RDBMS Job Trends in the North of England

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring RDBMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 268 262
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 +114
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 10 13 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.093% 0.14% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.00% 1.05% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 8 12 25
10th Percentile £46,875 £45,588 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,625 £53,969 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,206 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +11.28% -
75th Percentile £60,625 £65,603 £65,603
90th Percentile £63,625 - -
England median annual salary £62,500 £63,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -10.71%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 998 1,237 1,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.26% 13.61% 20.24%
Number of salaries quoted 690 661 1,400
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,603
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -5.51%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

RDBMS job vacancy trend in the North of England

RDBMS
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing RDBMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for RDBMS in the North of England

RDBMS
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Yorkshire -12 6 £56,250 -6.25% 3
North West +17 3 £55,000 -10.14% 3
North East +11 1 £52,500 -14.22%
RDBMS
England

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) SaaS
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (60.00%) MySQL
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Back Office
3 1 (10.00%) Advertising
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Digital Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Integration Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) PHP Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) DBA
3 1 (10.00%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Applications Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DBA
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior SQL DBA
3 1 (10.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (30.00%) FHIR
2 3 (30.00%) JSON
3 2 (20.00%) .NET
3 2 (20.00%) Laravel
3 2 (20.00%) React
3 2 (20.00%) Symfony
4 1 (10.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Information Management
2 3 (30.00%) SDLC
2 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (30.00%) User Experience
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Line Management
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) ETL
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (20.00%) PHP
4 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (10.00%) Python
5 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) HL7
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
1 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) Informatica
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) RedGate
2 1 (10.00%) Talend