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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 177 211
Rank change year-on-year 0 +34 +32
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 2 15 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.040% 0.36% 0.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.45% 2.12% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £56,750 £45,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £59,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -13.46% +41.82%
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,625 £137,913
90th Percentile - £78,250 -
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -10.71%

All Database & 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 444 708 874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.85% 17.02% 18.28%
Number of salaries quoted 258 347 675
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,450 £35,200
25th Percentile £37,938 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £84,472
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.76%

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 12 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
Cornwall - 1 - - 7
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 (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%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jaeger
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
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%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Budget Control
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
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%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Trunk-Based Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
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