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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 306 205
Rank change year-on-year -74 -101 +18
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 314 270 679
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.79% 1.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.60% 6.54% 9.67%
Number of salaries quoted 219 170 262
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £74,688
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,250 £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 5,603 4,131 7,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.58% 12.07% 12.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,934 2,577 3,793
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,031 £39,000 £41,328
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -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 £63,000
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.80%

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 21 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 21 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 -25 94 £65,000 +23.81% 118
South East -73 81 £59,500 +45.12% 115
North West -11 51 £55,000 +4.76% 70
Midlands -39 47 £57,500 +21.05% 78
East of England -13 43 £47,500 -13.64% 28
Yorkshire -20 32 £65,000 +8.33% 36
West Midlands -46 30 £65,000 +18.18% 43
South West -75 26 £47,500 -11.63% 60
Wales -56 18 £62,000 +18.10% 10
East Midlands -20 17 £56,250 +40.63% 35
North East -54 11 £65,000 +23.81% 13
Scotland -10 9 £27,250 -44.95% 53
Northern Ireland -81 1 - - 33
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 19 (6.05%) IIS
2 6 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.27%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.96%) Apache
5 2 (0.64%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.64%) CMS
5 2 (0.64%) Confluence
5 2 (0.64%) Drupal
5 2 (0.64%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.32%) Documentum
6 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.32%) JBoss
6 1 (0.32%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.32%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.96%) JDE EnterpriseOne
1 3 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.64%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.64%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.64%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.32%) Finacle
3 1 (0.32%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.32%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 115 (36.62%) Azure
2 110 (35.03%) AWS
3 47 (14.97%) Power Platform
4 46 (14.65%) GitHub
5 43 (13.69%) Serverless
6 35 (11.15%) GCP
7 34 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (9.87%) GitHub Actions
9 26 (8.28%) Amazon ECS
10 21 (6.69%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (5.73%) SaaS
12 17 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (4.78%) Amazon S3
14 13 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (4.14%) Power Automate
15 11 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (3.50%) PowerApps
16 9 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (2.87%) GitHub Copilot
16 9 (2.87%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.59%) HTTP
1 5 (1.59%) Intranet
2 4 (1.27%) Firewall
2 4 (1.27%) Internet
2 4 (1.27%) LAN
2 4 (1.27%) WAN
3 3 (0.96%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.64%) FTP
4 2 (0.64%) SMTP
4 2 (0.64%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.64%) VPN
5 1 (0.32%) Broadband
5 1 (0.32%) Network Security
5 1 (0.32%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.32%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (27.71%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (26.75%) SQL Server
3 69 (21.97%) MySQL
4 43 (13.69%) Power BI
5 30 (9.55%) RDBMS
6 21 (6.69%) MongoDB
7 18 (5.73%) Tableau
8 17 (5.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (5.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (4.14%) NoSQL
11 11 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 7 (2.23%) DynamoDB
14 6 (1.91%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.91%) Redis
15 5 (1.59%) Metadata
16 4 (1.27%) Ataccama
16 4 (1.27%) IBM InfoSphere
16 4 (1.27%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 99 (31.53%) Git
2 43 (13.69%) Jenkins
3 15 (4.78%) Claude Code
3 15 (4.78%) JUnit
4 14 (4.46%) GitLab
4 14 (4.46%) JIRA
5 12 (3.82%) Oracle Forms
5 12 (3.82%) Team Foundation Server
6 10 (3.18%) Mockito
7 8 (2.55%) JMeter
8 5 (1.59%) RSpec
9 4 (1.27%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.27%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.27%) minitest
9 4 (1.27%) NUnit
9 4 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.96%) Mocha
11 2 (0.64%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.64%) MSTest
11 2 (0.64%) Selenium
General
1 120 (38.22%) Social Skills
2 75 (23.89%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (18.47%) Finance
4 32 (10.19%) Public Sector
5 23 (7.32%) Manufacturing
6 21 (6.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (6.05%) Retail
8 15 (4.78%) Law
9 13 (4.14%) Legal
10 9 (2.87%) Banking
11 8 (2.55%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.91%) Social Housing
13 5 (1.59%) Health Technology
14 4 (1.27%) Aviation
14 4 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.27%) Marketing
15 3 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.64%) Back Office
16 2 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 151 (48.09%) Developer
2 52 (16.56%) Senior
3 43 (13.69%) Analyst
4 38 (12.10%) Software Developer
5 34 (10.83%) .NET Developer
6 32 (10.19%) Senior Developer
6 32 (10.19%) Software Engineer
7 26 (8.28%) Full-Stack Developer
8 22 (7.01%) Data Engineer
9 21 (6.69%) Lead
10 19 (6.05%) C# Developer
10 19 (6.05%) Java Developer
11 16 (5.10%) Systems Analyst
12 14 (4.46%) Consultant
12 14 (4.46%) Web Developer
13 12 (3.82%) .NET Software Developer
13 12 (3.82%) Business Analyst
13 12 (3.82%) C# .NET Developer
14 11 (3.50%) Applications Support
15 10 (3.18%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (24.20%) .NET
2 75 (23.89%) HTML
3 71 (22.61%) CSS
4 69 (21.97%) React
5 67 (21.34%) REST
6 49 (15.61%) Spring
7 46 (14.65%) Spring Boot
8 38 (12.10%) jQuery
9 35 (11.15%) RESTful
10 30 (9.55%) ASP.NET
10 30 (9.55%) Terraform
11 29 (9.24%) .NET Framework
11 29 (9.24%) Node.js
12 28 (8.92%) AngularJS
12 28 (8.92%) Entity Framework
13 27 (8.60%) Web Services
14 22 (7.01%) .NET Core
14 22 (7.01%) JSON
15 21 (6.69%) Vue
15 21 (6.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.55%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (7.01%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (5.73%) Product Ownership
5 16 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (4.78%) Data Structures
7 12 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (3.50%) Legacy Applications
9 8 (2.55%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.55%) Mainframe
9 8 (2.55%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.91%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (1.27%) e-Learning
12 4 (1.27%) IoT
12 4 (1.27%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.27%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
13 3 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.01%) Windows
2 14 (4.46%) Linux
3 8 (2.55%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.96%) Unix
5 2 (0.64%) Solaris
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (41.08%) Agile
2 121 (38.54%) CI/CD
3 118 (37.58%) Problem-Solving
4 82 (26.11%) DevOps
5 74 (23.57%) Software Engineering
6 71 (22.61%) AI
7 67 (21.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 66 (21.02%) Full-Stack Development
9 58 (18.47%) Scrum
10 52 (16.56%) Microservices
11 51 (16.24%) Business Intelligence
12 44 (14.01%) Decision-Making
13 43 (13.69%) Data Modelling
14 42 (13.38%) SDLC
15 39 (12.42%) Analytics
16 38 (12.10%) Mentoring
16 38 (12.10%) OO
17 37 (11.78%) Code Quality
17 37 (11.78%) Test Automation
18 36 (11.46%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 154 (49.04%) SQL
2 108 (34.39%) JavaScript
3 71 (22.61%) Java
4 69 (21.97%) Python
5 63 (20.06%) C#
6 50 (15.92%) TypeScript
7 19 (6.05%) PHP
8 14 (4.46%) VB.NET
9 13 (4.14%) PowerShell
10 11 (3.50%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.87%) COBOL
12 8 (2.55%) JCL
12 8 (2.55%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (1.59%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.59%) Ruby
14 4 (1.27%) Bash
14 4 (1.27%) C++
14 4 (1.27%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 48 (15.29%) Degree
2 37 (11.78%) Security Cleared
3 29 (9.24%) SC Cleared
4 25 (7.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.82%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.18%) ACCA
6 10 (3.18%) CIMA
7 6 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.27%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.64%) CEH
9 2 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.64%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.64%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.64%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (16.24%) Data Quality
2 28 (8.92%) QA
3 24 (7.64%) GDPR
4 4 (1.27%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.64%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (0.64%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.64%) WCAG
6 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.32%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 77 (24.52%) Docker
2 10 (3.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (10.83%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.46%) Ansible
3 12 (3.82%) Kibana
4 6 (1.91%) Grafana
5 4 (1.27%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.64%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.64%) Puppet
7 2 (0.64%) QRadar
8 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.32%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.32%) SCCM
8 1 (0.32%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 73 (23.25%) Microsoft
2 55 (17.52%) Oracle
3 14 (4.46%) Google
4 13 (4.14%) Sage
4 13 (4.14%) Splunk
5 11 (3.50%) Databricks
6 10 (3.18%) Dynatrace
6 10 (3.18%) SAP
7 8 (2.55%) Broadcom
8 7 (2.23%) IBM
9 6 (1.91%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.59%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.27%) DevExpress
11 4 (1.27%) Informatica
11 4 (1.27%) Telerik
11 4 (1.27%) TIBCO
12 3 (0.96%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.96%) JD Edwards
12 3 (0.96%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.64%) Cisco