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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 166 242
Rank change year-on-year -69 +76 -10
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 2 6 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.022% 0.17% 0.088%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.27% 1.24% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53,522 - £46,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,498 - £46,958
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.62%
75th Percentile £55,473 - £52,037
90th Percentile - - £59,815
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -12.50% +15.11%

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 730 483 924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.16% 13.76% 11.56%
Number of salaries quoted 427 316 601
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,544 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,376 £66,563 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,738 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% -0.80% -3.85%

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 10 August 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
Bristol -36 1 - - 3
Somerset - 1 £54,498 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Composer
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Fire and Rescue
1 1 (50.00%) Police
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Beam
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) Line Management
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) MLOps
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle