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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 295 220
Rank change year-on-year -88 -75 -5
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 259 296 742
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.87% 1.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.59% 6.53% 8.40%
Number of salaries quoted 182 180 429
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,195
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,712 £55,783 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +1.42% +4.36%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £79,000 £83,759
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -7.69%

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 5,637 4,534 8,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.68% 13.27% 13.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,834 2,884 5,708
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £41,250 £41,250
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 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,182 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.93% +1.97% -4.00%

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 27 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 27 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 -13 82 £62,500 +19.05% 35
South East -27 76 £55,000 +2.33% 33
North West +2 47 £55,000 +4.76% 17
East of England -11 29 £47,500 -23.39% 11
Midlands -36 29 £48,750 +2.63% 14
Yorkshire -27 27 £62,500 -10.71% 13
South West -72 23 £50,000 - 10
East Midlands -22 17 £60,000 +60.00% 5
Wales -54 16 £60,000 -22.58% 1
West Midlands -36 12 £45,000 -25.00% 9
North East -48 8 £65,000 +25.30% 7
Scotland -20 5 £27,250 -61.07% 4
Northern Ireland -66 1 - -
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 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (2.32%) CMS
1 6 (2.32%) IIS
2 4 (1.54%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.77%) Apache
3 2 (0.77%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.77%) CICS
3 2 (0.77%) Confluence
3 2 (0.77%) Drupal
3 2 (0.77%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.77%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.39%) Documentum
4 1 (0.39%) JBoss
4 1 (0.39%) nginx
4 1 (0.39%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.39%) PegaRULES
4 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.16%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 2 (0.77%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.39%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.39%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 100 (38.61%) AWS
2 97 (37.45%) Azure
3 42 (16.22%) Power Platform
4 39 (15.06%) GCP
5 33 (12.74%) Serverless
6 23 (8.88%) GitHub
7 22 (8.49%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (5.79%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (5.41%) SaaS
12 11 (4.25%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (4.25%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (4.25%) PowerApps
13 10 (3.86%) Amazon S3
13 10 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (3.86%) Power Automate
14 7 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
15 6 (2.32%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.70%) Intranet
2 4 (1.54%) Firewall
2 4 (1.54%) HTTP
2 4 (1.54%) LAN
2 4 (1.54%) WAN
3 3 (1.16%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.77%) FTP
4 2 (0.77%) Internet
4 2 (0.77%) SMTP
4 2 (0.77%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.77%) VPN
5 1 (0.39%) Broadband
5 1 (0.39%) Network Security
5 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.39%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (28.19%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (23.17%) MySQL
3 58 (22.39%) SQL Server
4 41 (15.83%) Power BI
5 29 (11.20%) RDBMS
6 26 (10.04%) MongoDB
7 22 (8.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (7.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 19 (7.34%) NoSQL
10 18 (6.95%) Tableau
11 13 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (3.47%) Apache Cassandra
13 8 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (2.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
16 5 (1.93%) MariaDB
16 5 (1.93%) Redis
17 4 (1.54%) BigQuery
17 4 (1.54%) Data Lake
17 4 (1.54%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 81 (31.27%) Git
2 33 (12.74%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.18%) JIRA
4 13 (5.02%) JUnit
5 12 (4.63%) GitLab
6 9 (3.47%) Mockito
7 7 (2.70%) JMeter
8 5 (1.93%) Claude Code
8 5 (1.93%) RSpec
9 4 (1.54%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.54%) minitest
10 3 (1.16%) IntelliJ
10 3 (1.16%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.77%) Bower
11 2 (0.77%) ERwin
11 2 (0.77%) MSTest
11 2 (0.77%) NUnit
11 2 (0.77%) Selenium
11 2 (0.77%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 84 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 45 (17.37%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (16.99%) Finance
4 25 (9.65%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (5.41%) Manufacturing
7 11 (4.25%) Retail
8 10 (3.86%) Legal
9 9 (3.47%) Law
10 6 (2.32%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.32%) Social Housing
11 5 (1.93%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.16%) Aviation
12 3 (1.16%) Back Office
12 3 (1.16%) Banking
12 3 (1.16%) Marketing
12 3 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.77%) Police
13 2 (0.77%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 123 (47.49%) Developer
2 44 (16.99%) Analyst
3 42 (16.22%) Senior
4 27 (10.42%) Senior Developer
5 25 (9.65%) Full-Stack Developer
6 22 (8.49%) Data Engineer
7 21 (8.11%) Software Engineer
8 19 (7.34%) Java Developer
8 19 (7.34%) Software Developer
9 17 (6.56%) Lead
9 17 (6.56%) Systems Analyst
10 16 (6.18%) Applications Support
11 13 (5.02%) Systems Developer
12 11 (4.25%) C# Developer
13 10 (3.86%) Data Analyst
13 10 (3.86%) Web Developer
14 9 (3.47%) .NET Developer
14 9 (3.47%) Applications Support Analyst
14 9 (3.47%) PHP Developer
15 8 (3.09%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (22.01%) HTML
1 57 (22.01%) REST
2 53 (20.46%) React
3 51 (19.69%) CSS
4 37 (14.29%) .NET
5 32 (12.36%) Spring
6 29 (11.20%) Spring Boot
7 27 (10.42%) RESTful
8 24 (9.27%) jQuery
9 23 (8.88%) Node.js
10 22 (8.49%) Web Services
11 20 (7.72%) XML
12 19 (7.34%) JSON
12 19 (7.34%) Vue
13 18 (6.95%) AngularJS
14 17 (6.56%) HTML5
15 15 (5.79%) ASP.NET
16 14 (5.41%) Hibernate
17 13 (5.02%) Kafka
18 11 (4.25%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.42%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.72%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.02%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.63%) Data Structures
4 12 (4.63%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.70%) Replication
7 6 (2.32%) Legacy Code
8 5 (1.93%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.54%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.54%) CUDA
9 4 (1.54%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.16%) Life Science
10 3 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.79%) Windows
2 13 (5.02%) Linux
3 3 (1.16%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.77%) Solaris
4 2 (0.77%) Unix
5 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (36.68%) CI/CD
2 92 (35.52%) Agile
3 87 (33.59%) Problem-Solving
4 65 (25.10%) DevOps
5 56 (21.62%) Full-Stack Development
6 55 (21.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 50 (19.31%) Business Intelligence
8 48 (18.53%) Microservices
9 46 (17.76%) AI
10 45 (17.37%) Software Engineering
11 44 (16.99%) Scrum
12 39 (15.06%) Analytics
13 38 (14.67%) Decision-Making
14 37 (14.29%) Kanban
15 36 (13.90%) Data Modelling
16 35 (13.51%) Data Governance
17 34 (13.13%) ETL
17 34 (13.13%) SDLC
18 32 (12.36%) Data Engineering
19 31 (11.97%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 131 (50.58%) SQL
2 90 (34.75%) JavaScript
3 61 (23.55%) Java
4 59 (22.78%) Python
5 41 (15.83%) C#
6 28 (10.81%) TypeScript
7 23 (8.88%) PHP
8 9 (3.47%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.47%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.47%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.70%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.93%) Ruby
11 4 (1.54%) Bash
11 4 (1.54%) C++
11 4 (1.54%) Delphi
11 4 (1.54%) Scala
12 3 (1.16%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.77%) Perl
13 2 (0.77%) R
Qualifications
1 43 (16.60%) Degree
2 25 (9.65%) Security Cleared
3 21 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (7.34%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.86%) ACCA
5 10 (3.86%) CIMA
6 8 (3.09%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.93%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.77%) CEH
9 2 (0.77%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.77%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.77%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (16.99%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.95%) QA
3 17 (6.56%) GDPR
4 3 (1.16%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.77%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (0.77%) SLA
5 2 (0.77%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.77%) WCAG
6 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 62 (23.94%) Docker
2 4 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (12.74%) Kubernetes
2 31 (11.97%) Terraform
3 12 (4.63%) Ansible
4 10 (3.86%) Kibana
5 5 (1.93%) Grafana
6 4 (1.54%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.77%) QRadar
8 1 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.39%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.39%) Puppet
8 1 (0.39%) SCCM
8 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (21.24%) Microsoft
2 49 (18.92%) Oracle
3 14 (5.41%) Google
4 12 (4.63%) Splunk
5 10 (3.86%) Sage
5 10 (3.86%) SAP
6 9 (3.47%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.70%) Databricks
7 7 (2.70%) IBM
8 6 (2.32%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.54%) Informatica
9 4 (1.54%) Pega
9 4 (1.54%) TIBCO
10 3 (1.16%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.16%) JD Edwards
11 2 (0.77%) IFS
11 2 (0.77%) iManage
11 2 (0.77%) Infor
11 2 (0.77%) Sybase
11 2 (0.77%) WSO2