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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 197 194
Rank change year-on-year -100 -3 -9
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 227 496 587
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.52% 1.40% 1.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.95% 8.91% 7.86%
Number of salaries quoted 169 163 440
10th Percentile £27,650 £33,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,256 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,953 £51,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.07% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £83,781
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.05% +2.01% -4.00%

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 3,812 5,565 7,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.81% 15.69% 19.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,373 2,859 5,726
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,938
25th Percentile £39,250 £42,500 £41,250
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 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 20 January 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 20 January 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 -70 88 £41,000 -18.00% 123
North of England -6 54 £55,000 - 45
Midlands +16 37 £47,500 +5.56% 47
Yorkshire 0 29 £48,750 -2.50% 13
West Midlands +24 27 £47,500 +5.56% 18
North West +1 23 £55,000 -4.35% 29
South West -33 23 £51,977 +3.95% 38
East of England -16 12 £42,500 -40.35% 29
Scotland -23 12 £26,000 -46.70% 12
East Midlands -14 10 £37,500 -51.61% 29
Wales +2 5 £47,000 -3.59% 11
North East 0 2 £52,500 +15.38% 3
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 11 (4.85%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.32%) Confluence
3 2 (0.88%) CMS
3 2 (0.88%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.88%) Mendix
3 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.44%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.44%) Apache
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.44%) Appian
4 1 (0.44%) Camunda
4 1 (0.44%) JBoss
4 1 (0.44%) SAS
4 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (8.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 19 (8.37%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.44%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.44%) Shopify
1 1 (0.44%) Teamcenter
1 1 (0.44%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 60 (26.43%) AWS
2 46 (20.26%) Azure
3 32 (14.10%) Serverless
4 28 (12.33%) SaaS
5 27 (11.89%) Power Platform
6 26 (11.45%) Amazon ECS
7 24 (10.57%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (5.29%) Amazon S3
10 11 (4.85%) GitHub
11 9 (3.96%) GCP
12 8 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (3.08%) OpenShift
14 5 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
15 4 (1.76%) Snowflake
16 3 (1.32%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.52%) Intranet
2 6 (2.64%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.64%) Wireless
3 3 (1.32%) AMQP
4 2 (0.88%) Broadband
4 2 (0.88%) DNS
4 2 (0.88%) Firewall
5 1 (0.44%) HTTP
5 1 (0.44%) Internet
5 1 (0.44%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (24.23%) PostgreSQL
1 55 (24.23%) SQL Server
2 30 (13.22%) RDBMS
3 26 (11.45%) Power BI
4 25 (11.01%) MySQL
5 12 (5.29%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (4.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (3.96%) Metadata
8 7 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (2.20%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.76%) DB2
10 4 (1.76%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.76%) Redis
11 3 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.32%) InfluxDB
11 3 (1.32%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.32%) QlikView
11 3 (1.32%) Tableau
12 2 (0.88%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 35 (15.42%) Git
2 32 (14.10%) Jenkins
3 17 (7.49%) JUnit
4 16 (7.05%) JIRA
5 13 (5.73%) Mockito
6 12 (5.29%) JMeter
7 9 (3.96%) Cucumber
8 7 (3.08%) Selenium
9 6 (2.64%) GitLab
10 5 (2.20%) Postman
10 5 (2.20%) SoapUI
11 4 (1.76%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.32%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.88%) Jaeger
14 1 (0.44%) Ant
14 1 (0.44%) Browser DevTools
14 1 (0.44%) Eclipse
14 1 (0.44%) ERwin
14 1 (0.44%) Maven
14 1 (0.44%) Xcode
General
1 111 (48.90%) Social Skills
2 47 (20.70%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (18.06%) Finance
4 24 (10.57%) Retail
5 21 (9.25%) Public Sector
6 17 (7.49%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.52%) Law
8 5 (2.20%) Marketing
9 4 (1.76%) Back Office
9 4 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.88%) Electronics
10 2 (0.88%) German Language
10 2 (0.88%) Legal
10 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.44%) Advertising
11 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.44%) Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 81 (35.68%) Developer
2 36 (15.86%) Analyst
3 26 (11.45%) Java Developer
4 25 (11.01%) Full-Stack Developer
5 21 (9.25%) Software Engineer
5 21 (9.25%) Support Engineer
6 19 (8.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 15 (6.61%) Senior
7 15 (6.61%) Software Support Engineer
8 12 (5.29%) Technical Support
9 11 (4.85%) Lead
9 11 (4.85%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 10 (4.41%) Data Analyst
10 10 (4.41%) Junior
10 10 (4.41%) Support Analyst
11 8 (3.52%) Report Analyst
11 8 (3.52%) Senior Developer
11 8 (3.52%) Team Leader
12 7 (3.08%) Architect
12 7 (3.08%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (23.35%) REST
2 43 (18.94%) React
3 36 (15.86%) JSON
4 34 (14.98%) Spring
5 32 (14.10%) Spring Boot
5 32 (14.10%) Web Services
6 29 (12.78%) HTML
7 28 (12.33%) XML
8 25 (11.01%) AngularJS
9 24 (10.57%) Node.js
10 20 (8.81%) CSS
11 19 (8.37%) .NET
12 17 (7.49%) jQuery
13 15 (6.61%) Apache Camel
13 15 (6.61%) Elastic Stack
14 14 (6.17%) Hibernate
14 14 (6.17%) Vue
15 11 (4.85%) ActiveMQ
15 11 (4.85%) SOAP
15 11 (4.85%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.33%) Onboarding
2 22 (9.69%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.73%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (5.29%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.41%) Data Structures
5 10 (4.41%) Operational Technology
5 10 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.64%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.64%) e-Learning
6 6 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.20%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.76%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.88%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.88%) Replication
10 2 (0.88%) Semantic Web
11 1 (0.44%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.01%) Windows
2 17 (7.49%) Linux
3 8 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.64%) Unix
5 1 (0.44%) Android
5 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (40.53%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (33.04%) Agile
3 57 (25.11%) CI/CD
4 39 (17.18%) DevOps
4 39 (17.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 35 (15.42%) SDLC
6 34 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (14.10%) Business Intelligence
8 31 (13.66%) Microservices
9 30 (13.22%) Mentoring
9 30 (13.22%) Software Engineering
10 29 (12.78%) Scrum
10 29 (12.78%) TDD
11 27 (11.89%) Client Onboarding
12 26 (11.45%) Analytics
13 25 (11.01%) Data Modelling
14 21 (9.25%) ETL
14 21 (9.25%) Workflow
15 19 (8.37%) Customer Service
16 18 (7.93%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 126 (55.51%) SQL
2 71 (31.28%) Python
3 58 (25.55%) JavaScript
4 57 (25.11%) Java
5 34 (14.98%) C#
6 22 (9.69%) PowerShell
7 15 (6.61%) Shell Script
8 14 (6.17%) PHP
9 13 (5.73%) TypeScript
10 12 (5.29%) Go
11 8 (3.52%) Delphi
12 6 (2.64%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.88%) Bash
13 2 (0.88%) C
13 2 (0.88%) Perl
13 2 (0.88%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.88%) VBA
14 1 (0.44%) Groovy
14 1 (0.44%) R
14 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (17.18%) Degree
2 23 (10.13%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.85%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.08%) ISTQB
5 7 (3.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 5 (2.20%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.76%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.88%) CISSP
9 2 (0.88%) MCSE
9 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.88%) OCP
9 2 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.81%) Data Quality
2 19 (8.37%) QA
3 7 (3.08%) GDPR
4 3 (1.32%) HL7
5 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.44%) NCSC
6 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (17.62%) Docker
2 6 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (18.06%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.73%) Kibana
2 13 (5.73%) Terraform
3 12 (5.29%) Ansible
4 7 (3.08%) Grafana
5 6 (2.64%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.32%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.88%) Argo
7 2 (0.88%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.88%) SCCM
8 1 (0.44%) Control-M
8 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 55 (24.23%) Microsoft
2 34 (14.98%) Oracle
3 13 (5.73%) Splunk
4 11 (4.85%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.64%) Zoho
6 5 (2.20%) Google
6 5 (2.20%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.76%) Pega
7 4 (1.76%) WSO2
8 3 (1.32%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.32%) HubSpot
8 3 (1.32%) IBM
8 3 (1.32%) Informatica
8 3 (1.32%) SAP
8 3 (1.32%) Talend
9 2 (0.88%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.88%) Databricks
9 2 (0.88%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.88%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.88%) Siemens