RDBMS Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring RDBMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 169 197
Rank change year-on-year +9 +28 +30
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 11 12 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.27% 0.35% 0.051%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.35% 1.81% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £60,500 £43,250
25th Percentile - £61,250 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £62,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +31.58% +1.97%
75th Percentile - £68,750 £49,375
90th Percentile - - £49,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +47.06% -16.63%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 468 663 781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.61% 19.59% 19.73%
Number of salaries quoted 225 381 551
10th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £74,375
90th Percentile £75,750 £92,500 £90,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £59,125 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.75% +7.50% -

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

RDBMS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

RDBMS
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing RDBMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 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
Berkshire -8 11 - - 8
RDBMS
South East

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 11 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 11 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 11 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
1 11 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 11 (100.00%) JMeter
1 11 (100.00%) JUnit
1 11 (100.00%) Mockito
General
1 11 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Developer
1 11 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 11 (100.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 11 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 11 (100.00%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 11 (100.00%) Apache Camel
1 11 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 11 (100.00%) HTML
1 11 (100.00%) jQuery
1 11 (100.00%) JSON
1 11 (100.00%) REST
1 11 (100.00%) Spring
1 11 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 11 (100.00%) Web Services
1 11 (100.00%) WireMock
1 11 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
1 11 (100.00%) BDD
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 11 (100.00%) Microservices
1 11 (100.00%) Process Management
1 11 (100.00%) SDLC
1 11 (100.00%) TDD
1 11 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
1 11 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 11 (100.00%) Python
1 11 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kibana
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 11 (100.00%) Splunk