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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 192 173
Rank change year-on-year -57 -19 +25
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 63 56 233
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.38% 0.87% 1.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.70% 5.23% 8.05%
Number of salaries quoted 41 48 170
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,675 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,077 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,840 £83,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £64,500 £57,501
% change year-on-year -10.85% +12.17% -12.01%

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 1,340 1,070 2,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.11% 16.59% 17.90%
Number of salaries quoted 840 783 2,325
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £72,813 £72,500 £65,603
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 11 April 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 11 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
Yorkshire -45 32 £62,500 +13.64% 18
North West -36 29 £60,000 +9.09% 13
North East -29 2 £45,000 +0.42% 4
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 8 (12.70%) OpenStack
2 3 (4.76%) CMS
3 2 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.17%) CICS
3 2 (3.17%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.59%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (49.21%) AWS
2 17 (26.98%) Azure
2 17 (26.98%) Serverless
3 14 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (19.05%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (12.70%) Amazon S3
5 8 (12.70%) GCP
6 7 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (9.52%) SaaS
8 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (6.35%) GitHub
9 2 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.17%) Salesforce Einstein
9 2 (3.17%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.59%) Cloud Run
10 1 (1.59%) dbt
10 1 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.40%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (14.29%) MySQL
2 9 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 7 (11.11%) DB2
3 7 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (9.52%) Metadata
4 6 (9.52%) RDBMS
4 6 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (6.35%) DynamoDB
5 4 (6.35%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.17%) FileMaker
6 2 (3.17%) Hazelcast
6 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.17%) Power BI
7 1 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 17 (26.98%) Git
2 13 (20.63%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.17%) Eclipse
3 2 (3.17%) IntelliJ
3 2 (3.17%) JIRA
4 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.59%) JUnit
4 1 (1.59%) PHPUnit
4 1 (1.59%) Postman
4 1 (1.59%) Selenium
4 1 (1.59%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 14 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.52%) Finance
2 6 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.17%) Back Office
4 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.17%) Retail
5 1 (1.59%) Banking
5 1 (1.59%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.59%) Legal
5 1 (1.59%) Marketing
5 1 (1.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 33 (52.38%) Developer
2 12 (19.05%) Java Developer
2 12 (19.05%) Senior
3 10 (15.87%) Senior Developer
4 9 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (12.70%) Applications Support
6 6 (9.52%) Analyst
6 6 (9.52%) Architect
6 6 (9.52%) Data Architect
6 6 (9.52%) Data Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (9.52%) Software Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Applications Developer
7 5 (7.94%) Senior Applications Developer
7 5 (7.94%) Senior Applications Support
8 4 (6.35%) PHP Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Applications Support Analyst
9 3 (4.76%) Backend Developer
10 2 (3.17%) Pega Developer
10 2 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (31.75%) React
1 20 (31.75%) REST
2 12 (19.05%) Node.js
3 11 (17.46%) Spring
3 11 (17.46%) Spring Boot
3 11 (17.46%) Web Services
4 10 (15.87%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (15.87%) Kafka
5 9 (14.29%) .NET
5 9 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 9 (14.29%) CSS
5 9 (14.29%) HTML
6 6 (9.52%) Mustache
7 5 (7.94%) Classic ASP
7 5 (7.94%) HTML5
7 5 (7.94%) JSON
7 5 (7.94%) Laravel
7 5 (7.94%) RESTful
7 5 (7.94%) Symfony
8 4 (6.35%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.87%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.94%) Data Structures
2 5 (7.94%) Legacy Code
3 4 (6.35%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.17%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.17%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.59%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Linux
2 1 (1.59%) Unix
2 1 (1.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.86%) Agile
2 17 (26.98%) CI/CD
3 16 (25.40%) DevOps
3 16 (25.40%) Microservices
3 16 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (22.22%) ETL
4 14 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 13 (20.63%) Data Modelling
6 12 (19.05%) Scrum
7 11 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (15.87%) Software Engineering
8 10 (15.87%) TDD
9 9 (14.29%) Kanban
9 9 (14.29%) Validation
9 9 (14.29%) Workflow
10 8 (12.70%) SDLC
11 6 (9.52%) Data Architecture
11 6 (9.52%) Data Cleansing
11 6 (9.52%) Data Engineering
11 6 (9.52%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 34 (53.97%) SQL
2 27 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 23 (36.51%) Java
4 14 (22.22%) Python
5 9 (14.29%) C#
6 8 (12.70%) PHP
7 7 (11.11%) TypeScript
8 4 (6.35%) PL/SQL
9 2 (3.17%) Go
9 2 (3.17%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.17%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.59%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.59%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 5 (7.94%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.35%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.46%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.76%) QA
3 2 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.17%) HL7
3 2 (3.17%) SLA
4 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.70%) Terraform
3 5 (7.94%) Ansible
4 3 (4.76%) Grafana
4 3 (4.76%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.17%) Kibana
6 1 (1.59%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (12.70%) Oracle
2 7 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.35%) Pega
3 4 (6.35%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.17%) AppDynamics
4 2 (3.17%) HubSpot
4 2 (3.17%) IBM
4 2 (3.17%) IFS
4 2 (3.17%) WSO2
5 1 (1.59%) Advent
5 1 (1.59%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.59%) Databricks
5 1 (1.59%) Google
5 1 (1.59%) Talend