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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 203 183 94
Rank change year-on-year -20 -89 +43
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 1,481 1,970 6,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.44% 2.02% 3.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.08% 9.38% 13.25%
Number of salaries quoted 897 1,297 2,256
10th Percentile £36,072 £41,400 £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 £52,700 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.38% +0.38% +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 18,328 21,007 47,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.86% 21.58% 28.19%
Number of salaries quoted 12,523 13,073 21,105
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 28 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 28 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 -34 1,202 £60,000 -9.91% 329
UK excluding London +24 1,023 £52,500 -0.38% 194
Work from Home -18 663 £57,500 -8.00% 169
London -56 410 £70,000 -9.68% 147
South East +74 282 £55,000 -4.35% 35
North of England +33 246 £55,000 - 62
Scotland +17 167 £50,000 -0.47% 14
North West +54 164 £55,000 +5.77% 42
Midlands -28 112 £52,500 - 37
South West -47 112 £50,000 -9.09% 29
West Midlands -14 78 £55,000 +4.76% 26
Yorkshire +29 74 £52,500 -16.00% 18
East of England -8 58 £49,250 -10.45% 22
East Midlands -20 34 £50,000 -13.04% 11
Wales +3 30 £36,476 -23.21% 4
Northern Ireland -23 16 £34,628 -30.75% 1
North East -16 8 £74,813 +50.96% 3

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 36 (2.43%) SharePoint
4 30 (2.03%) IIS
5 28 (1.89%) Confluence
6 27 (1.82%) Apache Spark
6 27 (1.82%) OpenStack
7 25 (1.69%) Apache
8 18 (1.22%) SAS
9 14 (0.95%) ArcGIS
10 12 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
11 10 (0.68%) nginx
12 9 (0.61%) JBoss
12 9 (0.61%) Red Hat Fuse
13 7 (0.47%) CMS
13 7 (0.47%) Umbraco
14 6 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
14 6 (0.41%) WordPress
15 3 (0.20%) NServiceBus
15 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 45 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.41%) Trello
4 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.27%) SPSS
6 3 (0.20%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.14%) InDesign
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 46 (3.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 42 (2.84%) Endur
3 8 (0.54%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.41%) Aladdin
4 6 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
4 6 (0.41%) thinkFolio
5 5 (0.34%) Elite 3E
5 5 (0.34%) OpenLink RightAngle
5 5 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.20%) Raiser’s Edge
7 2 (0.14%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
7 2 (0.14%) MIS ActiveH
7 2 (0.14%) Relativity
7 2 (0.14%) Veritas eDiscovery
8 1 (0.068%) Data Workbench
8 1 (0.068%) Ringtail
Cloud Services
1 521 (35.18%) Azure
2 468 (31.60%) AWS
3 237 (16.00%) Serverless
4 186 (12.56%) Azure DevOps
5 137 (9.25%) IBM Cloud
6 136 (9.18%) Power Platform
7 135 (9.12%) Azure Service Bus
8 134 (9.05%) Azure Functions
9 128 (8.64%) Azure Logic Apps
10 125 (8.44%) Azure API Management
11 104 (7.02%) GCP
12 97 (6.55%) Amazon EKS
13 62 (4.19%) Amazon S3
14 60 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
14 60 (4.05%) SaaS
15 53 (3.58%) Amazon SQS
16 40 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
17 34 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
17 34 (2.30%) Power Automate
18 31 (2.09%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.52%) TCP/IP
2 57 (3.85%) DNS
3 51 (3.44%) SSL
4 46 (3.11%) BGP
5 19 (1.28%) SSH
6 18 (1.22%) Internet
7 13 (0.88%) SNMP
8 12 (0.81%) AMQP
8 12 (0.81%) Network Security
9 10 (0.68%) HTTP
10 8 (0.54%) Firewall
11 6 (0.41%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.27%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.27%) SMTP
12 4 (0.27%) VPN
12 4 (0.27%) Wireless
13 3 (0.20%) Broadband
13 3 (0.20%) FTP
13 3 (0.20%) LAN
13 3 (0.20%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 426 (28.76%) SQL Server
2 345 (23.30%) RDBMS
3 294 (19.85%) NoSQL
4 288 (19.45%) PostgreSQL
5 256 (17.29%) MySQL
6 215 (14.52%) MongoDB
7 157 (10.60%) DB2
8 133 (8.98%) Power BI
9 126 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
10 103 (6.95%) Amazon RDS
11 91 (6.14%) Oracle Database
12 61 (4.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 50 (3.38%) Big Data
14 42 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
15 41 (2.77%) Data Lake
15 41 (2.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 37 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
17 29 (1.96%) Hadoop
18 27 (1.82%) Tableau
19 26 (1.76%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 238 (16.07%) Git
2 98 (6.62%) Jenkins
3 62 (4.19%) JIRA
4 45 (3.04%) JUnit
5 37 (2.50%) Visual Studio
6 34 (2.30%) Postman
7 31 (2.09%) Selenium
8 26 (1.76%) Maven
9 24 (1.62%) GitLab
9 24 (1.62%) JDeveloper
10 18 (1.22%) Eclipse
11 17 (1.15%) Oracle Forms
12 15 (1.01%) WebDriver
13 12 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 11 (0.74%) MSTest
14 11 (0.74%) NUnit
15 10 (0.68%) Cypress.io
16 9 (0.61%) Bitbucket
17 8 (0.54%) Ant
17 8 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 384 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 270 (18.23%) Finance
3 224 (15.12%) Public Sector
4 214 (14.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 181 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
6 165 (11.14%) Law
7 157 (10.60%) Marketing
8 73 (4.93%) Legal
9 59 (3.98%) Retail
10 55 (3.71%) Games
11 49 (3.31%) Banking
12 24 (1.62%) Local Government
12 24 (1.62%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
14 16 (1.08%) Investment Banking
15 15 (1.01%) Publishing
16 14 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (0.88%) Automotive
18 12 (0.81%) French Language
Job Titles
1 570 (38.49%) Developer
2 256 (17.29%) Senior
3 212 (14.31%) Software Engineer
4 206 (13.91%) Lead
5 205 (13.84%) Full Stack Developer
6 153 (10.33%) Architect
7 134 (9.05%) Azure Developer
8 106 (7.16%) Senior Developer
9 88 (5.94%) Analyst
10 82 (5.54%) Solutions Architect
11 80 (5.40%) Data Engineer
12 77 (5.20%) Java Developer
13 70 (4.73%) Lead Architect
14 67 (4.52%) Software Developer
15 65 (4.39%) Lead Solutions Architect
16 57 (3.85%) DBA
17 56 (3.78%) Java Engineer
18 50 (3.38%) Java Software Engineer
19 46 (3.11%) .NET Developer
20 45 (3.04%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 368 (24.85%) .NET
2 351 (23.70%) HTML
3 337 (22.75%) CSS
4 334 (22.55%) React
5 322 (21.74%) AngularJS
6 292 (19.72%) Node.js
7 275 (18.57%) REST
8 266 (17.96%) Web Services
9 222 (14.99%) Spring
10 201 (13.57%) ASP.NET
11 198 (13.37%) Spring Boot
12 188 (12.69%) jQuery
13 181 (12.22%) Vue
14 159 (10.74%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 142 (9.59%) ASP.NET Core
16 132 (8.91%) JSON
17 126 (8.51%) RESTful
18 125 (8.44%) Backbone.js
18 125 (8.44%) Ember.js
19 94 (6.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 229 (15.46%) Algorithms
2 209 (14.11%) Data Structures
3 139 (9.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 137 (9.25%) Blockchain
5 121 (8.17%) Management Information System
6 113 (7.63%) Public Cloud
7 106 (7.16%) Cloud Native
8 76 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
9 55 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
10 49 (3.31%) Product Ownership
11 42 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
11 42 (2.84%) Swaptions
12 38 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
13 37 (2.50%) Onboarding
14 22 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
14 22 (1.49%) Hedge funds
15 21 (1.42%) CMDB
16 17 (1.15%) NHS
17 16 (1.08%) Blog
18 15 (1.01%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 289 (19.51%) Linux
2 244 (16.48%) Windows
3 129 (8.71%) Android
3 129 (8.71%) Apple iOS
4 51 (3.44%) Unix
5 46 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (1.01%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.27%) Debian
8 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.20%) Solaris
10 2 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.14%) CentOS
11 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.068%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (34.17%) Agile
2 425 (28.70%) DevOps
3 355 (23.97%) Software Engineering
4 348 (23.50%) Full Stack Development
5 343 (23.16%) Problem-Solving
6 302 (20.39%) SDLC
7 286 (19.31%) Design Patterns
8 261 (17.62%) Artificial Intelligence
9 260 (17.56%) CI/CD
10 252 (17.02%) OO
11 220 (14.85%) Microservices
12 217 (14.65%) Data Modelling
13 208 (14.04%) OOP
14 196 (13.23%) MVC
15 193 (13.03%) Computer Science
16 191 (12.90%) Web Development
17 182 (12.29%) Business Intelligence
18 161 (10.87%) User Experience
19 151 (10.20%) SOLID
20 149 (10.06%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 815 (55.03%) SQL
2 610 (41.19%) Java
3 482 (32.55%) JavaScript
4 447 (30.18%) Python
5 392 (26.47%) C#
6 129 (8.71%) T-SQL
7 93 (6.28%) PHP
8 87 (5.87%) Go
9 81 (5.47%) TypeScript
10 53 (3.58%) Perl
11 49 (3.31%) VB
12 48 (3.24%) Bash
13 44 (2.97%) PowerShell
14 36 (2.43%) Ruby
15 35 (2.36%) Scala
16 26 (1.76%) C
16 26 (1.76%) Shell Script
17 16 (1.08%) C++
18 15 (1.01%) COBOL
18 15 (1.01%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 290 (19.58%) Degree
2 190 (12.83%) Security Cleared
3 156 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 118 (7.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (4.52%) Azure Certification
6 62 (4.19%) AWS Certification
7 46 (3.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 41 (2.77%) Master's Degree
9 33 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.01%) CTC Cleared
12 9 (0.61%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
14 6 (0.41%) HND
14 6 (0.41%) IIBA
14 6 (0.41%) 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 (7.09%) QA
2 46 (3.11%) Data Quality
3 32 (2.16%) GDPR
4 29 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.28%) 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 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.41%) JTAG
10 6 (0.41%) SOC 1
11 4 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.27%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.20%) GRC
13 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.068%) NIST
System Software
1 198 (13.37%) Docker
2 30 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.15%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.41%) Firmware
6 3 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.14%) vSphere
8 1 (0.068%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.068%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 174 (11.75%) Kubernetes
2 118 (7.97%) Terraform
3 47 (3.17%) Ansible
4 45 (3.04%) Grafana
5 39 (2.63%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.88%) WMI
7 6 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (0.41%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.41%) 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 (0.14%) Control-M
11 2 (0.14%) cPanel
12 1 (0.068%) Hadoop YARN
12 1 (0.068%) Packer
12 1 (0.068%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 350 (23.63%) Oracle
2 286 (19.31%) Microsoft
3 165 (11.14%) IBM
4 137 (9.25%) Red Hat
5 88 (5.94%) Google
6 55 (3.71%) Sybase
7 49 (3.31%) Splunk
8 47 (3.17%) Dynatrace
9 46 (3.11%) Sparx
10 42 (2.84%) OpenLink
10 42 (2.84%) TIBCO
11 27 (1.82%) Atlassian
11 27 (1.82%) Databricks
11 27 (1.82%) WSO2
12 26 (1.76%) VMware
13 15 (1.01%) Civica
13 15 (1.01%) Cognos
13 15 (1.01%) Unisys
14 11 (0.74%) Salesforce
14 11 (0.74%) Teradata