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 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 583 606 428
Rank change year-on-year +23 -178 -4
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 269 295 1,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.37% 0.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.83% 1.75% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 120 186 544
10th Percentile £42,725 £41,250 £42,063
25th Percentile £50,656 £47,543 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £83,875 £95,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% +9.52%

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 14,713 16,902 48,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.28% 20.95% 27.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9,555 11,871 21,175
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,942 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

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 26 July 2024.

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 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
England +7 200 £75,000 +3.45% 28
UK excluding London +2 167 £60,000 +20.00% 20
Work from Home +29 150 £57,000 +3.64% 31
London +55 97 £80,000 +10.34% 15
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
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 46 (17.10%) WebLogic
2 31 (11.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.35%) Apache
4 7 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.37%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.37%) IIS
6 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (17.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 24 (8.92%) Endur
3 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.37%) Data Workbench
4 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.37%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 135 (50.19%) AWS
2 81 (30.11%) Azure
3 65 (24.16%) Amazon EKS
4 46 (17.10%) Amazon SQS
5 37 (13.75%) Amazon S3
6 32 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
7 26 (9.67%) Amazon Kinesis
8 15 (5.58%) Serverless
9 14 (5.20%) OCI
10 13 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (4.46%) Amazon ECR
11 12 (4.46%) IBM Cloud
11 12 (4.46%) OpenShift
11 12 (4.46%) Route 53
11 12 (4.46%) SaaS
12 10 (3.72%) dbt
12 10 (3.72%) Power Platform
13 7 (2.60%) Amazon EventBridge
13 7 (2.60%) Dagster
13 7 (2.60%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 49 (18.22%) DNS
2 48 (17.84%) TCP/IP
3 47 (17.47%) SSL
4 46 (17.10%) BGP
5 3 (1.12%) LAN
6 1 (0.37%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (0.37%) Firewall
6 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.37%) IMAP
6 1 (0.37%) SMTP
6 1 (0.37%) SSH
6 1 (0.37%) VoIP
6 1 (0.37%) WAN
6 1 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 269 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 90 (33.46%) SQL Server
3 86 (31.97%) Amazon RDS
4 70 (26.02%) MySQL
5 56 (20.82%) Oracle Database
6 42 (15.61%) PostgreSQL
7 34 (12.64%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (10.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (4.83%) MongoDB
10 12 (4.46%) DB2
11 10 (3.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (3.35%) NoSQL
13 8 (2.97%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (2.97%) Metadata
13 8 (2.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (2.60%) Data Hub
15 6 (2.23%) Power BI
16 5 (1.86%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 37 (13.75%) Git
2 26 (9.67%) Postman
3 23 (8.55%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.97%) JUnit
5 7 (2.60%) JMeter
5 7 (2.60%) Mockito
6 5 (1.86%) GDB
7 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.37%) ERwin
7 1 (0.37%) GitLab
7 1 (0.37%) Maven
7 1 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.37%) Toad
7 1 (0.37%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 77 (28.62%) Social Skills
2 47 (17.47%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (14.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (13.38%) Finance
5 35 (13.01%) Marketing
6 31 (11.52%) Games
7 21 (7.81%) Public Sector
8 19 (7.06%) Law
9 8 (2.97%) Retail
10 7 (2.60%) Legal
11 6 (2.23%) Local Government
12 5 (1.86%) Fire and Rescue
12 5 (1.86%) Police
13 4 (1.49%) Advertising
13 4 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.12%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 82 (30.48%) Lead
2 69 (25.65%) Architect
3 53 (19.70%) Senior
4 48 (17.84%) Developer
4 48 (17.84%) Solutions Architect
5 46 (17.10%) Lead Architect
5 46 (17.10%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 33 (12.27%) DBA
7 25 (9.29%) Technical Leader
8 19 (7.06%) Software Engineer
9 18 (6.69%) Senior Manager
10 16 (5.95%) Oracle DBA
11 15 (5.58%) Java Engineer
12 14 (5.20%) SQL DBA
13 13 (4.83%) Development Manager
13 13 (4.83%) Endur Manager
13 13 (4.83%) MySQL DBA
13 13 (4.83%) Senior Development Manager
13 13 (4.83%) Software Development Manager
13 13 (4.83%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (33.83%) Spring Boot
2 56 (20.82%) Spring
3 48 (17.84%) RabbitMQ
4 38 (14.13%) JSON
5 26 (9.67%) .NET
6 22 (8.18%) React
7 19 (7.06%) Hibernate
7 19 (7.06%) Vue
8 18 (6.69%) Kafka
8 18 (6.69%) Web Services
9 17 (6.32%) RESTful
10 16 (5.95%) AngularJS
11 12 (4.46%) HTML
11 12 (4.46%) Spring XD
12 11 (4.09%) SOAP
13 10 (3.72%) REST
14 7 (2.60%) ActiveMQ
14 7 (2.60%) Apache Camel
14 7 (2.60%) CSS
14 7 (2.60%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 57 (21.19%) Enterprise Software
2 46 (17.10%) Public Cloud
3 43 (15.99%) Cloud Native
4 33 (12.27%) Management Information System
5 24 (8.92%) Swaptions
6 20 (7.43%) Algorithms
7 12 (4.46%) Blockchain
7 12 (4.46%) Data Structures
7 12 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (4.46%) e-Learning
7 12 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (4.09%) Reference Data
9 8 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.60%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.86%) CMDB
12 4 (1.49%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.49%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.12%) Biopharmaceutical
13 3 (1.12%) Life Science
13 3 (1.12%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 67 (24.91%) Linux
2 46 (17.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 33 (12.27%) Windows
4 20 (7.43%) Unix
5 7 (2.60%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.74%) CentOS
7 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (47.58%) Agile
2 117 (43.49%) SDLC
3 74 (27.51%) Project Management
4 67 (24.91%) Problem-Solving
5 66 (24.54%) Migration
6 65 (24.16%) Data Modelling
7 63 (23.42%) Actionable Insight
8 60 (22.30%) Roadmaps
8 60 (22.30%) Scrum
9 56 (20.82%) CI/CD
10 54 (20.07%) Kanban
11 53 (19.70%) Collaborative Working
11 53 (19.70%) Software Engineering
12 51 (18.96%) Load Balancing
13 50 (18.59%) Re-Platforming
14 49 (18.22%) Data Migration
15 48 (17.84%) DevOps
15 48 (17.84%) Open Source
15 48 (17.84%) Systems Engineering
16 47 (17.47%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 104 (38.66%) Java
2 90 (33.46%) SQL
3 42 (15.61%) Python
4 27 (10.04%) PHP
5 24 (8.92%) VB
6 23 (8.55%) JavaScript
7 16 (5.95%) C#
8 9 (3.35%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.35%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.97%) Go
9 8 (2.97%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.60%) C
11 6 (2.23%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.86%) Scala
13 4 (1.49%) C++
14 2 (0.74%) Bash
14 2 (0.74%) R
14 2 (0.74%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.37%) ActionScript 2.0
15 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 76 (28.25%) Degree
2 63 (23.42%) SC Cleared
2 63 (23.42%) Security Cleared
3 47 (17.47%) Azure Certification
4 46 (17.10%) AWS Certification
4 46 (17.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 34 (12.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.12%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.74%) HNC
7 2 (0.74%) HND
8 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.09%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.97%) QA
3 6 (2.23%) SLA
4 5 (1.86%) GDPR
5 3 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.37%) NIST
6 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (15.24%) Docker
2 10 (3.72%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.74%) vSphere
4 1 (0.37%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.37%) Postfix
4 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (14.13%) Terraform
2 33 (12.27%) Kubernetes
3 12 (4.46%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.60%) Kibana
5 2 (0.74%) Ansible
5 2 (0.74%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.37%) Packer
6 1 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 134 (49.81%) Oracle
2 46 (17.10%) Sparx
3 36 (13.38%) Sybase
4 33 (12.27%) Microsoft
5 24 (8.92%) OpenLink
5 24 (8.92%) TIBCO
6 19 (7.06%) Dynatrace
6 19 (7.06%) VMware
7 14 (5.20%) IBM
8 12 (4.46%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.60%) Commvault
9 7 (2.60%) Splunk
10 5 (1.86%) Google
11 2 (0.74%) Apple
11 2 (0.74%) Cisco
11 2 (0.74%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.37%) ESRI
12 1 (0.37%) Hyperion
12 1 (0.37%) Juniper
12 1 (0.37%) SAP