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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 286 220
Rank change year-on-year -99 -66 -17
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 234 298 897
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.91% 1.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.31% 6.66% 8.06%
Number of salaries quoted 165 175 553
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,650 £32,599
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.36%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £79,600 £83,759
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 5,427 4,476 11,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.72% 13.68% 14.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,659 2,830 7,669
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,823 £41,250 £41,000
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 £82,500 £79,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -30 78 £62,500 +16.28% 42
South East -34 67 £55,000 -0.51% 38
North West -12 45 £55,000 +2.33% 25
Midlands -35 28 £48,750 +8.33% 26
East of England -9 27 £46,250 -25.40% 13
Yorkshire -22 25 £62,500 -3.85% 10
South West -76 22 £50,000 - 11
East Midlands -19 18 £60,000 +60.00% 9
West Midlands -38 10 £45,000 -25.00% 17
Wales -60 9 £59,750 -16.14% 1
North East -43 8 £65,000 +26.83% 9
Scotland -15 4 £43,335 -42.22% 7
Northern Ireland -48 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 6 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (2.56%) CMS
2 4 (1.71%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.28%) IIS
4 2 (0.85%) Apache
4 2 (0.85%) CICS
4 2 (0.85%) Confluence
4 2 (0.85%) Drupal
4 2 (0.85%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.43%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.43%) Documentum
5 1 (0.43%) JBoss
5 1 (0.43%) nginx
5 1 (0.43%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.43%) SAS
5 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 2 (0.85%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.43%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.43%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 85 (36.32%) AWS
2 77 (32.91%) Azure
3 41 (17.52%) Power Platform
4 30 (12.82%) Serverless
5 29 (12.39%) GCP
6 22 (9.40%) Amazon ECS
7 21 (8.97%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (6.84%) GitHub
9 15 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (4.70%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (4.70%) PowerApps
11 11 (4.70%) SaaS
12 10 (4.27%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (3.85%) Amazon S3
13 9 (3.85%) Power Automate
14 8 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (2.99%) Microsoft Copilot
16 6 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.99%) Intranet
2 4 (1.71%) Firewall
2 4 (1.71%) LAN
2 4 (1.71%) WAN
3 3 (1.28%) HTTP
3 3 (1.28%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.85%) FTP
4 2 (0.85%) Internet
4 2 (0.85%) SMTP
4 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.85%) VPN
5 1 (0.43%) Broadband
5 1 (0.43%) Network Security
5 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (26.07%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (19.66%) SQL Server
3 44 (18.80%) MySQL
4 41 (17.52%) Power BI
5 26 (11.11%) RDBMS
6 24 (10.26%) MongoDB
7 20 (8.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 19 (8.12%) NoSQL
8 19 (8.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 17 (7.26%) Tableau
10 12 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (2.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.71%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.71%) Db2
13 4 (1.71%) MariaDB
13 4 (1.71%) Metadata
14 3 (1.28%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 70 (29.91%) Git
2 28 (11.97%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.84%) JIRA
4 12 (5.13%) JUnit
5 9 (3.85%) GitLab
5 9 (3.85%) Mockito
6 7 (2.99%) JMeter
7 3 (1.28%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.28%) ERwin
7 3 (1.28%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.85%) Bower
8 2 (0.85%) MSTest
8 2 (0.85%) Selenium
8 2 (0.85%) VSS/SourceSafe
9 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.43%) Mocha
9 1 (0.43%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.43%) RSpec
9 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 74 (31.62%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.24%) Finance
3 33 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.55%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (5.13%) Manufacturing
7 10 (4.27%) Legal
7 10 (4.27%) Retail
8 6 (2.56%) Law
8 6 (2.56%) Social Housing
9 5 (2.14%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.71%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.71%) Banking
11 3 (1.28%) Back Office
11 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Aviation
12 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Legal Technology
12 2 (0.85%) Police
12 2 (0.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 109 (46.58%) Developer
2 43 (18.38%) Analyst
3 33 (14.10%) Senior
4 22 (9.40%) Full-Stack Developer
4 22 (9.40%) Senior Developer
5 21 (8.97%) Data Engineer
6 20 (8.55%) Software Engineer
7 19 (8.12%) Java Developer
8 17 (7.26%) Systems Analyst
9 16 (6.84%) Applications Support
10 13 (5.56%) Systems Developer
11 12 (5.13%) Lead
11 12 (5.13%) Software Developer
12 10 (4.27%) C# Developer
13 9 (3.85%) Applications Support Analyst
13 9 (3.85%) Data Analyst
13 9 (3.85%) PHP Developer
14 8 (3.42%) Applications Developer
14 8 (3.42%) Support Analyst
15 7 (2.99%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (21.79%) REST
2 49 (20.94%) HTML
3 45 (19.23%) React
4 43 (18.38%) CSS
5 28 (11.97%) Spring
6 26 (11.11%) .NET
7 25 (10.68%) Spring Boot
8 22 (9.40%) Node.js
8 22 (9.40%) Web Services
9 21 (8.97%) jQuery
9 21 (8.97%) XML
10 19 (8.12%) JSON
10 19 (8.12%) RESTful
11 15 (6.41%) AngularJS
11 15 (6.41%) HTML5
12 14 (5.98%) Vue
13 13 (5.56%) FastAPI
14 12 (5.13%) Hibernate
15 11 (4.70%) Flask
16 10 (4.27%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.70%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.70%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.70%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.42%) Replication
5 7 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.56%) Legacy Code
7 5 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.71%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.71%) CUDA
8 4 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.28%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.85%) MISP
10 2 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.13%) Windows
2 11 (4.70%) Linux
3 2 (0.85%) Solaris
3 2 (0.85%) Unix
3 2 (0.85%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (35.04%) CI/CD
2 79 (33.76%) Agile
3 69 (29.49%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (22.65%) Full-Stack Development
5 52 (22.22%) DevOps
6 51 (21.79%) Business Intelligence
7 44 (18.80%) Continuous Improvement
8 43 (18.38%) Microservices
9 40 (17.09%) Scrum
10 39 (16.67%) AI
11 38 (16.24%) Analytics
12 37 (15.81%) ETL
13 36 (15.38%) Data Modelling
13 36 (15.38%) Decision-Making
14 35 (14.96%) Software Engineering
15 34 (14.53%) Kanban
16 33 (14.10%) Data Engineering
17 31 (13.25%) Data Governance
18 30 (12.82%) SDLC
19 24 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 119 (50.85%) SQL
2 78 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 58 (24.79%) Java
3 58 (24.79%) Python
4 35 (14.96%) C#
5 25 (10.68%) TypeScript
6 23 (9.83%) PHP
7 9 (3.85%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.42%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.99%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.56%) Delphi
10 6 (2.56%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.14%) C++
12 4 (1.71%) Bash
12 4 (1.71%) Scala
13 3 (1.28%) Perl
14 2 (0.85%) R
15 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.43%) Haskell
15 1 (0.43%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 36 (15.38%) Degree
2 22 (9.40%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (6.84%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.27%) ACCA
5 10 (4.27%) CIMA
6 6 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.56%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.85%) CEH
8 2 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.85%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.85%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (18.38%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.84%) GDPR
3 14 (5.98%) QA
4 3 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.85%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (0.85%) SLA
5 2 (0.85%) WCAG
6 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (22.65%) Docker
2 2 (0.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 25 (10.68%) Terraform
3 11 (4.70%) Ansible
4 10 (4.27%) Kibana
5 4 (1.71%) Grafana
6 3 (1.28%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.85%) QRadar
8 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.43%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.43%) SCCM
8 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (20.09%) Oracle
2 39 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.13%) Splunk
4 10 (4.27%) Sage
4 10 (4.27%) SAP
5 8 (3.42%) Dynatrace
5 8 (3.42%) Google
5 8 (3.42%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.56%) Databricks
7 5 (2.14%) IBM
8 4 (1.71%) Pega
9 3 (1.28%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.28%) JD Edwards
10 2 (0.85%) IFS
10 2 (0.85%) iManage
10 2 (0.85%) Infor
10 2 (0.85%) Informatica
10 2 (0.85%) Sybase
10 2 (0.85%) WSO2
11 1 (0.43%) Veracode