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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 180 97
Rank change year-on-year -16 -83 +44
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 1,509 2,200 5,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.54% 2.10% 3.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.35% 9.73% 12.75%
Number of salaries quoted 914 1,436 2,264
10th Percentile £36,036 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,212 £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 £72,500 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +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 18,076 22,599 42,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.44% 21.59% 27.62%
Number of salaries quoted 12,541 13,991 21,425
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +6.12%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -23 1,220 £60,000 -11.11% 252
UK excluding London +15 1,049 £52,500 -4.55% 144
Work from Home -13 686 £57,500 -8.00% 133
London -58 409 £68,750 -11.29% 129
South East +68 293 £55,000 -4.35% 31
North of England +41 255 £55,000 - 38
North West +66 173 £55,000 +5.77% 19
Scotland +8 173 £52,500 +4.50% 22
South West -20 115 £49,250 -10.45% 12
Midlands -27 110 £52,500 - 26
Yorkshire +30 74 £52,500 -19.23% 19
West Midlands -11 74 £53,750 +2.38% 14
East of England 0 56 £48,500 -32.64% 14
East Midlands -19 36 £50,000 -13.04% 12
Wales +9 30 £36,476 -18.94% 4
Northern Ireland -19 17 £34,628 -30.75% 3
North East -14 8 £74,813 +56.93% 1

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 62 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (3.18%) WebLogic
3 36 (2.39%) SharePoint
4 35 (2.32%) Apache Spark
5 32 (2.12%) IIS
6 31 (2.05%) Apache
7 29 (1.92%) OpenStack
8 27 (1.79%) Confluence
9 18 (1.19%) SAS
10 14 (0.93%) ArcGIS
11 10 (0.66%) JBoss
11 10 (0.66%) nginx
11 10 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
12 9 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
12 9 (0.60%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.40%) CMS
13 6 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
13 6 (0.40%) WordPress
14 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 47 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.40%) Trello
5 5 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.27%) SPSS
7 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.20%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.13%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 48 (3.18%) Endur
2 46 (3.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (0.60%) Elite 3E
3 9 (0.60%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 9 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.53%) NEC Housing
5 7 (0.46%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.46%) thinkFolio
6 6 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
7 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.20%) Raiser’s Edge
9 2 (0.13%) Adaptiv
9 2 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.13%) MIS ActiveH
9 2 (0.13%) Relativity
9 2 (0.13%) Veritas eDiscovery
10 1 (0.066%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.066%) Oracle FAH
10 1 (0.066%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.066%) Ringtail
Cloud Services
1 500 (33.13%) Azure
2 461 (30.55%) AWS
3 244 (16.17%) Serverless
4 179 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
5 141 (9.34%) Power Platform
6 127 (8.42%) IBM Cloud
7 126 (8.35%) Azure Functions
8 122 (8.08%) Azure Logic Apps
8 122 (8.08%) Azure Service Bus
9 117 (7.75%) Azure API Management
10 106 (7.02%) GCP
11 99 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
12 71 (4.71%) SaaS
13 64 (4.24%) Amazon S3
14 60 (3.98%) Amazon ECS
15 57 (3.78%) Amazon SQS
16 40 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
17 36 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
18 34 (2.25%) GitHub
19 33 (2.19%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.44%) TCP/IP
2 56 (3.71%) DNS
3 51 (3.38%) SSL
4 46 (3.05%) BGP
5 18 (1.19%) Internet
5 18 (1.19%) SSH
6 13 (0.86%) SNMP
7 12 (0.80%) AMQP
8 11 (0.73%) Network Security
9 10 (0.66%) HTTP
10 8 (0.53%) Firewall
11 6 (0.40%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.27%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.27%) SMTP
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
13 3 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 434 (28.76%) SQL Server
2 364 (24.12%) RDBMS
3 295 (19.55%) NoSQL
4 281 (18.62%) PostgreSQL
5 268 (17.76%) MySQL
6 206 (13.65%) MongoDB
7 147 (9.74%) DB2
8 138 (9.15%) Power BI
9 127 (8.42%) Data Warehouse
10 101 (6.69%) Amazon RDS
11 99 (6.56%) Oracle Database
12 60 (3.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 51 (3.38%) Big Data
14 49 (3.25%) Data Lake
15 43 (2.85%) Elasticsearch
16 42 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 41 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
18 34 (2.25%) Looker
18 34 (2.25%) Tableau
19 31 (2.05%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 248 (16.43%) Git
2 110 (7.29%) Jenkins
3 62 (4.11%) JIRA
4 46 (3.05%) JUnit
5 38 (2.52%) Visual Studio
6 36 (2.39%) JDeveloper
7 34 (2.25%) Postman
8 26 (1.72%) Maven
8 26 (1.72%) Selenium
9 23 (1.52%) Eclipse
10 21 (1.39%) GitLab
11 17 (1.13%) Oracle Forms
12 15 (0.99%) WebDriver
13 14 (0.93%) Mockito
13 14 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 12 (0.80%) Jasmine
15 11 (0.73%) NUnit
16 10 (0.66%) Bitbucket
16 10 (0.66%) Cypress.io
16 10 (0.66%) MSTest
General
1 389 (25.78%) Social Skills
2 274 (18.16%) Finance
3 217 (14.38%) Public Sector
4 205 (13.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 183 (12.13%) Analytical Skills
6 165 (10.93%) Law
7 164 (10.87%) Marketing
8 80 (5.30%) Legal
9 63 (4.17%) Games
9 63 (4.17%) Retail
10 55 (3.64%) Banking
11 24 (1.59%) Local Government
12 22 (1.46%) Manufacturing
13 19 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (1.13%) Investment Banking
15 16 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
16 15 (0.99%) Publishing
17 13 (0.86%) Automotive
17 13 (0.86%) French Language
Job Titles
1 580 (38.44%) Developer
2 250 (16.57%) Senior
3 216 (14.31%) Software Engineer
4 208 (13.78%) Lead
5 192 (12.72%) Full Stack Developer
6 147 (9.74%) Architect
7 124 (8.22%) Azure Developer
8 111 (7.36%) Senior Developer
9 91 (6.03%) Analyst
10 88 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
11 84 (5.57%) Java Developer
12 74 (4.90%) Data Engineer
13 69 (4.57%) Lead Architect
13 69 (4.57%) Software Developer
14 65 (4.31%) Lead Solutions Architect
15 64 (4.24%) DBA
16 57 (3.78%) Java Engineer
17 54 (3.58%) Java Software Engineer
18 47 (3.11%) Full Stack Engineer
19 44 (2.92%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (22.93%) React
2 345 (22.86%) .NET
3 341 (22.60%) HTML
4 324 (21.47%) CSS
5 318 (21.07%) AngularJS
6 289 (19.15%) Node.js
7 269 (17.83%) REST
8 261 (17.30%) Web Services
9 223 (14.78%) Spring
10 204 (13.52%) Spring Boot
11 185 (12.26%) ASP.NET
11 185 (12.26%) jQuery
12 170 (11.27%) Vue
13 151 (10.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 142 (9.41%) JSON
15 128 (8.48%) ASP.NET Core
16 118 (7.82%) RESTful
17 117 (7.75%) Backbone.js
17 117 (7.75%) Ember.js
18 106 (7.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 218 (14.45%) Algorithms
2 200 (13.25%) Data Structures
3 128 (8.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 128 (8.48%) Management Information System
4 127 (8.42%) Blockchain
5 111 (7.36%) Public Cloud
6 106 (7.02%) Cloud Native
7 76 (5.04%) Enterprise Software
8 61 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
9 48 (3.18%) Swaptions
10 47 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
11 46 (3.05%) Product Ownership
12 43 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
13 35 (2.32%) Onboarding
14 23 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
14 23 (1.52%) Virtual Team
15 21 (1.39%) CMDB
16 19 (1.26%) Mainframe
17 18 (1.19%) Hedge funds
18 16 (1.06%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 283 (18.75%) Linux
2 237 (15.71%) Windows
3 122 (8.08%) Android
3 122 (8.08%) Apple iOS
4 52 (3.45%) Unix
5 46 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (1.13%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.20%) Solaris
10 2 (0.13%) CentOS
10 2 (0.13%) Debian
11 1 (0.066%) AIX
11 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.066%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 515 (34.13%) Agile
2 419 (27.77%) DevOps
3 361 (23.92%) Software Engineering
4 350 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
5 343 (22.73%) Full Stack Development
6 311 (20.61%) SDLC
7 294 (19.48%) Design Patterns
8 257 (17.03%) CI/CD
9 253 (16.77%) Artificial Intelligence
10 239 (15.84%) Microservices
11 233 (15.44%) OO
12 215 (14.25%) Data Modelling
13 195 (12.92%) Business Intelligence
14 191 (12.66%) OOP
15 188 (12.46%) Computer Science
16 181 (11.99%) Web Development
17 180 (11.93%) MVC
18 156 (10.34%) Analytics
19 152 (10.07%) User Experience
20 147 (9.74%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 807 (53.48%) SQL
2 625 (41.42%) Java
3 490 (32.47%) JavaScript
4 438 (29.03%) Python
5 374 (24.78%) C#
6 130 (8.61%) T-SQL
7 93 (6.16%) Go
8 90 (5.96%) PHP
9 81 (5.37%) TypeScript
10 70 (4.64%) Perl
11 61 (4.04%) Bash
12 55 (3.64%) VB
13 48 (3.18%) Ruby
14 46 (3.05%) PowerShell
15 41 (2.72%) Scala
16 29 (1.92%) C
17 27 (1.79%) Shell Script
18 21 (1.39%) C++
19 19 (1.26%) COBOL
20 17 (1.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 284 (18.82%) Degree
2 187 (12.39%) Security Cleared
3 154 (10.21%) SC Cleared
4 115 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (4.51%) Azure Certification
6 63 (4.17%) AWS Certification
7 46 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 40 (2.65%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (1.26%) CTC Cleared
12 9 (0.60%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
14 7 (0.46%) HND
15 6 (0.40%) IIBA
16 5 (0.33%) HNC
16 5 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
17 4 (0.27%) DV Cleared
18 3 (0.20%) PMP
19 2 (0.13%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (7.42%) QA
2 39 (2.58%) Data Quality
3 27 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 26 (1.72%) GDPR
5 20 (1.33%) PMO
6 15 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.80%) HIPAA
8 10 (0.66%) SLA
9 7 (0.46%) CDISC
10 6 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.40%) JTAG
10 6 (0.40%) SOC 1
11 5 (0.33%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.20%) GRC
14 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
15 1 (0.066%) COREP
15 1 (0.066%) IFRS 17
15 1 (0.066%) NIST
System Software
1 201 (13.32%) Docker
2 31 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.19%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.40%) Firmware
6 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.13%) vSphere
8 1 (0.066%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.066%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 167 (11.07%) Kubernetes
2 116 (7.69%) Terraform
3 50 (3.31%) Ansible
4 45 (2.98%) Grafana
5 37 (2.45%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.86%) WMI
7 6 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.33%) logstash
8 5 (0.33%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.27%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.27%) Kibana
10 2 (0.13%) Control-M
10 2 (0.13%) cPanel
10 2 (0.13%) Podman
11 1 (0.066%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.066%) Packer
11 1 (0.066%) Puppet
11 1 (0.066%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 361 (23.92%) Oracle
2 274 (18.16%) Microsoft
3 164 (10.87%) IBM
4 127 (8.42%) Red Hat
5 93 (6.16%) Google
6 59 (3.91%) Sybase
7 50 (3.31%) Splunk
8 48 (3.18%) OpenLink
8 48 (3.18%) TIBCO
9 46 (3.05%) Dynatrace
9 46 (3.05%) Sparx
10 29 (1.92%) Atlassian
10 29 (1.92%) WSO2
11 26 (1.72%) Databricks
12 25 (1.66%) VMware
13 19 (1.26%) Unisys
14 15 (0.99%) Civica
14 15 (0.99%) Salesforce
15 14 (0.93%) Cognos
16 13 (0.86%) HP