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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 285 212
Rank change year-on-year -103 -73 0
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 208 281 960
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.96% 1.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.10% 6.52% 8.24%
Number of salaries quoted 147 170 592
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,246 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,498 £55,565 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +5.84% -0.38%
75th Percentile £65,750 £70,938 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,880 £80,250 £83,750
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 5,077 4,307 11,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.53% 14.78% 16.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,171 2,727 8,096
10th Percentile £34,500 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,312 £40,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,738 £79,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 May 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 May 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 -26 79 £62,500 +19.05% 27
South East -25 61 £55,000 -1.02% 19
North West -4 41 £55,000 +4.76% 14
Yorkshire -30 32 £62,500 +13.64% 11
East of England -18 23 £47,500 -23.39% 11
Midlands -48 22 £53,750 +19.44% 16
South West -66 22 £51,250 -4.65% 11
East Midlands -23 16 £60,000 +60.00% 5
North East -46 6 £65,000 +31.65% 2
West Midlands -48 6 £42,500 -29.17% 11
Wales -55 3 £45,000 -30.77% 2
Scotland -17 2 - - 5
Northern Ireland -38 1 - - 10
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 (4.33%) OpenStack
2 6 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.88%) CMS
3 3 (1.44%) IIS
4 2 (0.96%) CICS
4 2 (0.96%) Confluence
4 2 (0.96%) Drupal
4 2 (0.96%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.48%) JBoss
5 1 (0.48%) nginx
5 1 (0.48%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.48%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.48%) SAS
5 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.44%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 2 (0.96%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.48%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.48%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 77 (37.02%) AWS
2 67 (32.21%) Azure
3 37 (17.79%) Power Platform
4 32 (15.38%) Serverless
5 26 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
6 24 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
6 24 (11.54%) GCP
7 15 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (5.29%) SaaS
9 10 (4.81%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (4.81%) Amazon S3
9 10 (4.81%) GitHub
10 9 (4.33%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (3.85%) PowerApps
12 7 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (3.37%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (2.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.92%) Firewall
1 4 (1.92%) Intranet
1 4 (1.92%) LAN
1 4 (1.92%) WAN
2 3 (1.44%) Broadband
2 3 (1.44%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.96%) FTP
3 2 (0.96%) HTTP
3 2 (0.96%) Internet
3 2 (0.96%) SMTP
3 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.96%) VPN
4 1 (0.48%) Network Security
4 1 (0.48%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.48%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (26.44%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (21.63%) SQL Server
3 37 (17.79%) Power BI
4 36 (17.31%) MySQL
5 26 (12.50%) RDBMS
6 21 (10.10%) NoSQL
7 19 (9.13%) MongoDB
7 19 (9.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (8.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (6.73%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (4.33%) Apache Cassandra
10 9 (4.33%) Tableau
11 8 (3.85%) Metadata
12 6 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (2.88%) DB2
12 6 (2.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (2.40%) BigQuery
14 4 (1.92%) DynamoDB
14 4 (1.92%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 58 (27.88%) Git
2 27 (12.98%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.25%) JIRA
4 10 (4.81%) JUnit
5 8 (3.85%) JMeter
5 8 (3.85%) Mockito
6 7 (3.37%) GitLab
7 2 (0.96%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.96%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.96%) Jaeger
7 2 (0.96%) MSTest
7 2 (0.96%) Selenium
7 2 (0.96%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.48%) ERwin
8 1 (0.48%) NUnit
8 1 (0.48%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.48%) Poetry
8 1 (0.48%) Postman
8 1 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 73 (35.10%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.90%) Finance
3 28 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.73%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.29%) Manufacturing
6 10 (4.81%) Legal
7 9 (4.33%) Retail
8 8 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.88%) Law
9 6 (2.88%) Social Housing
10 5 (2.40%) Banking
10 5 (2.40%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.92%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.44%) Back Office
12 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.96%) Aviation
13 2 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.96%) Police
13 2 (0.96%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 96 (46.15%) Developer
2 32 (15.38%) Analyst
3 30 (14.42%) Senior
4 22 (10.58%) Java Developer
5 21 (10.10%) Data Engineer
5 21 (10.10%) Senior Developer
6 16 (7.69%) Applications Support
6 16 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (6.73%) Software Engineer
8 13 (6.25%) C# Developer
8 13 (6.25%) Systems Developer
9 10 (4.81%) PHP Developer
9 10 (4.81%) Systems Analyst
10 9 (4.33%) Applications Support Analyst
10 9 (4.33%) Support Analyst
11 8 (3.85%) Applications Developer
11 8 (3.85%) Software Developer
12 7 (3.37%) Architect
12 7 (3.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 7 (3.37%) Senior Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (23.56%) REST
2 40 (19.23%) React
3 39 (18.75%) HTML
4 33 (15.87%) CSS
5 26 (12.50%) Spring
6 25 (12.02%) Web Services
7 23 (11.06%) Spring Boot
8 22 (10.58%) Node.js
9 21 (10.10%) .NET
10 18 (8.65%) XML
11 17 (8.17%) jQuery
12 14 (6.73%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (6.73%) HTML5
12 14 (6.73%) JSON
13 13 (6.25%) AngularJS
14 12 (5.77%) RESTful
15 11 (5.29%) Kafka
16 10 (4.81%) Apache Camel
16 10 (4.81%) Laravel
17 9 (4.33%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (9.13%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.29%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.29%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.85%) Replication
5 6 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.88%) Legacy Code
6 5 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.92%) CUDA
8 3 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.44%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.44%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.44%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.96%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.96%) MISP
9 2 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.48%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.29%) Windows
2 10 (4.81%) Linux
3 4 (1.92%) Unix
4 2 (0.96%) Solaris
4 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (33.65%) CI/CD
2 69 (33.17%) Agile
3 52 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (21.63%) Business Intelligence
4 45 (21.63%) Full-Stack Development
5 42 (20.19%) Data Modelling
6 41 (19.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 41 (19.71%) DevOps
7 40 (19.23%) ETL
8 38 (18.27%) Microservices
9 37 (17.79%) Analytics
9 37 (17.79%) Scrum
10 31 (14.90%) SDLC
11 28 (13.46%) Kanban
12 26 (12.50%) Data Engineering
13 24 (11.54%) AI
13 24 (11.54%) Software Engineering
14 22 (10.58%) Decision-Making
15 21 (10.10%) Data Pipeline
15 21 (10.10%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 107 (51.44%) SQL
2 75 (36.06%) JavaScript
3 53 (25.48%) Java
4 51 (24.52%) Python
5 35 (16.83%) C#
6 18 (8.65%) PHP
6 18 (8.65%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.81%) T-SQL
8 9 (4.33%) Delphi
8 9 (4.33%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.37%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.40%) Bash
10 5 (2.40%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.40%) Scala
11 4 (1.92%) C++
12 3 (1.44%) Go
12 3 (1.44%) Perl
13 2 (0.96%) R
14 1 (0.48%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.48%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 29 (13.94%) Degree
2 18 (8.65%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (6.73%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.44%) ACCA
7 3 (1.44%) CIMA
8 2 (0.96%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.96%) CEH
8 2 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.96%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.96%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (19.71%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.69%) GDPR
3 12 (5.77%) QA
4 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.96%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (0.96%) SLA
5 2 (0.96%) WCAG
6 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.48%) HL7
6 1 (0.48%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (23.56%) Docker
2 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (15.87%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.10%) Terraform
3 11 (5.29%) Ansible
4 10 (4.81%) Kibana
5 4 (1.92%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.44%) Grafana
7 2 (0.96%) Argo
7 2 (0.96%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.96%) QRadar
8 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.48%) SCCM
8 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (21.15%) Oracle
2 39 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.77%) Splunk
4 8 (3.85%) Databricks
5 7 (3.37%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.37%) Google
5 7 (3.37%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.92%) IBM
6 4 (1.92%) Pega
7 3 (1.44%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.44%) JD Edwards
7 3 (1.44%) Sage
7 3 (1.44%) SAP
8 2 (0.96%) IFS
8 2 (0.96%) iManage
8 2 (0.96%) Siemens
8 2 (0.96%) Sybase
8 2 (0.96%) WSO2
9 1 (0.48%) Aderant
9 1 (0.48%) Alteryx