Relational Database Jobs in Scotland

Relational Database
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Relational Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Relational Database over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 151 144
Rank change year-on-year +15 -7 -39
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 35 119 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.07% 1.85% 1.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.91% 7.61% 8.00%
Number of salaries quoted 16 24 37
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,000 £32,878
25th Percentile £51,063 £45,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £50,000 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -0.47% +5.76%
75th Percentile £90,944 £60,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,889 £64,250 £78,108
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%

All Database and 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 393 1,563 800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 12.04% 24.30% 19.80%
Number of salaries quoted 142 413 483
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,654
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.94% +4.83%
75th Percentile £76,840 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £74,900 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in Scotland

Relational Database
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Relational Database in Scotland.

Salary trend for Relational Database in Scotland

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

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 13 July 2025. 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
Glasgow +59 25 £75,000 +50.00% 10
Edinburgh +17 9 £67,500 +12.50% 15
West Lothian +7 1 £48,500 +2.11%
Relational Database
UK

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.43%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.71%) Confluence
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (48.57%) AWS
2 5 (14.29%) Snowflake
3 4 (11.43%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (11.43%) Amazon S3
3 4 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (11.43%) Azure
3 4 (11.43%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (11.43%) GitHub
3 4 (11.43%) Serverless
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.71%) GCP
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (37.14%) SQL Server
2 12 (34.29%) RDBMS
3 11 (31.43%) NoSQL
4 9 (25.71%) MongoDB
5 8 (22.86%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (22.86%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (14.29%) DB2
7 4 (11.43%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (11.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (11.43%) Apache Hive
7 4 (11.43%) Apache Iceberg
7 4 (11.43%) Big Data
7 4 (11.43%) DynamoDB
7 4 (11.43%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (11.43%) Impala
7 4 (11.43%) Redshift Spectrum
8 2 (5.71%) MySQL
8 2 (5.71%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.71%) Fiddler
2 2 (5.71%) GitLab
2 2 (5.71%) JIRA
2 2 (5.71%) JUnit
2 2 (5.71%) Postman
2 2 (5.71%) TeamCity
2 2 (5.71%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.86%) Maven
General
1 25 (71.43%) Finance
2 17 (48.57%) Banking
2 17 (48.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (45.71%) Law
4 9 (25.71%) Investment Banking
5 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
6 4 (11.43%) Marketing
6 4 (11.43%) Private Banking
6 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
6 4 (11.43%) Publishing
7 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (5.71%) Games
9 1 (2.86%) Front Office
9 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (51.43%) Software Engineer
2 13 (37.14%) Developer
2 13 (37.14%) Java Engineer
3 12 (34.29%) Java Software Engineer
4 11 (31.43%) Java Developer
5 8 (22.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 8 (22.86%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 7 (20.00%) Senior
7 5 (14.29%) Lead
7 5 (14.29%) Senior Developer
7 5 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (11.43%) Java Software Developer
8 4 (11.43%) Lead Developer
8 4 (11.43%) Lead Java Developer
8 4 (11.43%) Lead Software Engineer
8 4 (11.43%) Senior Java Engineer
8 4 (11.43%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 4 (11.43%) Senior Software Developer
8 4 (11.43%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (11.43%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (54.29%) Spring
1 19 (54.29%) Spring Boot
2 18 (51.43%) Kafka
3 14 (40.00%) RESTful
4 6 (17.14%) Hibernate
4 6 (17.14%) React
4 6 (17.14%) Web Services
5 4 (11.43%) AngularJS
5 4 (11.43%) SOAP
5 4 (11.43%) Vue
6 3 (8.57%) CSS
6 3 (8.57%) HTML
6 3 (8.57%) JSON
6 3 (8.57%) REST
7 2 (5.71%) .NET
7 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (5.71%) Bootstrap
7 2 (5.71%) CSS3
7 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (5.71%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 12 (34.29%) Cloud Native
2 10 (28.57%) Algorithms
3 4 (11.43%) Distributed Applications
3 4 (11.43%) Public Cloud
4 3 (8.57%) Data Structures
4 3 (8.57%) e-Learning
4 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (5.71%) Credit Risk
5 2 (5.71%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.86%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.86%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (68.57%) Agile
2 21 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 17 (48.57%) SDLC
4 13 (37.14%) Microservices
5 12 (34.29%) CI/CD
5 12 (34.29%) Operational Stability
5 12 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (31.43%) Analytics
7 10 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (25.71%) Decision-Making
9 8 (22.86%) Community of Practice
9 8 (22.86%) ETL
9 8 (22.86%) Tech Ops
9 8 (22.86%) Visualisation
10 7 (20.00%) Containerisation
11 6 (17.14%) Artificial Intelligence
11 6 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (17.14%) DevOps
11 6 (17.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 20 (57.14%) SQL
2 19 (54.29%) Java
3 6 (17.14%) Python
4 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.86%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.86%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 7 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Oracle
2 4 (11.43%) Databricks
3 3 (8.57%) Sybase
4 2 (5.71%) Google
4 2 (5.71%) IBM
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft