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 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 479 397 480
Rank change year-on-year -82 +83 -22
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 30 171 93
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.071% 0.48% 0.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.80% 3.04% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 12 42 77
10th Percentile £40,250 £43,875 £32,350
25th Percentile £47,188 £47,938 £41,566
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,206 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +16.58% -4.55%
75th Percentile £60,625 £68,438 £65,000
90th Percentile £63,625 £92,000 £69,362
UK median annual salary £61,250 £62,500 £62,750
% change year-on-year -2.00% -0.40% -10.36%

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 3,750 5,630 6,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.84% 15.67% 19.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,387 2,923 5,243
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% -4.00%

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 January 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 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
South East -58 13 £55,000 -12.00% 11
North of England +5 10 £55,000 -10.14% 6
Yorkshire -12 6 £56,250 -6.25% 3
North West +17 3 £55,000 -10.14% 3
Midlands +16 2 £40,000 -42.86% 5
Wales +4 2 £37,500 -23.08%
South West -1 2 £62,500 -7.41% 3
East Midlands -9 2 £40,000 -52.94% 2
East of England +16 1 - -
North East +11 1 £52,500 -14.22%
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 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.33%) Confluence
1 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 19 (63.33%) AWS
2 14 (46.67%) Serverless
3 13 (43.33%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (36.67%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (36.67%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (23.33%) Azure
6 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (13.33%) SaaS
7 3 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (10.00%) GCP
8 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
8 2 (6.67%) Pulumi
9 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
9 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.33%) dbt
9 1 (3.33%) GitHub
9 1 (3.33%) OCI
9 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
9 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 12 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (23.33%) MySQL
4 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 3 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
6 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database
6 2 (6.67%) Power BI
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
7 1 (3.33%) MariaDB
7 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
7 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 12 (40.00%) JMeter
2 11 (36.67%) JUnit
2 11 (36.67%) Mockito
3 2 (6.67%) Bitbucket
3 2 (6.67%) Jaeger
3 2 (6.67%) JIRA
4 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.33%) Git
4 1 (3.33%) GitLab
4 1 (3.33%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (36.67%) Public Sector
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Back Office
4 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Advertising
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Law
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Developer
2 11 (36.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 11 (36.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 11 (36.67%) Java Developer
2 11 (36.67%) Mid-Level Java Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Senior
4 3 (10.00%) Digital Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Integration Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Engineering Manager
5 2 (6.67%) PHP Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Team Leader
6 1 (3.33%) Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior DBA
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (53.33%) REST
2 14 (46.67%) JSON
3 13 (43.33%) Spring
3 13 (43.33%) Spring Boot
4 12 (40.00%) Hibernate
5 11 (36.67%) ActiveMQ
5 11 (36.67%) Apache Camel
5 11 (36.67%) HTML
5 11 (36.67%) jQuery
5 11 (36.67%) Web Services
5 11 (36.67%) WireMock
5 11 (36.67%) XML
6 3 (10.00%) .NET
6 3 (10.00%) FHIR
6 3 (10.00%) React
7 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (6.67%) Laravel
7 2 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (6.67%) Symfony
8 1 (3.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (36.67%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.33%) Clustering
4 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Unix
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (73.33%) Agile
2 16 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 15 (50.00%) SDLC
4 13 (43.33%) Microservices
5 12 (40.00%) BDD
5 12 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (36.67%) Process Management
6 11 (36.67%) TDD
6 11 (36.67%) Workflow
7 6 (20.00%) DevOps
8 4 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (13.33%) High Availability
8 4 (13.33%) Service Delivery
9 3 (10.00%) ETL
9 3 (10.00%) Information Management
9 3 (10.00%) Line Management
9 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
9 3 (10.00%) Migration
9 3 (10.00%) Scrum
9 3 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 16 (53.33%) Java
2 16 (53.33%) Python
3 14 (46.67%) SQL
4 11 (36.67%) Shell Script
5 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.67%) Bash
6 2 (6.67%) Go
6 2 (6.67%) PHP
6 2 (6.67%) PL/SQL
6 2 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) HL7
2 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) GDPR
3 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 13 (43.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (43.33%) Kubernetes
2 11 (36.67%) Kibana
3 2 (6.67%) Ansible
3 2 (6.67%) Argo
3 2 (6.67%) Kustomize
3 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Dynatrace
1 11 (36.67%) Splunk
2 6 (20.00%) Oracle
3 3 (10.00%) Google
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.33%) Informatica
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.33%) RedGate
4 1 (3.33%) Siemens
4 1 (3.33%) StreamSets
4 1 (3.33%) Talend