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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 213 210
Rank change year-on-year -64 -3 -24
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 249 532 457
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.63% 1.24% 1.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.55% 8.47% 7.45%
Number of salaries quoted 184 189 363
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £41,470
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,977 £52,500 £52,700
Median % change year-on-year -16.24% -0.38% -4.18%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,603 £67,285
90th Percentile £67,500 £79,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,853 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% -2.64% +4.17%

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 3,799 6,282 6,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.57% 14.68% 21.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,469 3,344 4,791
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £79,200 £82,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.14% +5.42% -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 7 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 7 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 -46 100 £41,000 -18.00% 81
North of England +1 50 £52,500 -8.70% 38
Midlands +25 39 £47,500 -17.39% 32
West Midlands +34 32 £47,500 -11.63% 20
Yorkshire -1 24 £45,000 -7.69% 12
North West +18 23 £55,000 -8.33% 21
South West -22 23 £43,953 -12.09% 25
Scotland -19 19 £25,000 -52.38% 9
East of England -12 17 £45,000 -28.00% 20
East Midlands +4 7 £35,000 -58.82% 10
Wales +2 5 £52,500 +10.98% 7
North East 0 3 £52,500 -1.60% 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 9 (3.61%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.61%) Confluence
3 2 (0.80%) CMS
3 2 (0.80%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.80%) Mendix
4 1 (0.40%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.40%) Apache
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.40%) Appian
4 1 (0.40%) Camunda
4 1 (0.40%) JBoss
4 1 (0.40%) SAS
4 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (7.63%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.40%) Shopify
1 1 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 65 (26.10%) AWS
2 50 (20.08%) Azure
3 37 (14.86%) Serverless
4 30 (12.05%) Amazon ECS
4 30 (12.05%) Amazon EKS
5 27 (10.84%) Power Platform
6 26 (10.44%) SaaS
7 21 (8.43%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (6.83%) GitHub
9 15 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (5.22%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (2.81%) OpenShift
12 6 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (2.41%) Boomi
13 5 (2.01%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (2.01%) GCP
14 4 (1.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.81%) Intranet
2 6 (2.41%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.41%) Wireless
3 3 (1.20%) AMQP
4 2 (0.80%) DNS
4 2 (0.80%) Firewall
5 1 (0.40%) HTTP
5 1 (0.40%) Internet
5 1 (0.40%) SAN
5 1 (0.40%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (26.91%) SQL Server
2 61 (24.50%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (16.06%) RDBMS
4 25 (10.04%) MySQL
4 25 (10.04%) Power BI
5 15 (6.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.81%) Metadata
7 7 (2.81%) Oracle Database
8 6 (2.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (2.01%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.61%) Redis
10 4 (1.61%) Tableau
11 3 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.20%) DB2
11 3 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.20%) FileMaker
11 3 (1.20%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 37 (14.86%) Jenkins
2 35 (14.06%) Git
3 24 (9.64%) JUnit
4 20 (8.03%) Mockito
5 18 (7.23%) JMeter
6 16 (6.43%) JIRA
7 9 (3.61%) Cucumber
8 8 (3.21%) Selenium
9 6 (2.41%) Postman
9 6 (2.41%) SoapUI
10 5 (2.01%) GitLab
11 4 (1.61%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.61%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.40%) Android Studio
12 1 (0.40%) Ant
12 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.40%) Gradle
12 1 (0.40%) Maven
12 1 (0.40%) Rational Rhapsody
12 1 (0.40%) Xcode
General
1 125 (50.20%) Social Skills
2 54 (21.69%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (18.07%) Finance
4 28 (11.24%) Public Sector
5 27 (10.84%) Retail
6 17 (6.83%) Manufacturing
7 15 (6.02%) Law
8 7 (2.81%) Marketing
9 6 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.61%) Back Office
10 4 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.20%) Banking
11 3 (1.20%) Health Technology
11 3 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.80%) Advertising
12 2 (0.80%) German Language
12 2 (0.80%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.80%) Legal
12 2 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (37.35%) Developer
2 37 (14.86%) Analyst
3 34 (13.65%) Java Developer
4 33 (13.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 26 (10.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 24 (9.64%) Software Engineer
7 21 (8.43%) Support Engineer
8 16 (6.43%) Senior
9 15 (6.02%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 15 (6.02%) Software Support Engineer
10 14 (5.62%) Consultant
11 12 (4.82%) Junior
11 12 (4.82%) Technical Support
12 11 (4.42%) Lead
13 10 (4.02%) Database Consultant
13 10 (4.02%) Graduate Consultant
13 10 (4.02%) Graduate Database Consultant
13 10 (4.02%) Graduate Support Consultant
13 10 (4.02%) Support Analyst
13 10 (4.02%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (22.09%) REST
2 45 (18.07%) JSON
3 44 (17.67%) Spring
4 42 (16.87%) Spring Boot
5 40 (16.06%) HTML
6 38 (15.26%) React
6 38 (15.26%) Web Services
7 35 (14.06%) XML
8 29 (11.65%) .NET
9 27 (10.84%) AngularJS
10 24 (9.64%) jQuery
11 23 (9.24%) CSS
11 23 (9.24%) Node.js
12 22 (8.84%) Apache Camel
12 22 (8.84%) Hibernate
13 18 (7.23%) ActiveMQ
13 18 (7.23%) RESTful
13 18 (7.23%) WireMock
14 17 (6.83%) Vue
15 13 (5.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.24%) Onboarding
2 27 (10.84%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (8.43%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (5.62%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.02%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.02%) e-Learning
5 10 (4.02%) Operational Technology
5 10 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.61%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.81%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.61%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.61%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.80%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.80%) IoT
11 2 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.80%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.80%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 28 (11.24%) Windows
2 17 (6.83%) Linux
3 9 (3.61%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.01%) Unix
5 1 (0.40%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (41.77%) Problem-Solving
2 84 (33.73%) Agile
3 67 (26.91%) CI/CD
4 46 (18.47%) Full-Stack Development
5 41 (16.47%) SDLC
6 40 (16.06%) DevOps
6 40 (16.06%) Microservices
7 39 (15.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (14.06%) TDD
9 33 (13.25%) Software Engineering
10 32 (12.85%) Business Intelligence
11 30 (12.05%) Scrum
12 29 (11.65%) Mentoring
13 27 (10.84%) Analytics
13 27 (10.84%) Client Onboarding
13 27 (10.84%) Workflow
14 23 (9.24%) BDD
15 22 (8.84%) Process Management
16 21 (8.43%) Data Modelling
17 19 (7.63%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 142 (57.03%) SQL
2 74 (29.72%) Python
3 60 (24.10%) Java
4 59 (23.69%) JavaScript
5 38 (15.26%) C#
6 23 (9.24%) Shell Script
7 22 (8.84%) PowerShell
8 15 (6.02%) PHP
9 11 (4.42%) Go
10 10 (4.02%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.41%) Delphi
11 6 (2.41%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.41%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.20%) R
13 2 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.80%) VBA
14 1 (0.40%) C
14 1 (0.40%) C++
14 1 (0.40%) Perl
14 1 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 50 (20.08%) Degree
2 26 (10.44%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.61%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.81%) ISTQB
5 7 (2.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 6 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.01%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.01%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.80%) CISSP
8 2 (0.80%) MCSE
8 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.80%) OCP
8 2 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.43%) QA
2 19 (7.63%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.61%) GDPR
4 4 (1.61%) HL7
5 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.80%) DICOM
7 1 (0.40%) CDISC
7 1 (0.40%) COBIT
7 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.40%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 45 (18.07%) Docker
2 6 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (18.88%) Kubernetes
2 20 (8.03%) Kibana
3 13 (5.22%) Terraform
4 10 (4.02%) Ansible
5 7 (2.81%) Grafana
6 4 (1.61%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.20%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.80%) SCCM
9 1 (0.40%) Control-M
9 1 (0.40%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 60 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 39 (15.66%) Oracle
3 20 (8.03%) Splunk
4 18 (7.23%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.41%) Zoho
6 5 (2.01%) Dell
6 5 (2.01%) IFS
7 4 (1.61%) Informatica
7 4 (1.61%) Pega
7 4 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.61%) Talend
7 4 (1.61%) WSO2
8 3 (1.20%) Databricks
8 3 (1.20%) Google
8 3 (1.20%) HubSpot
8 3 (1.20%) SAP
9 2 (0.80%) Cognos
9 2 (0.80%) IBM
9 2 (0.80%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.80%) OutSystems