Relational Database Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Relational Database
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 146 147
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 51 53 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.75% 1.43% 1.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.87% 8.19% 8.54%
Number of salaries quoted 34 19 43
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £41,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% -25.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,283 £70,250
90th Percentile - £66,500 £78,750
South East median annual salary £56,250 £42,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +32.35% -22.73% -6.78%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 469 647 738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.94% 17.48% 14.32%
Number of salaries quoted 340 289 471
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,222 £42,500 £41,256
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -13.60%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Relational Database
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in the Thames Valley

Relational Database
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Relational Database within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Oxfordshire -6 21 £75,000 +15.38% 6
Buckinghamshire +6 16 £45,000 -30.77% 3
Berkshire -14 14 £80,000 +107.79% 8
Relational Database
South East

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 7 (13.73%) IIS
2 2 (3.92%) ArcGIS
2 2 (3.92%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.96%) JBoss
3 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Finacle
1 1 (1.96%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (1.96%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 19 (37.25%) AWS
2 17 (33.33%) Azure
3 13 (25.49%) Serverless
4 12 (23.53%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (23.53%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (23.53%) Power Platform
5 7 (13.73%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (7.84%) GCP
6 4 (7.84%) GitHub
6 4 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (3.92%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.92%) PowerApps
8 2 (3.92%) SaaS
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (31.37%) PostgreSQL
1 16 (31.37%) SQL Server
2 12 (23.53%) MySQL
2 12 (23.53%) Power BI
3 10 (19.61%) Tableau
4 7 (13.73%) RDBMS
5 3 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.88%) GIS
6 2 (3.92%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database
6 2 (3.92%) QGIS
6 2 (3.92%) Spotfire
6 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.96%) Db2
7 1 (1.96%) Metadata
7 1 (1.96%) Power Query
7 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (31.37%) Jenkins
2 9 (17.65%) JUnit
3 7 (13.73%) Claude Code
3 7 (13.73%) JMeter
3 7 (13.73%) Mockito
3 7 (13.73%) Oracle Forms
3 7 (13.73%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (11.76%) Git
5 5 (9.80%) JIRA
6 3 (5.88%) GitLab
7 1 (1.96%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.96%) Eclipse RCP
7 1 (1.96%) Storybook
General
1 18 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 15 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (23.53%) Public Sector
4 10 (19.61%) Finance
5 3 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.92%) Law
6 2 (3.92%) Legal
6 2 (3.92%) Retail
6 2 (3.92%) Social Housing
7 1 (1.96%) Banking
7 1 (1.96%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 19 (37.25%) Developer
2 16 (31.37%) Analyst
3 10 (19.61%) Systems Analyst
4 9 (17.65%) Java Developer
5 7 (13.73%) .NET Developer
5 7 (13.73%) Data Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) VB.NET Developer
6 6 (11.76%) Java Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) .NET Web Developer
7 5 (9.80%) Support Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) VB.NET Web Developer
7 5 (9.80%) Web Developer
8 4 (7.84%) Applications Support
8 4 (7.84%) Applications Support Analyst
8 4 (7.84%) Senior
8 4 (7.84%) Software Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) Support Analyst
9 3 (5.88%) Backend Developer
9 3 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (39.22%) HTML
2 17 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 16 (31.37%) Spring
4 14 (27.45%) jQuery
5 12 (23.53%) Web Services
6 11 (21.57%) CSS
6 11 (21.57%) REST
7 10 (19.61%) React
8 9 (17.65%) Hibernate
9 8 (15.69%) Apache Camel
10 7 (13.73%) .NET
10 7 (13.73%) ActiveMQ
10 7 (13.73%) ASP.NET
10 7 (13.73%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (13.73%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 7 (13.73%) JSON
10 7 (13.73%) LESS
10 7 (13.73%) WireMock
10 7 (13.73%) XML
11 6 (11.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.61%) Data Structures
1 10 (19.61%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (13.73%) Cloud Native
2 7 (13.73%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.88%) Life Science
4 3 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (3.92%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.92%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.80%) Windows
2 3 (5.88%) Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (41.18%) Agile
1 21 (41.18%) Decision-Making
2 18 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 17 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 16 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (29.41%) Data Engineering
6 14 (27.45%) AI
6 14 (27.45%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (25.49%) Data Architecture
7 13 (25.49%) DevOps
7 13 (25.49%) Microservices
7 13 (25.49%) Scrum
8 12 (23.53%) TDD
9 11 (21.57%) Data Management
10 10 (19.61%) BDD
10 10 (19.61%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 10 (19.61%) Dashboard Development
10 10 (19.61%) ERP
10 10 (19.61%) Financial Analysis
10 10 (19.61%) Financial Modelling
Programming Languages
1 21 (41.18%) JavaScript
2 19 (37.25%) Java
3 14 (27.45%) Python
3 14 (27.45%) SQL
4 11 (21.57%) TypeScript
5 8 (15.69%) Shell Script
6 7 (13.73%) VB.NET
7 3 (5.88%) PL/SQL
7 3 (5.88%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.96%) COBOL
8 1 (1.96%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 1 (1.96%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (19.61%) ACCA
1 10 (19.61%) CIMA
2 9 (17.65%) SC Cleared
2 9 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) Degree
4 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (37.25%) Data Quality
2 6 (11.76%) GDPR
3 2 (3.92%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 17 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (25.49%) Kubernetes
2 10 (19.61%) Kibana
3 4 (7.84%) Ansible
4 3 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (49.02%) Oracle
2 12 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 10 (19.61%) Sage
3 10 (19.61%) SAP
4 7 (13.73%) Dynatrace
4 7 (13.73%) Splunk
5 3 (5.88%) AppDynamics
5 3 (5.88%) IBM
6 2 (3.92%) Databricks
7 1 (1.96%) FIS
7 1 (1.96%) Micro Focus
7 1 (1.96%) Temenos