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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 196 201
Rank change year-on-year -113 +5 -20
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 222 498 653
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 1.43% 1.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.87% 9.01% 7.58%
Number of salaries quoted 164 162 494
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,253 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,953 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £83,759
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.50% +2.50% -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 3,781 5,525 8,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.50% 15.85% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,342 2,826 6,727
10th Percentile £31,685 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,270 £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 £66,137
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% -7.20%

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 27 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 27 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 -74 84 £41,000 -20.00% 109
North of England +4 57 £55,000 - 47
Midlands -4 38 £47,500 +5.56% 42
Yorkshire -1 29 £48,750 -7.14% 15
West Midlands +20 27 £47,500 +5.56% 17
North West +6 26 £55,000 -4.35% 29
South West -48 20 £43,953 -12.09% 34
East Midlands -18 11 £37,500 -51.61% 24
East of England -21 11 £42,500 -40.35% 23
Scotland -27 11 £26,000 -45.33% 15
Wales +1 5 £47,000 -3.59% 9
North East -8 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 (4.95%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.90%) CMS
2 2 (0.90%) Confluence
2 2 (0.90%) Headless CMS
2 2 (0.90%) Mendix
2 2 (0.90%) SAS
2 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.45%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.45%) Appian
3 1 (0.45%) Camunda
3 1 (0.45%) JBoss
3 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (8.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 19 (8.56%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.45%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.45%) Shopify
2 1 (0.45%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.45%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 59 (26.58%) AWS
2 46 (20.72%) Azure
3 30 (13.51%) Serverless
4 27 (12.16%) Power Platform
4 27 (12.16%) SaaS
5 25 (11.26%) Amazon ECS
6 23 (10.36%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (4.95%) Amazon S3
9 11 (4.95%) GitHub
10 10 (4.50%) GCP
11 8 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (3.15%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.70%) OpenShift
14 5 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
15 4 (1.80%) Snowflake
16 3 (1.35%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.60%) Intranet
2 6 (2.70%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.70%) Wireless
3 2 (0.90%) AMQP
3 2 (0.90%) Broadband
3 2 (0.90%) DNS
3 2 (0.90%) Firewall
4 1 (0.45%) HTTP
4 1 (0.45%) Internet
4 1 (0.45%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (24.77%) PostgreSQL
1 55 (24.77%) SQL Server
2 29 (13.06%) RDBMS
3 26 (11.71%) MySQL
3 26 (11.71%) Power BI
4 12 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (4.50%) Metadata
5 10 (4.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (3.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (2.25%) DB2
8 4 (1.80%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.80%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.80%) Redis
9 3 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.90%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.90%) FileMaker
10 2 (0.90%) OLAP
10 2 (0.90%) QlikView
10 2 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (14.86%) Git
2 30 (13.51%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.76%) JIRA
3 15 (6.76%) JUnit
4 12 (5.41%) Mockito
5 11 (4.95%) JMeter
6 8 (3.60%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.70%) Selenium
8 4 (1.80%) GitLab
8 4 (1.80%) Postman
8 4 (1.80%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.35%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.90%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.45%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.45%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.45%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.45%) Gradle
11 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.45%) Zephyr
General
1 107 (48.20%) Social Skills
2 48 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (18.02%) Finance
4 22 (9.91%) Retail
5 20 (9.01%) Public Sector
6 17 (7.66%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.60%) Law
8 5 (2.25%) Marketing
9 4 (1.80%) Back Office
9 4 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.35%) Legal
11 2 (0.90%) Banking
11 2 (0.90%) Electronics
11 2 (0.90%) German Language
11 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (37.39%) Developer
2 35 (15.77%) Analyst
3 25 (11.26%) Full-Stack Developer
3 25 (11.26%) Java Developer
4 19 (8.56%) Software Engineer
4 19 (8.56%) Support Engineer
5 18 (8.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 16 (7.21%) Senior
7 13 (5.86%) Software Support Engineer
8 11 (4.95%) Technical Support
9 10 (4.50%) Data Analyst
9 10 (4.50%) Junior
9 10 (4.50%) Lead
9 10 (4.50%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 9 (4.05%) Senior Developer
10 9 (4.05%) Support Analyst
11 8 (3.60%) Architect
11 8 (3.60%) C# Developer
11 8 (3.60%) Report Analyst
12 7 (3.15%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (23.42%) REST
2 42 (18.92%) React
3 35 (15.77%) JSON
4 33 (14.86%) Spring
5 31 (13.96%) Spring Boot
5 31 (13.96%) Web Services
6 28 (12.61%) XML
7 27 (12.16%) HTML
8 25 (11.26%) AngularJS
9 24 (10.81%) Node.js
10 20 (9.01%) CSS
11 19 (8.56%) .NET
12 16 (7.21%) jQuery
13 15 (6.76%) Elastic Stack
14 14 (6.31%) Apache Camel
14 14 (6.31%) Vue
15 12 (5.41%) Hibernate
16 10 (4.50%) ActiveMQ
16 10 (4.50%) SOAP
16 10 (4.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.71%) Onboarding
2 21 (9.46%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.50%) Data Structures
4 10 (4.50%) Operational Technology
4 10 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.15%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.25%) e-Learning
6 5 (2.25%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.80%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.35%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.90%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.90%) Replication
9 2 (0.90%) Semantic Web
10 1 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.91%) Windows
2 14 (6.31%) Linux
3 8 (3.60%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.70%) Unix
5 1 (0.45%) Android
5 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (40.54%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (32.43%) Agile
3 54 (24.32%) CI/CD
4 39 (17.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 38 (17.12%) DevOps
6 35 (15.77%) SDLC
7 34 (15.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (14.86%) Business Intelligence
9 31 (13.96%) Microservices
10 28 (12.61%) Mentoring
10 28 (12.61%) Software Engineering
10 28 (12.61%) TDD
11 27 (12.16%) Scrum
12 26 (11.71%) Analytics
12 26 (11.71%) Data Modelling
13 25 (11.26%) Client Onboarding
14 24 (10.81%) ETL
15 21 (9.46%) Workflow
16 18 (8.11%) Containerisation
16 18 (8.11%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 124 (55.86%) SQL
2 67 (30.18%) Python
3 55 (24.77%) JavaScript
4 52 (23.42%) Java
5 35 (15.77%) C#
6 22 (9.91%) PowerShell
7 14 (6.31%) PHP
8 13 (5.86%) Shell Script
9 12 (5.41%) TypeScript
10 10 (4.50%) Go
11 9 (4.05%) Delphi
12 6 (2.70%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.90%) Bash
13 2 (0.90%) C
13 2 (0.90%) Perl
13 2 (0.90%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.90%) VBA
14 1 (0.45%) C++
14 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (16.67%) Degree
2 19 (8.56%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.05%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.15%) ISTQB
5 7 (3.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (1.80%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.35%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.90%) CISSP
8 2 (0.90%) MCSE
8 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.90%) OCP
8 2 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.36%) Data Quality
2 18 (8.11%) QA
3 8 (3.60%) GDPR
4 3 (1.35%) HL7
5 2 (0.90%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.45%) NCSC
6 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (17.57%) Docker
2 6 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (17.57%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.86%) Terraform
3 11 (4.95%) Ansible
4 10 (4.50%) Kibana
5 6 (2.70%) Grafana
6 5 (2.25%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.90%) Argo
7 2 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.90%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.90%) SCCM
8 1 (0.45%) Control-M
8 1 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 53 (23.87%) Microsoft
2 34 (15.32%) Oracle
3 12 (5.41%) Splunk
4 10 (4.50%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.70%) Google
5 6 (2.70%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.70%) Zoho
6 4 (1.80%) Informatica
6 4 (1.80%) Pega
6 4 (1.80%) Talend
6 4 (1.80%) WSO2
7 3 (1.35%) HubSpot
7 3 (1.35%) IBM
7 3 (1.35%) SAP
8 2 (0.90%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.90%) Databricks
8 2 (0.90%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.90%) OutSystems
8 2 (0.90%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.90%) Siemens