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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 265 213
Rank change year-on-year +47 -52 +88
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 10 14 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.18% 0.14% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.37% 1.34% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7 10 19
10th Percentile £47,000 £79,000 -
25th Percentile £58,750 £80,000 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £81,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +62.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £107,500 £83,750 £57,500
90th Percentile - £87,500 £76,300
England median annual salary £75,500 £80,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -5.63% +25.00% -1.54%

All Database and 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 730 1,042 1,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.06% 10.45% 19.38%
Number of salaries quoted 510 598 968
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £64,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +0.78% +7.50%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS 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
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for RDBMS in the Midlands

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 15 September 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
West Midlands +55 8 £105,000 +31.25% 4
East Midlands +21 2 £57,500 -30.30%
RDBMS
England

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 5 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (20.00%) Power BI
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (10.00%) MySQL
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JMeter
2 2 (20.00%) JUnit
2 2 (20.00%) Mockito
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Development Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Java Development Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Database Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Database Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Systems Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Spring
2 5 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (20.00%) Apache Camel
4 2 (20.00%) HTML
4 2 (20.00%) jQuery
4 2 (20.00%) JSON
4 2 (20.00%) REST
4 2 (20.00%) Web Services
4 2 (20.00%) WireMock
4 2 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) AIX
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Microservices
2 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Fintech
3 3 (30.00%) TDD
4 2 (20.00%) BDD
4 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (20.00%) Process Management
4 2 (20.00%) Workflow
5 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (10.00%) High Availability
5 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
5 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Alteryx