Relational Database Job Trends in the North West

Relational Database
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 164 145
Rank change year-on-year +1 -19 +61
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 27 39 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.37% 0.84% 1.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.45% 5.47% 8.11%
Number of salaries quoted 21 22 89
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,037 £33,609
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,090 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,603 £57,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,500 £83,759
England median annual salary £55,000 £64,250 £57,547
% change year-on-year -14.40% +11.65% -11.47%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 495 713 1,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.78% 15.34% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 370 381 1,058
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,875
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 West

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in the North West

Relational Database
Salary Trend in the North West

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

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

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in the North West over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in the North West

Relational Database
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Manchester +9 22 £55,000 -10.14% 9
Cheshire -24 3 £40,000 -20.40% 3
Lancashire -3 1 - - 5
Merseyside -17 1 £55,000 +22.22%
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (3.70%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (11.11%) Azure
3 3 (11.11%) Serverless
4 2 (7.41%) GCP
4 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.41%) SaaS
4 2 (7.41%) Salesforce Einstein
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Run
5 1 (3.70%) dbt
5 1 (3.70%) IaaS
5 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.70%) PaaS
5 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) MySQL
1 6 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 5 (18.52%) DB2
2 5 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (11.11%) RDBMS
4 2 (7.41%) Power BI
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git
2 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.70%) GitLab
3 1 (3.70%) Postman
3 1 (3.70%) Selenium
3 1 (3.70%) SoapUI
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 6 (22.22%) Finance
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (7.41%) German Language
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Banking
3 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.70%) Marketing
3 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Data Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Software Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Digital Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Integration Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Applications Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) IT Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Data Scientist
6 1 (3.70%) Junior
6 1 (3.70%) Junior Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.70%) QA Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) REST
2 7 (25.93%) Node.js
3 5 (18.52%) JSON
4 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
5 3 (11.11%) FHIR
5 3 (11.11%) React
5 3 (11.11%) Spring
5 3 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 3 (11.11%) Web Services
6 2 (7.41%) .NET
6 2 (7.41%) CSS
6 2 (7.41%) HTML
6 2 (7.41%) Laravel
6 2 (7.41%) XML
7 1 (3.70%) Apache Camel
7 1 (3.70%) FastAPI
7 1 (3.70%) jQuery
7 1 (3.70%) pytest
7 1 (3.70%) RESTful
7 1 (3.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.70%) Social Media
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) ETL
2 7 (25.93%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 5 (18.52%) Agile
4 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
4 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (18.52%) User Experience
4 5 (18.52%) Validation
5 4 (14.81%) Data Cleansing
5 4 (14.81%) Data Mapping
5 4 (14.81%) Data Migration
5 4 (14.81%) Data Modelling
5 4 (14.81%) Data Validation
5 4 (14.81%) Microservices
5 4 (14.81%) Migration
5 4 (14.81%) Model Validation
5 4 (14.81%) Workflow
6 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (11.11%) CRM
6 3 (11.11%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 16 (59.26%) SQL
2 9 (33.33%) Java
2 9 (33.33%) Python
3 8 (29.63%) JavaScript
4 5 (18.52%) PHP
5 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 2 (7.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
1 1 (3.70%) Degree
1 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) QA
2 4 (14.81%) Data Quality
3 3 (11.11%) HL7
4 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Ansible
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) SCCM
2 2 (7.41%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle
2 2 (7.41%) Google
2 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.70%) Advent
3 1 (3.70%) Alteryx
3 1 (3.70%) AppDynamics
3 1 (3.70%) Cognos
3 1 (3.70%) Databricks
3 1 (3.70%) HubSpot
3 1 (3.70%) Pega
3 1 (3.70%) WSO2