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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 572 573
Rank change year-on-year +168 +1 -133
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 305 268 394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.31% 0.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.35% 1.76% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 55 138 254
10th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £45,077
25th Percentile £56,809 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £72,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% -8.30% +3.21%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £119,000 £84,125 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% -3.57%

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 7,017 15,190 19,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.37% 17.72% 21.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,640 11,409 12,194
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,999 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £84,056
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 14 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 14 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 +107 108 £80,000 - 49
South East +125 44 £60,000 -7.69% 19
East of England +73 30 £90,000 -18.18% 9
North of England +2 26 £61,206 - 25
Midlands +54 15 £49,353 -38.31% 7
North West -29 14 £61,206 - 7
Yorkshire +60 10 £61,206 -15.58% 13
South West +96 9 - - 9
East Midlands +29 8 £37,500 -54.55% 1
West Midlands +51 7 £105,000 +71.55% 5
North East +44 2 £61,206 +23.39% 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 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.97%) Apache
3 4 (1.31%) Confluence
3 4 (1.31%) GemFire
3 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.66%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.33%) Appian
6 1 (0.33%) Luigi
6 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (1.31%) Endur
2 3 (0.98%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 247 (80.98%) AWS
2 215 (70.49%) Pulumi
3 21 (6.89%) Serverless
4 17 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (4.59%) Azure
6 12 (3.93%) GCP
7 7 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (2.30%) dbt
8 6 (1.97%) SaaS
9 5 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.64%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.31%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.98%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.98%) GitHub
12 1 (0.33%) Amazon EventBridge
12 1 (0.33%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.33%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 215 (70.49%) Broadband
2 1 (0.33%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 305 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 242 (79.34%) NoSQL
3 25 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (5.57%) SQL Server
5 12 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.95%) MySQL
7 8 (2.62%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.64%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.64%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.64%) Power BI
8 5 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.31%) Apache Ignite
9 4 (1.31%) InterSystems Cache
9 4 (1.31%) Redis
10 3 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.98%) Big Data
11 2 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.66%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.66%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.66%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 215 (70.49%) Jaeger
2 14 (4.59%) Jenkins
2 14 (4.59%) JMeter
2 14 (4.59%) JUnit
2 14 (4.59%) Mockito
3 11 (3.61%) Git
4 5 (1.64%) JIRA
5 2 (0.66%) Ant
5 2 (0.66%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.66%) WebSpeed
6 1 (0.33%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 215 (70.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 27 (8.85%) Public Sector
3 20 (6.56%) Social Skills
4 16 (5.25%) Finance
5 9 (2.95%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.62%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.30%) Electronics
7 7 (2.30%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.30%) Marketing
8 6 (1.97%) Banking
9 5 (1.64%) Digital Healthcare
9 5 (1.64%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.31%) Law
11 3 (0.98%) French Language
11 3 (0.98%) Front Office
12 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.66%) Retail
13 1 (0.33%) Back Office
13 1 (0.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 217 (71.15%) Lead
2 215 (70.49%) Team Leader
3 39 (12.79%) Developer
4 23 (7.54%) Senior
5 14 (4.59%) Architect
5 14 (4.59%) Senior Developer
6 13 (4.26%) Analyst
6 13 (4.26%) Java Developer
7 10 (3.28%) Data Architect
8 9 (2.95%) Backend Developer
9 8 (2.62%) Senior Backend Developer
10 7 (2.30%) Python Developer
10 7 (2.30%) Senior Python Developer
11 6 (1.97%) Domain Architect
11 6 (1.97%) Senior Architect
11 6 (1.97%) Senior Data Architect
12 5 (1.64%) C# Developer
12 5 (1.64%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (1.64%) Integration Analyst
12 5 (1.64%) Salesforce Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (70.49%) Elastic Stack
1 215 (70.49%) OpenTelemetry
2 31 (10.16%) REST
3 21 (6.89%) Spring
4 20 (6.56%) Web Services
5 18 (5.90%) HTML
6 17 (5.57%) Hibernate
7 15 (4.92%) JSON
8 14 (4.59%) ActiveMQ
8 14 (4.59%) Apache Camel
8 14 (4.59%) jQuery
8 14 (4.59%) Middleware
8 14 (4.59%) Spring Boot
8 14 (4.59%) WireMock
9 9 (2.95%) XML
10 8 (2.62%) FastAPI
11 7 (2.30%) Flask
11 7 (2.30%) Kafka
12 6 (1.97%) .NET
13 5 (1.64%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (2.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (1.97%) Public Cloud
4 5 (1.64%) LIMS
4 5 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.31%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.31%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.31%) Derivative
5 4 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.31%) Swaptions
6 3 (0.98%) Credit Derivative
6 3 (0.98%) Equities
6 3 (0.98%) Fixed Income
6 3 (0.98%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.66%) Acoustics
7 2 (0.66%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.33%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.33%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.33%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 224 (73.44%) Linux
2 222 (72.79%) Unix
3 4 (1.31%) Windows
4 2 (0.66%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (82.62%) Agile
2 230 (75.41%) Roadmaps
3 227 (74.43%) Mentoring
4 226 (74.10%) DevOps
5 224 (73.44%) Containerisation
6 223 (73.11%) Continuous Integration
6 223 (73.11%) Product Management
7 218 (71.48%) High Availability
8 217 (71.15%) Infrastructure as Code
9 215 (70.49%) Budget Control
9 215 (70.49%) Cost Optimisation
9 215 (70.49%) GitOps
9 215 (70.49%) Performance Optimisation
9 215 (70.49%) Resource Management
9 215 (70.49%) Task Automation
10 32 (10.49%) CI/CD
11 27 (8.85%) Microservices
12 26 (8.52%) Data Modelling
13 25 (8.20%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (6.89%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 249 (81.64%) Java
2 246 (80.66%) Python
3 240 (78.69%) JavaScript
4 218 (71.48%) Bash
5 217 (71.15%) Go
6 37 (12.13%) SQL
7 15 (4.92%) Shell Script
8 12 (3.93%) C#
9 8 (2.62%) C++
10 6 (1.97%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.97%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.64%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.31%) VB
13 3 (0.98%) C
13 3 (0.98%) PHP
14 2 (0.66%) Fortran
14 2 (0.66%) OpenEdge ABL
14 2 (0.66%) Progress 4GL
14 2 (0.66%) Scala
14 2 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 215 (70.49%) AWS Certification
2 15 (4.92%) Degree
3 8 (2.62%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.62%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.31%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.66%) PhD
6 2 (0.66%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.28%) Data Quality
1 10 (3.28%) QA
2 5 (1.64%) HL7
3 3 (0.98%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 240 (78.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 237 (77.70%) Kubernetes
2 225 (73.77%) Terraform
3 218 (71.48%) Ansible
4 216 (70.82%) Prometheus
5 215 (70.49%) Argo
5 215 (70.49%) Kustomize
6 14 (4.59%) Kibana
7 1 (0.33%) Grafana
7 1 (0.33%) Nagios
7 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 224 (73.44%) Google
2 16 (5.25%) Oracle
3 14 (4.59%) Dynatrace
3 14 (4.59%) Splunk
4 8 (2.62%) TIBCO
5 7 (2.30%) SAP
6 6 (1.97%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.64%) Databricks
8 4 (1.31%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.31%) OpenLink
8 4 (1.31%) Solace
8 4 (1.31%) Sybase
9 3 (0.98%) Barracuda Networks
9 3 (0.98%) StreamSets
10 2 (0.66%) Microsoft
11 1 (0.33%) Murex
11 1 (0.33%) Pega