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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 552 540
Rank change year-on-year -7 -12 -138
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 125 360 532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.37% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.68% 1.98% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 87 175 323
10th Percentile £44,500 £44,910 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £52,500 £48,576
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -2.28%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,500 £83,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,206 £60,603 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.00% +10.19% -8.33%

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 7,436 18,137 22,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.26% 18.44% 21.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,214 12,594 13,904
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £103,750
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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +29 96 £65,000 -7.14% 64
UK excluding London +80 89 £61,206 +1.00% 48
London +39 47 £80,000 +6.67% 31
Work from Home +21 43 £60,603 +1.01% 39
South East +116 23 £62,500 - 9
North of England +32 23 £61,206 - 14
Wales +34 20 £65,000 +39.47%
Midlands +52 12 £49,353 -38.31% 4
Yorkshire +57 11 £60,000 -17.24% 8
North West -6 11 £61,206 +3.12% 2
West Midlands +48 6 £105,000 +71.55% 4
East Midlands +43 6 £37,500 -54.55%
Scotland +88 4 £67,500 +3.85% 13
South West +98 3 - - 2
East of England +58 3 £90,000 -18.18% 3
North East +52 1 £61,206 - 4
Northern Ireland +26 1 £28,000 -19.14% 4

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 10 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (5.60%) Apache
3 4 (3.20%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.20%) Confluence
3 4 (3.20%) GemFire
4 2 (1.60%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.60%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.80%) Appian
5 1 (0.80%) Luigi
5 1 (0.80%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Orchestrade
2 2 (1.60%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 44 (35.20%) AWS
2 35 (28.00%) Azure
3 25 (20.00%) Serverless
4 21 (16.80%) Amazon ECS
5 18 (14.40%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (14.40%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (12.00%) GCP
7 8 (6.40%) SaaS
8 7 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.80%) dbt
10 5 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (4.00%) Power Platform
10 5 (4.00%) Snowflake
11 4 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (2.40%) GitHub
13 2 (1.60%) Amazon S3
13 2 (1.60%) Amazon SageMaker
14 1 (0.80%) Amazon EventBridge
14 1 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
14 1 (0.80%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 18 (14.40%) Network Security
2 5 (4.00%) Modbus
2 5 (4.00%) MQTT
2 5 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.20%) Firewall
4 1 (0.80%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 50 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (25.60%) NoSQL
4 15 (12.00%) MySQL
4 15 (12.00%) SQL Server
5 12 (9.60%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (8.00%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.00%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.00%) Oracle Database
7 5 (4.00%) Power BI
7 5 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (3.20%) Apache Ignite
8 4 (3.20%) Big Data
8 4 (3.20%) InterSystems Cache
8 4 (3.20%) MariaDB
8 4 (3.20%) Redis
9 2 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.60%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.60%) Couchbase
9 2 (1.60%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 20 (16.00%) JUnit
2 18 (14.40%) Jenkins
2 18 (14.40%) JMeter
2 18 (14.40%) Mockito
3 17 (13.60%) Git
4 7 (5.60%) JIRA
5 2 (1.60%) Ant
5 2 (1.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.60%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.60%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (1.60%) WebSpeed
6 1 (0.80%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio
General
1 44 (35.20%) Social Skills
2 34 (27.20%) Public Sector
3 19 (15.20%) Finance
4 11 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.40%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.60%) Electronics
6 7 (5.60%) Manufacturing
6 7 (5.60%) Marketing
7 6 (4.80%) Banking
8 5 (4.00%) Front Office
8 5 (4.00%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.20%) Digital Healthcare
9 4 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (3.20%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.40%) French Language
10 3 (2.40%) Law
10 3 (2.40%) Retail
11 2 (1.60%) Back Office
11 2 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.80%) Legal
Job Titles
1 54 (43.20%) Developer
2 33 (26.40%) Senior
3 20 (16.00%) Java Developer
4 19 (15.20%) Senior Developer
5 16 (12.80%) Lead
6 15 (12.00%) Software Engineer
7 14 (11.20%) Architect
8 13 (10.40%) Analyst
9 12 (9.60%) Lead Software Engineer
10 11 (8.80%) Data Architect
11 9 (7.20%) Backend Developer
11 9 (7.20%) Software Team Leader
11 9 (7.20%) Team Leader
12 8 (6.40%) Senior Backend Developer
13 7 (5.60%) Domain Architect
13 7 (5.60%) Python Developer
13 7 (5.60%) Senior Architect
13 7 (5.60%) Senior Data Architect
13 7 (5.60%) Senior Python Developer
13 7 (5.60%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (29.60%) REST
2 27 (21.60%) Spring
3 25 (20.00%) .NET
4 24 (19.20%) Web Services
5 23 (18.40%) HTML
6 21 (16.80%) Hibernate
7 20 (16.00%) Spring Boot
8 18 (14.40%) ActiveMQ
8 18 (14.40%) Apache Camel
8 18 (14.40%) jQuery
8 18 (14.40%) WireMock
9 14 (11.20%) JSON
9 14 (11.20%) Middleware
10 11 (8.80%) Kafka
11 9 (7.20%) XML
12 8 (6.40%) FastAPI
12 8 (6.40%) Symfony
13 7 (5.60%) Flask
14 5 (4.00%) FIX Protocol
14 5 (4.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.80%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (11.20%) IoT
3 8 (6.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (5.60%) Algorithms
4 7 (5.60%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.80%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.00%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.00%) Device Driver
6 5 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.20%) Derivative
7 4 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (3.20%) LIMS
8 3 (2.40%) Credit Derivative
8 3 (2.40%) Equities
8 3 (2.40%) Fixed Income
8 3 (2.40%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.60%) Acoustics
9 2 (1.60%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.60%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (1.60%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 33 (26.40%) Linux
2 27 (21.60%) Unix
3 23 (18.40%) Windows
4 4 (3.20%) CentOS
4 4 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.20%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.60%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.80%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (52.80%) Agile
2 54 (43.20%) CI/CD
3 45 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (29.60%) Microservices
5 28 (22.40%) Mentoring
6 25 (20.00%) TDD
7 24 (19.20%) Data Modelling
7 24 (19.20%) Full-Stack Development
8 23 (18.40%) Collaborative Working
9 22 (17.60%) Web Development
10 21 (16.80%) Technical Leadership
11 20 (16.00%) Software Engineering
12 19 (15.20%) Business Intelligence
13 18 (14.40%) BDD
13 18 (14.40%) Process Management
13 18 (14.40%) Roadmaps
13 18 (14.40%) Workflow
14 17 (13.60%) Architectural Design
14 17 (13.60%) Computer Science
14 17 (13.60%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 61 (48.80%) SQL
2 42 (33.60%) Java
3 40 (32.00%) Python
4 34 (27.20%) JavaScript
5 26 (20.80%) C#
6 19 (15.20%) Shell Script
7 14 (11.20%) C++
8 9 (7.20%) C
9 8 (6.40%) PHP
10 6 (4.80%) T-SQL
11 5 (4.00%) Apex Code
11 5 (4.00%) PowerShell
12 3 (2.40%) Bash
12 3 (2.40%) Go
12 3 (2.40%) TypeScript
13 2 (1.60%) Fortran
13 2 (1.60%) OpenEdge ABL
13 2 (1.60%) Progress 4GL
13 2 (1.60%) Scala
13 2 (1.60%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (16.80%) Degree
2 12 (9.60%) SC Cleared
2 12 (9.60%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.20%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.60%) PhD
4 2 (1.60%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.00%) QA
2 9 (7.20%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.20%) HL7
4 2 (1.60%) GDPR
System Software
1 31 (24.80%) Docker
2 5 (4.00%) Firmware
3 4 (3.20%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (3.20%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (22.40%) Kubernetes
2 18 (14.40%) Kibana
3 10 (8.00%) Terraform
4 3 (2.40%) Ansible
4 3 (2.40%) Grafana
4 3 (2.40%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.60%) Argo
6 1 (0.80%) Nagios
6 1 (0.80%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.80%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (14.40%) Splunk
2 17 (13.60%) Dynatrace
3 14 (11.20%) Oracle
4 11 (8.80%) Google
5 7 (5.60%) SAP
6 6 (4.80%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.80%) TIBCO
7 5 (4.00%) Databricks
8 4 (3.20%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (3.20%) Solace
8 4 (3.20%) Sybase
8 4 (3.20%) VMware
9 3 (2.40%) Barracuda Networks
10 2 (1.60%) IBM
10 2 (1.60%) Microsoft
10 2 (1.60%) OpenLink
10 2 (1.60%) StreamSets
11 1 (0.80%) Murex
11 1 (0.80%) Pega