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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 113 107
Rank change year-on-year -13 -6 +22
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 9 15 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.36% 0.68% 1.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.86% 4.75% 4.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 20
10th Percentile £33,250 £71,250 £44,125
25th Percentile £34,375 £73,125 £47,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £77,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -51.61% +40.91% +1.85%
75th Percentile £39,375 £83,125 £58,813
90th Percentile £39,750 £85,750 £65,375
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 233 316 418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.26% 14.30% 22.05%
Number of salaries quoted 163 197 346
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,625 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,000 £70,000 £73,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -5.51%

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
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 14 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
Northamptonshire +9 6 - - 4
Derbyshire -15 3 £37,500 - 6
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Power BI
1 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) RDBMS
3 1 (11.11%) MariaDB
3 1 (11.11%) MySQL
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jaeger
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 5 (55.56%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) C Developer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) WinForms
1 6 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
2 1 (11.11%) JPA
2 1 (11.11%) OpenID
2 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 1 (11.11%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Budget Control
3 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (11.11%) GitOps
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (11.11%) Product Management
3 1 (11.11%) Resource Management
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
3 1 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Delphi
2 5 (55.56%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (11.11%) C
4 1 (11.11%) Go
4 1 (11.11%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Argo
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Kustomize
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft