Relational Database Job Trends in the East of England

Relational Database
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 132 157
Rank change year-on-year -38 +25 +13
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 12 17 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.19% 0.66% 0.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.82% 4.08% 6.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11 15 45
10th Percentile £33,500 £55,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,625 £60,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £62,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.45% +24.00% -30.56%
75th Percentile £47,500 £78,750 £52,500
90th Percentile - £80,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £63,250 £57,501
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.85%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 425 417 947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.87% 16.10% 15.75%
Number of salaries quoted 257 307 803
10th Percentile £31,700 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £39,438 £43,000 £35,640
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,055 £79,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +12.17% -11.54%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in the East of England

Relational Database
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in the East of England

Relational Database
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Hertfordshire -30 5 £42,500 -31.45% 1
Cambridgeshire -23 2 £50,000 -23.08% 2
Essex -26 2 £45,000 - 3
Bedfordshire +13 1 - - 3
Norfolk - 1 £33,000 -
Suffolk - 1 £35,000 -
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (8.33%) Mendix
1 1 (8.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) LAN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (33.33%) Redis
3 1 (8.33%) FileMaker
3 1 (8.33%) Metadata
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) Poetry
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Electronics
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Junior
2 4 (33.33%) Junior Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Junior Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Applications Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Low-Code Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) FileMaker Developer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) IT Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) PHP Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Vue
2 4 (33.33%) .NET
2 4 (33.33%) React
2 4 (33.33%) SignalR
3 3 (25.00%) CSS
3 3 (25.00%) HTML
4 2 (16.67%) jQuery
4 2 (16.67%) REST
4 2 (16.67%) SOAP
4 2 (16.67%) Web Services
5 1 (8.33%) Anaconda
5 1 (8.33%) JSON
5 1 (8.33%) Laravel
5 1 (8.33%) NumPy
5 1 (8.33%) Pandas
5 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
5 1 (8.33%) Spring
5 1 (8.33%) Spring MVC
5 1 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 2 (16.67%) Low-Code
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Client/Server
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (8.33%) IoT
2 1 (8.33%) Reference Data
2 1 (8.33%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) AI
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) API Integration
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Conversational UI
4 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) Use Case
5 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Data Management
5 1 (8.33%) MVC
5 1 (8.33%) OOP
5 1 (8.33%) Pair Programming
5 1 (8.33%) PLM
5 1 (8.33%) Programme Management
5 1 (8.33%) RDF
5 1 (8.33%) TDD
5 1 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (33.33%) C#
2 4 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) C++
3 1 (8.33%) Haskell
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) OCaml
3 1 (8.33%) PHP
3 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle
1 1 (8.33%) OutSystems
1 1 (8.33%) SAP