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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 247 194
Rank change year-on-year -120 -53 +2
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 196 270 928
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.34% 1.04% 1.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.28% 6.19% 8.20%
Number of salaries quoted 137 177 588
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £65,603
90th Percentile £76,045 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,750 £57,500
% 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 4,578 4,363 11,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.97% 16.86% 17.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,625 2,938 8,167
10th Percentile £33,850 £32,850 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,498 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -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 2 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 2 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 -53 68 £50,000 -16.67% 44
North of England -53 64 £60,000 +9.09% 33
Yorkshire -37 35 £62,500 +13.64% 18
Midlands -47 29 £33,500 -25.56% 24
North West -28 27 £57,500 +4.55% 13
South West -40 25 £50,000 +5.26% 14
West Midlands -34 15 £32,500 -27.78% 15
East Midlands -43 14 £38,750 +3.33% 9
East of England -33 10 £42,500 -31.45% 7
Scotland -41 4 £26,000 -61.48% 9
North East -27 2 £45,000 +0.42% 4
Wales -40 2 £37,500 -42.31% 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 13 (6.63%) OpenStack
2 8 (4.08%) CMS
3 4 (2.04%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.02%) CICS
4 2 (1.02%) Confluence
4 2 (1.02%) Mendix
4 2 (1.02%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.51%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.51%) Camunda
5 1 (0.51%) nginx
5 1 (0.51%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.51%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (9.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (7.65%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.51%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.51%) Shopify
2 1 (0.51%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 69 (35.20%) AWS
2 58 (29.59%) Azure
3 31 (15.82%) Power Platform
4 27 (13.78%) Serverless
5 25 (12.76%) Amazon ECS
6 23 (11.73%) Amazon EKS
7 22 (11.22%) GCP
8 11 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (5.61%) SaaS
9 8 (4.08%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.08%) GitHub
10 7 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.53%) DigitalOcean
13 3 (1.53%) Firebase
13 3 (1.53%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.10%) Intranet
2 4 (2.04%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.04%) Wireless
3 2 (1.02%) Broadband
4 1 (0.51%) Firewall
4 1 (0.51%) LAN
4 1 (0.51%) Network Security
4 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.51%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.51%) WAN
4 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (29.08%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (23.47%) SQL Server
3 32 (16.33%) MySQL
4 31 (15.82%) Power BI
5 23 (11.73%) RDBMS
6 17 (8.67%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (7.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (6.63%) NoSQL
9 11 (5.61%) Metadata
9 11 (5.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (4.59%) MongoDB
11 7 (3.57%) DB2
12 6 (3.06%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (2.55%) BigQuery
14 4 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (2.04%) Oracle Database
14 4 (2.04%) Redis
15 3 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (1.53%) FileMaker
15 3 (1.53%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 50 (25.51%) Git
2 29 (14.80%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.65%) JIRA
4 11 (5.61%) JUnit
5 8 (4.08%) Cucumber
6 7 (3.57%) Mockito
6 7 (3.57%) Selenium
7 5 (2.55%) JMeter
8 4 (2.04%) Postman
8 4 (2.04%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.53%) GitLab
9 3 (1.53%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.02%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.02%) Eclipse
10 2 (1.02%) IntelliJ
10 2 (1.02%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.51%) Gradle
11 1 (0.51%) MSTest
11 1 (0.51%) PHPUnit
General
1 79 (40.31%) Social Skills
2 46 (23.47%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (16.33%) Finance
4 16 (8.16%) Manufacturing
5 15 (7.65%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.57%) Law
7 5 (2.55%) Legal
8 3 (1.53%) Back Office
8 3 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.53%) Marketing
8 3 (1.53%) Retail
9 2 (1.02%) Banking
9 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.02%) Police
10 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.51%) Aviation
10 1 (0.51%) Electronics
10 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (44.90%) Developer
2 29 (14.80%) Analyst
3 27 (13.78%) Java Developer
4 26 (13.27%) Full-Stack Developer
5 16 (8.16%) Data Engineer
5 16 (8.16%) Senior
5 16 (8.16%) Software Engineer
6 14 (7.14%) Applications Support
6 14 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 13 (6.63%) Senior Developer
8 12 (6.12%) Data Analyst
8 12 (6.12%) Support Analyst
9 11 (5.61%) C# Developer
9 11 (5.61%) Junior
10 9 (4.59%) Applications Support Analyst
11 8 (4.08%) Applications Developer
11 8 (4.08%) Report Analyst
11 8 (4.08%) Support Engineer
12 6 (3.06%) Architect
12 6 (3.06%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (22.45%) REST
2 39 (19.90%) React
3 31 (15.82%) Spring
4 29 (14.80%) Spring Boot
5 26 (13.27%) Node.js
6 25 (12.76%) HTML
6 25 (12.76%) Web Services
7 22 (11.22%) CSS
8 21 (10.71%) XML
9 20 (10.20%) AngularJS
9 20 (10.20%) Elastic Stack
10 19 (9.69%) .NET
11 17 (8.67%) Vue
12 14 (7.14%) JSON
13 11 (5.61%) Laravel
13 11 (5.61%) RESTful
13 11 (5.61%) SOAP
13 11 (5.61%) WinForms
14 10 (5.10%) Apache Camel
14 10 (5.10%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.20%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.10%) Data Structures
4 9 (4.59%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.08%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.57%) Replication
7 5 (2.55%) Legacy Code
8 4 (2.04%) CUDA
8 4 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.04%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.53%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.02%) e-Learning
10 2 (1.02%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.51%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.51%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.65%) Windows
2 11 (5.61%) Linux
3 4 (2.04%) Unix
3 4 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (36.22%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (33.67%) Agile
3 53 (27.04%) CI/CD
4 43 (21.94%) DevOps
5 41 (20.92%) Full-Stack Development
6 38 (19.39%) Analytics
6 38 (19.39%) Business Intelligence
6 38 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (17.86%) Data Modelling
8 34 (17.35%) Microservices
9 29 (14.80%) ETL
9 29 (14.80%) Scrum
10 27 (13.78%) SDLC
10 27 (13.78%) Software Engineering
10 27 (13.78%) TDD
11 23 (11.73%) Kanban
12 19 (9.69%) Mentoring
13 18 (9.18%) Validation
13 18 (9.18%) Workflow
14 17 (8.67%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 100 (51.02%) SQL
2 61 (31.12%) JavaScript
3 56 (28.57%) Java
4 51 (26.02%) Python
5 34 (17.35%) C#
6 19 (9.69%) PHP
7 13 (6.63%) Delphi
7 13 (6.63%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.59%) Go
9 7 (3.57%) PL/SQL
9 7 (3.57%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.57%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.55%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.53%) R
11 3 (1.53%) Scala
12 2 (1.02%) Bash
12 2 (1.02%) C
13 1 (0.51%) C++
13 1 (0.51%) Perl
13 1 (0.51%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 28 (14.29%) Degree
2 17 (8.67%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.61%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.53%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.53%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.02%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.02%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.51%) CISSP
7 1 (0.51%) MCSE
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.51%) OCP
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (17.35%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.12%) GDPR
3 10 (5.10%) QA
4 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.02%) HL7
5 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.51%) NCSC
5 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.51%) SLA
5 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (20.41%) Docker
2 5 (2.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (19.39%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.71%) Terraform
3 13 (6.63%) Ansible
4 7 (3.57%) Kibana
5 3 (1.53%) Grafana
5 3 (1.53%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.02%) Argo
6 2 (1.02%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.51%) Control-M
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.51%) SCCM
7 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (21.94%) Microsoft
2 39 (19.90%) Oracle
3 8 (4.08%) Google
3 8 (4.08%) Pega
4 6 (3.06%) WSO2
5 5 (2.55%) Databricks
5 5 (2.55%) IBM
6 4 (2.04%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.04%) Splunk
7 3 (1.53%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.53%) HubSpot
7 3 (1.53%) Informatica
7 3 (1.53%) Talend
8 2 (1.02%) IFS
8 2 (1.02%) OutSystems
8 2 (1.02%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.02%) SAP
8 2 (1.02%) Siemens
9 1 (0.51%) Aderant