MS Access Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Access
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring MS Access 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 502 541 512
Rank change year-on-year +39 -29 +217
Permanent jobs citing MS Access 13 26 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.069% 0.095%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.34% 0.44% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 12 21 23
10th Percentile £42,500 £27,500 -
25th Percentile £42,688 £30,750 £23,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,085 £38,000 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.38% +52.00% -39.39%
75th Percentile £44,417 £45,000 £40,625
90th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £55,750
UK median annual salary £43,085 £38,000 £38,750
% change year-on-year +13.38% -1.94% -8.82%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

MS Access 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,852 5,854 6,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.18% 15.64% 20.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,430 3,089 4,721
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,759 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.40% +4.60% -4.00%

MS Access
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MS Access relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

MS Access job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

MS Access
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing MS Access.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing MS Access

MS Access
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing MS Access in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for MS Access in the UK excluding London

MS Access
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MS Access within the UK excluding London 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
South West - 4 £42,750 -
East of England - 4 £43,085 -
Midlands +24 2 £45,000 +28.57% 1
West Midlands - 2 £45,000 -
South East +30 1 £37,500 +27.12%
Scotland -6 1 - -
Wales - 1 £52,500 -
MS Access
UK

MS Access
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (30.77%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (30.77%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (76.92%) SQL Server
2 5 (38.46%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (30.77%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (7.69%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (7.69%) MySQL
4 1 (7.69%) Power BI
4 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Toad
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 4 (30.77%) Local Government
3 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
4 3 (23.08%) Manufacturing
5 2 (15.38%) Law
5 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Applications Support
2 4 (30.77%) Applications Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Applications Support Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Consultant
2 4 (30.77%) Senior
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Applications Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Applications Support
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Support Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Support Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Technical Consultant
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
4 2 (15.38%) C# Software Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Access Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Support Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Delphi Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
1 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
1 2 (15.38%) ADO
1 2 (15.38%) Blazor
1 2 (15.38%) ODBC
1 2 (15.38%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Unix
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
1 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Analytics
1 5 (38.46%) Data Analytics
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Business Analysis
2 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (30.77%) Customer Service
2 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (30.77%) Data Analysis
2 4 (30.77%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
2 4 (30.77%) Digital Strategy
2 4 (30.77%) Migration
2 4 (30.77%) Performance Improvement
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Project Management
2 4 (30.77%) Workflow
3 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (15.38%) Integration Testing
3 2 (15.38%) MVVM
3 2 (15.38%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) VB
2 5 (38.46%) VBA
3 4 (30.77%) PL/SQL
3 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
3 4 (30.77%) Shell Script
4 3 (23.08%) C#
5 2 (15.38%) Delphi
5 2 (15.38%) Java
5 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (15.38%) XAML
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Data Quality
1 4 (30.77%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) NEC
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
1 4 (30.77%) SAP
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft