RDBMS Job Trends in the East Midlands

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring RDBMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 126 122
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 +25
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 2 4 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.080% 0.18% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.88% 1.27% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £82,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £85,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.94% +54.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile - £87,500 £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -10.71%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 228 314 417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.15% 14.09% 22.10%
Number of salaries quoted 160 198 345
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £39,688 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,750 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,625 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,250 £70,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

RDBMS job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

RDBMS
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing RDBMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Derbyshire - 2 £40,000 -
RDBMS
England

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jaeger
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) JPA
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Budget Control
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google