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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 227 207
Rank change year-on-year -105 -20 -16
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 207 402 728
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 1.27% 1.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.13% 7.67% 7.64%
Number of salaries quoted 150 155 534
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,566
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £58,750 £68,388 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,375 £80,000 £83,759
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +6.84% -7.14%

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 4,034 5,243 9,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.23% 16.51% 18.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,406 2,809 7,366
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,900 £31,250
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 £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,446 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -79 72 £43,500 -24.35% 42
North of England -28 59 £55,000 - 39
Midlands -2 37 £41,375 -8.06% 15
Yorkshire -21 30 £52,500 - 9
North West -12 27 £55,000 - 20
West Midlands -1 24 £47,500 +5.56% 6
South West -42 22 £43,953 -12.09% 21
East Midlands -23 13 £37,500 -55.88% 9
East of England -26 11 £42,500 -33.33% 4
Scotland -25 7 £26,000 -51.09% 7
Wales -10 3 £51,250 +2.50% 1
North East -19 2 £52,500 +15.38% 11
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 11 (5.31%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.42%) CMS
3 3 (1.45%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.97%) Mendix
4 2 (0.97%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.48%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.48%) Camunda
5 1 (0.48%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) JBoss
5 1 (0.48%) nginx
5 1 (0.48%) SAS
5 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (9.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.48%) Shopify
1 1 (0.48%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 63 (30.43%) AWS
2 48 (23.19%) Azure
3 30 (14.49%) Power Platform
4 29 (14.01%) Serverless
5 25 (12.08%) Amazon ECS
6 23 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (7.73%) SaaS
8 13 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (5.80%) GCP
10 10 (4.83%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (4.83%) Amazon S3
10 10 (4.83%) GitHub
11 8 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (3.38%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
15 4 (1.93%) OpenShift
16 3 (1.45%) DigitalOcean
16 3 (1.45%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.35%) Intranet
2 6 (2.90%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.90%) Wireless
3 2 (0.97%) Broadband
3 2 (0.97%) Firewall
4 1 (0.48%) DNS
4 1 (0.48%) HTTP
4 1 (0.48%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (25.60%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (22.71%) SQL Server
3 29 (14.01%) Power BI
4 28 (13.53%) MySQL
5 27 (13.04%) RDBMS
6 11 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (5.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (4.35%) Metadata
8 8 (3.86%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.90%) DB2
9 6 (2.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (2.42%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.93%) FileMaker
11 4 (1.93%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.93%) Redis
12 2 (0.97%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.97%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.97%) OLAP
12 2 (0.97%) Power Query
12 2 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (16.91%) Git
2 27 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.73%) JIRA
4 14 (6.76%) JUnit
5 11 (5.31%) Mockito
6 10 (4.83%) JMeter
7 8 (3.86%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.90%) Selenium
9 4 (1.93%) GitLab
9 4 (1.93%) Postman
9 4 (1.93%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.45%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.45%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.97%) Jaeger
12 1 (0.48%) Ant
12 1 (0.48%) ERwin
12 1 (0.48%) Gradle
12 1 (0.48%) Maven
12 1 (0.48%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 96 (46.38%) Social Skills
2 48 (23.19%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (16.43%) Finance
4 16 (7.73%) Manufacturing
4 16 (7.73%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.80%) Retail
6 8 (3.86%) Law
7 4 (1.93%) Marketing
8 3 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.45%) Legal
9 2 (0.97%) Banking
9 2 (0.97%) German Language
10 1 (0.48%) Advertising
10 1 (0.48%) Back Office
10 1 (0.48%) Electronics
10 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.48%) Local Government
10 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (41.55%) Developer
2 32 (15.46%) Analyst
3 27 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
4 23 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 17 (8.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 17 (8.21%) Software Engineer
6 14 (6.76%) Senior
7 13 (6.28%) Support Engineer
8 12 (5.80%) Data Analyst
9 11 (5.31%) Junior
10 10 (4.83%) Data Engineer
11 9 (4.35%) Architect
11 9 (4.35%) C# Developer
11 9 (4.35%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 9 (4.35%) Senior Developer
11 9 (4.35%) Software Support Engineer
12 8 (3.86%) Report Analyst
12 8 (3.86%) Support Analyst
13 7 (3.38%) Tester
14 6 (2.90%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (23.67%) REST
2 40 (19.32%) React
3 30 (14.49%) Spring
4 29 (14.01%) JSON
4 29 (14.01%) Spring Boot
5 27 (13.04%) HTML
5 27 (13.04%) Web Services
6 26 (12.56%) Node.js
6 26 (12.56%) XML
7 23 (11.11%) AngularJS
8 20 (9.66%) CSS
9 19 (9.18%) .NET
10 17 (8.21%) Vue
11 15 (7.25%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (6.76%) jQuery
13 13 (6.28%) Apache Camel
14 12 (5.80%) Laravel
15 10 (4.83%) Hibernate
15 10 (4.83%) SOAP
16 9 (4.35%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.66%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (7.73%) Onboarding
3 11 (5.31%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.83%) Data Structures
4 10 (4.83%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.35%) Operational Technology
6 8 (3.86%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.93%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.93%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.93%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.45%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.97%) Replication
11 1 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.48%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.48%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.66%) Windows
2 14 (6.76%) Linux
3 8 (3.86%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.42%) Unix
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (34.78%) Agile
3 49 (23.67%) CI/CD
4 40 (19.32%) Full-Stack Development
5 39 (18.84%) DevOps
6 36 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (16.43%) Business Intelligence
8 33 (15.94%) SDLC
9 32 (15.46%) Microservices
10 30 (14.49%) Analytics
11 29 (14.01%) Scrum
12 28 (13.53%) Data Modelling
13 27 (13.04%) TDD
14 25 (12.08%) Software Engineering
15 23 (11.11%) ETL
16 22 (10.63%) Mentoring
17 20 (9.66%) Workflow
18 18 (8.70%) Containerisation
19 17 (8.21%) Client Onboarding
19 17 (8.21%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 114 (55.07%) SQL
2 64 (30.92%) Python
3 57 (27.54%) JavaScript
4 49 (23.67%) Java
5 36 (17.39%) C#
6 19 (9.18%) PHP
6 19 (9.18%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.80%) TypeScript
8 11 (5.31%) Delphi
9 10 (4.83%) Shell Script
10 8 (3.86%) Go
11 4 (1.93%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.45%) R
13 2 (0.97%) Bash
13 2 (0.97%) C
13 2 (0.97%) Scala
14 1 (0.48%) C++
14 1 (0.48%) Groovy
14 1 (0.48%) Perl
14 1 (0.48%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 26 (12.56%) Degree
2 18 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.38%) ISTQB
3 7 (3.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 7 (3.38%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.45%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.45%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.97%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.97%) CISSP
5 2 (0.97%) MCSE
5 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.97%) OCP
5 2 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (12.56%) Data Quality
2 18 (8.70%) QA
3 9 (4.35%) GDPR
4 3 (1.45%) HL7
5 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.48%) NCSC
5 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (18.84%) Docker
2 6 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.31%) Terraform
3 9 (4.35%) Ansible
3 9 (4.35%) Kibana
4 4 (1.93%) Grafana
5 3 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.97%) Argo
6 2 (0.97%) Kustomize
6 2 (0.97%) SCCM
7 1 (0.48%) Control-M
7 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (22.71%) Microsoft
2 34 (16.43%) Oracle
3 9 (4.35%) Dynatrace
3 9 (4.35%) Splunk
4 6 (2.90%) Google
4 6 (2.90%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.90%) Zoho
5 4 (1.93%) Databricks
5 4 (1.93%) Informatica
5 4 (1.93%) Pega
5 4 (1.93%) Talend
5 4 (1.93%) WSO2
6 3 (1.45%) HubSpot
7 2 (0.97%) IBM
7 2 (0.97%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.97%) OutSystems
7 2 (0.97%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.97%) SAP
7 2 (0.97%) Siemens
8 1 (0.48%) Workday