Amazon RDS Job Trends in Wales

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Amazon RDS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 74 93
Rank change year-on-year +16 +19 +22
Permanent jobs citing Amazon RDS 15 6 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.41% 0.68% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.85% 3.68% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile - £43,449 -
25th Percentile £68,813 £48,212 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £67,154 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.90% -4.07% +21.74%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £72,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +21.74% -11.54%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 89 163 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 8.37% 18.36% 21.48%
Number of salaries quoted 53 112 145
10th Percentile £38,800 £23,750 £23,750
25th Percentile £46,745 £31,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,154 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.17% -2.83% -1.83%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £74,144 £72,433
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.43% +4.63% -4.00%

Amazon RDS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Amazon RDS job vacancy trend in Wales

Amazon RDS
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Amazon RDS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon RDS within the Wales region over the 6 months to 7 January 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 Wales +10 15 £73,801 +6.48% 6
Amazon RDS
UK

Amazon RDS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 12 (80.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon ECR
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (20.00%) dbt
3 3 (20.00%) GCP
3 3 (20.00%) Pulumi
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (13.33%) PaaS
4 2 (13.33%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 12 (80.00%) DHCP
1 12 (80.00%) DNS
2 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (20.00%) Redis
General
1 13 (86.67%) Social Skills
2 12 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Site Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 12 (80.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (80.00%) Windows
2 12 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 12 (80.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Migration
1 14 (93.33%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (80.00%) Customer Experience
2 12 (80.00%) Customer Service
2 12 (80.00%) Email Filtering
2 12 (80.00%) Kalman Filter
2 12 (80.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 12 (80.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 12 (80.00%) Web Filtering
3 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (20.00%) Observability
3 3 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 3 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Open Source
4 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Prototyping
5 1 (6.67%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 15 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (80.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 12 (80.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 12 (80.00%) Hyper-V
1 12 (80.00%) Terminal Server
2 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Brocade
1 12 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 12 (80.00%) Nimble Storage
1 12 (80.00%) SolarWinds
1 12 (80.00%) Splunk
1 12 (80.00%) Tanium
1 12 (80.00%) Veeam
1 12 (80.00%) VMware
2 3 (20.00%) Google