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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 442 491 394
Rank change year-on-year +49 -97 -4
Permanent jobs citing Amazon RDS 547 588 1,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.58% 0.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.01% 2.73% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 370 430 599
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,200 £37,200
25th Percentile £39,250 £49,813 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £56,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -10.40% +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 18,181 21,530 43,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 21.31% 27.95%
Number of salaries quoted 12,558 13,451 21,070
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 £79,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 +75 502 £65,000 -4.76% 101
UK excluding London +53 365 £52,500 -6.25% 66
Work from Home +40 233 £65,000 -10.34% 65
London +26 168 £80,000 -11.11% 40
North of England +81 135 £46,000 +15.00% 22
North West +33 73 £80,000 +23.08% 8
South East +36 66 £65,000 - 17
Midlands -2 60 £58,500 +4.00% 14
West Midlands +9 41 £58,500 +20.00% 13
South West -7 38 £60,000 +76.47% 5
Yorkshire +70 37 £43,000 +32.31% 14
East of England +17 31 £32,500 -43.48% 3
North East +16 25 £32,500 -31.83%
Scotland -63 21 £41,500 -40.71% 3
East Midlands -11 19 £50,000 -23.08% 1
Wales +8 7 £60,000 -35.14% 1
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 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 60 (10.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 50 (9.14%) SharePoint
3 46 (8.41%) WebLogic
4 10 (1.83%) Confluence
4 10 (1.83%) IIS
4 10 (1.83%) OpenStack
5 9 (1.65%) nginx
6 2 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.18%) Moodle
7 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (5.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) Notion
Business Applications
1 46 (8.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 444 (81.17%) AWS
2 266 (48.63%) Amazon S3
3 217 (39.67%) Amazon EC2
4 212 (38.76%) Azure
5 178 (32.54%) Serverless
6 177 (32.36%) AWS Lambda
7 155 (28.34%) Amazon EKS
8 97 (17.73%) Route 53
9 96 (17.55%) Microsoft 365
10 95 (17.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 88 (16.09%) Amazon SQS
12 72 (13.16%) Amazon ECR
12 72 (13.16%) OCI
13 65 (11.88%) Amazon ECS
14 58 (10.60%) IBM Cloud
15 55 (10.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 53 (9.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 50 (9.14%) Entra ID
17 50 (9.14%) OpenShift
18 41 (7.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 90 (16.45%) DNS
2 60 (10.97%) TCP/IP
3 49 (8.96%) Firewall
3 49 (8.96%) SSL
4 46 (8.41%) BGP
5 41 (7.50%) VPN
6 33 (6.03%) DHCP
7 30 (5.48%) SAN
8 25 (4.57%) Remote Desktop
9 19 (3.47%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (3.29%) VLAN
11 14 (2.56%) LAN
11 14 (2.56%) WAN
12 11 (2.01%) HTTP
12 11 (2.01%) Wireless
13 8 (1.46%) MQTT
14 7 (1.28%) 4G
14 7 (1.28%) DSL
14 7 (1.28%) FTP
14 7 (1.28%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (18.83%) Relational Database
2 88 (16.09%) RDBMS
3 81 (14.81%) MySQL
4 71 (12.98%) SQL Server
5 70 (12.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 59 (10.79%) Oracle Database
7 53 (9.69%) DynamoDB
7 53 (9.69%) PostgreSQL
8 33 (6.03%) MongoDB
9 30 (5.48%) Amazon Aurora
10 29 (5.30%) Data Warehouse
11 17 (3.11%) NoSQL
12 12 (2.19%) DB2
13 8 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (1.10%) BigQuery
14 6 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.91%) InfluxDB
16 2 (0.37%) Data Lake
16 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 98 (17.92%) Git
2 87 (15.90%) Jenkins
3 46 (8.41%) GitLab
4 32 (5.85%) Artifactory
5 28 (5.12%) Postman
6 15 (2.74%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.38%) Subversion
8 12 (2.19%) JIRA
9 10 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.91%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.73%) Selenium
12 3 (0.55%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.55%) Metasploit
12 3 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.55%) sqlmap
13 2 (0.37%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.37%) Hudson
13 2 (0.37%) JUnit
13 2 (0.37%) Snyk
13 2 (0.37%) SonarQube
General
1 202 (36.93%) Social Skills
2 88 (16.09%) Finance
3 84 (15.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 59 (10.79%) Public Sector
5 32 (5.85%) Front Office
6 31 (5.67%) Law
7 15 (2.74%) Legal
8 14 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.38%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.65%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (1.46%) Games
11 8 (1.46%) Marketing
12 6 (1.10%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.73%) Retail
14 3 (0.55%) Japanese Language
14 3 (0.55%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.18%) Advertising
16 1 (0.18%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 137 (25.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 121 (22.12%) AWS Engineer
3 115 (21.02%) Lead
4 100 (18.28%) Senior
5 68 (12.43%) Architect
6 64 (11.70%) AWS DevOps
7 62 (11.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 57 (10.42%) Support Engineer
9 56 (10.24%) Solutions Architect
10 53 (9.69%) Developer
11 51 (9.32%) Cloud Engineer
12 49 (8.96%) Senior DevOps
12 49 (8.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 46 (8.41%) IT Engineer
13 46 (8.41%) Lead Architect
13 46 (8.41%) Lead Solutions Architect
14 43 (7.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 36 (6.58%) IT Support
15 36 (6.58%) IT Support Engineer
15 36 (6.58%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (14.44%) Spring Boot
2 63 (11.52%) RabbitMQ
3 52 (9.51%) Spring
4 45 (8.23%) RESTful
5 35 (6.40%) GraphQL
6 32 (5.85%) J2EE
7 30 (5.48%) Django
8 29 (5.30%) .NET
8 29 (5.30%) JSON
8 29 (5.30%) React
9 22 (4.02%) Node.js
10 15 (2.74%) CSS
10 15 (2.74%) HTML
11 12 (2.19%) Middleware
11 12 (2.19%) Spring XD
12 10 (1.83%) .NET Framework
12 10 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (1.83%) LDAP
13 8 (1.46%) AngularJS
13 8 (1.46%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 69 (12.61%) Hybrid Cloud
2 59 (10.79%) Blockchain
3 58 (10.60%) e-Learning
4 57 (10.42%) Enterprise Software
5 47 (8.59%) Cloud Native
5 47 (8.59%) Public Cloud
6 32 (5.85%) Tandem
7 30 (5.48%) Data Centre
8 29 (5.30%) Management Information System
9 18 (3.29%) Clustering
10 15 (2.74%) Driving Licence
10 15 (2.74%) Enterprise Storage
11 13 (2.38%) Smartphone
12 12 (2.19%) Client/Server
12 12 (2.19%) iPad
12 12 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.65%) IoT
16 8 (1.46%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 143 (26.14%) Windows
2 124 (22.67%) Linux
3 68 (12.43%) Windows Server
4 53 (9.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (5.48%) Windows Server 2016
6 29 (5.30%) Windows Server 2019
7 25 (4.57%) Windows Server 2012
8 22 (4.02%) Windows 10
9 14 (2.56%) Android
9 14 (2.56%) Apple iOS
10 10 (1.83%) Ubuntu
10 10 (1.83%) Unix
11 9 (1.65%) Debian
12 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.37%) Solaris
12 2 (0.37%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.18%) CentOS
13 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (43.33%) Agile
2 214 (39.12%) DevOps
3 186 (34.00%) CI/CD
4 148 (27.06%) Problem-Solving
5 123 (22.49%) Containerisation
6 119 (21.76%) Software Engineering
7 112 (20.48%) Mentoring
8 106 (19.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 89 (16.27%) Migration
10 87 (15.90%) Open Source
11 82 (14.99%) Test Automation
12 76 (13.89%) SDLC
13 74 (13.53%) Project Management
14 70 (12.80%) Secrets Management
15 69 (12.61%) Coaching
16 67 (12.25%) Artificial Intelligence
17 66 (12.07%) Observability
18 65 (11.88%) Computer Science
19 64 (11.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 61 (11.15%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 169 (30.90%) Python
2 119 (21.76%) Java
3 64 (11.70%) SQL
4 55 (10.05%) Go
5 34 (6.22%) Bash
6 32 (5.85%) PHP
7 26 (4.75%) JavaScript
8 25 (4.57%) PowerShell
9 20 (3.66%) C#
10 19 (3.47%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.83%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.46%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.46%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.28%) Ruby
14 6 (1.10%) R
15 5 (0.91%) C++
15 5 (0.91%) JSX
16 3 (0.55%) C
16 3 (0.55%) Rust
17 2 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 103 (18.83%) AWS Certification
2 77 (14.08%) Degree
3 70 (12.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 69 (12.61%) SC Cleared
4 69 (12.61%) Security Cleared
5 65 (11.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 64 (11.70%) Azure Certification
7 29 (5.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (5.12%) DBS Check
9 13 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 10 (1.83%) OCP
10 10 (1.83%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (1.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (1.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (0.91%) CCNA
12 5 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.91%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.73%) MCSE
13 4 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.85%) SLA
2 11 (2.01%) GDPR
2 11 (2.01%) NIST
3 8 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.73%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.55%) QA
6 3 (0.55%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.37%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.37%) PMO
8 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 126 (23.03%) Docker
2 95 (17.37%) Active Directory
3 88 (16.09%) Hyper-V
4 49 (8.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (2.74%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (2.19%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.91%) Firmware
9 4 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.37%) pfSense
11 2 (0.37%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.37%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 214 (39.12%) Terraform
2 195 (35.65%) Kubernetes
3 69 (12.61%) Prometheus
4 35 (6.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (4.39%) Ansible
6 22 (4.02%) Grafana
7 15 (2.74%) Failover Clustering
7 15 (2.74%) Progress Chef
8 13 (2.38%) Puppet
9 11 (2.01%) Packer
10 7 (1.28%) Salt
11 6 (1.10%) SCOM
12 5 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.91%) Foglight
12 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.73%) PowerCLI
13 4 (0.73%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.73%) vRealize
13 4 (0.73%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 121 (22.12%) Microsoft
2 99 (18.10%) Oracle
3 64 (11.70%) Red Hat
4 63 (11.52%) VMware
5 61 (11.15%) Dynatrace
6 58 (10.60%) IBM
7 53 (9.69%) Citrix
8 46 (8.41%) Sparx
9 25 (4.57%) Veeam
10 21 (3.84%) Cisco
11 17 (3.11%) HP
12 16 (2.93%) Nimble Storage
13 14 (2.56%) Google
14 12 (2.19%) Sybase
15 11 (2.01%) Atlassian
16 9 (1.65%) Dell
16 9 (1.65%) Meraki
17 8 (1.46%) Aruba
18 6 (1.10%) Commvault
18 6 (1.10%) NetApp