Relational Database Job Trends in the North of England

Relational Database
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 206 159
Rank change year-on-year -1 -47 +14
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 55 68 135
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.52% 0.75% 1.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.59% 5.54% 7.77%
Number of salaries quoted 36 31 126
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,188 £42,500 £39,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £63,125 £65,603 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,125 - £82,653
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
North 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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 984 1,227 1,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.25% 13.50% 20.29%
Number of salaries quoted 680 655 1,415
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.76%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in the North of England

Relational Database
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in the North of England

Relational Database
Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Yorkshire 0 29 £48,750 - 19
North West +15 24 £55,000 -4.35% 22
North East -3 2 £52,500 +15.38% 7
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North 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 10 (18.18%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.64%) CMS
2 2 (3.64%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (40.00%) AWS
2 17 (30.91%) Azure
3 15 (27.27%) Serverless
4 14 (25.45%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (21.82%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (10.91%) Amazon S3
6 6 (10.91%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (10.91%) GitHub
7 5 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (9.09%) SaaS
8 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.45%) GCP
9 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.64%) Figma
9 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.64%) Salesforce Einstein
9 2 (3.64%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.82%) dbt
10 1 (1.82%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (29.09%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (18.18%) RDBMS
2 10 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 8 (14.55%) MySQL
4 4 (7.27%) Metadata
5 3 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.45%) DB2
6 2 (3.64%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.64%) Power BI
6 2 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.82%) FileMaker
7 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (30.91%) Git
2 13 (23.64%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.45%) JIRA
4 2 (3.64%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.82%) GitLab
5 1 (1.82%) JUnit
5 1 (1.82%) Postman
5 1 (1.82%) Selenium
5 1 (1.82%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 18 (32.73%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.00%) Finance
3 6 (10.91%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Marketing
6 2 (3.64%) Back Office
6 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.64%) German Language
7 1 (1.82%) Advertising
7 1 (1.82%) Banking
7 1 (1.82%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (43.64%) Developer
2 12 (21.82%) Java Developer
3 9 (16.36%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (14.55%) Analyst
4 8 (14.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 7 (12.73%) Software Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Senior
7 4 (7.27%) Architect
7 4 (7.27%) Data Architect
8 3 (5.45%) .NET Software Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Applications Analyst
8 3 (5.45%) Data Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Digital Analyst
8 3 (5.45%) Integration Analyst
8 3 (5.45%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.64%) Applications Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) Backend Developer
9 2 (3.64%) IT Analyst
9 2 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) Website Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (38.18%) REST
2 19 (34.55%) Node.js
3 13 (23.64%) React
3 13 (23.64%) Spring
3 13 (23.64%) Spring Boot
4 12 (21.82%) Web Services
5 11 (20.00%) AngularJS
6 10 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (16.36%) .NET
8 7 (12.73%) CSS
8 7 (12.73%) JSON
9 6 (10.91%) HTML
9 6 (10.91%) Kafka
9 6 (10.91%) Mustache
10 4 (7.27%) .NET Core
10 4 (7.27%) Apache Camel
10 4 (7.27%) ASP.NET
11 3 (5.45%) FHIR
11 3 (5.45%) HTML5
11 3 (5.45%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (10.91%) Product Ownership
3 5 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 5 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.82%) Clustering
4 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.82%) Social Media
4 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.09%) Windows
2 2 (3.64%) Linux
2 2 (3.64%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (47.27%) Agile
2 18 (32.73%) CI/CD
3 15 (27.27%) DevOps
3 15 (27.27%) Microservices
3 15 (27.27%) Scrum
4 14 (25.45%) SDLC
5 13 (23.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (21.82%) Software Engineering
7 11 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (20.00%) TDD
8 9 (16.36%) ETL
9 8 (14.55%) Workflow
10 7 (12.73%) Data Modelling
11 6 (10.91%) CRM
11 6 (10.91%) User Experience
12 5 (9.09%) BDD
12 5 (9.09%) Kanban
12 5 (9.09%) Validation
13 4 (7.27%) Migration
13 4 (7.27%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (49.09%) SQL
2 24 (43.64%) JavaScript
3 19 (34.55%) Java
4 12 (21.82%) Python
5 6 (10.91%) PHP
5 6 (10.91%) TypeScript
6 5 (9.09%) C#
7 3 (5.45%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.64%) Go
8 2 (3.64%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) Degree
2 3 (5.45%) DBS Check
2 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared
2 3 (5.45%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) QA
2 4 (7.27%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.45%) HL7
4 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (21.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (23.64%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.91%) Ansible
3 5 (9.09%) Terraform
4 2 (3.64%) Grafana
4 2 (3.64%) SCCM
5 1 (1.82%) Control-M
5 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.09%) Oracle
3 4 (7.27%) Pega
3 4 (7.27%) Salesforce
3 4 (7.27%) WSO2
4 3 (5.45%) HubSpot
5 2 (3.64%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.64%) Talend
6 1 (1.82%) Advent
6 1 (1.82%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.82%) Cognos
6 1 (1.82%) Databricks
6 1 (1.82%) Google
6 1 (1.82%) IBM
6 1 (1.82%) Informatica
6 1 (1.82%) Moogsoft
6 1 (1.82%) RedGate
6 1 (1.82%) Splunk