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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 282 208
Rank change year-on-year -89 -74 +19
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 299 302 737
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.87% 1.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.32% 6.85% 9.36%
Number of salaries quoted 208 189 360
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,800 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,188 £41,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,712 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 5,620 4,411 7,878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.10% 12.67% 13.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,914 2,801 4,773
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £32,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

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 August 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 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
North of England -9 94 £62,500 +19.05% 32
South East -44 82 £58,500 +42.68% 39
North West -4 51 £55,000 +4.76% 21
Midlands -36 39 £50,000 +2.56% 23
East of England -16 36 £47,500 -23.39% 12
Yorkshire -12 32 £62,500 - 8
South West -77 24 £51,250 -4.65% 14
West Midlands -20 23 £48,750 -18.75% 12
Wales -54 17 £62,000 -9.82% 1
East Midlands -18 16 £60,000 +60.00% 10
North East -50 11 £65,000 +25.30% 4
Scotland -21 8 £27,250 -54.58% 1
Northern Ireland -80 1 - -
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 11 (3.68%) IIS
2 5 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.34%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.00%) Apache
4 3 (1.00%) CMS
4 3 (1.00%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.67%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.67%) CICS
5 2 (0.67%) Drupal
6 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.33%) Confluence
6 1 (0.33%) Documentum
6 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.33%) JBoss
6 1 (0.33%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.33%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.00%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 2 (0.67%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.67%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.67%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.33%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.33%) Finacle
3 1 (0.33%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.33%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 118 (39.46%) Azure
2 110 (36.79%) AWS
3 46 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 43 (14.38%) GCP
5 41 (13.71%) Serverless
6 39 (13.04%) GitHub
7 31 (10.37%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (9.03%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (8.03%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (6.69%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (5.69%) SaaS
12 16 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (4.35%) Amazon S3
14 13 (4.35%) Power Automate
15 11 (3.68%) PowerApps
16 10 (3.34%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (3.34%) Azure Data Factory
17 9 (3.01%) GitHub Copilot
17 9 (3.01%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.01%) Intranet
2 5 (1.67%) HTTP
3 4 (1.34%) Firewall
3 4 (1.34%) Internet
3 4 (1.34%) LAN
3 4 (1.34%) WAN
4 3 (1.00%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.67%) FTP
5 2 (0.67%) SMTP
5 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.67%) VPN
6 1 (0.33%) Broadband
6 1 (0.33%) Network Security
6 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.33%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (29.10%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (25.42%) SQL Server
3 69 (23.08%) MySQL
4 42 (14.05%) Power BI
5 31 (10.37%) RDBMS
6 25 (8.36%) MongoDB
7 20 (6.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 20 (6.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 18 (6.02%) Tableau
9 16 (5.35%) NoSQL
10 13 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (4.01%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (2.68%) Apache Cassandra
12 8 (2.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 7 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (2.01%) Data Lake
14 6 (2.01%) DynamoDB
15 5 (1.67%) BigQuery
15 5 (1.67%) MariaDB
15 5 (1.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 96 (32.11%) Git
2 39 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.68%) JIRA
4 13 (4.35%) GitLab
4 13 (4.35%) JUnit
5 11 (3.68%) Claude Code
6 9 (3.01%) Mockito
7 8 (2.68%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (2.68%) Team Foundation Server
8 7 (2.34%) JMeter
9 5 (1.67%) Eclipse
9 5 (1.67%) RSpec
10 4 (1.34%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.34%) minitest
10 4 (1.34%) NUnit
11 3 (1.00%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.00%) Mocha
11 3 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.67%) Bower
12 2 (0.67%) ERwin
General
1 108 (36.12%) Social Skills
2 69 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (18.73%) Finance
4 31 (10.37%) Public Sector
5 22 (7.36%) Manufacturing
6 21 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (5.69%) Retail
8 16 (5.35%) Law
9 11 (3.68%) Legal
10 8 (2.68%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.68%) Banking
11 6 (2.01%) Social Housing
12 5 (1.67%) Health Technology
13 4 (1.34%) Aviation
13 4 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.34%) Marketing
14 3 (1.00%) Back Office
14 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.67%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 141 (47.16%) Developer
2 51 (17.06%) Senior
3 43 (14.38%) Analyst
4 34 (11.37%) Senior Developer
5 32 (10.70%) Software Developer
6 30 (10.03%) Software Engineer
7 24 (8.03%) Full-Stack Developer
8 23 (7.69%) .NET Developer
9 22 (7.36%) Data Engineer
9 22 (7.36%) Java Developer
10 21 (7.02%) Lead
11 17 (5.69%) Systems Analyst
12 16 (5.35%) C# Developer
13 15 (5.02%) Applications Support
14 12 (4.01%) Consultant
15 11 (3.68%) .NET Software Developer
16 10 (3.34%) Business Analyst
16 10 (3.34%) Systems Developer
16 10 (3.34%) Web Developer
17 9 (3.01%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (23.41%) HTML
2 67 (22.41%) CSS
2 67 (22.41%) React
2 67 (22.41%) REST
3 63 (21.07%) .NET
4 43 (14.38%) Spring
5 40 (13.38%) Spring Boot
6 34 (11.37%) Terraform
7 32 (10.70%) RESTful
8 29 (9.70%) AngularJS
8 29 (9.70%) jQuery
9 27 (9.03%) Node.js
10 25 (8.36%) ASP.NET
10 25 (8.36%) Web Services
11 21 (7.02%) .NET Framework
12 20 (6.69%) Entity Framework
13 19 (6.35%) HTML5
14 18 (6.02%) .NET Core
14 18 (6.02%) JSON
14 18 (6.02%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.36%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.36%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (5.35%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 13 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (4.01%) Management Information System
7 11 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (3.01%) Legacy Applications
9 8 (2.68%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.34%) Mainframe
10 7 (2.34%) Replication
11 6 (2.01%) Client/Server
11 6 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (1.67%) Legacy Code
13 4 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (1.34%) e-Learning
13 4 (1.34%) IoT
13 4 (1.34%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.69%) Windows
2 12 (4.01%) Linux
3 4 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.00%) Unix
5 2 (0.67%) Solaris
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (39.80%) Agile
2 115 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 110 (36.79%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (26.76%) DevOps
5 68 (22.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 68 (22.74%) Software Engineering
6 62 (20.74%) Full-Stack Development
7 61 (20.40%) AI
8 56 (18.73%) Scrum
9 51 (17.06%) Microservices
10 49 (16.39%) Business Intelligence
11 43 (14.38%) Decision-Making
12 39 (13.04%) SDLC
13 38 (12.71%) Data Modelling
13 38 (12.71%) Infrastructure as Code
13 38 (12.71%) Kanban
14 37 (12.37%) Analytics
14 37 (12.37%) ETL
15 35 (11.71%) Mentoring
16 34 (11.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 145 (48.49%) SQL
2 103 (34.45%) JavaScript
3 71 (23.75%) Java
4 64 (21.40%) Python
5 55 (18.39%) C#
6 44 (14.72%) TypeScript
7 19 (6.35%) PHP
8 13 (4.35%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.34%) Shell Script
9 10 (3.34%) T-SQL
9 10 (3.34%) VB.NET
10 7 (2.34%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.01%) COBOL
12 5 (1.67%) JCL
12 5 (1.67%) Ruby
13 4 (1.34%) Bash
13 4 (1.34%) C++
13 4 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.00%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (17.73%) Degree
2 36 (12.04%) Security Cleared
3 29 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 25 (8.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.01%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.34%) ACCA
6 10 (3.34%) CIMA
7 6 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.34%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.67%) CEH
10 2 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.67%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.67%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (14.72%) Data Quality
2 26 (8.70%) QA
3 23 (7.69%) GDPR
4 4 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.67%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (0.67%) SLA
5 2 (0.67%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.67%) WCAG
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 73 (24.41%) Docker
2 9 (3.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (11.71%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.02%) Ansible
3 10 (3.34%) Kibana
4 5 (1.67%) Grafana
5 4 (1.34%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.67%) Puppet
7 2 (0.67%) QRadar
8 1 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.33%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 72 (24.08%) Microsoft
2 56 (18.73%) Oracle
3 17 (5.69%) Google
4 12 (4.01%) Sage
4 12 (4.01%) Splunk
5 10 (3.34%) SAP
6 9 (3.01%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.34%) IBM
7 7 (2.34%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.01%) Databricks
9 5 (1.67%) Broadcom
9 5 (1.67%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.34%) Informatica
10 4 (1.34%) Pega
10 4 (1.34%) TIBCO
11 3 (1.00%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.00%) JD Edwards
11 3 (1.00%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.67%) IFS
12 2 (0.67%) iManage