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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 216 203
Rank change year-on-year -46 -13 -23
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 274 553 467
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.74% 1.14% 1.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.12% 8.49% 7.46%
Number of salaries quoted 198 196 384
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% +3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,688 £67,178
90th Percentile £72,500 £79,375 £84,056
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 3,851 6,515 6,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.45% 13.48% 20.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,603 3,417 4,927
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 23 November 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 23 November 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 -43 100 £41,000 -25.45% 72
North of England +3 54 £52,500 -4.55% 32
Midlands +43 39 £47,500 -20.83% 23
West Midlands +53 34 £47,500 -15.56% 19
Scotland +10 31 £26,000 -48.00% 5
North West +26 28 £55,000 -8.33% 22
South West -20 24 £60,000 +20.00% 19
Yorkshire +13 22 £47,500 - 7
East of England -1 22 £50,000 -20.00% 10
East Midlands +16 5 £40,000 -52.94% 4
Wales +10 5 £52,500 +10.98% 6
North East +6 4 £52,500 -1.60% 3
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 6 (2.19%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.82%) Confluence
3 3 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.09%) JBoss
4 2 (0.73%) CMS
4 2 (0.73%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.73%) Mendix
4 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Appian
5 1 (0.36%) SAS
5 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.36%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (6.20%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.09%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.36%) Shopify
1 1 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 83 (30.29%) AWS
2 64 (23.36%) Azure
3 39 (14.23%) Serverless
4 31 (11.31%) Amazon ECS
5 30 (10.95%) SaaS
6 29 (10.58%) Amazon EKS
7 22 (8.03%) Amazon EC2
8 21 (7.66%) Power Platform
9 20 (7.30%) GitHub
10 18 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (4.74%) Amazon S3
12 10 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (2.92%) Boomi
14 7 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (2.55%) Snowflake
15 6 (2.19%) OpenShift
16 5 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
16 5 (1.82%) GCP
17 3 (1.09%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.55%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.19%) Wireless
3 4 (1.46%) Intranet
4 3 (1.09%) AMQP
4 3 (1.09%) Firewall
4 3 (1.09%) HTTP
5 2 (0.73%) DNS
5 2 (0.73%) Internet
6 1 (0.36%) FTP
6 1 (0.36%) LAN
6 1 (0.36%) Network Security
6 1 (0.36%) SAN
6 1 (0.36%) SMTP
6 1 (0.36%) VPN
6 1 (0.36%) WAN
6 1 (0.36%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (29.93%) SQL Server
2 68 (24.82%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (20.44%) RDBMS
4 33 (12.04%) MySQL
5 19 (6.93%) Power BI
6 18 (6.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (4.74%) MongoDB
8 12 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (4.01%) Oracle Database
10 10 (3.65%) NoSQL
11 7 (2.55%) Metadata
12 6 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (2.19%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (2.19%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (1.82%) Big Data
13 5 (1.82%) DB2
13 5 (1.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (16.06%) Git
2 39 (14.23%) Jenkins
3 25 (9.12%) JUnit
4 19 (6.93%) Mockito
5 18 (6.57%) JIRA
5 18 (6.57%) JMeter
6 9 (3.28%) Selenium
7 8 (2.92%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.19%) GitLab
8 6 (2.19%) Postman
8 6 (2.19%) SoapUI
9 5 (1.82%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.73%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.36%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.36%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.36%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.36%) Maven
11 1 (0.36%) Rational Rhapsody
11 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.36%) Xcode
General
1 125 (45.62%) Social Skills
2 59 (21.53%) Finance
3 50 (18.25%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (12.04%) Public Sector
5 27 (9.85%) Retail
6 26 (9.49%) Law
7 18 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (6.20%) Manufacturing
9 13 (4.74%) Banking
10 9 (3.28%) Marketing
11 7 (2.55%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.46%) Back Office
13 4 (1.46%) Health Technology
13 4 (1.46%) Legal
13 4 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.09%) Advertising
14 3 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.09%) Private Banking
14 3 (1.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 101 (36.86%) Developer
2 39 (14.23%) Java Developer
3 34 (12.41%) Software Engineer
4 33 (12.04%) Analyst
4 33 (12.04%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (9.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 21 (7.66%) Support Engineer
7 18 (6.57%) Senior
8 17 (6.20%) Consultant
9 16 (5.84%) Lead
10 15 (5.47%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 15 (5.47%) Software Support Engineer
11 13 (4.74%) Junior
12 12 (4.38%) Java Engineer
12 12 (4.38%) Technical Support
13 11 (4.01%) Java Software Engineer
14 10 (3.65%) Database Consultant
14 10 (3.65%) Graduate
14 10 (3.65%) Graduate Consultant
14 10 (3.65%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (20.44%) REST
1 56 (20.44%) Spring
2 54 (19.71%) Spring Boot
3 46 (16.79%) JSON
4 42 (15.33%) Web Services
5 41 (14.96%) HTML
6 40 (14.60%) React
7 38 (13.87%) .NET
8 31 (11.31%) RESTful
8 31 (11.31%) XML
9 29 (10.58%) AngularJS
10 25 (9.12%) Hibernate
11 24 (8.76%) Apache Camel
11 24 (8.76%) CSS
12 23 (8.39%) jQuery
13 20 (7.30%) Node.js
14 18 (6.57%) ActiveMQ
14 18 (6.57%) Kafka
14 18 (6.57%) Vue
14 18 (6.57%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.22%) Onboarding
2 26 (9.49%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (8.03%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (6.93%) Product Ownership
5 18 (6.57%) Cloud Native
6 13 (4.74%) Operational Technology
7 11 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (3.65%) Data Structures
8 10 (3.65%) e-Learning
9 9 (3.28%) Mobile App
10 8 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (2.55%) Algorithms
12 6 (2.19%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.46%) Life Science
13 4 (1.46%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.46%) Virtual Team
14 3 (1.09%) Distributed Applications
14 3 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
14 3 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.31%) Windows
2 19 (6.93%) Linux
3 9 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.19%) Unix
5 1 (0.36%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (37.96%) Problem-Solving
2 94 (34.31%) Agile
3 76 (27.74%) CI/CD
4 50 (18.25%) Full-Stack Development
5 47 (17.15%) DevOps
5 47 (17.15%) Microservices
5 47 (17.15%) Software Engineering
6 46 (16.79%) SDLC
7 43 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (14.23%) TDD
9 36 (13.14%) Mentoring
10 32 (11.68%) Scrum
11 28 (10.22%) Business Intelligence
12 27 (9.85%) Analytics
12 27 (9.85%) Client Onboarding
13 26 (9.49%) Workflow
14 25 (9.12%) BDD
15 24 (8.76%) Computer Science
15 24 (8.76%) Data Analysis
15 24 (8.76%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 159 (58.03%) SQL
2 84 (30.66%) Python
3 77 (28.10%) Java
4 61 (22.26%) JavaScript
5 42 (15.33%) C#
6 23 (8.39%) PowerShell
6 23 (8.39%) Shell Script
7 15 (5.47%) PHP
8 12 (4.38%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.65%) Go
10 9 (3.28%) PL/SQL
10 9 (3.28%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.82%) R
12 3 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.73%) C++
13 2 (0.73%) Delphi
13 2 (0.73%) VBA
14 1 (0.36%) Perl
14 1 (0.36%) VB
14 1 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 59 (21.53%) Degree
2 29 (10.58%) Security Cleared
3 13 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (3.65%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.19%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.82%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.46%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (1.09%) OCP
9 3 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.73%) CISSP
10 2 (0.73%) MCSE
10 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.66%) QA
2 20 (7.30%) Data Quality
3 10 (3.65%) GDPR
4 4 (1.46%) HL7
5 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.73%) DICOM
6 2 (0.73%) SLA
7 1 (0.36%) CDISC
7 1 (0.36%) COBIT
7 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 50 (18.25%) Docker
2 6 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (20.07%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.66%) Kibana
3 16 (5.84%) Terraform
4 12 (4.38%) Ansible
5 7 (2.55%) Grafana
6 4 (1.46%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.09%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.73%) SCCM
9 1 (0.36%) Control-M
9 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 66 (24.09%) Microsoft
2 48 (17.52%) Oracle
3 23 (8.39%) Splunk
4 18 (6.57%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.55%) Dell
5 7 (2.55%) IFS
6 6 (2.19%) Databricks
6 6 (2.19%) Informatica
6 6 (2.19%) Talend
6 6 (2.19%) Zoho
7 5 (1.82%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.46%) IBM
8 4 (1.46%) Pega
8 4 (1.46%) WSO2
9 3 (1.09%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.09%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.09%) HubSpot
9 3 (1.09%) RedGate
9 3 (1.09%) SAP
9 3 (1.09%) Siemens