Relational Database Job Trends in South London

Relational Database
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South London requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 54 38
Rank change year-on-year +20 -16 +30
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 15 26 21
As % of all permanent jobs in South London 3.25% 4.69% 5.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 41.67% 17.57% 26.92%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 6
10th Percentile - £60,500 £63,125
25th Percentile - £61,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £68,750 £76,563
90th Percentile - - £83,750
London median annual salary £80,000 £78,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +2.56% +7.59% -6.45%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
South London

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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 36 148 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 7.81% 26.71% 20.63%
Number of salaries quoted 12 45 54
10th Percentile £35,125 - £45,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,875 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.54% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £61,000 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £117,000 £83,750
London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -3.33%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in South London

Relational Database
Salary Trend in South London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Croydon +4 14 - -
Bromley - 1 - -
Relational Database
London

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 1 (6.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (93.33%) Amazon ECS
2 14 (93.33%) Amazon EKS
2 14 (93.33%) Serverless
3 13 (86.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (6.67%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (93.33%) PostgreSQL
1 14 (93.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (93.33%) Jenkins
2 13 (86.67%) JMeter
2 13 (86.67%) JUnit
2 13 (86.67%) Mockito
3 1 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) Jaeger
General
1 13 (86.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Developer
1 14 (93.33%) Java Developer
2 13 (86.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 13 (86.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 13 (86.67%) Mid-Level Java Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (93.33%) REST
1 14 (93.33%) Spring
1 14 (93.33%) Spring Boot
1 14 (93.33%) Web Services
2 13 (86.67%) ActiveMQ
2 13 (86.67%) Apache Camel
2 13 (86.67%) Hibernate
2 13 (86.67%) HTML
2 13 (86.67%) jQuery
2 13 (86.67%) JSON
2 13 (86.67%) WireMock
2 13 (86.67%) XML
3 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (6.67%) Kafka
4 1 (6.67%) Mustache
4 1 (6.67%) Node.js
4 1 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (93.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Agile
2 14 (93.33%) CI/CD
2 14 (93.33%) Microservices
2 14 (93.33%) TDD
3 13 (86.67%) BDD
3 13 (86.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 13 (86.67%) Process Management
3 13 (86.67%) SDLC
3 13 (86.67%) Workflow
4 1 (6.67%) Budget Control
4 1 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) High Availability
4 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (6.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (6.67%) Product Management
4 1 (6.67%) Resource Management
4 1 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (6.67%) Scrum
4 1 (6.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
1 15 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 14 (93.33%) Python
3 13 (86.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 15 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (86.67%) Kibana
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Argo
3 1 (6.67%) Kustomize
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Dynatrace
1 13 (86.67%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) Google