RDBMS Job Trends in London

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring RDBMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 394 301
Rank change year-on-year +81 -93 +129
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 58 41 152
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.41% 0.26% 0.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.44% 1.14% 3.82%
Number of salaries quoted 15 21 72
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £64,625 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -15.63% +6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £94,500 £115,000 £109,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £63,750 £63,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +1.19% -10.00%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,376 3,608 3,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.79% 23.22% 21.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,556 2,189 3,154
10th Percentile £43,063 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,750 £56,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.08%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

RDBMS job vacancy trend in London

RDBMS
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing RDBMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for RDBMS in London

RDBMS
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the London region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
South London +41 12 - -
West London - 3 - -
Central London - 3 £84,250 - 4
East London - 1 - -
RDBMS
England

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 11 (18.97%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.72%) Apache
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.72%) IIS
2 1 (1.72%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 45 (77.59%) AWS
2 21 (36.21%) Amazon EKS
3 16 (27.59%) GCP
4 13 (22.41%) Azure
5 12 (20.69%) Serverless
6 11 (18.97%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (18.97%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (17.24%) Amazon EMR
7 10 (17.24%) Pulumi
8 5 (8.62%) OpenShift
9 2 (3.45%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.72%) Azure Batch
10 1 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.24%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 28 (48.28%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (44.83%) NoSQL
4 21 (36.21%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (25.86%) SQL Server
6 11 (18.97%) DynamoDB
6 11 (18.97%) MongoDB
6 11 (18.97%) MySQL
7 10 (17.24%) Apache Cassandra
7 10 (17.24%) Big Data
7 10 (17.24%) DataStage
7 10 (17.24%) Hadoop
7 10 (17.24%) Neo4j
7 10 (17.24%) Pentaho
8 2 (3.45%) Power BI
8 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (18.97%) Jenkins
1 11 (18.97%) JMeter
1 11 (18.97%) JUnit
1 11 (18.97%) Mockito
2 10 (17.24%) Jaeger
3 2 (3.45%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.45%) Git
3 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.72%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 27 (46.55%) Finance
2 21 (36.21%) Social Skills
3 20 (34.48%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (27.59%) Public Sector
5 12 (20.69%) Law
6 10 (17.24%) Front Office
6 10 (17.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (15.52%) Telecoms
8 5 (8.62%) Electronics
8 5 (8.62%) Manufacturing
8 5 (8.62%) Marketing
9 4 (6.90%) Billing
10 3 (5.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 31 (53.45%) Developer
2 26 (44.83%) Java Developer
3 21 (36.21%) Full-Stack Developer
3 21 (36.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 15 (25.86%) Lead
5 11 (18.97%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 10 (17.24%) Angular Developer
6 10 (17.24%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 10 (17.24%) Kafka Developer
6 10 (17.24%) Principal Engineer
7 7 (12.07%) Senior
8 6 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (10.34%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 5 (8.62%) Backend Developer
9 5 (8.62%) Python Developer
9 5 (8.62%) Senior Developer
10 4 (6.90%) GCP Developer
10 4 (6.90%) Lead Developer
10 4 (6.90%) Lead Python Developer
10 4 (6.90%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (43.10%) Spring
2 21 (36.21%) REST
3 15 (25.86%) Spring Boot
4 14 (24.14%) AngularJS
5 12 (20.69%) Kafka
5 12 (20.69%) Web Services
6 11 (18.97%) ActiveMQ
6 11 (18.97%) Apache Camel
6 11 (18.97%) Hibernate
6 11 (18.97%) HTML
6 11 (18.97%) jQuery
6 11 (18.97%) JSON
6 11 (18.97%) WireMock
6 11 (18.97%) XML
7 10 (17.24%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (17.24%) GraphQL
7 10 (17.24%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (8.62%) FastAPI
8 5 (8.62%) Flask
9 4 (6.90%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 21 (36.21%) Distributed Systems
1 21 (36.21%) Management Information System
2 10 (17.24%) Hedge funds
2 10 (17.24%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (17.24%) Product Ownership
2 10 (17.24%) Reference Data
2 10 (17.24%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.45%) Clustering
4 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.72%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.24%) Linux
1 10 (17.24%) Unix
2 2 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (63.79%) Agile
2 29 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 21 (36.21%) Full-Stack Development
4 20 (34.48%) Roadmaps
5 19 (32.76%) Containerisation
6 17 (29.31%) Microservices
7 15 (25.86%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (25.86%) Product Management
7 15 (25.86%) Test Automation
8 14 (24.14%) Mentoring
9 12 (20.69%) Data Integration
9 12 (20.69%) DevOps
9 12 (20.69%) High Availability
9 12 (20.69%) Resource Management
10 11 (18.97%) BDD
10 11 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (18.97%) Process Management
10 11 (18.97%) Software Engineering
10 11 (18.97%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 47 (81.03%) Java
2 38 (65.52%) Python
3 26 (44.83%) JavaScript
4 15 (25.86%) SQL
5 11 (18.97%) Shell Script
6 10 (17.24%) Bash
6 10 (17.24%) Go
7 2 (3.45%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.72%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (18.97%) AWS Certification
1 11 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
System Software
1 26 (44.83%) Docker
2 2 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (53.45%) Kubernetes
2 15 (25.86%) Terraform
3 11 (18.97%) Kibana
4 10 (17.24%) Ansible
4 10 (17.24%) Argo
4 10 (17.24%) Kustomize
4 10 (17.24%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 15 (25.86%) Google
2 13 (22.41%) Oracle
3 11 (18.97%) Dynatrace
3 11 (18.97%) Splunk
4 10 (17.24%) Informatica
4 10 (17.24%) Talend
5 6 (10.34%) SAP
6 2 (3.45%) Aderant
6 2 (3.45%) iManage
6 2 (3.45%) Intapp
6 2 (3.45%) RedGate
7 1 (1.72%) Databricks
7 1 (1.72%) IBM
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft