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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 219 264
Rank change year-on-year -54 +45 -51
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 5 10 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.033% 0.18% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.53% 1.37% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 10
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,000 £79,000
25th Percentile £68,125 £58,750 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -13.85% +62.50%
75th Percentile - £107,500 £83,750
90th Percentile - - £87,500
England median annual salary £68,750 £75,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.94% -5.63% +25.00%

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 943 730 1,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.15% 13.06% 10.45%
Number of salaries quoted 643 510 598
10th Percentile £32,906 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.91% -3.81%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +0.78%

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 September 2026.

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 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 -44 3 £90,000 -14.29% 2
East Midlands -28 2 - - 5
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 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Databricks
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Stack
3 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (20.00%) dbt
4 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (40.00%) Metadata
3 2 (40.00%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (40.00%) Power BI
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (40.00%) Star Schema
3 2 (40.00%) Tableau
4 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 2 (40.00%) Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Business Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Databricks Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Data Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) DBA
3 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Architecture
1 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Data Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Analytical Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) API Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 2 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Lineage
3 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (40.00%) Impact Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Logical Data Model
3 2 (40.00%) Metadata Management
3 2 (40.00%) Operational Stability
3 2 (40.00%) Physical Data Model
3 2 (40.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) ISO 22301
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle