Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for RDBMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited RDBMS over the 6 months to 29 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 406 475 417
Rank change year-on-year +69 -58 +80
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 360 844 1,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.67% 0.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.14% 2.86% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 176 414 570
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,330 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,063 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,438 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

RDBMS is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 11,464 29,535 35,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.19% 23.47% 27.31%
Number of salaries quoted 8,647 17,891 22,551
10th Percentile £37,000 £36,750 £35,250
25th Percentile £46,938 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +2.04%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RDBMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing RDBMS.

Salary trend for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing RDBMS over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the UK over the 6 months to 29 November 2023. 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
England +61 271 £65,000 - 84
Work from Home +152 264 £65,000 +13.04% 66
UK excluding London +32 163 £50,000 -9.09% 67
London +130 152 £80,000 +6.67% 35
North of England +110 43 £50,000 -9.09% 26
Scotland +62 35 £65,000 -18.75% 11
North West +126 32 £50,000 -13.04% 18
Midlands +55 23 £42,500 -22.73% 5
Wales +31 20 £43,190 +1.03% 2
South West +30 15 £48,250 -12.27% 7
South East +69 13 £42,500 -22.73% 10
East Midlands +43 12 £55,000 +2.80%
West Midlands +50 11 £30,500 -51.20% 5
Northern Ireland +7 11 £75,000 +85.19% 2
Yorkshire +79 10 £45,000 -18.18% 6
East of England +94 3 £37,500 -47.92% 4
North East +18 1 £45,000 -18.18% 2

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (2.22%) OpenEdge
2 3 (0.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 70 (19.44%) Endur
2 5 (1.39%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 80 (22.22%) Serverless
2 36 (10.00%) Azure
3 21 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (5.00%) AWS
5 14 (3.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (3.61%) Power Platform
7 10 (2.78%) SaaS
8 8 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (2.22%) IaaS
8 8 (2.22%) PaaS
9 4 (1.11%) Azure Functions
9 4 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (1.11%) GitHub
9 4 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (0.83%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (0.83%) Azure AKS
10 3 (0.83%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (0.83%) Boomi
11 2 (0.56%) Apigee
11 2 (0.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.11%) DNS
1 4 (1.11%) HTTP
1 4 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
1 4 (1.11%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.83%) Firewall
3 2 (0.56%) VPN
4 1 (0.28%) Internet
4 1 (0.28%) Network Security
4 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 360 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 159 (44.17%) SQL Server
3 84 (23.33%) Oracle Database
4 69 (19.17%) MySQL
5 35 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (4.17%) Big Data
6 15 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (3.89%) NoSQL
8 13 (3.61%) Power BI
9 12 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (2.78%) OLTP
11 9 (2.50%) MongoDB
12 8 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (1.94%) MariaDB
13 7 (1.94%) Metadata
14 6 (1.67%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (0.83%) Amazon QuickSight
16 3 (0.83%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 110 (30.56%) Git
2 24 (6.67%) JDeveloper
3 17 (4.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 12 (3.33%) Visual Studio
5 11 (3.06%) Team Foundation Server
6 9 (2.50%) Selenium
7 8 (2.22%) Postman
8 7 (1.94%) Jenkins
8 7 (1.94%) Moq
9 6 (1.67%) Maven
10 5 (1.39%) JIRA
11 4 (1.11%) JUnit
12 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.56%) Gradle
13 2 (0.56%) Mockito
14 1 (0.28%) Ant
14 1 (0.28%) Eclipse
14 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
14 1 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 79 (21.94%) Social Skills
2 72 (20.00%) Games
3 54 (15.00%) Police
4 36 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (7.22%) Marketing
6 24 (6.67%) Finance
7 18 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (4.72%) Retail
9 6 (1.67%) Legal
9 6 (1.67%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.39%) Back Office
10 5 (1.39%) Law
10 5 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.83%) Advertising
11 3 (0.83%) Banking
11 3 (0.83%) Local Government
12 2 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.28%) Electronics
13 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 127 (35.28%) Developer
2 77 (21.39%) Software Engineer
3 75 (20.83%) Ruby Engineer
4 66 (18.33%) Senior
5 45 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 44 (12.22%) DBA
7 38 (10.56%) Java Developer
8 35 (9.72%) MySQL DBA
9 33 (9.17%) Software Developer
10 26 (7.22%) SQL Developer
11 22 (6.11%) Endur Manager
11 22 (6.11%) OpenLink Manager
12 18 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
13 17 (4.72%) Architect
13 17 (4.72%) Development Manager
13 17 (4.72%) Software Development Manager
13 17 (4.72%) Software Manager
14 16 (4.44%) Scala Developer
15 14 (3.89%) Analyst
15 14 (3.89%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (30.00%) Node.js
2 93 (25.83%) React
3 49 (13.61%) RESTful
4 35 (9.72%) JSON
5 30 (8.33%) Spring
6 29 (8.06%) HTML
7 27 (7.50%) CSS
8 26 (7.22%) .NET
9 25 (6.94%) Web Services
10 24 (6.67%) Spring Boot
11 21 (5.83%) .NET Core
11 21 (5.83%) hapi
12 20 (5.56%) REST
13 18 (5.00%) AngularJS
14 12 (3.33%) .NET Framework
14 12 (3.33%) HTML5
15 11 (3.06%) Kafka
16 9 (2.50%) Entity Framework
16 9 (2.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 9 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (19.44%) Swaptions
2 48 (13.33%) Virtual Team
3 21 (5.83%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.22%) Mobile App
5 8 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.67%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.67%) Replication
7 5 (1.39%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.11%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.83%) Clustering
9 3 (0.83%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.28%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.28%) Derivative
10 1 (0.28%) Equities
10 1 (0.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.28%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.28%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.28%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.28%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 51 (14.17%) Linux
2 37 (10.28%) Windows
3 30 (8.33%) Unix
4 4 (1.11%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 124 (34.44%) DevOps
3 121 (33.61%) Design Patterns
4 120 (33.33%) Agile
5 107 (29.72%) Unit Testing
6 106 (29.44%) Actionable Insight
7 100 (27.78%) Microservices
8 94 (26.11%) SDLC
9 91 (25.28%) Software Engineering
10 82 (22.78%) Containerisation
11 81 (22.50%) Clean Code
11 81 (22.50%) Code Quality
12 78 (21.67%) Continuous Integration
13 76 (21.11%) Open Source
14 70 (19.44%) Business Transformation
15 69 (19.17%) Creative Thinking
16 67 (18.61%) Data Modelling
17 65 (18.06%) Data Science
18 58 (16.11%) CI/CD
19 43 (11.94%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 226 (62.78%) Java
2 117 (32.50%) JavaScript
3 91 (25.28%) SQL
4 88 (24.44%) Python
5 75 (20.83%) Bash
5 75 (20.83%) Go
5 75 (20.83%) Perl
5 75 (20.83%) Ruby
6 70 (19.44%) VB
7 28 (7.78%) C#
8 18 (5.00%) Scala
9 16 (4.44%) C++
10 13 (3.61%) T-SQL
11 12 (3.33%) C
11 12 (3.33%) TypeScript
12 8 (2.22%) OpenEdge ABL
12 8 (2.22%) Progress 4GL
13 3 (0.83%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.28%) COBOL
14 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 104 (28.89%) Security Cleared
2 102 (28.33%) SC Cleared
3 47 (13.06%) Degree
4 9 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.11%) MCP
6 4 (1.11%) MCSA
6 4 (1.11%) MCSE
7 3 (0.83%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (29.17%) QA
2 5 (1.39%) GDPR
3 2 (0.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.28%) COREP
4 1 (0.28%) IFRS
4 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (3.89%) Docker
2 7 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (6.11%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.22%) Terraform
3 4 (1.11%) Ansible
4 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.28%) Kibana
Vendors
1 193 (53.61%) Oracle
2 72 (20.00%) TIBCO
3 70 (19.44%) OpenLink
3 70 (19.44%) Sybase
4 30 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 29 (8.06%) VMware
6 8 (2.22%) Progress
7 6 (1.67%) Google
8 2 (0.56%) Lets Encrypt
8 2 (0.56%) Okta
8 2 (0.56%) RedGate
8 2 (0.56%) Solace
9 1 (0.28%) Databricks
9 1 (0.28%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.28%) IBM
9 1 (0.28%) IFS
9 1 (0.28%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.28%) SAP