Amazon RDS Jobs

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Amazon RDS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Amazon RDS over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 433 494
Rank change year-on-year -29 +61 -111
Permanent jobs citing Amazon RDS 231 561 625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.57% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.08% 3.10% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 191 387 446
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £32,200
25th Percentile £50,000 £39,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £118,750 £112,500 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% -8.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,497 18,124 22,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.53% 18.46% 21.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,236 12,600 14,080
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +5.77%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon RDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Amazon RDS.

Salary trend for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon RDS over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 April 2025. 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
England -53 218 £69,384 +6.74% 311
London +63 115 £90,000 +12.50% 239
UK excluding London -10 107 £55,000 +10.00% 88
Work from Home +39 106 £69,384 +15.64% 139
South West +110 33 £40,000 -31.91% 13
South East +67 20 £57,500 -11.54% 14
North of England -39 20 £69,384 +50.83% 24
East of England +45 15 £41,500 +27.69% 13
North West -27 14 £74,500 -6.88% 15
Midlands +18 8 £65,000 +26.83% 12
West Midlands +32 6 £67,626 +15.60% 8
Scotland +117 5 £74,500 +79.52% 5
Northern Ireland +36 5 £55,000 - 6
Yorkshire +33 3 £90,000 +104.55% 6
North East +30 3 £69,384 +113.49% 4
East Midlands +39 2 £30,500 -37.44% 4
Wales +38 1 £67,626 +12.71% 3

Amazon RDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.06%) nginx
3 10 (4.33%) IIS
4 9 (3.90%) SharePoint
5 8 (3.46%) Tomcat
6 7 (3.03%) Apache
7 4 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (1.30%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.87%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (3.46%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.30%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) SimCorp Dimension
1 2 (0.87%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 204 (88.31%) AWS
2 133 (57.58%) Amazon S3
3 117 (50.65%) Amazon EC2
4 110 (47.62%) Serverless
5 109 (47.19%) AWS Lambda
6 75 (32.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 67 (29.00%) Azure
8 61 (26.41%) Amazon ECS
8 61 (26.41%) Amazon SQS
9 37 (16.02%) Microsoft 365
10 27 (11.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (9.52%) GCP
11 22 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 21 (9.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 21 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 20 (8.66%) Cloud Computing
14 18 (7.79%) SaaS
15 17 (7.36%) Amazon ECR
16 14 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
16 14 (6.06%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 31 (13.42%) Firewall
2 29 (12.55%) DHCP
2 29 (12.55%) DNS
3 23 (9.96%) VLAN
4 20 (8.66%) VPN
5 15 (6.49%) TCP/IP
6 12 (5.19%) SMTP
7 10 (4.33%) ADSL
7 10 (4.33%) VoIP
8 9 (3.90%) IPv4
8 9 (3.90%) SAN
9 8 (3.46%) Cisco IOS
9 8 (3.46%) FTP
9 8 (3.46%) PBX
9 8 (3.46%) Structured Cabling
10 7 (3.03%) Internet
11 5 (2.16%) MQTT
11 5 (2.16%) Remote Desktop
11 5 (2.16%) SMS
12 4 (1.73%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (27.27%) Amazon Redshift
2 49 (21.21%) PostgreSQL
3 37 (16.02%) DynamoDB
4 20 (8.66%) MySQL
4 20 (8.66%) NoSQL
5 19 (8.23%) Amazon Aurora
5 19 (8.23%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (5.63%) Redis
7 12 (5.19%) MariaDB
8 11 (4.76%) SQL Server
9 10 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (3.46%) Data Lake
11 7 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (2.16%) Big Data
12 5 (2.16%) Hadoop
12 5 (2.16%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.73%) Flink
14 3 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (1.30%) Power BI
15 2 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (19.91%) Jenkins
2 22 (9.52%) Git
3 15 (6.49%) GitLab
4 14 (6.06%) JUnit
4 14 (6.06%) SonarQube
5 13 (5.63%) JIRA
5 13 (5.63%) Maven
5 13 (5.63%) Mockito
6 11 (4.76%) Artifactory
7 10 (4.33%) Bitbucket
8 9 (3.90%) CircleCI
8 9 (3.90%) TestNG
9 8 (3.46%) Cucumber
9 8 (3.46%) Postman
9 8 (3.46%) Selenium
10 5 (2.16%) DbUnit
10 5 (2.16%) jMock
11 3 (1.30%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (1.30%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.87%) Cypress.io
General
1 82 (35.50%) Finance
2 60 (25.97%) Social Skills
3 39 (16.88%) Banking
4 36 (15.58%) Front Office
5 24 (10.39%) Public Sector
6 23 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (8.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (6.93%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.03%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.73%) Marketing
11 4 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.30%) Advertising
13 2 (0.87%) Electronics
13 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.87%) Law
13 2 (0.87%) Legal
13 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 67 (29.00%) AWS Engineer
2 55 (23.81%) Senior
3 47 (20.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (17.75%) AWS DevOps
4 41 (17.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 35 (15.15%) Developer
6 26 (11.26%) DevOps Manager
6 26 (11.26%) Finance Manager
6 26 (11.26%) Python Engineer
7 20 (8.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 19 (8.23%) Data Engineer
8 19 (8.23%) IT Support
9 17 (7.36%) Analyst
9 17 (7.36%) Senior DevOps
9 17 (7.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 16 (6.93%) Support Analyst
11 15 (6.49%) Architect
11 15 (6.49%) IT Analyst
11 15 (6.49%) IT Support Analyst
11 15 (6.49%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.02%) RESTful
2 23 (9.96%) Kafka
3 21 (9.09%) React
4 19 (8.23%) Spring
5 16 (6.93%) REST
6 14 (6.06%) Node.js
6 14 (6.06%) Spring Boot
7 13 (5.63%) Django
7 13 (5.63%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (5.19%) Laravel
8 12 (5.19%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (4.33%) gRPC
9 10 (4.33%) J2EE
10 8 (3.46%) AngularJS
10 8 (3.46%) Gherkin
10 8 (3.46%) Guice
10 8 (3.46%) JAX-RS
10 8 (3.46%) Mustache
10 8 (3.46%) OpenAPI
10 8 (3.46%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.26%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.19%) Public Cloud
4 10 (4.33%) Private Cloud
4 10 (4.33%) Tandem
5 9 (3.90%) Blockchain
5 9 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.46%) Life Science
7 6 (2.60%) CMDB
7 6 (2.60%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.16%) Clustering
8 5 (2.16%) IoT
8 5 (2.16%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.16%) Web3
9 4 (1.73%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.73%) PKI
10 3 (1.30%) Educational Technology
10 3 (1.30%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 51 (22.08%) Linux
2 45 (19.48%) Windows
3 37 (16.02%) Windows Server
4 14 (6.06%) Unix
5 10 (4.33%) Android
5 10 (4.33%) Windows 10
6 6 (2.60%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.73%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.30%) VMS
9 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.43%) Debian
10 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (45.89%) CI/CD
2 99 (42.86%) DevOps
3 82 (35.50%) Agile
4 58 (25.11%) Software Engineering
5 48 (20.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 42 (18.18%) Asset Management
6 42 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 36 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (15.58%) Open Source
7 36 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (14.72%) Fintech
9 32 (13.85%) Continuous Integration
9 32 (13.85%) Mentoring
10 28 (12.12%) Observability
11 25 (10.82%) Disaster Recovery
12 24 (10.39%) Microservices
13 22 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
13 22 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
13 22 (9.52%) ITIL
14 21 (9.09%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 105 (45.45%) Python
2 49 (21.21%) SQL
3 48 (20.78%) JavaScript
4 45 (19.48%) Java
5 33 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 28 (12.12%) TypeScript
7 20 (8.66%) Go
8 14 (6.06%) Bash
9 12 (5.19%) PHP
10 10 (4.33%) T-SQL
11 6 (2.60%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.60%) Scala
12 4 (1.73%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.30%) C#
13 3 (1.30%) Groovy
13 3 (1.30%) Perl
13 3 (1.30%) Ruby
14 2 (0.87%) Rust
15 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 33 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 21 (9.09%) Degree
3 20 (8.66%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.79%) Network+ Certification
5 13 (5.63%) AWS Certification
6 10 (4.33%) A+ Certification
6 10 (4.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (3.46%) CCNA
7 8 (3.46%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.46%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.73%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.30%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.30%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.87%) MCSA
12 1 (0.43%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.16%) QA
2 4 (1.73%) GMP
2 4 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.43%) GDPR
4 1 (0.43%) NIST
System Software
1 101 (43.72%) Docker
2 40 (17.32%) Active Directory
3 18 (7.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (6.49%) Hyper-V
5 14 (6.06%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (5.19%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (2.60%) Terminal Services
8 5 (2.16%) vSphere
9 4 (1.73%) BitLocker
9 4 (1.73%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.87%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 95 (41.13%) Terraform
2 88 (38.10%) Kubernetes
3 34 (14.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (9.09%) Ansible
5 16 (6.93%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.76%) AWS Copilot
7 8 (3.46%) Kustomize
7 8 (3.46%) Packer
7 8 (3.46%) SCCM
7 8 (3.46%) WSUS
8 7 (3.03%) Nagios
9 6 (2.60%) Grafana
9 6 (2.60%) Puppet
10 5 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.73%) vCenter Server
11 4 (1.73%) vMotion
12 3 (1.30%) Nessus
12 3 (1.30%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.30%) Proxmox
13 1 (0.43%) Argo
Vendors
1 46 (19.91%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.09%) Google
3 19 (8.23%) VMware
4 15 (6.49%) Red Hat
5 13 (5.63%) Citrix
6 9 (3.90%) Cisco
6 9 (3.90%) Veeam
7 8 (3.46%) Oracle
8 6 (2.60%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.16%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.16%) IBM
10 4 (1.73%) HP
10 4 (1.73%) Symantec
11 3 (1.30%) Juniper
12 2 (0.87%) Adobe
12 2 (0.87%) Apple
12 2 (0.87%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.87%) Informatica
12 2 (0.87%) SAP
12 2 (0.87%) SimCorp