5 4 (2.53%) WAN
6 2 (1.27%) MQTT
6 2 (1.27%) SSH
6 2 (1.27%) VPN
7 1 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.03%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (8.86%) Redis
3 13 (8.23%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (5.70%) DynamoDB
4 9 (5.70%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.80%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (3.16%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.53%) MySQL
7 4 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.27%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.27%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.63%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.63%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 14 (8.86%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.06%) Git
3 5 (3.16%) GitLab
4 4 (2.53%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.90%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.27%) JIRA
7 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.63%) Gatling
7 1 (0.63%) JMeter
7 1 (0.63%) MLflow
7 1 (0.63%) Storybook
7 1 (0.63%) Vagrant
General
1 99 (62.66%) Social Skills
2 75 (47.47%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (5.70%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (4.43%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.80%) Advertising
7 4 (2.53%) Legal
8 3 (1.90%) Automotive
8 3 (1.90%) Banking
8 3 (1.90%) Billing
8 3 (1.90%) Finance
8 3 (1.90%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.27%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.27%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.27%) Law
9 2 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 64 (40.51%) Systems Engineer
2 22 (13.92%) Senior
3 17 (10.76%) Platform Engineer
4 14 (8.86%) Developer
5 13 (8.23%) AWS Engineer
5 13 (8.23%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (5.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (5.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (5.70%) Support Engineer
7 8 (5.06%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 8 (5.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 8 (5.06%) Lead
7 8 (5.06%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 7 (4.43%) Java Developer
8 7 (4.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (3.80%) Site Engineer
10 5 (3.16%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 5 (3.16%) Integration Engineer
10 5 (3.16%) IT Support
10 5 (3.16%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.23%) Django
2 9 (5.70%) Loki
2 9 (5.70%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (5.06%) AWS CDK
3 8 (5.06%) Spring
3 8 (5.06%) Spring Boot
4 7 (4.43%) Node.js
5 6 (3.80%) REST
6 5 (3.16%) Kafka
7 4 (2.53%) SOAP
8 3 (1.90%) OpenAPI
8 3 (1.90%) React
8 3 (1.90%) RESTful
8 3 (1.90%) Swagger
8 3 (1.90%) YAML
9 2 (1.27%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.27%) pgvector
9 2 (1.27%) Vue
10 1 (0.63%) Express.js
10 1 (0.63%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 64 (40.51%) Legacy Systems
2 14 (8.86%) Cloud Native
3 12 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (6.96%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.16%) IoT
6 4 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.53%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.90%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.90%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.27%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.27%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.27%) Replication
8 2 (1.27%) Robotics
9 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.63%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 97 (61.39%) Linux
2 86 (54.43%) Windows
3 78 (49.37%) Windows Server
4 70 (44.30%) Windows Server 2016
5 17 (10.76%) Unix
6 4 (2.53%) VMS
7 2 (1.27%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.63%) Android
8 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (50.63%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (48.73%) Migration
3 67 (42.41%) Customer Service
4 66 (41.77%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 64 (40.51%) Customer Experience
5 64 (40.51%) Email Filtering
5 64 (40.51%) Kalman Filter
5 64 (40.51%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 64 (40.51%) Web Filtering
6 57 (36.08%) CI/CD
7 55 (34.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 48 (30.38%) DevOps
9 35 (22.15%) Observability
10 28 (17.72%) Containerisation
11 22 (13.92%) Platform Engineering
12 20 (12.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 19 (12.03%) Agile
14 16 (10.13%) Mentoring
15 13 (8.23%) Event-Driven
15 13 (8.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 48 (30.38%) Python
2 21 (13.29%) PowerShell
3 17 (10.76%) Bash
4 16 (10.13%) Java
4 16 (10.13%) SQL
5 13 (8.23%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.33%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.53%) PHP
7 4 (2.53%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.63%) Dart
8 1 (0.63%) Go
Qualifications
1 83 (52.53%) Security Cleared
2 78 (49.37%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.96%) AWS Certification
4 10 (6.33%) Degree
5 8 (5.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.16%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.53%) Network+ Certification
8 3 (1.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.90%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (1.90%) IIBA
9 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (40.51%) Cyber Essentials
1 64 (40.51%) PCI DSS
2 6 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.16%) QA
4 4 (2.53%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.90%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.27%) GDPR
6 2 (1.27%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 82 (51.90%) Active Directory
2 71 (44.94%) Hyper-V
3 64 (40.51%) Terminal Server
4 43 (27.22%) Docker
5 15 (9.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (3.80%) iptables
7 4 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (2.53%) vSphere
8 3 (1.90%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 46 (29.11%) Terraform
2 28 (17.72%) Kubernetes
3 20 (12.66%) Grafana
4 18 (11.39%) Prometheus
5 9 (5.70%) Ansible
6 8 (5.06%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (3.80%) Progress Chef
8 5 (3.16%) Puppet
9 4 (2.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.53%) Control-M
9 4 (2.53%) SolarWinds Orion
9 4 (2.53%) vCenter Server
9 4 (2.53%) VxRail
9 4 (2.53%) WSUS
10 3 (1.90%) Scalr
11 2 (1.27%) systemd
12 1 (0.63%) Consul
12 1 (0.63%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.63%) Packer
Vendors
1 82 (51.90%) Microsoft
2 79 (50.00%) VMware
3 69 (43.67%) Veeam
4 68 (43.04%) SolarWinds
5 64 (40.51%) Brocade
5 64 (40.51%) Nimble Storage
5 64 (40.51%) Splunk
5 64 (40.51%) Tanium
6 14 (8.86%) Google
7 6 (3.80%) Meraki
8 5 (3.16%) Cisco
8 5 (3.16%) HubSpot
9 4 (2.53%) Commvault
9 4 (2.53%) Dell
9 4 (2.53%) HP
9 4 (2.53%) Informatica
9 4 (2.53%) Oracle
9 4 (2.53%) Tenable
9 4 (2.53%) Zerto
10 1 (0.63%) ConnectWise