RDBMS Job Trends in Kent

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring RDBMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 0.20% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
South East median annual salary £55,000 £61,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.20% +44.12% -22.73%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 50 115 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 5.07% 14.63% 15.60%
Number of salaries quoted 16 31 58
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £36,925
25th Percentile £40,375 £50,000 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +6.67% +2.27%
75th Percentile £91,875 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £79,500 £79,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

RDBMS job vacancy trend in Kent

RDBMS
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing RDBMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the Kent region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Rochester - 1 £55,000 -
Tunbridge Wells - 1 - -
RDBMS
South East

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Engineering Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) IT Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior IT Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Line Management
1 1 (50.00%) PLM
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Statistics
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) Siemens