RDBMS Job Trends in Wales

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring RDBMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 43 95
Rank change year-on-year -47 +52 +19
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 1 20 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.061% 3.75% 0.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.80% 26.67% 7.73%
Number of salaries quoted 0 20 14
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £46,250 £35,195
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £65,000 £46,604
Median % change year-on-year - +39.47% -41.75%
75th Percentile - £78,750 £51,165
90th Percentile - - £52,101
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year -7.14% +9.80% -5.56%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 125 75 233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.59% 14.04% 12.76%
Number of salaries quoted 45 70 169
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £43,524 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +8.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £61,496 £72,604 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,250 £78,875 £71,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing RDBMS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

RDBMS job vacancy trend in Wales

RDBMS
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing RDBMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the Wales region over the 6 months to 11 May 2026. 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
South Wales -36 1 - -
RDBMS
UK

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle