RDBMS Job Trends in the Midlands

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring RDBMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 214 286
Rank change year-on-year -48 +72 -34
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 2 15 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.015% 0.26% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.21% 1.90% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1 12 10
10th Percentile - - £56,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -40.63% +33.33%
75th Percentile £48,750 £81,250 £83,750
90th Percentile - £107,500 £84,125
England median annual salary £72,500 £73,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -0.68% -2.67% +3.45%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 965 791 1,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.00% 13.87% 11.81%
Number of salaries quoted 645 566 952
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,625 £32,615
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,750
Median % change year-on-year - +8.37% -3.33%
75th Percentile £67,250 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £76,023 £77,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

RDBMS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

RDBMS
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing RDBMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 July 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 Midlands -22 1 £47,500 -54.76% 2
East Midlands -29 1 - - 1
RDBMS
England

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Stack
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Business Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Database Security
2 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Product Marketing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 22301
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle