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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 208 210
Rank change year-on-year -59 +2 -25
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 260 544 448
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.69% 1.19% 1.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.87% 8.51% 7.30%
Number of salaries quoted 188 191 362
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £31,025
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,281
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £52,700
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +2.47% -4.18%
75th Percentile £58,750 £66,552 £66,865
90th Percentile £70,750 £78,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £61,235
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.02% +2.06%

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 3,785 6,391 6,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.06% 14.01% 20.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,481 3,367 4,831
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 30 November 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 30 November 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 -48 99 £41,000 -21.90% 84
North of England +15 52 £52,500 -8.70% 29
Midlands +34 37 £47,500 -20.83% 24
West Midlands +47 31 £47,500 -15.56% 20
South West -15 26 £43,953 -12.09% 18
North West +23 25 £55,000 -8.33% 18
Scotland -8 25 £26,000 -48.00% 8
Yorkshire +14 24 £45,000 -10.00% 7
East of England -1 19 £45,000 -29.41% 10
East Midlands +13 6 £37,500 -55.88% 4
Wales +8 5 £52,500 +10.98% 3
North East -1 3 £52,500 -1.60% 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 8 (3.08%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.54%) Confluence
3 2 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.77%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.77%) CMS
3 2 (0.77%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.77%) JBoss
3 2 (0.77%) Mendix
4 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.38%) Apache
4 1 (0.38%) Appian
4 1 (0.38%) Camunda
4 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.38%) SAS
4 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.38%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (6.92%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (6.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.38%) Shopify
1 1 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 71 (27.31%) AWS
2 54 (20.77%) Azure
3 38 (14.62%) Serverless
4 31 (11.92%) Amazon ECS
5 30 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
6 27 (10.38%) SaaS
7 24 (9.23%) Power Platform
8 21 (8.08%) Amazon EC2
9 18 (6.92%) GitHub
10 16 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (5.00%) Amazon S3
12 8 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.69%) Boomi
13 7 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (2.69%) OpenShift
14 6 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (1.92%) GCP
15 5 (1.92%) Snowflake
16 4 (1.54%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.31%) Intranet
1 6 (2.31%) TCP/IP
1 6 (2.31%) Wireless
2 3 (1.15%) AMQP
3 2 (0.77%) DNS
3 2 (0.77%) Firewall
3 2 (0.77%) HTTP
4 1 (0.38%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) SAN
4 1 (0.38%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (27.69%) SQL Server
2 65 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (17.69%) RDBMS
4 28 (10.77%) MySQL
5 22 (8.46%) Power BI
6 15 (5.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (3.46%) Oracle Database
9 8 (3.08%) MongoDB
10 7 (2.69%) Metadata
11 5 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.92%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (1.92%) Tableau
12 4 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.54%) DB2
12 4 (1.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (15.77%) Git
2 39 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 26 (10.00%) JUnit
4 20 (7.69%) Mockito
5 18 (6.92%) JMeter
6 16 (6.15%) JIRA
7 9 (3.46%) Cucumber
8 8 (3.08%) Selenium
9 6 (2.31%) GitLab
9 6 (2.31%) Postman
9 6 (2.31%) SoapUI
10 4 (1.54%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.77%) Maven
11 2 (0.77%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.38%) Android Studio
12 1 (0.38%) Ant
12 1 (0.38%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.38%) Gradle
12 1 (0.38%) Rational Rhapsody
12 1 (0.38%) Xcode
General
1 125 (48.08%) Social Skills
2 53 (20.38%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (20.00%) Finance
4 31 (11.92%) Public Sector
5 27 (10.38%) Retail
6 20 (7.69%) Law
7 16 (6.15%) Manufacturing
8 11 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.08%) Banking
9 8 (3.08%) Marketing
10 5 (1.92%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.54%) Back Office
11 4 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.15%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.77%) Advertising
13 2 (0.77%) Electronics
13 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 97 (37.31%) Developer
2 37 (14.23%) Java Developer
3 35 (13.46%) Analyst
4 34 (13.08%) Full-Stack Developer
5 29 (11.15%) Software Engineer
6 26 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 21 (8.08%) Support Engineer
8 17 (6.54%) Senior
9 16 (6.15%) Consultant
10 15 (5.77%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 15 (5.77%) Software Support Engineer
11 14 (5.38%) Lead
12 13 (5.00%) Junior
13 12 (4.62%) Technical Support
14 10 (3.85%) Database Consultant
14 10 (3.85%) Graduate
14 10 (3.85%) Graduate Consultant
14 10 (3.85%) Graduate Database Consultant
14 10 (3.85%) Graduate Support Consultant
14 10 (3.85%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (21.54%) REST
2 51 (19.62%) Spring
3 49 (18.85%) Spring Boot
4 46 (17.69%) JSON
5 41 (15.77%) HTML
5 41 (15.77%) React
5 41 (15.77%) Web Services
6 33 (12.69%) .NET
6 33 (12.69%) XML
7 29 (11.15%) AngularJS
8 25 (9.62%) RESTful
9 24 (9.23%) CSS
9 24 (9.23%) Hibernate
10 23 (8.85%) Apache Camel
10 23 (8.85%) jQuery
11 22 (8.46%) Node.js
12 18 (6.92%) ActiveMQ
12 18 (6.92%) Vue
12 18 (6.92%) WireMock
13 15 (5.77%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.77%) Onboarding
2 27 (10.38%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (8.08%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (6.54%) Product Ownership
5 14 (5.38%) Cloud Native
6 11 (4.23%) Operational Technology
6 11 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (3.85%) e-Learning
8 9 (3.46%) Data Structures
9 8 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.69%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.54%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.54%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.54%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.77%) IoT
13 2 (0.77%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.15%) Windows
2 19 (7.31%) Linux
3 9 (3.46%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.92%) Unix
5 1 (0.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (40.38%) Problem-Solving
2 92 (35.38%) Agile
3 73 (28.08%) CI/CD
4 49 (18.85%) Full-Stack Development
5 46 (17.69%) DevOps
6 44 (16.92%) Microservices
6 44 (16.92%) SDLC
7 42 (16.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (15.00%) Software Engineering
9 38 (14.62%) TDD
10 34 (13.08%) Scrum
11 33 (12.69%) Mentoring
12 30 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (10.38%) Analytics
13 27 (10.38%) Client Onboarding
13 27 (10.38%) Workflow
14 24 (9.23%) BDD
15 22 (8.46%) Process Management
16 21 (8.08%) Data Analysis
16 21 (8.08%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 150 (57.69%) SQL
2 78 (30.00%) Python
3 69 (26.54%) Java
4 60 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 38 (14.62%) C#
6 23 (8.85%) Shell Script
7 22 (8.46%) PowerShell
8 15 (5.77%) PHP
9 11 (4.23%) Go
9 11 (4.23%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.08%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.31%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.54%) Delphi
12 4 (1.54%) R
13 3 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.77%) VBA
15 1 (0.38%) C
15 1 (0.38%) C++
15 1 (0.38%) VB
15 1 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 53 (20.38%) Degree
2 28 (10.77%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (3.85%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.31%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (1.92%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.92%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.15%) OCP
8 3 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.77%) CISSP
9 2 (0.77%) MCSE
9 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.08%) QA
2 19 (7.31%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.46%) GDPR
4 4 (1.54%) HL7
5 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.77%) DICOM
7 1 (0.38%) CDISC
7 1 (0.38%) COBIT
7 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.38%) NCSC
7 1 (0.38%) SLA
7 1 (0.38%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 47 (18.08%) Docker
2 6 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (19.62%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.08%) Kibana
3 14 (5.38%) Terraform
4 11 (4.23%) Ansible
5 7 (2.69%) Grafana
6 4 (1.54%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.77%) SCCM
9 1 (0.38%) Control-M
9 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 62 (23.85%) Microsoft
2 44 (16.92%) Oracle
3 21 (8.08%) Splunk
4 18 (6.92%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.31%) Dell
5 6 (2.31%) IFS
5 6 (2.31%) Zoho
6 5 (1.92%) Informatica
6 5 (1.92%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.92%) Talend
7 4 (1.54%) Databricks
7 4 (1.54%) IBM
7 4 (1.54%) Pega
7 4 (1.54%) WSO2
8 3 (1.15%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.15%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.15%) Google
8 3 (1.15%) HubSpot
8 3 (1.15%) SAP
9 2 (0.77%) MuleSoft