Relational Database Job Trends in the East Midlands

Relational Database
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 125 156
Rank change year-on-year -23 +31 -27
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 16 11 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.35% 0.58% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.16% 3.93% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 24
10th Percentile £40,500 £34,250 £31,625
25th Percentile £46,875 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £37,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -25.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £62,375 £38,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £62,450 £72,000 £81,875
England median annual salary £57,500 £64,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year -10.85% +10.26% -13.33%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 385 280 654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.40% 14.67% 15.38%
Number of salaries quoted 188 201 445
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Relational Database
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in the East Midlands

Relational Database
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Relational Database within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Northamptonshire +13 12 £60,000 +60.00% 6
Derbyshire - 3 £37,500 -
Leicestershire -38 1 £61,500 +64.00% 3
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (6.25%) Boomi
4 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
4 1 (6.25%) Pulumi
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) Power BI
1 12 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Jaeger
General
1 12 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) Law
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
2 10 (62.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) C Developer
3 1 (6.25%) CRM Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Data Integration Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) DBA
3 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (75.00%) XML
2 11 (68.75%) WinForms
3 2 (12.50%) React
4 1 (6.25%) Django
4 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
4 1 (6.25%) Flask
4 1 (6.25%) HTML
4 1 (6.25%) JSON
4 1 (6.25%) Middleware
4 1 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (6.25%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) SOAP
4 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Unix
3 1 (6.25%) Solaris
3 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (68.75%) SDLC
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (12.50%) High Availability
5 1 (6.25%) API Management
5 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
5 1 (6.25%) Clean Code
5 1 (6.25%) Containerisation
5 1 (6.25%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (6.25%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (6.25%) GitOps
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (6.25%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.25%) Roadmaps
5 1 (6.25%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (6.25%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Delphi
2 10 (62.50%) C#
3 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) C
4 1 (6.25%) Go
4 1 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Argo
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Kustomize
1 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Sybase