Relational Database Job Trends in the North East

Relational Database
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 80 54
Rank change year-on-year -2 -26 +19
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 3 10 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.29% 1.02% 1.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.78% 8.77% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile - £38,625 £39,625
25th Percentile £51,250 £39,937 £41,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -4.21% +1.06%
75th Percentile £53,750 £59,427 £55,125
90th Percentile - £63,132 £61,052
England median annual salary £57,500 £61,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.05% +2.01% -7.69%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 108 114 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 10.45% 11.68% 17.95%
Number of salaries quoted 67 65 91
10th Percentile £28,500 £42,049 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,738 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £60,375 £74,145 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £86,500 £69,800
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in the North East

Relational Database
Salary Trend in the North East

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

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

Relational Database
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Relational Database within the North East region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Tyne and Wear +3 3 £52,500 +15.38% 17
Relational Database
England

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

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Advertising
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DBA
1 2 (66.67%) SQL DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Senior SQL DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Issue Tracking
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DBS Check
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Control-M
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Informatica
1 2 (66.67%) RedGate
1 2 (66.67%) Talend