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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 249 194
Rank change year-on-year -112 -55 0
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 193 268 931
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.34% 1.03% 1.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.27% 6.14% 8.24%
Number of salaries quoted 137 176 591
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £65,427
90th Percentile £74,910 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -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 4,523 4,368 11,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.96% 16.83% 17.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,583 2,933 8,148
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,175 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.03% +9.87% -8.00%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -47 65 £50,000 -16.67% 44
North of England -45 63 £60,000 +9.09% 33
Yorkshire -34 33 £62,500 +13.64% 18
Midlands -39 30 £34,500 -23.33% 24
North West -21 28 £57,500 +4.55% 13
South West -46 23 £50,000 +2.56% 14
West Midlands -25 16 £32,500 -27.78% 15
East Midlands -42 14 £38,750 +3.33% 9
East of England -35 10 £42,500 -31.45% 7
Scotland -44 4 £26,000 -61.48% 9
North East -20 2 £45,000 +6.83% 4
Wales -42 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 12 (6.22%) OpenStack
2 8 (4.15%) CMS
3 4 (2.07%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.04%) CICS
4 2 (1.04%) Confluence
4 2 (1.04%) Mendix
4 2 (1.04%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.52%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.52%) Camunda
5 1 (0.52%) nginx
5 1 (0.52%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (9.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (7.77%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.52%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.52%) Shopify
2 1 (0.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 66 (34.20%) AWS
2 53 (27.46%) Azure
3 30 (15.54%) Power Platform
4 23 (11.92%) Serverless
5 22 (11.40%) GCP
6 21 (10.88%) Amazon ECS
7 19 (9.84%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (6.22%) SaaS
9 11 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (4.15%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.15%) GitHub
11 7 (3.63%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (2.07%) OpenShift
15 3 (1.55%) DigitalOcean
15 3 (1.55%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.18%) Intranet
2 5 (2.59%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.07%) Wireless
4 2 (1.04%) Broadband
4 2 (1.04%) Firewall
5 1 (0.52%) DNS
5 1 (0.52%) LAN
5 1 (0.52%) Network Security
5 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.52%) WAN
5 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (28.50%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (24.35%) SQL Server
3 32 (16.58%) MySQL
4 30 (15.54%) Power BI
5 23 (11.92%) RDBMS
6 17 (8.81%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (7.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (6.22%) NoSQL
9 11 (5.70%) Metadata
10 10 (5.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (4.15%) MongoDB
12 7 (3.63%) DB2
13 5 (2.59%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (2.59%) BigQuery
14 4 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (2.07%) Oracle Database
14 4 (2.07%) Redis
15 3 (1.55%) FileMaker
15 3 (1.55%) MariaDB
16 2 (1.04%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 45 (23.32%) Git
2 26 (13.47%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.77%) JIRA
4 11 (5.70%) JUnit
5 8 (4.15%) Cucumber
6 7 (3.63%) Mockito
6 7 (3.63%) Selenium
7 5 (2.59%) JMeter
8 4 (2.07%) GitLab
8 4 (2.07%) Postman
8 4 (2.07%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.55%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.04%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.04%) Eclipse
10 2 (1.04%) IntelliJ
10 2 (1.04%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.52%) Gradle
11 1 (0.52%) MSTest
11 1 (0.52%) PHPUnit
General
1 80 (41.45%) Social Skills
2 45 (23.32%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (15.54%) Finance
4 16 (8.29%) Manufacturing
5 12 (6.22%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.63%) Law
7 5 (2.59%) Legal
8 4 (2.07%) Marketing
9 3 (1.55%) Back Office
9 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.55%) Retail
10 2 (1.04%) Banking
10 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.04%) Police
11 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.52%) Aviation
11 1 (0.52%) Electronics
11 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Local Government
11 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (44.04%) Developer
2 30 (15.54%) Analyst
3 25 (12.95%) Full-Stack Developer
4 24 (12.44%) Java Developer
5 17 (8.81%) Senior
6 16 (8.29%) Software Engineer
7 14 (7.25%) Applications Support
7 14 (7.25%) Data Engineer
7 14 (7.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 13 (6.74%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.22%) Data Analyst
9 12 (6.22%) Support Analyst
10 11 (5.70%) C# Developer
10 11 (5.70%) Junior
11 9 (4.66%) Applications Support Analyst
12 8 (4.15%) Applications Developer
12 8 (4.15%) Report Analyst
12 8 (4.15%) Support Engineer
13 6 (3.11%) Architect
13 6 (3.11%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (20.73%) REST
2 37 (19.17%) React
3 27 (13.99%) Node.js
3 27 (13.99%) Spring
4 25 (12.95%) HTML
4 25 (12.95%) Spring Boot
5 22 (11.40%) CSS
6 21 (10.88%) Web Services
6 21 (10.88%) XML
7 20 (10.36%) .NET
8 17 (8.81%) AngularJS
8 17 (8.81%) Vue
9 16 (8.29%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (7.25%) JSON
11 11 (5.70%) Laravel
11 11 (5.70%) SOAP
11 11 (5.70%) WinForms
12 10 (5.18%) Kafka
13 9 (4.66%) Apache Camel
13 9 (4.66%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.29%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (6.74%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.18%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.15%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.15%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.15%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.63%) Replication
6 5 (2.59%) Legacy Code
7 4 (2.07%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.07%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.55%) CUDA
8 3 (1.55%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.04%) e-Learning
9 2 (1.04%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.52%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.52%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.52%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.81%) Windows
2 13 (6.74%) Linux
3 5 (2.59%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.07%) Unix
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (37.82%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (31.61%) Agile
3 52 (26.94%) CI/CD
4 40 (20.73%) DevOps
4 40 (20.73%) Full-Stack Development
5 37 (19.17%) Business Intelligence
6 36 (18.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (18.13%) Analytics
8 33 (17.10%) Data Modelling
9 30 (15.54%) Microservices
10 28 (14.51%) ETL
11 27 (13.99%) SDLC
11 27 (13.99%) Software Engineering
12 24 (12.44%) Scrum
13 23 (11.92%) TDD
14 19 (9.84%) Containerisation
14 19 (9.84%) Mentoring
15 18 (9.33%) Kanban
16 17 (8.81%) Validation
16 17 (8.81%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 97 (50.26%) SQL
2 60 (31.09%) JavaScript
3 53 (27.46%) Java
4 52 (26.94%) Python
5 34 (17.62%) C#
6 21 (10.88%) PHP
7 14 (7.25%) TypeScript
8 13 (6.74%) Delphi
9 9 (4.66%) Go
10 8 (4.15%) PowerShell
11 6 (3.11%) T-SQL
12 5 (2.59%) Shell Script
13 4 (2.07%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.55%) R
15 2 (1.04%) Bash
15 2 (1.04%) C
15 2 (1.04%) Scala
16 1 (0.52%) C++
16 1 (0.52%) Perl
16 1 (0.52%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 26 (13.47%) Degree
2 14 (7.25%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.15%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.55%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.55%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.04%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.52%) CISSP
8 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.52%) MCSE
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.52%) OCP
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (16.58%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.70%) GDPR
2 11 (5.70%) QA
3 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.04%) HL7
4 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.52%) NCSC
4 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.52%) SLA
4 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (19.69%) Docker
2 5 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (18.13%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.81%) Terraform
3 10 (5.18%) Ansible
4 4 (2.07%) Grafana
4 4 (2.07%) Kibana
5 3 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.04%) Argo
6 2 (1.04%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.52%) Control-M
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.52%) SCCM
7 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 44 (22.80%) Microsoft
2 38 (19.69%) Oracle
3 10 (5.18%) Google
4 7 (3.63%) Pega
5 5 (2.59%) Databricks
5 5 (2.59%) WSO2
6 4 (2.07%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.07%) HubSpot
6 4 (2.07%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.07%) Splunk
7 3 (1.55%) Informatica
7 3 (1.55%) Talend
8 2 (1.04%) IBM
8 2 (1.04%) IFS
8 2 (1.04%) OutSystems
8 2 (1.04%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.04%) SAP
8 2 (1.04%) Siemens
9 1 (0.52%) Aderant
9 1 (0.52%) Epicor