RDBMS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 427 558 546
Rank change year-on-year +131 -12 -70
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 168 178 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.24% 0.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.61% 1.64% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 57 92 91
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,450 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,175 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +20.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £79,000 - £77,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -4.00% -3.85%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,651 10,863 9,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.74% 14.95% 19.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,902 6,927 6,421
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £42,069
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £69,840 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.69% -5.60% +4.17%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing RDBMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in the UK excluding London

RDBMS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for RDBMS in the UK excluding London

RDBMS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Salary histogram for RDBMS in the UK excluding London

RDBMS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
South East +83 50 £62,783 +4.64% 6
East of England +55 35 £76,000 -30.91% 3
North of England +5 28 £61,250 -15.52% 8
Midlands +69 19 £47,500 -40.63% 8
Wales +29 14 £77,500 +72.22% 1
Scotland +72 12 £68,750 +14.58% 10
North West -21 12 £47,500 -22.45% 5
South West +89 11 - - 7
Yorkshire +32 11 £70,000 -3.45% 1
West Midlands +61 10 £105,000 +31.25% 5
East Midlands +35 9 £37,500 -54.55% 3
North East +40 5 £52,500 +38.16% 2
Northern Ireland +31 1 £28,000 -19.14% 4
RDBMS
UK

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (2.98%) Apache
1 5 (2.98%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.38%) GemFire
3 3 (1.79%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 110 (65.48%) AWS
2 65 (38.69%) Pulumi
3 35 (20.83%) Azure
4 29 (17.26%) Serverless
5 26 (15.48%) Amazon ECS
6 20 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (11.31%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (6.55%) SaaS
9 10 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (4.76%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (4.17%) Power Platform
12 6 (3.57%) Boomi
13 5 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (2.98%) Snowflake
14 4 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (2.38%) GCP
14 4 (2.38%) GitHub
15 3 (1.79%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 65 (38.69%) Broadband
2 10 (5.95%) Network Security
3 4 (2.38%) Firewall
4 2 (1.19%) Modbus
4 2 (1.19%) MQTT
4 2 (1.19%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.60%) HTTP
5 1 (0.60%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 81 (48.21%) NoSQL
3 37 (22.02%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 19 (11.31%) MongoDB
6 17 (10.12%) MySQL
7 11 (6.55%) Oracle Database
7 11 (6.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (4.17%) Power BI
10 6 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (2.98%) Data Lake
12 4 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (2.38%) Apache Ignite
12 4 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (2.38%) InterSystems Cache
12 4 (2.38%) MariaDB
12 4 (2.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 65 (38.69%) Jaeger
2 21 (12.50%) JUnit
3 20 (11.90%) Jenkins
4 19 (11.31%) JMeter
4 19 (11.31%) Mockito
5 14 (8.33%) Git
6 4 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.38%) JIRA
7 1 (0.60%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.60%) Maven
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
General
1 73 (43.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 33 (19.64%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.10%) Finance
3 22 (13.10%) Public Sector
4 13 (7.74%) Law
5 6 (3.57%) Banking
6 5 (2.98%) Digital Healthcare
6 5 (2.98%) Investment Banking
6 5 (2.98%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.38%) Advertising
7 4 (2.38%) Front Office
7 4 (2.38%) Marketing
8 2 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (45.83%) Lead
2 73 (43.45%) Team Leader
3 37 (22.02%) Developer
4 21 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 19 (11.31%) Software Engineer
6 12 (7.14%) Analyst
6 12 (7.14%) Java Engineer
6 12 (7.14%) Senior
7 10 (5.95%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (5.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 10 (5.95%) Lead Software Engineer
8 8 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
8 8 (4.76%) Software Team Leader
9 6 (3.57%) Consultant
9 6 (3.57%) IFS Consultant
9 6 (3.57%) Senior Developer
10 5 (2.98%) Administrator
10 5 (2.98%) DBA
10 5 (2.98%) Integration Analyst
10 5 (2.98%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (38.69%) Elastic Stack
1 65 (38.69%) OpenTelemetry
2 37 (22.02%) Spring
3 30 (17.86%) REST
3 30 (17.86%) Spring Boot
4 27 (16.07%) .NET
5 26 (15.48%) Hibernate
6 23 (13.69%) Web Services
7 21 (12.50%) HTML
8 19 (11.31%) ActiveMQ
8 19 (11.31%) Apache Camel
8 19 (11.31%) jQuery
8 19 (11.31%) JSON
8 19 (11.31%) WireMock
9 15 (8.93%) Kafka
10 14 (8.33%) RESTful
11 13 (7.74%) XML
12 7 (4.17%) ASP.NET
12 7 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
12 7 (4.17%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.31%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 10 (5.95%) IoT
4 9 (5.36%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.76%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.98%) LIMS
7 5 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.38%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.38%) Derivative
8 4 (2.38%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.38%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.79%) Clustering
9 3 (1.79%) Credit Derivative
9 3 (1.79%) Equities
9 3 (1.79%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.19%) Device Driver
10 2 (1.19%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 88 (52.38%) Linux
2 84 (50.00%) Unix
3 20 (11.90%) Windows
4 4 (2.38%) CentOS
4 4 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.38%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.19%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.60%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (71.43%) Agile
2 82 (48.81%) Mentoring
3 79 (47.02%) DevOps
4 74 (44.05%) High Availability
5 69 (41.07%) Containerisation
6 68 (40.48%) Continuous Integration
7 66 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 66 (39.29%) Performance Optimisation
7 66 (39.29%) Roadmaps
8 65 (38.69%) Budget Control
8 65 (38.69%) Cost Optimisation
8 65 (38.69%) GitOps
8 65 (38.69%) Product Management
8 65 (38.69%) Resource Management
8 65 (38.69%) Task Automation
9 44 (26.19%) CI/CD
10 43 (25.60%) Microservices
11 36 (21.43%) TDD
12 27 (16.07%) Full-Stack Development
13 22 (13.10%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 102 (60.71%) Java
2 93 (55.36%) JavaScript
3 92 (54.76%) Python
4 68 (40.48%) Bash
5 65 (38.69%) Go
6 61 (36.31%) SQL
7 20 (11.90%) C#
7 20 (11.90%) Shell Script
8 10 (5.95%) T-SQL
9 8 (4.76%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.57%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.38%) C
11 4 (2.38%) C++
12 3 (1.79%) PHP
13 2 (1.19%) Fortran
14 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.60%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.60%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 66 (39.29%) AWS Certification
2 15 (8.93%) Degree
3 12 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.38%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.19%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.19%) PhD
8 2 (1.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.98%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.98%) HL7
2 3 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.60%) GDPR
System Software
1 91 (54.17%) Docker
2 4 (2.38%) Virtual Servers
2 4 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.38%) vSphere
3 2 (1.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 93 (55.36%) Kubernetes
2 68 (40.48%) Ansible
3 67 (39.88%) Terraform
4 66 (39.29%) Prometheus
5 65 (38.69%) Argo
5 65 (38.69%) Kustomize
6 19 (11.31%) Kibana
7 1 (0.60%) Grafana
7 1 (0.60%) Nagios
7 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.60%) Puppet
Vendors
1 66 (39.29%) Google
2 24 (14.29%) Oracle
3 20 (11.90%) Splunk
4 19 (11.31%) Dynatrace
5 9 (5.36%) Microsoft
6 6 (3.57%) Dell
6 6 (3.57%) IFS
7 4 (2.38%) Informatica
7 4 (2.38%) RedGate
7 4 (2.38%) Solace
7 4 (2.38%) Talend
7 4 (2.38%) TIBCO
7 4 (2.38%) VMware
8 3 (1.79%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (1.79%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.79%) StreamSets
9 2 (1.19%) IBM
10 1 (0.60%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.60%) Cognos
10 1 (0.60%) Sybase