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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 272 213
Rank change year-on-year -118 -59 +4
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 223 294 952
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.98% 1.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.30% 6.73% 8.07%
Number of salaries quoted 156 171 585
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,105 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £83,759
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.88% +13.48% -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 5,189 4,368 11,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.64% 14.49% 14.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,431 2,752 8,178
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -9.68%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -13 80 £62,500 +13.64% 26
South East -42 61 £55,000 -1.02% 37
North West +8 44 £55,000 - 12
Yorkshire -28 29 £63,750 -8.93% 9
East of England -13 27 £46,250 -25.40% 11
Midlands -34 25 £48,750 +8.33% 13
South West -75 22 £51,250 -2.38% 9
East Midlands -20 19 £60,000 +60.00% 3
North East -45 7 £65,000 +26.83% 5
Wales -61 7 £45,000 -36.84% 5
West Midlands -42 6 £45,000 -25.00% 10
Scotland -25 4 £43,335 -42.22% 4
Northern Ireland -29 1 - - 26
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 6 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (2.69%) CMS
1 6 (2.69%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.35%) IIS
3 2 (0.90%) Apache
3 2 (0.90%) CICS
3 2 (0.90%) Confluence
3 2 (0.90%) Drupal
3 2 (0.90%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.45%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.45%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.45%) JBoss
4 1 (0.45%) nginx
4 1 (0.45%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.45%) PegaRULES
4 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.45%) SAS
4 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.35%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 2 (0.90%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.45%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 80 (35.87%) AWS
2 69 (30.94%) Azure
3 36 (16.14%) Power Platform
4 30 (13.45%) Serverless
5 24 (10.76%) GCP
6 23 (10.31%) Amazon ECS
6 23 (10.31%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (5.83%) GitHub
9 12 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (4.48%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (4.48%) SaaS
11 9 (4.04%) Amazon S3
11 9 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.04%) PowerApps
12 7 (3.14%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (3.14%) Power Automate
13 6 (2.69%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.69%) Intranet
2 4 (1.79%) Firewall
2 4 (1.79%) LAN
2 4 (1.79%) WAN
3 3 (1.35%) Broadband
3 3 (1.35%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.90%) FTP
4 2 (0.90%) HTTP
4 2 (0.90%) Internet
4 2 (0.90%) SMTP
4 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.90%) VPN
5 1 (0.45%) Network Security
5 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.45%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (24.66%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (20.18%) SQL Server
3 36 (16.14%) MySQL
3 36 (16.14%) Power BI
4 27 (12.11%) RDBMS
5 23 (10.31%) NoSQL
6 19 (8.52%) MongoDB
6 19 (8.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 18 (8.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (6.28%) Tableau
9 12 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (4.04%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (3.14%) Metadata
12 6 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (2.69%) Db2
12 6 (2.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.79%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.79%) DynamoDB
13 4 (1.79%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 66 (29.60%) Git
2 28 (12.56%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.17%) JIRA
4 12 (5.38%) JUnit
5 9 (4.04%) Mockito
6 7 (3.14%) GitLab
6 7 (3.14%) JMeter
7 3 (1.35%) ERwin
7 3 (1.35%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.90%) Bower
8 2 (0.90%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.90%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.90%) MSTest
8 2 (0.90%) Selenium
8 2 (0.90%) VSS/SourceSafe
9 1 (0.45%) Maven
9 1 (0.45%) NUnit
9 1 (0.45%) Poetry
9 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 72 (32.29%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.70%) Finance
3 33 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.17%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.48%) Legal
6 10 (4.48%) Manufacturing
6 10 (4.48%) Retail
7 6 (2.69%) Law
7 6 (2.69%) Social Housing
8 5 (2.24%) Banking
8 5 (2.24%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.79%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.35%) Back Office
10 3 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Aviation
11 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Legal Technology
11 2 (0.90%) Police
11 2 (0.90%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 101 (45.29%) Developer
2 39 (17.49%) Analyst
3 30 (13.45%) Senior
4 22 (9.87%) Data Engineer
4 22 (9.87%) Senior Developer
5 20 (8.97%) Full-Stack Developer
5 20 (8.97%) Java Developer
6 16 (7.17%) Applications Support
6 16 (7.17%) Software Engineer
7 14 (6.28%) Systems Analyst
8 13 (5.83%) Systems Developer
9 11 (4.93%) Software Developer
10 10 (4.48%) C# Developer
10 10 (4.48%) Lead
11 9 (4.04%) Applications Support Analyst
11 9 (4.04%) Data Analyst
12 8 (3.59%) Applications Developer
12 8 (3.59%) PHP Developer
12 8 (3.59%) Support Analyst
13 7 (3.14%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (20.63%) HTML
2 44 (19.73%) REST
3 43 (19.28%) React
4 40 (17.94%) CSS
5 27 (12.11%) Spring
6 24 (10.76%) Spring Boot
7 23 (10.31%) Web Services
8 22 (9.87%) .NET
9 20 (8.97%) jQuery
9 20 (8.97%) Node.js
9 20 (8.97%) XML
10 18 (8.07%) JSON
10 18 (8.07%) RESTful
11 15 (6.73%) HTML5
12 14 (6.28%) AngularJS
13 13 (5.83%) FastAPI
14 12 (5.38%) Vue
15 11 (4.93%) Elastic Stack
15 11 (4.93%) Flask
16 10 (4.48%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.76%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.52%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (4.93%) Data Structures
4 11 (4.93%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.14%) Replication
6 6 (2.69%) Legacy Code
7 5 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.79%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.79%) CUDA
8 4 (1.79%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.90%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.90%) MISP
10 2 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.90%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.38%) Linux
1 12 (5.38%) Windows
2 4 (1.79%) Unix
3 2 (0.90%) Solaris
3 2 (0.90%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (34.53%) CI/CD
2 76 (34.08%) Agile
3 60 (26.91%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (22.42%) Full-Stack Development
5 46 (20.63%) Business Intelligence
5 46 (20.63%) DevOps
6 43 (19.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (18.39%) Data Modelling
8 40 (17.94%) ETL
9 39 (17.49%) Microservices
9 39 (17.49%) Scrum
10 38 (17.04%) Analytics
11 32 (14.35%) AI
11 32 (14.35%) Kanban
12 31 (13.90%) Data Engineering
12 31 (13.90%) Decision-Making
13 30 (13.45%) Data Governance
14 28 (12.56%) SDLC
15 27 (12.11%) Software Engineering
16 22 (9.87%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 118 (52.91%) SQL
2 74 (33.18%) JavaScript
3 60 (26.91%) Python
4 54 (24.22%) Java
5 32 (14.35%) C#
6 22 (9.87%) TypeScript
7 21 (9.42%) PHP
8 9 (4.04%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.59%) T-SQL
10 7 (3.14%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.69%) Delphi
12 5 (2.24%) Bash
12 5 (2.24%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.79%) C++
13 4 (1.79%) Scala
14 3 (1.35%) Go
14 3 (1.35%) Perl
15 2 (0.90%) R
16 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (15.70%) Degree
2 22 (9.87%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (7.17%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.14%) ACCA
5 7 (3.14%) CIMA
6 6 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.69%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.79%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.90%) CEH
8 2 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.90%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.90%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (18.83%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.17%) GDPR
3 13 (5.83%) QA
4 3 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.90%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (0.90%) SLA
5 2 (0.90%) WCAG
6 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.45%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (22.87%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (14.35%) Kubernetes
2 22 (9.87%) Terraform
3 11 (4.93%) Ansible
4 10 (4.48%) Kibana
5 4 (1.79%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.35%) Grafana
7 2 (0.90%) Argo
7 2 (0.90%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.90%) QRadar
8 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.45%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.45%) SCCM
8 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (19.73%) Oracle
2 36 (16.14%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.38%) Splunk
4 8 (3.59%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.14%) Databricks
5 7 (3.14%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.14%) Google
5 7 (3.14%) Sage
5 7 (3.14%) SAP
6 4 (1.79%) IBM
6 4 (1.79%) Pega
7 3 (1.35%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.35%) JD Edwards
8 2 (0.90%) IFS
8 2 (0.90%) iManage
8 2 (0.90%) Sybase
8 2 (0.90%) WSO2
9 1 (0.45%) Informatica
9 1 (0.45%) Siemens
9 1 (0.45%) Teradata