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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 575 549
Rank change year-on-year +152 -26 -93
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 154 197 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.26% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.42% 1.59% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 55 106 126
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £37,271
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,063 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £74,500
90th Percentile £78,900 £80,625 £81,875
UK median annual salary £70,000 £61,206 £67,500
% change year-on-year +14.37% -9.32% -3.57%

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 4,507 12,381 11,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.45% 16.60% 19.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,809 8,108 6,590
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,850 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £78,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,394 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.03% -11.54% +8.33%

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 30 May 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 30 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
South East +113 43 £62,783 -3.41% 68
East of England +76 32 £83,000 -24.55% 28
North of England +10 26 £61,250 +0.07% 48
Wales +43 20 £65,000 +39.47% 5
Midlands +82 16 £45,000 -43.75% 39
North West -22 12 £47,500 -22.39% 17
Yorkshire +47 10 £70,000 -3.45% 25
South West +96 9 - - 26
East Midlands +45 9 £37,500 -54.55% 15
Scotland +88 7 £67,500 +3.85% 12
West Midlands +55 7 £105,000 +71.55% 21
North East +49 4 £52,500 +5.84% 6
Northern Ireland +35 1 £28,000 -19.14% 2
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 7 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.25%) Apache
3 4 (2.60%) GemFire
4 3 (1.95%) Confluence
5 2 (1.30%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.65%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 103 (66.88%) AWS
2 65 (42.21%) Pulumi
3 36 (23.38%) Azure
4 21 (13.64%) Serverless
5 18 (11.69%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (8.44%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (6.49%) SaaS
9 8 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.90%) Power Platform
12 5 (3.25%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.25%) dbt
12 5 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (3.25%) Snowflake
13 4 (2.60%) GCP
14 3 (1.95%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (1.95%) GitHub
15 2 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
16 1 (0.65%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 65 (42.21%) Broadband
2 16 (10.39%) Network Security
3 4 (2.60%) Firewall
3 4 (2.60%) Modbus
3 4 (2.60%) MQTT
3 4 (2.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 81 (52.60%) NoSQL
3 36 (23.38%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (11.69%) SQL Server
5 16 (10.39%) MongoDB
5 16 (10.39%) MySQL
6 11 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (3.90%) Oracle Database
7 6 (3.90%) Power BI
7 6 (3.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (3.25%) Data Lake
8 5 (3.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (2.60%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (2.60%) Apache Ignite
9 4 (2.60%) InterSystems Cache
9 4 (2.60%) MariaDB
9 4 (2.60%) Redis
10 3 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 65 (42.21%) Jaeger
2 17 (11.04%) Git
3 14 (9.09%) JUnit
4 13 (8.44%) Jenkins
4 13 (8.44%) JMeter
4 13 (8.44%) Mockito
5 4 (2.60%) JIRA
6 3 (1.95%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.65%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 69 (44.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 36 (23.38%) Social Skills
3 16 (10.39%) Finance
3 16 (10.39%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.19%) Law
5 5 (3.25%) Digital Healthcare
5 5 (3.25%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.60%) Front Office
7 3 (1.95%) Advertising
7 3 (1.95%) Banking
8 2 (1.30%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.30%) Marketing
8 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 77 (50.00%) Lead
2 73 (47.40%) Team Leader
3 33 (21.43%) Developer
4 16 (10.39%) Software Engineer
5 14 (9.09%) Java Developer
6 13 (8.44%) Senior
7 12 (7.79%) Analyst
8 11 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
9 8 (5.19%) Java Engineer
9 8 (5.19%) Software Team Leader
10 7 (4.55%) Architect
10 7 (4.55%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.90%) Software Developer
12 5 (3.25%) Administrator
12 5 (3.25%) Digital Analyst
12 5 (3.25%) Integration Analyst
13 4 (2.60%) Full-Stack Developer
13 4 (2.60%) Linux Administrator
13 4 (2.60%) Linux Systems Administrator
13 4 (2.60%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (42.21%) Elastic Stack
1 65 (42.21%) OpenTelemetry
2 26 (16.88%) Spring
3 25 (16.23%) .NET
4 22 (14.29%) REST
5 19 (12.34%) Spring Boot
6 18 (11.69%) Hibernate
7 15 (9.74%) Web Services
8 14 (9.09%) HTML
9 13 (8.44%) ActiveMQ
9 13 (8.44%) Apache Camel
9 13 (8.44%) jQuery
9 13 (8.44%) WireMock
10 12 (7.79%) Kafka
11 11 (7.14%) JSON
12 7 (4.55%) Symfony
13 6 (3.90%) ASP.NET
13 6 (3.90%) ASP.NET Core
13 6 (3.90%) WinForms
13 6 (3.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.44%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (7.79%) IoT
3 8 (5.19%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.25%) LIMS
5 5 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.60%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.60%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.60%) Derivative
6 4 (2.60%) Device Driver
6 4 (2.60%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.95%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (1.95%) Equities
7 3 (1.95%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.30%) Acoustics
8 2 (1.30%) Clustering
8 2 (1.30%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 94 (61.04%) Linux
2 90 (58.44%) Unix
3 24 (15.58%) Windows
4 4 (2.60%) CentOS
4 4 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.60%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.30%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.65%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (74.68%) Agile
2 82 (53.25%) Mentoring
3 75 (48.70%) DevOps
4 72 (46.75%) High Availability
5 70 (45.45%) Roadmaps
6 68 (44.16%) Continuous Integration
7 67 (43.51%) Containerisation
8 66 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 66 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
9 65 (42.21%) Budget Control
9 65 (42.21%) Cost Optimisation
9 65 (42.21%) GitOps
9 65 (42.21%) Product Management
9 65 (42.21%) Resource Management
9 65 (42.21%) Task Automation
10 35 (22.73%) CI/CD
11 33 (21.43%) Microservices
12 27 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (16.88%) TDD
14 23 (14.94%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 91 (59.09%) Java
2 90 (58.44%) JavaScript
3 86 (55.84%) Python
4 68 (44.16%) Bash
5 65 (42.21%) Go
6 53 (34.42%) SQL
7 20 (12.99%) C#
8 13 (8.44%) Shell Script
9 9 (5.84%) T-SQL
10 7 (4.55%) PHP
10 7 (4.55%) PowerShell
11 6 (3.90%) C
11 6 (3.90%) C++
12 2 (1.30%) Fortran
13 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.65%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.65%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 65 (42.21%) AWS Certification
2 14 (9.09%) Degree
3 8 (5.19%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.19%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.95%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.30%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.30%) PhD
5 2 (1.30%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.25%) HL7
2 4 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.95%) Accessibility
System Software
1 83 (53.90%) Docker
2 4 (2.60%) Firmware
2 4 (2.60%) Virtual Servers
2 4 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 83 (53.90%) Kubernetes
2 68 (44.16%) Ansible
3 67 (43.51%) Terraform
4 66 (42.86%) Prometheus
5 65 (42.21%) Argo
5 65 (42.21%) Kustomize
6 13 (8.44%) Kibana
7 1 (0.65%) Grafana
7 1 (0.65%) Nagios
7 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.65%) Puppet
Vendors
1 66 (42.86%) Google
2 15 (9.74%) Oracle
3 14 (9.09%) Splunk
4 13 (8.44%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.60%) Solace
5 4 (2.60%) TIBCO
5 4 (2.60%) VMware
6 3 (1.95%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (1.95%) Databricks
6 3 (1.95%) Informatica
6 3 (1.95%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.95%) RedGate
6 3 (1.95%) StreamSets
6 3 (1.95%) Talend
7 1 (0.65%) Dell
7 1 (0.65%) IBM
7 1 (0.65%) IFS
7 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.65%) Sybase