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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 262 199
Rank change year-on-year -126 -63 +9
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 181 280 975
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.28% 1.01% 1.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.70% 6.53% 8.37%
Number of salaries quoted 120 179 599
10th Percentile £36,125 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,938 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,828 £80,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.85% +12.17% -11.54%

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 4,893 4,288 11,651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.47% 15.41% 17.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,781 2,941 8,161
10th Percentile £33,500 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £41,000
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 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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
South East -57 60 £55,000 -8.33% 39
North of England -61 59 £60,000 +9.09% 50
North West -37 28 £55,000 - 27
Yorkshire -52 28 £62,500 +13.64% 18
Midlands -51 25 £36,000 -20.00% 17
South West -58 25 £49,000 -2.00% 13
East of England -20 14 £43,750 -29.44% 12
East Midlands -41 14 £37,500 - 8
West Midlands -32 11 £34,500 -34.29% 9
North East -37 3 £45,000 +0.42% 5
Scotland -39 2 - - 10
Wales -48 2 £45,000 -30.77% 4
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 10 (5.52%) OpenStack
2 6 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.31%) CMS
3 2 (1.10%) CICS
3 2 (1.10%) Confluence
3 2 (1.10%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.55%) Camunda
4 1 (0.55%) JBoss
4 1 (0.55%) nginx
4 1 (0.55%) PegaRULES
4 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.55%) SAS
4 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (9.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.10%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.55%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.55%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 60 (33.15%) AWS
2 55 (30.39%) Azure
3 33 (18.23%) Power Platform
4 25 (13.81%) GCP
5 23 (12.71%) Serverless
6 19 (10.50%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (9.39%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (5.52%) Amazon S3
8 10 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.97%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (4.42%) SaaS
11 7 (3.87%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (3.87%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (2.21%) AWS Data Pipeline
13 4 (2.21%) Prefect
14 3 (1.66%) DigitalOcean
14 3 (1.66%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.42%) Intranet
2 3 (1.66%) Broadband
3 2 (1.10%) Firewall
3 2 (1.10%) LAN
3 2 (1.10%) WAN
4 1 (0.55%) Network Security
4 1 (0.55%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.55%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (28.18%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (23.76%) SQL Server
3 33 (18.23%) Power BI
4 29 (16.02%) MySQL
5 19 (10.50%) RDBMS
6 18 (9.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 17 (9.39%) NoSQL
8 16 (8.84%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (7.73%) MongoDB
10 13 (7.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (4.97%) Metadata
12 8 (4.42%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (3.31%) DB2
14 5 (2.76%) BigQuery
14 5 (2.76%) Tableau
15 4 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (2.21%) DynamoDB
16 3 (1.66%) FileMaker
16 3 (1.66%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 46 (25.41%) Git
2 22 (12.15%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.08%) JIRA
4 10 (5.52%) JUnit
5 6 (3.31%) Cucumber
5 6 (3.31%) Selenium
6 5 (2.76%) Mockito
7 4 (2.21%) GitLab
7 4 (2.21%) JMeter
8 3 (1.66%) Postman
8 3 (1.66%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.10%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.10%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.10%) IntelliJ
9 2 (1.10%) Jaeger
9 2 (1.10%) MSTest
9 2 (1.10%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.55%) ERwin
10 1 (0.55%) NUnit
10 1 (0.55%) Subversion
General
1 66 (36.46%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.10%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (15.47%) Finance
4 14 (7.73%) Manufacturing
5 12 (6.63%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.21%) Legal
6 4 (2.21%) Retail
7 3 (1.66%) Back Office
7 3 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.10%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.10%) Aviation
8 2 (1.10%) Banking
8 2 (1.10%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.10%) Law
8 2 (1.10%) Police
8 2 (1.10%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.55%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 79 (43.65%) Developer
2 29 (16.02%) Analyst
3 23 (12.71%) Senior
4 21 (11.60%) Data Engineer
5 18 (9.94%) Java Developer
6 16 (8.84%) Applications Support
6 16 (8.84%) Senior Developer
7 14 (7.73%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (6.63%) Support Analyst
9 11 (6.08%) C# Developer
9 11 (6.08%) Data Analyst
10 10 (5.52%) Applications Support Analyst
10 10 (5.52%) Software Engineer
11 8 (4.42%) Applications Developer
12 7 (3.87%) PHP Developer
13 6 (3.31%) Architect
13 6 (3.31%) Data Architect
13 6 (3.31%) Junior
13 6 (3.31%) Report Analyst
13 6 (3.31%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (19.34%) REST
2 31 (17.13%) React
3 23 (12.71%) Spring
4 22 (12.15%) HTML
5 21 (11.60%) Spring Boot
6 19 (10.50%) CSS
6 19 (10.50%) Web Services
6 19 (10.50%) XML
7 17 (9.39%) .NET
7 17 (9.39%) Elastic Stack
8 16 (8.84%) Node.js
9 13 (7.18%) AngularJS
10 12 (6.63%) Kafka
11 11 (6.08%) WinForms
12 10 (5.52%) JSON
12 10 (5.52%) RESTful
13 8 (4.42%) Django
13 8 (4.42%) Laravel
13 8 (4.42%) Mustache
13 8 (4.42%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.39%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (8.84%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.08%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.52%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.87%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.87%) Replication
6 6 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.31%) Legacy Code
7 5 (2.76%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.21%) CUDA
8 4 (2.21%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.66%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.10%) Mainframe
10 2 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.55%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.55%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.55%) IoT
11 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.97%) Linux
1 9 (4.97%) Windows
2 3 (1.66%) Unix
3 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (34.25%) Agile
2 56 (30.94%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (27.62%) CI/CD
4 44 (24.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (23.20%) Analytics
6 40 (22.10%) Business Intelligence
7 38 (20.99%) ETL
8 37 (20.44%) Data Modelling
9 36 (19.89%) DevOps
10 31 (17.13%) Scrum
11 29 (16.02%) Microservices
11 29 (16.02%) SDLC
12 26 (14.36%) Full-Stack Development
13 24 (13.26%) TDD
14 23 (12.71%) Kanban
15 22 (12.15%) Software Engineering
16 21 (11.60%) Data Pipeline
16 21 (11.60%) Decision-Making
16 21 (11.60%) Validation
17 20 (11.05%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 100 (55.25%) SQL
2 50 (27.62%) JavaScript
3 48 (26.52%) Java
3 48 (26.52%) Python
4 31 (17.13%) C#
5 14 (7.73%) PHP
6 13 (7.18%) Delphi
7 10 (5.52%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.97%) T-SQL
9 7 (3.87%) Go
9 7 (3.87%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.76%) Scala
11 3 (1.66%) Bash
11 3 (1.66%) R
11 3 (1.66%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.10%) C
12 2 (1.10%) C++
13 1 (0.55%) Haskell
13 1 (0.55%) Perl
13 1 (0.55%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 25 (13.81%) Degree
2 13 (7.18%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (6.08%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.21%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.66%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.66%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.10%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (22.10%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.63%) QA
3 11 (6.08%) GDPR
4 3 (1.66%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.10%) SLA
5 2 (1.10%) WCAG
6 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.55%) HL7
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.55%) NCSC
6 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (20.44%) Docker
2 2 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (19.34%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.39%) Terraform
3 8 (4.42%) Ansible
4 6 (3.31%) Grafana
4 6 (3.31%) Kibana
5 5 (2.76%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.10%) Argo
6 2 (1.10%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.55%) Control-M
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.55%) SCCM
7 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (20.44%) Microsoft
1 37 (20.44%) Oracle
2 7 (3.87%) Databricks
2 7 (3.87%) Google
2 7 (3.87%) Salesforce
3 4 (2.21%) IBM
3 4 (2.21%) Pega
4 3 (1.66%) AppDynamics
4 3 (1.66%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.66%) Splunk
5 2 (1.10%) IFS
5 2 (1.10%) Informatica
5 2 (1.10%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.10%) Siemens
5 2 (1.10%) WSO2
6 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.55%) Infragistics
6 1 (0.55%) Perforce
6 1 (0.55%) SAP
6 1 (0.55%) Teradata