Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 403 617 573
Rank change year-on-year +214 -44 -156
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 359 312 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.28% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.61% 1.67% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 91 153 247
10th Percentile £43,750 £44,851 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,250 £52,101 £48,402
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £61,206 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% -9.32% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £107,500 £84,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +11.11% -6.09%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,780 18,671 19,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.87% 16.76% 21.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4,843 12,749 12,667
10th Percentile £35,800 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -10.16% +6.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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 19 June 2025.

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 19 June 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
England +232 325 £75,000 +11.11% 302
Work from Home +178 255 £68,750 +14.58% 137
UK excluding London +173 168 £70,000 +16.67% 175
London +100 117 £80,000 - 161
South East +118 48 £62,783 -3.41% 36
East of England +74 36 £76,000 -30.91% 30
North of England +35 27 £70,000 +14.37% 35
Midlands +97 18 £45,000 -43.75% 19
Wales +37 17 £77,500 +66.30% 7
Scotland +82 12 £68,750 +14.58% 26
North West +5 12 £47,500 -22.39% 17
South West +104 11 - - 12
Yorkshire +52 11 £70,000 -3.45% 16
West Midlands +70 9 £105,000 +71.55% 15
East Midlands +52 9 £37,500 -54.55% 4
North East +52 4 £52,500 +5.84% 2
Northern Ireland +36 1 £28,000 -19.14% 11

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 9 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.39%) Apache
3 4 (1.11%) Confluence
3 4 (1.11%) GemFire
3 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.56%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.28%) Appian
5 1 (0.28%) Luigi
5 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (1.11%) Endur
2 3 (0.84%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 270 (75.21%) AWS
2 215 (59.89%) Pulumi
3 43 (11.98%) Azure
4 28 (7.80%) Serverless
5 24 (6.69%) Amazon ECS
6 18 (5.01%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (4.74%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (4.46%) GCP
9 11 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (3.06%) SaaS
10 9 (2.51%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.95%) dbt
12 7 (1.95%) Snowflake
13 6 (1.67%) Boomi
13 6 (1.67%) Power Platform
14 5 (1.39%) GitHub
14 5 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
15 4 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
16 3 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 215 (59.89%) Broadband
2 15 (4.18%) Network Security
3 5 (1.39%) Modbus
3 5 (1.39%) MQTT
3 5 (1.39%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.11%) Firewall
5 1 (0.28%) HTTP
5 1 (0.28%) SAN
5 1 (0.28%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 359 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 245 (68.25%) NoSQL
3 56 (15.60%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (8.08%) SQL Server
5 20 (5.57%) MongoDB
6 17 (4.74%) MySQL
7 12 (3.34%) Oracle Database
8 11 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (1.67%) Power BI
10 6 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (1.39%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.11%) Apache Ignite
12 4 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.11%) Kdb+
12 4 (1.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 215 (59.89%) Jaeger
2 20 (5.57%) JUnit
3 18 (5.01%) Jenkins
4 17 (4.74%) JMeter
4 17 (4.74%) Mockito
5 16 (4.46%) Git
6 5 (1.39%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.39%) JIRA
7 2 (0.56%) Ant
7 2 (0.56%) WebSpeed
8 1 (0.28%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.28%) Maven
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 227 (63.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 43 (11.98%) Social Skills
3 37 (10.31%) Finance
4 31 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.01%) Law
6 15 (4.18%) Banking
6 15 (4.18%) Marketing
7 12 (3.34%) Telecoms
8 11 (3.06%) Electronics
8 11 (3.06%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.79%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.51%) Front Office
11 7 (1.95%) Analytical Skills
12 5 (1.39%) Digital Healthcare
12 5 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.84%) Advertising
13 3 (0.84%) French Language
14 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 235 (65.46%) Lead
2 224 (62.40%) Team Leader
3 57 (15.88%) Developer
4 34 (9.47%) Senior
5 27 (7.52%) Software Engineer
6 21 (5.85%) Senior Developer
7 20 (5.57%) Java Developer
8 17 (4.74%) Lead Software Engineer
9 14 (3.90%) Analyst
10 13 (3.62%) Backend Developer
11 12 (3.34%) Java Engineer
11 12 (3.34%) Senior Backend Developer
12 11 (3.06%) Python Developer
12 11 (3.06%) Senior Python Developer
13 10 (2.79%) Architect
14 9 (2.51%) Software Team Leader
15 8 (2.23%) Java Software Engineer
15 8 (2.23%) Senior Software Engineer
16 7 (1.95%) Full-Stack Developer
16 7 (1.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (59.89%) Elastic Stack
1 215 (59.89%) OpenTelemetry
2 43 (11.98%) REST
3 36 (10.03%) Spring
4 33 (9.19%) .NET
5 29 (8.08%) Spring Boot
6 27 (7.52%) Web Services
7 24 (6.69%) Hibernate
8 22 (6.13%) HTML
9 19 (5.29%) JSON
10 17 (4.74%) ActiveMQ
10 17 (4.74%) Apache Camel
10 17 (4.74%) jQuery
10 17 (4.74%) Kafka
10 17 (4.74%) WireMock
11 14 (3.90%) RESTful
12 12 (3.34%) FastAPI
12 12 (3.34%) XML
13 11 (3.06%) Flask
13 11 (3.06%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (3.90%) IoT
3 12 (3.34%) Algorithms
4 9 (2.51%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.23%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.23%) Derivative
5 8 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.39%) Device Driver
7 5 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.39%) LIMS
7 5 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.11%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.11%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.11%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.11%) Swaptions
9 3 (0.84%) Credit Derivative
9 3 (0.84%) Equities
9 3 (0.84%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.56%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 245 (68.25%) Linux
2 240 (66.85%) Unix
3 25 (6.96%) Windows
4 4 (1.11%) CentOS
4 4 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.11%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.28%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (79.94%) Agile
2 243 (67.69%) Mentoring
3 233 (64.90%) DevOps
4 231 (64.35%) Containerisation
4 231 (64.35%) Product Management
5 224 (62.40%) High Availability
6 223 (62.12%) Continuous Integration
7 222 (61.84%) Roadmaps
8 216 (60.17%) Infrastructure as Code
8 216 (60.17%) Performance Optimisation
9 215 (59.89%) Budget Control
9 215 (59.89%) Cost Optimisation
9 215 (59.89%) GitOps
9 215 (59.89%) Resource Management
9 215 (59.89%) Task Automation
10 61 (16.99%) CI/CD
11 49 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (11.98%) Microservices
13 34 (9.47%) TDD
14 32 (8.91%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 264 (73.54%) Java
2 259 (72.14%) Python
3 245 (68.25%) JavaScript
4 218 (60.72%) Bash
5 217 (60.45%) Go
6 76 (21.17%) SQL
7 32 (8.91%) C#
8 19 (5.29%) Shell Script
9 12 (3.34%) C++
10 9 (2.51%) T-SQL
11 8 (2.23%) C
11 8 (2.23%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.95%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.11%) PHP
13 4 (1.11%) VB
14 2 (0.56%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.56%) Fortran
14 2 (0.56%) Progress 4GL
14 2 (0.56%) Scala
14 2 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 217 (60.45%) AWS Certification
2 21 (5.85%) Degree
3 11 (3.06%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.79%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.11%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.84%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.56%) PhD
9 2 (0.56%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.18%) QA
2 9 (2.51%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.39%) HL7
4 3 (0.84%) Accessibility
System Software
1 251 (69.92%) Docker
2 5 (1.39%) Firmware
3 4 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 253 (70.47%) Kubernetes
2 229 (63.79%) Terraform
3 218 (60.72%) Ansible
4 216 (60.17%) Prometheus
5 215 (59.89%) Argo
5 215 (59.89%) Kustomize
6 17 (4.74%) Kibana
7 1 (0.28%) Grafana
7 1 (0.28%) Nagios
7 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 228 (63.51%) Google
2 34 (9.47%) Oracle
3 18 (5.01%) Splunk
4 17 (4.74%) Dynatrace
5 11 (3.06%) Microsoft
5 11 (3.06%) SAP
6 8 (2.23%) TIBCO
7 6 (1.67%) Dell
7 6 (1.67%) IFS
7 6 (1.67%) Sybase
8 5 (1.39%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.11%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (1.11%) Databricks
9 4 (1.11%) OpenLink
9 4 (1.11%) Solace
9 4 (1.11%) StreamSets
9 4 (1.11%) Vertica
9 4 (1.11%) VMware
10 3 (0.84%) RedGate
10 3 (0.84%) Talend