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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 305 193
Rank change year-on-year -86 -112 +37
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 301 273 736
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.79% 1.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.34% 6.51% 10.02%
Number of salaries quoted 214 169 311
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 5,639 4,196 7,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.87% 12.15% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,951 2,625 4,202
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,250 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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 7 September 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 7 September 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 -24 90 £62,500 +19.05% 76
South East -60 80 £55,000 +34.15% 79
North West +2 51 £55,000 +4.76% 47
Midlands -26 42 £51,250 +5.13% 51
East of England -10 41 £47,500 -23.39% 20
Yorkshire -32 28 £58,750 -4.08% 22
West Midlands -30 26 £50,000 -16.67% 24
South West -86 25 £48,750 -9.30% 58
Wales -54 17 £62,000 +18.10% 3
East Midlands -21 16 £60,000 +60.00% 26
North East -62 11 £65,000 +23.81% 7
Scotland -20 8 £27,250 -53.02% 40
Northern Ireland -77 1 - - 28
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 17 (5.65%) IIS
2 5 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.33%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.00%) Apache
4 3 (1.00%) CMS
4 3 (1.00%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.66%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.66%) Drupal
6 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.33%) Confluence
6 1 (0.33%) Documentum
6 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.33%) JBoss
6 1 (0.33%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.00%) JDE EnterpriseOne
1 3 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.66%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.66%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.66%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.33%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.33%) Finacle
3 1 (0.33%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.33%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 114 (37.87%) Azure
2 107 (35.55%) AWS
3 47 (15.61%) Power Platform
4 41 (13.62%) GitHub
4 41 (13.62%) Serverless
5 39 (12.96%) GCP
6 31 (10.30%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (9.63%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (7.97%) Amazon ECS
9 20 (6.64%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (5.65%) SaaS
11 16 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (4.32%) Amazon S3
13 13 (4.32%) Power Automate
14 11 (3.65%) PowerApps
15 10 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (2.99%) GitHub Copilot
16 9 (2.99%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.66%) HTTP
1 5 (1.66%) Intranet
2 4 (1.33%) Firewall
2 4 (1.33%) Internet
2 4 (1.33%) LAN
2 4 (1.33%) WAN
3 3 (1.00%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.66%) FTP
4 2 (0.66%) SMTP
4 2 (0.66%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.66%) VPN
5 1 (0.33%) Broadband
5 1 (0.33%) Network Security
5 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.33%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (28.24%) PostgreSQL
2 79 (26.25%) SQL Server
3 70 (23.26%) MySQL
4 43 (14.29%) Power BI
5 28 (9.30%) RDBMS
6 23 (7.64%) MongoDB
7 18 (5.98%) Tableau
8 17 (5.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (5.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (4.65%) NoSQL
11 11 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (2.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 6 (1.99%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (1.99%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.99%) DynamoDB
15 5 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (1.66%) MariaDB
15 5 (1.66%) Redis
16 4 (1.33%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 97 (32.23%) Git
2 39 (12.96%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.65%) Claude Code
3 14 (4.65%) JIRA
4 13 (4.32%) GitLab
4 13 (4.32%) JUnit
5 11 (3.65%) Oracle Forms
5 11 (3.65%) Team Foundation Server
6 9 (2.99%) Mockito
7 7 (2.33%) JMeter
8 5 (1.66%) RSpec
9 4 (1.33%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.33%) minitest
9 4 (1.33%) NUnit
10 3 (1.00%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.00%) Mocha
10 3 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.66%) Bower
11 2 (0.66%) MSTest
11 2 (0.66%) Selenium
General
1 116 (38.54%) Social Skills
2 74 (24.58%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (18.60%) Finance
4 31 (10.30%) Public Sector
5 23 (7.64%) Manufacturing
6 21 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (5.98%) Retail
8 16 (5.32%) Law
9 12 (3.99%) Legal
10 8 (2.66%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.66%) Banking
11 6 (1.99%) Social Housing
12 5 (1.66%) Health Technology
13 4 (1.33%) Aviation
13 4 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.33%) Marketing
14 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.66%) Legal Technology
15 2 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 143 (47.51%) Developer
2 49 (16.28%) Senior
3 44 (14.62%) Analyst
4 34 (11.30%) Software Developer
5 31 (10.30%) Senior Developer
6 30 (9.97%) Software Engineer
7 29 (9.63%) .NET Developer
8 23 (7.64%) Full-Stack Developer
9 21 (6.98%) Lead
10 20 (6.64%) Java Developer
11 19 (6.31%) Data Engineer
12 17 (5.65%) C# Developer
13 16 (5.32%) Systems Analyst
14 14 (4.65%) Consultant
15 13 (4.32%) Web Developer
16 12 (3.99%) Applications Support
17 11 (3.65%) .NET Software Developer
17 11 (3.65%) Business Analyst
18 10 (3.32%) Data Analyst
18 10 (3.32%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (24.58%) HTML
2 71 (23.59%) CSS
3 70 (23.26%) .NET
4 66 (21.93%) REST
5 65 (21.59%) React
6 45 (14.95%) Spring
7 42 (13.95%) Spring Boot
8 35 (11.63%) jQuery
9 34 (11.30%) Terraform
10 33 (10.96%) RESTful
11 28 (9.30%) ASP.NET
12 27 (8.97%) AngularJS
12 27 (8.97%) Node.js
13 26 (8.64%) .NET Framework
14 25 (8.31%) Entity Framework
14 25 (8.31%) Web Services
15 21 (6.98%) .NET Core
15 21 (6.98%) JSON
16 19 (6.31%) XML
17 18 (5.98%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.31%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (5.32%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (4.32%) Data Structures
6 13 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.65%) Legacy Applications
8 9 (2.99%) Management Information System
9 8 (2.66%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.33%) Mainframe
11 6 (1.99%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (1.66%) Replication
13 4 (1.33%) CUDA
13 4 (1.33%) e-Learning
13 4 (1.33%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.33%) Reference Data
13 4 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.31%) Windows
2 12 (3.99%) Linux
3 7 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.00%) Unix
5 2 (0.66%) Solaris
6 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (40.53%) Agile
2 115 (38.21%) CI/CD
2 115 (38.21%) Problem-Solving
3 80 (26.58%) DevOps
4 70 (23.26%) Software Engineering
5 68 (22.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 65 (21.59%) AI
7 60 (19.93%) Full-Stack Development
8 57 (18.94%) Scrum
9 51 (16.94%) Microservices
10 49 (16.28%) Business Intelligence
11 43 (14.29%) Decision-Making
12 38 (12.62%) Infrastructure as Code
12 38 (12.62%) SDLC
13 37 (12.29%) Test Automation
14 36 (11.96%) Data Modelling
14 36 (11.96%) Kanban
14 36 (11.96%) Mentoring
15 35 (11.63%) Analytics
15 35 (11.63%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 147 (48.84%) SQL
2 104 (34.55%) JavaScript
3 68 (22.59%) Java
4 65 (21.59%) Python
5 58 (19.27%) C#
6 47 (15.61%) TypeScript
7 19 (6.31%) PHP
8 13 (4.32%) PowerShell
8 13 (4.32%) VB.NET
9 10 (3.32%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.66%) COBOL
10 8 (2.66%) T-SQL
11 7 (2.33%) JCL
12 5 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.66%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.66%) Ruby
13 4 (1.33%) Bash
13 4 (1.33%) C++
14 3 (1.00%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (16.61%) Degree
2 36 (11.96%) Security Cleared
3 29 (9.63%) SC Cleared
4 25 (8.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.99%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.32%) ACCA
6 10 (3.32%) CIMA
7 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.33%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.66%) CEH
10 2 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.66%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.66%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (14.95%) Data Quality
2 26 (8.64%) QA
3 23 (7.64%) GDPR
4 4 (1.33%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.66%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (0.66%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.66%) WCAG
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 73 (24.25%) Docker
2 9 (2.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (11.63%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.98%) Ansible
3 10 (3.32%) Kibana
4 5 (1.66%) Grafana
5 4 (1.33%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.66%) Puppet
7 2 (0.66%) QRadar
8 1 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.33%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 70 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 54 (17.94%) Oracle
3 15 (4.98%) Google
4 12 (3.99%) Sage
4 12 (3.99%) Splunk
5 10 (3.32%) SAP
6 9 (2.99%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.33%) Broadcom
7 7 (2.33%) Databricks
7 7 (2.33%) IBM
7 7 (2.33%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.33%) DevExpress
9 4 (1.33%) Informatica
9 4 (1.33%) Telerik
9 4 (1.33%) TIBCO
10 3 (1.00%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.00%) JD Edwards
10 3 (1.00%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.66%) iManage