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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 548 407
Rank change year-on-year -12 -141 +80
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 361 494 1,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.49% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.99% 2.29% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 173 306 626
10th Percentile £44,851 £42,750 £42,750
25th Percentile £52,101 £49,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,688 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £103,750 £100,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 18,170 21,615 43,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 21.33% 27.94%
Number of salaries quoted 12,550 13,499 21,044
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 £79,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -4 265 £65,000 -9.72% 48
UK excluding London -26 221 £60,000 +9.09% 31
Work from Home +30 213 £60,000 -4.00% 33
London +1 113 £77,500 +6.90% 24
North of England +88 76 £61,206 +11.28% 8
North West +41 49 £61,206 +6.45% 6
Scotland -54 43 £65,000 +8.33% 5
Wales +23 26 £46,604 -41.75% 2
Yorkshire +102 25 £72,500 +31.82% 2
Midlands -39 22 £80,000 +9.59% 7
South East -9 20 £65,000 +39.54% 6
South West -34 20 £62,229 +8.22%
East Midlands -16 12 £82,500 +58.65% 2
Northern Ireland 0 11 £34,628 -23.05%
West Midlands -17 10 £61,206 -16.16% 5
East of England +8 3 £110,000 +52.78% 3
North East -9 2 £49,603 +4.05%

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 47 (13.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (12.74%) WebLogic
3 11 (3.05%) Apache
4 7 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.55%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) IIS
7 1 (0.28%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (12.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 40 (11.08%) Endur
3 7 (1.94%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 1 (0.28%) Data Workbench
4 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 138 (38.23%) AWS
2 81 (22.44%) Azure
3 63 (17.45%) Amazon EKS
4 47 (13.02%) Amazon SQS
5 46 (12.74%) Serverless
6 41 (11.36%) Amazon S3
7 33 (9.14%) Amazon EC2
8 27 (7.48%) Amazon Kinesis
9 16 (4.43%) SaaS
10 15 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.60%) OCI
12 12 (3.32%) Amazon ECR
12 12 (3.32%) IBM Cloud
12 12 (3.32%) OpenShift
12 12 (3.32%) PaaS
12 12 (3.32%) Route 53
13 11 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (2.22%) Amazon EMR
15 7 (1.94%) Amazon EventBridge
15 7 (1.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 51 (14.13%) DNS
2 48 (13.30%) TCP/IP
3 47 (13.02%) SSL
4 46 (12.74%) BGP
5 3 (0.83%) Firewall
5 3 (0.83%) LAN
5 3 (0.83%) SMTP
6 2 (0.55%) DKIM
6 2 (0.55%) DMARC
6 2 (0.55%) Network Security
7 1 (0.28%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.28%) IMAP
7 1 (0.28%) SSH
7 1 (0.28%) VoIP
7 1 (0.28%) WAN
7 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 361 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 111 (30.75%) SQL Server
3 88 (24.38%) Amazon RDS
4 87 (24.10%) Oracle Database
5 75 (20.78%) MySQL
6 38 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
7 32 (8.86%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (7.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 25 (6.93%) NoSQL
10 17 (4.71%) MongoDB
11 13 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (3.32%) DB2
13 10 (2.77%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (2.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (2.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (2.22%) Metadata
15 7 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (1.94%) Data Hub
15 7 (1.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 76 (21.05%) Git
2 36 (9.97%) JDeveloper
3 29 (8.03%) Jenkins
4 25 (6.93%) Postman
5 8 (2.22%) JUnit
6 5 (1.39%) GDB
6 5 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (1.11%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.11%) JMeter
7 4 (1.11%) Maven
7 4 (1.11%) Mockito
8 2 (0.55%) git-flow
8 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.28%) Gradle
9 1 (0.28%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.28%) JIRA
9 1 (0.28%) Moq
9 1 (0.28%) PHPUnit
General
1 100 (27.70%) Social Skills
2 61 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (14.13%) Finance
3 51 (14.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 46 (12.74%) Games
5 45 (12.47%) Marketing
6 22 (6.09%) Law
7 19 (5.26%) Public Sector
8 11 (3.05%) Police
9 10 (2.77%) Local Government
10 9 (2.49%) Legal
10 9 (2.49%) Retail
11 6 (1.66%) Fire and Rescue
12 5 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.11%) Back Office
13 4 (1.11%) Banking
13 4 (1.11%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.11%) Welsh Language
14 3 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 86 (23.82%) Lead
2 78 (21.61%) Architect
3 72 (19.94%) Senior
4 60 (16.62%) Developer
5 59 (16.34%) Software Engineer
6 48 (13.30%) Solutions Architect
7 46 (12.74%) Lead Architect
7 46 (12.74%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 36 (9.97%) Ruby Engineer
9 35 (9.70%) DBA
10 25 (6.93%) Technical Leader
11 22 (6.09%) Endur Manager
11 22 (6.09%) OpenLink Manager
11 22 (6.09%) Senior Manager
12 21 (5.82%) Java Engineer
13 19 (5.26%) Development Manager
13 19 (5.26%) Software Development Manager
13 19 (5.26%) Software Manager
14 18 (4.99%) Scala Developer
14 18 (4.99%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (26.04%) Spring Boot
2 62 (17.17%) Spring
3 58 (16.07%) React
4 53 (14.68%) JSON
4 53 (14.68%) RabbitMQ
5 44 (12.19%) Node.js
6 25 (6.93%) Kafka
7 23 (6.37%) Web Services
8 22 (6.09%) .NET
9 21 (5.82%) Hibernate
9 21 (5.82%) RESTful
10 18 (4.99%) Akka
10 18 (4.99%) AngularJS
11 16 (4.43%) Vue
12 14 (3.88%) SOAP
13 13 (3.60%) REST
14 12 (3.32%) Spring XD
15 7 (1.94%) .NET Core
16 6 (1.66%) Lambda Expressions
17 5 (1.39%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 61 (16.90%) Enterprise Software
2 53 (14.68%) Cloud Native
3 52 (14.40%) Public Cloud
4 40 (11.08%) Management Information System
4 40 (11.08%) Swaptions
5 23 (6.37%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (5.82%) Algorithms
7 16 (4.43%) Data Structures
8 14 (3.88%) Reference Data
8 14 (3.88%) Virtual Team
9 12 (3.32%) Blockchain
9 12 (3.32%) e-Learning
9 12 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.39%) CMDB
11 5 (1.39%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.11%) Housing Association
12 4 (1.11%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.11%) Replication
13 3 (0.83%) Biopharmaceutical
Operating Systems
1 74 (20.50%) Linux
2 46 (12.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 39 (10.80%) Windows
4 20 (5.54%) Unix
5 9 (2.49%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.55%) CentOS
7 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (39.06%) Agile
2 140 (38.78%) SDLC
3 116 (32.13%) Problem-Solving
4 101 (27.98%) Actionable Insight
5 96 (26.59%) Software Engineering
6 95 (26.32%) DevOps
7 90 (24.93%) Open Source
8 84 (23.27%) Data Modelling
9 79 (21.88%) Project Management
10 77 (21.33%) Design Patterns
11 76 (21.05%) CI/CD
12 73 (20.22%) Roadmaps
13 67 (18.56%) Microservices
14 66 (18.28%) Migration
15 65 (18.01%) Containerisation
16 54 (14.96%) Scrum
17 53 (14.68%) Collaborative Working
17 53 (14.68%) Load Balancing
18 50 (13.85%) Kanban
18 50 (13.85%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 176 (48.75%) Java
2 117 (32.41%) SQL
3 72 (19.94%) Python
4 51 (14.13%) JavaScript
5 41 (11.36%) Go
6 40 (11.08%) Bash
6 40 (11.08%) VB
7 37 (10.25%) Perl
8 36 (9.97%) Ruby
9 28 (7.76%) PHP
10 20 (5.54%) Scala
11 18 (4.99%) C#
12 13 (3.60%) T-SQL
13 12 (3.32%) PowerShell
14 10 (2.77%) C
15 8 (2.22%) PL/SQL
16 7 (1.94%) C++
17 5 (1.39%) Shell Script
18 4 (1.11%) TypeScript
19 2 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 77 (21.33%) Degree
2 63 (17.45%) SC Cleared
2 63 (17.45%) Security Cleared
3 47 (13.02%) AWS Certification
3 47 (13.02%) Azure Certification
4 46 (12.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 33 (9.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.11%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.55%) HNC
7 2 (0.55%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.25%) QA
2 8 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.66%) SLA
4 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.83%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.28%) COREP
6 1 (0.28%) GDPR
6 1 (0.28%) IFRS
6 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 42 (11.63%) Docker
2 15 (4.16%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.55%) vSphere
4 1 (0.28%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.28%) Postfix
4 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 40 (11.08%) Terraform
3 12 (3.32%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.94%) Ansible
5 4 (1.11%) Data Guard
5 4 (1.11%) Kibana
6 1 (0.28%) Packer
6 1 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 183 (50.69%) Oracle
2 52 (14.40%) Sybase
3 46 (12.74%) Sparx
4 40 (11.08%) OpenLink
4 40 (11.08%) TIBCO
5 38 (10.53%) Microsoft
6 19 (5.26%) VMware
7 16 (4.43%) Dynatrace
8 15 (4.16%) IBM
9 12 (3.32%) Red Hat
10 10 (2.77%) Commvault
10 10 (2.77%) Google
11 4 (1.11%) Splunk
12 2 (0.55%) Apple
12 2 (0.55%) Cisco
12 2 (0.55%) Fortinet
13 1 (0.28%) F5
13 1 (0.28%) IBM Sterling
13 1 (0.28%) Informatica
13 1 (0.28%) Juniper