Relational Database Job Trends in the South East

Relational Database
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 159 164
Rank change year-on-year -61 +5 +50
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 69 89 259
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.51% 1.32% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.18% 7.52% 10.41%
Number of salaries quoted 48 25 177
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,938 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £62,875 £74,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £64,500 £57,501
% change year-on-year -10.85% +12.17% -12.01%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,116 1,183 2,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.18% 17.49% 15.93%
Number of salaries quoted 662 740 1,949
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +6.36% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in the South East

Relational Database
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in the South East over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in the South East

Relational Database
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Relational Database within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
Thames Valley -30 36 £43,250 -29.39% 19
Berkshire -20 20 £50,750 -12.17% 13
Buckinghamshire -11 16 £42,500 -34.87% 3
West Sussex -12 12 £57,500 -20.69% 2
Hampshire -26 8 £62,500 +4.17% 2
Surrey -33 5 £37,500 +6.38% 6
Isle of Wight - 4 £43,500 -
East Sussex -17 2 - -
Kent - 1 £55,000 -
Sussex - 1 £59,500 -
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (8.70%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.90%) Confluence
2 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.45%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.45%) Camunda
3 1 (1.45%) CMS
3 1 (1.45%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (17.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (10.14%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.45%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.45%) Shopify
2 1 (1.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 24 (34.78%) AWS
2 23 (33.33%) Azure
3 14 (20.29%) Power Platform
4 13 (18.84%) Amazon ECS
4 13 (18.84%) Amazon EKS
4 13 (18.84%) Serverless
5 8 (11.59%) GCP
6 6 (8.70%) Amazon S3
6 6 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (5.80%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.90%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 2 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.90%) BrowserStack
8 2 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.90%) Prefect
9 1 (1.45%) Boomi
9 1 (1.45%) iPaaS
9 1 (1.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.49%) Intranet
2 3 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (31.88%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (21.74%) SQL Server
3 14 (20.29%) Power BI
4 10 (14.49%) RDBMS
5 9 (13.04%) MySQL
6 8 (11.59%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (8.70%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (8.70%) MongoDB
7 6 (8.70%) NoSQL
8 4 (5.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (5.80%) BigQuery
8 4 (5.80%) Oracle Database
8 4 (5.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (4.35%) Metadata
9 3 (4.35%) Tableau
10 1 (1.45%) Looker
10 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (1.45%) Power Query
10 1 (1.45%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 1 (1.45%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 18 (26.09%) Git
2 13 (18.84%) Jenkins
3 8 (11.59%) JIRA
4 7 (10.14%) JUnit
5 5 (7.25%) Mockito
6 4 (5.80%) JMeter
6 4 (5.80%) Selenium
7 3 (4.35%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.90%) MSTest
8 2 (2.90%) Postman
8 2 (2.90%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.45%) Ant
9 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.45%) Gradle
9 1 (1.45%) Maven
9 1 (1.45%) NUnit
9 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (43.48%) Analytical Skills
1 30 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 17 (24.64%) Finance
3 10 (14.49%) Manufacturing
4 8 (11.59%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.25%) Law
6 3 (4.35%) Legal
7 2 (2.90%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.90%) Aviation
8 1 (1.45%) Banking
8 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (31.88%) Developer
2 18 (26.09%) Analyst
3 13 (18.84%) Java Developer
4 11 (15.94%) Data Analyst
5 9 (13.04%) Data Engineer
6 8 (11.59%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (11.59%) Report Analyst
7 7 (10.14%) Applications Support
7 7 (10.14%) Applications Support Analyst
7 7 (10.14%) Support Analyst
7 7 (10.14%) Support Engineer
8 6 (8.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (7.25%) Senior
10 4 (5.80%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (5.80%) Data Custodian
10 4 (5.80%) Data Manager
10 4 (5.80%) IT Support
10 4 (5.80%) Software Support Engineer
11 3 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 3 (4.35%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (23.19%) REST
2 15 (21.74%) Spring
3 14 (20.29%) Spring Boot
4 13 (18.84%) Web Services
5 12 (17.39%) React
6 9 (13.04%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (11.59%) Node.js
8 6 (8.70%) JSON
8 6 (8.70%) Kafka
8 6 (8.70%) Mustache
8 6 (8.70%) XML
9 5 (7.25%) .NET
9 5 (7.25%) HTML
9 5 (7.25%) jQuery
10 4 (5.80%) ActiveMQ
10 4 (5.80%) AngularJS
10 4 (5.80%) Apache Camel
10 4 (5.80%) DCOM
10 4 (5.80%) RESTful
10 4 (5.80%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.84%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (10.14%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (7.25%) Replication
4 4 (5.80%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.35%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.90%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.45%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.84%) Windows
2 3 (4.35%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.90%) Linux
4 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (50.72%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (34.78%) Agile
3 23 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (31.88%) CI/CD
5 21 (30.43%) Analytics
6 16 (23.19%) Business Intelligence
6 16 (23.19%) Microservices
7 14 (20.29%) Scrum
7 14 (20.29%) TDD
8 13 (18.84%) ETL
9 12 (17.39%) Data Extraction
9 12 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
9 12 (17.39%) DevOps
10 11 (15.94%) Decision-Making
10 11 (15.94%) SDLC
11 10 (14.49%) Data Modelling
12 9 (13.04%) Data Analysis
12 9 (13.04%) Data Engineering
12 9 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
13 8 (11.59%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 41 (59.42%) SQL
2 21 (30.43%) Java
3 19 (27.54%) Python
4 14 (20.29%) JavaScript
5 7 (10.14%) C#
6 5 (7.25%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.80%) Go
8 3 (4.35%) PL/SQL
8 3 (4.35%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.35%) R
9 2 (2.90%) PHP
9 2 (2.90%) Scala
9 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.45%) PROC SQL
10 1 (1.45%) SAS Macro
10 1 (1.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (21.74%) Degree
2 10 (14.49%) Security Cleared
3 7 (10.14%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.90%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.45%) CISSP
7 1 (1.45%) MCSE
7 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.45%) OCP
7 1 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (31.88%) Data Quality
2 7 (10.14%) GDPR
3 4 (5.80%) QA
4 3 (4.35%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.90%) WCAG
6 1 (1.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (27.54%) Docker
2 3 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (23.19%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.14%) Kibana
3 4 (5.80%) Terraform
4 3 (4.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 27 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.49%) Oracle
3 4 (5.80%) Dynatrace
3 4 (5.80%) Google
3 4 (5.80%) IBM
3 4 (5.80%) Splunk
4 3 (4.35%) AppDynamics
4 3 (4.35%) Databricks
4 3 (4.35%) Informatica
4 3 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.90%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.90%) Talend
6 1 (1.45%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.45%) Epicor
6 1 (1.45%) Infor
6 1 (1.45%) Jitterbit
6 1 (1.45%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.45%) Siemens
6 1 (1.45%) SnapLogic
6 1 (1.45%) Software AG