Relational Database Job Trends in England

Relational Database
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 225 206
Rank change year-on-year -73 -19 -35
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 387 622 980
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.65% 1.40% 1.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.38% 7.64% 7.74%
Number of salaries quoted 262 259 784
10th Percentile £31,250 £39,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,188 £50,000 £46,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% +10.26% -10.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,250 £110,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +6.84% -6.40%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,069 8,144 12,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.14% 18.39% 19.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,882 4,649 10,374
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in England

Relational Database
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in England over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in England

Relational Database
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
London -13 193 £75,000 -3.85% 60
South East -61 74 £43,500 -19.44% 44
North of England -22 59 £55,000 - 35
Midlands +3 36 £41,375 -8.06% 14
North West -2 29 £55,000 - 17
Yorkshire -19 28 £52,500 - 10
West Midlands +8 24 £47,500 +5.56% 6
South West -34 22 £43,953 -12.09% 23
East Midlands -16 12 £37,500 -55.88% 8
East of England -25 12 £42,500 -33.33% 5
North East -12 2 £52,500 +15.38% 9
Relational Database
UK

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 15 (3.88%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (2.84%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.29%) Anypoint
3 5 (1.29%) CMS
3 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.03%) SAS
5 3 (0.78%) Apache
5 3 (0.78%) Confluence
5 3 (0.78%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.52%) Mendix
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.52%) WordPress
7 1 (0.26%) Camunda
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) JBoss
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
Applications
1 29 (7.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (6.72%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.78%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.52%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.29%) Shopify
2 3 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.52%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.52%) Relativity
4 1 (0.26%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.26%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 133 (34.37%) AWS
2 99 (25.58%) Azure
3 43 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 39 (10.08%) GCP
5 34 (8.79%) Serverless
6 32 (8.27%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (6.46%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (5.43%) SaaS
9 19 (4.91%) Pulumi
10 17 (4.39%) OpenShift
11 16 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (3.88%) Amazon S3
12 15 (3.88%) GitHub
13 14 (3.62%) Datadog
13 14 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (3.10%) dbt
15 11 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (2.58%) Amazon EMR
16 10 (2.58%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.91%) Broadband
2 12 (3.10%) Intranet
3 10 (2.58%) WinSCP
4 9 (2.33%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.55%) Wireless
7 4 (1.03%) DNS
8 3 (0.78%) DHCP
8 3 (0.78%) VPN
9 2 (0.52%) Firewall
10 1 (0.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (23.77%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (21.45%) SQL Server
3 81 (20.93%) RDBMS
4 50 (12.92%) MySQL
5 42 (10.85%) Power BI
6 39 (10.08%) NoSQL
7 29 (7.49%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (6.98%) Metadata
9 23 (5.94%) MongoDB
10 15 (3.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (3.62%) Oracle Database
12 13 (3.36%) DynamoDB
13 11 (2.84%) Big Data
14 9 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
15 8 (2.07%) DataStage
15 8 (2.07%) FileMaker
15 8 (2.07%) Hadoop
15 8 (2.07%) Neo4j
15 8 (2.07%) Pentaho
16 7 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 64 (16.54%) Git
2 29 (7.49%) Jenkins
3 20 (5.17%) JIRA
4 19 (4.91%) Jaeger
5 14 (3.62%) JUnit
6 13 (3.36%) Selenium
7 11 (2.84%) Mockito
8 9 (2.33%) JMeter
9 8 (2.07%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.29%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.29%) Postman
10 5 (1.29%) SoapUI
11 4 (1.03%) GitLab
12 3 (0.78%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.78%) Gradle
12 3 (0.78%) Maven
12 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.52%) Appium
13 2 (0.52%) ERwin
13 2 (0.52%) Subversion
General
1 169 (43.67%) Social Skills
2 104 (26.87%) Finance
3 94 (24.29%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.82%) Law
5 33 (8.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (6.20%) Public Sector
7 21 (5.43%) Manufacturing
8 19 (4.91%) Retail
9 18 (4.65%) Banking
10 17 (4.39%) Legal
11 16 (4.13%) Telecoms
12 13 (3.36%) Front Office
13 10 (2.58%) Billing
14 9 (2.33%) Marketing
15 6 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (1.29%) Back Office
17 4 (1.03%) Electronics
18 3 (0.78%) Financial Institution
18 3 (0.78%) Health Technology
19 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 149 (38.50%) Developer
2 60 (15.50%) Analyst
3 56 (14.47%) Senior
4 42 (10.85%) Java Developer
5 40 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
6 38 (9.82%) Senior Developer
7 35 (9.04%) Lead
8 31 (8.01%) Data Engineer
9 27 (6.98%) Software Engineer
9 27 (6.98%) Support Analyst
10 25 (6.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 20 (5.17%) Architect
12 18 (4.65%) Support Engineer
13 16 (4.13%) Applications Support
13 16 (4.13%) C# Developer
13 16 (4.13%) Junior
14 14 (3.62%) Applications Support Analyst
15 13 (3.36%) Data Analyst
15 13 (3.36%) Data Architect
15 13 (3.36%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (20.41%) REST
2 68 (17.57%) React
3 58 (14.99%) AngularJS
4 54 (13.95%) Spring
5 45 (11.63%) .NET
6 44 (11.37%) HTML
7 43 (11.11%) Spring Boot
8 37 (9.56%) CSS
9 36 (9.30%) Web Services
10 35 (9.04%) JSON
11 34 (8.79%) Node.js
12 32 (8.27%) Elastic Stack
13 31 (8.01%) XML
14 29 (7.49%) Vue
15 26 (6.72%) Kafka
16 21 (5.43%) RESTful
17 19 (4.91%) OpenTelemetry
18 18 (4.65%) jQuery
19 15 (3.88%) GraphQL
19 15 (3.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.79%) Distributed Systems
2 32 (8.27%) Onboarding
3 28 (7.24%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (6.46%) Product Ownership
5 21 (5.43%) Cloud Native
6 20 (5.17%) Management Information System
7 13 (3.36%) Data Structures
8 10 (2.58%) Reference Data
9 9 (2.33%) Derivative
9 9 (2.33%) Hedge funds
9 9 (2.33%) Operational Technology
10 8 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (2.07%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.29%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.29%) Equities
13 4 (1.03%) Driving Licence
13 4 (1.03%) Fixed Income
13 4 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (12.40%) Linux
2 35 (9.04%) Windows
3 32 (8.27%) Unix
4 18 (4.65%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.03%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.78%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (37.73%) Agile
2 138 (35.66%) Problem-Solving
3 101 (26.10%) CI/CD
4 79 (20.41%) DevOps
5 70 (18.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 68 (17.57%) Containerisation
7 67 (17.31%) Analytics
8 66 (17.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 63 (16.28%) Mentoring
10 61 (15.76%) Business Intelligence
11 60 (15.50%) Scrum
11 60 (15.50%) Software Engineering
12 58 (14.99%) Microservices
13 54 (13.95%) Data Modelling
14 53 (13.70%) ETL
14 53 (13.70%) Test Automation
15 45 (11.63%) SDLC
16 40 (10.34%) Data Pipeline
16 40 (10.34%) Roadmaps
17 39 (10.08%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 194 (50.13%) SQL
2 151 (39.02%) Python
3 122 (31.52%) Java
4 114 (29.46%) JavaScript
5 70 (18.09%) C#
6 32 (8.27%) PowerShell
7 29 (7.49%) Go
8 26 (6.72%) PHP
8 26 (6.72%) TypeScript
9 21 (5.43%) Bash
10 15 (3.88%) Shell Script
11 13 (3.36%) Delphi
12 6 (1.55%) VB.NET
13 4 (1.03%) R
14 3 (0.78%) Pascal
14 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.52%) Ruby
15 2 (0.52%) Scala
16 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.26%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 59 (15.25%) Degree
2 29 (7.49%) Security Cleared
3 20 (5.17%) AWS Certification
4 17 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (4.39%) SC Cleared
5 13 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (3.10%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.84%) CISSP
7 11 (2.84%) MCSE
7 11 (2.84%) OCP
7 11 (2.84%) Oracle Certification
8 10 (2.58%) ISTQB
8 10 (2.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 7 (1.81%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.78%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.78%) ISEB
10 3 (0.78%) MBA
11 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.52%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.56%) QA
2 35 (9.04%) Data Quality
3 26 (6.72%) GDPR
4 3 (0.78%) HL7
4 3 (0.78%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.78%) SLA
5 2 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.52%) COREP
5 2 (0.52%) PSD2
6 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 84 (21.71%) Docker
2 7 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 91 (23.51%) Kubernetes
2 42 (10.85%) Terraform
3 28 (7.24%) Ansible
4 24 (6.20%) Prometheus
5 21 (5.43%) Argo
6 19 (4.91%) Kustomize
7 10 (2.58%) Grafana
8 9 (2.33%) Kibana
9 4 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.52%) SCCM
11 1 (0.26%) Control-M
11 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 81 (20.93%) Microsoft
2 51 (13.18%) Oracle
3 29 (7.49%) Google
4 16 (4.13%) Informatica
4 16 (4.13%) Talend
5 11 (2.84%) Guidewire
5 11 (2.84%) Salesforce
5 11 (2.84%) SAP
6 9 (2.33%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.33%) Splunk
7 8 (2.07%) MuleSoft
8 7 (1.81%) Databricks
8 7 (1.81%) IBM
9 6 (1.55%) Workday
9 6 (1.55%) Zoho
10 5 (1.29%) Dell
10 5 (1.29%) IFS
10 5 (1.29%) Infor
10 5 (1.29%) Jitterbit
10 5 (1.29%) SnapLogic