RDBMS Job Trends in the City of London

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring RDBMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 168 171
Rank change year-on-year +47 +3 +84
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 6 6 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.37% 0.21% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.58% 0.81% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 11
10th Percentile £95,875 £57,375 £50,000
25th Percentile - £68,125 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £82,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -13.16% +15.15%
75th Percentile - £83,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £123,750 - -
Central London median annual salary £120,000 £82,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year +45.45% -13.16% +15.15%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of London

RDBMS falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 380 743 673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 23.62% 26.51% 21.23%
Number of salaries quoted 320 459 620
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,250 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.90% - -

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing RDBMS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

RDBMS job vacancy trend in the City of London

RDBMS
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing RDBMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Salary histogram for RDBMS in the City of London

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Law
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) ETRM Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Backend Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Swaptions
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 4 (66.67%) ETRM
1 4 (66.67%) IT Strategy
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
1 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 4 (66.67%) SDLC
1 4 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
1 4 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
1 4 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) VB
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) C++
4 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) OpenLink
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
1 4 (66.67%) Sybase
1 4 (66.67%) TIBCO
2 1 (16.67%) Aderant
2 1 (16.67%) iManage
2 1 (16.67%) Intapp
2 1 (16.67%) RedGate