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 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 338 400
Rank change year-on-year -27 +62 +29
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 46 51 114
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.21% 0.42% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.91% 1.91% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 15 26 41
10th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £51,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £85,000 £117,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £120,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £71,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.75% +1.79% -2.44%

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 2,408 2,676 5,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.25% 21.89% 21.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,597 1,787 3,962
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,009 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £136,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 June 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 June 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
West London -8 7 - - 3
Central London -4 4 £95,000 -20.83% 5
East London -9 2 - -
South London +6 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 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 19 (41.30%) AWS
2 15 (32.61%) Pulumi
3 10 (21.74%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.35%) OCI
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.17%) Azure
5 1 (2.17%) GCP
5 1 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (32.61%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 16 (34.78%) NoSQL
3 7 (15.22%) Metadata
4 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.35%) MySQL
5 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.17%) Big Data
6 1 (2.17%) DataStage
6 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.17%) Neo4j
6 1 (2.17%) OLTP
6 1 (2.17%) Pentaho
6 1 (2.17%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 15 (32.61%) Jaeger
2 7 (15.22%) ERwin
3 1 (2.17%) Git
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (2.17%) Selenium
General
1 15 (32.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (23.91%) Finance
3 10 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (21.74%) Billing
3 10 (21.74%) Telecoms
4 7 (15.22%) Financial Institution
5 5 (10.87%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.17%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (43.48%) Lead
2 13 (28.26%) Senior
3 12 (26.09%) Developer
4 10 (21.74%) Senior Developer
5 9 (19.57%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (19.57%) Java Developer
5 9 (19.57%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 9 (19.57%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (17.39%) Consultant
7 7 (15.22%) Data Consultant
7 7 (15.22%) Data Model Consultant
8 4 (8.70%) Architect
8 4 (8.70%) Data Architect
8 4 (8.70%) Lead Architect
8 4 (8.70%) Lead Data Architect
8 4 (8.70%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 4 (8.70%) Python Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (6.52%) CloudOps Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (32.61%) Elastic Stack
1 15 (32.61%) OpenTelemetry
2 11 (23.91%) REST
3 10 (21.74%) AngularJS
3 10 (21.74%) Bootstrap
3 10 (21.74%) Spring
3 10 (21.74%) Spring Boot
4 7 (15.22%) FIX Protocol
4 7 (15.22%) FpML
4 7 (15.22%) JSON
4 7 (15.22%) XML
4 7 (15.22%) XML Schema
5 2 (4.35%) Celery
5 2 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (2.17%) React
6 1 (2.17%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Analytical Mindset
1 7 (15.22%) Data Structures
1 7 (15.22%) e-Learning
2 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.17%) Replication
3 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (36.96%) Linux
1 17 (36.96%) Unix
2 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (73.91%) Agile
2 25 (54.35%) Containerisation
2 25 (54.35%) Mentoring
3 16 (34.78%) High Availability
3 16 (34.78%) Roadmaps
4 15 (32.61%) Budget Control
4 15 (32.61%) Continuous Integration
4 15 (32.61%) Cost Optimisation
4 15 (32.61%) DevOps
4 15 (32.61%) GitOps
4 15 (32.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (32.61%) Performance Optimisation
4 15 (32.61%) Product Management
4 15 (32.61%) Resource Management
4 15 (32.61%) Task Automation
5 12 (26.09%) Data Modelling
6 11 (23.91%) Microservices
7 10 (21.74%) CRM
7 10 (21.74%) Scrum
7 10 (21.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 28 (60.87%) Java
1 28 (60.87%) Python
2 25 (54.35%) JavaScript
3 15 (32.61%) Bash
3 15 (32.61%) Go
4 14 (30.43%) SQL
5 3 (6.52%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.35%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.17%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.17%) Perl
7 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (32.61%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.17%) Degree
2 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 15 (32.61%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 25 (54.35%) Kubernetes
2 15 (32.61%) Ansible
2 15 (32.61%) Argo
2 15 (32.61%) Kustomize
2 15 (32.61%) Prometheus
2 15 (32.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (32.61%) Google
2 7 (15.22%) Sparx
3 6 (13.04%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) Informatica
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.17%) SAP
4 1 (2.17%) Sybase
4 1 (2.17%) Talend