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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 306 219
Rank change year-on-year -82 -87 -3
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 333 269 578
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.78% 1.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.29% 6.80% 8.84%
Number of salaries quoted 229 174 213
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,300 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £56,250 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -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 5,293 3,954 6,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.13% 11.49% 12.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,804 2,436 3,349
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,000
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 £78,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -15 97 £62,500 +19.05% 69
South East -62 79 £60,000 +46.34% 87
Midlands -15 64 £53,750 +13.16% 56
North West -7 52 £55,000 +2.33% 45
West Midlands -26 44 £52,500 +10.53% 35
East of England -17 40 £47,500 -27.48% 36
Yorkshire -28 33 £65,000 +13.04% 19
South West -71 29 £45,000 -18.18% 34
East Midlands -15 20 £56,250 +60.71% 21
Wales -53 19 £62,000 +10.22% 6
North East -60 12 £65,000 +23.81% 6
Scotland -21 9 £27,250 -36.26% 34
Northern Ireland -73 1 - - 24
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 21 (6.31%) IIS
2 4 (1.20%) Apache
2 4 (1.20%) OpenStack
3 3 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.90%) Confluence
3 3 (0.90%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.60%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.60%) Drupal
5 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) Documentum
5 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.30%) JBoss
5 1 (0.30%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.30%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.90%) Notion
3 2 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.50%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.90%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.60%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.30%) Finacle
4 1 (0.30%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.30%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.30%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 113 (33.93%) AWS
2 112 (33.63%) Azure
3 52 (15.62%) GitHub
4 47 (14.11%) Power Platform
5 42 (12.61%) Serverless
6 35 (10.51%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (10.51%) GitHub Actions
7 32 (9.61%) GCP
8 25 (7.51%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (5.41%) SaaS
11 17 (5.11%) Amazon S3
12 16 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (3.90%) Power Automate
14 12 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (3.30%) PowerApps
16 10 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
17 9 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
17 9 (2.70%) Entra ID
17 9 (2.70%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.50%) HTTP
1 5 (1.50%) Intranet
2 4 (1.20%) Internet
3 3 (0.90%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.60%) Firewall
4 2 (0.60%) FTP
4 2 (0.60%) LAN
4 2 (0.60%) SMTP
4 2 (0.60%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.60%) VPN
4 2 (0.60%) WAN
5 1 (0.30%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (26.43%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (25.23%) SQL Server
3 72 (21.62%) MySQL
4 43 (12.91%) Power BI
5 32 (9.61%) RDBMS
6 18 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (5.41%) MongoDB
7 15 (4.50%) Tableau
8 14 (4.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (3.60%) NoSQL
9 12 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (2.10%) DynamoDB
11 7 (2.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 6 (1.80%) Metadata
12 6 (1.80%) Redis
13 5 (1.50%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.50%) Metadata Repository
13 5 (1.50%) Power Query
13 5 (1.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 105 (31.53%) Git
2 42 (12.61%) Jenkins
3 18 (5.41%) Claude Code
4 14 (4.20%) GitLab
4 14 (4.20%) JUnit
4 14 (4.20%) Oracle Forms
4 14 (4.20%) Team Foundation Server
5 13 (3.90%) JIRA
6 9 (2.70%) Mockito
7 7 (2.10%) JMeter
8 5 (1.50%) RSpec
9 4 (1.20%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.20%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.20%) minitest
9 4 (1.20%) NUnit
9 4 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.90%) Mocha
11 2 (0.60%) Bower
11 2 (0.60%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.60%) IntelliJ
General
1 132 (39.64%) Social Skills
2 89 (26.73%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (19.52%) Finance
4 26 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 25 (7.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (6.91%) Manufacturing
7 18 (5.41%) Retail
8 15 (4.50%) Law
9 14 (4.20%) Legal
10 11 (3.30%) Banking
11 8 (2.40%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.50%) Marketing
12 5 (1.50%) Social Housing
13 4 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.20%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.60%) Aviation
15 2 (0.60%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.30%) Back Office
16 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 150 (45.05%) Developer
2 49 (14.71%) Senior
3 47 (14.11%) Analyst
4 41 (12.31%) Software Developer
5 38 (11.41%) Software Engineer
6 37 (11.11%) .NET Developer
7 30 (9.01%) Senior Developer
8 29 (8.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 28 (8.41%) Data Engineer
10 21 (6.31%) C# Developer
10 21 (6.31%) Lead
11 17 (5.11%) Consultant
12 16 (4.80%) Business Analyst
12 16 (4.80%) Java Developer
13 15 (4.50%) C# .NET Developer
13 15 (4.50%) Systems Analyst
14 14 (4.20%) Web Developer
15 13 (3.90%) Data Analyst
16 12 (3.60%) .NET Software Developer
17 11 (3.30%) Mainframe Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (25.23%) .NET
2 77 (23.12%) React
3 76 (22.82%) HTML
4 73 (21.92%) CSS
5 64 (19.22%) REST
6 47 (14.11%) Spring
7 45 (13.51%) Spring Boot
8 39 (11.71%) jQuery
9 35 (10.51%) RESTful
10 34 (10.21%) Node.js
11 32 (9.61%) ASP.NET
12 29 (8.71%) .NET Framework
13 28 (8.41%) Entity Framework
14 27 (8.11%) Terraform
15 26 (7.81%) AngularJS
15 26 (7.81%) Vue
16 24 (7.21%) Web Services
17 22 (6.61%) .NET Core
17 22 (6.61%) JSON
18 20 (6.01%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.81%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.21%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (6.91%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (6.31%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (5.71%) Data Structures
6 18 (5.41%) Product Ownership
7 14 (4.20%) Legacy Applications
8 12 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (3.30%) Mainframe
10 7 (2.10%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.10%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (1.50%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.50%) Taxonomies
13 4 (1.20%) e-Learning
13 4 (1.20%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.20%) PMI
13 4 (1.20%) Reference Data
13 4 (1.20%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.31%) Windows
2 16 (4.80%) Linux
3 8 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.20%) Unix
5 2 (0.60%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (39.34%) Problem-Solving
2 126 (37.84%) Agile
3 124 (37.24%) CI/CD
4 82 (24.62%) DevOps
5 78 (23.42%) Software Engineering
6 75 (22.52%) Full-Stack Development
7 74 (22.22%) AI
8 56 (16.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 56 (16.82%) Scrum
9 55 (16.52%) Data Modelling
10 54 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
10 54 (16.22%) Decision-Making
11 49 (14.71%) Analytics
12 48 (14.41%) Microservices
13 45 (13.51%) Mentoring
14 43 (12.91%) SDLC
15 41 (12.31%) OO
16 39 (11.71%) Code Quality
17 38 (11.41%) Data Governance
18 37 (11.11%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 166 (49.85%) SQL
2 109 (32.73%) JavaScript
3 69 (20.72%) Java
4 67 (20.12%) Python
5 65 (19.52%) C#
6 57 (17.12%) TypeScript
7 21 (6.31%) PHP
8 16 (4.80%) VB.NET
9 14 (4.20%) PowerShell
10 12 (3.60%) COBOL
11 11 (3.30%) JCL
11 11 (3.30%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (1.50%) Ruby
14 4 (1.20%) Bash
14 4 (1.20%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.20%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.90%) C++
16 2 (0.60%) C
16 2 (0.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 42 (12.61%) Degree
2 34 (10.21%) Security Cleared
3 26 (7.81%) SC Cleared
4 22 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.30%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.00%) ACCA
6 10 (3.00%) CIMA
7 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.20%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.60%) CEH
9 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.60%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.60%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (17.72%) Data Quality
2 27 (8.11%) QA
3 21 (6.31%) GDPR
4 5 (1.50%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.60%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 76 (22.82%) Docker
2 11 (3.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (9.01%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.60%) Ansible
3 8 (2.40%) Kibana
4 5 (1.50%) Grafana
5 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.90%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.90%) Puppet
5 3 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.60%) QRadar
7 1 (0.30%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 82 (24.62%) Microsoft
2 53 (15.92%) Oracle
3 17 (5.11%) Databricks
4 16 (4.80%) Google
5 13 (3.90%) Sage
6 12 (3.60%) Splunk
7 11 (3.30%) Broadcom
8 10 (3.00%) Dynatrace
8 10 (3.00%) SAP
9 6 (1.80%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.80%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.20%) DevExpress
10 4 (1.20%) IBM
10 4 (1.20%) Informatica
10 4 (1.20%) Telerik
10 4 (1.20%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.90%) Cisco
11 3 (0.90%) JD Edwards
11 3 (0.90%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.90%) VMware