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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 249 198
Rank change year-on-year -127 -51 +7
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 191 281 980
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.30% 1.06% 1.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.92% 6.59% 8.41%
Number of salaries quoted 131 179 610
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £63,125 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,075 £80,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.85% +12.17% -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 4,874 4,265 11,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.74% 16.06% 17.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,758 2,986 8,268
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,875 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £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 £70,938 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,800 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -71 69 £52,500 -12.50% 32
North of England -59 60 £60,000 +9.09% 50
Yorkshire -41 31 £62,500 +13.64% 20
North West -30 27 £57,500 +4.55% 25
Midlands -53 26 £34,500 -23.33% 30
South West -62 26 £50,000 +5.26% 21
East Midlands -51 14 £37,500 - 12
East of England -38 12 £42,500 -31.45% 16
West Midlands -43 12 £33,500 -25.56% 18
North East -34 2 £45,000 +0.42% 5
Wales -44 2 £45,000 -30.77% 6
Scotland -45 2 - - 13
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 10 (5.24%) OpenStack
2 6 (3.14%) CMS
3 5 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.05%) CICS
4 2 (1.05%) Confluence
4 2 (1.05%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.05%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.52%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.52%) Camunda
5 1 (0.52%) JBoss
5 1 (0.52%) Mendix
5 1 (0.52%) nginx
5 1 (0.52%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.52%) SAS
5 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (9.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (6.81%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.05%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.05%) NetSuite
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 66 (34.55%) AWS
2 59 (30.89%) Azure
3 33 (17.28%) Power Platform
4 25 (13.09%) Serverless
5 24 (12.57%) GCP
6 21 (10.99%) Amazon ECS
7 19 (9.95%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.71%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (4.71%) SaaS
10 7 (3.66%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.62%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.62%) GitHub
13 3 (1.57%) AWS Data Pipeline
13 3 (1.57%) DigitalOcean
13 3 (1.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.24%) Intranet
2 2 (1.05%) Broadband
2 2 (1.05%) Firewall
2 2 (1.05%) LAN
2 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.05%) WAN
2 2 (1.05%) Wireless
3 1 (0.52%) Network Security
3 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (28.27%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (25.13%) SQL Server
3 33 (17.28%) Power BI
4 29 (15.18%) MySQL
5 22 (11.52%) RDBMS
6 17 (8.90%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (8.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (8.38%) NoSQL
8 12 (6.28%) MongoDB
9 11 (5.76%) Metadata
10 10 (5.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (3.66%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (3.14%) DB2
13 5 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (2.62%) BigQuery
13 5 (2.62%) Tableau
14 4 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (2.09%) DynamoDB
14 4 (2.09%) Oracle Database
14 4 (2.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (23.56%) Git
2 24 (12.57%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.76%) JIRA
3 11 (5.76%) JUnit
4 6 (3.14%) Cucumber
4 6 (3.14%) Mockito
4 6 (3.14%) Selenium
5 5 (2.62%) JMeter
6 3 (1.57%) GitLab
6 3 (1.57%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.05%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.05%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.05%) Jaeger
7 2 (1.05%) MSTest
7 2 (1.05%) Postman
7 2 (1.05%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.52%) Ant
8 1 (0.52%) ERwin
8 1 (0.52%) Poetry
General
1 75 (39.27%) Social Skills
2 48 (25.13%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (16.23%) Finance
4 16 (8.38%) Manufacturing
5 13 (6.81%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.09%) Law
6 4 (2.09%) Legal
7 3 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.05%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.05%) Aviation
8 2 (1.05%) Back Office
8 2 (1.05%) Banking
8 2 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.05%) Police
8 2 (1.05%) Retail
9 1 (0.52%) Electronics
9 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Marketing
9 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 80 (41.88%) Developer
2 31 (16.23%) Analyst
3 21 (10.99%) Data Engineer
3 21 (10.99%) Java Developer
3 21 (10.99%) Senior
4 19 (9.95%) Full-Stack Developer
5 15 (7.85%) Applications Support
6 14 (7.33%) Software Engineer
7 13 (6.81%) Data Analyst
7 13 (6.81%) Senior Developer
8 12 (6.28%) Support Analyst
9 11 (5.76%) C# Developer
10 10 (5.24%) Applications Support Analyst
11 9 (4.71%) Junior
12 8 (4.19%) Applications Developer
12 8 (4.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 8 (4.19%) Report Analyst
12 8 (4.19%) Support Engineer
13 7 (3.66%) PHP Developer
14 6 (3.14%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (20.94%) REST
2 34 (17.80%) React
3 26 (13.61%) Spring
4 24 (12.57%) Spring Boot
5 23 (12.04%) HTML
6 22 (11.52%) XML
7 21 (10.99%) Web Services
8 20 (10.47%) .NET
8 20 (10.47%) CSS
8 20 (10.47%) Node.js
9 17 (8.90%) Elastic Stack
10 16 (8.38%) AngularJS
11 14 (7.33%) JSON
12 13 (6.81%) Vue
13 12 (6.28%) Kafka
14 11 (5.76%) RESTful
14 11 (5.76%) WinForms
15 10 (5.24%) SOAP
16 9 (4.71%) Django
16 9 (4.71%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.42%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (8.38%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.71%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (4.71%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.66%) Replication
4 7 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.62%) Legacy Code
7 4 (2.09%) CUDA
7 4 (2.09%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.57%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.57%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.05%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.52%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.52%) SCADA
10 1 (0.52%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.33%) Windows
2 10 (5.24%) Linux
3 4 (2.09%) Unix
4 3 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (35.08%) Agile
2 66 (34.55%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (26.70%) CI/CD
4 47 (24.61%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (21.99%) Analytics
6 40 (20.94%) Business Intelligence
7 39 (20.42%) DevOps
8 38 (19.90%) Data Modelling
9 36 (18.85%) ETL
10 31 (16.23%) Full-Stack Development
10 31 (16.23%) Microservices
11 29 (15.18%) Scrum
12 28 (14.66%) SDLC
13 25 (13.09%) TDD
14 24 (12.57%) Software Engineering
15 21 (10.99%) Kanban
16 20 (10.47%) Data Pipeline
16 20 (10.47%) Validation
17 19 (9.95%) Data Engineering
17 19 (9.95%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 104 (54.45%) SQL
2 53 (27.75%) JavaScript
3 52 (27.23%) Python
4 50 (26.18%) Java
5 35 (18.32%) C#
6 15 (7.85%) PHP
7 13 (6.81%) Delphi
8 10 (5.24%) TypeScript
9 9 (4.71%) T-SQL
10 7 (3.66%) Go
10 7 (3.66%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.62%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.09%) PowerShell
12 4 (2.09%) Scala
13 3 (1.57%) R
14 2 (1.05%) Bash
14 2 (1.05%) C
14 2 (1.05%) C++
15 1 (0.52%) Perl
15 1 (0.52%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 26 (13.61%) Degree
2 15 (7.85%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.76%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.57%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.57%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (1.57%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.05%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.52%) CISSP
7 1 (0.52%) MCSE
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.52%) OCP
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (21.47%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.28%) GDPR
3 10 (5.24%) QA
4 3 (1.57%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.05%) HL7
5 2 (1.05%) SLA
5 2 (1.05%) WCAG
6 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.52%) NCSC
6 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (19.90%) Docker
2 4 (2.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (18.32%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.90%) Terraform
3 9 (4.71%) Ansible
4 7 (3.66%) Kibana
5 5 (2.62%) Grafana
5 5 (2.62%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.05%) Argo
6 2 (1.05%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.52%) Control-M
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.52%) SCCM
7 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (21.99%) Microsoft
2 38 (19.90%) Oracle
3 7 (3.66%) Google
3 7 (3.66%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.14%) Databricks
5 5 (2.62%) IBM
6 4 (2.09%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.09%) Pega
6 4 (2.09%) Splunk
7 3 (1.57%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.57%) IFS
7 3 (1.57%) Informatica
7 3 (1.57%) Talend
8 2 (1.05%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.05%) SAP
8 2 (1.05%) Siemens
8 2 (1.05%) WSO2
9 1 (0.52%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.52%) Infor
9 1 (0.52%) SnapLogic