RDBMS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 415 588 538
Rank change year-on-year +173 -50 -56
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 169 176 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.22% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.72% 1.43% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 60 92 105
10th Percentile £41,875 £38,450 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,188 £48,438 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.66% +11.43% -8.70%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £74,500
90th Percentile £79,000 - £82,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +16.00% -7.41% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,546 12,340 10,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.30% 15.32% 19.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,816 8,089 6,462
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £64,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -10.16% +6.67%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing RDBMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in the UK excluding London

RDBMS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for RDBMS in the UK excluding London

RDBMS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Salary histogram for RDBMS in the UK excluding London

RDBMS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 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
South East +117 48 £62,783 +0.45% 37
East of England +78 36 £76,000 -30.91% 25
North of England +20 27 £70,000 -3.45% 30
Midlands +80 19 £47,500 -40.63% 19
Wales +40 17 £77,500 +66.30% 2
Scotland +87 12 £68,750 +14.58% 21
North West -16 12 £47,500 -20.83% 18
South West +108 11 - - 10
Yorkshire +44 11 £70,000 -3.45% 10
West Midlands +74 10 £105,000 +51.62% 16
East Midlands +52 9 £37,500 -54.55% 3
North East +54 4 £52,500 +38.16% 2
Northern Ireland +32 1 £28,000 -19.14% 10
RDBMS
UK

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.96%) Apache
3 4 (2.37%) GemFire
4 3 (1.78%) Confluence
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.59%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 109 (64.50%) AWS
2 65 (38.46%) Pulumi
3 37 (21.89%) Azure
4 27 (15.98%) Serverless
5 24 (14.20%) Amazon ECS
6 18 (10.65%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (10.06%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (6.51%) SaaS
9 10 (5.92%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (4.73%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (4.14%) Power Platform
12 6 (3.55%) Boomi
13 5 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (2.96%) Snowflake
14 4 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (2.37%) dbt
14 4 (2.37%) GCP
15 3 (1.78%) Azure Data Factory
15 3 (1.78%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 65 (38.46%) Broadband
2 13 (7.69%) Network Security
3 4 (2.37%) Firewall
3 4 (2.37%) Modbus
3 4 (2.37%) MQTT
3 4 (2.37%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.59%) HTTP
4 1 (0.59%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 81 (47.93%) NoSQL
3 37 (21.89%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (14.20%) SQL Server
5 18 (10.65%) MongoDB
6 16 (9.47%) MySQL
7 11 (6.51%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (6.51%) Oracle Database
8 10 (5.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (4.14%) Power BI
10 6 (3.55%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (3.55%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (3.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (2.96%) Data Lake
12 4 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (2.37%) Apache Ignite
12 4 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (2.37%) InterSystems Cache
12 4 (2.37%) MariaDB
12 4 (2.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 65 (38.46%) Jaeger
2 19 (11.24%) JUnit
3 18 (10.65%) Jenkins
4 17 (10.06%) JMeter
4 17 (10.06%) Mockito
5 15 (8.88%) Git
6 4 (2.37%) JIRA
7 3 (1.78%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.59%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.59%) Maven
8 1 (0.59%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 73 (43.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 35 (20.71%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.02%) Finance
4 20 (11.83%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.69%) Law
6 6 (3.55%) Banking
7 5 (2.96%) Digital Healthcare
7 5 (2.96%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.96%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.37%) Front Office
8 4 (2.37%) Marketing
9 3 (1.78%) Advertising
9 3 (1.78%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 79 (46.75%) Lead
2 73 (43.20%) Team Leader
3 37 (21.89%) Developer
4 21 (12.43%) Software Engineer
5 19 (11.24%) Java Developer
6 13 (7.69%) Senior
7 12 (7.10%) Analyst
7 12 (7.10%) Java Engineer
7 12 (7.10%) Lead Software Engineer
8 8 (4.73%) Java Software Engineer
8 8 (4.73%) Software Team Leader
9 7 (4.14%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (4.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 7 (4.14%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.55%) Architect
10 6 (3.55%) Consultant
10 6 (3.55%) IFS Consultant
11 5 (2.96%) Administrator
11 5 (2.96%) Digital Analyst
11 5 (2.96%) Integration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (38.46%) Elastic Stack
1 65 (38.46%) OpenTelemetry
2 35 (20.71%) Spring
3 30 (17.75%) .NET
4 28 (16.57%) REST
4 28 (16.57%) Spring Boot
5 24 (14.20%) Hibernate
6 21 (12.43%) Web Services
7 19 (11.24%) HTML
8 17 (10.06%) ActiveMQ
8 17 (10.06%) Apache Camel
8 17 (10.06%) jQuery
8 17 (10.06%) WireMock
9 16 (9.47%) JSON
9 16 (9.47%) Kafka
10 14 (8.28%) RESTful
11 10 (5.92%) XML
12 7 (4.14%) ASP.NET
12 7 (4.14%) ASP.NET Core
12 7 (4.14%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.06%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (7.10%) Algorithms
2 12 (7.10%) IoT
3 9 (5.33%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.73%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.96%) LIMS
6 5 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.37%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.37%) Derivative
7 4 (2.37%) Device Driver
7 4 (2.37%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.37%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.78%) Credit Derivative
8 3 (1.78%) Equities
8 3 (1.78%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.18%) Clustering
9 2 (1.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 91 (53.85%) Linux
2 87 (51.48%) Unix
3 23 (13.61%) Windows
4 4 (2.37%) CentOS
4 4 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.37%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.18%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.59%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (72.19%) Agile
2 84 (49.70%) Mentoring
3 79 (46.75%) DevOps
4 73 (43.20%) High Availability
5 69 (40.83%) Containerisation
6 68 (40.24%) Continuous Integration
7 67 (39.64%) Roadmaps
8 66 (39.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 66 (39.05%) Performance Optimisation
9 65 (38.46%) Budget Control
9 65 (38.46%) Cost Optimisation
9 65 (38.46%) GitOps
9 65 (38.46%) Product Management
9 65 (38.46%) Resource Management
9 65 (38.46%) Task Automation
10 44 (26.04%) CI/CD
11 41 (24.26%) Microservices
12 34 (20.12%) TDD
13 27 (15.98%) Full-Stack Development
14 24 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 100 (59.17%) Java
2 92 (54.44%) JavaScript
3 90 (53.25%) Python
4 68 (40.24%) Bash
5 65 (38.46%) Go
6 63 (37.28%) SQL
7 22 (13.02%) C#
8 18 (10.65%) Shell Script
9 9 (5.33%) T-SQL
10 8 (4.73%) PowerShell
11 6 (3.55%) C
11 6 (3.55%) C++
11 6 (3.55%) PL/SQL
12 4 (2.37%) PHP
13 2 (1.18%) Fortran
14 1 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.59%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.59%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.59%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 66 (39.05%) AWS Certification
2 15 (8.88%) Degree
3 10 (5.92%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.33%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.78%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.18%) PhD
7 2 (1.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.96%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.96%) HL7
2 3 (1.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 89 (52.66%) Docker
2 4 (2.37%) Firmware
2 4 (2.37%) Virtual Servers
2 4 (2.37%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (53.85%) Kubernetes
2 68 (40.24%) Ansible
3 67 (39.64%) Terraform
4 66 (39.05%) Prometheus
5 65 (38.46%) Argo
5 65 (38.46%) Kustomize
6 17 (10.06%) Kibana
7 1 (0.59%) Grafana
7 1 (0.59%) Nagios
7 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 66 (39.05%) Google
2 24 (14.20%) Oracle
3 18 (10.65%) Splunk
4 17 (10.06%) Dynatrace
5 9 (5.33%) Microsoft
6 6 (3.55%) Dell
6 6 (3.55%) IFS
7 4 (2.37%) Solace
7 4 (2.37%) TIBCO
7 4 (2.37%) VMware
8 3 (1.78%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (1.78%) Informatica
8 3 (1.78%) RedGate
8 3 (1.78%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.78%) StreamSets
8 3 (1.78%) Talend
9 2 (1.18%) Databricks
9 2 (1.18%) IBM
10 1 (0.59%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.59%) Sybase
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