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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 158 174
Rank change year-on-year +31 +16 +71
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 6 8 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.35% 0.28% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.58% 1.09% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 12
10th Percentile £95,875 - £43,250
25th Percentile - £51,000 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £74,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +62.16% -22.11% +22.58%
75th Percentile - £83,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £123,750 - £121,250
Central London median annual salary £120,000 £74,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +62.16% -22.11% +18.75%

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 380 736 772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 22.14% 25.85% 22.21%
Number of salaries quoted 306 477 712
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,493 £48,875
25th Percentile £63,750 £56,250 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year - +1.69% +1.72%
75th Percentile £97,125 £93,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £111,250
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS 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 September 2025.

Salary histogram for RDBMS in the City of London

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 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