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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 265 212
Rank change year-on-year +35 -53 +66
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 6 10 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.11% 0.11% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.86% 1.00% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 15
10th Percentile £44,000 £74,500 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £81,250 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £82,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +94.12% -22.73%
75th Percentile £61,250 £87,500 £56,400
90th Percentile £68,000 - £57,500
England median annual salary £76,000 £71,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +9.62% -

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 700 1,003 1,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.66% 10.75% 19.24%
Number of salaries quoted 473 528 888
10th Percentile £34,750 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -0.95% +3.04%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,637 £75,484 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -

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
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 October 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 October 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 +46 5 £60,000 -14.29% 1
East Midlands +11 1 £45,000 -46.27% 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 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (33.33%) Power BI
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (16.67%) MySQL
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JMeter
1 2 (33.33%) JUnit
1 2 (33.33%) Mockito
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Database Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Database Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Spring
1 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (33.33%) Apache Camel
2 2 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) jQuery
2 2 (33.33%) JSON
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) WireMock
2 2 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Microservices
1 3 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) BDD
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (33.33%) Process Management
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) AI
3 1 (16.67%) Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Alteryx
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle