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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 251 198
Rank change year-on-year -142 -53 +4
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 187 282 979
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.29% 1.06% 1.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.79% 6.65% 8.41%
Number of salaries quoted 128 181 607
10th Percentile £35,875 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,803 £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 4,928 4,243 11,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.70% 15.89% 17.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,774 2,976 8,220
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £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 24 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 24 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 -59 66 £52,500 -12.50% 47
North of England -58 59 £61,250 +11.36% 36
Yorkshire -54 30 £62,500 +13.64% 12
North West -38 26 £57,500 +4.55% 21
Midlands -53 26 £34,500 -23.33% 21
South West -66 26 £50,000 +5.26% 16
East Midlands -55 14 £37,500 - 9
West Midlands -35 12 £33,500 -25.56% 12
East of England -44 12 £42,500 -31.45% 24
North East -36 3 £45,000 +0.42% 3
Scotland -41 2 - - 10
Wales -44 2 £45,000 -30.77% 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 10 (5.35%) OpenStack
2 6 (3.21%) CMS
3 5 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.07%) CICS
4 2 (1.07%) Confluence
4 2 (1.07%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.07%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.53%) Camunda
5 1 (0.53%) JBoss
5 1 (0.53%) nginx
5 1 (0.53%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.53%) SAS
5 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (10.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (6.42%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.07%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.53%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.53%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 62 (33.16%) AWS
2 57 (30.48%) Azure
3 34 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 24 (12.83%) GCP
4 24 (12.83%) Serverless
5 19 (10.16%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (5.35%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (4.81%) SaaS
10 8 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (3.74%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (2.14%) GitHub
14 3 (1.60%) AWS Data Pipeline
14 3 (1.60%) OpenShift
14 3 (1.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.35%) Intranet
2 2 (1.07%) Broadband
2 2 (1.07%) Firewall
2 2 (1.07%) LAN
2 2 (1.07%) WAN
3 1 (0.53%) Network Security
3 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.53%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (25.13%) SQL Server
3 34 (18.18%) Power BI
4 28 (14.97%) MySQL
5 20 (10.70%) RDBMS
6 17 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (8.56%) NoSQL
8 12 (6.42%) MongoDB
9 11 (5.88%) Metadata
9 11 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (3.74%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (3.21%) DB2
12 5 (2.67%) BigQuery
12 5 (2.67%) Tableau
13 4 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (2.14%) DynamoDB
13 4 (2.14%) Oracle Database
14 3 (1.60%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 44 (23.53%) Git
2 22 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.42%) JIRA
4 10 (5.35%) JUnit
5 6 (3.21%) Cucumber
5 6 (3.21%) Selenium
6 5 (2.67%) Mockito
7 4 (2.14%) JMeter
8 3 (1.60%) GitLab
8 3 (1.60%) Postman
8 3 (1.60%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.07%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.07%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.07%) IntelliJ
9 2 (1.07%) Jaeger
9 2 (1.07%) MSTest
9 2 (1.07%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.53%) ERwin
10 1 (0.53%) Gradle
General
1 74 (39.57%) Social Skills
2 48 (25.67%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (16.04%) Finance
4 16 (8.56%) Manufacturing
5 12 (6.42%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.14%) Legal
7 3 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.60%) Law
7 3 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.07%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.07%) Aviation
8 2 (1.07%) Back Office
8 2 (1.07%) Banking
8 2 (1.07%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.07%) Police
8 2 (1.07%) Retail
8 2 (1.07%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.53%) Electronics
9 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 78 (41.71%) Developer
2 30 (16.04%) Analyst
3 22 (11.76%) Data Engineer
3 22 (11.76%) Senior
4 19 (10.16%) Java Developer
5 16 (8.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (8.02%) Applications Support
7 14 (7.49%) Senior Developer
8 13 (6.95%) Data Analyst
8 13 (6.95%) Software Engineer
9 12 (6.42%) Support Analyst
10 11 (5.88%) C# Developer
11 10 (5.35%) Applications Support Analyst
12 8 (4.28%) Junior
12 8 (4.28%) Report Analyst
13 7 (3.74%) Applications Developer
13 7 (3.74%) PHP Developer
13 7 (3.74%) Support Engineer
14 6 (3.21%) Architect
14 6 (3.21%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.72%) REST
2 34 (18.18%) React
3 24 (12.83%) Spring
4 22 (11.76%) HTML
4 22 (11.76%) Spring Boot
5 20 (10.70%) XML
6 19 (10.16%) CSS
6 19 (10.16%) Web Services
7 18 (9.63%) .NET
7 18 (9.63%) Node.js
8 17 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
9 14 (7.49%) AngularJS
10 12 (6.42%) Kafka
11 11 (5.88%) JSON
11 11 (5.88%) Vue
11 11 (5.88%) WinForms
12 10 (5.35%) RESTful
13 9 (4.81%) Django
13 9 (4.81%) Laravel
14 8 (4.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (8.56%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.35%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.28%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.74%) Replication
7 6 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.67%) Legacy Code
8 5 (2.67%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.14%) CUDA
9 4 (2.14%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.07%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.53%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.53%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.53%) SCADA
12 1 (0.53%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.95%) Windows
2 9 (4.81%) Linux
3 3 (1.60%) Unix
4 2 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (34.22%) Agile
1 64 (34.22%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (26.74%) CI/CD
3 46 (24.60%) Continuous Improvement
4 42 (22.46%) Analytics
5 41 (21.93%) Business Intelligence
6 38 (20.32%) Data Modelling
6 38 (20.32%) ETL
7 37 (19.79%) DevOps
8 30 (16.04%) Scrum
9 29 (15.51%) Full-Stack Development
9 29 (15.51%) Microservices
10 27 (14.44%) SDLC
11 24 (12.83%) Software Engineering
11 24 (12.83%) TDD
12 22 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
13 21 (11.23%) Kanban
13 21 (11.23%) Validation
14 20 (10.70%) Data Engineering
14 20 (10.70%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 104 (55.61%) SQL
2 49 (26.20%) JavaScript
2 49 (26.20%) Python
3 47 (25.13%) Java
4 32 (17.11%) C#
5 15 (8.02%) PHP
6 13 (6.95%) Delphi
7 10 (5.35%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.81%) T-SQL
9 7 (3.74%) Go
9 7 (3.74%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.14%) Scala
11 3 (1.60%) R
11 3 (1.60%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.07%) Bash
12 2 (1.07%) C
12 2 (1.07%) C++
12 2 (1.07%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 28 (14.97%) Degree
2 14 (7.49%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.60%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.60%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.60%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.07%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.53%) CISSP
8 1 (0.53%) MCSE
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.53%) OCP
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.53%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (22.46%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.42%) GDPR
3 11 (5.88%) QA
4 3 (1.60%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.07%) SLA
5 2 (1.07%) WCAG
6 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.53%) HL7
6 1 (0.53%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.53%) NCSC
6 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (19.25%) Docker
2 3 (1.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.09%) Terraform
3 8 (4.28%) Ansible
4 6 (3.21%) Kibana
5 5 (2.67%) Grafana
5 5 (2.67%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.07%) Argo
6 2 (1.07%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.53%) Control-M
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.53%) SCCM
7 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (22.46%) Microsoft
2 37 (19.79%) Oracle
3 7 (3.74%) Google
3 7 (3.74%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.21%) Databricks
5 4 (2.14%) IBM
5 4 (2.14%) Pega
6 3 (1.60%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.60%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.60%) Splunk
7 2 (1.07%) IFS
7 2 (1.07%) Informatica
7 2 (1.07%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.07%) Siemens
7 2 (1.07%) Talend
7 2 (1.07%) WSO2
8 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.53%) Infragistics
8 1 (0.53%) Perforce
8 1 (0.53%) SAP