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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 227 209
Rank change year-on-year -56 -18 -29
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 277 523 475
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.78% 1.10% 1.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.29% 8.58% 7.34%
Number of salaries quoted 195 181 395
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £31,100
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,566
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% +2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £58,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £86,250 £84,056
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

All Database and 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 3,801 6,094 6,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.75% 12.83% 20.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,547 3,102 5,066
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,524 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -3.23%

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 9 November 2025.

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 9 November 2025. 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 -48 96 £41,000 -24.07% 302
North of England +9 58 £52,500 +1.45% 106
Midlands +39 37 £47,500 -20.83% 55
Scotland +3 35 £26,000 -46.67% 24
West Midlands +40 32 £47,500 -17.39% 30
North West +4 29 £55,000 - 66
South West -14 27 £56,250 +12.50% 25
Yorkshire +17 24 £51,250 +7.89% 27
East of England -7 21 £55,000 -11.29% 10
Wales +5 5 £52,500 +10.98% 10
East Midlands +4 5 £40,000 -52.94% 24
North East 0 5 £52,500 +15.38% 14
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 6 (2.17%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.81%) Confluence
2 5 (1.81%) JBoss
3 4 (1.44%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.44%) Red Hat Fuse
4 3 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.72%) CMS
5 2 (0.72%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.72%) Mendix
6 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.36%) Appian
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
6 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.36%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.36%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.36%) Shopify
2 1 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 91 (32.85%) AWS
2 64 (23.10%) Azure
3 43 (15.52%) Serverless
4 35 (12.64%) Amazon ECS
5 33 (11.91%) Amazon EKS
6 30 (10.83%) SaaS
7 24 (8.66%) GitHub
8 23 (8.30%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (7.94%) Power Platform
10 20 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (5.05%) Amazon S3
12 11 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (2.89%) Boomi
13 8 (2.89%) Snowflake
14 7 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (2.17%) OpenShift
16 4 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
16 4 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
17 3 (1.08%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.53%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.17%) Wireless
3 3 (1.08%) AMQP
3 3 (1.08%) Firewall
3 3 (1.08%) HTTP
3 3 (1.08%) Internet
3 3 (1.08%) Intranet
4 2 (0.72%) DNS
5 1 (0.36%) Broadband
5 1 (0.36%) FTP
5 1 (0.36%) LAN
5 1 (0.36%) Network Security
5 1 (0.36%) SAN
5 1 (0.36%) SMTP
5 1 (0.36%) VPN
5 1 (0.36%) WAN
5 1 (0.36%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (29.24%) SQL Server
2 71 (25.63%) PostgreSQL
3 63 (22.74%) RDBMS
4 34 (12.27%) MySQL
5 20 (7.22%) Power BI
5 20 (7.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 16 (5.78%) MongoDB
7 13 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (4.33%) NoSQL
9 11 (3.97%) Oracle Database
10 8 (2.89%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.53%) Big Data
11 7 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (2.17%) Metadata
12 6 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (1.81%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.81%) DB2
Development Applications
1 45 (16.25%) Git
2 43 (15.52%) Jenkins
3 28 (10.11%) JUnit
4 20 (7.22%) Mockito
5 19 (6.86%) JMeter
6 17 (6.14%) JIRA
7 9 (3.25%) Selenium
8 7 (2.53%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.17%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.17%) GitLab
9 6 (2.17%) Postman
10 5 (1.81%) SoapUI
11 3 (1.08%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.36%) Android Studio
12 1 (0.36%) Browser DevTools
12 1 (0.36%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.36%) Maven
12 1 (0.36%) Rational Rhapsody
12 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.36%) Xcode
General
1 125 (45.13%) Social Skills
2 62 (22.38%) Finance
3 50 (18.05%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (12.64%) Public Sector
5 33 (11.91%) Law
6 29 (10.47%) Retail
7 25 (9.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (6.50%) Banking
9 13 (4.69%) Manufacturing
10 9 (3.25%) Investment Banking
10 9 (3.25%) Marketing
11 6 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.81%) Legal
13 4 (1.44%) Advertising
13 4 (1.44%) Back Office
13 4 (1.44%) Health Technology
13 4 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.44%) Private Banking
13 4 (1.44%) Publishing
14 3 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 102 (36.82%) Developer
2 43 (15.52%) Java Developer
3 37 (13.36%) Software Engineer
4 32 (11.55%) Full-Stack Developer
5 31 (11.19%) Analyst
6 26 (9.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 21 (7.58%) Senior
8 20 (7.22%) Support Engineer
9 18 (6.50%) Lead
10 17 (6.14%) Consultant
11 16 (5.78%) Java Engineer
12 15 (5.42%) Java Software Engineer
12 15 (5.42%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 14 (5.05%) Software Support Engineer
14 12 (4.33%) Junior
14 12 (4.33%) Technical Support
15 11 (3.97%) Senior Developer
16 10 (3.61%) Database Consultant
16 10 (3.61%) DBA
16 10 (3.61%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (23.47%) Spring
2 64 (23.10%) Spring Boot
3 58 (20.94%) REST
4 48 (17.33%) Web Services
5 45 (16.25%) JSON
6 42 (15.16%) HTML
7 40 (14.44%) React
8 37 (13.36%) .NET
9 36 (13.00%) RESTful
10 30 (10.83%) XML
11 29 (10.47%) AngularJS
12 27 (9.75%) Apache Camel
12 27 (9.75%) Hibernate
13 25 (9.03%) Kafka
14 24 (8.66%) jQuery
15 23 (8.30%) CSS
16 19 (6.86%) ActiveMQ
16 19 (6.86%) WireMock
17 18 (6.50%) Node.js
17 18 (6.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.47%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (10.11%) Onboarding
3 21 (7.58%) Cloud Native
3 21 (7.58%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (6.86%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.69%) Operational Technology
6 11 (3.97%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.61%) Algorithms
7 10 (3.61%) e-Learning
7 10 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (3.25%) Mobile App
8 9 (3.25%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.44%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.44%) Clustering
10 4 (1.44%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (1.44%) Life Science
10 4 (1.44%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.44%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.08%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.83%) Windows
2 19 (6.86%) Linux
3 9 (3.25%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.17%) Unix
5 1 (0.36%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (36.46%) Agile
1 101 (36.46%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (28.52%) CI/CD
3 54 (19.49%) SDLC
4 53 (19.13%) DevOps
5 51 (18.41%) Microservices
6 50 (18.05%) Software Engineering
7 48 (17.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 44 (15.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (15.16%) TDD
10 38 (13.72%) Scrum
11 36 (13.00%) Mentoring
12 29 (10.47%) Business Intelligence
13 28 (10.11%) BDD
14 27 (9.75%) Analytics
14 27 (9.75%) Client Onboarding
14 27 (9.75%) Computer Science
14 27 (9.75%) ETL
14 27 (9.75%) Workflow
15 24 (8.66%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 163 (58.84%) SQL
2 87 (31.41%) Java
3 84 (30.32%) Python
4 63 (22.74%) JavaScript
5 41 (14.80%) C#
6 24 (8.66%) Shell Script
7 23 (8.30%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.05%) PHP
9 11 (3.97%) T-SQL
9 11 (3.97%) TypeScript
10 9 (3.25%) Go
10 9 (3.25%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.44%) R
13 2 (0.72%) C++
13 2 (0.72%) Delphi
13 2 (0.72%) VBA
14 1 (0.36%) Perl
14 1 (0.36%) VB
14 1 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 59 (21.30%) Degree
2 31 (11.19%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (4.33%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.89%) DBS Check
6 7 (2.53%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.44%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.44%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.08%) OCP
8 3 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.72%) CISSP
9 2 (0.72%) MCSE
9 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.50%) Data Quality
1 18 (6.50%) QA
2 11 (3.97%) GDPR
3 4 (1.44%) HL7
3 4 (1.44%) SLA
4 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.72%) DICOM
5 1 (0.36%) CDISC
5 1 (0.36%) COBIT
5 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 57 (20.58%) Docker
2 6 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (22.38%) Kubernetes
2 22 (7.94%) Kibana
3 19 (6.86%) Terraform
4 15 (5.42%) Ansible
5 6 (2.17%) Grafana
6 4 (1.44%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.08%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.72%) SCCM
9 1 (0.36%) Argo
9 1 (0.36%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 65 (23.47%) Microsoft
2 51 (18.41%) Oracle
3 26 (9.39%) Splunk
4 19 (6.86%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.89%) Databricks
5 8 (2.89%) Talend
6 7 (2.53%) Dell
6 7 (2.53%) IFS
6 7 (2.53%) Informatica
7 6 (2.17%) IBM
7 6 (2.17%) Zoho
8 5 (1.81%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.81%) RedGate
8 5 (1.81%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.44%) Google
9 4 (1.44%) Moogsoft
9 4 (1.44%) Pega
9 4 (1.44%) WSO2
10 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.08%) Rockwell