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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 211 194
Rank change year-on-year -78 -17 -14
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 242 495 498
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.57% 1.31% 1.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.22% 8.44% 7.88%
Number of salaries quoted 182 170 366
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £31,125
25th Percentile £35,313 £40,313 £41,799
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,977 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.05% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,603 £67,393
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,250 £84,056
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% -0.83% -3.20%

All Database and 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 3,890 5,868 6,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.12% 15.52% 20.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,450 3,097 4,796
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,375
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -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 26 December 2025.

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 26 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 East -55 97 £41,000 -18.00% 208
North of England +18 56 £52,500 +1.45% 196
Midlands +18 37 £47,500 -13.64% 154
West Midlands +33 29 £47,500 +5.56% 77
Yorkshire -1 28 £46,250 - 85
North West +15 25 £55,000 -1.57% 100
South West -33 22 £43,953 -12.09% 93
Scotland -18 15 £25,000 -52.97% 34
East of England -17 13 £42,500 -32.00% 128
East Midlands -13 8 £37,500 -51.61% 69
Wales +5 5 £47,000 -0.85% 23
North East +7 3 £52,500 +15.38% 11
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 (4.96%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.65%) Confluence
3 2 (0.83%) CMS
3 2 (0.83%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.83%) Mendix
3 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.41%) Appian
4 1 (0.41%) Camunda
4 1 (0.41%) JBoss
4 1 (0.41%) SAS
4 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (8.26%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (7.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.41%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.41%) Shopify
1 1 (0.41%) Teamcenter
1 1 (0.41%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 64 (26.45%) AWS
2 50 (20.66%) Azure
3 36 (14.88%) Serverless
4 29 (11.98%) Amazon ECS
5 28 (11.57%) Amazon EKS
5 28 (11.57%) SaaS
6 27 (11.16%) Power Platform
7 16 (6.61%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (6.61%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (6.20%) GitHub
9 14 (5.79%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (3.31%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (3.31%) GCP
12 7 (2.89%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (2.89%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (2.89%) OpenShift
13 4 (1.65%) Snowflake
14 3 (1.24%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.31%) Intranet
2 6 (2.48%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.48%) Wireless
3 3 (1.24%) AMQP
4 2 (0.83%) Broadband
4 2 (0.83%) DNS
4 2 (0.83%) Firewall
5 1 (0.41%) HTTP
5 1 (0.41%) Internet
5 1 (0.41%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (26.03%) SQL Server
2 56 (23.14%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (13.64%) RDBMS
4 28 (11.57%) MySQL
5 25 (10.33%) Power BI
6 12 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (4.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (3.72%) Metadata
8 6 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (2.07%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.65%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.65%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.65%) Redis
11 3 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.24%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.24%) DB2
11 3 (1.24%) InfluxDB
11 3 (1.24%) QlikView
11 3 (1.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (15.70%) Git
2 35 (14.46%) Jenkins
3 19 (7.85%) JUnit
4 17 (7.02%) JIRA
5 15 (6.20%) Mockito
6 14 (5.79%) JMeter
7 10 (4.13%) Cucumber
8 8 (3.31%) Selenium
9 6 (2.48%) GitLab
9 6 (2.48%) Postman
9 6 (2.48%) SoapUI
10 5 (2.07%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.65%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.83%) Jaeger
13 1 (0.41%) Ant
13 1 (0.41%) Browser DevTools
13 1 (0.41%) Eclipse
13 1 (0.41%) Gradle
13 1 (0.41%) Maven
13 1 (0.41%) Xcode
General
1 121 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 52 (21.49%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (17.77%) Finance
4 26 (10.74%) Retail
5 23 (9.50%) Public Sector
6 18 (7.44%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.72%) Law
8 5 (2.07%) Marketing
9 4 (1.65%) Back Office
9 4 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.83%) Advertising
11 2 (0.83%) Electronics
11 2 (0.83%) German Language
11 2 (0.83%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.83%) Legal
11 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 91 (37.60%) Developer
2 37 (15.29%) Analyst
3 31 (12.81%) Java Developer
4 28 (11.57%) Full-Stack Developer
5 21 (8.68%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 21 (8.68%) Support Engineer
6 18 (7.44%) Software Engineer
7 17 (7.02%) Senior
8 15 (6.20%) Software Support Engineer
9 13 (5.37%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 12 (4.96%) Junior
10 12 (4.96%) Technical Support
11 10 (4.13%) Consultant
11 10 (4.13%) Data Analyst
11 10 (4.13%) Database Consultant
11 10 (4.13%) Graduate
11 10 (4.13%) Graduate Consultant
11 10 (4.13%) Lead
11 10 (4.13%) Support Analyst
11 10 (4.13%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (23.14%) REST
2 42 (17.36%) React
3 41 (16.94%) JSON
4 39 (16.12%) Spring
5 37 (15.29%) Spring Boot
6 36 (14.88%) Web Services
7 35 (14.46%) HTML
8 31 (12.81%) XML
9 26 (10.74%) AngularJS
10 25 (10.33%) Node.js
11 23 (9.50%) .NET
11 23 (9.50%) CSS
12 19 (7.85%) jQuery
13 17 (7.02%) Apache Camel
14 16 (6.61%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (6.61%) Hibernate
14 16 (6.61%) Vue
15 13 (5.37%) ActiveMQ
15 13 (5.37%) WireMock
16 12 (4.96%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.57%) Onboarding
2 25 (10.33%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (7.02%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (4.96%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.13%) e-Learning
5 10 (4.13%) Operational Technology
5 10 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.72%) Data Structures
7 8 (3.31%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.48%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.65%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.24%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.83%) Clustering
12 2 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.83%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.83%) Reference Data
12 2 (0.83%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.33%) Windows
2 18 (7.44%) Linux
3 8 (3.31%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.48%) Unix
5 1 (0.41%) Android
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (41.74%) Problem-Solving
2 81 (33.47%) Agile
3 62 (25.62%) CI/CD
4 42 (17.36%) DevOps
5 40 (16.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 38 (15.70%) Microservices
7 37 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 37 (15.29%) SDLC
8 32 (13.22%) TDD
9 31 (12.81%) Business Intelligence
9 31 (12.81%) Scrum
10 29 (11.98%) Mentoring
11 27 (11.16%) Analytics
11 27 (11.16%) Client Onboarding
11 27 (11.16%) Software Engineering
12 22 (9.09%) Data Modelling
12 22 (9.09%) ETL
12 22 (9.09%) Workflow
13 19 (7.85%) BDD
13 19 (7.85%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 135 (55.79%) SQL
2 74 (30.58%) Python
3 62 (25.62%) JavaScript
4 60 (24.79%) Java
5 37 (15.29%) C#
6 22 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 17 (7.02%) PHP
7 17 (7.02%) Shell Script
8 13 (5.37%) Go
9 11 (4.55%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.31%) T-SQL
11 7 (2.89%) Delphi
12 3 (1.24%) R
13 2 (0.83%) Bash
13 2 (0.83%) Bicep
13 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.83%) Scala
13 2 (0.83%) VBA
14 1 (0.41%) C++
14 1 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 46 (19.01%) Degree
2 24 (9.92%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.72%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.89%) ISTQB
4 7 (2.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 5 (2.07%) DBS Check
5 5 (2.07%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.83%) CISSP
6 2 (0.83%) MCSE
6 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.83%) OCP
6 2 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.68%) Data Quality
1 21 (8.68%) QA
2 9 (3.72%) GDPR
3 4 (1.65%) HL7
4 3 (1.24%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) CDISC
5 1 (0.41%) COBIT
5 1 (0.41%) DICOM
5 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.41%) NCSC
5 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.41%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 43 (17.77%) Docker
2 6 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 45 (18.60%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.20%) Kibana
2 15 (6.20%) Terraform
3 12 (4.96%) Ansible
4 7 (2.89%) Grafana
5 6 (2.48%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.24%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.24%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.83%) Argo
7 2 (0.83%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.83%) SCCM
8 1 (0.41%) Control-M
8 1 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (23.97%) Microsoft
2 35 (14.46%) Oracle
3 15 (6.20%) Splunk
4 13 (5.37%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.48%) Zoho
6 5 (2.07%) Google
7 4 (1.65%) Informatica
7 4 (1.65%) Pega
7 4 (1.65%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.65%) Talend
7 4 (1.65%) WSO2
8 3 (1.24%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.24%) Databricks
8 3 (1.24%) HubSpot
8 3 (1.24%) SAP
9 2 (0.83%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.83%) IBM
9 2 (0.83%) OutSystems
9 2 (0.83%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.83%) RedGate