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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 292 206
Rank change year-on-year -102 -86 +6
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 196 267 961
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.91% 1.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.89% 6.17% 8.29%
Number of salaries quoted 131 167 592
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,850 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,800 £81,000 £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 5,044 4,328 11,594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.61% 14.82% 16.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,992 2,847 8,116
10th Percentile £34,533 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £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 £83,750 £80,000
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 17 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 17 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 -31 69 £62,500 +13.64% 54
South East -34 63 £55,000 -1.02% 37
North West -2 33 £60,000 +9.09% 29
Yorkshire -39 31 £62,500 +13.64% 21
South West -54 24 £50,000 -4.76% 18
Midlands -45 23 £42,500 -5.56% 19
East of England -23 18 £47,500 -23.39% 11
East Midlands -28 16 £60,000 +60.00% 9
West Midlands -48 7 £42,500 -29.17% 10
North East -37 5 £57,500 +28.32% 5
Wales -46 3 £45,000 -30.77% 2
Scotland -17 2 - - 5
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 (5.61%) OpenStack
2 6 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.06%) CMS
3 2 (1.02%) CICS
3 2 (1.02%) Confluence
3 2 (1.02%) Drupal
3 2 (1.02%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.02%) IIS
3 2 (1.02%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.51%) Camunda
4 1 (0.51%) JBoss
4 1 (0.51%) nginx
4 1 (0.51%) PegaRULES
4 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.51%) SAS
4 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.02%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.51%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.51%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.51%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 71 (36.22%) AWS
2 64 (32.65%) Azure
3 36 (18.37%) Power Platform
4 29 (14.80%) Serverless
5 26 (13.27%) GCP
6 25 (12.76%) Amazon ECS
7 23 (11.73%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (5.61%) Amazon S3
9 11 (5.61%) SaaS
10 10 (5.10%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (3.06%) GitHub
12 6 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (2.55%) PowerApps
14 4 (2.04%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.06%) Intranet
2 3 (1.53%) Broadband
2 3 (1.53%) Firewall
2 3 (1.53%) LAN
2 3 (1.53%) WAN
3 2 (1.02%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.51%) FTP
4 1 (0.51%) HTTP
4 1 (0.51%) Internet
4 1 (0.51%) Network Security
4 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.51%) SMTP
4 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.51%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.51%) VPN
4 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (28.06%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 36 (18.37%) Power BI
4 34 (17.35%) MySQL
5 22 (11.22%) RDBMS
6 19 (9.69%) NoSQL
6 19 (9.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 17 (8.67%) MongoDB
7 17 (8.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (8.16%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (4.59%) Metadata
10 8 (4.08%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (3.06%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (3.06%) DB2
11 6 (3.06%) Tableau
12 5 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (2.55%) BigQuery
13 4 (2.04%) DynamoDB
13 4 (2.04%) MariaDB
13 4 (2.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 55 (28.06%) Git
2 28 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.12%) JUnit
4 11 (5.61%) JIRA
5 9 (4.59%) Mockito
6 8 (4.08%) JMeter
7 6 (3.06%) GitLab
8 3 (1.53%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.02%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.02%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.02%) IntelliJ
9 2 (1.02%) Jaeger
9 2 (1.02%) MSTest
9 2 (1.02%) Selenium
10 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.51%) Gradle
10 1 (0.51%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.51%) Poetry
10 1 (0.51%) Postman
General
1 70 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.35%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (14.80%) Finance
4 16 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.63%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.57%) Legal
7 6 (3.06%) Retail
8 5 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.04%) Banking
9 4 (2.04%) Law
9 4 (2.04%) Social Housing
10 3 (1.53%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.53%) Back Office
10 3 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.53%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.02%) Aviation
11 2 (1.02%) Police
12 1 (0.51%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 92 (46.94%) Developer
2 29 (14.80%) Analyst
2 29 (14.80%) Senior
3 23 (11.73%) Java Developer
4 21 (10.71%) Data Engineer
5 20 (10.20%) Senior Developer
6 16 (8.16%) Applications Support
6 16 (8.16%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (6.63%) C# Developer
8 11 (5.61%) Support Analyst
9 10 (5.10%) Software Engineer
9 10 (5.10%) Systems Developer
10 9 (4.59%) Applications Support Analyst
10 9 (4.59%) Data Analyst
10 9 (4.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 9 (4.59%) PHP Developer
11 8 (4.08%) Applications Developer
12 7 (3.57%) Senior Applications Support
13 6 (3.06%) Java Engineer
13 6 (3.06%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (22.45%) REST
2 37 (18.88%) React
3 36 (18.37%) HTML
4 30 (15.31%) CSS
5 27 (13.78%) Spring
6 25 (12.76%) Spring Boot
7 23 (11.73%) Web Services
8 21 (10.71%) .NET
8 21 (10.71%) Node.js
8 21 (10.71%) XML
9 16 (8.16%) AngularJS
9 16 (8.16%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (7.14%) JSON
11 13 (6.63%) jQuery
11 13 (6.63%) Kafka
12 12 (6.12%) RESTful
13 11 (5.61%) Mustache
13 11 (5.61%) WinForms
14 10 (5.10%) Apache Camel
14 10 (5.10%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.20%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (9.18%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (5.10%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.57%) Replication
6 6 (3.06%) Legacy Code
7 4 (2.04%) CUDA
8 3 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.53%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.02%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.02%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.51%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.51%) SCADA
10 1 (0.51%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.59%) Linux
1 9 (4.59%) Windows
2 3 (1.53%) Unix
3 2 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.51%) Solaris
4 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (36.22%) Agile
2 63 (32.14%) CI/CD
3 53 (27.04%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (21.94%) Business Intelligence
5 42 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 41 (20.92%) DevOps
7 40 (20.41%) Data Modelling
7 40 (20.41%) ETL
8 39 (19.90%) Analytics
9 38 (19.39%) Full-Stack Development
10 37 (18.88%) Microservices
10 37 (18.88%) Scrum
11 31 (15.82%) SDLC
12 27 (13.78%) Kanban
13 26 (13.27%) TDD
14 22 (11.22%) Data Engineering
14 22 (11.22%) Decision-Making
14 22 (11.22%) Software Engineering
15 21 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
16 20 (10.20%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 102 (52.04%) SQL
2 70 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 53 (27.04%) Java
4 47 (23.98%) Python
5 35 (17.86%) C#
6 15 (7.65%) PHP
7 13 (6.63%) TypeScript
8 11 (5.61%) Delphi
9 10 (5.10%) T-SQL
10 8 (4.08%) Shell Script
11 7 (3.57%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.55%) Scala
13 4 (2.04%) Bash
13 4 (2.04%) Go
14 3 (1.53%) C++
14 3 (1.53%) R
15 2 (1.02%) C
15 2 (1.02%) Perl
15 2 (1.02%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.51%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 26 (13.27%) Degree
2 18 (9.18%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.65%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.04%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.53%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.02%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.02%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.51%) ACCA
9 1 (0.51%) CEH
9 1 (0.51%) CIMA
9 1 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.51%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (20.92%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.63%) GDPR
3 12 (6.12%) QA
4 3 (1.53%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.02%) SLA
5 2 (1.02%) WCAG
6 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.51%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.51%) HL7
6 1 (0.51%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.51%) NCSC
6 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (24.49%) Docker
2 2 (1.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (18.88%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.69%) Terraform
3 10 (5.10%) Kibana
4 9 (4.59%) Ansible
5 4 (2.04%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.53%) Grafana
7 2 (1.02%) Argo
7 2 (1.02%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.51%) QRadar
8 1 (0.51%) SCCM
8 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (20.41%) Oracle
2 36 (18.37%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.10%) Splunk
4 7 (3.57%) Databricks
4 7 (3.57%) Dynatrace
4 7 (3.57%) Google
4 7 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.04%) IBM
5 4 (2.04%) Pega
6 3 (1.53%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.02%) IFS
7 2 (1.02%) iManage
7 2 (1.02%) Informatica
7 2 (1.02%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.02%) SAP
7 2 (1.02%) Siemens
7 2 (1.02%) WSO2
8 1 (0.51%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.51%) Sage
8 1 (0.51%) Sybase