RDBMS Jobs in the South West

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring RDBMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited RDBMS over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 282 250
Rank change year-on-year +107 -32 +20
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 9 19 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.26% 0.20% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.94% 1.40% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 0 10 17
10th Percentile - - £34,800
25th Percentile - £46,199 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £62,229 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +13.14% -24.14%
75th Percentile - £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile - £137,913 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -3.45% +4.95%

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 465 1,360 1,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.35% 14.00% 19.23%
Number of salaries quoted 300 957 815
10th Percentile £32,544 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,239
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,700
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -0.38% +5.40%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,751 £76,250 £86,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing RDBMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in the South West

RDBMS
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in the South West.

Salary trend for RDBMS in the South West

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 May 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 +53 3 - - 2
Devon +21 3 - - 1
Gloucestershire +66 2 - -
Wiltshire - 1 - - 1
RDBMS
England

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Pulumi
3 3 (33.33%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 7 (77.78%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Airbyte
3 1 (11.11%) Data Vault
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Jaeger
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Lead
2 6 (66.67%) Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Integration Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (66.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
1 7 (77.78%) Mentoring
1 7 (77.78%) Roadmaps
2 6 (66.67%) Budget Control
2 6 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 6 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 6 (66.67%) GitOps
2 6 (66.67%) High Availability
2 6 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 6 (66.67%) Product Management
2 6 (66.67%) Resource Management
2 6 (66.67%) Task Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (11.11%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 7 (77.78%) Bash
2 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
3 6 (66.67%) Go
3 6 (66.67%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) C#
5 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Ansible
1 7 (77.78%) Prometheus
2 6 (66.67%) Argo
2 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (66.67%) Kustomize
2 6 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Nagios
3 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
3 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce