Relational Database Jobs in the UK excluding London

Relational Database
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Relational Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Relational Database over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 205 221
Rank change year-on-year -77 +16 -86
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 368 1,017 948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.93% 1.36% 1.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.17% 8.21% 8.41%
Number of salaries quoted 167 591 633
10th Percentile £37,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,565 £52,500 £52,700
Median % change year-on-year +5.84% -0.38% +0.38%
75th Percentile £70,625 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +13.04%

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 4,507 12,381 11,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.45% 16.60% 19.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,809 8,108 6,590
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,850 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £78,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,394 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.03% -11.54% +8.33%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in the UK excluding London

Relational Database
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Relational Database in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Relational Database in the UK excluding London

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 May 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 May 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 -46 107 £55,565 +1.03% 565
North of England -94 68 £52,500 -4.55% 400
Midlands +37 62 £45,000 -14.29% 349
East of England +37 48 £62,000 +25.89% 273
North West -104 44 £52,500 -4.55% 183
West Midlands +21 41 £60,000 +9.09% 185
South West +35 39 £55,000 +10.00% 231
Scotland -3 23 £80,000 +60.00% 94
East Midlands +33 21 £37,500 -25.00% 142
Yorkshire +9 21 £55,000 +4.76% 167
Wales +37 20 £65,000 +78.20% 52
North East +46 7 £49,375 -34.00% 50
Northern Ireland +29 1 £28,000 -19.14% 23
Relational Database
UK

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 51 (13.86%) Confluence
2 14 (3.80%) JBoss
2 14 (3.80%) Red Hat Fuse
3 10 (2.72%) Apache
4 9 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.63%) IIS
5 6 (1.63%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.36%) Apache Spark
7 4 (1.09%) GemFire
7 4 (1.09%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.82%) CMS
9 1 (0.27%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.27%) Luigi
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.27%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.27%) SAS
9 1 (0.27%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.54%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.27%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 159 (43.21%) AWS
2 92 (25.00%) Azure
3 65 (17.66%) Pulumi
4 48 (13.04%) Serverless
5 38 (10.33%) Amazon ECS
6 36 (9.78%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (7.07%) Power Platform
8 22 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (3.53%) GitHub
11 11 (2.99%) Amazon S3
11 11 (2.99%) SaaS
12 10 (2.72%) GCP
13 9 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (2.45%) Snowflake
14 8 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (1.63%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (1.63%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 65 (17.66%) Broadband
2 24 (6.52%) Network Security
3 17 (4.62%) Firewall
3 17 (4.62%) TCP/IP
4 12 (3.26%) Internet
5 9 (2.45%) FTP
5 9 (2.45%) HTTP
5 9 (2.45%) SMTP
6 8 (2.17%) LAN
6 8 (2.17%) VPN
6 8 (2.17%) WAN
7 6 (1.63%) DNS
8 4 (1.09%) Modbus
8 4 (1.09%) MQTT
9 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (41.85%) RDBMS
2 94 (25.54%) NoSQL
3 84 (22.83%) PostgreSQL
4 73 (19.84%) MySQL
5 59 (16.03%) SQL Server
6 35 (9.51%) MongoDB
7 23 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (6.25%) Power BI
8 12 (3.26%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (2.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (1.90%) Big Data
11 7 (1.90%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.36%) Apache Hive
14 4 (1.09%) Apache Ignite
14 4 (1.09%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 110 (29.89%) Git
2 65 (17.66%) Jaeger
3 54 (14.67%) JIRA
4 46 (12.50%) Jenkins
5 39 (10.60%) Bitbucket
6 31 (8.42%) JUnit
7 13 (3.53%) JMeter
7 13 (3.53%) Mockito
8 11 (2.99%) GitLab
8 11 (2.99%) Postman
8 11 (2.99%) Selenium
9 6 (1.63%) Visual Studio
10 5 (1.36%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.36%) Fiddler
10 5 (1.36%) SoapUI
10 5 (1.36%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.09%) Moq
12 3 (0.82%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.82%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 85 (23.10%) Social Skills
2 80 (21.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 47 (12.77%) Finance
4 41 (11.14%) Public Sector
5 38 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (5.71%) Banking
7 20 (5.43%) Law
8 14 (3.80%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.17%) Back Office
10 8 (2.17%) Marketing
10 8 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.90%) Retail
12 6 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.36%) Digital Healthcare
13 5 (1.36%) Local Government
13 5 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.09%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.09%) Front Office
14 4 (1.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 96 (26.09%) Developer
1 96 (26.09%) Lead
2 76 (20.65%) Team Leader
3 55 (14.95%) Software Engineer
4 44 (11.96%) Senior
5 41 (11.14%) Java Developer
6 29 (7.88%) Analyst
7 24 (6.52%) Java Engineer
8 19 (5.16%) Senior Software Engineer
9 16 (4.35%) IT Engineer
9 16 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
10 15 (4.08%) Principal Engineer
10 15 (4.08%) Senior Developer
10 15 (4.08%) Software Developer
11 14 (3.80%) Data Engineer
11 14 (3.80%) Java Software Engineer
12 13 (3.53%) Lead Software Engineer
13 12 (3.26%) .NET Developer
13 12 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (2.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (21.47%) .NET
2 76 (20.65%) Elastic Stack
3 65 (17.66%) OpenTelemetry
4 62 (16.85%) Spring
5 58 (15.76%) Spring Boot
6 55 (14.95%) REST
7 47 (12.77%) Web Services
8 38 (10.33%) React
9 36 (9.78%) RESTful
10 35 (9.51%) HTML
11 34 (9.24%) Kafka
12 27 (7.34%) Apache Camel
13 24 (6.52%) CSS
13 24 (6.52%) Hibernate
13 24 (6.52%) jQuery
14 22 (5.98%) SOAP
15 17 (4.62%) JSON
16 16 (4.35%) ASP.NET
17 14 (3.80%) .NET Framework
17 14 (3.80%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (4.89%) Data Structures
3 17 (4.62%) Management Information System
4 16 (4.35%) IoT
5 14 (3.80%) Client/Server
6 13 (3.53%) Algorithms
7 12 (3.26%) Cloud Native
7 12 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (3.26%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.45%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
10 7 (1.90%) Life Science
11 6 (1.63%) Operational Technology
11 6 (1.63%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.63%) SCADA
11 6 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.36%) LIMS
12 5 (1.36%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.36%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.09%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 141 (38.32%) Linux
2 90 (24.46%) Unix
3 65 (17.66%) Windows
4 6 (1.63%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.36%) CentOS
6 4 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.09%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.54%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.27%) AIX
8 1 (0.27%) Android
8 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.27%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (62.77%) Agile
2 136 (36.96%) DevOps
3 110 (29.89%) CI/CD
4 104 (28.26%) Mentoring
5 103 (27.99%) Continuous Integration
6 87 (23.64%) Microservices
7 84 (22.83%) Containerisation
8 81 (22.01%) Roadmaps
9 76 (20.65%) Software Engineering
10 72 (19.57%) High Availability
11 71 (19.29%) Infrastructure as Code
12 70 (19.02%) Performance Optimisation
13 69 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
14 66 (17.93%) Cost Optimisation
14 66 (17.93%) Product Management
15 65 (17.66%) Budget Control
15 65 (17.66%) GitOps
15 65 (17.66%) Resource Management
15 65 (17.66%) Task Automation
16 55 (14.95%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 165 (44.84%) Java
2 159 (43.21%) Python
3 150 (40.76%) SQL
4 132 (35.87%) JavaScript
5 76 (20.65%) Go
6 75 (20.38%) Bash
6 75 (20.38%) C#
7 23 (6.25%) TypeScript
8 20 (5.43%) C++
8 20 (5.43%) PowerShell
9 17 (4.62%) PHP
9 17 (4.62%) T-SQL
10 13 (3.53%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.45%) R
12 6 (1.63%) C
12 6 (1.63%) Perl
13 4 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.09%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.82%) Groovy
14 3 (0.82%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 69 (18.75%) AWS Certification
2 62 (16.85%) Degree
3 37 (10.05%) Security Cleared
4 31 (8.42%) SC Cleared
5 28 (7.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.90%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.90%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.09%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.82%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.82%) OCP
9 3 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.54%) PhD
10 2 (0.54%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.27%) CISSP
11 1 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.80%) SLA
2 11 (2.99%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.99%) QA
3 8 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.36%) GDPR
4 5 (1.36%) HL7
5 2 (0.54%) CDISC
6 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.27%) COBIT
System Software
1 135 (36.68%) Docker
2 9 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.09%) Firmware
4 4 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 131 (35.60%) Kubernetes
2 120 (32.61%) Ansible
3 79 (21.47%) Terraform
4 69 (18.75%) Prometheus
5 68 (18.48%) Argo
6 65 (17.66%) Kustomize
7 21 (5.71%) Kibana
8 6 (1.63%) QRadar
9 5 (1.36%) ZABBIX
10 4 (1.09%) Grafana
10 4 (1.09%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.82%) Istio
12 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.27%) Nagios
12 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 70 (19.02%) Google
2 45 (12.23%) Microsoft
3 43 (11.68%) Atlassian
4 35 (9.51%) Oracle
5 24 (6.52%) Splunk
6 16 (4.35%) Dynatrace
7 12 (3.26%) Databricks
8 9 (2.45%) VMware
9 6 (1.63%) IBM
9 6 (1.63%) Rockwell
9 6 (1.63%) Siemens
10 4 (1.09%) Solace
10 4 (1.09%) Talend
10 4 (1.09%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.82%) Adobe
11 3 (0.82%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (0.82%) iManage
11 3 (0.82%) Informatica
11 3 (0.82%) RedGate
11 3 (0.82%) Sybase