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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 108 125
Rank change year-on-year -26 +17 -7
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 7 35 109
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.23% 1.47% 2.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.56% 7.51% 9.18%
Number of salaries quoted 5 13 29
10th Percentile - £27,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £25,000 £36,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,000 £56,318 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -53.83% -13.36% +29.38%
75th Percentile - £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £36,950 £93,778 £91,387
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +6.84% -8.59%

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 273 466 1,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.13% 19.64% 27.85%
Number of salaries quoted 89 203 468
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £32,850
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% -1.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £84,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

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 22 February 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 22 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
Edinburgh -22 6 £25,500 -52.03% 1
Glasgow +5 1 £43,000 -52.22% 4
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 1 (14.29%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (14.29%) MySQL
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) ERwin
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Consultant
1 4 (57.14%) Database Consultant
1 4 (57.14%) Graduate
1 4 (57.14%) Graduate Consultant
1 4 (57.14%) Graduate Database Consultant
1 4 (57.14%) Graduate Support Consultant
1 4 (57.14%) Support Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) JMS
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) e-Learning
1 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Data Entry
2 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Database Tuning
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (14.29%) Physical Data Model
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
3 1 (14.29%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) C
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Groovy
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 1 (14.29%) Siemens