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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 521 412
Rank change year-on-year -33 -109 +70
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 364 543 1,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.52% 0.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.01% 2.40% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 175 329 632
10th Percentile £44,910 £42,500 £42,550
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £69,078
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -2.28% +6.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,603 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.19% -8.33% +14.29%

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 18,076 22,599 42,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.44% 21.59% 27.62%
Number of salaries quoted 12,541 13,991 21,425
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +6.12%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -21 268 £70,000 -1.41% 48
UK excluding London -38 220 £60,603 +10.19% 32
Work from Home +33 218 £60,000 +4.35% 34
London +18 116 £75,000 +3.45% 25
North of England +80 75 £61,206 +11.28% 7
North West +39 50 £59,353 -1.08% 4
Scotland -50 44 £65,000 - 8
Wales +32 26 £46,604 -41.75% 2
Yorkshire +101 24 £72,500 +31.82% 3
Midlands -27 21 £80,000 +9.59% 7
South East +12 20 £62,500 +34.18% 4
South West -19 20 £62,229 +13.14%
East Midlands -17 12 £82,500 +52.78% 2
Northern Ireland -4 11 £34,628 -23.05% 1
West Midlands -6 9 £61,206 -16.16% 5
East of England 0 3 £110,000 +52.78% 3
North East -8 1 £61,206 +28.39%

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 55 (15.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (12.64%) WebLogic
3 7 (1.92%) Apache
4 3 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.55%) nginx
6 1 (0.27%) IIS
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
6 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 48 (13.19%) Endur
2 46 (12.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (2.47%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 1 (0.27%) Data Workbench
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 132 (36.26%) AWS
2 79 (21.70%) Azure
3 61 (16.76%) Amazon EKS
4 47 (12.91%) Amazon SQS
5 46 (12.64%) Serverless
6 39 (10.71%) Amazon S3
7 33 (9.07%) Amazon EC2
8 27 (7.42%) Amazon Kinesis
9 18 (4.95%) SaaS
10 14 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (3.85%) PaaS
11 11 (3.02%) OCI
12 10 (2.75%) Amazon ECR
12 10 (2.75%) IBM Cloud
12 10 (2.75%) OpenShift
12 10 (2.75%) Route 53
13 9 (2.47%) IaaS
14 7 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (1.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 51 (14.01%) DNS
2 48 (13.19%) TCP/IP
3 47 (12.91%) SSL
4 46 (12.64%) BGP
5 3 (0.82%) Firewall
5 3 (0.82%) LAN
5 3 (0.82%) SMTP
6 2 (0.55%) DKIM
6 2 (0.55%) DMARC
6 2 (0.55%) Network Security
7 1 (0.27%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.27%) IMAP
7 1 (0.27%) SSH
7 1 (0.27%) VoIP
7 1 (0.27%) WAN
7 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 364 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 113 (31.04%) SQL Server
3 86 (23.63%) Amazon RDS
4 85 (23.35%) Oracle Database
5 74 (20.33%) MySQL
6 36 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
7 29 (7.97%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (7.42%) Amazon Redshift
9 26 (7.14%) NoSQL
10 15 (4.12%) MongoDB
11 12 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (2.75%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (2.75%) DB2
12 10 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (2.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (1.65%) Power BI
15 5 (1.37%) InfluxDB
15 5 (1.37%) Neo4j
15 5 (1.37%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 75 (20.60%) Git
2 36 (9.89%) JDeveloper
3 26 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 25 (6.87%) Postman
5 8 (2.20%) JUnit
6 5 (1.37%) GDB
7 4 (1.10%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.10%) JMeter
7 4 (1.10%) Maven
7 4 (1.10%) Mockito
7 4 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.55%) git-flow
8 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.27%) Gradle
9 1 (0.27%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.27%) JIRA
9 1 (0.27%) Moq
9 1 (0.27%) PHPUnit
General
1 102 (28.02%) Social Skills
2 58 (15.93%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (14.84%) Games
4 49 (13.46%) Marketing
5 48 (13.19%) Finance
6 45 (12.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (4.95%) Law
8 16 (4.40%) Public Sector
9 11 (3.02%) Police
10 10 (2.75%) Local Government
11 9 (2.47%) Legal
12 8 (2.20%) Retail
13 6 (1.65%) Back Office
13 6 (1.65%) Fire and Rescue
14 5 (1.37%) Banking
14 5 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.10%) Financial Institution
15 4 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.10%) Welsh Language
16 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (22.53%) Architect
1 82 (22.53%) Lead
2 76 (20.88%) Senior
3 63 (17.31%) Developer
4 57 (15.66%) Software Engineer
5 51 (14.01%) Solutions Architect
6 46 (12.64%) Lead Architect
6 46 (12.64%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 36 (9.89%) DBA
7 36 (9.89%) Ruby Engineer
8 26 (7.14%) Endur Manager
8 26 (7.14%) OpenLink Manager
9 25 (6.87%) Technical Leader
10 24 (6.59%) Senior Manager
11 23 (6.32%) Development Manager
11 23 (6.32%) Software Development Manager
11 23 (6.32%) Software Manager
12 20 (5.49%) Scala Developer
13 19 (5.22%) Java Engineer
14 18 (4.95%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (26.10%) Spring Boot
2 62 (17.03%) Spring
3 59 (16.21%) React
4 54 (14.84%) JSON
5 52 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
6 44 (12.09%) Node.js
7 25 (6.87%) Kafka
8 23 (6.32%) Web Services
9 21 (5.77%) Hibernate
10 20 (5.49%) Akka
10 20 (5.49%) RESTful
11 19 (5.22%) .NET
12 18 (4.95%) AngularJS
13 16 (4.40%) Vue
14 14 (3.85%) REST
14 14 (3.85%) SOAP
15 10 (2.75%) Spring XD
16 6 (1.65%) .NET Core
17 5 (1.37%) FastAPI
17 5 (1.37%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.48%) Enterprise Software
2 53 (14.56%) Cloud Native
3 52 (14.29%) Public Cloud
4 48 (13.19%) Swaptions
5 40 (10.99%) Management Information System
6 25 (6.87%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (5.49%) Algorithms
8 18 (4.95%) Virtual Team
9 15 (4.12%) Data Structures
10 14 (3.85%) Reference Data
11 10 (2.75%) Blockchain
11 10 (2.75%) e-Learning
11 10 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (1.37%) CMDB
14 4 (1.10%) Housing Association
14 4 (1.10%) Low-Code
14 4 (1.10%) Onboarding
14 4 (1.10%) Replication
15 2 (0.55%) Biopharmaceutical
Operating Systems
1 76 (20.88%) Linux
2 46 (12.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 37 (10.16%) Windows
4 20 (5.49%) Unix
5 8 (2.20%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.55%) CentOS
7 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (40.93%) SDLC
2 137 (37.64%) Agile
3 117 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
4 101 (27.75%) Actionable Insight
5 94 (25.82%) Software Engineering
6 93 (25.55%) DevOps
7 90 (24.73%) Open Source
8 88 (24.18%) Data Modelling
9 79 (21.70%) Project Management
10 78 (21.43%) Design Patterns
11 76 (20.88%) Roadmaps
12 75 (20.60%) CI/CD
13 66 (18.13%) Microservices
14 63 (17.31%) Containerisation
15 62 (17.03%) Migration
16 53 (14.56%) Collaborative Working
16 53 (14.56%) Load Balancing
17 52 (14.29%) Scrum
18 50 (13.74%) Kanban
18 50 (13.74%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 181 (49.73%) Java
2 119 (32.69%) SQL
3 67 (18.41%) Python
4 51 (14.01%) JavaScript
5 48 (13.19%) VB
6 41 (11.26%) Go
7 40 (10.99%) Bash
8 37 (10.16%) Perl
9 36 (9.89%) Ruby
10 28 (7.69%) PHP
11 22 (6.04%) Scala
12 17 (4.67%) C#
13 13 (3.57%) T-SQL
14 12 (3.30%) PowerShell
15 11 (3.02%) C
16 8 (2.20%) C++
17 7 (1.92%) PL/SQL
18 5 (1.37%) Shell Script
18 5 (1.37%) TypeScript
19 2 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 76 (20.88%) Degree
2 63 (17.31%) SC Cleared
2 63 (17.31%) Security Cleared
3 47 (12.91%) AWS Certification
3 47 (12.91%) Azure Certification
4 46 (12.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 33 (9.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.10%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.55%) HNC
7 2 (0.55%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.16%) QA
2 6 (1.65%) SLA
3 4 (1.10%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.82%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.27%) COREP
6 1 (0.27%) IFRS
6 1 (0.27%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 39 (10.71%) Docker
2 15 (4.12%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.55%) vSphere
4 1 (0.27%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.27%) Postfix
4 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (10.44%) Kubernetes
1 38 (10.44%) Terraform
2 10 (2.75%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.92%) Ansible
4 4 (1.10%) Data Guard
4 4 (1.10%) Kibana
5 1 (0.27%) Packer
5 1 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 185 (50.82%) Oracle
2 58 (15.93%) Sybase
3 48 (13.19%) OpenLink
3 48 (13.19%) TIBCO
4 46 (12.64%) Sparx
5 35 (9.62%) Microsoft
6 19 (5.22%) VMware
7 14 (3.85%) Dynatrace
8 13 (3.57%) IBM
9 10 (2.75%) Commvault
9 10 (2.75%) Google
9 10 (2.75%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.10%) Splunk
11 2 (0.55%) Apple
11 2 (0.55%) Cisco
11 2 (0.55%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.27%) F5
12 1 (0.27%) IBM Sterling
12 1 (0.27%) Informatica
12 1 (0.27%) Juniper