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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 310 220
Rank change year-on-year -79 -90 -4
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 324 267 611
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.77% 1.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.02% 6.64% 9.16%
Number of salaries quoted 222 171 231
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,712 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.08% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £70,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £58,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.00%

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 5,382 4,020 6,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.22% 11.57% 12.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3,845 2,486 3,490
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,563 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -9 97 £65,000 +23.81% 90
South East -59 81 £60,000 +46.34% 120
North West -12 52 £55,000 +4.76% 59
Midlands -32 52 £60,000 +26.32% 70
East of England -13 41 £47,500 -13.64% 45
West Midlands -30 34 £75,000 +57.89% 48
Yorkshire -26 33 £65,000 +18.18% 24
South West -75 29 £45,000 -16.28% 49
Wales -50 19 £62,000 +10.22% 29
East Midlands -27 18 £56,250 +60.71% 22
North East -55 12 £65,000 +23.81% 9
Scotland -24 9 £27,250 -36.26% 80
Northern Ireland -81 1 - - 39
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 21 (6.48%) IIS
2 4 (1.23%) Apache
2 4 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.23%) OpenStack
3 3 (0.93%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.62%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.62%) Confluence
4 2 (0.62%) Drupal
5 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.31%) CMS
5 1 (0.31%) Documentum
5 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.31%) JBoss
5 1 (0.31%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.31%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.62%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (1.54%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.93%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 2 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.62%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.62%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.31%) Finacle
4 1 (0.31%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.31%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.31%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 115 (35.49%) AWS
2 111 (34.26%) Azure
3 50 (15.43%) GitHub
4 47 (14.51%) Power Platform
5 44 (13.58%) Serverless
6 35 (10.80%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (10.49%) GitHub Actions
8 33 (10.19%) GCP
9 26 (8.02%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (5.86%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (5.56%) Amazon S3
11 18 (5.56%) SaaS
12 17 (5.25%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (4.01%) Power Automate
14 12 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (3.40%) PowerApps
16 9 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
16 9 (2.78%) GitHub Copilot
17 8 (2.47%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.54%) HTTP
1 5 (1.54%) Intranet
2 4 (1.23%) Internet
3 3 (0.93%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.62%) Firewall
4 2 (0.62%) FTP
4 2 (0.62%) LAN
4 2 (0.62%) SMTP
4 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.62%) VPN
4 2 (0.62%) WAN
5 1 (0.31%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (27.78%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (25.93%) SQL Server
3 73 (22.53%) MySQL
4 43 (13.27%) Power BI
5 32 (9.88%) RDBMS
6 19 (5.86%) MongoDB
7 17 (5.25%) Tableau
8 14 (4.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (4.01%) NoSQL
10 12 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (2.47%) DynamoDB
13 7 (2.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 6 (1.85%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.85%) Metadata
14 6 (1.85%) Redis
15 5 (1.54%) Metadata Repository
15 5 (1.54%) Star Schema
16 4 (1.23%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 97 (29.94%) Git
2 42 (12.96%) Jenkins
3 18 (5.56%) Claude Code
4 15 (4.63%) JUnit
5 14 (4.32%) GitLab
5 14 (4.32%) Oracle Forms
5 14 (4.32%) Team Foundation Server
6 12 (3.70%) JIRA
7 10 (3.09%) Mockito
8 8 (2.47%) JMeter
9 5 (1.54%) RSpec
10 4 (1.23%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.23%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.23%) minitest
10 4 (1.23%) NUnit
10 4 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.93%) Mocha
12 2 (0.62%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.62%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.62%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 128 (39.51%) Social Skills
2 83 (25.62%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (19.44%) Finance
4 28 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 24 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (7.10%) Manufacturing
7 18 (5.56%) Retail
8 15 (4.63%) Law
9 14 (4.32%) Legal
10 11 (3.40%) Banking
11 8 (2.47%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.54%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.54%) Marketing
12 5 (1.54%) Social Housing
13 4 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.93%) Aviation
14 3 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.62%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.31%) Back Office
16 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 151 (46.60%) Developer
2 54 (16.67%) Senior
3 48 (14.81%) Analyst
4 40 (12.35%) Software Developer
5 38 (11.73%) Software Engineer
6 36 (11.11%) .NET Developer
7 31 (9.57%) Senior Developer
8 28 (8.64%) Full-Stack Developer
9 22 (6.79%) Lead
10 20 (6.17%) C# Developer
11 19 (5.86%) Data Engineer
12 17 (5.25%) Java Developer
13 16 (4.94%) Consultant
13 16 (4.94%) Systems Analyst
14 15 (4.63%) Business Analyst
15 14 (4.32%) C# .NET Developer
15 14 (4.32%) Data Analyst
15 14 (4.32%) Web Developer
16 12 (3.70%) .NET Software Developer
17 10 (3.09%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (25.31%) .NET
2 77 (23.77%) HTML
3 73 (22.53%) CSS
3 73 (22.53%) React
4 63 (19.44%) REST
5 48 (14.81%) Spring
6 46 (14.20%) Spring Boot
7 40 (12.35%) jQuery
8 35 (10.80%) RESTful
9 32 (9.88%) ASP.NET
9 32 (9.88%) Node.js
10 29 (8.95%) .NET Framework
11 28 (8.64%) Entity Framework
12 26 (8.02%) AngularJS
12 26 (8.02%) Terraform
12 26 (8.02%) Vue
13 25 (7.72%) Web Services
14 22 (6.79%) .NET Core
14 22 (6.79%) JSON
15 20 (6.17%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (7.10%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 17 (5.25%) Product Ownership
4 17 (5.25%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (4.01%) Legacy Applications
6 12 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.09%) Mainframe
8 8 (2.47%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.16%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.85%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.54%) Taxonomies
12 4 (1.23%) e-Learning
12 4 (1.23%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.23%) PMI
12 4 (1.23%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.23%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.48%) Windows
2 16 (4.94%) Linux
3 8 (2.47%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.23%) Unix
5 2 (0.62%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (39.20%) Agile
2 124 (38.27%) CI/CD
3 122 (37.65%) Problem-Solving
4 81 (25.00%) DevOps
5 80 (24.69%) Software Engineering
6 74 (22.84%) AI
7 72 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 61 (18.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (17.28%) Scrum
10 54 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
11 50 (15.43%) Microservices
12 45 (13.89%) Data Modelling
12 45 (13.89%) Decision-Making
12 45 (13.89%) Mentoring
13 44 (13.58%) SDLC
14 43 (13.27%) Analytics
15 41 (12.65%) OO
16 39 (12.04%) Code Quality
17 38 (11.73%) Collaborative Working
18 37 (11.42%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 155 (47.84%) SQL
2 111 (34.26%) JavaScript
3 69 (21.30%) Java
4 67 (20.68%) Python
5 64 (19.75%) C#
6 54 (16.67%) TypeScript
7 22 (6.79%) PHP
8 16 (4.94%) VB.NET
9 14 (4.32%) PowerShell
10 12 (3.70%) Shell Script
11 11 (3.40%) COBOL
12 10 (3.09%) JCL
13 8 (2.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (1.54%) Ruby
14 5 (1.54%) T-SQL
15 4 (1.23%) Bash
15 4 (1.23%) C++
15 4 (1.23%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.62%) Dart
16 2 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 44 (13.58%) Degree
2 35 (10.80%) Security Cleared
3 27 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 22 (6.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.40%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.09%) ACCA
6 10 (3.09%) CIMA
7 7 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.23%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.23%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.62%) CEH
9 2 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.62%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.62%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.62%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (15.74%) Data Quality
2 27 (8.33%) QA
3 21 (6.48%) GDPR
4 5 (1.54%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.62%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (0.62%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.31%) SLA
6 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 77 (23.77%) Docker
2 10 (3.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (9.57%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.70%) Ansible
3 9 (2.78%) Kibana
4 6 (1.85%) Grafana
5 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.93%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.93%) Puppet
5 3 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.62%) QRadar
6 2 (0.62%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.31%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 76 (23.46%) Microsoft
2 53 (16.36%) Oracle
3 16 (4.94%) Google
4 13 (4.01%) Databricks
4 13 (4.01%) Sage
4 13 (4.01%) Splunk
5 11 (3.40%) Dynatrace
6 10 (3.09%) Broadcom
6 10 (3.09%) SAP
7 8 (2.47%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.85%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.23%) DevExpress
9 4 (1.23%) IBM
9 4 (1.23%) Informatica
9 4 (1.23%) Telerik
9 4 (1.23%) TIBCO
10 3 (0.93%) Cisco
10 3 (0.93%) JD Edwards
10 3 (0.93%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.93%) VMware