RDBMS Job Trends in England

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring RDBMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 522 599
Rank change year-on-year -79 +77 -53
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 81 92 217
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.25% 0.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.19% 1.36% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 32 59 142
10th Percentile £49,125 £43,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,655 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% -3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £84,750 £108,000 £87,000
UK median annual salary £61,250 £67,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year -9.26% +5.88% -5.56%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,802 6,743 14,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.19% 18.45% 17.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4,237 4,759 11,411
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -10.20%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

RDBMS job vacancy trend in England

RDBMS
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing RDBMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in England over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for RDBMS in England

RDBMS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the England region over the 6 months to 10 April 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
London +5 61 £75,000 -6.25% 7
South East -41 10 £62,750 +0.40% 3
North of England -82 6 £60,000 -1.97% 3
North West -36 3 £57,500 -6.05% 1
South West -48 3 £58,499 -
Midlands -58 3 £43,750 +16.67% 2
Yorkshire -62 3 £60,000 - 2
East Midlands -57 2 £40,000 +6.67% 1
West Midlands -20 1 £47,500 -54.76% 1
RDBMS
UK

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 5 (6.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.23%) CICS
2 1 (1.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.23%) IIS
2 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 46 (56.79%) AWS
2 19 (23.46%) Pulumi
3 17 (20.99%) Azure
4 15 (18.52%) GCP
5 14 (17.28%) OpenShift
6 8 (9.88%) Serverless
7 7 (8.64%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (8.64%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (6.17%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (4.94%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (3.70%) SaaS
11 2 (2.47%) OCI
12 1 (1.23%) Amazon EventBridge
12 1 (1.23%) Azure Batch
12 1 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
12 1 (1.23%) dbt
12 1 (1.23%) Power Platform
12 1 (1.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (23.46%) Broadband
2 1 (1.23%) Firewall
2 1 (1.23%) LAN
2 1 (1.23%) Network Security
2 1 (1.23%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.23%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.23%) WAN
2 1 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 29 (35.80%) NoSQL
3 16 (19.75%) MySQL
3 16 (19.75%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (16.05%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (12.35%) SQL Server
6 9 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
6 9 (11.11%) MongoDB
7 8 (9.88%) Metadata
8 6 (7.41%) DynamoDB
9 5 (6.17%) Big Data
9 5 (6.17%) DataStage
9 5 (6.17%) Hadoop
9 5 (6.17%) Neo4j
9 5 (6.17%) Pentaho
10 4 (4.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (4.94%) BigQuery
11 3 (3.70%) Oracle Database
12 2 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (23.46%) Jaeger
2 7 (8.64%) ERwin
3 5 (6.17%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.94%) Git
4 4 (4.94%) JMeter
4 4 (4.94%) JUnit
4 4 (4.94%) Mockito
5 3 (3.70%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.47%) JIRA
7 1 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.23%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (1.23%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.23%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (1.23%) Selenium
General
1 25 (30.86%) Finance
2 19 (23.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (20.99%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (17.28%) Telecoms
5 13 (16.05%) Billing
6 10 (12.35%) Social Skills
7 7 (8.64%) Financial Institution
8 6 (7.41%) Public Sector
9 5 (6.17%) Law
10 3 (3.70%) Front Office
11 1 (1.23%) Electronics
11 1 (1.23%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.23%) Marketing
11 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.23%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (33.33%) Developer
2 26 (32.10%) Lead
3 20 (24.69%) Java Developer
4 18 (22.22%) Senior
5 14 (17.28%) Senior Developer
6 12 (14.81%) Senior Java Developer
7 9 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (11.11%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 8 (9.88%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (8.64%) Consultant
9 7 (8.64%) Data Consultant
9 7 (8.64%) Data Model Consultant
9 7 (8.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 7 (8.64%) Team Leader
10 5 (6.17%) Architect
10 5 (6.17%) Principal Engineer
11 4 (4.94%) Data Architect
11 4 (4.94%) Lead Architect
11 4 (4.94%) Lead Data Architect
11 4 (4.94%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (30.86%) REST
2 22 (27.16%) Spring
3 19 (23.46%) Elastic Stack
3 19 (23.46%) OpenTelemetry
3 19 (23.46%) Spring Boot
4 17 (20.99%) AngularJS
5 13 (16.05%) Bootstrap
5 13 (16.05%) JSON
6 11 (13.58%) XML
7 7 (8.64%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (8.64%) FpML
7 7 (8.64%) XML Schema
8 6 (7.41%) React
9 5 (6.17%) Hibernate
9 5 (6.17%) HTML
9 5 (6.17%) Web Services
10 4 (4.94%) ActiveMQ
10 4 (4.94%) Apache Camel
10 4 (4.94%) jQuery
10 4 (4.94%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.81%) Management Information System
2 10 (12.35%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.64%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (8.64%) Data Structures
3 7 (8.64%) e-Learning
4 6 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 6 (7.41%) Replication
5 5 (6.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.70%) Hedge funds
7 3 (3.70%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.23%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.23%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 22 (27.16%) Linux
2 20 (24.69%) Unix
3 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (69.14%) Agile
2 33 (40.74%) Containerisation
3 32 (39.51%) Mentoring
4 24 (29.63%) Roadmaps
5 22 (27.16%) Continuous Integration
5 22 (27.16%) Microservices
6 21 (25.93%) DevOps
7 20 (24.69%) Performance Optimisation
7 20 (24.69%) Product Management
8 19 (23.46%) Budget Control
8 19 (23.46%) Cost Optimisation
8 19 (23.46%) GitOps
8 19 (23.46%) High Availability
8 19 (23.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (23.46%) Resource Management
8 19 (23.46%) Task Automation
9 16 (19.75%) Data Modelling
9 16 (19.75%) ETL
10 15 (18.52%) CI/CD
11 14 (17.28%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 49 (60.49%) Java
2 44 (54.32%) JavaScript
3 41 (50.62%) Python
4 24 (29.63%) SQL
5 19 (23.46%) Bash
5 19 (23.46%) Go
6 6 (7.41%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.17%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.94%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.70%) PHP
10 2 (2.47%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.47%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.23%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (24.69%) AWS Certification
2 6 (7.41%) Degree
3 5 (6.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.94%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.47%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.47%) GDPR
1 2 (2.47%) HL7
1 2 (2.47%) QA
2 1 (1.23%) ISO 22301
2 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (29.63%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 38 (46.91%) Kubernetes
2 20 (24.69%) Terraform
3 19 (23.46%) Ansible
3 19 (23.46%) Argo
3 19 (23.46%) Kustomize
3 19 (23.46%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.94%) Kibana
5 1 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (29.63%) Google
2 13 (16.05%) Oracle
3 7 (8.64%) Sparx
4 6 (7.41%) Microsoft
5 5 (6.17%) Informatica
5 5 (6.17%) Talend
6 4 (4.94%) Dynatrace
6 4 (4.94%) Splunk
7 1 (1.23%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.23%) IBM
7 1 (1.23%) Pega
7 1 (1.23%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.23%) SAP
7 1 (1.23%) Siemens