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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 286 197
Rank change year-on-year -106 -89 +20
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 196 281 966
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.98% 1.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.88% 6.28% 8.32%
Number of salaries quoted 133 176 594
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -2.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,090 £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 5,048 4,472 11,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.71% 15.56% 16.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,980 2,927 8,140
10th Percentile £34,796 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 12 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 12 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
North of England -24 69 £62,500 +13.64% 44
South East -34 62 £55,000 -8.33% 40
North West -11 33 £57,500 +4.55% 28
Yorkshire -44 30 £62,500 +13.64% 11
South West -55 25 £50,000 - 15
Midlands -49 22 £42,500 -5.56% 16
East of England -15 19 £45,000 -27.42% 11
East Midlands -27 15 £49,500 +32.00% 8
West Midlands -47 7 £42,500 -29.17% 8
North East -34 6 £57,500 +28.32% 5
Wales -43 3 £45,000 -30.77% 2
Scotland -18 2 - - 6
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 (5.10%) OpenStack
2 6 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.06%) CMS
3 2 (1.02%) CICS
3 2 (1.02%) Confluence
3 2 (1.02%) Drupal
3 2 (1.02%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.02%) IIS
3 2 (1.02%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.51%) Camunda
4 1 (0.51%) JBoss
4 1 (0.51%) nginx
4 1 (0.51%) PegaRULES
4 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.51%) SAS
4 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (6.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.02%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.51%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.51%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.51%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 68 (34.69%) AWS
2 64 (32.65%) Azure
3 35 (17.86%) Power Platform
4 26 (13.27%) GCP
5 25 (12.76%) Serverless
6 21 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
7 19 (9.69%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.10%) Amazon S3
9 10 (5.10%) SaaS
10 9 (4.59%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (3.06%) GitHub
14 5 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
15 4 (2.04%) AWS Data Pipeline
15 4 (2.04%) PowerApps
15 4 (2.04%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.57%) Intranet
2 3 (1.53%) Broadband
2 3 (1.53%) Firewall
2 3 (1.53%) LAN
2 3 (1.53%) WAN
3 2 (1.02%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.51%) FTP
4 1 (0.51%) HTTP
4 1 (0.51%) Internet
4 1 (0.51%) Network Security
4 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.51%) SMTP
4 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.51%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.51%) VPN
4 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (27.55%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (22.45%) SQL Server
3 35 (17.86%) MySQL
3 35 (17.86%) Power BI
4 21 (10.71%) RDBMS
5 19 (9.69%) NoSQL
6 18 (9.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 17 (8.67%) MongoDB
8 16 (8.16%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (7.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (4.59%) Metadata
11 8 (4.08%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (3.06%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (3.06%) DB2
12 6 (3.06%) Tableau
13 5 (2.55%) BigQuery
14 4 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (2.04%) DynamoDB
14 4 (2.04%) MariaDB
15 3 (1.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 56 (28.57%) Git
2 24 (12.24%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.12%) JIRA
4 9 (4.59%) JUnit
5 6 (3.06%) GitLab
5 6 (3.06%) Mockito
6 5 (2.55%) JMeter
7 4 (2.04%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.04%) Selenium
8 3 (1.53%) Postman
8 3 (1.53%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.02%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.02%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.02%) IntelliJ
9 2 (1.02%) Jaeger
9 2 (1.02%) MSTest
9 2 (1.02%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.51%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.51%) Zephyr
General
1 69 (35.20%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (16.33%) Finance
4 14 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 13 (6.63%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.06%) Legal
6 6 (3.06%) Retail
7 5 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.04%) Banking
9 3 (1.53%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.53%) Back Office
9 3 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.53%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.53%) Law
9 3 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.53%) Social Housing
10 2 (1.02%) Aviation
10 2 (1.02%) Police
11 1 (0.51%) Electronics
11 1 (0.51%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 90 (45.92%) Developer
2 30 (15.31%) Analyst
3 27 (13.78%) Senior
4 21 (10.71%) Data Engineer
5 20 (10.20%) Java Developer
6 19 (9.69%) Senior Developer
7 16 (8.16%) Applications Support
8 14 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (6.63%) C# Developer
10 12 (6.12%) Software Engineer
11 11 (5.61%) Support Analyst
12 10 (5.10%) Applications Support Analyst
12 10 (5.10%) Data Analyst
13 9 (4.59%) Applications Developer
13 9 (4.59%) PHP Developer
13 9 (4.59%) Systems Developer
14 6 (3.06%) Architect
14 6 (3.06%) Data Architect
14 6 (3.06%) Software Developer
14 6 (3.06%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (22.45%) REST
2 38 (19.39%) React
3 32 (16.33%) HTML
4 30 (15.31%) CSS
5 24 (12.24%) Spring
6 21 (10.71%) .NET
6 21 (10.71%) Node.js
6 21 (10.71%) Spring Boot
6 21 (10.71%) Web Services
7 20 (10.20%) XML
8 17 (8.67%) AngularJS
9 15 (7.65%) Elastic Stack
10 13 (6.63%) JSON
11 12 (6.12%) Kafka
12 11 (5.61%) RESTful
12 11 (5.61%) WinForms
13 10 (5.10%) jQuery
14 9 (4.59%) HTML5
14 9 (4.59%) Laravel
15 8 (4.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.18%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (8.16%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.61%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.08%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.57%) Replication
7 6 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.06%) Legacy Code
8 5 (2.55%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.04%) CUDA
10 3 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.02%) Client/Server
11 2 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.02%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.51%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.51%) SCADA
12 1 (0.51%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.10%) Linux
2 9 (4.59%) Windows
3 4 (2.04%) Unix
4 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.51%) Solaris
4 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (34.18%) Agile
2 60 (30.61%) CI/CD
3 55 (28.06%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (21.94%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
6 41 (20.92%) Data Modelling
7 40 (20.41%) Analytics
8 39 (19.90%) DevOps
8 39 (19.90%) ETL
9 35 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
10 34 (17.35%) Microservices
11 33 (16.84%) Scrum
12 30 (15.31%) SDLC
13 24 (12.24%) Kanban
13 24 (12.24%) Software Engineering
14 23 (11.73%) TDD
15 22 (11.22%) Data Engineering
15 22 (11.22%) Decision-Making
16 21 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
17 18 (9.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 103 (52.55%) SQL
2 64 (32.65%) JavaScript
3 51 (26.02%) Java
4 48 (24.49%) Python
5 35 (17.86%) C#
6 17 (8.67%) PHP
7 14 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 11 (5.61%) Delphi
9 9 (4.59%) T-SQL
10 7 (3.57%) Go
10 7 (3.57%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.55%) Scala
11 5 (2.55%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.04%) Bash
13 3 (1.53%) C++
13 3 (1.53%) R
14 2 (1.02%) C
14 2 (1.02%) Perl
14 2 (1.02%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.51%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 26 (13.27%) Degree
2 16 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (6.63%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.04%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.53%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.02%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.02%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.51%) ACCA
9 1 (0.51%) CEH
9 1 (0.51%) CIMA
9 1 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.51%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (20.92%) Data Quality
2 14 (7.14%) QA
3 12 (6.12%) GDPR
4 3 (1.53%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.02%) SLA
5 2 (1.02%) WCAG
6 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.51%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.51%) HL7
6 1 (0.51%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.51%) NCSC
6 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (22.45%) Docker
2 2 (1.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (17.35%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.69%) Terraform
3 9 (4.59%) Ansible
4 7 (3.57%) Kibana
5 5 (2.55%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.04%) Grafana
7 2 (1.02%) Argo
7 2 (1.02%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.51%) Control-M
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.51%) QRadar
8 1 (0.51%) SCCM
8 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (20.41%) Oracle
2 35 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.57%) Databricks
3 7 (3.57%) Google
3 7 (3.57%) Salesforce
3 7 (3.57%) Splunk
4 4 (2.04%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.04%) IBM
4 4 (2.04%) Pega
5 3 (1.53%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.02%) IFS
6 2 (1.02%) Informatica
6 2 (1.02%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.02%) SAP
6 2 (1.02%) Siemens
6 2 (1.02%) WSO2
7 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.51%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.51%) Sage
7 1 (0.51%) Sybase