Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for RDBMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited RDBMS over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 606 568 415
Rank change year-on-year -38 -153 +37
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 320 422 1,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.45% 0.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.72% 2.10% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 160 266 606
10th Percentile £44,851 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,101 £48,402 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £67,500 £69,078
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% -2.28% +6.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,438 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,375 £103,750 £108,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,186
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.48% +10.83%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

RDBMS 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 18,555 20,054 48,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.20% 21.40% 28.15%
Number of salaries quoted 12,591 12,842 21,109
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 £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RDBMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing RDBMS.

Salary trend for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing RDBMS over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the UK over the 6 months to 7 June 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 -34 246 £67,500 -5.92% 36
UK excluding London -53 186 £60,000 +9.09% 23
Work from Home -18 179 £60,000 -4.00% 23
London +10 119 £80,000 +10.34% 14
North of England +56 64 £61,206 +11.28% 7
North West +16 40 £59,353 +7.91% 5
Scotland -60 32 £62,500 +13.64% 1
Wales +23 23 £46,604 -41.75% 1
Yorkshire +80 22 £72,500 +43.56% 2
South East -15 20 £65,000 +8.33% 4
Midlands -42 20 £80,000 +9.59% 2
South West -33 16 £46,958 -14.62% 6
West Midlands -26 11 £61,206 -16.16% 2
East Midlands -24 9 £82,500 +73.68%
Northern Ireland -1 8 £34,628 -23.05%
East of England -11 3 £110,000 +185.65% 3
North East -19 2 £49,603 +4.05%

RDBMS
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 49 (15.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (14.38%) WebLogic
3 11 (3.44%) Apache
4 7 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.63%) nginx
6 1 (0.31%) IIS
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (14.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 42 (13.13%) Endur
3 5 (1.56%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 1 (0.31%) Data Workbench
4 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 136 (42.50%) AWS
2 88 (27.50%) Azure
3 64 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 47 (14.69%) Amazon SQS
5 41 (12.81%) Amazon S3
6 34 (10.63%) Amazon EC2
7 27 (8.44%) Amazon Kinesis
8 15 (4.69%) SaaS
9 14 (4.38%) Serverless
10 13 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (3.75%) Amazon ECR
11 12 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (3.75%) IBM Cloud
11 12 (3.75%) OCI
11 12 (3.75%) OpenShift
11 12 (3.75%) Route 53
12 10 (3.13%) PaaS
13 9 (2.81%) Power Platform
14 8 (2.50%) Amazon EMR
15 7 (2.19%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 51 (15.94%) DNS
2 48 (15.00%) TCP/IP
3 47 (14.69%) SSL
4 46 (14.38%) BGP
5 3 (0.94%) Firewall
5 3 (0.94%) LAN
5 3 (0.94%) SMTP
6 2 (0.63%) DKIM
6 2 (0.63%) DMARC
6 2 (0.63%) Network Security
7 1 (0.31%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.31%) IMAP
7 1 (0.31%) SSH
7 1 (0.31%) VoIP
7 1 (0.31%) WAN
7 1 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 320 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 111 (34.69%) SQL Server
3 88 (27.50%) Amazon RDS
4 74 (23.13%) MySQL
5 54 (16.88%) Oracle Database
6 42 (13.13%) PostgreSQL
7 32 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (8.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 26 (8.13%) NoSQL
10 15 (4.69%) MongoDB
11 13 (4.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (3.75%) DB2
13 11 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (3.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 10 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
15 8 (2.50%) Metadata
16 7 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (2.19%) Data Hub
16 7 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (2.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 42 (13.13%) Git
2 28 (8.75%) Jenkins
3 25 (7.81%) Postman
4 7 (2.19%) JUnit
5 5 (1.56%) GDB
5 5 (1.56%) JMeter
5 5 (1.56%) Mockito
5 5 (1.56%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.94%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.63%) git-flow
7 2 (0.63%) Maven
8 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.31%) ERwin
8 1 (0.31%) GitLab
8 1 (0.31%) JIRA
8 1 (0.31%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.31%) Toad
8 1 (0.31%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 92 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 57 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (15.31%) Games
4 48 (15.00%) Marketing
5 45 (14.06%) Finance
5 45 (14.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (5.94%) Law
6 19 (5.94%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.44%) Police
8 10 (3.13%) Local Government
9 9 (2.81%) Retail
10 7 (2.19%) Legal
11 6 (1.88%) Fire and Rescue
12 5 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.25%) Banking
13 4 (1.25%) Welsh Language
14 3 (0.94%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (26.88%) Lead
2 84 (26.25%) Architect
3 76 (23.75%) Senior
4 55 (17.19%) Developer
5 48 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
6 46 (14.38%) Lead Architect
6 46 (14.38%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 32 (10.00%) DBA
8 25 (7.81%) Senior Manager
8 25 (7.81%) Technical Leader
9 23 (7.19%) Endur Manager
9 23 (7.19%) OpenLink Manager
10 21 (6.56%) Development Manager
10 21 (6.56%) Software Development Manager
10 21 (6.56%) Software Manager
11 20 (6.25%) Software Engineer
12 19 (5.94%) Senior Development Manager
13 18 (5.63%) Java Engineer
14 16 (5.00%) Endur Architect
14 16 (5.00%) OpenLink Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (28.44%) Spring Boot
2 59 (18.44%) Spring
3 53 (16.56%) RabbitMQ
4 51 (15.94%) JSON
5 21 (6.56%) .NET
5 21 (6.56%) Web Services
6 20 (6.25%) Kafka
6 20 (6.25%) RESTful
7 19 (5.94%) React
8 18 (5.63%) Hibernate
9 16 (5.00%) Vue
10 14 (4.38%) Akka
10 14 (4.38%) AngularJS
11 13 (4.06%) REST
12 12 (3.75%) Spring XD
13 11 (3.44%) Node.js
13 11 (3.44%) SOAP
14 6 (1.88%) FastAPI
14 6 (1.88%) HTML
14 6 (1.88%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 61 (19.06%) Enterprise Software
2 52 (16.25%) Public Cloud
3 49 (15.31%) Cloud Native
4 42 (13.13%) Swaptions
5 40 (12.50%) Management Information System
6 19 (5.94%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (5.63%) Algorithms
8 15 (4.69%) Data Structures
9 12 (3.75%) Blockchain
9 12 (3.75%) e-Learning
9 12 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (3.44%) Reference Data
11 10 (3.13%) Virtual Team
12 9 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (1.56%) CMDB
13 5 (1.56%) Low-Code
14 4 (1.25%) Housing Association
14 4 (1.25%) Onboarding
15 3 (0.94%) Biopharmaceutical
15 3 (0.94%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 69 (21.56%) Linux
2 46 (14.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 37 (11.56%) Windows
4 20 (6.25%) Unix
5 7 (2.19%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.63%) CentOS
7 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (44.06%) SDLC
2 135 (42.19%) Agile
3 87 (27.19%) Data Modelling
4 78 (24.38%) Roadmaps
5 77 (24.06%) Project Management
6 75 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
7 72 (22.50%) CI/CD
8 67 (20.94%) Migration
9 63 (19.69%) Actionable Insight
10 56 (17.50%) DevOps
11 55 (17.19%) Scrum
11 55 (17.19%) Software Engineering
12 54 (16.88%) Collaborative Working
12 54 (16.88%) Open Source
13 53 (16.56%) Load Balancing
14 51 (15.94%) Kanban
15 50 (15.63%) Data Migration
15 50 (15.63%) Re-Platforming
16 49 (15.31%) Systems Engineering
17 46 (14.38%) Cloud Operations
Programming Languages
1 133 (41.56%) Java
2 118 (36.88%) SQL
3 42 (13.13%) Python
3 42 (13.13%) VB
4 28 (8.75%) PHP
5 18 (5.63%) JavaScript
6 15 (4.69%) C#
6 15 (4.69%) Scala
7 14 (4.38%) T-SQL
8 12 (3.75%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.19%) Go
9 7 (2.19%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.88%) C
11 5 (1.56%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.25%) Bash
12 4 (1.25%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.94%) C++
14 2 (0.63%) R
15 1 (0.31%) ActionScript 2.0
15 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 76 (23.75%) Degree
2 63 (19.69%) SC Cleared
2 63 (19.69%) Security Cleared
3 47 (14.69%) AWS Certification
3 47 (14.69%) Azure Certification
4 46 (14.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 32 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.94%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.63%) HNC
7 2 (0.63%) HND
8 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.88%) SLA
3 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.94%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.31%) GDPR
5 1 (0.31%) NIST
5 1 (0.31%) QA
System Software
1 43 (13.44%) Docker
2 13 (4.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.63%) vSphere
4 1 (0.31%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.31%) Postfix
4 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (12.50%) Terraform
2 37 (11.56%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.75%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.88%) Ansible
5 5 (1.56%) Kibana
6 4 (1.25%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.31%) Packer
7 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 149 (46.56%) Oracle
2 54 (16.88%) Sybase
3 46 (14.38%) Sparx
4 42 (13.13%) OpenLink
4 42 (13.13%) TIBCO
5 38 (11.88%) Microsoft
6 19 (5.94%) VMware
7 17 (5.31%) Dynatrace
8 14 (4.38%) IBM
9 12 (3.75%) Red Hat
10 10 (3.13%) Commvault
10 10 (3.13%) Google
11 5 (1.56%) Splunk
12 2 (0.63%) Apple
12 2 (0.63%) Cisco
12 2 (0.63%) Fortinet
13 1 (0.31%) F5
13 1 (0.31%) IBM Sterling
13 1 (0.31%) Informatica
13 1 (0.31%) Juniper