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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 428 490
Rank change year-on-year -31 +62 -98
Permanent jobs citing Amazon RDS 232 556 616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.57% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.12% 3.07% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 192 382 443
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £32,200
25th Percentile £50,000 £39,250 £51,875
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 £128,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £56,750
% change year-on-year +10.00% -11.89% -9.20%

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 7,436 18,137 22,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.26% 18.44% 21.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,214 12,594 13,904
10th Percentile £37,250 £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% +4.76%

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 30 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 30 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 -30 219 £69,384 +6.74% 209
London +49 114 £90,000 +12.50% 128
UK excluding London -22 109 £55,000 +10.00% 85
Work from Home +60 106 £69,384 +6.74% 116
South West +111 34 £40,000 -31.91% 11
South East +72 22 £57,500 -11.54% 9
North of England -33 20 £69,384 +50.83% 37
East of England +41 15 £41,500 +27.69% 9
North West -26 14 £74,500 -6.88% 25
Midlands +7 7 £66,313 +26.31% 13
West Midlands +15 6 £67,626 +15.60% 9
Scotland +111 5 £74,500 +79.52% 1
Northern Ireland +34 5 £55,000 - 5
Yorkshire +33 3 £90,000 +109.30% 9
North East +30 3 £69,384 +113.49% 5
Wales +34 1 £67,626 +12.71% 2
East Midlands +31 1 £30,500 -35.79% 4

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 22 (9.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.03%) nginx
3 10 (4.31%) IIS
4 9 (3.88%) SharePoint
5 8 (3.45%) Tomcat
6 7 (3.02%) Apache
7 4 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (1.29%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (3.45%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.29%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.86%) SimCorp Dimension
1 2 (0.86%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 205 (88.36%) AWS
2 133 (57.33%) Amazon S3
3 118 (50.86%) Amazon EC2
4 111 (47.84%) Serverless
5 110 (47.41%) AWS Lambda
6 75 (32.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 69 (29.74%) Azure
8 61 (26.29%) Amazon ECS
8 61 (26.29%) Amazon SQS
9 37 (15.95%) Microsoft 365
10 27 (11.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 23 (9.91%) GCP
12 22 (9.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 21 (9.05%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 21 (9.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 20 (8.62%) Cloud Computing
15 18 (7.76%) SaaS
16 17 (7.33%) Amazon ECR
17 15 (6.47%) OpenShift
18 14 (6.03%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 32 (13.79%) Firewall
2 30 (12.93%) DHCP
2 30 (12.93%) DNS
3 23 (9.91%) VLAN
4 20 (8.62%) VPN
5 14 (6.03%) TCP/IP
6 13 (5.60%) SMTP
7 10 (4.31%) ADSL
7 10 (4.31%) VoIP
8 9 (3.88%) IPv4
8 9 (3.88%) SAN
9 8 (3.45%) Cisco IOS
9 8 (3.45%) FTP
9 8 (3.45%) PBX
9 8 (3.45%) Structured Cabling
10 7 (3.02%) Internet
11 6 (2.59%) Remote Desktop
12 5 (2.16%) MQTT
12 5 (2.16%) Network Security
12 5 (2.16%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (27.16%) Amazon Redshift
2 49 (21.12%) PostgreSQL
3 38 (16.38%) DynamoDB
4 21 (9.05%) NoSQL
5 20 (8.62%) MySQL
6 19 (8.19%) Amazon Aurora
6 19 (8.19%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (5.60%) Redis
8 12 (5.17%) MariaDB
9 11 (4.74%) SQL Server
10 10 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (3.45%) Data Lake
12 7 (3.02%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (2.16%) Big Data
13 5 (2.16%) Hadoop
13 5 (2.16%) MongoDB
14 4 (1.72%) Flink
15 3 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (1.29%) Power BI
16 2 (0.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (19.83%) Jenkins
2 22 (9.48%) Git
3 16 (6.90%) GitLab
4 14 (6.03%) JUnit
4 14 (6.03%) SonarQube
5 13 (5.60%) JIRA
5 13 (5.60%) Maven
5 13 (5.60%) Mockito
6 11 (4.74%) Artifactory
7 10 (4.31%) Bitbucket
8 9 (3.88%) CircleCI
8 9 (3.88%) TestNG
9 8 (3.45%) Cucumber
9 8 (3.45%) Postman
9 8 (3.45%) Selenium
10 5 (2.16%) DbUnit
10 5 (2.16%) jMock
11 3 (1.29%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (1.29%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.86%) Cypress.io
General
1 81 (34.91%) Finance
2 61 (26.29%) Social Skills
3 38 (16.38%) Banking
4 36 (15.52%) Front Office
5 23 (9.91%) Public Sector
6 22 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (6.90%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.02%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.72%) Marketing
11 4 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.29%) Advertising
13 2 (0.86%) Electronics
13 2 (0.86%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.86%) Law
13 2 (0.86%) Legal
13 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 67 (28.88%) AWS Engineer
2 55 (23.71%) Senior
3 47 (20.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (17.67%) AWS DevOps
4 41 (17.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 34 (14.66%) Developer
6 26 (11.21%) DevOps Manager
6 26 (11.21%) Finance Manager
6 26 (11.21%) Python Engineer
7 20 (8.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 19 (8.19%) Data Engineer
9 18 (7.76%) IT Support
10 17 (7.33%) Analyst
10 17 (7.33%) Senior DevOps
10 17 (7.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 16 (6.90%) Support Analyst
12 15 (6.47%) Architect
12 15 (6.47%) IT Support Analyst
12 15 (6.47%) Senior Manager
12 15 (6.47%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.95%) RESTful
2 22 (9.48%) Kafka
2 22 (9.48%) React
3 18 (7.76%) Spring
4 16 (6.90%) REST
5 14 (6.03%) Node.js
6 13 (5.60%) Django
6 13 (5.60%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (5.60%) Spring Boot
7 12 (5.17%) Laravel
8 11 (4.74%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (4.31%) gRPC
9 10 (4.31%) J2EE
10 9 (3.88%) AngularJS
11 8 (3.45%) Guice
11 8 (3.45%) JAX-RS
11 8 (3.45%) OpenAPI
11 8 (3.45%) Swagger
11 8 (3.45%) Vue
11 8 (3.45%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.64%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.17%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.74%) Private Cloud
5 10 (4.31%) Tandem
6 9 (3.88%) Blockchain
6 9 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (3.45%) Life Science
8 7 (3.02%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.59%) Clustering
9 6 (2.59%) CMDB
10 5 (2.16%) IoT
10 5 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.16%) PKI
10 5 (2.16%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.16%) Web3
11 4 (1.72%) e-Learning
12 3 (1.29%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 52 (22.41%) Linux
2 46 (19.83%) Windows
3 38 (16.38%) Windows Server
4 14 (6.03%) Unix
5 10 (4.31%) Android
5 10 (4.31%) Windows 10
6 7 (3.02%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.72%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.29%) VMS
9 2 (0.86%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.43%) Debian
10 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (46.12%) CI/CD
2 99 (42.67%) DevOps
3 83 (35.78%) Agile
4 58 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 48 (20.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 42 (18.10%) Asset Management
7 41 (17.67%) Containerisation
8 37 (15.95%) Open Source
8 37 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
10 33 (14.22%) Continuous Integration
10 33 (14.22%) Fintech
11 32 (13.79%) Mentoring
12 28 (12.07%) Observability
13 25 (10.78%) Disaster Recovery
13 25 (10.78%) Microservices
14 23 (9.91%) Full-Stack Development
15 22 (9.48%) Cybersecurity
15 22 (9.48%) ITIL
16 21 (9.05%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 105 (45.26%) Python
2 50 (21.55%) SQL
3 49 (21.12%) JavaScript
4 45 (19.40%) Java
5 35 (15.09%) PowerShell
6 28 (12.07%) TypeScript
7 19 (8.19%) Go
8 14 (6.03%) Bash
9 12 (5.17%) PHP
10 10 (4.31%) T-SQL
11 6 (2.59%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.59%) Scala
12 4 (1.72%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.29%) C#
13 3 (1.29%) Groovy
13 3 (1.29%) Perl
13 3 (1.29%) Ruby
14 2 (0.86%) Rust
15 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 35 (15.09%) Security Cleared
2 21 (9.05%) Degree
3 20 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.76%) Network+ Certification
5 13 (5.60%) AWS Certification
6 10 (4.31%) A+ Certification
6 10 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.88%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.45%) CCNA
8 8 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.29%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.86%) MCSA
13 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.16%) QA
2 4 (1.72%) GMP
2 4 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.86%) 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 (43.53%) Docker
2 41 (17.67%) Active Directory
3 18 (7.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (6.90%) Hyper-V
5 14 (6.03%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (5.60%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (3.45%) Terminal Services
8 6 (2.59%) vSphere
9 5 (2.16%) BitLocker
9 5 (2.16%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.86%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 95 (40.95%) Terraform
2 89 (38.36%) Kubernetes
3 34 (14.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (9.48%) Ansible
5 16 (6.90%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.74%) AWS Copilot
7 8 (3.45%) Kustomize
7 8 (3.45%) Nagios
7 8 (3.45%) Packer
7 8 (3.45%) SCCM
7 8 (3.45%) WSUS
8 7 (3.02%) Puppet
9 6 (2.59%) Grafana
10 5 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (2.16%) vCenter Server
10 5 (2.16%) vMotion
11 3 (1.29%) Nessus
11 3 (1.29%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.29%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.43%) Argo
Vendors
1 47 (20.26%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.48%) Google
3 19 (8.19%) VMware
4 15 (6.47%) Red Hat
5 14 (6.03%) Citrix
6 9 (3.88%) Cisco
6 9 (3.88%) Veeam
7 8 (3.45%) Oracle
8 6 (2.59%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.16%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.16%) HP
9 5 (2.16%) IBM
9 5 (2.16%) Symantec
10 3 (1.29%) Apple
10 3 (1.29%) Juniper
11 2 (0.86%) Adobe
11 2 (0.86%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.86%) Informatica
11 2 (0.86%) SAP
11 2 (0.86%) SimCorp