Relational Database Job Trends in the South West

Relational Database
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 129 156
Rank change year-on-year -33 +27 -4
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 22 71 64
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.44% 1.64% 1.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.73% 9.78% 7.67%
Number of salaries quoted 15 32 47
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,875 £39,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,953 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.09% -20.00% +16.82%
75th Percentile £76,250 £68,525 £84,056
90th Percentile £99,500 £70,000 £137,913
England median annual salary £57,500 £61,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.05% +2.01% -7.69%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 465 726 834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.28% 16.74% 19.10%
Number of salaries quoted 274 362 635
10th Percentile £32,875 £35,800 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,148
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.27% +10.30%
75th Percentile £69,081 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,375 £81,250 £84,900
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in the South West

Relational Database
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in the South West over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in the South West

Relational Database
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Somerset - 7 £35,000 - 1
Bristol 0 6 £90,000 +38.46% 5
Gloucestershire +5 2 £70,000 +60.00% 5
Wiltshire -4 2 £43,953 -
Dorset -13 2 - - 3
Cornwall -13 1 - -
Devon - 1 £42,750 - 3
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (4.55%) Apache
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (18.18%) OpenShift
3 4 (18.18%) Serverless
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (13.64%) GitHub
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.55%) Pulumi
6 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) AMQP
2 1 (4.55%) Broadband
2 1 (4.55%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (13.64%) InfluxDB
3 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 2 (9.09%) MySQL
3 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 2 (9.09%) OLAP
3 2 (9.09%) Power BI
3 2 (9.09%) RDBMS
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.55%) DB2
4 1 (4.55%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
2 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 3 (13.64%) GitLab
4 2 (9.09%) JUnit
4 2 (9.09%) Visual Studio
5 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.55%) Jaeger
5 1 (4.55%) JIRA
5 1 (4.55%) Selenium
General
1 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Back Office
3 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Developer
1 6 (27.27%) Tester
2 4 (18.18%) Manual Tester
2 4 (18.18%) Senior
2 4 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Site Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Software Tester
4 2 (9.09%) Backend Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Django Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Python Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Python/Django Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 1 (4.55%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) QA Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Backend Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) React
2 3 (13.64%) Django
2 3 (13.64%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (13.64%) Spring
2 3 (13.64%) Spring Boot
3 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (4.55%) EJB
4 1 (4.55%) Flask
4 1 (4.55%) Hibernate
4 1 (4.55%) JSF
4 1 (4.55%) OpenAPI
4 1 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (4.55%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Agile
2 12 (54.55%) DevOps
3 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
3 9 (40.91%) Scrum
4 7 (31.82%) API Testing
4 7 (31.82%) Kanban
4 7 (31.82%) Manual Testing
4 7 (31.82%) Regression Testing
4 7 (31.82%) Software Testing
5 6 (27.27%) Software Engineering
6 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
7 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
7 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
8 3 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (13.64%) TDD
8 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) SQL
2 12 (54.55%) Python
3 9 (40.91%) Java
4 4 (18.18%) Go
5 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
5 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
6 2 (9.09%) C#
6 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 1 (4.55%) Bash
7 1 (4.55%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) ISTQB
1 7 (31.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 4 (18.18%) Ansible
2 4 (18.18%) Grafana
2 4 (18.18%) Prometheus
2 4 (18.18%) Terraform
3 3 (13.64%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (13.64%) Progress Chef
4 2 (9.09%) Kibana
5 1 (4.55%) Argo
5 1 (4.55%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.55%) Google