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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 237 196
Rank change year-on-year -130 -41 +4
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 200 277 958
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.33% 1.07% 1.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.21% 6.53% 8.29%
Number of salaries quoted 140 176 605
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,375 £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 £75,318 £80,000 £81,250
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 4,749 4,243 11,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.88% 16.38% 17.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,738 2,975 8,240
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,000 £31,750
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 £68,750 £71,250 £65,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.20%

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 11 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 11 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 -61 69 £51,250 -14.58% 44
North of England -57 63 £60,000 +9.09% 33
Yorkshire -45 32 £62,500 +13.64% 18
North West -36 29 £60,000 +9.09% 13
Midlands -57 28 £34,500 -23.33% 24
South West -57 27 £50,000 +5.26% 14
East Midlands -45 15 £38,750 +3.33% 9
West Midlands -32 13 £32,500 -27.78% 15
East of England -36 13 £42,500 -31.45% 7
Scotland -32 4 £26,000 -61.48% 9
North East -29 2 £45,000 +0.42% 4
Wales -48 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 9 (4.50%) OpenStack
2 7 (3.50%) CMS
3 4 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.50%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.00%) CICS
5 2 (1.00%) Confluence
5 2 (1.00%) Mendix
5 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.50%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.50%) Camunda
6 1 (0.50%) nginx
6 1 (0.50%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.50%) SAS
6 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (7.00%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.50%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.00%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.50%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.50%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.50%) Shopify
2 1 (0.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 66 (33.00%) AWS
2 58 (29.00%) Azure
3 34 (17.00%) Power Platform
4 24 (12.00%) Serverless
5 23 (11.50%) GCP
6 20 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
7 18 (9.00%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.00%) SaaS
10 9 (4.50%) Amazon S3
10 9 (4.50%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (3.50%) GitHub
13 6 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (1.50%) DigitalOcean
15 3 (1.50%) OpenShift
15 3 (1.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.00%) Intranet
2 3 (1.50%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.50%) Wireless
3 2 (1.00%) Broadband
3 2 (1.00%) Firewall
3 2 (1.00%) LAN
3 2 (1.00%) WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Network Security
4 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (27.00%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (25.50%) SQL Server
3 34 (17.00%) Power BI
4 32 (16.00%) MySQL
5 24 (12.00%) RDBMS
6 18 (9.00%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (9.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 15 (7.50%) NoSQL
8 12 (6.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (5.50%) Metadata
9 11 (5.50%) MongoDB
10 7 (3.50%) DB2
11 6 (3.00%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (2.50%) BigQuery
12 5 (2.50%) Tableau
13 4 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (2.00%) DynamoDB
13 4 (2.00%) Oracle Database
13 4 (2.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (22.50%) Git
2 23 (11.50%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.50%) JIRA
4 10 (5.00%) JUnit
5 7 (3.50%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.50%) Selenium
6 6 (3.00%) Mockito
7 5 (2.50%) JMeter
8 3 (1.50%) GitLab
8 3 (1.50%) Postman
8 3 (1.50%) SoapUI
8 3 (1.50%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.00%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.00%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.00%) IntelliJ
9 2 (1.00%) Jaeger
9 2 (1.00%) MSTest
10 1 (0.50%) Ant
10 1 (0.50%) ERwin
10 1 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 81 (40.50%) Social Skills
2 50 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (16.00%) Finance
4 16 (8.00%) Manufacturing
5 13 (6.50%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.00%) Law
7 5 (2.50%) Legal
8 3 (1.50%) Back Office
8 3 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.00%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.00%) Aviation
9 2 (1.00%) Banking
9 2 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.00%) Marketing
9 2 (1.00%) Police
9 2 (1.00%) Retail
10 1 (0.50%) Electronics
10 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (42.00%) Developer
2 32 (16.00%) Analyst
3 22 (11.00%) Senior
4 21 (10.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 21 (10.50%) Java Developer
5 20 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 16 (8.00%) Software Engineer
7 15 (7.50%) Applications Support
8 14 (7.00%) Data Analyst
8 14 (7.00%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.00%) Support Analyst
10 11 (5.50%) C# Developer
11 10 (5.00%) Applications Support Analyst
11 10 (5.00%) Junior
12 9 (4.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 8 (4.00%) Applications Developer
13 8 (4.00%) Report Analyst
14 7 (3.50%) PHP Developer
14 7 (3.50%) Support Engineer
15 6 (3.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (19.50%) REST
2 36 (18.00%) React
3 26 (13.00%) Spring
4 24 (12.00%) HTML
4 24 (12.00%) Spring Boot
5 22 (11.00%) XML
6 21 (10.50%) CSS
6 21 (10.50%) Web Services
7 20 (10.00%) .NET
7 20 (10.00%) Node.js
8 16 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
8 16 (8.00%) Vue
9 14 (7.00%) AngularJS
9 14 (7.00%) JSON
10 12 (6.00%) Kafka
11 11 (5.50%) Laravel
11 11 (5.50%) SOAP
11 11 (5.50%) WinForms
12 10 (5.00%) RESTful
13 9 (4.50%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.50%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.50%) Replication
6 5 (2.50%) Legacy Code
7 4 (2.00%) CUDA
7 4 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.00%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.00%) e-Learning
9 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.00%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.00%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.50%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.50%) Windows
2 11 (5.50%) Linux
3 4 (2.00%) Unix
3 4 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (35.50%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (33.00%) Agile
3 51 (25.50%) CI/CD
4 47 (23.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (21.00%) Analytics
6 41 (20.50%) Business Intelligence
7 39 (19.50%) Data Modelling
8 38 (19.00%) DevOps
9 35 (17.50%) ETL
10 34 (17.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 30 (15.00%) Microservices
12 28 (14.00%) SDLC
12 28 (14.00%) Software Engineering
13 26 (13.00%) Scrum
14 24 (12.00%) TDD
15 20 (10.00%) Validation
16 19 (9.50%) Data Pipeline
16 19 (9.50%) Decision-Making
17 18 (9.00%) Data Engineering
17 18 (9.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 109 (54.50%) SQL
2 56 (28.00%) JavaScript
2 56 (28.00%) Python
3 50 (25.00%) Java
4 34 (17.00%) C#
5 18 (9.00%) PHP
6 13 (6.50%) Delphi
7 12 (6.00%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.50%) T-SQL
9 8 (4.00%) Go
10 7 (3.50%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.50%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.50%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.50%) R
12 3 (1.50%) Scala
13 2 (1.00%) Bash
13 2 (1.00%) C
13 2 (1.00%) C++
14 1 (0.50%) Perl
14 1 (0.50%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 29 (14.50%) Degree
2 16 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.50%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.50%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.50%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.00%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.50%) CISSP
7 1 (0.50%) MCSE
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.50%) OCP
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.50%) GDPR
3 10 (5.00%) QA
4 3 (1.50%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.00%) HL7
5 2 (1.00%) SLA
5 2 (1.00%) WCAG
6 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.50%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.50%) NCSC
6 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (18.00%) Docker
2 5 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (17.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.50%) Terraform
3 8 (4.00%) Ansible
4 7 (3.50%) Kibana
5 5 (2.50%) Grafana
5 5 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.00%) Argo
6 2 (1.00%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.50%) Control-M
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.50%) SCCM
7 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 41 (20.50%) Oracle
3 8 (4.00%) Google
4 7 (3.50%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.00%) Databricks
6 5 (2.50%) IBM
7 4 (2.00%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.00%) Pega
7 4 (2.00%) Splunk
8 3 (1.50%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.50%) IFS
8 3 (1.50%) Informatica
8 3 (1.50%) Talend
9 2 (1.00%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.00%) OutSystems
9 2 (1.00%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.00%) SAP
9 2 (1.00%) Siemens
9 2 (1.00%) WSO2
10 1 (0.50%) Workday