Relational Database Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Relational Database
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 71 54
Rank change year-on-year +5 -17 +7
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 2 7 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.25% 1.03% 1.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.25% 8.64% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - £38,625 £34,625
25th Percentile £51,250 £39,937 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +1.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £53,750 £59,427 £53,750
90th Percentile - £63,132 £60,141
North East median annual salary £52,500 £45,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% +1.11% -4.26%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 89 81 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 11.24% 11.88% 21.13%
Number of salaries quoted 59 43 98
10th Percentile £28,500 £40,400 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,500 £31,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £56,500 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.73% +23.50% -16.82%
75th Percentile £60,750 £77,500 £58,438
90th Percentile £71,000 £87,000 £67,296
North East median annual salary £50,000 £56,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.50% +18.95% -5.00%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Relational Database
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Relational Database within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +5 1 - - 7
Sunderland -1 1 £52,500 +24.63%
Relational Database
North East

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Advertising
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Senior SQL DBA
1 1 (50.00%) SQL DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Issue Tracking
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Control-M
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica
1 1 (50.00%) RedGate
1 1 (50.00%) Talend