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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 252 197
Rank change year-on-year -105 -55 -4
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 193 268 931
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.34% 1.03% 1.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.32% 6.11% 8.25%
Number of salaries quoted 135 176 591
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £65,427
90th Percentile £74,965 £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 4,466 4,389 11,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.93% 16.83% 17.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,581 2,948 8,144
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -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 30 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 30 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 -50 65 £50,000 -16.67% 44
North of England -41 62 £60,000 +9.09% 33
Yorkshire -43 32 £61,250 +11.36% 18
Midlands -37 30 £34,500 -23.33% 24
North West -25 28 £57,500 +4.55% 13
South West -49 24 £50,000 +2.56% 14
West Midlands -24 16 £32,500 -27.78% 15
East Midlands -35 14 £38,750 +3.33% 9
East of England -33 10 £42,500 -31.45% 7
Scotland -44 4 £26,000 -61.48% 9
North East -19 2 £45,000 +6.83% 4
Wales -42 2 £37,500 -42.31% 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 (6.22%) OpenStack
2 8 (4.15%) CMS
3 4 (2.07%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.04%) CICS
4 2 (1.04%) Confluence
4 2 (1.04%) Mendix
4 2 (1.04%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.52%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.52%) Camunda
5 1 (0.52%) nginx
5 1 (0.52%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (9.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (7.77%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.52%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.52%) Shopify
2 1 (0.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 67 (34.72%) AWS
2 53 (27.46%) Azure
3 30 (15.54%) Power Platform
4 24 (12.44%) Serverless
5 22 (11.40%) Amazon ECS
5 22 (11.40%) GCP
6 20 (10.36%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (6.22%) SaaS
8 11 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (4.15%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.15%) GitHub
10 7 (3.63%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.07%) OpenShift
13 3 (1.55%) DigitalOcean
13 3 (1.55%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.18%) Intranet
2 5 (2.59%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.07%) Wireless
4 2 (1.04%) Broadband
4 2 (1.04%) Firewall
5 1 (0.52%) DNS
5 1 (0.52%) LAN
5 1 (0.52%) Network Security
5 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.52%) WAN
5 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (28.50%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (24.35%) SQL Server
3 32 (16.58%) MySQL
4 30 (15.54%) Power BI
5 24 (12.44%) RDBMS
6 17 (8.81%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (6.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (6.22%) NoSQL
9 11 (5.70%) Metadata
10 9 (4.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (4.15%) MongoDB
12 7 (3.63%) DB2
13 5 (2.59%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (2.59%) BigQuery
14 4 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (2.07%) Oracle Database
14 4 (2.07%) Redis
15 3 (1.55%) FileMaker
15 3 (1.55%) MariaDB
16 2 (1.04%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 44 (22.80%) Git
2 27 (13.99%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.77%) JIRA
4 12 (6.22%) JUnit
5 8 (4.15%) Cucumber
5 8 (4.15%) Mockito
6 6 (3.11%) JMeter
6 6 (3.11%) Selenium
7 4 (2.07%) GitLab
7 4 (2.07%) Postman
7 4 (2.07%) SoapUI
8 3 (1.55%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.04%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.04%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.04%) IntelliJ
9 2 (1.04%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.52%) Gradle
10 1 (0.52%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 79 (40.93%) Social Skills
2 45 (23.32%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (15.54%) Finance
4 16 (8.29%) Manufacturing
5 13 (6.74%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.63%) Law
7 5 (2.59%) Legal
8 4 (2.07%) Marketing
9 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.04%) Back Office
10 2 (1.04%) Banking
10 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.04%) Police
10 2 (1.04%) Retail
11 1 (0.52%) Electronics
11 1 (0.52%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Local Government
11 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (44.04%) Developer
2 31 (16.06%) Analyst
3 26 (13.47%) Full-Stack Developer
4 25 (12.95%) Java Developer
5 16 (8.29%) Senior
5 16 (8.29%) Software Engineer
6 15 (7.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 14 (7.25%) Data Engineer
8 13 (6.74%) Applications Support
9 12 (6.22%) Data Analyst
9 12 (6.22%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.22%) Support Analyst
10 11 (5.70%) C# Developer
10 11 (5.70%) Junior
11 9 (4.66%) Applications Support Analyst
12 8 (4.15%) Report Analyst
12 8 (4.15%) Support Engineer
13 7 (3.63%) Applications Developer
14 6 (3.11%) Architect
14 6 (3.11%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (21.24%) REST
2 37 (19.17%) React
3 28 (14.51%) Spring
4 27 (13.99%) Node.js
5 26 (13.47%) HTML
5 26 (13.47%) Spring Boot
6 22 (11.40%) CSS
6 22 (11.40%) Web Services
6 22 (11.40%) XML
7 18 (9.33%) .NET
8 17 (8.81%) AngularJS
8 17 (8.81%) Vue
9 16 (8.29%) Elastic Stack
10 15 (7.77%) JSON
11 11 (5.70%) Laravel
11 11 (5.70%) SOAP
11 11 (5.70%) WinForms
12 10 (5.18%) Apache Camel
12 10 (5.18%) Kafka
13 9 (4.66%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.81%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (6.74%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.18%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.15%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.15%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.15%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.63%) Replication
6 4 (2.07%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (2.07%) Legacy Code
6 4 (2.07%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.55%) CUDA
7 3 (1.55%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.04%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.04%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.52%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.52%) PKI
9 1 (0.52%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.81%) Windows
2 13 (6.74%) Linux
3 5 (2.59%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.07%) Unix
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (37.31%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (32.64%) Agile
3 52 (26.94%) CI/CD
4 41 (21.24%) Full-Stack Development
5 40 (20.73%) DevOps
6 37 (19.17%) Business Intelligence
7 36 (18.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (18.13%) Analytics
9 33 (17.10%) Data Modelling
10 30 (15.54%) Microservices
11 28 (14.51%) ETL
11 28 (14.51%) SDLC
12 27 (13.99%) Software Engineering
13 25 (12.95%) Scrum
14 24 (12.44%) TDD
15 19 (9.84%) Containerisation
15 19 (9.84%) Mentoring
16 18 (9.33%) Kanban
16 18 (9.33%) Workflow
17 17 (8.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 97 (50.26%) SQL
2 60 (31.09%) JavaScript
3 53 (27.46%) Java
3 53 (27.46%) Python
4 32 (16.58%) C#
5 21 (10.88%) PHP
6 14 (7.25%) TypeScript
7 13 (6.74%) Delphi
8 9 (4.66%) Go
9 8 (4.15%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.11%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.11%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.07%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.55%) R
13 2 (1.04%) Bash
13 2 (1.04%) C
13 2 (1.04%) Scala
14 1 (0.52%) C++
14 1 (0.52%) Perl
14 1 (0.52%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 25 (12.95%) Degree
2 14 (7.25%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.63%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.07%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.07%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.04%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.52%) CISSP
9 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.52%) MCSE
9 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.52%) OCP
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (16.58%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.70%) GDPR
2 11 (5.70%) QA
3 2 (1.04%) HL7
4 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.52%) NCSC
4 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (19.69%) Docker
2 5 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (18.65%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.81%) Terraform
3 10 (5.18%) Ansible
4 5 (2.59%) Kibana
5 4 (2.07%) Grafana
6 3 (1.55%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.04%) Argo
7 2 (1.04%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.52%) Control-M
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.52%) SCCM
8 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 44 (22.80%) Microsoft
2 38 (19.69%) Oracle
3 10 (5.18%) Google
4 7 (3.63%) Pega
5 5 (2.59%) Databricks
5 5 (2.59%) Dynatrace
5 5 (2.59%) Splunk
5 5 (2.59%) WSO2
6 4 (2.07%) HubSpot
6 4 (2.07%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.55%) Informatica
7 3 (1.55%) Talend
8 2 (1.04%) IBM
8 2 (1.04%) IFS
8 2 (1.04%) OutSystems
8 2 (1.04%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.04%) SAP
8 2 (1.04%) Siemens
9 1 (0.52%) Aderant
9 1 (0.52%) TIBCO