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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 277 332
Rank change year-on-year -46 +55 +51
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 11 23 51
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.056% 0.28% 0.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.72% 1.99% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 10 15 48
10th Percentile £48,839 £43,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +14.37% +11.28%
75th Percentile £66,250 - £80,000
90th Percentile £73,750 - -
England median annual salary £70,775 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.11% +3.70% -6.90%

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 1,532 1,154 2,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.76% 14.20% 15.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,036 765 2,255
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,579
25th Percentile £40,938 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,043 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +10.09% -5.66%
75th Percentile £73,171 £71,250 £65,603
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £82,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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
North West -19 7 £57,500 +21.05% 2
Yorkshire -51 4 £60,000 -14.29% 4
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) CICS
1 1 (9.09%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Amazon ECS
2 5 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) GCP
2 5 (45.45%) Serverless
3 4 (36.36%) SaaS
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (45.45%) MySQL
3 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
4 1 (9.09%) Db2
4 1 (9.09%) Hazelcast
4 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Eclipse
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) IntelliJ
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior
4 3 (27.27%) PHP Developer
4 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (9.09%) Administrator
6 1 (9.09%) Analyst
6 1 (9.09%) DBA
6 1 (9.09%) Digital Analyst
6 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (9.09%) Integration Analyst
6 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
6 1 (9.09%) Pega Developer
6 1 (9.09%) Progress DBA
6 1 (9.09%) Senior PHP Developer
6 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) React
2 6 (54.55%) REST
3 4 (36.36%) FastAPI
3 4 (36.36%) Flask
3 4 (36.36%) Laravel
3 4 (36.36%) Symfony
3 4 (36.36%) Vue
4 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 1 (9.09%) CSS
4 1 (9.09%) CSS3
4 1 (9.09%) FHIR
4 1 (9.09%) HTML
4 1 (9.09%) HTML5
4 1 (9.09%) J2EE
4 1 (9.09%) JMS
4 1 (9.09%) JSON
4 1 (9.09%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) Node.js
4 1 (9.09%) RESTful
4 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) Housing Association
3 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
3 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Microservices
2 6 (54.55%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (54.55%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) AI
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Observability
4 4 (36.36%) Biomedicine
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven
6 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (18.18%) Front End Development
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (18.18%) Integration Patterns
6 2 (18.18%) Integration Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (18.18%) Validation
7 1 (9.09%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) TypeScript
2 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 5 (45.45%) SQL
4 4 (36.36%) PHP
4 4 (36.36%) Python
5 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
6 1 (9.09%) Java
6 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) HL7
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Pega