RDBMS Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 424 616
Rank change year-on-year -155 +192 -54
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 26 101 137
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.34% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.51% 2.31% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 16 56 101
10th Percentile £47,549 £39,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +13.85%
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £74,938 £79,000 -
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year +3.57% +14.37% -9.32%

All Database & 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 5,068 4,370 11,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.58% 14.74% 15.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,283 2,748 8,146
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,751 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing RDBMS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

RDBMS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

RDBMS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RDBMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

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 14 June 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
South East -35 11 £70,775 +12.73% 4
North of England -54 11 £60,000 -14.29% 6
North West -11 9 £57,500 +21.05% 3
Midlands -32 2 £47,500 +5.56% 2
Yorkshire -54 2 £62,500 -10.71% 2
South West -54 2 £54,498 - 3
West Midlands -25 1 £47,500 -54.76% 1
East Midlands -30 1 - - 1
RDBMS
UK

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (3.85%) CICS
1 1 (3.85%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 21 (80.77%) AWS
2 10 (38.46%) Azure
3 9 (34.62%) Amazon ECS
3 9 (34.62%) Serverless
4 8 (30.77%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (26.92%) GCP
6 5 (19.23%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
8 3 (11.54%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (7.69%) Pulumi
9 2 (7.69%) SaaS
10 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (3.85%) dbt
10 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
10 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Broadband
2 1 (3.85%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) LAN
2 1 (3.85%) Network Security
2 1 (3.85%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.85%) Unified Communications
2 1 (3.85%) WAN
2 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 11 (42.31%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (34.62%) NoSQL
4 8 (30.77%) MySQL
5 5 (19.23%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (19.23%) SQL Server
6 4 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (15.38%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (15.38%) BigQuery
6 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
7 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (3.85%) Db2
7 1 (3.85%) Hazelcast
7 1 (3.85%) Metadata
7 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 5 (19.23%) JMeter
2 5 (19.23%) JUnit
2 5 (19.23%) Mockito
3 2 (7.69%) Jaeger
4 1 (3.85%) Eclipse
4 1 (3.85%) Git
4 1 (3.85%) IntelliJ
General
1 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 5 (19.23%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (3.85%) Health Technology
4 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Senior
4 4 (15.38%) Data Custodian
4 4 (15.38%) Data Manager
4 4 (15.38%) Java Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Support Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Administrator
6 2 (7.69%) DBA
6 2 (7.69%) Java Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Lead
6 2 (7.69%) Team Leader
7 1 (3.85%) Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Migration Consultant
7 1 (3.85%) PHP Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) SQL DBA
7 1 (3.85%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) React
1 9 (34.62%) REST
2 6 (23.08%) FastAPI
2 6 (23.08%) Flask
2 6 (23.08%) HTML
2 6 (23.08%) JSON
2 6 (23.08%) Vue
3 5 (19.23%) ActiveMQ
3 5 (19.23%) Apache Camel
3 5 (19.23%) Hibernate
3 5 (19.23%) jQuery
3 5 (19.23%) Spring
3 5 (19.23%) Spring Boot
3 5 (19.23%) Web Services
3 5 (19.23%) WireMock
3 5 (19.23%) XML
4 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (7.69%) Laravel
4 2 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (7.69%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 6 (23.08%) Replication
3 4 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.85%) Clustering
4 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.85%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.85%) Housing Association
4 1 (3.85%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Unix
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Microservices
2 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 10 (38.46%) Agile
4 8 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (26.92%) AI
5 7 (26.92%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (26.92%) Observability
6 6 (23.08%) Biomedicine
6 6 (23.08%) DevOps
6 6 (23.08%) ETL
7 5 (19.23%) BDD
7 5 (19.23%) Data Management
7 5 (19.23%) Information Management
7 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (19.23%) Process Management
7 5 (19.23%) SDLC
7 5 (19.23%) TDD
7 5 (19.23%) Workflow
8 4 (15.38%) Biometrics
8 4 (15.38%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Python
2 11 (42.31%) JavaScript
3 9 (34.62%) SQL
4 8 (30.77%) Java
4 8 (30.77%) TypeScript
5 5 (19.23%) Shell Script
6 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
7 2 (7.69%) Bash
7 2 (7.69%) Go
7 2 (7.69%) PHP
7 2 (7.69%) PL/SQL
8 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Degree
2 4 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Data Quality
1 3 (11.54%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) HL7
2 1 (3.85%) ISO 22301
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Kubernetes
2 6 (23.08%) Terraform
3 5 (19.23%) Kibana
4 3 (11.54%) Ansible
5 2 (7.69%) Argo
5 2 (7.69%) Kustomize
5 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (3.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Google
3 5 (19.23%) Dynatrace
3 5 (19.23%) Oracle
3 5 (19.23%) Splunk
4 1 (3.85%) Pega