Relational Database
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Relational Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Relational Database over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 181 94
Rank change year-on-year -16 -87 +44
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 1,483 1,982 6,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.47% 2.01% 3.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.11% 9.38% 13.26%
Number of salaries quoted 898 1,299 2,248
10th Percentile £36,120 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £84,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Relational Database 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 18,281 21,129 46,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.11% 21.45% 28.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,536 13,165 21,039
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 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Relational Database.

Salary trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Relational Database within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 -24 1,198 £60,000 -11.11% 316
UK excluding London +23 1,027 £52,500 -2.33% 185
Work from Home -12 663 £57,500 -8.00% 180
London -60 410 £70,000 -9.68% 144
South East +76 286 £55,000 -4.35% 27
North of England +41 245 £55,000 - 58
Scotland +18 172 £50,000 -0.47% 15
North West +42 164 £55,000 +4.76% 37
Midlands -36 112 £52,500 - 39
South West -37 110 £50,000 -9.09% 27
West Midlands -13 78 £55,000 +4.76% 27
Yorkshire +32 73 £52,500 -16.00% 18
East of England 0 56 £48,500 -11.82% 17
East Midlands -11 34 £50,000 -13.04% 12
Wales +9 30 £36,476 -23.21% 3
Northern Ireland -19 16 £34,628 -30.75% 4
North East -17 8 £74,813 +53.89% 4

Relational Database
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 56 (3.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (3.24%) WebLogic
3 35 (2.36%) SharePoint
4 30 (2.02%) IIS
5 29 (1.96%) Confluence
6 28 (1.89%) OpenStack
7 27 (1.82%) Apache Spark
8 25 (1.69%) Apache
9 18 (1.21%) SAS
10 14 (0.94%) ArcGIS
11 12 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
12 10 (0.67%) nginx
13 9 (0.61%) JBoss
13 9 (0.61%) Red Hat Fuse
14 8 (0.54%) Umbraco
15 6 (0.40%) CMS
15 6 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
15 6 (0.40%) WordPress
16 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
16 3 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 45 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.40%) Trello
4 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.27%) SPSS
6 3 (0.20%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.13%) InDesign
7 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 46 (3.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 42 (2.83%) Endur
3 8 (0.54%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.40%) Aladdin
4 6 (0.40%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
4 6 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.40%) thinkFolio
5 5 (0.34%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.20%) Raiser’s Edge
8 2 (0.13%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.13%) MIS ActiveH
8 2 (0.13%) Relativity
8 2 (0.13%) Veritas eDiscovery
9 1 (0.067%) Data Workbench
9 1 (0.067%) Oracle FAH
9 1 (0.067%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.067%) Ringtail
Cloud Services
1 524 (35.33%) Azure
2 473 (31.89%) AWS
3 238 (16.05%) Serverless
4 184 (12.41%) Azure DevOps
5 137 (9.24%) IBM Cloud
6 135 (9.10%) Power Platform
7 134 (9.04%) Azure Functions
7 134 (9.04%) Azure Service Bus
8 128 (8.63%) Azure Logic Apps
9 125 (8.43%) Azure API Management
10 104 (7.01%) GCP
11 99 (6.68%) Amazon EKS
12 62 (4.18%) Amazon ECS
12 62 (4.18%) Amazon S3
12 62 (4.18%) SaaS
13 53 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
14 40 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
15 34 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
16 33 (2.23%) Power Automate
17 31 (2.09%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.52%) TCP/IP
2 56 (3.78%) DNS
3 51 (3.44%) SSL
4 46 (3.10%) BGP
5 19 (1.28%) SSH
6 18 (1.21%) Internet
7 13 (0.88%) SNMP
8 12 (0.81%) AMQP
9 11 (0.74%) Network Security
10 10 (0.67%) HTTP
11 8 (0.54%) Firewall
12 6 (0.40%) Wireshark
13 4 (0.27%) Ethernet
13 4 (0.27%) SMTP
13 4 (0.27%) VPN
13 4 (0.27%) Wireless
14 3 (0.20%) Broadband
14 3 (0.20%) FTP
14 3 (0.20%) LAN
14 3 (0.20%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 427 (28.79%) SQL Server
2 344 (23.20%) RDBMS
3 298 (20.09%) NoSQL
4 287 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
5 258 (17.40%) MySQL
6 216 (14.57%) MongoDB
7 157 (10.59%) DB2
8 132 (8.90%) Power BI
9 129 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
10 103 (6.95%) Amazon RDS
11 91 (6.14%) Oracle Database
12 62 (4.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 49 (3.30%) Big Data
14 44 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
15 42 (2.83%) Data Lake
15 42 (2.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 37 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
17 29 (1.96%) Hadoop
18 27 (1.82%) Tableau
19 26 (1.75%) Looker
Development Applications
1 238 (16.05%) Git
2 100 (6.74%) Jenkins
3 63 (4.25%) JIRA
4 46 (3.10%) JUnit
5 36 (2.43%) Visual Studio
6 34 (2.29%) Postman
7 30 (2.02%) Selenium
8 26 (1.75%) Maven
9 24 (1.62%) JDeveloper
10 23 (1.55%) GitLab
11 19 (1.28%) Eclipse
12 17 (1.15%) Oracle Forms
13 15 (1.01%) WebDriver
14 12 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 11 (0.74%) NUnit
16 10 (0.67%) Cypress.io
16 10 (0.67%) MSTest
17 9 (0.61%) Bitbucket
17 9 (0.61%) Mockito
18 8 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 380 (25.62%) Social Skills
2 276 (18.61%) Finance
3 225 (15.17%) Public Sector
4 218 (14.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 179 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
6 170 (11.46%) Law
7 161 (10.86%) Marketing
8 75 (5.06%) Legal
9 59 (3.98%) Retail
10 54 (3.64%) Games
11 50 (3.37%) Banking
12 24 (1.62%) Local Government
12 24 (1.62%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.15%) Investment Banking
13 17 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
14 15 (1.01%) Publishing
15 14 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.88%) Automotive
17 12 (0.81%) French Language
Job Titles
1 573 (38.64%) Developer
2 251 (16.93%) Senior
3 213 (14.36%) Software Engineer
4 206 (13.89%) Full Stack Developer
4 206 (13.89%) Lead
5 153 (10.32%) Architect
6 133 (8.97%) Azure Developer
7 104 (7.01%) Senior Developer
8 87 (5.87%) Analyst
9 84 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
10 80 (5.39%) Data Engineer
11 79 (5.33%) Java Developer
12 70 (4.72%) Lead Architect
13 67 (4.52%) Software Developer
14 65 (4.38%) Lead Solutions Architect
15 59 (3.98%) Java Engineer
16 58 (3.91%) DBA
17 53 (3.57%) Java Software Engineer
18 46 (3.10%) Full Stack Engineer
19 45 (3.03%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 364 (24.54%) .NET
2 351 (23.67%) HTML
3 338 (22.79%) React
4 336 (22.66%) CSS
5 324 (21.85%) AngularJS
6 292 (19.69%) Node.js
7 279 (18.81%) REST
8 268 (18.07%) Web Services
9 227 (15.31%) Spring
10 201 (13.55%) Spring Boot
11 198 (13.35%) ASP.NET
12 189 (12.74%) jQuery
13 181 (12.20%) Vue
14 159 (10.72%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 141 (9.51%) ASP.NET Core
16 136 (9.17%) JSON
17 125 (8.43%) Backbone.js
17 125 (8.43%) Ember.js
18 123 (8.29%) RESTful
19 98 (6.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 230 (15.51%) Algorithms
2 209 (14.09%) Data Structures
3 139 (9.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 137 (9.24%) Blockchain
5 122 (8.23%) Management Information System
6 114 (7.69%) Public Cloud
7 107 (7.22%) Cloud Native
8 76 (5.12%) Enterprise Software
9 56 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
10 49 (3.30%) Product Ownership
11 42 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
11 42 (2.83%) Swaptions
12 40 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
13 37 (2.49%) Onboarding
14 22 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
15 21 (1.42%) CMDB
15 21 (1.42%) Hedge funds
16 17 (1.15%) Mainframe
16 17 (1.15%) NHS
17 16 (1.08%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 286 (19.29%) Linux
2 243 (16.39%) Windows
3 129 (8.70%) Android
3 129 (8.70%) Apple iOS
4 50 (3.37%) Unix
5 46 (3.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (1.01%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.20%) Debian
9 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.20%) Solaris
10 2 (0.13%) CentOS
11 1 (0.067%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.067%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (34.39%) Agile
2 426 (28.73%) DevOps
3 358 (24.14%) Software Engineering
4 350 (23.60%) Full Stack Development
5 341 (22.99%) Problem-Solving
6 304 (20.50%) SDLC
7 286 (19.29%) Design Patterns
8 264 (17.80%) CI/CD
9 260 (17.53%) Artificial Intelligence
10 249 (16.79%) OO
11 224 (15.10%) Microservices
12 218 (14.70%) Data Modelling
13 206 (13.89%) OOP
14 193 (13.01%) MVC
15 192 (12.95%) Computer Science
16 191 (12.88%) Web Development
17 183 (12.34%) Business Intelligence
18 161 (10.86%) User Experience
19 150 (10.11%) Mentoring
19 150 (10.11%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 813 (54.82%) SQL
2 617 (41.60%) Java
3 485 (32.70%) JavaScript
4 444 (29.94%) Python
5 388 (26.16%) C#
6 130 (8.77%) T-SQL
7 93 (6.27%) PHP
8 86 (5.80%) Go
9 78 (5.26%) TypeScript
10 54 (3.64%) Perl
11 49 (3.30%) VB
12 48 (3.24%) Bash
13 44 (2.97%) PowerShell
14 36 (2.43%) Ruby
15 35 (2.36%) Scala
16 27 (1.82%) Shell Script
17 26 (1.75%) C
18 17 (1.15%) COBOL
19 16 (1.08%) C++
19 16 (1.08%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 287 (19.35%) Degree
2 192 (12.95%) Security Cleared
3 157 (10.59%) SC Cleared
4 117 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (4.59%) Azure Certification
6 63 (4.25%) AWS Certification
7 46 (3.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 41 (2.76%) Master's Degree
9 33 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (1.15%) CTC Cleared
12 9 (0.61%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
14 6 (0.40%) HND
14 6 (0.40%) IIBA
14 6 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.34%) HNC
16 4 (0.27%) DV Cleared
17 3 (0.20%) DBS Check
17 3 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (7.08%) QA
2 47 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 32 (2.16%) GDPR
4 29 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.35%) PMO
6 15 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.81%) HIPAA
8 9 (0.61%) SLA
9 7 (0.47%) CDISC
10 6 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.40%) JTAG
10 6 (0.40%) SOC 1
11 4 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.27%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.20%) GRC
13 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.067%) IFRS
14 1 (0.067%) IFRS 17
14 1 (0.067%) NIST
System Software
1 197 (13.28%) Docker
2 30 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.21%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.40%) Firmware
6 3 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.13%) vSphere
8 1 (0.067%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.067%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 174 (11.73%) Kubernetes
2 117 (7.89%) Terraform
3 49 (3.30%) Ansible
4 45 (3.03%) Grafana
5 39 (2.63%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.88%) WMI
7 6 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (0.40%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.34%) logstash
9 4 (0.27%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.27%) Kibana
10 3 (0.20%) Podman
10 3 (0.20%) Puppet
11 2 (0.13%) Control-M
11 2 (0.13%) cPanel
12 1 (0.067%) Hadoop YARN
12 1 (0.067%) Packer
12 1 (0.067%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 354 (23.87%) Oracle
2 286 (19.29%) Microsoft
3 168 (11.33%) IBM
4 137 (9.24%) Red Hat
5 88 (5.93%) Google
6 55 (3.71%) Sybase
7 50 (3.37%) Splunk
8 48 (3.24%) Dynatrace
9 46 (3.10%) Sparx
10 42 (2.83%) OpenLink
10 42 (2.83%) TIBCO
11 29 (1.96%) Atlassian
12 28 (1.89%) Databricks
12 28 (1.89%) WSO2
13 26 (1.75%) VMware
14 17 (1.15%) Unisys
15 15 (1.01%) Civica
16 14 (0.94%) Cognos
17 11 (0.74%) Salesforce
17 11 (0.74%) Teradata