RDS jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-09-28, RDS appears in 1,127 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Software Engineer has the most postings mentioning RDS, with demand down 49% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-28
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+Is RDS in demand in 2026?
Yes. RDS appears in 1,127 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28, with demand down 49% vs the prior 4 weeks. Software Engineer accounts for the most postings mentioning RDS (27.1% of all postings mentioning RDS).
+What jobs require RDS?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning RDS are Cloud Systems Engineer (32.3% of that role’s postings mention RDS), AWS Cloud Engineer (27.6% of that role’s postings mention RDS), Cloud DevOps Engineer (19.0% of that role’s postings mention RDS).
+What skills are commonly paired with RDS?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-28), RDS most often appears alongside AWS, S3, EC2, Lambda, Terraform.
+Where is RDS most in demand?
As of 2026-09-28, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring RDS are Bengaluru, Boston, New York City, Berlin, Pune, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
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Weekly job postings requiring RDS — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Roles most likely to require RDS
Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | % of role postings mentioning skill |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud Systems Engineer | 10 | 32.3% |
| AWS Cloud Engineer | 8 | 27.6% |
| Cloud DevOps Engineer | 16 | 19.0% |
| Database Reliability Engineer | 5 | 13.5% |
| Cloud Developer | 5 | 10.4% |
| Cloud Operations Engineer | 5 | 9.8% |
| Database Developer | 2 | 9.1% |
| Cloud Infrastructure Engineer | 12 | 6.4% |
| Implementation Engineer | 3 | 6.2% |
| Cloud Architect | 16 | 5.5% |
Roles with the most RDS postings
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | Share of skill postings |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 305 | 27.1% |
| DevOps Engineer | 161 | 14.3% |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 57 | 5.1% |
| Data Engineer | 52 | 4.6% |
| Platform Engineer | 42 | 3.7% |
| Cloud Engineer | 36 | 3.2% |
| Backend Engineer | 24 | 2.1% |
| Cloud Architect | 16 | 1.4% |
| Cloud DevOps Engineer | 16 | 1.4% |
| Full Stack Engineer | 16 | 1.4% |
Top metros hiring for RDS
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bengaluru | 33 | 2.9% |
| Boston | 26 | 2.3% |
| New York City | 24 | 2.1% |
| Berlin | 21 | 1.9% |
| Pune | 19 | 1.7% |
| Hyderabad | 17 | 1.5% |
| London | 16 | 1.4% |
| Austin | 14 | 1.2% |
| San Francisco | 14 | 1.2% |
Skills commonly paired with RDS
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning RDS by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s RDS postings by all RDS postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills).
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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