RDBMS Job Trends in the South West

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring RDBMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 192 214
Rank change year-on-year +13 +22 +38
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 3 16 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.065% 0.29% 0.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.67% 2.02% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £56,750 £43,175
25th Percentile £61,250 £59,375 £44,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £48,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +39.90% -12.27%
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,625 £50,000
90th Percentile - £78,250 -
England median annual salary £76,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +21.60% -3.85% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 450 794 873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.80% 14.18% 20.08%
Number of salaries quoted 281 376 674
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,148
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.27% +10.30%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,450
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.08% -0.08%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

RDBMS job vacancy trend in the South West

RDBMS
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the South West region over the 6 months to 29 November 2025. 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
Bristol +19 1 - -
Dorset - 1 - -
RDBMS
England

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) DB2
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SQL DBA
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (33.33%) Community of Practice
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Inventory Management
2 1 (33.33%) Line Management
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Trunk-Based Development
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cognos
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce