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 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 119 187
Rank change year-on-year -71 +68 -61
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 20 38 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.26% 1.37% 1.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.36% 8.32% 8.31%
Number of salaries quoted 16 22 89
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,375 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,188 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +7.50% -8.26%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,525 £78,750
90th Percentile £71,875 £73,228 £112,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.85% +7.50% -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 595 457 1,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.75% 16.52% 13.04%
Number of salaries quoted 319 296 955
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,522 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -0.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,244 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 7 June 2026.

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 7 June 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
Bristol -32 5 £62,500 -8.79% 9
Dorset -13 4 £52,500 +10.53%
Gloucestershire -25 4 £49,000 -26.04% 1
Devon -19 3 £48,750 -7.14%
Somerset -23 3 £45,000 -21.74% 4
Cornwall - 1 - -
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 3 (15.00%) CMS
2 1 (5.00%) Headless CMS
2 1 (5.00%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) GCP
3 5 (25.00%) Azure
4 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (15.00%) DigitalOcean
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
7 1 (5.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Broadband
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) LAN
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
1 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (5.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (5.00%) WAN
1 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (35.00%) MySQL
3 4 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (20.00%) Power BI
4 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (15.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
5 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (10.00%) Star Schema
5 2 (10.00%) Tableau
6 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 10 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Jaeger
3 1 (5.00%) JUnit
3 1 (5.00%) Mockito
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Health Technology
3 2 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (10.00%) Tech for Good
4 1 (5.00%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Police
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) CUDA Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Web Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Team Leader
4 2 (10.00%) Web Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Junior
5 1 (5.00%) Linux Developer
5 1 (5.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) FastAPI
1 4 (20.00%) REST
1 4 (20.00%) Spring
2 3 (15.00%) Django
2 3 (15.00%) Flask
2 3 (15.00%) Laravel
2 3 (15.00%) Node.js
2 3 (15.00%) RESTful
2 3 (15.00%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (15.00%) Vue
3 2 (10.00%) LoopBack
3 2 (10.00%) OAuth
3 2 (10.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (5.00%) JPA
4 1 (5.00%) JSON
4 1 (5.00%) Kafka
4 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (20.00%) CUDA
3 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Replication
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (40.00%) Analytics
3 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (25.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 4 (20.00%) API Development
5 4 (20.00%) API Integration
5 4 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 4 (20.00%) Data Science
5 4 (20.00%) Scrum
6 3 (15.00%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (15.00%) DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
1 8 (40.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) Java
3 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (20.00%) T-SQL
5 3 (15.00%) PHP
6 1 (5.00%) Bash
6 1 (5.00%) Go
6 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.00%) Good Clinical Practice
2 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Argo
3 1 (5.00%) Kustomize
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.00%) SCCM
3 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Google