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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 199 199
Rank change year-on-year -90 0 -9
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 230 497 542
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.54% 1.39% 1.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.09% 8.84% 7.82%
Number of salaries quoted 173 166 402
10th Percentile £26,600 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,253 £41,423
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,953 £51,125 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.03% -2.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,026 £65,603
90th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.05% +2.01% -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 3,779 5,621 6,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.82% 15.69% 19.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,399 2,909 5,275
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £42,500 £41,533
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 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -64 91 £41,000 -18.00% 86
North of England +6 55 £55,000 - 40
Midlands +21 36 £47,500 +5.56% 34
Yorkshire +5 29 £48,750 - 11
West Midlands +23 27 £47,500 +5.56% 14
North West +6 24 £55,000 -4.35% 27
South West -33 23 £51,977 +3.95% 24
East of England -15 12 £42,500 -34.62% 17
Scotland -23 12 £26,000 -46.70% 8
East Midlands -13 9 £37,500 -51.61% 20
Wales +3 5 £47,000 -3.59% 9
North East -4 2 £52,500 +15.38% 2
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 (4.78%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.30%) Confluence
3 2 (0.87%) CMS
3 2 (0.87%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.87%) Mendix
3 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.43%) Apache
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.43%) Appian
4 1 (0.43%) Camunda
4 1 (0.43%) JBoss
4 1 (0.43%) SAS
4 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (8.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 19 (8.26%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.43%) Shopify
1 1 (0.43%) Teamcenter
1 1 (0.43%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 61 (26.52%) AWS
2 48 (20.87%) Azure
3 32 (13.91%) Serverless
4 28 (12.17%) SaaS
5 27 (11.74%) Power Platform
6 26 (11.30%) Amazon ECS
7 24 (10.43%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (5.22%) Amazon S3
10 11 (4.78%) GitHub
11 9 (3.91%) GCP
12 8 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (3.04%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (3.04%) OpenShift
14 5 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
15 4 (1.74%) Snowflake
16 3 (1.30%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.48%) Intranet
2 6 (2.61%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.61%) Wireless
3 3 (1.30%) AMQP
4 2 (0.87%) Broadband
4 2 (0.87%) DNS
4 2 (0.87%) Firewall
5 1 (0.43%) HTTP
5 1 (0.43%) Internet
5 1 (0.43%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (24.78%) SQL Server
2 53 (23.04%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (13.04%) RDBMS
4 26 (11.30%) Power BI
5 24 (10.43%) MySQL
6 12 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (4.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (3.91%) Metadata
9 7 (3.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (2.17%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.74%) DB2
11 4 (1.74%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.74%) Redis
12 3 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.30%) InfluxDB
12 3 (1.30%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.30%) QlikView
12 3 (1.30%) Tableau
13 2 (0.87%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 35 (15.22%) Git
2 32 (13.91%) Jenkins
3 17 (7.39%) JUnit
4 16 (6.96%) JIRA
5 13 (5.65%) Mockito
6 12 (5.22%) JMeter
7 9 (3.91%) Cucumber
8 7 (3.04%) Selenium
9 6 (2.61%) GitLab
10 5 (2.17%) Postman
10 5 (2.17%) SoapUI
11 4 (1.74%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.30%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.87%) Jaeger
14 1 (0.43%) Ant
14 1 (0.43%) Browser DevTools
14 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
14 1 (0.43%) Gradle
14 1 (0.43%) Maven
14 1 (0.43%) Xcode
General
1 113 (49.13%) Social Skills
2 48 (20.87%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (17.83%) Finance
4 25 (10.87%) Retail
5 21 (9.13%) Public Sector
6 17 (7.39%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.48%) Law
8 5 (2.17%) Marketing
9 4 (1.74%) Back Office
9 4 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.87%) Electronics
10 2 (0.87%) German Language
10 2 (0.87%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.87%) Legal
10 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.43%) Advertising
11 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.43%) Banking
Job Titles
1 83 (36.09%) Developer
2 36 (15.65%) Analyst
3 26 (11.30%) Full-Stack Developer
3 26 (11.30%) Java Developer
4 21 (9.13%) Support Engineer
5 19 (8.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 19 (8.26%) Software Engineer
6 15 (6.52%) Senior
6 15 (6.52%) Software Support Engineer
7 12 (5.22%) Technical Support
8 11 (4.78%) Junior
8 11 (4.78%) Lead
8 11 (4.78%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 10 (4.35%) Data Analyst
9 10 (4.35%) Support Analyst
10 8 (3.48%) Report Analyst
10 8 (3.48%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.48%) Team Leader
11 7 (3.04%) Consultant
11 7 (3.04%) Database Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (23.04%) REST
2 42 (18.26%) React
3 37 (16.09%) JSON
4 34 (14.78%) Spring
5 33 (14.35%) Web Services
6 32 (13.91%) Spring Boot
7 30 (13.04%) HTML
8 29 (12.61%) XML
9 26 (11.30%) AngularJS
10 24 (10.43%) Node.js
11 21 (9.13%) .NET
11 21 (9.13%) CSS
12 17 (7.39%) jQuery
13 15 (6.52%) Apache Camel
13 15 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
14 14 (6.09%) Hibernate
14 14 (6.09%) Vue
15 11 (4.78%) ActiveMQ
15 11 (4.78%) SOAP
15 11 (4.78%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.17%) Onboarding
2 22 (9.57%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.09%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (5.22%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 10 (4.35%) Operational Technology
5 10 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.04%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.04%) e-Learning
7 6 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.61%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.74%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.87%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.87%) Semantic Web
11 1 (0.43%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.87%) Windows
2 16 (6.96%) Linux
3 8 (3.48%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.61%) Unix
5 1 (0.43%) Android
5 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (41.30%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (32.61%) Agile
3 58 (25.22%) CI/CD
4 40 (17.39%) DevOps
5 39 (16.96%) Full-Stack Development
6 36 (15.65%) SDLC
7 34 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (13.91%) Business Intelligence
9 31 (13.48%) Microservices
10 30 (13.04%) Mentoring
10 30 (13.04%) Scrum
11 29 (12.61%) TDD
12 28 (12.17%) Software Engineering
13 27 (11.74%) Analytics
13 27 (11.74%) Client Onboarding
14 22 (9.57%) Data Modelling
14 22 (9.57%) ETL
15 21 (9.13%) Workflow
16 19 (8.26%) Containerisation
16 19 (8.26%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 127 (55.22%) SQL
2 71 (30.87%) Python
3 58 (25.22%) JavaScript
4 56 (24.35%) Java
5 36 (15.65%) C#
6 22 (9.57%) PowerShell
7 15 (6.52%) Shell Script
8 14 (6.09%) PHP
9 12 (5.22%) Go
9 12 (5.22%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.48%) Delphi
11 6 (2.61%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.87%) Bash
12 2 (0.87%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.87%) R
12 2 (0.87%) VBA
13 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.43%) Groovy
13 1 (0.43%) Perl
13 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (17.83%) Degree
2 22 (9.57%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.04%) ISTQB
5 7 (3.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 5 (2.17%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.74%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.87%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.87%) CISSP
9 2 (0.87%) MCSE
9 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.87%) OCP
9 2 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.70%) Data Quality
1 20 (8.70%) QA
2 7 (3.04%) GDPR
3 3 (1.30%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.30%) HL7
4 1 (0.43%) NCSC
4 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (17.39%) Docker
2 6 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (18.26%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.09%) Terraform
3 13 (5.65%) Kibana
4 12 (5.22%) Ansible
5 7 (3.04%) Grafana
6 6 (2.61%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.30%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.87%) Argo
8 2 (0.87%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.87%) SCCM
9 1 (0.43%) Control-M
9 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 56 (24.35%) Microsoft
2 33 (14.35%) Oracle
3 13 (5.65%) Splunk
4 11 (4.78%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.61%) Zoho
6 5 (2.17%) Google
6 5 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.74%) Pega
7 4 (1.74%) WSO2
8 3 (1.30%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.30%) HubSpot
8 3 (1.30%) Informatica
8 3 (1.30%) SAP
8 3 (1.30%) Talend
9 2 (0.87%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.87%) Databricks
9 2 (0.87%) IBM
9 2 (0.87%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.87%) OutSystems
9 2 (0.87%) Red Hat