RDBMS Jobs in England

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring RDBMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited RDBMS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 570 559
Rank change year-on-year +19 -11 -109
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 97 262 430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.31% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.44% 1.73% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 61 138 272
10th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £45,077
25th Percentile £56,809 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,250 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -7.34% +2.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £83,750 £104,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -2.28%

All Database and 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 6,722 15,182 19,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.60% 17.82% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,760 11,477 12,554
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,779 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing RDBMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in England

RDBMS
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in England.

Salary trend for RDBMS in England

RDBMS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +48 48 £80,000 +3.23% 37
South East +112 23 £62,500 - 14
North of England +33 23 £61,206 - 15
Midlands +73 12 £49,353 -38.31% 6
Yorkshire +63 11 £60,000 -17.24% 8
North West -7 11 £61,206 +3.12% 2
West Midlands +47 6 £105,000 +71.55% 5
East Midlands +44 6 £37,500 -54.55%
South West +90 3 - - 3
East of England +57 3 £90,000 -18.18% 3
North East +50 1 £61,206 - 5
RDBMS
UK

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (10.31%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.22%) Apache
3 4 (4.12%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.12%) Confluence
3 4 (4.12%) GemFire
4 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (2.06%) OpenEdge
6 1 (1.03%) Appian
6 1 (1.03%) Jupyter
6 1 (1.03%) Luigi
6 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Endur
1 3 (3.09%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 37 (38.14%) AWS
2 25 (25.77%) Serverless
3 21 (21.65%) Amazon ECS
4 18 (18.56%) Amazon EC2
4 18 (18.56%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (15.46%) Azure
6 14 (14.43%) GCP
7 7 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (7.22%) SaaS
8 6 (6.19%) dbt
9 5 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (5.15%) Power Platform
10 4 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (3.09%) GitHub
11 3 (3.09%) Snowflake
12 2 (2.06%) Amazon S3
13 1 (1.03%) Amazon EventBridge
13 1 (1.03%) Amazon SageMaker
13 1 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
13 1 (1.03%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 31 (31.96%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (28.87%) NoSQL
4 16 (16.49%) SQL Server
5 12 (12.37%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (10.31%) MySQL
7 8 (8.25%) MongoDB
8 5 (5.15%) Data Lake
8 5 (5.15%) Power BI
8 5 (5.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (4.12%) Apache Ignite
9 4 (4.12%) Big Data
9 4 (4.12%) InterSystems Cache
9 4 (4.12%) Oracle Database
9 4 (4.12%) Redis
10 2 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (2.06%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (2.06%) Apache Hive
10 2 (2.06%) Couchbase
10 2 (2.06%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 18 (18.56%) Jenkins
1 18 (18.56%) JMeter
1 18 (18.56%) JUnit
1 18 (18.56%) Mockito
2 12 (12.37%) Git
3 6 (6.19%) JIRA
4 2 (2.06%) Ant
4 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.06%) WebSpeed
5 1 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.03%) Liquibase
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (32.99%) Public Sector
2 21 (21.65%) Social Skills
3 17 (17.53%) Finance
4 9 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.25%) Telecoms
6 7 (7.22%) Electronics
6 7 (7.22%) Manufacturing
6 7 (7.22%) Marketing
7 6 (6.19%) Banking
8 5 (5.15%) Investment Banking
9 4 (4.12%) Digital Healthcare
9 4 (4.12%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (3.09%) French Language
10 3 (3.09%) Front Office
10 3 (3.09%) Law
10 3 (3.09%) Retail
11 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.03%) Advertising
12 1 (1.03%) Billing
12 1 (1.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 45 (46.39%) Developer
2 25 (25.77%) Senior
3 18 (18.56%) Java Developer
4 15 (15.46%) Senior Developer
5 14 (14.43%) Architect
6 12 (12.37%) Analyst
7 11 (11.34%) Data Architect
8 9 (9.28%) Backend Developer
9 8 (8.25%) Senior Backend Developer
10 7 (7.22%) Domain Architect
10 7 (7.22%) Python Developer
10 7 (7.22%) Senior Architect
10 7 (7.22%) Senior Data Architect
10 7 (7.22%) Senior Python Developer
11 6 (6.19%) Data Engineer
12 5 (5.15%) C# Developer
12 5 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (5.15%) Salesforce Expert
13 4 (4.12%) PHP Developer
13 4 (4.12%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (37.11%) REST
2 25 (25.77%) Spring
3 24 (24.74%) Web Services
4 22 (22.68%) HTML
5 21 (21.65%) Hibernate
6 18 (18.56%) ActiveMQ
6 18 (18.56%) Apache Camel
6 18 (18.56%) jQuery
6 18 (18.56%) Spring Boot
6 18 (18.56%) WireMock
7 14 (14.43%) Middleware
8 13 (13.40%) JSON
9 8 (8.25%) FastAPI
9 8 (8.25%) Kafka
9 8 (8.25%) XML
10 7 (7.22%) .NET
10 7 (7.22%) Flask
11 5 (5.15%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (5.15%) Lightning Web Components
11 5 (5.15%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.62%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (7.22%) Public Cloud
4 6 (6.19%) Algorithms
5 5 (5.15%) Data Structures
5 5 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.12%) Derivative
6 4 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (4.12%) LIMS
7 3 (3.09%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (3.09%) Equities
7 3 (3.09%) Fixed Income
7 3 (3.09%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.09%) Swaptions
8 2 (2.06%) Acoustics
8 2 (2.06%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.03%) Client/Server
9 1 (1.03%) N-Tier
9 1 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.28%) Linux
2 7 (7.22%) Unix
3 4 (4.12%) Windows
4 2 (2.06%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.03%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (45.36%) Agile
2 38 (39.18%) CI/CD
3 34 (35.05%) Microservices
4 25 (25.77%) Data Modelling
4 25 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (25.77%) TDD
5 20 (20.62%) Collaborative Working
6 18 (18.56%) Architectural Design
6 18 (18.56%) BDD
6 18 (18.56%) Process Management
6 18 (18.56%) Workflow
7 17 (17.53%) Business Intelligence
7 17 (17.53%) Design Patterns
8 16 (16.49%) Kanban
9 15 (15.46%) Architectural Patterns
9 15 (15.46%) Roadmaps
9 15 (15.46%) Scrum
10 14 (14.43%) SDLC
11 13 (13.40%) Data Architecture
11 13 (13.40%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 40 (41.24%) Java
2 37 (38.14%) Python
2 37 (38.14%) SQL
3 29 (29.90%) JavaScript
4 19 (19.59%) Shell Script
5 12 (12.37%) C#
6 9 (9.28%) C++
7 6 (6.19%) T-SQL
8 5 (5.15%) Apex Code
8 5 (5.15%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.12%) C
9 4 (4.12%) PHP
10 3 (3.09%) Bash
10 3 (3.09%) Go
10 3 (3.09%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.09%) VB
11 2 (2.06%) Fortran
11 2 (2.06%) OpenEdge ABL
11 2 (2.06%) Progress 4GL
11 2 (2.06%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (16.49%) Degree
2 13 (13.40%) SC Cleared
2 13 (13.40%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.12%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.06%) PhD
4 2 (2.06%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.31%) QA
2 9 (9.28%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.12%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.12%) HL7
4 2 (2.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 30 (30.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (27.84%) Kubernetes
2 18 (18.56%) Kibana
3 10 (10.31%) Terraform
4 3 (3.09%) Ansible
5 2 (2.06%) Grafana
5 2 (2.06%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.03%) Argo
6 1 (1.03%) Nagios
6 1 (1.03%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (18.56%) Dynatrace
1 18 (18.56%) Splunk
2 14 (14.43%) Oracle
3 10 (10.31%) Google
4 7 (7.22%) SAP
4 7 (7.22%) TIBCO
5 6 (6.19%) Salesforce
6 5 (5.15%) Databricks
7 4 (4.12%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (4.12%) Solace
8 3 (3.09%) Barracuda Networks
8 3 (3.09%) OpenLink
8 3 (3.09%) Sybase
9 2 (2.06%) Microsoft
9 2 (2.06%) StreamSets
10 1 (1.03%) Murex
10 1 (1.03%) Pega