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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 199 187
Rank change year-on-year -12 -12 -45
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 52 31 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.40% 0.61% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.49% 4.94% 4.85%
Number of salaries quoted 37 20 11
10th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,250 £47,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,500 £58,750 £63,125
90th Percentile £73,750 £67,625 £63,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%

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 801 628 948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.23% 12.29% 13.12%
Number of salaries quoted 577 382 438
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,150 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,750 £78,625 £85,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -46 32 £55,000 +4.76% 39
Cheshire +14 8 £58,000 +0.87% 2
Lancashire +14 7 £62,500 +31.58%
Merseyside -6 5 £47,551 -13.54% 1
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 3 (5.77%) IIS
2 1 (1.92%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) AWS
2 19 (36.54%) Azure
3 13 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 7 (13.46%) GitHub
4 7 (13.46%) Serverless
5 6 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (9.62%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (9.62%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (7.69%) Amazon S3
7 4 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (7.69%) Entra ID
8 3 (5.77%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (5.77%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (5.77%) n8n
9 2 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (1.92%) ChatGPT
10 1 (1.92%) dbt
10 1 (1.92%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (32.69%) SQL Server
2 13 (25.00%) Power BI
3 12 (23.08%) MySQL
4 10 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (15.38%) RDBMS
6 5 (9.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (7.69%) NoSQL
8 3 (5.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.92%) Looker
10 1 (1.92%) OLAP
10 1 (1.92%) OLTP
10 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (1.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (28.85%) Git
2 6 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.62%) GitLab
4 3 (5.77%) Eclipse
4 3 (5.77%) JUnit
4 3 (5.77%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (3.85%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.92%) Mocha
6 1 (1.92%) NUnit
General
1 17 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.46%) Finance
2 7 (13.46%) Manufacturing
3 6 (11.54%) Retail
4 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.77%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.92%) Billing
6 1 (1.92%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (48.08%) Developer
2 11 (21.15%) Senior
3 9 (17.31%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 8 (15.38%) Software Developer
5 5 (9.62%) Application Development Manager
5 5 (9.62%) Applications Development Manager
5 5 (9.62%) Applications Manager
5 5 (9.62%) Applications Support
5 5 (9.62%) DBA
5 5 (9.62%) Development Manager
5 5 (9.62%) Junior
6 4 (7.69%) Administrator
6 4 (7.69%) Applications Support Manager
6 4 (7.69%) C# Developer
6 4 (7.69%) C# Software Developer
6 4 (7.69%) Support Manager
6 4 (7.69%) Support Specialist
7 3 (5.77%) Development Specialist
7 3 (5.77%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (30.77%) React
2 11 (21.15%) REST
3 9 (17.31%) FastAPI
3 9 (17.31%) Flask
4 8 (15.38%) Terraform
4 8 (15.38%) Vue
5 6 (11.54%) .NET
5 6 (11.54%) Middleware
5 6 (11.54%) Node.js
6 5 (9.62%) .NET Core
6 5 (9.62%) .NET Framework
6 5 (9.62%) Entity Framework
6 5 (9.62%) Spring
6 5 (9.62%) Spring Boot
7 4 (7.69%) ASP.NET
7 4 (7.69%) CSS
7 4 (7.69%) HTML
7 4 (7.69%) JSON
7 4 (7.69%) OpenAPI
7 4 (7.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.62%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.77%) Data Structures
4 3 (5.77%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.77%) SystemC
5 2 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.85%) Replication
6 1 (1.92%) Clustering
6 1 (1.92%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.77%) Windows
2 2 (3.85%) Linux
3 1 (1.92%) Unix
3 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) AI
2 19 (36.54%) CI/CD
3 16 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (28.85%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (26.92%) Agile
6 12 (23.08%) DevOps
6 12 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (23.08%) Microservices
6 12 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (19.23%) Requirements Gathering
8 9 (17.31%) Analytics
8 9 (17.31%) Migration
9 8 (15.38%) Mentoring
9 8 (15.38%) Observability
10 7 (13.46%) CRM
10 7 (13.46%) ERP
10 7 (13.46%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (13.46%) Logistics
11 6 (11.54%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 32 (61.54%) SQL
2 15 (28.85%) Python
3 13 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 12 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 10 (19.23%) C#
5 10 (19.23%) Java
6 2 (3.85%) Bash
6 2 (3.85%) PHP
7 1 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.85%) Degree
1 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.31%) GDPR
2 4 (7.69%) QA
3 2 (3.85%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (11.54%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (9.62%) Ansible
2 3 (5.77%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (3.85%) Grafana
3 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.69%) Oracle
3 3 (5.77%) Splunk
4 1 (1.92%) Databricks
4 1 (1.92%) Google
4 1 (1.92%) iManage
4 1 (1.92%) YouTube