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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 246 197
Rank change year-on-year -149 -49 +8
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 183 281 974
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.28% 1.04% 1.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.71% 6.64% 8.35%
Number of salaries quoted 123 178 601
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,020 £80,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.85% +12.17% -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 4,935 4,234 11,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.61% 15.71% 17.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,786 2,965 8,195
10th Percentile £33,500 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 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 27 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 -50 64 £53,750 -10.42% 37
North of England -57 58 £60,000 +9.09% 35
Yorkshire -49 29 £62,500 +13.64% 11
North West -41 26 £57,500 +4.55% 21
South West -56 26 £50,000 +5.26% 13
Midlands -67 25 £36,000 -20.00% 18
East Midlands -47 14 £37,500 - 8
East of England -40 12 £42,500 -31.45% 12
West Midlands -44 11 £34,500 -23.33% 10
North East -43 3 £45,000 +0.42% 3
Scotland -37 2 - - 8
Wales -47 2 £45,000 -30.77% 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 10 (5.46%) OpenStack
2 6 (3.28%) CMS
3 5 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.09%) CICS
4 2 (1.09%) Confluence
4 2 (1.09%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.55%) Camunda
5 1 (0.55%) JBoss
5 1 (0.55%) nginx
5 1 (0.55%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.55%) SAS
5 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (9.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.46%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.09%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.55%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.55%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 62 (33.88%) AWS
2 56 (30.60%) Azure
3 33 (18.03%) Power Platform
4 25 (13.66%) Serverless
5 24 (13.11%) GCP
6 20 (10.93%) Amazon ECS
7 18 (9.84%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.46%) Amazon S3
10 9 (4.92%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (4.37%) SaaS
12 7 (3.83%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (3.83%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (2.19%) GitHub
15 3 (1.64%) AWS Data Pipeline
15 3 (1.64%) DigitalOcean
15 3 (1.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.92%) Intranet
2 2 (1.09%) Broadband
2 2 (1.09%) Firewall
2 2 (1.09%) LAN
2 2 (1.09%) WAN
3 1 (0.55%) Network Security
3 1 (0.55%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.55%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (27.87%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (24.59%) SQL Server
3 33 (18.03%) Power BI
4 27 (14.75%) MySQL
5 21 (11.48%) RDBMS
6 17 (9.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (8.74%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (8.74%) NoSQL
8 12 (6.56%) MongoDB
9 11 (6.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (5.46%) Metadata
11 7 (3.83%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (3.28%) DB2
13 5 (2.73%) BigQuery
13 5 (2.73%) Tableau
14 4 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (2.19%) DynamoDB
14 4 (2.19%) Oracle Database
15 3 (1.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (23.50%) Git
2 23 (12.57%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.01%) JIRA
3 11 (6.01%) JUnit
4 6 (3.28%) Cucumber
4 6 (3.28%) Mockito
4 6 (3.28%) Selenium
5 5 (2.73%) JMeter
6 3 (1.64%) GitLab
6 3 (1.64%) Postman
6 3 (1.64%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.09%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.09%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.09%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.09%) Jaeger
7 2 (1.09%) MSTest
7 2 (1.09%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.55%) Ant
8 1 (0.55%) ERwin
8 1 (0.55%) Subversion
General
1 69 (37.70%) Social Skills
2 44 (24.04%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (15.85%) Finance
4 15 (8.20%) Manufacturing
5 13 (7.10%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.19%) Legal
7 3 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.64%) Law
7 3 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.09%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.09%) Aviation
8 2 (1.09%) Back Office
8 2 (1.09%) Banking
8 2 (1.09%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.09%) Police
8 2 (1.09%) Retail
8 2 (1.09%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 78 (42.62%) Developer
2 29 (15.85%) Analyst
3 22 (12.02%) Senior
4 21 (11.48%) Data Engineer
5 19 (10.38%) Java Developer
6 16 (8.74%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (8.20%) Applications Support
8 14 (7.65%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.56%) Data Analyst
9 12 (6.56%) Software Engineer
9 12 (6.56%) Support Analyst
10 11 (6.01%) C# Developer
11 10 (5.46%) Applications Support Analyst
12 7 (3.83%) Applications Developer
12 7 (3.83%) Junior
12 7 (3.83%) PHP Developer
12 7 (3.83%) Report Analyst
13 6 (3.28%) Architect
13 6 (3.28%) Data Architect
13 6 (3.28%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (19.67%) REST
2 33 (18.03%) React
3 25 (13.66%) Spring
4 23 (12.57%) Spring Boot
5 22 (12.02%) HTML
6 20 (10.93%) Web Services
6 20 (10.93%) XML
7 18 (9.84%) .NET
7 18 (9.84%) CSS
8 17 (9.29%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (9.29%) Node.js
9 14 (7.65%) AngularJS
10 12 (6.56%) Kafka
11 11 (6.01%) JSON
11 11 (6.01%) WinForms
12 10 (5.46%) RESTful
12 10 (5.46%) Vue
13 9 (4.92%) Django
14 8 (4.37%) Mustache
14 8 (4.37%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (8.74%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.46%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (5.46%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.83%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.83%) Replication
5 6 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.73%) Legacy Code
6 5 (2.73%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.19%) CUDA
7 4 (2.19%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.09%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.55%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.55%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.55%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.01%) Windows
2 9 (4.92%) Linux
3 3 (1.64%) Unix
4 2 (1.09%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (35.52%) Agile
2 59 (32.24%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (27.32%) CI/CD
4 45 (24.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 41 (22.40%) Analytics
6 40 (21.86%) Business Intelligence
7 37 (20.22%) Data Modelling
7 37 (20.22%) DevOps
7 37 (20.22%) ETL
8 30 (16.39%) Microservices
8 30 (16.39%) Scrum
9 28 (15.30%) Full-Stack Development
9 28 (15.30%) SDLC
10 25 (13.66%) TDD
11 23 (12.57%) Software Engineering
12 21 (11.48%) Data Pipeline
12 21 (11.48%) Kanban
12 21 (11.48%) Validation
13 19 (10.38%) Data Engineering
13 19 (10.38%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 100 (54.64%) SQL
2 49 (26.78%) JavaScript
2 49 (26.78%) Python
3 48 (26.23%) Java
4 32 (17.49%) C#
5 14 (7.65%) PHP
6 13 (7.10%) Delphi
7 10 (5.46%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.92%) T-SQL
9 7 (3.83%) Go
9 7 (3.83%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.19%) Scala
10 4 (2.19%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.64%) R
12 2 (1.09%) Bash
12 2 (1.09%) C
12 2 (1.09%) C++
12 2 (1.09%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.55%) Perl
13 1 (0.55%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 25 (13.66%) Degree
2 14 (7.65%) Security Cleared
3 11 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (6.01%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.64%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.64%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (1.64%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.09%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.55%) CISSP
7 1 (0.55%) MCSE
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.55%) OCP
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.55%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (21.86%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.56%) GDPR
3 11 (6.01%) QA
4 3 (1.64%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.09%) SLA
5 2 (1.09%) WCAG
6 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.55%) HL7
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.55%) NCSC
6 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (20.22%) Docker
2 3 (1.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (18.58%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.29%) Terraform
3 8 (4.37%) Ansible
4 7 (3.83%) Kibana
5 5 (2.73%) Grafana
5 5 (2.73%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.09%) Argo
6 2 (1.09%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.55%) Control-M
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.55%) SCCM
7 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (21.31%) Microsoft
2 37 (20.22%) Oracle
3 7 (3.83%) Google
3 7 (3.83%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.28%) Databricks
5 4 (2.19%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.19%) IBM
5 4 (2.19%) Pega
5 4 (2.19%) Splunk
6 3 (1.64%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.09%) IFS
7 2 (1.09%) Informatica
7 2 (1.09%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.09%) Siemens
7 2 (1.09%) WSO2
8 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.55%) Infragistics
8 1 (0.55%) Perforce
8 1 (0.55%) SAP
8 1 (0.55%) Teradata