RDBMS Jobs in London

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 391 398
Rank change year-on-year +108 +7 +8
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 110 116 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.87% 0.48% 0.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.08% 2.20% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 24 40 138
10th Percentile £60,000 £51,000 £50,746
25th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.34% -6.45%
75th Percentile £118,125 £84,063 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £95,250 £123,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -3.45% +4.95%

All Database and 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 2,693 5,268 8,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.22% 21.97% 24.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,767 3,872 5,677
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,750 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £136,750 £128,750 £117,236
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing RDBMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in London

RDBMS
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in London.

Salary trend for RDBMS in London

RDBMS
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
South London +28 32 - -
West London - 17 £56,500 - 6
Central London +19 16 £120,000 +45.45% 2
East London - 10 - -
North London - 7 - -
RDBMS
England

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.82%) OpenEdge
3 1 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.91%) Appian
3 1 (0.91%) Confluence
3 1 (0.91%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Endur
2 3 (2.73%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 84 (76.36%) AWS
2 67 (60.91%) Pulumi
3 13 (11.82%) Serverless
4 12 (10.91%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (10.91%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (10.91%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (9.09%) GCP
6 1 (0.91%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.91%) dbt
6 1 (0.91%) Matillion
6 1 (0.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 67 (60.91%) Broadband
2 1 (0.91%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 78 (70.91%) NoSQL
3 24 (21.82%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.82%) KDB
5 2 (1.82%) Kdb+
6 1 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.91%) Cloudera CDH
6 1 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.91%) MySQL
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 67 (60.91%) Jaeger
2 12 (10.91%) Jenkins
2 12 (10.91%) JMeter
2 12 (10.91%) JUnit
2 12 (10.91%) Mockito
3 2 (1.82%) Ant
3 2 (1.82%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.82%) WebSpeed
4 1 (0.91%) Git
4 1 (0.91%) JIRA
General
1 69 (62.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 21 (19.09%) Public Sector
3 11 (10.00%) Finance
4 10 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 9 (8.18%) Electronics
5 9 (8.18%) Manufacturing
5 9 (8.18%) Marketing
6 7 (6.36%) Banking
7 6 (5.45%) Social Skills
8 5 (4.55%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (2.73%) French Language
11 2 (1.82%) Front Office
11 2 (1.82%) Law
12 1 (0.91%) Billing
Job Titles
1 70 (63.64%) Lead
2 67 (60.91%) Team Leader
3 30 (27.27%) Developer
4 13 (11.82%) Senior
5 12 (10.91%) Java Developer
6 11 (10.00%) Backend Developer
6 11 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 10 (9.09%) Senior Backend Developer
8 9 (8.18%) Python Developer
8 9 (8.18%) Senior Python Developer
9 5 (4.55%) C# Developer
10 4 (3.64%) ETRM Manager
10 4 (3.64%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (3.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 3 (2.73%) Salesforce Expert
12 2 (1.82%) Lead Software Engineer
12 2 (1.82%) OpenEdge Developer
12 2 (1.82%) Progress 4GL Developer
12 2 (1.82%) Python Software Engineer
12 2 (1.82%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (60.91%) Elastic Stack
1 67 (60.91%) OpenTelemetry
2 25 (22.73%) REST
3 18 (16.36%) Web Services
4 15 (13.64%) HTML
5 12 (10.91%) ActiveMQ
5 12 (10.91%) Apache Camel
5 12 (10.91%) Hibernate
5 12 (10.91%) jQuery
5 12 (10.91%) Spring
5 12 (10.91%) Spring Boot
5 12 (10.91%) WireMock
6 10 (9.09%) FastAPI
7 9 (8.18%) Flask
8 8 (7.27%) Middleware
9 7 (6.36%) JSON
10 6 (5.45%) XML
11 5 (4.55%) FIX Protocol
12 3 (2.73%) Lightning Web Components
12 3 (2.73%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.91%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.64%) Swaptions
4 2 (1.82%) Derivative
5 1 (0.91%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.91%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.91%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 68 (61.82%) Linux
2 67 (60.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (80.00%) Agile
2 79 (71.82%) Product Management
3 77 (70.00%) Containerisation
4 73 (66.36%) Roadmaps
5 72 (65.45%) Mentoring
6 70 (63.64%) Continuous Integration
6 70 (63.64%) DevOps
7 68 (61.82%) High Availability
8 67 (60.91%) Budget Control
8 67 (60.91%) Cost Optimisation
8 67 (60.91%) GitOps
8 67 (60.91%) Infrastructure as Code
8 67 (60.91%) Performance Optimisation
8 67 (60.91%) Resource Management
8 67 (60.91%) Task Automation
9 22 (20.00%) CI/CD
10 18 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (10.91%) Microservices
11 12 (10.91%) TDD
11 12 (10.91%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 91 (82.73%) Python
2 89 (80.91%) Java
3 81 (73.64%) JavaScript
4 67 (60.91%) Bash
4 67 (60.91%) Go
5 13 (11.82%) Shell Script
6 12 (10.91%) SQL
7 5 (4.55%) C#
7 5 (4.55%) C++
8 4 (3.64%) VB
9 3 (2.73%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.82%) OpenEdge ABL
10 2 (1.82%) Progress 4GL
11 1 (0.91%) C
11 1 (0.91%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.91%) ProC
Qualifications
1 67 (60.91%) AWS Certification
2 8 (7.27%) SC Cleared
2 8 (7.27%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.64%) Degree
4 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.91%) QA
2 4 (3.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 89 (80.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 89 (80.91%) Kubernetes
2 77 (70.00%) Terraform
3 67 (60.91%) Ansible
3 67 (60.91%) Argo
3 67 (60.91%) Kustomize
3 67 (60.91%) Prometheus
4 12 (10.91%) Kibana
Vendors
1 77 (70.00%) Google
2 12 (10.91%) Dynatrace
2 12 (10.91%) Splunk
3 9 (8.18%) SAP
4 8 (7.27%) Oracle
5 4 (3.64%) OpenLink
5 4 (3.64%) Sybase
5 4 (3.64%) TIBCO
6 3 (2.73%) Barracuda Networks
6 3 (2.73%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.82%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.82%) Vertica
8 1 (0.91%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.91%) Murex
8 1 (0.91%) Pega
8 1 (0.91%) StreamSets