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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 245 212
Rank change year-on-year -111 -33 -27
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 199 301 828
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.37% 1.09% 1.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.67% 6.45% 7.74%
Number of salaries quoted 138 181 581
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.92% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,803 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,750 £57,501
% change year-on-year -11.20% +12.61% -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 4,258 4,664 10,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.97% 16.88% 18.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,482 2,956 7,998
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,579
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -8.00%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 -35 66 £50,000 -16.67% 51
North of England -35 64 £60,000 +9.09% 33
Yorkshire -34 34 £60,000 +9.09% 11
Midlands -25 32 £34,750 -18.24% 23
North West -20 28 £57,500 +4.55% 17
South West -48 23 £45,000 -10.00% 16
West Midlands -15 18 £32,500 -27.78% 15
East Midlands -33 14 £37,500 - 8
East of England -26 9 £42,500 -32.00% 10
Scotland -32 6 £25,500 -62.22% 8
Wales -34 3 £51,250 -21.15% 5
North East -26 2 £45,000 +2.71% 7
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 12 (6.03%) OpenStack
2 7 (3.52%) CMS
3 4 (2.01%) Headless CMS
4 3 (1.51%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.01%) CICS
5 2 (1.01%) Confluence
5 2 (1.01%) Mendix
6 1 (0.50%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.50%) Camunda
6 1 (0.50%) JBoss
6 1 (0.50%) nginx
6 1 (0.50%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.50%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (10.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (8.54%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.51%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.50%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.50%) Shopify
1 1 (0.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 68 (34.17%) AWS
2 56 (28.14%) Azure
3 31 (15.58%) Power Platform
4 26 (13.07%) Serverless
5 23 (11.56%) Amazon ECS
6 21 (10.55%) Amazon EKS
7 20 (10.05%) GCP
8 13 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (5.53%) SaaS
10 9 (4.52%) Amazon S3
10 9 (4.52%) GitHub
11 7 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.51%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (2.01%) OpenShift
14 3 (1.51%) DigitalOcean
14 3 (1.51%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.03%) Intranet
2 5 (2.51%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.51%) Wireless
3 2 (1.01%) Broadband
3 2 (1.01%) Firewall
4 1 (0.50%) DNS
4 1 (0.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (28.14%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (23.62%) SQL Server
3 30 (15.08%) MySQL
3 30 (15.08%) Power BI
4 26 (13.07%) RDBMS
5 15 (7.54%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (6.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (6.03%) NoSQL
8 10 (5.03%) Metadata
9 9 (4.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (4.02%) DB2
10 8 (4.02%) MongoDB
11 5 (2.51%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (2.51%) BigQuery
12 4 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (2.01%) Redis
13 3 (1.51%) FileMaker
13 3 (1.51%) Oracle Database
14 2 (1.01%) Geospatial Data
14 2 (1.01%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 40 (20.10%) Git
2 27 (13.57%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.04%) JIRA
4 13 (6.53%) JUnit
5 9 (4.52%) Mockito
6 8 (4.02%) Cucumber
7 7 (3.52%) JMeter
8 6 (3.02%) Selenium
9 4 (2.01%) GitLab
9 4 (2.01%) Postman
9 4 (2.01%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.51%) Visual Studio
11 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.01%) Eclipse
11 2 (1.01%) IntelliJ
11 2 (1.01%) Jaeger
12 1 (0.50%) ERwin
12 1 (0.50%) Gradle
12 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 82 (41.21%) Social Skills
2 44 (22.11%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (16.08%) Finance
4 17 (8.54%) Manufacturing
5 13 (6.53%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.52%) Law
7 4 (2.01%) Legal
7 4 (2.01%) Marketing
7 4 (2.01%) Retail
8 3 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.01%) Back Office
9 2 (1.01%) Banking
10 1 (0.50%) Electronics
10 1 (0.50%) German Language
10 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.50%) Local Government
10 1 (0.50%) Police
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (43.22%) Developer
2 32 (16.08%) Analyst
3 27 (13.57%) Full-Stack Developer
4 24 (12.06%) Java Developer
5 18 (9.05%) Software Engineer
6 16 (8.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 16 (8.04%) Senior
7 12 (6.03%) Data Analyst
7 12 (6.03%) Data Engineer
7 12 (6.03%) Senior Developer
8 11 (5.53%) Applications Support
8 11 (5.53%) Junior
9 10 (5.03%) C# Developer
9 10 (5.03%) Support Analyst
10 8 (4.02%) Architect
10 8 (4.02%) Report Analyst
10 8 (4.02%) Support Engineer
11 7 (3.52%) Applications Developer
11 7 (3.52%) Applications Support Analyst
12 6 (3.02%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (21.11%) REST
2 39 (19.60%) React
3 29 (14.57%) Spring
4 28 (14.07%) Node.js
4 28 (14.07%) Spring Boot
5 26 (13.07%) HTML
6 23 (11.56%) .NET
6 23 (11.56%) Web Services
7 22 (11.06%) CSS
7 22 (11.06%) XML
8 20 (10.05%) AngularJS
9 18 (9.05%) JSON
10 17 (8.54%) Vue
11 16 (8.04%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (5.53%) Apache Camel
12 11 (5.53%) jQuery
12 11 (5.53%) Laravel
12 11 (5.53%) SOAP
13 10 (5.03%) Kafka
13 10 (5.03%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.05%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (5.03%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.03%) Data Structures
2 10 (5.03%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (5.03%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.02%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.02%) Replication
7 4 (2.01%) e-Learning
7 4 (2.01%) Legacy Code
7 4 (2.01%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.01%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.01%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.51%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.01%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.50%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.05%) Windows
2 14 (7.04%) Linux
3 6 (3.02%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.51%) Unix
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (35.18%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (34.67%) Agile
3 51 (25.63%) CI/CD
4 43 (21.61%) DevOps
5 42 (21.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 37 (18.59%) Business Intelligence
7 34 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (16.58%) Analytics
9 31 (15.58%) Data Modelling
9 31 (15.58%) Microservices
9 31 (15.58%) SDLC
10 28 (14.07%) Scrum
11 27 (13.57%) ETL
11 27 (13.57%) Software Engineering
12 25 (12.56%) TDD
13 22 (11.06%) Mentoring
14 19 (9.55%) Containerisation
14 19 (9.55%) Kanban
15 18 (9.05%) Workflow
16 17 (8.54%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 103 (51.76%) SQL
2 59 (29.65%) JavaScript
3 54 (27.14%) Python
4 53 (26.63%) Java
5 36 (18.09%) C#
6 19 (9.55%) PHP
7 14 (7.04%) TypeScript
8 12 (6.03%) Delphi
9 11 (5.53%) PowerShell
10 9 (4.52%) Go
11 7 (3.52%) Shell Script
12 5 (2.51%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.51%) R
14 2 (1.01%) Bash
14 2 (1.01%) C
14 2 (1.01%) PL/SQL
14 2 (1.01%) Scala
15 1 (0.50%) C++
15 1 (0.50%) Perl
15 1 (0.50%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 25 (12.56%) Degree
2 15 (7.54%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.52%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.51%) ISTQB
4 5 (2.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (1.51%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.01%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.50%) CISSP
7 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.50%) MCSE
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.50%) OCP
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.57%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.53%) QA
3 10 (5.03%) GDPR
4 2 (1.01%) HL7
5 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.50%) NCSC
5 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (19.60%) Docker
2 5 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (18.09%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.54%) Terraform
3 10 (5.03%) Ansible
4 6 (3.02%) Kibana
5 4 (2.01%) Grafana
6 3 (1.51%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.01%) Argo
7 2 (1.01%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.50%) Control-M
8 1 (0.50%) SCCM
8 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 48 (24.12%) Microsoft
2 37 (18.59%) Oracle
3 10 (5.03%) Google
4 7 (3.52%) Pega
5 6 (3.02%) Dynatrace
5 6 (3.02%) Splunk
6 5 (2.51%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.51%) WSO2
7 4 (2.01%) Databricks
8 3 (1.51%) HubSpot
8 3 (1.51%) Informatica
8 3 (1.51%) Talend
9 2 (1.01%) IBM
9 2 (1.01%) IFS
9 2 (1.01%) OutSystems
9 2 (1.01%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.01%) SAP
9 2 (1.01%) Siemens
10 1 (0.50%) Aderant
10 1 (0.50%) Workday