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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 233 214
Rank change year-on-year -106 -19 -32
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 210 342 757
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 1.16% 1.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.07% 6.84% 7.56%
Number of salaries quoted 150 166 542
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £58,750 £68,694 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,730 £80,000 £83,758
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,250 £57,547
% change year-on-year -10.51% +11.65% -7.92%

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 4,141 5,001 10,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.03% 16.89% 18.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,439 2,814 7,579
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -51 70 £46,000 -23.33% 45
North of England -24 64 £60,000 +9.09% 39
Midlands -14 36 £38,750 -13.89% 15
Yorkshire -27 34 £60,000 +20.00% 13
North West -12 29 £55,000 - 17
South West -43 23 £43,953 -12.09% 22
West Midlands -5 22 £42,750 -5.00% 9
East Midlands -26 14 £37,500 - 6
East of England -35 11 £42,500 -32.00% 8
Scotland -27 7 £26,000 -58.40% 7
Wales -23 3 £51,250 -21.15% 4
North East -15 1 - - 11
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 11 (5.24%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.38%) CMS
3 3 (1.43%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.95%) CICS
4 2 (0.95%) Confluence
4 2 (0.95%) Mendix
4 2 (0.95%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.48%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.48%) Camunda
5 1 (0.48%) JBoss
5 1 (0.48%) nginx
5 1 (0.48%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.48%) SAS
5 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.48%) Shopify
1 1 (0.48%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 65 (30.95%) AWS
2 55 (26.19%) Azure
3 32 (15.24%) Power Platform
4 27 (12.86%) Serverless
5 23 (10.95%) Amazon ECS
6 21 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (7.62%) GCP
8 15 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (6.19%) SaaS
10 10 (4.76%) Amazon S3
11 9 (4.29%) GitHub
12 8 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
16 4 (1.90%) OpenShift
17 3 (1.43%) DigitalOcean
17 3 (1.43%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.76%) Intranet
2 6 (2.86%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.86%) Wireless
3 2 (0.95%) Broadband
3 2 (0.95%) Firewall
4 1 (0.48%) DNS
4 1 (0.48%) HTTP
4 1 (0.48%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (24.76%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (22.38%) SQL Server
3 31 (14.76%) Power BI
4 29 (13.81%) MySQL
5 27 (12.86%) RDBMS
6 14 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (6.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (5.24%) Metadata
9 10 (4.76%) NoSQL
10 9 (4.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (3.81%) DB2
12 6 (2.86%) MongoDB
13 5 (2.38%) Oracle Database
14 4 (1.90%) FileMaker
14 4 (1.90%) Redis
15 3 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
15 3 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
15 3 (1.43%) BigQuery
16 2 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
16 2 (0.95%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 38 (18.10%) Git
2 27 (12.86%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.62%) JIRA
4 13 (6.19%) JUnit
5 9 (4.29%) Mockito
6 8 (3.81%) Cucumber
6 8 (3.81%) JMeter
7 6 (2.86%) Selenium
8 4 (1.90%) GitLab
8 4 (1.90%) Postman
8 4 (1.90%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.43%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.95%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.95%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.95%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.95%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.48%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.48%) Zephyr
General
1 91 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 48 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (16.19%) Finance
4 17 (8.10%) Manufacturing
5 14 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.29%) Retail
7 8 (3.81%) Law
8 4 (1.90%) Marketing
9 3 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.43%) Legal
10 2 (0.95%) Back Office
10 2 (0.95%) Banking
10 2 (0.95%) German Language
11 1 (0.48%) Electronics
11 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Local Government
11 1 (0.48%) Police
11 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 90 (42.86%) Developer
2 32 (15.24%) Analyst
3 27 (12.86%) Full-Stack Developer
4 23 (10.95%) Java Developer
5 17 (8.10%) Software Engineer
6 16 (7.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 16 (7.62%) Senior
7 13 (6.19%) Data Engineer
8 12 (5.71%) Data Analyst
8 12 (5.71%) Senior Developer
9 11 (5.24%) Junior
10 10 (4.76%) C# Developer
10 10 (4.76%) Support Engineer
11 9 (4.29%) Applications Support
11 9 (4.29%) Architect
12 8 (3.81%) Report Analyst
12 8 (3.81%) Support Analyst
13 7 (3.33%) Applications Developer
13 7 (3.33%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 7 (3.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (22.38%) REST
2 41 (19.52%) React
3 28 (13.33%) Spring
4 27 (12.86%) HTML
4 27 (12.86%) Node.js
4 27 (12.86%) Spring Boot
5 24 (11.43%) JSON
5 24 (11.43%) Web Services
5 24 (11.43%) XML
6 23 (10.95%) AngularJS
7 22 (10.48%) .NET
7 22 (10.48%) CSS
8 17 (8.10%) Vue
9 15 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (5.71%) jQuery
10 12 (5.71%) Laravel
10 12 (5.71%) SOAP
11 11 (5.24%) Apache Camel
12 10 (4.76%) WinForms
13 9 (4.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (5.24%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.81%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.33%) Operational Technology
6 6 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.90%) e-Learning
7 4 (1.90%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.90%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.90%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.90%) Replication
8 2 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.95%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.48%) IoT
9 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.52%) Windows
2 14 (6.67%) Linux
3 8 (3.81%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.38%) Unix
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (37.62%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (34.29%) Agile
3 49 (23.33%) CI/CD
4 41 (19.52%) DevOps
4 41 (19.52%) Full-Stack Development
5 38 (18.10%) Business Intelligence
6 36 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (16.19%) Analytics
8 32 (15.24%) Data Modelling
8 32 (15.24%) SDLC
9 30 (14.29%) Microservices
9 30 (14.29%) Scrum
10 27 (12.86%) ETL
11 25 (11.90%) Software Engineering
11 25 (11.90%) TDD
12 22 (10.48%) Mentoring
13 20 (9.52%) Kanban
14 18 (8.57%) Containerisation
14 18 (8.57%) Workflow
15 17 (8.10%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 116 (55.24%) SQL
2 61 (29.05%) JavaScript
3 60 (28.57%) Python
4 53 (25.24%) Java
5 39 (18.57%) C#
6 19 (9.05%) PHP
7 17 (8.10%) PowerShell
8 13 (6.19%) TypeScript
9 12 (5.71%) Delphi
10 9 (4.29%) Go
11 8 (3.81%) Shell Script
12 5 (2.38%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.43%) R
14 2 (0.95%) Bash
14 2 (0.95%) C
14 2 (0.95%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.95%) Scala
15 1 (0.48%) C++
15 1 (0.48%) Perl
15 1 (0.48%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 26 (12.38%) Degree
2 16 (7.62%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.33%) ISTQB
3 7 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 7 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.43%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.95%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.95%) CISSP
6 2 (0.95%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.95%) MCSE
6 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.95%) OCP
6 2 (0.95%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.62%) QA
3 11 (5.24%) GDPR
4 3 (1.43%) HL7
5 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.48%) NCSC
5 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (18.10%) Docker
2 6 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (16.19%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.71%) Terraform
3 9 (4.29%) Ansible
4 7 (3.33%) Kibana
5 4 (1.90%) Grafana
6 3 (1.43%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.95%) Argo
7 2 (0.95%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.95%) SCCM
8 1 (0.48%) Control-M
8 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 50 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 39 (18.57%) Oracle
3 8 (3.81%) Google
4 7 (3.33%) Dynatrace
4 7 (3.33%) Splunk
5 6 (2.86%) Pega
6 5 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.90%) Databricks
7 4 (1.90%) WSO2
7 4 (1.90%) Zoho
8 3 (1.43%) HubSpot
8 3 (1.43%) Informatica
8 3 (1.43%) Talend
9 2 (0.95%) IBM
9 2 (0.95%) IFS
9 2 (0.95%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.95%) OutSystems
9 2 (0.95%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.95%) SAP
9 2 (0.95%) Siemens