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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 300 185
Rank change year-on-year -80 -115 +42
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 299 273 712
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.79% 1.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.40% 6.55% 9.97%
Number of salaries quoted 211 169 279
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 5,540 4,168 7,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.65% 12.09% 12.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,884 2,579 3,908
10th Percentile £34,500 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,000 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -19 90 £65,000 +23.81% 95
South East -60 77 £57,250 +39.63% 108
North West +3 49 £55,000 +4.76% 52
Midlands -34 45 £53,750 +13.16% 52
East of England -6 41 £47,500 -18.80% 26
Yorkshire -15 30 £65,000 +6.12% 34
West Midlands -33 29 £50,000 -9.09% 27
South West -87 23 £47,500 -9.52% 59
Wales -59 17 £62,000 +24.00% 2
East Midlands -21 16 £60,000 +54.84% 24
North East -56 11 £65,000 +23.81% 9
Scotland -17 9 £27,250 -44.95% 41
Northern Ireland -81 1 - - 22
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 17 (5.69%) IIS
2 5 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.00%) Apache
3 3 (1.00%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.67%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.67%) Drupal
4 2 (0.67%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.33%) CMS
5 1 (0.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.33%) Documentum
5 1 (0.33%) JBoss
5 1 (0.33%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.00%) JDE EnterpriseOne
1 3 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.67%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.67%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.67%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.33%) Finacle
3 1 (0.33%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.33%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 111 (37.12%) Azure
2 105 (35.12%) AWS
3 47 (15.72%) Power Platform
4 44 (14.72%) GitHub
5 42 (14.05%) Serverless
6 35 (11.71%) GCP
7 32 (10.70%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (10.37%) GitHub Actions
9 25 (8.36%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (6.69%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (5.69%) SaaS
12 14 (4.68%) Amazon S3
13 13 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (4.35%) Power Automate
14 11 (3.68%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (3.68%) PowerApps
15 9 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (3.01%) GitHub Copilot
15 9 (3.01%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.67%) HTTP
1 5 (1.67%) Intranet
2 4 (1.34%) Firewall
2 4 (1.34%) Internet
2 4 (1.34%) LAN
2 4 (1.34%) WAN
3 3 (1.00%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.67%) FTP
4 2 (0.67%) SMTP
4 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.67%) VPN
5 1 (0.33%) Broadband
5 1 (0.33%) Network Security
5 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.33%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (27.42%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (26.09%) SQL Server
3 69 (23.08%) MySQL
4 43 (14.38%) Power BI
5 28 (9.36%) RDBMS
6 21 (7.02%) MongoDB
7 18 (6.02%) Tableau
8 17 (5.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (5.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (4.01%) NoSQL
11 11 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 7 (2.34%) DynamoDB
14 6 (2.01%) Data Lake
14 6 (2.01%) Redis
15 5 (1.67%) MariaDB
16 4 (1.34%) Apache Cassandra
16 4 (1.34%) Ataccama
16 4 (1.34%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 95 (31.77%) Git
2 41 (13.71%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.68%) Claude Code
3 14 (4.68%) JUnit
4 13 (4.35%) GitLab
4 13 (4.35%) JIRA
5 11 (3.68%) Oracle Forms
5 11 (3.68%) Team Foundation Server
6 10 (3.34%) Mockito
7 8 (2.68%) JMeter
8 5 (1.67%) RSpec
9 4 (1.34%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.34%) minitest
9 4 (1.34%) NUnit
10 3 (1.00%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.00%) Mocha
10 3 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.67%) MSTest
11 2 (0.67%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 114 (38.13%) Social Skills
2 75 (25.08%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (19.06%) Finance
4 32 (10.70%) Public Sector
5 23 (7.69%) Manufacturing
6 21 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (6.02%) Retail
8 15 (5.02%) Law
9 12 (4.01%) Legal
10 9 (3.01%) Banking
11 8 (2.68%) Aerospace
12 6 (2.01%) Social Housing
13 5 (1.67%) Health Technology
14 4 (1.34%) Aviation
14 4 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.34%) Marketing
15 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.67%) Back Office
16 2 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 144 (48.16%) Developer
2 51 (17.06%) Senior
3 42 (14.05%) Analyst
4 35 (11.71%) Software Developer
5 32 (10.70%) Senior Developer
6 30 (10.03%) .NET Developer
6 30 (10.03%) Software Engineer
7 23 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
8 21 (7.02%) Lead
9 20 (6.69%) Java Developer
10 19 (6.35%) Data Engineer
11 17 (5.69%) C# Developer
12 16 (5.35%) Systems Analyst
13 15 (5.02%) Consultant
14 13 (4.35%) Web Developer
15 12 (4.01%) .NET Software Developer
16 11 (3.68%) Business Analyst
17 10 (3.34%) C# .NET Developer
17 10 (3.34%) Data Analyst
17 10 (3.34%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (25.08%) HTML
2 71 (23.75%) .NET
2 71 (23.75%) CSS
3 65 (21.74%) REST
4 64 (21.40%) React
5 47 (15.72%) Spring
6 44 (14.72%) Spring Boot
7 36 (12.04%) jQuery
8 33 (11.04%) RESTful
9 31 (10.37%) Terraform
10 28 (9.36%) ASP.NET
11 27 (9.03%) .NET Framework
11 27 (9.03%) AngularJS
11 27 (9.03%) Node.js
12 26 (8.70%) Entity Framework
13 25 (8.36%) Web Services
14 21 (7.02%) JSON
15 20 (6.69%) .NET Core
15 20 (6.69%) XML
16 18 (6.02%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.03%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.02%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (5.69%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.02%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (4.68%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (4.35%) Data Structures
8 12 (4.01%) Legacy Applications
9 8 (2.68%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.68%) Mainframe
10 7 (2.34%) Management Information System
11 6 (2.01%) Client/Server
11 6 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (1.34%) e-Learning
13 4 (1.34%) IoT
13 4 (1.34%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.34%) Reference Data
13 4 (1.34%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.02%) Windows
2 13 (4.35%) Linux
3 7 (2.34%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.00%) Unix
5 2 (0.67%) Solaris
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (41.47%) Agile
2 117 (39.13%) CI/CD
3 116 (38.80%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (26.76%) DevOps
5 70 (23.41%) Software Engineering
6 67 (22.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 66 (22.07%) AI
8 60 (20.07%) Full-Stack Development
9 56 (18.73%) Scrum
10 51 (17.06%) Microservices
11 50 (16.72%) Business Intelligence
12 44 (14.72%) Decision-Making
13 40 (13.38%) SDLC
14 37 (12.37%) Data Modelling
14 37 (12.37%) Test Automation
15 36 (12.04%) Infrastructure as Code
15 36 (12.04%) Mentoring
16 35 (11.71%) Analytics
16 35 (11.71%) Code Quality
16 35 (11.71%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 148 (49.50%) SQL
2 104 (34.78%) JavaScript
3 70 (23.41%) Java
4 66 (22.07%) Python
5 58 (19.40%) C#
6 47 (15.72%) TypeScript
7 18 (6.02%) PHP
8 13 (4.35%) PowerShell
8 13 (4.35%) VB.NET
9 11 (3.68%) Shell Script
10 9 (3.01%) COBOL
11 8 (2.68%) JCL
11 8 (2.68%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.67%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.67%) Ruby
13 4 (1.34%) Bash
13 4 (1.34%) C++
13 4 (1.34%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (15.72%) Degree
2 37 (12.37%) Security Cleared
3 29 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 24 (8.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.01%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.34%) ACCA
6 10 (3.34%) CIMA
7 6 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.34%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.67%) CEH
9 2 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.67%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.67%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 28 (9.36%) QA
3 23 (7.69%) GDPR
4 4 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.67%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (0.67%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.67%) WCAG
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 73 (24.41%) Docker
2 9 (3.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (11.37%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.68%) Ansible
3 12 (4.01%) Kibana
4 6 (2.01%) Grafana
5 4 (1.34%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.67%) Puppet
7 2 (0.67%) QRadar
8 1 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.33%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 67 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 54 (18.06%) Oracle
3 13 (4.35%) Google
3 13 (4.35%) Sage
3 13 (4.35%) Splunk
4 10 (3.34%) Dynatrace
4 10 (3.34%) SAP
5 8 (2.68%) Broadcom
5 8 (2.68%) Databricks
6 7 (2.34%) IBM
6 7 (2.34%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.34%) DevExpress
8 4 (1.34%) Informatica
8 4 (1.34%) Telerik
8 4 (1.34%) TIBCO
9 3 (1.00%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.00%) JD Edwards
9 3 (1.00%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.67%) Infor