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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 293 203
Rank change year-on-year -91 -90 +16
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 205 258 958
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.90% 1.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.10% 6.23% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 139 156 591
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,712 £56,533 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% +7.68% -2.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,313 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,840 £83,125 £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 4,995 4,140 11,589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.44% 14.52% 16.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,038 2,616 8,105
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £32,000
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 24 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 24 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 -19 77 £62,500 +19.05% 42
South East -40 63 £55,000 -1.02% 31
North West -1 37 £55,000 +2.33% 21
Yorkshire -31 34 £62,500 +13.64% 18
South West -71 24 £50,000 -6.98% 13
Midlands -34 22 £42,500 -5.56% 19
East of England -17 20 £47,500 -23.39% 8
East Midlands -22 16 £60,000 +60.00% 7
North East -40 6 £65,000 +36.84% 4
West Midlands -44 6 £42,500 -29.17% 12
Wales -52 3 £45,000 -30.77% 1
Scotland -21 2 - - 6
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 11 (5.37%) OpenStack
2 6 (2.93%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.93%) CMS
3 3 (1.46%) IIS
4 2 (0.98%) CICS
4 2 (0.98%) Confluence
4 2 (0.98%) Drupal
4 2 (0.98%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.98%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.49%) Camunda
5 1 (0.49%) JBoss
5 1 (0.49%) nginx
5 1 (0.49%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.49%) SAS
5 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.98%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 2 (0.98%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.49%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.49%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 74 (36.10%) AWS
2 65 (31.71%) Azure
3 38 (18.54%) Power Platform
4 31 (15.12%) Serverless
5 26 (12.68%) Amazon ECS
6 24 (11.71%) Amazon EKS
6 24 (11.71%) GCP
7 16 (7.80%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (5.37%) Amazon S3
9 10 (4.88%) SaaS
10 9 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (4.39%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (4.39%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (4.39%) GitHub
11 6 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (2.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.93%) Intranet
2 4 (1.95%) Firewall
2 4 (1.95%) LAN
2 4 (1.95%) WAN
3 3 (1.46%) Broadband
3 3 (1.46%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.98%) FTP
4 2 (0.98%) HTTP
4 2 (0.98%) Internet
4 2 (0.98%) SMTP
4 2 (0.98%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.98%) VPN
5 1 (0.49%) Network Security
5 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.49%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (26.83%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (21.46%) SQL Server
3 38 (18.54%) Power BI
4 36 (17.56%) MySQL
5 23 (11.22%) RDBMS
6 20 (9.76%) NoSQL
7 18 (8.78%) MongoDB
7 18 (8.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 18 (8.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 15 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (4.39%) Apache Cassandra
10 8 (3.90%) Metadata
11 7 (3.41%) Tableau
12 6 (2.93%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (2.93%) DB2
13 5 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (2.44%) BigQuery
14 4 (1.95%) DynamoDB
14 4 (1.95%) MariaDB
14 4 (1.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 56 (27.32%) Git
2 28 (13.66%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.85%) JUnit
4 11 (5.37%) JIRA
5 9 (4.39%) Mockito
6 8 (3.90%) JMeter
7 7 (3.41%) GitLab
8 3 (1.46%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.98%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.98%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.98%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.98%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.98%) MSTest
9 2 (0.98%) Selenium
10 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.49%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.49%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.49%) Poetry
10 1 (0.49%) Postman
10 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 74 (36.10%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.61%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (14.63%) Finance
4 15 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.34%) Manufacturing
6 8 (3.90%) Retail
7 7 (3.41%) Legal
8 6 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.44%) Banking
10 4 (1.95%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.95%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.95%) Law
10 4 (1.95%) Social Housing
11 3 (1.46%) Back Office
11 3 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.98%) Aviation
12 2 (0.98%) Police
13 1 (0.49%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.49%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 94 (45.85%) Developer
2 32 (15.61%) Analyst
3 30 (14.63%) Senior
4 23 (11.22%) Java Developer
5 21 (10.24%) Data Engineer
5 21 (10.24%) Senior Developer
6 16 (7.80%) Applications Support
7 15 (7.32%) Full-Stack Developer
8 14 (6.83%) C# Developer
9 13 (6.34%) Software Engineer
10 12 (5.85%) Systems Developer
11 10 (4.88%) Support Analyst
12 9 (4.39%) Applications Support Analyst
12 9 (4.39%) Data Analyst
12 9 (4.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 9 (4.39%) PHP Developer
13 8 (3.90%) Applications Developer
13 8 (3.90%) Software Developer
13 8 (3.90%) Systems Analyst
14 7 (3.41%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (23.41%) REST
2 38 (18.54%) HTML
2 38 (18.54%) React
3 33 (16.10%) CSS
4 27 (13.17%) Spring
5 25 (12.20%) Spring Boot
6 24 (11.71%) Web Services
7 22 (10.73%) Node.js
8 20 (9.76%) .NET
8 20 (9.76%) XML
9 16 (7.80%) Elastic Stack
9 16 (7.80%) jQuery
10 15 (7.32%) AngularJS
11 14 (6.83%) JSON
12 13 (6.34%) HTML5
12 13 (6.34%) Kafka
13 12 (5.85%) RESTful
14 11 (5.37%) Mustache
14 11 (5.37%) WinForms
15 10 (4.88%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.24%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (8.29%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.37%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.37%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.39%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.41%) Replication
6 6 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.93%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.95%) CUDA
8 3 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.46%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.46%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.98%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.98%) MISP
9 2 (0.98%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.49%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.39%) Linux
1 9 (4.39%) Windows
2 3 (1.46%) Unix
3 2 (0.98%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.49%) Solaris
4 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (34.63%) Agile
2 65 (31.71%) CI/CD
3 54 (26.34%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (21.95%) Business Intelligence
5 44 (21.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 42 (20.49%) Data Modelling
6 42 (20.49%) DevOps
7 40 (19.51%) ETL
7 40 (19.51%) Full-Stack Development
8 39 (19.02%) Analytics
9 38 (18.54%) Scrum
10 37 (18.05%) Microservices
11 32 (15.61%) SDLC
12 29 (14.15%) Kanban
13 25 (12.20%) TDD
14 24 (11.71%) Data Engineering
15 23 (11.22%) Software Engineering
16 22 (10.73%) Decision-Making
17 20 (9.76%) Containerisation
17 20 (9.76%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 107 (52.20%) SQL
2 73 (35.61%) JavaScript
3 53 (25.85%) Java
4 49 (23.90%) Python
5 36 (17.56%) C#
6 17 (8.29%) PHP
7 14 (6.83%) TypeScript
8 11 (5.37%) Delphi
9 9 (4.39%) T-SQL
10 8 (3.90%) Shell Script
11 7 (3.41%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.44%) Bash
12 5 (2.44%) Scala
13 4 (1.95%) C++
13 4 (1.95%) Go
13 4 (1.95%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.46%) Perl
15 2 (0.98%) C
15 2 (0.98%) R
16 1 (0.49%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 26 (12.68%) Degree
2 18 (8.78%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.83%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.95%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.95%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.46%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.98%) ACCA
8 2 (0.98%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.98%) CEH
8 2 (0.98%) CIMA
8 2 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.98%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.98%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (20.49%) Data Quality
2 14 (6.83%) GDPR
3 11 (5.37%) QA
4 3 (1.46%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.98%) SLA
5 2 (0.98%) WCAG
6 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.49%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.49%) HL7
6 1 (0.49%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.49%) NCSC
6 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (24.39%) Docker
2 2 (0.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (17.56%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.27%) Terraform
3 10 (4.88%) Kibana
4 9 (4.39%) Ansible
5 4 (1.95%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.46%) Grafana
7 2 (0.98%) Argo
7 2 (0.98%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.98%) QRadar
8 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.49%) SCCM
8 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (20.98%) Oracle
2 37 (18.05%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.85%) Splunk
4 7 (3.41%) Databricks
4 7 (3.41%) Dynatrace
4 7 (3.41%) Google
4 7 (3.41%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.95%) IBM
5 4 (1.95%) Pega
6 3 (1.46%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.98%) IFS
7 2 (0.98%) iManage
7 2 (0.98%) JD Edwards
7 2 (0.98%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.98%) Sage
7 2 (0.98%) SAP
7 2 (0.98%) Siemens
7 2 (0.98%) WSO2
8 1 (0.49%) Aderant
8 1 (0.49%) Sybase