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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 607 584
Rank change year-on-year +209 -23 -120
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 309 249 356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.63% 0.28% 0.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.47% 1.61% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 57 131 233
10th Percentile £43,250 £48,750 £45,077
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% +4.26%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £118,500 £88,750 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £61,206 £67,500
% change year-on-year +14.37% -9.32% -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 6,917 15,457 18,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.03% 17.21% 21.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4,431 11,446 11,675
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,750 £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 £83,750 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.22% -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 31 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 31 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 +97 110 £80,000 - 50
South East +102 43 £62,783 -3.41% 8
East of England +79 32 £83,000 -24.55% 6
North of England -3 26 £61,250 +0.07% 21
Midlands +61 16 £45,000 -43.75% 11
North West -28 12 £47,500 -19.97% 4
Yorkshire +43 10 £70,000 -3.45% 14
South West +103 9 - - 6
East Midlands +42 9 £37,500 -54.55% 2
West Midlands +53 7 £105,000 +71.55% 7
North East +52 4 £52,500 +5.84% 3
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 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.62%) Apache
3 4 (1.29%) Confluence
3 4 (1.29%) GemFire
3 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.65%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.32%) Appian
5 1 (0.32%) Luigi
5 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (1.29%) Endur
2 3 (0.97%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 251 (81.23%) AWS
2 215 (69.58%) Pulumi
3 21 (6.80%) Azure
4 20 (6.47%) Serverless
5 16 (5.18%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (4.53%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (4.53%) GCP
7 13 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (2.91%) SaaS
9 8 (2.59%) dbt
10 7 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.94%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.62%) GitHub
12 5 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.62%) Snowflake
13 4 (1.29%) Amazon S3
14 3 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
15 1 (0.32%) Boomi
15 1 (0.32%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 215 (69.58%) Broadband
2 1 (0.32%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 309 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 239 (77.35%) NoSQL
3 32 (10.36%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (7.44%) SQL Server
5 13 (4.21%) MongoDB
5 13 (4.21%) MySQL
6 12 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.27%) Oracle Database
8 6 (1.94%) Power BI
8 6 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.62%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.29%) Apache Ignite
10 4 (1.29%) InterSystems Cache
10 4 (1.29%) Redis
11 2 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.65%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.65%) Big Data
11 2 (0.65%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 215 (69.58%) Jaeger
2 14 (4.53%) Git
3 13 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.21%) JMeter
3 13 (4.21%) JUnit
3 13 (4.21%) Mockito
4 5 (1.62%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.62%) JIRA
5 2 (0.65%) Ant
5 2 (0.65%) WebSpeed
6 1 (0.32%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 217 (70.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 23 (7.44%) Public Sector
3 22 (7.12%) Social Skills
4 21 (6.80%) Finance
5 10 (3.24%) Telecoms
6 9 (2.91%) Electronics
6 9 (2.91%) Manufacturing
6 9 (2.91%) Marketing
7 8 (2.59%) Banking
8 7 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.94%) Law
10 5 (1.62%) Digital Healthcare
10 5 (1.62%) Front Office
10 5 (1.62%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.97%) Advertising
11 3 (0.97%) French Language
12 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.65%) Retail
13 1 (0.32%) Billing
Job Titles
1 219 (70.87%) Lead
2 215 (69.58%) Team Leader
3 44 (14.24%) Developer
4 22 (7.12%) Senior
5 15 (4.85%) Senior Developer
6 13 (4.21%) Analyst
6 13 (4.21%) Java Developer
7 11 (3.56%) Backend Developer
8 10 (3.24%) Senior Backend Developer
9 9 (2.91%) Architect
9 9 (2.91%) Python Developer
9 9 (2.91%) Senior Python Developer
10 5 (1.62%) C# Developer
10 5 (1.62%) Digital Analyst
10 5 (1.62%) Integration Analyst
11 4 (1.29%) Data Engineer
11 4 (1.29%) ETRM Manager
11 4 (1.29%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (1.29%) Java Server Engineer
11 4 (1.29%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (69.58%) Elastic Stack
1 215 (69.58%) OpenTelemetry
2 35 (11.33%) REST
3 21 (6.80%) Spring
4 19 (6.15%) Web Services
5 17 (5.50%) HTML
6 16 (5.18%) Hibernate
7 14 (4.53%) JSON
7 14 (4.53%) Spring Boot
8 13 (4.21%) ActiveMQ
8 13 (4.21%) Apache Camel
8 13 (4.21%) jQuery
8 13 (4.21%) WireMock
9 12 (3.88%) Middleware
10 10 (3.24%) FastAPI
11 9 (2.91%) .NET
11 9 (2.91%) Flask
12 8 (2.59%) XML
13 7 (2.27%) Kafka
14 6 (1.94%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (1.94%) Derivative
3 6 (1.94%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (1.62%) LIMS
4 5 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.29%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.29%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.29%) Swaptions
6 3 (0.97%) Credit Derivative
6 3 (0.97%) Equities
6 3 (0.97%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.65%) Acoustics
7 2 (0.65%) Clustering
7 2 (0.65%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.32%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.32%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.32%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 224 (72.49%) Linux
2 223 (72.17%) Unix
3 7 (2.27%) Windows
4 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.32%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (81.55%) Agile
2 228 (73.79%) DevOps
3 227 (73.46%) Product Management
4 225 (72.82%) Containerisation
5 223 (72.17%) Continuous Integration
5 223 (72.17%) High Availability
6 222 (71.84%) Mentoring
6 222 (71.84%) Roadmaps
7 216 (69.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 216 (69.90%) Performance Optimisation
8 215 (69.58%) Budget Control
8 215 (69.58%) Cost Optimisation
8 215 (69.58%) GitOps
8 215 (69.58%) Resource Management
8 215 (69.58%) Task Automation
9 33 (10.68%) CI/CD
10 30 (9.71%) Microservices
11 28 (9.06%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (7.77%) TDD
13 20 (6.47%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 249 (80.58%) Python
2 248 (80.26%) Java
3 238 (77.02%) JavaScript
4 218 (70.55%) Bash
5 217 (70.23%) Go
6 43 (13.92%) SQL
7 15 (4.85%) C#
8 14 (4.53%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.91%) T-SQL
10 7 (2.27%) C++
10 7 (2.27%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.29%) VB
12 3 (0.97%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.97%) C
12 3 (0.97%) PHP
13 2 (0.65%) Fortran
13 2 (0.65%) OpenEdge ABL
13 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.65%) Progress 4GL
13 2 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 215 (69.58%) AWS Certification
2 15 (4.85%) Degree
3 8 (2.59%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.59%) Security Cleared
4 6 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.29%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.97%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.65%) PhD
7 2 (0.65%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.88%) QA
2 10 (3.24%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.62%) HL7
4 3 (0.97%) Accessibility
System Software
1 241 (77.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 239 (77.35%) Kubernetes
2 227 (73.46%) Terraform
3 218 (70.55%) Ansible
4 216 (69.90%) Prometheus
5 215 (69.58%) Argo
5 215 (69.58%) Kustomize
6 13 (4.21%) Kibana
7 1 (0.32%) Grafana
7 1 (0.32%) Nagios
7 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 226 (73.14%) Google
2 21 (6.80%) Oracle
3 14 (4.53%) Splunk
4 13 (4.21%) Dynatrace
5 9 (2.91%) SAP
6 8 (2.59%) TIBCO
7 5 (1.62%) Databricks
7 5 (1.62%) Microsoft
8 4 (1.29%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.29%) OpenLink
8 4 (1.29%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.29%) Solace
8 4 (1.29%) StreamSets
8 4 (1.29%) Sybase
9 3 (0.97%) Barracuda Networks
9 3 (0.97%) Informatica
9 3 (0.97%) RedGate
9 3 (0.97%) Talend
10 2 (0.65%) Vertica
11 1 (0.32%) Pega