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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 236 211
Rank change year-on-year +13 -25 +39
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 2 8 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.026% 0.12% 0.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.28% 0.96% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 14
10th Percentile - £59,447 -
25th Percentile - £63,405 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £70,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +64.71% -22.73%
75th Percentile - £78,750 £57,500
90th Percentile - £84,000 -
England median annual salary £61,250 £63,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.92% -1.92% -3.06%

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 718 836 1,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.18% 12.85% 19.57%
Number of salaries quoted 534 472 891
10th Percentile £32,800 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,151 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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
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 6 January 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
East Midlands -1 2 £40,000 -52.94% 2
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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jaeger
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) JPA
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Budget Control
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google