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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 211 204
Rank change year-on-year -75 -7 -16
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 244 503 466
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.59% 1.27% 1.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.34% 8.31% 7.64%
Number of salaries quoted 187 178 355
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,566
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,750 £52,700
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -1.80% -4.18%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,603 £67,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,206 £62,000
% change year-on-year -6.05% -1.28% +3.33%

All Database and 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 3,847 6,050 6,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.30% 15.22% 21.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,472 3,228 4,662
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,555 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.45% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% -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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025. 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 -51 98 £41,000 -18.00% 80
North of England +10 52 £52,500 -12.50% 49
Midlands +22 37 £47,500 -20.83% 28
West Midlands +31 30 £47,500 -15.56% 16
Yorkshire +9 26 £45,000 -18.18% 17
North West +16 23 £55,000 -8.33% 26
South West -36 21 £43,953 -12.09% 27
East of England -11 17 £45,000 -28.00% 24
Scotland -10 15 £25,000 -54.55% 10
East Midlands -8 7 £37,500 -55.88% 11
Wales +2 6 £52,500 +10.98% 8
North East -5 3 £52,500 +15.38% 6
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 - 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 10 (4.10%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.05%) Confluence
3 2 (0.82%) CMS
3 2 (0.82%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.82%) Mendix
3 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.41%) Appian
4 1 (0.41%) Camunda
4 1 (0.41%) JBoss
4 1 (0.41%) SAS
4 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (8.20%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (7.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.41%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.41%) Shopify
1 1 (0.41%) Teamcenter
1 1 (0.41%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 60 (24.59%) AWS
2 51 (20.90%) Azure
3 36 (14.75%) Serverless
4 29 (11.89%) Amazon ECS
4 29 (11.89%) Power Platform
5 28 (11.48%) Amazon EKS
5 28 (11.48%) SaaS
6 18 (7.38%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (6.15%) GitHub
9 12 (4.92%) Amazon S3
10 8 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.28%) GCP
10 8 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.87%) OpenShift
12 6 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (2.46%) Boomi
13 3 (1.23%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.28%) Intranet
2 6 (2.46%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.46%) Wireless
3 3 (1.23%) AMQP
4 2 (0.82%) DNS
4 2 (0.82%) Firewall
5 1 (0.41%) HTTP
5 1 (0.41%) Internet
5 1 (0.41%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (27.05%) SQL Server
2 58 (23.77%) PostgreSQL
3 37 (15.16%) RDBMS
4 27 (11.07%) MySQL
4 27 (11.07%) Power BI
5 16 (6.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (3.28%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.87%) Metadata
9 6 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.64%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.64%) Redis
10 4 (1.64%) Tableau
11 3 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.23%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.23%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.23%) InfluxDB
11 3 (1.23%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 36 (14.75%) Git
2 35 (14.34%) Jenkins
3 21 (8.61%) JUnit
4 18 (7.38%) JIRA
5 17 (6.97%) Mockito
6 16 (6.56%) JMeter
7 10 (4.10%) Cucumber
8 8 (3.28%) Selenium
9 6 (2.46%) GitLab
9 6 (2.46%) Postman
9 6 (2.46%) SoapUI
10 5 (2.05%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.64%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.41%) Android Studio
12 1 (0.41%) Ant
12 1 (0.41%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.41%) Gradle
12 1 (0.41%) Maven
12 1 (0.41%) Xcode
12 1 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 124 (50.82%) Social Skills
2 53 (21.72%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (16.80%) Finance
4 26 (10.66%) Retail
5 25 (10.25%) Public Sector
6 18 (7.38%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.69%) Law
8 6 (2.46%) Marketing
9 4 (1.64%) Back Office
9 4 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.23%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Advertising
11 2 (0.82%) Electronics
11 2 (0.82%) German Language
11 2 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.82%) Legal
11 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 92 (37.70%) Developer
2 38 (15.57%) Analyst
3 31 (12.70%) Java Developer
4 29 (11.89%) Full-Stack Developer
5 22 (9.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 21 (8.61%) Support Engineer
7 18 (7.38%) Software Engineer
8 17 (6.97%) Senior
9 15 (6.15%) Software Support Engineer
10 14 (5.74%) Consultant
10 14 (5.74%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 12 (4.92%) Junior
11 12 (4.92%) Technical Support
12 11 (4.51%) Data Analyst
13 10 (4.10%) Database Consultant
13 10 (4.10%) Graduate
13 10 (4.10%) Graduate Consultant
13 10 (4.10%) Graduate Support Consultant
13 10 (4.10%) Support Analyst
13 10 (4.10%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (22.13%) REST
2 41 (16.80%) JSON
3 40 (16.39%) React
4 39 (15.98%) Spring
5 37 (15.16%) HTML
5 37 (15.16%) Spring Boot
6 35 (14.34%) Web Services
7 32 (13.11%) XML
8 28 (11.48%) .NET
9 26 (10.66%) AngularJS
10 24 (9.84%) Node.js
11 23 (9.43%) CSS
12 21 (8.61%) jQuery
13 19 (7.79%) Apache Camel
14 18 (7.38%) Hibernate
15 16 (6.56%) Vue
16 15 (6.15%) ActiveMQ
16 15 (6.15%) RESTful
16 15 (6.15%) WireMock
17 12 (4.92%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.48%) Onboarding
2 25 (10.25%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (8.61%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (4.92%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.10%) e-Learning
5 10 (4.10%) Operational Technology
5 10 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.28%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.28%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.87%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.64%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.64%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.82%) IoT
11 2 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.82%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.82%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.66%) Windows
2 17 (6.97%) Linux
3 8 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.05%) Unix
5 1 (0.41%) Android
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (41.80%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (32.38%) Agile
3 63 (25.82%) CI/CD
4 42 (17.21%) Full-Stack Development
5 40 (16.39%) DevOps
6 38 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 38 (15.57%) Microservices
7 37 (15.16%) SDLC
8 33 (13.52%) Business Intelligence
9 32 (13.11%) TDD
10 30 (12.30%) Scrum
11 28 (11.48%) Mentoring
12 27 (11.07%) Analytics
12 27 (11.07%) Client Onboarding
12 27 (11.07%) Software Engineering
13 23 (9.43%) Workflow
14 21 (8.61%) BDD
15 20 (8.20%) Data Modelling
15 20 (8.20%) ETL
16 19 (7.79%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 139 (56.97%) SQL
2 72 (29.51%) Python
3 59 (24.18%) JavaScript
4 56 (22.95%) Java
5 38 (15.57%) C#
6 21 (8.61%) PowerShell
7 19 (7.79%) Shell Script
8 17 (6.97%) PHP
9 12 (4.92%) TypeScript
10 11 (4.51%) Go
11 8 (3.28%) T-SQL
12 7 (2.87%) Delphi
13 6 (2.46%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.23%) R
15 2 (0.82%) Bicep
15 2 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.82%) Scala
15 2 (0.82%) VBA
16 1 (0.41%) C++
16 1 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 47 (19.26%) Degree
2 24 (9.84%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.28%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.87%) ISTQB
5 7 (2.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 6 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.05%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.05%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.82%) CISSP
8 2 (0.82%) MCSE
8 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.82%) OCP
8 2 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.02%) QA
2 20 (8.20%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.10%) GDPR
4 3 (1.23%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.23%) HL7
5 1 (0.41%) CDISC
5 1 (0.41%) COBIT
5 1 (0.41%) DICOM
5 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.41%) NCSC
5 1 (0.41%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 42 (17.21%) Docker
2 6 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (17.21%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.97%) Kibana
3 13 (5.33%) Terraform
4 10 (4.10%) Ansible
5 7 (2.87%) Grafana
6 4 (1.64%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.23%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.82%) SCCM
9 1 (0.41%) Control-M
9 1 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 61 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 38 (15.57%) Oracle
3 17 (6.97%) Splunk
4 15 (6.15%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.46%) Zoho
6 5 (2.05%) Dell
6 5 (2.05%) IFS
7 4 (1.64%) Informatica
7 4 (1.64%) Pega
7 4 (1.64%) Talend
7 4 (1.64%) WSO2
8 3 (1.23%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.23%) Google
8 3 (1.23%) HubSpot
8 3 (1.23%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.23%) SAP
9 2 (0.82%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.82%) IBM
9 2 (0.82%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.82%) RedGate