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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 115 107
Rank change year-on-year -15 -8 +10
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 13 36 91
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.47% 1.38% 2.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.96% 7.19% 11.25%
Number of salaries quoted 13 13 34
10th Percentile - £25,000 £40,625
25th Percentile £25,000 £36,250 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% -23.08% +36.84%
75th Percentile £46,250 £63,750 £84,056
90th Percentile £71,000 £68,000 £90,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.50% +2.50% -4.00%

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 262 501 809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.46% 19.23% 26.25%
Number of salaries quoted 95 220 412
10th Percentile £26,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,840 £42,709
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% -5.91% -
75th Percentile £64,375 £63,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £77,274 £74,230 £88,625
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.00%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 -20 10 £25,000 -47.43% 3
Glasgow +15 3 £43,000 - 2
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 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Boomi
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.69%) QlikView
General
1 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Consultant
1 8 (61.54%) Database Consultant
1 8 (61.54%) Graduate
1 8 (61.54%) Graduate Consultant
1 8 (61.54%) Graduate Database Consultant
1 8 (61.54%) Graduate Support Consultant
1 8 (61.54%) Support Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Integration Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Qlik Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) JMS
1 1 (7.69%) JSON
1 1 (7.69%) Middleware
1 1 (7.69%) REST
1 1 (7.69%) SOAP
1 1 (7.69%) Web Services
1 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) e-Learning
1 8 (61.54%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Data Entry
2 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
2 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
2 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
2 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (15.38%) Observability
2 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
3 1 (7.69%) Agile
3 1 (7.69%) Analytics
3 1 (7.69%) Data Governance
3 1 (7.69%) Data Integration
3 1 (7.69%) ETL
3 1 (7.69%) Integration Testing
3 1 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (7.69%) Scrum
3 1 (7.69%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Groovy
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft