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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 285 212
Rank change year-on-year -92 -73 +19
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 297 304 697
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.87% 1.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.20% 6.81% 8.83%
Number of salaries quoted 207 193 366
10th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £34,453
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,712 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% - +4.36%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £57,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.80% +4.17% -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 5,714 4,466 7,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.33% 12.80% 13.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,928 2,819 4,865
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,500 £40,000 £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 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 August 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 August 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 -25 92 £62,500 +19.05% 57
South East -47 86 £55,000 +29.41% 52
North West -6 49 £55,000 +4.76% 32
East of England -8 36 £47,500 -23.39% 16
Midlands -27 36 £50,000 - 28
Yorkshire -16 33 £62,500 +4.17% 20
South West -84 25 £52,500 -2.33% 31
West Midlands -23 19 £47,500 -20.83% 15
East Midlands -15 17 £60,000 +60.00% 13
Wales -61 17 £62,000 -20.00% 5
North East -58 10 £65,000 +25.30% 7
Scotland -30 6 £27,250 -57.25% 18
Northern Ireland -74 1 - - 12
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 (3.70%) IIS
2 5 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.35%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.01%) Apache
4 3 (1.01%) CMS
4 3 (1.01%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.67%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.67%) CICS
5 2 (0.67%) Confluence
5 2 (0.67%) Drupal
6 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.34%) Documentum
6 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.34%) JBoss
6 1 (0.34%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.34%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.01%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 2 (0.67%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.67%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.67%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.34%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.34%) Finacle
3 1 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.34%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.34%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 117 (39.39%) Azure
2 108 (36.36%) AWS
3 47 (15.82%) Power Platform
4 42 (14.14%) GCP
5 40 (13.47%) Serverless
6 35 (11.78%) GitHub
7 30 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (8.08%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (7.74%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (5.72%) SaaS
12 15 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (4.38%) Power Automate
15 12 (4.04%) Amazon S3
16 11 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
16 11 (3.70%) PowerApps
17 10 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
18 9 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
19 8 (2.69%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.36%) Intranet
2 5 (1.68%) HTTP
3 4 (1.35%) Firewall
3 4 (1.35%) LAN
3 4 (1.35%) WAN
4 3 (1.01%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.01%) Internet
5 2 (0.67%) FTP
5 2 (0.67%) SMTP
5 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.67%) VPN
6 1 (0.34%) Broadband
6 1 (0.34%) Network Security
6 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.34%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (29.29%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (25.59%) SQL Server
3 69 (23.23%) MySQL
4 43 (14.48%) Power BI
5 31 (10.44%) RDBMS
6 24 (8.08%) MongoDB
7 22 (7.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 21 (7.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 19 (6.40%) Tableau
10 16 (5.39%) NoSQL
11 15 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (2.69%) Apache Cassandra
13 8 (2.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 7 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (2.02%) Data Lake
16 5 (1.68%) BigQuery
16 5 (1.68%) DynamoDB
16 5 (1.68%) MariaDB
16 5 (1.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 95 (31.99%) Git
2 38 (12.79%) Jenkins
3 16 (5.39%) JIRA
4 14 (4.71%) JUnit
5 13 (4.38%) GitLab
6 11 (3.70%) Claude Code
7 9 (3.03%) Mockito
8 8 (2.69%) Oracle Forms
8 8 (2.69%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (2.36%) JMeter
10 5 (1.68%) Eclipse
10 5 (1.68%) NUnit
10 5 (1.68%) RSpec
11 4 (1.35%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.35%) minitest
12 3 (1.01%) IntelliJ
12 3 (1.01%) Mocha
12 3 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.67%) ERwin
13 2 (0.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 104 (35.02%) Social Skills
2 68 (22.90%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (18.18%) Finance
4 30 (10.10%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (6.73%) Manufacturing
7 16 (5.39%) Law
7 16 (5.39%) Retail
8 11 (3.70%) Legal
9 8 (2.69%) Aerospace
10 7 (2.36%) Banking
11 6 (2.02%) Social Housing
12 5 (1.68%) Health Technology
13 4 (1.35%) Aviation
13 4 (1.35%) Marketing
14 3 (1.01%) Back Office
14 3 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 141 (47.47%) Developer
2 51 (17.17%) Senior
3 46 (15.49%) Analyst
4 34 (11.45%) Senior Developer
5 32 (10.77%) Software Developer
6 29 (9.76%) Software Engineer
7 25 (8.42%) Full-Stack Developer
8 23 (7.74%) Data Engineer
9 22 (7.41%) .NET Developer
10 21 (7.07%) Java Developer
10 21 (7.07%) Lead
11 17 (5.72%) C# Developer
11 17 (5.72%) Systems Analyst
12 16 (5.39%) Applications Support
13 11 (3.70%) .NET Software Developer
13 11 (3.70%) Consultant
13 11 (3.70%) Data Analyst
14 10 (3.37%) Business Analyst
14 10 (3.37%) Systems Developer
14 10 (3.37%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (22.90%) HTML
2 67 (22.56%) React
3 65 (21.89%) REST
4 64 (21.55%) CSS
5 63 (21.21%) .NET
6 40 (13.47%) Spring
7 37 (12.46%) Spring Boot
8 30 (10.10%) RESTful
9 29 (9.76%) jQuery
10 27 (9.09%) AngularJS
11 26 (8.75%) Node.js
12 25 (8.42%) ASP.NET
13 23 (7.74%) Web Services
14 20 (6.73%) .NET Framework
14 20 (6.73%) Entity Framework
15 19 (6.40%) HTML5
16 18 (6.06%) .NET Core
16 18 (6.06%) JSON
16 18 (6.06%) XML
17 17 (5.72%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.43%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.07%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.39%) Product Ownership
4 15 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (4.38%) Data Structures
5 13 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (4.04%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.69%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (2.36%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.36%) Replication
10 6 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (2.02%) Legacy Code
10 6 (2.02%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.68%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.35%) CUDA
12 4 (1.35%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.35%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.39%) Windows
2 12 (4.04%) Linux
3 4 (1.35%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.01%) Unix
5 2 (0.67%) Solaris
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (38.72%) Agile
2 114 (38.38%) CI/CD
3 107 (36.03%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (26.94%) DevOps
5 68 (22.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 66 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 62 (20.88%) Full-Stack Development
8 58 (19.53%) AI
9 55 (18.52%) Scrum
10 51 (17.17%) Business Intelligence
11 49 (16.50%) Microservices
12 43 (14.48%) Decision-Making
13 40 (13.47%) Analytics
13 40 (13.47%) Kanban
13 40 (13.47%) SDLC
14 38 (12.79%) Data Modelling
15 37 (12.46%) ETL
16 36 (12.12%) Data Governance
16 36 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
17 35 (11.78%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 148 (49.83%) SQL
2 103 (34.68%) JavaScript
3 70 (23.57%) Java
4 66 (22.22%) Python
5 57 (19.19%) C#
6 43 (14.48%) TypeScript
7 20 (6.73%) PHP
8 13 (4.38%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.37%) Shell Script
9 10 (3.37%) T-SQL
9 10 (3.37%) VB.NET
10 7 (2.36%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.68%) COBOL
11 5 (1.68%) Ruby
12 4 (1.35%) Bash
12 4 (1.35%) C++
12 4 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.35%) JCL
13 3 (1.01%) Delphi
13 3 (1.01%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (17.17%) Degree
2 35 (11.78%) Security Cleared
3 29 (9.76%) SC Cleared
4 25 (8.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.04%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.37%) ACCA
6 10 (3.37%) CIMA
7 5 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.68%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.67%) CEH
9 2 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.67%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.67%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (15.82%) Data Quality
2 25 (8.42%) QA
3 22 (7.41%) GDPR
4 4 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.67%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (0.67%) SLA
5 2 (0.67%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.67%) WCAG
6 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 72 (24.24%) Docker
2 7 (2.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (11.45%) Kubernetes
1 34 (11.45%) Terraform
2 15 (5.05%) Ansible
3 10 (3.37%) Kibana
4 5 (1.68%) Grafana
5 4 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.67%) Puppet
6 2 (0.67%) QRadar
7 1 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.34%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.34%) SCCM
7 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 56 (18.86%) Oracle
3 16 (5.39%) Google
4 12 (4.04%) Sage
4 12 (4.04%) Splunk
5 10 (3.37%) SAP
6 9 (3.03%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.36%) Databricks
7 7 (2.36%) IBM
7 7 (2.36%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.35%) Broadcom
8 4 (1.35%) Informatica
8 4 (1.35%) Pega
8 4 (1.35%) TIBCO
9 3 (1.01%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.01%) JD Edwards
9 3 (1.01%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.67%) Cisco
10 2 (0.67%) Sybase
10 2 (0.67%) WSO2