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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 608 556 416
Rank change year-on-year -52 -140 +58
Permanent jobs citing RDBMS 319 435 1,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.46% 0.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.73% 2.15% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 163 277 602
10th Percentile £44,851 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,101 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £67,500 £69,078
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% -2.28% +6.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £84,750 £105,000 £108,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,186
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.48% +10.83%

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 18,414 20,218 47,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.54% 21.36% 28.29%
Number of salaries quoted 12,548 12,894 20,996
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 £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,675 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -48 243 £70,000 -3.45% 40
UK excluding London -47 186 £60,000 +9.09% 24
Work from Home -19 178 £60,000 -7.69% 26
London +34 117 £80,000 +10.34% 20
North of England +57 64 £61,206 +11.28% 6
North West +15 40 £59,353 +7.91% 4
Scotland -62 34 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Wales +25 23 £46,604 -41.75% 1
Yorkshire +72 22 £72,500 +43.56% 2
Midlands -38 19 £80,000 +9.59% 3
South East -4 18 £65,000 +8.33% 5
South West -35 17 £62,229 +13.14% 4
West Midlands -37 10 £61,206 -16.16% 3
East Midlands -20 9 £82,500 +73.68%
Northern Ireland +1 8 £34,628 -23.05%
East of England -10 3 £110,000 +137.82% 3
North East -14 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 49 (15.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (14.42%) WebLogic
3 11 (3.45%) Apache
4 7 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.94%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.63%) nginx
7 1 (0.31%) IIS
7 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (14.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 42 (13.17%) Endur
3 5 (1.57%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 1 (0.31%) Data Workbench
4 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 137 (42.95%) AWS
2 84 (26.33%) Azure
3 64 (20.06%) Amazon EKS
4 47 (14.73%) Amazon SQS
5 41 (12.85%) Amazon S3
6 34 (10.66%) Amazon EC2
7 27 (8.46%) Amazon Kinesis
8 15 (4.70%) SaaS
9 13 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (3.76%) Amazon ECR
10 12 (3.76%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (3.76%) IBM Cloud
10 12 (3.76%) OCI
10 12 (3.76%) OpenShift
10 12 (3.76%) Route 53
10 12 (3.76%) Serverless
11 10 (3.13%) PaaS
12 8 (2.51%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (2.19%) Dagster
13 7 (2.19%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 51 (15.99%) DNS
2 48 (15.05%) TCP/IP
3 47 (14.73%) SSL
4 46 (14.42%) BGP
5 3 (0.94%) Firewall
5 3 (0.94%) LAN
5 3 (0.94%) SMTP
6 2 (0.63%) DKIM
6 2 (0.63%) DMARC
6 2 (0.63%) Network Security
7 1 (0.31%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.31%) IMAP
7 1 (0.31%) SSH
7 1 (0.31%) VoIP
7 1 (0.31%) WAN
7 1 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 110 (34.48%) SQL Server
3 88 (27.59%) Amazon RDS
4 74 (23.20%) MySQL
5 54 (16.93%) Oracle Database
6 41 (12.85%) PostgreSQL
7 32 (10.03%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (8.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 26 (8.15%) NoSQL
10 16 (5.02%) MongoDB
11 12 (3.76%) DB2
12 11 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 10 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (2.51%) Metadata
15 7 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (2.19%) Data Hub
15 7 (2.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 41 (12.85%) Git
2 29 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 25 (7.84%) Postman
4 9 (2.82%) JUnit
5 5 (1.57%) GDB
5 5 (1.57%) JMeter
5 5 (1.57%) Mockito
5 5 (1.57%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (1.25%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.25%) Maven
7 2 (0.63%) git-flow
8 1 (0.31%) Ant
8 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.31%) ERwin
8 1 (0.31%) GitLab
8 1 (0.31%) Gradle
8 1 (0.31%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.31%) JIRA
8 1 (0.31%) PHPUnit
General
1 95 (29.78%) Social Skills
2 59 (18.50%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (15.36%) Marketing
4 48 (15.05%) Finance
4 48 (15.05%) Games
5 47 (14.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (6.27%) Law
7 19 (5.96%) Public Sector
8 11 (3.45%) Police
9 10 (3.13%) Local Government
10 9 (2.82%) Retail
11 7 (2.19%) Legal
12 6 (1.88%) Fire and Rescue
13 5 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.25%) Banking
14 4 (1.25%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.25%) Welsh Language
15 3 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (26.96%) Lead
2 85 (26.65%) Architect
3 76 (23.82%) Senior
4 53 (16.61%) Developer
5 48 (15.05%) Solutions Architect
6 46 (14.42%) Lead Architect
6 46 (14.42%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 32 (10.03%) DBA
8 25 (7.84%) Senior Manager
8 25 (7.84%) Technical Leader
9 23 (7.21%) Endur Manager
9 23 (7.21%) OpenLink Manager
10 21 (6.58%) Development Manager
10 21 (6.58%) Software Development Manager
10 21 (6.58%) Software Engineer
10 21 (6.58%) Software Manager
11 19 (5.96%) Java Engineer
11 19 (5.96%) Senior Development Manager
12 16 (5.02%) Endur Architect
12 16 (5.02%) OpenLink Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (29.15%) Spring Boot
2 61 (19.12%) Spring
3 53 (16.61%) RabbitMQ
4 50 (15.67%) JSON
5 22 (6.90%) Kafka
5 22 (6.90%) Web Services
6 21 (6.58%) .NET
7 20 (6.27%) Hibernate
7 20 (6.27%) React
7 20 (6.27%) RESTful
8 16 (5.02%) AngularJS
9 15 (4.70%) Akka
9 15 (4.70%) Vue
10 14 (4.39%) REST
11 12 (3.76%) SOAP
11 12 (3.76%) Spring XD
12 9 (2.82%) Node.js
13 6 (1.88%) FastAPI
13 6 (1.88%) HTML
13 6 (1.88%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 61 (19.12%) Enterprise Software
2 52 (16.30%) Public Cloud
3 51 (15.99%) Cloud Native
4 42 (13.17%) Swaptions
5 40 (12.54%) Management Information System
6 20 (6.27%) Algorithms
6 20 (6.27%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (5.02%) Data Structures
8 12 (3.76%) Blockchain
8 12 (3.76%) e-Learning
8 12 (3.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (3.76%) Reference Data
9 10 (3.13%) Virtual Team
10 9 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.57%) CMDB
11 5 (1.57%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.25%) Housing Association
12 4 (1.25%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.94%) Biopharmaceutical
13 3 (0.94%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 71 (22.26%) Linux
2 46 (14.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 37 (11.60%) Windows
4 20 (6.27%) Unix
5 7 (2.19%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.63%) CentOS
7 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (44.20%) SDLC
2 136 (42.63%) Agile
3 86 (26.96%) Data Modelling
4 78 (24.45%) Roadmaps
5 77 (24.14%) Project Management
6 76 (23.82%) Problem-Solving
7 73 (22.88%) CI/CD
8 67 (21.00%) Migration
9 63 (19.75%) Actionable Insight
10 56 (17.55%) DevOps
10 56 (17.55%) Software Engineering
11 55 (17.24%) Scrum
12 54 (16.93%) Collaborative Working
12 54 (16.93%) Open Source
13 53 (16.61%) Load Balancing
14 51 (15.99%) Kanban
15 50 (15.67%) Data Migration
15 50 (15.67%) Re-Platforming
16 49 (15.36%) Systems Engineering
17 46 (14.42%) Cloud Operations
Programming Languages
1 137 (42.95%) Java
2 114 (35.74%) SQL
3 42 (13.17%) VB
4 40 (12.54%) Python
5 28 (8.78%) PHP
6 17 (5.33%) Scala
7 16 (5.02%) JavaScript
8 15 (4.70%) C#
9 13 (4.08%) T-SQL
10 12 (3.76%) PowerShell
11 8 (2.51%) C
12 7 (2.19%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.88%) Go
13 6 (1.88%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.57%) C++
15 4 (1.25%) Bash
15 4 (1.25%) TypeScript
16 2 (0.63%) R
17 1 (0.31%) ActionScript 2.0
17 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 77 (24.14%) Degree
2 63 (19.75%) SC Cleared
2 63 (19.75%) Security Cleared
3 47 (14.73%) AWS Certification
3 47 (14.73%) Azure Certification
4 46 (14.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 33 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.63%) HNC
7 2 (0.63%) HND
8 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.51%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.88%) SLA
3 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.94%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.31%) GDPR
5 1 (0.31%) NIST
5 1 (0.31%) QA
System Software
1 43 (13.48%) Docker
2 13 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.63%) vSphere
4 1 (0.31%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.31%) Postfix
4 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (12.54%) Terraform
2 39 (12.23%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.76%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.88%) Ansible
5 5 (1.57%) Kibana
6 4 (1.25%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.31%) Packer
7 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 150 (47.02%) Oracle
2 54 (16.93%) Sybase
3 46 (14.42%) Sparx
4 42 (13.17%) OpenLink
4 42 (13.17%) TIBCO
5 38 (11.91%) Microsoft
6 19 (5.96%) VMware
7 17 (5.33%) Dynatrace
8 14 (4.39%) IBM
9 12 (3.76%) Red Hat
10 10 (3.13%) Commvault
10 10 (3.13%) Google
11 5 (1.57%) Splunk
12 2 (0.63%) Apple
12 2 (0.63%) Cisco
12 2 (0.63%) Fortinet
13 1 (0.31%) F5
13 1 (0.31%) IBM Sterling
13 1 (0.31%) Informatica
13 1 (0.31%) Juniper