Relational Database Job Trends in Central London

Relational Database
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 152 120
Rank change year-on-year +45 -32 +26
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 37 32 52
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 1.44% 1.00% 1.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.73% 4.06% 7.89%
Number of salaries quoted 35 16 46
10th Percentile £79,400 £59,375 £46,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +18.52% -6.90%
75th Percentile £105,000 £82,500 £93,750
90th Percentile - £115,000 £110,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -9.68%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Central London

Relational Database falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 424 789 659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 16.52% 24.55% 21.76%
Number of salaries quoted 345 479 602
10th Percentile £49,750 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,250 £115,000 £110,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -3.33%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Relational Database relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Relational Database job vacancy trend in Central London

Relational Database
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in Central London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in Central London

Relational Database
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Relational Database within the Central London region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
City of London +36 33 £95,000 +18.75% 18
City of Westminster +32 1 - - 1
Relational Database
London

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) Datadog
2 12 (32.43%) Azure
3 9 (24.32%) AWS
4 7 (18.92%) GCP
4 7 (18.92%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.70%) dbt
5 1 (2.70%) GitHub
5 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.70%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) Power BI
2 6 (16.22%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.11%) RDBMS
5 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.70%) Metadata
6 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) Jaeger
2 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Finance
3 5 (13.51%) Health Technology
3 5 (13.51%) Law
3 5 (13.51%) Legal
4 4 (10.81%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 21 (56.76%) Developer
2 15 (40.54%) Senior
3 10 (27.03%) Senior Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Applications Support
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Software Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Software Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Operational Support Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Operations Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Operations Support Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Support Analyst
8 1 (2.70%) Administrator
8 1 (2.70%) Applications Support Analyst
8 1 (2.70%) FIX Analyst
8 1 (2.70%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow Developer
8 1 (2.70%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.03%) Vue
2 6 (16.22%) AngularJS
2 6 (16.22%) React
3 5 (13.51%) Web Services
4 4 (10.81%) .NET
5 2 (5.41%) CSS
5 2 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (5.41%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (5.41%) HTML
5 2 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.70%) Celery
6 1 (2.70%) Kafka
6 1 (2.70%) Node.js
6 1 (2.70%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (2.70%) REST
6 1 (2.70%) SOAP
6 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (40.54%) Onboarding
2 5 (13.51%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.81%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.70%) Clustering
4 1 (2.70%) CMDB
4 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
1 3 (8.11%) Unix
2 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) CI/CD
2 17 (45.95%) DevOps
3 16 (43.24%) Scrum
4 15 (40.54%) Document Management
4 15 (40.54%) Error Analysis
4 15 (40.54%) Migration
4 15 (40.54%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (40.54%) Requirements Gathering
4 15 (40.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (40.54%) Test Automation
5 10 (27.03%) AI
5 10 (27.03%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (24.32%) Roadmaps
7 8 (21.62%) Agile
8 7 (18.92%) Computer Science
9 6 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (16.22%) Task Automation
10 5 (13.51%) Data Science
10 5 (13.51%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 26 (70.27%) Python
2 24 (64.86%) C#
3 21 (56.76%) SQL
4 18 (48.65%) Java
5 3 (8.11%) Bash
5 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.70%) Go
6 1 (2.70%) Ruby
6 1 (2.70%) Scala
6 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.70%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Ansible
1 2 (5.41%) Argo
1 2 (5.41%) Grafana
1 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) Kustomize
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.70%) Puppet
2 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) Guidewire
2 5 (13.51%) Intapp
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.41%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.70%) Aderant
5 1 (2.70%) Google
5 1 (2.70%) iManage
5 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.70%) RedGate
5 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow