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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 164 157
Rank change year-on-year +36 -7 +92
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 1 4 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.061% 0.14% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.26% 0.55% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 11
10th Percentile - £69,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £71,750 £76,875 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £82,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% -13.16% +20.63%
75th Percentile £75,250 £83,750 £110,000
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £73,500 £82,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year -10.91% -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 382 733 637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 23.46% 26.55% 20.78%
Number of salaries quoted 321 474 585
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -1.02%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +10.34% - -

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
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aderant
1 1 (100.00%) iManage
1 1 (100.00%) Intapp
1 1 (100.00%) RedGate