Relational Database Job Trends in London

Relational Database
England > London

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 164 198
Rank change year-on-year -85 +34 -55
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 187 264 381
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.84% 2.12% 1.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.29% 9.68% 7.47%
Number of salaries quoted 99 140 239
10th Percentile £36,250 £51,125 £43,550
25th Percentile £43,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £94,375 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £104,200
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -7.69%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,565 2,727 5,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.54% 21.90% 22.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,670 1,813 3,758
10th Percentile £47,425 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,484 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in London

Relational Database
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in London over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in London

Relational Database
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Relational Database within the London region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Central London -21 27 £90,000 +10.77% 8
West London +1 16 £45,000 -20.35% 4
South London -21 3 - -
East London -2 1 - -
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 21 (11.23%) Apache Spark
2 16 (8.56%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (5.88%) Apache
4 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.07%) WordPress
6 1 (0.53%) CMS
6 1 (0.53%) JBoss
6 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.53%) Moodle
6 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.60%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.07%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.07%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.07%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 52 (27.81%) AWS
2 43 (22.99%) Azure
3 18 (9.63%) Power Platform
4 15 (8.02%) SaaS
5 14 (7.49%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (5.35%) OpenShift
7 9 (4.81%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (4.81%) dbt
7 9 (4.81%) GCP
8 8 (4.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 8 (4.28%) Serverless
9 7 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (3.74%) GitHub
10 6 (3.21%) Pulumi
11 5 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.67%) Snowflake
12 4 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.14%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.14%) Azure Event Grid
12 4 (2.14%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.35%) Broadband
2 4 (2.14%) DHCP
2 4 (2.14%) DNS
2 4 (2.14%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.14%) VPN
2 4 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.60%) WinSCP
4 2 (1.07%) Intranet
5 1 (0.53%) Firewall
5 1 (0.53%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (22.99%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (19.25%) MySQL
2 36 (19.25%) RDBMS
3 30 (16.04%) SQL Server
4 24 (12.83%) NoSQL
5 18 (9.63%) Power BI
6 15 (8.02%) Oracle Database
7 13 (6.95%) MongoDB
8 11 (5.88%) Metadata
9 9 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (4.28%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (4.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (3.74%) Tableau
12 6 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (2.67%) Delta Lake
14 3 (1.60%) DynamoDB
15 2 (1.07%) Big Data
15 2 (1.07%) BigQuery
15 2 (1.07%) Data Lake
15 2 (1.07%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 38 (20.32%) Git
2 15 (8.02%) Claude Code
3 12 (6.42%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.28%) GitLab
5 7 (3.74%) ERwin
6 6 (3.21%) Jaeger
7 4 (2.14%) JUnit
8 3 (1.60%) JIRA
8 3 (1.60%) Mockito
8 3 (1.60%) Selenium
9 2 (1.07%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.07%) ESLint
9 2 (1.07%) JMeter
9 2 (1.07%) Maven
9 2 (1.07%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (1.07%) Postman
9 2 (1.07%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.07%) Storybook
10 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (0.53%) Subversion
General
1 49 (26.20%) Finance
2 44 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 36 (19.25%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.02%) Pharmaceutical
5 13 (6.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (6.42%) Marketing
7 10 (5.35%) Billing
7 10 (5.35%) Telecoms
8 9 (4.81%) Front Office
9 8 (4.28%) Banking
9 8 (4.28%) Public Sector
10 7 (3.74%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.67%) Law
12 4 (2.14%) Retail
13 2 (1.07%) Back Office
13 2 (1.07%) General Ledger
13 2 (1.07%) Legal
14 1 (0.53%) German Language
14 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 41 (21.93%) Data Engineer
2 38 (20.32%) Senior
3 34 (18.18%) Python Engineer
4 33 (17.65%) Developer
5 30 (16.04%) Lead
6 22 (11.76%) Analyst
7 18 (9.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 17 (9.09%) Consultant
9 14 (7.49%) Java Developer
9 14 (7.49%) Senior Developer
10 9 (4.81%) Java Engineer
11 8 (4.28%) Architect
11 8 (4.28%) Data Analyst
11 8 (4.28%) Lead Data Engineer
11 8 (4.28%) Python Data Engineer
11 8 (4.28%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (4.28%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (4.28%) Software Engineer
11 8 (4.28%) Support Analyst
12 7 (3.74%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (18.18%) Kafka
2 28 (14.97%) REST
3 26 (13.90%) Spring
4 23 (12.30%) Spring Boot
5 19 (10.16%) React
6 18 (9.63%) Flask
7 16 (8.56%) .NET
8 14 (7.49%) AngularJS
8 14 (7.49%) SQLAlchemy
9 13 (6.95%) HTML
9 13 (6.95%) PySpark
10 12 (6.42%) CSS
11 11 (5.88%) RESTful
12 10 (5.35%) Bootstrap
13 8 (4.28%) FIX Protocol
13 8 (4.28%) JSON
13 8 (4.28%) Node.js
13 8 (4.28%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (3.74%) ASP.NET
14 7 (3.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.35%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.81%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.28%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.74%) e-Learning
6 5 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.14%) CCTV
7 4 (2.14%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.14%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.14%) Replication
8 3 (1.60%) Derivative
8 3 (1.60%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.07%) Blog
9 2 (1.07%) CUDA
9 2 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.07%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.09%) Linux
2 15 (8.02%) Windows
3 10 (5.35%) Unix
4 4 (2.14%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (33.69%) Data Modelling
2 56 (29.95%) Agile
3 53 (28.34%) CI/CD
4 47 (25.13%) Analytics
5 46 (24.60%) Data Pipeline
6 42 (22.46%) Software Engineering
7 40 (21.39%) AI
7 40 (21.39%) Microservices
8 37 (19.79%) Containerisation
9 34 (18.18%) Data Engineering
9 34 (18.18%) DevOps
10 31 (16.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (15.51%) Mentoring
13 27 (14.44%) ETL
14 26 (13.90%) Full-Stack Development
15 25 (13.37%) Clean Code
16 24 (12.83%) Data Architecture
16 24 (12.83%) Infrastructure as Code
17 23 (12.30%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 95 (50.80%) SQL
2 88 (47.06%) Python
3 50 (26.74%) Java
4 35 (18.72%) JavaScript
5 22 (11.76%) C#
6 15 (8.02%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.28%) Bash
7 8 (4.28%) Go
7 8 (4.28%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.21%) PHP
8 6 (3.21%) VBA
9 5 (2.67%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.67%) Scala
9 5 (2.67%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.14%) Delphi
10 4 (2.14%) Pascal
11 3 (1.60%) R
12 2 (1.07%) Bicep
13 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (8.56%) Degree
2 11 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (5.35%) Security Cleared
4 9 (4.81%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.21%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.67%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.07%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.07%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (16.58%) Data Quality
2 17 (9.09%) QA
3 13 (6.95%) GDPR
4 7 (3.74%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.14%) SLA
6 2 (1.07%) MiFID
7 1 (0.53%) EMIR
System Software
1 57 (30.48%) Docker
2 2 (1.07%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 47 (25.13%) Kubernetes
2 24 (12.83%) Terraform
3 11 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 9 (4.81%) Ansible
5 6 (3.21%) Argo
5 6 (3.21%) Kustomize
6 5 (2.67%) Grafana
7 2 (1.07%) Kibana
8 1 (0.53%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Flashback
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 38 (20.32%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.76%) Oracle
3 20 (10.70%) Databricks
4 9 (4.81%) Google
5 7 (3.74%) Sparx
6 3 (1.60%) HubSpot
6 3 (1.60%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.07%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.07%) Mapbox
7 2 (1.07%) SAP
7 2 (1.07%) Solace
7 2 (1.07%) Splunk
8 1 (0.53%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.53%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.53%) Hyperion
8 1 (0.53%) iManage
8 1 (0.53%) Informatica
8 1 (0.53%) Palantir
8 1 (0.53%) Sybase
8 1 (0.53%) Talend