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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 542 492
Rank change year-on-year +2 -50 -25
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 167 138 441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.29% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.78% 1.47% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 81 83 245
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,350 £35,100
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile - £77,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +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 9,401 9,414 17,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.40% 19.55% 22.55%
Number of salaries quoted 5,708 6,273 10,171
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,300 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,627 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
North of England +31 52 £72,500 +52.08% 5
North West +9 36 £71,250 +90.00% 5
Scotland -27 33 £61,250 +11.36% 1
South East +16 22 £60,000 -20.00% 2
Wales +39 19 £45,000 -10.00%
Midlands -28 17 £80,000 +33.33%
Yorkshire +66 15 £73,750 +46.04%
South West -5 14 £46,958 -14.62% 3
East Midlands -28 9 £82,500 +83.33%
Northern Ireland +10 8 £34,628 -30.75% 5
West Midlands -10 8 £80,000 +9.59%
East of England -13 2 £110,000 +193.33% 4
North East -14 1 £38,000 -31.02%
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 40 (23.95%) WebLogic
2 7 (4.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.20%) Apache
3 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.60%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 40 (23.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 97 (58.08%) AWS
2 59 (35.33%) Azure
3 49 (29.34%) Amazon EKS
4 40 (23.95%) Amazon SQS
5 28 (16.77%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (13.77%) Amazon S3
7 21 (12.57%) Amazon Kinesis
8 9 (5.39%) SaaS
9 7 (4.19%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (4.19%) Serverless
10 5 (2.99%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.40%) Google Sheets
11 4 (2.40%) OCI
11 4 (2.40%) PaaS
12 3 (1.80%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (1.20%) IBM Cloud
13 2 (1.20%) iPaaS
13 2 (1.20%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 40 (23.95%) BGP
1 40 (23.95%) DNS
1 40 (23.95%) SSL
1 40 (23.95%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.80%) LAN
3 1 (0.60%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (0.60%) Firewall
3 1 (0.60%) IMAP
3 1 (0.60%) SMTP
3 1 (0.60%) VoIP
3 1 (0.60%) WAN
3 1 (0.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 66 (39.52%) Amazon RDS
3 54 (32.34%) MySQL
4 42 (25.15%) Oracle Database
5 36 (21.56%) SQL Server
6 24 (14.37%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (13.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 19 (11.38%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (5.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (5.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (4.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (2.99%) InfluxDB
11 5 (2.99%) Neo4j
11 5 (2.99%) TimescaleDB
12 4 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.80%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.80%) NoSQL
14 2 (1.20%) Crystal Reports
14 2 (1.20%) DB2
14 2 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 26 (15.57%) Git
2 22 (13.17%) Postman
3 12 (7.19%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.79%) JUnit
5 7 (4.19%) JMeter
5 7 (4.19%) Mockito
6 5 (2.99%) GDB
7 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.60%) Maven
7 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.60%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 59 (35.33%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (13.77%) Finance
4 21 (12.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (7.78%) Law
6 12 (7.19%) Marketing
7 11 (6.59%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.59%) Local Government
9 5 (2.99%) Fire and Rescue
9 5 (2.99%) Police
10 4 (2.40%) Retail
11 3 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.20%) Advertising
12 2 (1.20%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.20%) Games
12 2 (1.20%) Legal
12 2 (1.20%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.20%) Tech for Good
12 2 (1.20%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 68 (40.72%) Lead
2 47 (28.14%) Architect
3 42 (25.15%) Solutions Architect
4 40 (23.95%) Lead Architect
4 40 (23.95%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 29 (17.37%) DBA
6 28 (16.77%) Developer
7 21 (12.57%) Technical Leader
8 15 (8.98%) Senior
9 14 (8.38%) Oracle DBA
9 14 (8.38%) SQL DBA
10 13 (7.78%) Software Engineer
11 11 (6.59%) Full Stack Engineer
11 11 (6.59%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 11 (6.59%) Java Engineer
11 11 (6.59%) Java Software Engineer
11 11 (6.59%) MySQL DBA
12 7 (4.19%) Analyst
12 7 (4.19%) Full Stack Developer
13 6 (3.59%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (48.50%) Spring Boot
2 42 (25.15%) Spring
3 41 (24.55%) RabbitMQ
4 26 (15.57%) JSON
5 19 (11.38%) Hibernate
6 18 (10.78%) Web Services
7 17 (10.18%) Kafka
8 16 (9.58%) AngularJS
8 16 (9.58%) React
9 15 (8.98%) Vue
10 14 (8.38%) RESTful
11 13 (7.78%) .NET
12 12 (7.19%) HTML
13 11 (6.59%) SOAP
14 10 (5.99%) REST
15 7 (4.19%) ActiveMQ
15 7 (4.19%) Apache Camel
15 7 (4.19%) jQuery
15 7 (4.19%) WireMock
16 5 (2.99%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 47 (28.14%) Enterprise Software
2 40 (23.95%) Public Cloud
3 39 (23.35%) Cloud Native
4 28 (16.77%) Management Information System
5 15 (8.98%) Algorithms
6 11 (6.59%) Reference Data
7 7 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (3.59%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.99%) CMDB
10 4 (2.40%) Low-Code
10 4 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (2.40%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.20%) Blockchain
11 2 (1.20%) e-Learning
11 2 (1.20%) Housing Association
11 2 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.60%) Hedge funds
12 1 (0.60%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 58 (34.73%) Linux
2 40 (23.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 25 (14.97%) Windows
4 16 (9.58%) Unix
5 3 (1.80%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.60%) CentOS
6 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (56.29%) Agile
2 81 (48.50%) SDLC
3 64 (38.32%) Project Management
4 55 (32.93%) Actionable Insight
5 50 (29.94%) Scrum
6 48 (28.74%) Kanban
7 47 (28.14%) Collaborative Working
8 45 (26.95%) Load Balancing
9 44 (26.35%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (26.35%) Re-Platforming
10 43 (25.75%) Migration
11 42 (25.15%) Systems Engineering
12 40 (23.95%) ArchiMate
12 40 (23.95%) Cloud Operations
12 40 (23.95%) Data Migration
12 40 (23.95%) Open Source
12 40 (23.95%) Software Engineering
12 40 (23.95%) TOGAF
13 33 (19.76%) CI/CD
13 33 (19.76%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 55 (32.93%) SQL
2 48 (28.74%) Java
3 23 (13.77%) PHP
4 18 (10.78%) Python
5 17 (10.18%) JavaScript
6 13 (7.78%) C#
7 8 (4.79%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.79%) Shell Script
7 8 (4.79%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.20%) C
8 2 (1.20%) C++
8 2 (1.20%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.20%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.60%) Bash
9 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.60%) FoxPro (VFP)
9 1 (0.60%) Perl
9 1 (0.60%) R
9 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 61 (36.53%) Degree
2 55 (32.93%) SC Cleared
2 55 (32.93%) Security Cleared
3 41 (24.55%) Azure Certification
4 40 (23.95%) AWS Certification
4 40 (23.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 28 (16.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.20%) HNC
6 2 (1.20%) HND
7 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.60%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.19%) QA
2 5 (2.99%) SLA
3 2 (1.20%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.20%) GDPR
3 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (15.57%) Docker
2 9 (5.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.20%) vSphere
4 1 (0.60%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.60%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 23 (13.77%) Kubernetes
1 23 (13.77%) Terraform
2 7 (4.19%) Kibana
3 2 (1.20%) Data Guard
3 2 (1.20%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.60%) Ansible
Vendors
1 78 (46.71%) Oracle
2 40 (23.95%) Sparx
3 22 (13.17%) Microsoft
4 16 (9.58%) VMware
5 9 (5.39%) Dynatrace
6 7 (4.19%) Commvault
6 7 (4.19%) Splunk
7 5 (2.99%) Google
8 2 (1.20%) Apple
8 2 (1.20%) IBM
8 2 (1.20%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.20%) Sybase
9 1 (0.60%) Cisco
9 1 (0.60%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.60%) ESRI
9 1 (0.60%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.60%) SAP