RDBMS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 509 465
Rank change year-on-year -33 -44 +34
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 222 250 454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.41% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.80% 2.15% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 109 149 297
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £84,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £63,750 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% -3.57% +7.69%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 12,333 11,626 16,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.38% 19.29% 22.79%
Number of salaries quoted 8,167 6,793 10,318
10th Percentile £31,900 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £39,839
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,900 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing RDBMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in the UK excluding London

RDBMS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for RDBMS in the UK excluding London

RDBMS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for RDBMS in the UK excluding London

RDBMS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England +75 76 £61,206 +11.28% 10
North West +33 49 £61,206 +6.45% 6
Scotland -47 43 £65,000 +8.33% 7
Wales +28 26 £46,604 -41.75% 2
Yorkshire +92 25 £72,500 +31.82% 3
Midlands -26 22 £80,000 +9.59% 7
South West -37 21 £62,229 +8.22%
South East +7 20 £65,000 +39.54% 5
East Midlands -13 12 £82,500 +58.65% 2
Northern Ireland -2 11 £34,628 -23.05%
West Midlands -18 10 £61,206 -16.16% 5
East of England +1 3 £110,000 +52.78% 3
North East -7 2 £49,603 +4.05% 1
RDBMS
UK

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 40 (18.02%) WebLogic
2 7 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.90%) Apache
3 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 40 (18.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 98 (44.14%) AWS
2 63 (28.38%) Azure
3 46 (20.72%) Amazon EKS
4 41 (18.47%) Amazon SQS
5 35 (15.77%) Serverless
6 26 (11.71%) Amazon EC2
7 24 (10.81%) Amazon S3
8 22 (9.91%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (4.05%) SaaS
10 7 (3.15%) PaaS
11 6 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.25%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.25%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (2.25%) Google Sheets
13 4 (1.80%) iPaaS
13 4 (1.80%) WhatsApp
14 2 (0.90%) IBM Cloud
14 2 (0.90%) OpenShift
14 2 (0.90%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.90%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 40 (18.02%) BGP
1 40 (18.02%) DNS
1 40 (18.02%) SSL
1 40 (18.02%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.35%) LAN
3 1 (0.45%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (0.45%) Firewall
3 1 (0.45%) IMAP
3 1 (0.45%) SMTP
3 1 (0.45%) VoIP
3 1 (0.45%) WAN
3 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 70 (31.53%) Oracle Database
3 68 (30.63%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (25.68%) MySQL
5 42 (18.92%) SQL Server
6 23 (10.36%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (9.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (9.01%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (8.56%) NoSQL
10 11 (4.95%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (4.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (4.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (3.60%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (3.15%) MongoDB
14 6 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
15 5 (2.25%) InfluxDB
15 5 (2.25%) Neo4j
15 5 (2.25%) TimescaleDB
16 2 (0.90%) OLTP
16 2 (0.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 59 (26.58%) Git
2 30 (13.51%) JDeveloper
3 21 (9.46%) Postman
4 18 (8.11%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.15%) JUnit
6 5 (2.25%) GDB
6 5 (2.25%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (1.80%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.80%) JMeter
7 4 (1.80%) Mockito
8 3 (1.35%) Maven
9 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.45%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.45%) PHPUnit
General
1 65 (29.28%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.77%) Finance
3 32 (14.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 31 (13.96%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.21%) Law
6 14 (6.31%) Marketing
7 11 (4.95%) Police
8 10 (4.50%) Local Government
9 8 (3.60%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.70%) Fire and Rescue
11 5 (2.25%) Retail
12 4 (1.80%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.80%) Games
12 4 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.80%) Welsh Language
13 3 (1.35%) Banking
14 2 (0.90%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.45%) Legal
15 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 73 (32.88%) Lead
2 55 (24.77%) Architect
3 45 (20.27%) Software Engineer
4 42 (18.92%) Solutions Architect
5 40 (18.02%) Lead Architect
5 40 (18.02%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 30 (13.51%) DBA
6 30 (13.51%) Developer
6 30 (13.51%) Ruby Engineer
7 28 (12.61%) Senior
8 21 (9.46%) Technical Leader
9 17 (7.66%) Full Stack Engineer
10 16 (7.21%) SQL DBA
11 15 (6.76%) Java Engineer
12 14 (6.31%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 14 (6.31%) Java Software Engineer
12 14 (6.31%) Oracle DBA
13 12 (5.41%) MySQL DBA
14 9 (4.05%) Senior Developer
15 8 (3.60%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (37.39%) Spring Boot
2 49 (22.07%) React
3 48 (21.62%) Spring
4 46 (20.72%) RabbitMQ
5 39 (17.57%) Node.js
6 29 (13.06%) JSON
7 23 (10.36%) Kafka
8 21 (9.46%) Hibernate
9 20 (9.01%) Web Services
10 18 (8.11%) AngularJS
10 18 (8.11%) RESTful
11 16 (7.21%) Vue
12 14 (6.31%) SOAP
13 13 (5.86%) REST
14 11 (4.95%) .NET
15 6 (2.70%) .NET Core
16 5 (2.25%) Django
16 5 (2.25%) FastAPI
16 5 (2.25%) HTML
16 5 (2.25%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 49 (22.07%) Enterprise Software
2 47 (21.17%) Cloud Native
3 46 (20.72%) Public Cloud
4 32 (14.41%) Management Information System
5 15 (6.76%) Algorithms
6 14 (6.31%) Reference Data
7 10 (4.50%) Data Structures
8 7 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.25%) CMDB
9 5 (2.25%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.80%) Housing Association
11 3 (1.35%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.90%) Blockchain
12 2 (0.90%) e-Learning
12 2 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.90%) Replication
13 1 (0.45%) Cyber Defence
13 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 60 (27.03%) Linux
2 40 (18.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 27 (12.16%) Windows
4 14 (6.31%) Unix
5 3 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.45%) CentOS
6 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (46.40%) Agile
2 89 (40.09%) SDLC
3 84 (37.84%) Actionable Insight
4 76 (34.23%) Open Source
5 74 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 73 (32.88%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (31.08%) Project Management
8 64 (28.83%) Design Patterns
8 64 (28.83%) DevOps
9 57 (25.68%) Microservices
10 49 (22.07%) Containerisation
11 45 (20.27%) Collaborative Working
11 45 (20.27%) Load Balancing
11 45 (20.27%) Scrum
12 44 (19.82%) Kanban
12 44 (19.82%) Migration
12 44 (19.82%) Re-Platforming
13 43 (19.37%) Systems Engineering
14 41 (18.47%) Data Migration
15 40 (18.02%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 83 (37.39%) Java
2 71 (31.98%) SQL
3 46 (20.72%) Python
4 45 (20.27%) JavaScript
5 31 (13.96%) Bash
5 31 (13.96%) Perl
6 30 (13.51%) Go
6 30 (13.51%) Ruby
7 24 (10.81%) PHP
8 15 (6.76%) C#
9 11 (4.95%) PowerShell
10 10 (4.50%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.25%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.80%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.35%) C
13 3 (1.35%) C++
14 2 (0.90%) Scala
15 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (28.38%) Degree
2 55 (24.77%) SC Cleared
2 55 (24.77%) Security Cleared
3 41 (18.47%) AWS Certification
3 41 (18.47%) Azure Certification
4 40 (18.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 26 (11.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.90%) HNC
6 2 (0.90%) HND
6 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (13.51%) QA
2 6 (2.70%) SLA
3 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 29 (13.06%) Docker
2 9 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.90%) vSphere
4 1 (0.45%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.45%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 30 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 23 (10.36%) Terraform
3 4 (1.80%) Ansible
3 4 (1.80%) Data Guard
3 4 (1.80%) Kibana
4 2 (0.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 109 (49.10%) Oracle
2 40 (18.02%) Sparx
3 30 (13.51%) Microsoft
4 16 (7.21%) VMware
5 10 (4.50%) Commvault
5 10 (4.50%) Google
6 6 (2.70%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.80%) Splunk
8 2 (0.90%) Apple
8 2 (0.90%) IBM
8 2 (0.90%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.90%) Sybase
9 1 (0.45%) Cisco
9 1 (0.45%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.45%) Informatica