Relational Database Job Trends in the City of London

Relational Database
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 142 119
Rank change year-on-year +42 -23 +22
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 33 27 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.58% 0.99% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.82% 3.91% 8.42%
Number of salaries quoted 32 11 44
10th Percentile £79,100 - £44,750
25th Percentile £81,875 £77,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £105,000 £98,750 £93,750
90th Percentile - £115,000 £107,000
Central London median annual salary £85,500 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.88% +14.29% -3.45%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 374 691 594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 17.86% 25.44% 21.04%
Number of salaries quoted 314 461 552
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £56,250 £56,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £99,688 £93,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in the City of London

Relational Database
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in the City of London

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.03%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 17 (51.52%) Datadog
2 8 (24.24%) Azure
3 7 (21.21%) AWS
3 7 (21.21%) GCP
3 7 (21.21%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.03%) dbt
4 1 (3.03%) GitHub
4 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) Power BI
2 4 (12.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.03%) Metadata
5 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Finance
3 5 (15.15%) Health Technology
4 4 (12.12%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Law
5 1 (3.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (57.58%) Developer
2 14 (42.42%) Senior
3 10 (30.30%) Senior Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Applications Support
5 4 (12.12%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Operational Support Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Operations Support Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Support Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Data Architect
7 1 (3.03%) DBA
7 1 (3.03%) FIX Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) FIX Support Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) AngularJS
1 6 (18.18%) React
1 6 (18.18%) Vue
2 5 (15.15%) Web Services
3 2 (6.06%) CSS
3 2 (6.06%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (6.06%) HTML
4 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.03%) Kafka
4 1 (3.03%) Node.js
4 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.03%) REST
4 1 (3.03%) SOAP
4 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (51.52%) Onboarding
2 5 (15.15%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.03%) Clustering
3 1 (3.03%) CMDB
3 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
1 2 (6.06%) Unix
2 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) CI/CD
1 18 (54.55%) DevOps
1 18 (54.55%) Scrum
2 17 (51.52%) Document Management
2 17 (51.52%) Error Analysis
2 17 (51.52%) Migration
2 17 (51.52%) Requirements Gathering
2 17 (51.52%) Stakeholder Management
2 17 (51.52%) Test Automation
3 11 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (30.30%) AI
5 8 (24.24%) Roadmaps
6 7 (21.21%) Computer Science
7 6 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (15.15%) Data Science
8 5 (15.15%) LLM
8 5 (15.15%) Mathematics
8 5 (15.15%) Software Engineering
8 5 (15.15%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (78.79%) Python
2 22 (66.67%) C#
2 22 (66.67%) SQL
3 19 (57.58%) Java
4 2 (6.06%) Bash
4 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.03%) Ruby
5 1 (3.03%) Scala
5 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.03%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.03%) GDPR
1 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Grafana
2 1 (3.03%) Ansible
2 1 (3.03%) Argo
2 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (51.52%) Guidewire
2 5 (15.15%) Intapp
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.06%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.03%) Aderant
5 1 (3.03%) iManage
5 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.03%) RedGate
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow