RDBMS Jobs in the West Midlands

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 250 220
Rank change year-on-year +70 -30 +54
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 9 11 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.13% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.88% 0.90% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 24
10th Percentile £78,000 - £43,200
25th Percentile £93,750 £56,750 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £61,206 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year +71.55% -16.16% +12.71%
75th Percentile £107,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% -6.90% +7.41%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 479 1,222 1,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.69% 14.39% 21.31%
Number of salaries quoted 329 986 796
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £33,868
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £79,000 £73,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing RDBMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in the West Midlands

RDBMS
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for RDBMS in the West Midlands

RDBMS
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 June 2025.

Salary histogram for RDBMS in the West Midlands

RDBMS
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
Walsall - 3 £105,000 -
Shropshire - 2 - - 1
Solihull - 2 - -
Birmingham +37 1 £70,000 -12.50% 3
Coventry 0 1 - -
RDBMS
England

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (22.22%) Pulumi
3 2 (22.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (66.67%) NoSQL
3 4 (44.44%) MongoDB
4 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) Jaeger
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) JMeter
2 2 (22.22%) JUnit
2 2 (22.22%) Mockito
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Development Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Java Development Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Database Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Database Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Spring
2 5 (55.56%) Hibernate
3 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 2 (22.22%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (22.22%) Apache Camel
4 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (22.22%) HTML
4 2 (22.22%) jQuery
4 2 (22.22%) JSON
4 2 (22.22%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (22.22%) REST
4 2 (22.22%) Web Services
4 2 (22.22%) WireMock
4 2 (22.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Unix
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Microservices
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Fintech
3 3 (33.33%) High Availability
3 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 3 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (22.22%) Budget Control
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (22.22%) GitOps
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (22.22%) Product Management
4 2 (22.22%) Resource Management
4 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) Go
3 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) Argo
2 2 (22.22%) Kibana
2 2 (22.22%) Kustomize
2 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Splunk
2 2 (22.22%) Dynatrace
2 2 (22.22%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle