Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon RDS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon RDS over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 433 486 395
Rank change year-on-year +53 -91 -9
Permanent jobs citing Amazon RDS 561 621 1,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.59% 0.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.10% 2.74% 3.36%
Number of salaries quoted 387 445 612
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,200 £41,250
25th Percentile £39,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £130,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% -8.00% +38.89%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Amazon RDS is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,115 22,699 42,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.45% 21.66% 27.64%
Number of salaries quoted 12,588 14,042 21,422
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,106
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.56% +6.88%

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 2024.

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 2024. 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 +89 512 £65,000 -7.14% 82
UK excluding London +60 374 £50,000 -13.04% 48
Work from Home +56 244 £60,000 -14.29% 55
London +32 170 £80,000 -15.79% 39
North of England +79 139 £46,000 +2.22% 15
North West +36 73 £80,000 +23.08% 7
South East +53 66 £65,000 - 7
Midlands +18 60 £51,250 -14.58% 6
Yorkshire +84 41 £43,000 +32.31% 8
West Midlands +38 41 £58,500 +6.36% 5
South West -10 40 £58,750 +109.82% 8
East of England +24 33 £32,500 -43.48% 4
North East +22 25 £32,500 -31.83% 1
Scotland -60 22 £41,500 -30.25% 9
East Midlands -17 19 £47,500 -26.92% 1
Wales +9 7 £60,000 -35.14% 1
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 2

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 64 (11.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (8.73%) SharePoint
3 46 (8.20%) WebLogic
4 11 (1.96%) IIS
5 10 (1.78%) Confluence
5 10 (1.78%) OpenStack
6 9 (1.60%) nginx
7 2 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.36%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.18%) CMS
8 1 (0.18%) Moodle
8 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) Notion
Business Applications
1 46 (8.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.18%) Magento
2 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 453 (80.75%) AWS
2 270 (48.13%) Amazon S3
3 225 (40.11%) Azure
4 222 (39.57%) Amazon EC2
5 184 (32.80%) Serverless
6 183 (32.62%) AWS Lambda
7 160 (28.52%) Amazon EKS
8 101 (18.00%) Microsoft 365
9 98 (17.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 97 (17.29%) Route 53
11 94 (16.76%) Amazon SQS
12 69 (12.30%) Amazon ECR
12 69 (12.30%) OCI
13 67 (11.94%) Amazon ECS
14 55 (9.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 55 (9.80%) IBM Cloud
15 53 (9.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 51 (9.09%) OpenShift
17 49 (8.73%) Entra ID
18 46 (8.20%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 97 (17.29%) DNS
2 62 (11.05%) TCP/IP
3 54 (9.63%) Firewall
4 49 (8.73%) SSL
5 47 (8.38%) VPN
6 46 (8.20%) BGP
7 40 (7.13%) DHCP
8 32 (5.70%) SAN
9 26 (4.63%) Remote Desktop
10 21 (3.74%) VLAN
11 18 (3.21%) Wi-Fi
12 16 (2.85%) LAN
12 16 (2.85%) WAN
13 13 (2.32%) Wireless
14 9 (1.60%) VoIP
15 8 (1.43%) HTTP
15 8 (1.43%) MQTT
16 7 (1.25%) FTP
16 7 (1.25%) Internet
17 6 (1.07%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (17.83%) Relational Database
2 85 (15.15%) MySQL
2 85 (15.15%) RDBMS
3 76 (13.55%) Amazon Redshift
4 71 (12.66%) SQL Server
5 59 (10.52%) Oracle Database
6 57 (10.16%) PostgreSQL
7 53 (9.45%) DynamoDB
8 33 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
9 31 (5.53%) MongoDB
10 29 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
11 16 (2.85%) NoSQL
12 10 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.60%) DB2
14 8 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (1.07%) BigQuery
16 5 (0.89%) InfluxDB
17 3 (0.53%) Power BI
18 2 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
18 2 (0.36%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 105 (18.72%) Git
2 97 (17.29%) Jenkins
3 52 (9.27%) GitLab
4 39 (6.95%) Artifactory
5 29 (5.17%) Postman
6 15 (2.67%) Bitbucket
6 15 (2.67%) JIRA
7 13 (2.32%) Subversion
8 10 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.25%) Maven
10 6 (1.07%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.89%) Selenium
12 3 (0.53%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.53%) JUnit
12 3 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.36%) Burp Suite
13 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.36%) Hudson
13 2 (0.36%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.36%) Metasploit
General
1 203 (36.19%) Social Skills
2 93 (16.58%) Finance
3 78 (13.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 56 (9.98%) Public Sector
5 36 (6.42%) Front Office
6 28 (4.99%) Law
7 14 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (2.14%) Legal
9 11 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (1.78%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.43%) Games
11 8 (1.43%) Marketing
11 8 (1.43%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.53%) Japanese Language
12 3 (0.53%) Retail
12 3 (0.53%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.18%) Advertising
14 1 (0.18%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 143 (25.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 126 (22.46%) AWS Engineer
3 111 (19.79%) Lead
4 100 (17.83%) Senior
5 73 (13.01%) AWS DevOps
6 71 (12.66%) Architect
7 70 (12.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 58 (10.34%) Developer
8 58 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
8 58 (10.34%) Support Engineer
9 50 (8.91%) Cloud Engineer
10 48 (8.56%) Senior DevOps
10 48 (8.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 47 (8.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 47 (8.38%) IT Engineer
12 46 (8.20%) Lead Architect
12 46 (8.20%) Lead Solutions Architect
13 40 (7.13%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 38 (6.77%) IT Support
15 36 (6.42%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (14.08%) Spring Boot
2 66 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
3 50 (8.91%) Spring
4 45 (8.02%) RESTful
5 38 (6.77%) J2EE
6 35 (6.24%) GraphQL
7 30 (5.35%) Django
8 29 (5.17%) JSON
8 29 (5.17%) React
9 25 (4.46%) .NET
10 20 (3.57%) Node.js
11 18 (3.21%) CSS
11 18 (3.21%) HTML
12 14 (2.50%) Middleware
13 13 (2.32%) LDAP
14 12 (2.14%) Elastic Stack
15 10 (1.78%) .NET Framework
15 10 (1.78%) AngularJS
15 10 (1.78%) Vue
16 9 (1.60%) Spring XD
Miscellaneous
1 66 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 58 (10.34%) Blockchain
2 58 (10.34%) Enterprise Software
3 55 (9.80%) e-Learning
4 49 (8.73%) Public Cloud
5 48 (8.56%) Cloud Native
6 36 (6.42%) Tandem
7 30 (5.35%) Management Information System
8 27 (4.81%) Data Centre
9 22 (3.92%) Clustering
10 16 (2.85%) Driving Licence
10 16 (2.85%) Enterprise Storage
11 14 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (2.14%) Client/Server
12 12 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (2.14%) iPad
13 11 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (1.78%) Smartphone
15 9 (1.60%) IoT
16 8 (1.43%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 153 (27.27%) Windows
2 131 (23.35%) Linux
3 75 (13.37%) Windows Server
4 51 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (5.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 31 (5.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (4.81%) Windows Server 2012
7 21 (3.74%) Windows 10
8 11 (1.96%) Android
8 11 (1.96%) Apple iOS
9 10 (1.78%) Ubuntu
9 10 (1.78%) Unix
10 9 (1.60%) Debian
11 4 (0.71%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.36%) CentOS
12 2 (0.36%) Solaris
12 2 (0.36%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (42.96%) Agile
2 220 (39.22%) DevOps
3 195 (34.76%) CI/CD
4 155 (27.63%) Problem-Solving
5 125 (22.28%) Containerisation
6 120 (21.39%) Software Engineering
7 110 (19.61%) Infrastructure as Code
8 109 (19.43%) Mentoring
9 89 (15.86%) Open Source
10 85 (15.15%) Migration
11 80 (14.26%) Test Automation
12 77 (13.73%) SDLC
13 74 (13.19%) Project Management
14 68 (12.12%) Computer Science
15 67 (11.94%) Secrets Management
16 66 (11.76%) Coaching
17 64 (11.41%) Artificial Intelligence
17 64 (11.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 63 (11.23%) Observability
19 61 (10.87%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 181 (32.26%) Python
2 127 (22.64%) Java
3 67 (11.94%) SQL
4 59 (10.52%) Go
5 39 (6.95%) Bash
6 33 (5.88%) PHP
7 29 (5.17%) PowerShell
8 26 (4.63%) JavaScript
9 19 (3.39%) C#
10 16 (2.85%) TypeScript
11 11 (1.96%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.43%) Ruby
12 8 (1.43%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.43%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.07%) R
14 5 (0.89%) C++
14 5 (0.89%) JSX
14 5 (0.89%) Perl
15 3 (0.53%) C
15 3 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 101 (18.00%) AWS Certification
2 83 (14.80%) Degree
3 73 (13.01%) Security Cleared
4 72 (12.83%) SC Cleared
5 71 (12.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 68 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 67 (11.94%) Azure Certification
8 31 (5.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (5.17%) DBS Check
10 14 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (1.78%) OCP
11 10 (1.78%) Oracle Certification
12 8 (1.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 7 (1.25%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.89%) A+ Certification
14 5 (0.89%) CCNA
14 5 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.71%) MCSE
15 4 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.88%) SLA
2 12 (2.14%) GDPR
3 7 (1.25%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.25%) NIST
4 6 (1.07%) QA
5 4 (0.71%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.36%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.36%) PMO
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 137 (24.42%) Docker
2 106 (18.89%) Active Directory
3 92 (16.40%) Hyper-V
4 55 (9.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (2.85%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (2.14%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (1.25%) Firmware
9 4 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.36%) pfSense
11 2 (0.36%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.36%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 227 (40.46%) Terraform
2 203 (36.19%) Kubernetes
3 67 (11.94%) Prometheus
4 40 (7.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (4.99%) Ansible
6 25 (4.46%) Grafana
7 18 (3.21%) Failover Clustering
8 16 (2.85%) Progress Chef
9 11 (1.96%) Packer
9 11 (1.96%) Puppet
10 8 (1.43%) SCOM
11 7 (1.25%) Salt
12 6 (1.07%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.89%) Foglight
13 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Clustering
13 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 5 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.89%) WSUS
14 4 (0.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 126 (22.46%) Microsoft
2 99 (17.65%) Oracle
3 70 (12.48%) VMware
4 61 (10.87%) Red Hat
5 58 (10.34%) Dynatrace
6 55 (9.80%) IBM
7 51 (9.09%) Citrix
8 46 (8.20%) Sparx
9 30 (5.35%) Veeam
10 25 (4.46%) Cisco
11 19 (3.39%) HP
12 18 (3.21%) Nimble Storage
13 16 (2.85%) Google
14 11 (1.96%) Atlassian
15 10 (1.78%) Aruba
15 10 (1.78%) Dell
15 10 (1.78%) Meraki
16 9 (1.60%) Sybase
17 8 (1.43%) Commvault
17 8 (1.43%) Mitel