Relational Database Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Relational Database
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 256 195
Rank change year-on-year -112 -61 0
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 195 272 906
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.35% 1.04% 1.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.48% 6.13% 8.16%
Number of salaries quoted 134 176 593
10th Percentile £31,625 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.92% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £65,250
90th Percentile £74,993 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -11.54%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,349 4,438 11,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.89% 16.90% 18.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,504 2,916 8,128
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,699
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -8.00%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Relational Database
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in the UK excluding London

Relational Database
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 Relational Database within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 March 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
South East -48 64 £50,000 -16.67% 46
North of England -33 62 £60,000 +9.09% 32
Midlands -33 33 £34,750 -18.24% 21
Yorkshire -36 32 £62,500 +13.64% 16
North West -22 28 £57,500 +4.55% 14
South West -34 23 £48,000 -1.54% 19
West Midlands -15 18 £32,500 -27.78% 12
East Midlands -33 15 £37,500 - 9
East of England -31 9 £42,500 -31.73% 8
Scotland -37 5 £26,000 -61.48% 9
Wales -32 3 £51,250 -21.15% 5
North East -23 2 £45,000 +6.83% 4
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -
Relational Database
UK

Relational Database
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 12 (6.15%) OpenStack
2 7 (3.59%) CMS
3 4 (2.05%) Headless CMS
4 3 (1.54%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.03%) CICS
5 2 (1.03%) Confluence
5 2 (1.03%) Mendix
6 1 (0.51%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.51%) Camunda
6 1 (0.51%) JBoss
6 1 (0.51%) nginx
6 1 (0.51%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.51%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (9.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (8.21%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.54%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.51%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.51%) Shopify
2 1 (0.51%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 67 (34.36%) AWS
2 54 (27.69%) Azure
3 31 (15.90%) Power Platform
4 25 (12.82%) Serverless
5 22 (11.28%) Amazon ECS
6 21 (10.77%) GCP
7 20 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (5.64%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.13%) SaaS
10 9 (4.62%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.10%) GitHub
12 7 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
15 4 (2.05%) OpenShift
16 3 (1.54%) DigitalOcean
16 3 (1.54%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.13%) Intranet
2 5 (2.56%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.05%) Wireless
4 2 (1.03%) Broadband
4 2 (1.03%) Firewall
5 1 (0.51%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (28.72%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (23.59%) SQL Server
3 32 (16.41%) MySQL
4 30 (15.38%) Power BI
5 25 (12.82%) RDBMS
6 15 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (6.15%) NoSQL
9 10 (5.13%) Metadata
10 9 (4.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (4.10%) DB2
11 8 (4.10%) MongoDB
12 5 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (2.56%) BigQuery
13 4 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (2.05%) Oracle Database
13 4 (2.05%) Redis
14 3 (1.54%) FileMaker
14 3 (1.54%) MariaDB
15 2 (1.03%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 43 (22.05%) Git
2 26 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.18%) JIRA
4 12 (6.15%) JUnit
5 8 (4.10%) Cucumber
5 8 (4.10%) Mockito
6 6 (3.08%) JMeter
6 6 (3.08%) Selenium
7 4 (2.05%) GitLab
7 4 (2.05%) Postman
7 4 (2.05%) SoapUI
8 3 (1.54%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.03%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.03%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.03%) IntelliJ
9 2 (1.03%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.51%) Gradle
10 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.51%) Zephyr
General
1 78 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 45 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (15.90%) Finance
4 17 (8.72%) Manufacturing
5 12 (6.15%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.10%) Law
7 4 (2.05%) Legal
7 4 (2.05%) Marketing
8 3 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.54%) Retail
9 2 (1.03%) Back Office
9 2 (1.03%) Banking
9 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.51%) Electronics
10 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Local Government
10 1 (0.51%) Police
10 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (43.59%) Developer
2 32 (16.41%) Analyst
3 26 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 24 (12.31%) Java Developer
5 17 (8.72%) Software Engineer
6 16 (8.21%) Senior
7 15 (7.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 13 (6.67%) Data Engineer
9 12 (6.15%) Applications Support
9 12 (6.15%) Data Analyst
9 12 (6.15%) Junior
9 12 (6.15%) Senior Developer
10 11 (5.64%) C# Developer
10 11 (5.64%) Support Analyst
11 8 (4.10%) Applications Support Analyst
11 8 (4.10%) Report Analyst
11 8 (4.10%) Support Engineer
12 7 (3.59%) Applications Developer
12 7 (3.59%) Architect
13 6 (3.08%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (21.03%) REST
2 38 (19.49%) React
3 28 (14.36%) Spring
4 27 (13.85%) Node.js
4 27 (13.85%) Spring Boot
5 26 (13.33%) HTML
6 22 (11.28%) CSS
6 22 (11.28%) Web Services
6 22 (11.28%) XML
7 21 (10.77%) .NET
8 18 (9.23%) AngularJS
9 17 (8.72%) Vue
10 16 (8.21%) Elastic Stack
10 16 (8.21%) JSON
11 11 (5.64%) Laravel
11 11 (5.64%) SOAP
11 11 (5.64%) WinForms
12 10 (5.13%) Apache Camel
12 10 (5.13%) Kafka
13 9 (4.62%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.72%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (5.64%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.13%) Data Structures
4 9 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.10%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.08%) Replication
7 4 (2.05%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.05%) Legacy Code
7 4 (2.05%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.05%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.54%) e-Learning
9 2 (1.03%) CUDA
9 2 (1.03%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.03%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.51%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.72%) Windows
2 14 (7.18%) Linux
3 5 (2.56%) Unix
3 5 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
2 65 (33.33%) Agile
3 52 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 41 (21.03%) DevOps
4 41 (21.03%) Full-Stack Development
5 37 (18.97%) Business Intelligence
6 35 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (17.44%) Analytics
8 31 (15.90%) Data Modelling
9 30 (15.38%) Microservices
9 30 (15.38%) SDLC
10 27 (13.85%) ETL
10 27 (13.85%) Software Engineering
11 26 (13.33%) Scrum
12 24 (12.31%) TDD
13 21 (10.77%) Mentoring
14 19 (9.74%) Containerisation
15 17 (8.72%) Kanban
15 17 (8.72%) Validation
15 17 (8.72%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 97 (49.74%) SQL
2 59 (30.26%) JavaScript
3 53 (27.18%) Java
4 51 (26.15%) Python
5 33 (16.92%) C#
6 21 (10.77%) PHP
7 14 (7.18%) TypeScript
8 13 (6.67%) Delphi
9 9 (4.62%) Go
9 9 (4.62%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.08%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.56%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.54%) R
13 2 (1.03%) Bash
13 2 (1.03%) C
13 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.03%) Scala
14 1 (0.51%) C++
14 1 (0.51%) Perl
14 1 (0.51%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 24 (12.31%) Degree
2 14 (7.18%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.59%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.05%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.51%) CISSP
9 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.51%) MCSE
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.51%) OCP
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.64%) GDPR
2 11 (5.64%) QA
3 2 (1.03%) HL7
4 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.51%) NCSC
4 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (19.49%) Docker
2 4 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (18.46%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.21%) Terraform
3 10 (5.13%) Ansible
4 5 (2.56%) Kibana
5 4 (2.05%) Grafana
6 3 (1.54%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.03%) Argo
7 2 (1.03%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.51%) Control-M
8 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 38 (19.49%) Oracle
3 10 (5.13%) Google
4 7 (3.59%) Pega
5 6 (3.08%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.56%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.56%) Splunk
6 5 (2.56%) WSO2
7 4 (2.05%) Databricks
7 4 (2.05%) HubSpot
8 3 (1.54%) Informatica
8 3 (1.54%) Talend
9 2 (1.03%) IBM
9 2 (1.03%) IFS
9 2 (1.03%) OutSystems
9 2 (1.03%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.03%) SAP
9 2 (1.03%) Siemens
10 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.51%) Workday