RDBMS Job Trends in the South East

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring RDBMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 253 366
Rank change year-on-year -33 +113 -3
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 10 24 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.069% 0.31% 0.073%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.87% 2.05% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 7
10th Percentile £48,000 £50,848 £51,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,750 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% -3.85% +39.54%
75th Percentile £74,869 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £74,993 £70,750 -
England median annual salary £70,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.71% +7.69% -9.72%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,152 1,173 2,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.96% 15.27% 15.52%
Number of salaries quoted 700 711 1,976
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -1.24%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

RDBMS job vacancy trend in the South East

RDBMS
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing RDBMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in the South East over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for RDBMS in the South East

RDBMS
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Thames Valley -7 5 £45,000 -28.00% 1
Berkshire -10 4 - -
Hampshire - 4 £70,775 -
Kent - 1 £55,000 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £45,000 -
RDBMS
England

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (10.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (40.00%) GCP
3 4 (40.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) OCI
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 8 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (40.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (40.00%) BigQuery
3 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (40.00%) MongoDB
3 4 (40.00%) MySQL
3 4 (40.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (10.00%) Metadata
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (10.00%) Power BI
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (40.00%) JMeter
1 4 (40.00%) JUnit
1 4 (40.00%) Mockito
2 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Data Custodian
1 4 (40.00%) Data Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) IT Systems Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior IT Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (40.00%) Apache Camel
1 4 (40.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (40.00%) HTML
1 4 (40.00%) jQuery
1 4 (40.00%) JSON
1 4 (40.00%) REST
1 4 (40.00%) Spring
1 4 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (40.00%) Web Services
1 4 (40.00%) WireMock
1 4 (40.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Replication
2 4 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (30.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) ETL
1 5 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) BDD
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Data Management
2 4 (40.00%) Data Science
2 4 (40.00%) Information Management
2 4 (40.00%) Knowledge Management
2 4 (40.00%) Microservices
2 4 (40.00%) Process Management
2 4 (40.00%) SDLC
2 4 (40.00%) TDD
2 4 (40.00%) Workflow
3 3 (30.00%) Biometrics
4 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) ERP
4 1 (10.00%) Metadata Management
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
1 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (40.00%) Python
1 4 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kibana
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Dynatrace
2 4 (40.00%) Google
2 4 (40.00%) Splunk
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (10.00%) Siemens