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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 - 147
Rank change year-on-year - - +78
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 3 0 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.13% - 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.79% - 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile £74,075 - £50,000
25th Percentile £77,563 - £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,250 - £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.15%
75th Percentile £90,063 - £105,000
90th Percentile £93,025 - £110,000
Central London median annual salary £84,250 - £91,250
% change year-on-year - - +10.61%

All Database & 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 382 668 615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 16.70% 25.31% 21.72%
Number of salaries quoted 323 435 571
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,280 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £99,375 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

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 13 January 2026.

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jaeger
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Law
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) CloudOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Celery
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Budget Control
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GitOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Product Management
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Argo
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Kustomize
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Aderant
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) iManage
1 1 (33.33%) Intapp
1 1 (33.33%) RedGate