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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 559 411
Rank change year-on-year -26 -148 +65
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 345 450 1,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.46% 0.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.88% 2.14% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 166 281 615
10th Percentile £44,851 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,101 £48,402 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,103 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.51% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £84,375 £105,000 £106,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +14.29%

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 18,328 21,007 47,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.86% 21.58% 28.19%
Number of salaries quoted 12,523 13,073 21,105
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 £103,750 £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 28 May 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 28 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 -16 258 £70,000 -3.45% 55
UK excluding London -20 207 £60,000 +9.09% 31
Work from Home +22 203 £60,000 -9.91% 34
London +48 117 £80,000 +10.34% 29
North of England +78 71 £61,206 +11.28% 9
North West +29 45 £61,206 +6.45% 5
Scotland -47 39 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Wales +21 25 £46,604 -41.75% 1
Yorkshire +90 24 £72,500 +43.56% 3
Midlands -30 21 £80,000 +9.59% 4
South East +4 19 £65,000 +4.00% 5
South West -32 19 £62,229 +13.14% 5
East Midlands -15 11 £82,500 +73.68%
Northern Ireland -2 10 £34,628 -23.05%
West Midlands -15 10 £61,206 -16.16% 4
East of England -12 3 £110,000 +103.70% 5
North East -10 2 £49,603 +4.05% 1

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 (14.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (13.33%) WebLogic
3 11 (3.19%) Apache
4 7 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.87%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.58%) nginx
7 1 (0.29%) IIS
7 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (13.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 42 (12.17%) Endur
3 5 (1.45%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 1 (0.29%) Data Workbench
4 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 137 (39.71%) AWS
2 83 (24.06%) Azure
3 63 (18.26%) Amazon EKS
4 47 (13.62%) Amazon SQS
5 41 (11.88%) Amazon S3
6 34 (9.86%) Serverless
7 33 (9.57%) Amazon EC2
8 27 (7.83%) Amazon Kinesis
9 15 (4.35%) SaaS
10 13 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (3.48%) Amazon ECR
11 12 (3.48%) IBM Cloud
11 12 (3.48%) OCI
11 12 (3.48%) OpenShift
11 12 (3.48%) Route 53
12 11 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (2.90%) PaaS
14 8 (2.32%) Amazon EMR
15 7 (2.03%) Amazon EventBridge
15 7 (2.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 51 (14.78%) DNS
2 48 (13.91%) TCP/IP
3 47 (13.62%) SSL
4 46 (13.33%) BGP
5 3 (0.87%) Firewall
5 3 (0.87%) LAN
5 3 (0.87%) SMTP
6 2 (0.58%) DKIM
6 2 (0.58%) DMARC
6 2 (0.58%) Network Security
7 1 (0.29%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.29%) IMAP
7 1 (0.29%) SSH
7 1 (0.29%) VoIP
7 1 (0.29%) WAN
7 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 345 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 112 (32.46%) SQL Server
3 88 (25.51%) Amazon RDS
4 78 (22.61%) Oracle Database
5 74 (21.45%) MySQL
6 40 (11.59%) PostgreSQL
7 32 (9.28%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (7.83%) Amazon Redshift
9 25 (7.25%) NoSQL
10 16 (4.64%) MongoDB
11 12 (3.48%) DB2
12 11 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (3.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (3.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 10 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (2.32%) Metadata
15 7 (2.03%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (2.03%) Data Hub
15 7 (2.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 65 (18.84%) Git
2 28 (8.12%) Jenkins
3 25 (7.25%) Postman
4 24 (6.96%) JDeveloper
5 8 (2.32%) JUnit
6 5 (1.45%) GDB
6 5 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (1.16%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.16%) JMeter
7 4 (1.16%) Maven
7 4 (1.16%) Mockito
8 2 (0.58%) git-flow
9 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.29%) ERwin
9 1 (0.29%) GitLab
9 1 (0.29%) Gradle
9 1 (0.29%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.29%) JIRA
9 1 (0.29%) PHPUnit
General
1 96 (27.83%) Social Skills
2 60 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (14.49%) Marketing
4 49 (14.20%) Finance
5 48 (13.91%) Games
5 48 (13.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (6.09%) Law
7 18 (5.22%) Public Sector
8 11 (3.19%) Police
9 10 (2.90%) Local Government
10 9 (2.61%) Retail
11 8 (2.32%) Legal
12 6 (1.74%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.16%) Banking
14 4 (1.16%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.16%) Welsh Language
15 3 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (24.93%) Lead
2 85 (24.64%) Architect
3 76 (22.03%) Senior
4 53 (15.36%) Developer
5 48 (13.91%) Solutions Architect
6 46 (13.33%) Lead Architect
6 46 (13.33%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 46 (13.33%) Software Engineer
7 32 (9.28%) DBA
8 25 (7.25%) Senior Manager
8 25 (7.25%) Technical Leader
9 24 (6.96%) Ruby Engineer
10 23 (6.67%) Endur Manager
10 23 (6.67%) OpenLink Manager
11 21 (6.09%) Development Manager
11 21 (6.09%) Software Development Manager
11 21 (6.09%) Software Manager
12 20 (5.80%) Java Engineer
13 19 (5.51%) Senior Development Manager
14 16 (4.64%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (26.96%) Spring Boot
2 61 (17.68%) Spring
3 53 (15.36%) RabbitMQ
4 50 (14.49%) JSON
5 45 (13.04%) React
6 32 (9.28%) Node.js
7 23 (6.67%) Kafka
8 22 (6.38%) Web Services
9 21 (6.09%) .NET
9 21 (6.09%) RESTful
10 20 (5.80%) Hibernate
11 17 (4.93%) AngularJS
12 16 (4.64%) Akka
13 15 (4.35%) Vue
14 13 (3.77%) REST
14 13 (3.77%) SOAP
15 12 (3.48%) Spring XD
16 6 (1.74%) .NET Core
16 6 (1.74%) FastAPI
16 6 (1.74%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 61 (17.68%) Enterprise Software
2 52 (15.07%) Cloud Native
2 52 (15.07%) Public Cloud
3 42 (12.17%) Swaptions
4 41 (11.88%) Management Information System
5 21 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (5.80%) Algorithms
7 16 (4.64%) Data Structures
8 13 (3.77%) Reference Data
9 12 (3.48%) Blockchain
9 12 (3.48%) e-Learning
9 12 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (2.90%) Virtual Team
11 8 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.45%) CMDB
12 5 (1.45%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.16%) Housing Association
13 4 (1.16%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.87%) Biopharmaceutical
14 3 (0.87%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 71 (20.58%) Linux
2 46 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 37 (10.72%) Windows
4 20 (5.80%) Unix
5 7 (2.03%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.58%) CentOS
7 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (41.16%) SDLC
2 137 (39.71%) Agile
3 100 (28.99%) Problem-Solving
4 88 (25.51%) Actionable Insight
5 87 (25.22%) Data Modelling
6 82 (23.77%) Software Engineering
7 80 (23.19%) DevOps
8 78 (22.61%) Open Source
8 78 (22.61%) Project Management
8 78 (22.61%) Roadmaps
9 73 (21.16%) CI/CD
10 67 (19.42%) Migration
11 64 (18.55%) Design Patterns
12 54 (15.65%) Microservices
12 54 (15.65%) Scrum
13 53 (15.36%) Collaborative Working
13 53 (15.36%) Load Balancing
14 52 (15.07%) Containerisation
15 50 (14.49%) Kanban
15 50 (14.49%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 162 (46.96%) Java
2 116 (33.62%) SQL
3 62 (17.97%) Python
4 42 (12.17%) VB
5 38 (11.01%) JavaScript
6 30 (8.70%) Go
7 28 (8.12%) Bash
7 28 (8.12%) PHP
8 25 (7.25%) Perl
9 24 (6.96%) Ruby
10 18 (5.22%) Scala
11 16 (4.64%) C#
12 13 (3.77%) T-SQL
13 12 (3.48%) PowerShell
14 8 (2.32%) C
15 7 (2.03%) PL/SQL
16 5 (1.45%) C++
16 5 (1.45%) Shell Script
17 4 (1.16%) TypeScript
18 2 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 77 (22.32%) Degree
2 63 (18.26%) SC Cleared
2 63 (18.26%) Security Cleared
3 47 (13.62%) AWS Certification
3 47 (13.62%) Azure Certification
4 46 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 33 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.16%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.58%) HNC
7 2 (0.58%) HND
8 1 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.25%) QA
2 8 (2.32%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.74%) SLA
4 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.87%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.58%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.29%) GDPR
6 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 43 (12.46%) Docker
2 13 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.58%) vSphere
4 1 (0.29%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.29%) Postfix
4 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (11.59%) Terraform
2 39 (11.30%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.48%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.74%) Ansible
5 4 (1.16%) Data Guard
5 4 (1.16%) Kibana
6 1 (0.29%) Packer
6 1 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 175 (50.72%) Oracle
2 54 (15.65%) Sybase
3 46 (13.33%) Sparx
4 42 (12.17%) OpenLink
4 42 (12.17%) TIBCO
5 39 (11.30%) Microsoft
6 19 (5.51%) VMware
7 16 (4.64%) Dynatrace
8 14 (4.06%) IBM
9 12 (3.48%) Red Hat
10 10 (2.90%) Commvault
10 10 (2.90%) Google
11 4 (1.16%) Splunk
12 2 (0.58%) Apple
12 2 (0.58%) Cisco
12 2 (0.58%) Fortinet
13 1 (0.29%) F5
13 1 (0.29%) IBM Sterling
13 1 (0.29%) Informatica
13 1 (0.29%) Juniper