Relational Database Job Trends in Scotland

Relational Database
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 119 128
Rank change year-on-year -11 +9 +5
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 9 33 61
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.22% 1.30% 1.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.43% 9.57% 7.93%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 19
10th Percentile - - £35,750
25th Percentile £27,000 £25,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,250 £49,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.95% -1.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £27,375 £72,500 £64,375
90th Percentile £38,396 £77,500 £67,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 203 345 769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.01% 13.63% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 113 104 261
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +2.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £109,500 £81,550 £73,886
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,900
% change year-on-year - -4.61% +0.64%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in Scotland

Relational Database
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in Scotland

Relational Database
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Relational Database within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Edinburgh +7 5 £27,250 +9.00% 13
Glasgow -13 4 - - 22
Relational Database
UK

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Datadog
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (22.22%) RDBMS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (11.11%) Big Data
4 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
4 1 (11.11%) MariaDB
4 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 1 (11.11%) MySQL
4 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
1 2 (22.22%) IntelliJ
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) JUnit
1 2 (22.22%) Maven
1 2 (22.22%) Mockito
1 2 (22.22%) SonarQube
2 1 (11.11%) ERwin
2 1 (11.11%) Flyway
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Liquibase
2 1 (11.11%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (22.22%) Law
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Graduate
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Database Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Graduate Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Graduate Database Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Graduate Support Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Java Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Support Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Database Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Messaging Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Technical Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) RESTful
1 2 (22.22%) Spring
1 2 (22.22%) Spring Batch
1 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
1 2 (22.22%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (22.22%) WireMock
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) e-Learning
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) AI Agents
3 1 (11.11%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 4 (44.44%) Collaborative Working
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) SDLC
2 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
3 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Front End Development
3 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) User Experience
4 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
4 1 (11.11%) Observability
4 1 (11.11%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Oracle
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) New Relic