Relational Database Jobs in the South East

Relational Database
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 212 173 214
Rank change year-on-year -39 +41 -105
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 105 279 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.09% 1.47% 1.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.62% 9.99% 7.49%
Number of salaries quoted 23 162 103
10th Percentile £37,250 £30,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,565 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% -4.35% +0.88%
75th Percentile £67,875 £65,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £73,500 £77,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +12.55%

All Database and 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 1,218 2,792 2,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 12.67% 14.70% 17.96%
Number of salaries quoted 686 2,063 1,614
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,790 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in the South East

Relational Database
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Relational Database in the South East.

Salary trend for Relational Database in the South East

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in the South East over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

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 20 June 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
Thames Valley +20 52 £55,283 +0.51% 141
Berkshire +27 44 £37,500 -40.94% 97
Surrey +46 23 £33,000 -43.10% 32
Hampshire +3 17 £52,500 -12.50% 52
Oxfordshire +45 6 £65,000 +13.00% 15
Kent +19 5 £65,000 +2.36% 11
Middlesex -14 4 - - 1
West Sussex +33 3 £72,500 +56.76% 25
Buckinghamshire -8 2 £65,250 +18.64% 30
East Sussex +12 1 £57,500 +9.52% 32
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 13 (12.38%) JBoss
1 13 (12.38%) Red Hat Fuse
2 7 (6.67%) Confluence
3 6 (5.71%) Apache
4 5 (4.76%) IIS
5 4 (3.81%) OpenStack
6 3 (2.86%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.95%) GemFire
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 64 (60.95%) AWS
2 37 (35.24%) Serverless
3 34 (32.38%) Amazon ECS
3 34 (32.38%) Amazon EKS
4 25 (23.81%) Pulumi
5 20 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
5 20 (19.05%) Azure
6 8 (7.62%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.76%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.81%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.81%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.86%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.86%) OneDrive
9 3 (2.86%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.86%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (23.81%) Broadband
2 5 (4.76%) DNS
2 5 (4.76%) Firewall
2 5 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.90%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (45.71%) RDBMS
2 38 (36.19%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (26.67%) NoSQL
4 20 (19.05%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.76%) MySQL
6 2 (1.90%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.90%) Metadata
6 2 (1.90%) Power BI
7 1 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.95%) Apache Ignite
7 1 (0.95%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.95%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.95%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.95%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (35.24%) Jenkins
2 33 (31.43%) Git
3 32 (30.48%) JUnit
4 25 (23.81%) Jaeger
5 17 (16.19%) JMeter
5 17 (16.19%) Mockito
6 7 (6.67%) JIRA
7 5 (4.76%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.90%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.90%) Moq
8 2 (1.90%) Postman
8 2 (1.90%) Selenium
8 2 (1.90%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.90%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.95%) MLflow
General
1 36 (34.29%) Public Sector
2 25 (23.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 6 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.76%) Back Office
6 5 (4.76%) Local Government
6 5 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.86%) Finance
8 2 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.95%) Advertising
9 1 (0.95%) Front Office
9 1 (0.95%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.95%) Law
9 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (34.29%) Developer
2 32 (30.48%) Java Developer
3 26 (24.76%) Lead
4 25 (23.81%) Team Leader
5 12 (11.43%) Principal Engineer
6 8 (7.62%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (7.62%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (7.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 7 (6.67%) Analyst
8 5 (4.76%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Senior
8 5 (4.76%) Software Engineer
9 3 (2.86%) Administrator
9 3 (2.86%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (2.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.86%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
10 2 (1.90%) Data Engineer
10 2 (1.90%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (35.24%) REST
2 36 (34.29%) Spring
3 35 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 34 (32.38%) Web Services
5 30 (28.57%) Apache Camel
6 29 (27.62%) Elastic Stack
7 25 (23.81%) OpenTelemetry
8 21 (20.00%) HTML
9 17 (16.19%) ActiveMQ
9 17 (16.19%) Hibernate
9 17 (16.19%) jQuery
9 17 (16.19%) WireMock
10 15 (14.29%) SOAP
11 14 (13.33%) RESTful
12 13 (12.38%) J2EE
13 10 (9.52%) .NET
14 9 (8.57%) JSON
14 9 (8.57%) XML
15 6 (5.71%) Kafka
15 6 (5.71%) React
Miscellaneous
1 34 (32.38%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (7.62%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.67%) Life Science
3 7 (6.67%) Operational Technology
3 7 (6.67%) SCADA
4 5 (4.76%) Client/Server
4 5 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.81%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.81%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.90%) Acoustics
6 2 (1.90%) IoT
7 1 (0.95%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.95%) Derivative
7 1 (0.95%) Equities
7 1 (0.95%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.95%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.95%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (35.24%) Linux
2 28 (26.67%) Unix
3 10 (9.52%) Windows
4 5 (4.76%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.90%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (74.29%) Agile
2 57 (54.29%) DevOps
3 42 (40.00%) Microservices
4 36 (34.29%) Mentoring
5 35 (33.33%) TDD
6 32 (30.48%) CI/CD
6 32 (30.48%) Roadmaps
7 30 (28.57%) BDD
7 30 (28.57%) Containerisation
8 28 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (26.67%) Performance Optimisation
9 27 (25.71%) Scrum
10 25 (23.81%) Budget Control
10 25 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
10 25 (23.81%) Cost Optimisation
10 25 (23.81%) GitOps
10 25 (23.81%) High Availability
10 25 (23.81%) Product Management
10 25 (23.81%) Resource Management
10 25 (23.81%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 70 (66.67%) Python
2 65 (61.90%) Java
3 52 (49.52%) JavaScript
4 30 (28.57%) Go
5 27 (25.71%) Bash
6 26 (24.76%) SQL
7 17 (16.19%) C#
7 17 (16.19%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.81%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.90%) C
9 2 (1.90%) C++
9 2 (1.90%) Fortran
9 2 (1.90%) PHP
9 2 (1.90%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.95%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (23.81%) AWS Certification
2 24 (22.86%) Security Cleared
3 23 (21.90%) SC Cleared
4 16 (15.24%) Degree
5 6 (5.71%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.90%) PhD
8 1 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.95%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.38%) SLA
2 5 (4.76%) QA
3 3 (2.86%) GDPR
4 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.95%) CDISC
4 1 (0.95%) Data Quality
System Software
1 66 (62.86%) Docker
2 7 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (56.19%) Kubernetes
2 44 (41.90%) Ansible
3 29 (27.62%) Terraform
4 25 (23.81%) Argo
4 25 (23.81%) Kustomize
4 25 (23.81%) Prometheus
5 17 (16.19%) Kibana
6 5 (4.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (23.81%) Google
2 17 (16.19%) Dynatrace
2 17 (16.19%) Splunk
3 12 (11.43%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.62%) Oracle
5 7 (6.67%) Rockwell
5 7 (6.67%) Siemens
6 5 (4.76%) Atlassian
6 5 (4.76%) VMware
7 2 (1.90%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.95%) Databricks
8 1 (0.95%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.95%) Solace
8 1 (0.95%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.95%) Xamarin