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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 442 487
Rank change year-on-year -40 +45 -105
Permanent jobs citing Amazon RDS 228 560 572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.54% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.96% 3.04% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 179 365 436
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £32,200
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £47,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £65,000 £68,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% -4.76% -2.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £90,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £54,835 £55,500
% change year-on-year +4.86% -1.20% -11.20%

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 7,708 18,393 20,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.80% 17.74% 21.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,841 12,535 12,955
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,751 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £97,500 £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 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Amazon RDS in the UK

Amazon RDS
Top 16 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 31 May 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 -61 211 £63,500 -2.31% 315
UK excluding London -8 142 £57,500 +4.86% 161
Work from Home -28 79 £66,250 +1.92% 174
London +11 74 £69,384 -15.90% 173
South West +110 32 £40,000 -30.43% 25
West Midlands +40 31 £72,500 +13.73% 27
Midlands +32 31 £72,500 +20.83% 33
South East +31 29 £57,500 -8.00% 26
North of England -74 21 £69,692 +51.50% 43
East of England +33 15 £53,750 +65.38% 16
North West -59 13 £71,942 -10.07% 19
Scotland +106 7 £74,500 +79.52% 6
Northern Ireland +40 5 £55,000 - 6
North East +32 5 £69,384 +85.02% 9
Wales +37 3 £60,000 - 6
Yorkshire +23 3 £90,000 +95.65% 15

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 24 (10.53%) Confluence
2 23 (10.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (6.14%) nginx
4 12 (5.26%) SharePoint
5 10 (4.39%) IIS
6 9 (3.95%) Apache
7 8 (3.51%) Tomcat
8 4 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (1.32%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (2.63%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.19%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.44%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 198 (86.84%) AWS
2 130 (57.02%) Amazon S3
3 119 (52.19%) Amazon EC2
4 81 (35.53%) AWS Lambda
4 81 (35.53%) Serverless
5 79 (34.65%) Azure
6 54 (23.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 43 (18.86%) Microsoft 365
8 42 (18.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 40 (17.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 38 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
11 34 (14.91%) Amazon ECS
12 32 (14.04%) AWS KMS
13 25 (10.96%) Cloud Computing
14 24 (10.53%) GCP
15 21 (9.21%) Amazon ElastiCache
16 20 (8.77%) Amazon ELB
16 20 (8.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 17 (7.46%) Amazon Glacier
18 16 (7.02%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 54 (23.68%) Firewall
2 38 (16.67%) DNS
3 26 (11.40%) DHCP
4 23 (10.09%) VPN
5 20 (8.77%) VLAN
6 18 (7.89%) SMTP
7 13 (5.70%) TCP/IP
8 12 (5.26%) FTP
9 10 (4.39%) ADSL
9 10 (4.39%) VoIP
10 8 (3.51%) HTTP
10 8 (3.51%) SSH
11 7 (3.07%) Internet
11 7 (3.07%) IP Telephony
11 7 (3.07%) Remote Desktop
12 6 (2.63%) Network Security
12 6 (2.63%) SAN
13 5 (2.19%) IPv4
13 5 (2.19%) MQTT
13 5 (2.19%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (26.75%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (22.81%) DynamoDB
3 33 (14.47%) Amazon Aurora
4 24 (10.53%) NoSQL
5 23 (10.09%) MySQL
6 20 (8.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 19 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (5.70%) SQL Server
9 12 (5.26%) Redis
10 11 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (4.39%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (3.51%) MariaDB
13 7 (3.07%) Data Lake
14 6 (2.63%) Electronic Patient Records
15 5 (2.19%) Big Data
15 5 (2.19%) MongoDB
16 4 (1.75%) Flink
17 3 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
17 3 (1.32%) Hadoop
18 2 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 68 (29.82%) Jenkins
2 53 (23.25%) Git
3 34 (14.91%) JIRA
4 23 (10.09%) Maven
5 21 (9.21%) JUnit
5 21 (9.21%) SonarQube
6 20 (8.77%) Mockito
6 20 (8.77%) Vagrant
7 19 (8.33%) GitLab
8 13 (5.70%) Bitbucket Server
9 11 (4.82%) CircleCI
9 11 (4.82%) DbUnit
9 11 (4.82%) jMock
10 10 (4.39%) Bitbucket
11 9 (3.95%) TestNG
12 8 (3.51%) Cucumber
12 8 (3.51%) Postman
12 8 (3.51%) Selenium
13 6 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.88%) Cypress.io
General
1 77 (33.77%) Social Skills
2 53 (23.25%) Finance
3 38 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 27 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (7.46%) Banking
7 16 (7.02%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.51%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.51%) Law
8 8 (3.51%) Marketing
8 8 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.88%) Advertising
11 2 (0.88%) Electronics
11 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.88%) Legal
11 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (21.49%) Developer
2 47 (20.61%) Senior
3 36 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
4 21 (9.21%) Software Engineer
5 19 (8.33%) Lead
6 17 (7.46%) Analyst
6 17 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (7.02%) Data Engineer
7 16 (7.02%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (7.02%) IT Support
7 16 (7.02%) Support Engineer
8 15 (6.58%) IT Analyst
8 15 (6.58%) IT Support Analyst
8 15 (6.58%) Java Developer
8 15 (6.58%) Platform Engineer
8 15 (6.58%) Support Analyst
9 13 (5.70%) Infrastructure Support
9 13 (5.70%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 13 (5.70%) Java Engineer
10 12 (5.26%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (20.61%) RESTful
2 30 (13.16%) Spring
3 29 (12.72%) React
3 29 (12.72%) Spring Boot
4 25 (10.96%) Kafka
5 24 (10.53%) AngularJS
6 21 (9.21%) REST
7 14 (6.14%) RabbitMQ
7 14 (6.14%) Web Services
8 13 (5.70%) ActiveMQ
8 13 (5.70%) Bootstrap
8 13 (5.70%) Django
8 13 (5.70%) gRPC
8 13 (5.70%) Laravel
8 13 (5.70%) Node.js
8 13 (5.70%) SOAP
9 12 (5.26%) JPA
10 11 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (4.82%) Hibernate
10 11 (4.82%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.04%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.14%) Onboarding
3 14 (6.14%) Replication
4 11 (4.82%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.51%) Blockchain
5 8 (3.51%) Clustering
5 8 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.51%) Life Science
5 8 (3.51%) Web3
6 7 (3.07%) Private Cloud
7 6 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.63%) PKI
8 5 (2.19%) IoT
8 5 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.75%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.75%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.32%) Educational Technology
10 3 (1.32%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 84 (36.84%) Linux
2 62 (27.19%) Windows
3 37 (16.23%) Windows Server
4 20 (8.77%) VMS
5 15 (6.58%) Unix
6 14 (6.14%) Mac OS
7 9 (3.95%) Amazon Linux
8 6 (2.63%) Android
8 6 (2.63%) Ubuntu
8 6 (2.63%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.44%) Debian
10 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (38.60%) DevOps
2 84 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 60 (26.32%) Agile
4 58 (25.44%) Containerisation
5 53 (23.25%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 41 (17.98%) Continuous Integration
8 39 (17.11%) Microservices
9 35 (15.35%) Software Engineering
10 32 (14.04%) Mentoring
10 32 (14.04%) Open Source
11 30 (13.16%) Cloud Security
12 29 (12.72%) Test Automation
13 28 (12.28%) Configuration Management
14 27 (11.84%) High Availability
15 26 (11.40%) Scrum
16 25 (10.96%) Disaster Recovery
16 25 (10.96%) Observability
17 22 (9.65%) Analytics
17 22 (9.65%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 91 (39.91%) Python
2 62 (27.19%) PowerShell
3 59 (25.88%) SQL
4 51 (22.37%) Java
5 27 (11.84%) JavaScript
5 27 (11.84%) TypeScript
6 21 (9.21%) Bash
7 19 (8.33%) Groovy
8 13 (5.70%) PHP
9 11 (4.82%) Go
10 10 (4.39%) T-SQL
11 9 (3.95%) Perl
12 6 (2.63%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.75%) Ruby
13 4 (1.75%) Rust
13 4 (1.75%) Scala
13 4 (1.75%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.44%) C#
14 1 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 58 (25.44%) Security Cleared
2 44 (19.30%) SC Cleared
3 32 (14.04%) Degree
4 19 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 14 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (6.14%) Network+ Certification
6 10 (4.39%) A+ Certification
6 10 (4.39%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.63%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (1.75%) CCNA
8 4 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.88%) MCSA
11 1 (0.44%) MCSE
11 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.39%) QA
2 4 (1.75%) GMP
3 3 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.44%) GDPR
4 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 90 (39.47%) Docker
2 55 (24.12%) Active Directory
3 15 (6.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (6.14%) Hyper-V
5 13 (5.70%) DFS Replication
5 13 (5.70%) Terminal Services
6 10 (4.39%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (3.95%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (3.51%) vSphere
9 7 (3.07%) Postfix
10 6 (2.63%) BitLocker
10 6 (2.63%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (1.32%) Dovecot
11 3 (1.32%) Squid
11 3 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.44%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 81 (35.53%) Terraform
2 57 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 41 (17.98%) Prometheus
4 36 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (14.91%) Ansible
6 30 (13.16%) Grafana
7 11 (4.82%) AWS Copilot
8 9 (3.95%) Nagios
9 8 (3.51%) Kustomize
9 8 (3.51%) Packer
9 8 (3.51%) Puppet
10 7 (3.07%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (2.63%) Nessus
11 6 (2.63%) Proxmox
11 6 (2.63%) SCCM
11 6 (2.63%) vCenter Server
11 6 (2.63%) vMotion
12 4 (1.75%) WSUS
13 3 (1.32%) Argo
13 3 (1.32%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 49 (21.49%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.09%) Google
3 20 (8.77%) ServiceNow
4 16 (7.02%) VMware
5 13 (5.70%) Citrix
6 11 (4.82%) Atlassian
6 11 (4.82%) Juniper
6 11 (4.82%) Oracle
6 11 (4.82%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.07%) Apple
7 7 (3.07%) Jaspersoft
8 6 (2.63%) Cisco
8 6 (2.63%) HP
8 6 (2.63%) Symantec
8 6 (2.63%) Veeam
9 3 (1.32%) Splunk
10 2 (0.88%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.88%) Informatica
10 2 (0.88%) SAP
10 2 (0.88%) WatchGuard