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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 237 192
Rank change year-on-year -134 -45 +7
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 206 276 954
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.34% 1.07% 1.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.33% 6.49% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 142 177 602
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £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 £75,048 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.20% +12.61% -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 4,753 4,253 11,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.91% 16.47% 17.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,740 2,971 8,238
10th Percentile £33,975 £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 £62,779 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -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 10 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 10 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 69 £51,250 -14.58% 44
North of England -55 68 £60,000 +9.09% 33
Yorkshire -39 36 £62,500 +13.64% 18
North West -35 30 £60,000 +9.09% 13
Midlands -61 30 £33,500 -25.56% 24
South West -53 27 £50,000 +5.26% 14
West Midlands -32 15 £32,500 -27.78% 15
East Midlands -48 15 £38,750 +3.33% 9
East of England -44 12 £42,500 -31.45% 7
Scotland -27 4 £26,000 -61.48% 9
North East -32 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 13 (6.31%) OpenStack
2 8 (3.88%) CMS
3 4 (1.94%) Headless CMS
4 3 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.97%) CICS
5 2 (0.97%) Confluence
5 2 (0.97%) Mendix
5 2 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.49%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.49%) Camunda
6 1 (0.49%) nginx
6 1 (0.49%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.49%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (9.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (6.80%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.46%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.97%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.49%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.49%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.49%) Shopify
2 1 (0.49%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 72 (34.95%) AWS
2 62 (30.10%) Azure
3 34 (16.50%) Power Platform
4 29 (14.08%) Serverless
5 25 (12.14%) Amazon ECS
6 23 (11.17%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (11.17%) GCP
7 12 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (5.34%) SaaS
9 9 (4.37%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.37%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (3.88%) GitHub
10 8 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (3.40%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (2.43%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.46%) DigitalOcean
14 3 (1.46%) Firebase
14 3 (1.46%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.85%) Intranet
2 3 (1.46%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.46%) Wireless
3 2 (0.97%) Broadband
3 2 (0.97%) Firewall
3 2 (0.97%) LAN
3 2 (0.97%) WAN
4 1 (0.49%) Network Security
4 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.49%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (29.13%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (24.27%) SQL Server
3 34 (16.50%) Power BI
4 33 (16.02%) MySQL
5 24 (11.65%) RDBMS
6 18 (8.74%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (8.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (6.80%) NoSQL
8 12 (5.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (5.34%) Metadata
10 10 (4.85%) MongoDB
11 7 (3.40%) DB2
12 6 (2.91%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (2.43%) BigQuery
13 5 (2.43%) Tableau
14 4 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (1.94%) Oracle Database
14 4 (1.94%) Redis
15 3 (1.46%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 51 (24.76%) Git
2 29 (14.08%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.28%) JIRA
4 11 (5.34%) JUnit
5 7 (3.40%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.40%) Mockito
5 7 (3.40%) Selenium
6 5 (2.43%) JMeter
7 3 (1.46%) GitLab
7 3 (1.46%) Postman
7 3 (1.46%) SoapUI
7 3 (1.46%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.97%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.97%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.97%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.97%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.97%) MSTest
9 1 (0.49%) Ant
9 1 (0.49%) ERwin
9 1 (0.49%) Subversion
General
1 83 (40.29%) Social Skills
2 50 (24.27%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (15.53%) Finance
4 16 (7.77%) Manufacturing
4 16 (7.77%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.91%) Law
6 5 (2.43%) Legal
7 3 (1.46%) Back Office
7 3 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.46%) Marketing
7 3 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.97%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.97%) Aviation
8 2 (0.97%) Banking
8 2 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.97%) Police
8 2 (0.97%) Retail
9 1 (0.49%) Electronics
9 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 90 (43.69%) Developer
2 32 (15.53%) Analyst
3 27 (13.11%) Java Developer
4 25 (12.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 21 (10.19%) Senior
6 19 (9.22%) Data Engineer
7 17 (8.25%) Software Engineer
8 15 (7.28%) Applications Support
9 14 (6.80%) Data Analyst
9 14 (6.80%) Senior Developer
10 13 (6.31%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 12 (5.83%) Support Analyst
12 11 (5.34%) C# Developer
12 11 (5.34%) Junior
13 10 (4.85%) Applications Support Analyst
14 8 (3.88%) Applications Developer
14 8 (3.88%) Report Analyst
15 7 (3.40%) Support Engineer
16 6 (2.91%) Architect
16 6 (2.91%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (21.36%) REST
2 38 (18.45%) React
3 32 (15.53%) Spring
4 30 (14.56%) Spring Boot
5 26 (12.62%) Node.js
6 25 (12.14%) HTML
6 25 (12.14%) Web Services
7 22 (10.68%) CSS
7 22 (10.68%) XML
8 20 (9.71%) .NET
8 20 (9.71%) Elastic Stack
9 19 (9.22%) AngularJS
10 17 (8.25%) Vue
11 14 (6.80%) JSON
12 11 (5.34%) Kafka
12 11 (5.34%) Laravel
12 11 (5.34%) RESTful
12 11 (5.34%) SOAP
12 11 (5.34%) WinForms
13 10 (4.85%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.19%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (7.28%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.85%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.85%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.88%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.40%) Replication
6 5 (2.43%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.94%) CUDA
7 4 (1.94%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.94%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.46%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.97%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.97%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.49%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.28%) Windows
2 11 (5.34%) Linux
3 4 (1.94%) Unix
3 4 (1.94%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (35.44%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (33.98%) Agile
3 55 (26.70%) CI/CD
4 46 (22.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (21.36%) DevOps
6 42 (20.39%) Analytics
7 41 (19.90%) Business Intelligence
8 40 (19.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 39 (18.93%) Data Modelling
10 36 (17.48%) Microservices
11 34 (16.50%) ETL
12 31 (15.05%) Scrum
13 30 (14.56%) Software Engineering
14 29 (14.08%) TDD
15 28 (13.59%) SDLC
16 23 (11.17%) Kanban
17 19 (9.22%) Decision-Making
17 19 (9.22%) Mentoring
17 19 (9.22%) Validation
17 19 (9.22%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 108 (52.43%) SQL
2 63 (30.58%) JavaScript
3 56 (27.18%) Java
4 55 (26.70%) Python
5 34 (16.50%) C#
6 18 (8.74%) PHP
7 13 (6.31%) Delphi
7 13 (6.31%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.37%) T-SQL
9 8 (3.88%) Go
10 7 (3.40%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.43%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.43%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.46%) R
12 3 (1.46%) Scala
13 2 (0.97%) Bash
13 2 (0.97%) C
13 2 (0.97%) C++
14 1 (0.49%) Perl
14 1 (0.49%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 31 (15.05%) Degree
2 17 (8.25%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (5.83%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.46%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.46%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.97%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.97%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.49%) CISSP
7 1 (0.49%) MCSE
7 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.49%) OCP
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (18.93%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.31%) GDPR
3 10 (4.85%) QA
4 3 (1.46%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.97%) HL7
5 2 (0.97%) SLA
5 2 (0.97%) WCAG
6 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.49%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.49%) NCSC
6 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (19.90%) Docker
2 5 (2.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (18.45%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.19%) Terraform
3 13 (6.31%) Ansible
4 7 (3.40%) Kibana
5 4 (1.94%) Grafana
5 4 (1.94%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.97%) Argo
6 2 (0.97%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.49%) Control-M
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.49%) SCCM
7 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (21.36%) Microsoft
2 41 (19.90%) Oracle
3 8 (3.88%) Google
3 8 (3.88%) Pega
4 7 (3.40%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.91%) Databricks
5 6 (2.91%) WSO2
6 5 (2.43%) IBM
7 4 (1.94%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.94%) Splunk
8 3 (1.46%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.46%) HubSpot
8 3 (1.46%) IFS
8 3 (1.46%) Informatica
8 3 (1.46%) Talend
9 2 (0.97%) OutSystems
9 2 (0.97%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.97%) SAP
9 2 (0.97%) Siemens
10 1 (0.49%) Workday