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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 213 210
Rank change year-on-year -65 -3 -24
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 257 538 448
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.68% 1.22% 1.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.81% 8.54% 7.34%
Number of salaries quoted 186 188 359
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,313 £41,250 £41,470
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £53,250 £52,700
Median % change year-on-year -16.43% +1.04% -4.18%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,603 £67,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £78,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -3.23% +3.33%

All Database and 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 3,772 6,300 6,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.94% 14.32% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,480 3,315 4,785
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,594 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 -42 100 £41,000 -18.00% 90
North of England -4 50 £52,500 -12.50% 41
Midlands +37 36 £47,500 -19.15% 21
West Midlands +39 31 £47,500 -13.64% 15
South West -23 27 £43,953 -12.09% 19
North West +16 24 £55,000 -8.33% 26
Scotland -2 24 £25,500 -49.00% 7
Yorkshire +5 23 £45,000 -10.00% 13
East of England +4 18 £45,000 -29.41% 15
Wales +7 5 £52,500 +10.98% 7
East Midlands +5 5 £35,000 -58.82% 6
North East +4 3 £52,500 -1.60% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 - 1
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 8 (3.11%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.56%) Confluence
3 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.78%) CMS
3 2 (0.78%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.78%) JBoss
3 2 (0.78%) Mendix
4 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.39%) Apache
4 1 (0.39%) Appian
4 1 (0.39%) Camunda
4 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.39%) SAS
4 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (7.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 18 (7.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.39%) Shopify
1 1 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 70 (27.24%) AWS
2 54 (21.01%) Azure
3 38 (14.79%) Serverless
4 31 (12.06%) Amazon ECS
5 30 (11.67%) Amazon EKS
6 26 (10.12%) Power Platform
6 26 (10.12%) SaaS
7 21 (8.17%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (7.00%) GitHub
9 16 (6.23%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (5.06%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.72%) Boomi
12 7 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (2.72%) OpenShift
13 6 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (1.95%) GCP
14 5 (1.95%) Snowflake
15 4 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.72%) Intranet
2 6 (2.33%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.33%) Wireless
3 3 (1.17%) AMQP
4 2 (0.78%) DNS
4 2 (0.78%) Firewall
4 2 (0.78%) HTTP
5 1 (0.39%) Internet
5 1 (0.39%) SAN
5 1 (0.39%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (27.24%) SQL Server
2 64 (24.90%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (17.51%) RDBMS
4 26 (10.12%) MySQL
5 24 (9.34%) Power BI
6 16 (6.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (3.11%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.11%) Oracle Database
9 7 (2.72%) Metadata
10 6 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.95%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (1.95%) Tableau
12 4 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.56%) NoSQL
12 4 (1.56%) Redis
13 3 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 39 (15.18%) Jenkins
2 37 (14.40%) Git
3 26 (10.12%) JUnit
4 20 (7.78%) Mockito
5 18 (7.00%) JMeter
6 16 (6.23%) JIRA
7 9 (3.50%) Cucumber
8 8 (3.11%) Selenium
9 6 (2.33%) GitLab
9 6 (2.33%) Postman
9 6 (2.33%) SoapUI
10 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.17%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.78%) Maven
13 1 (0.39%) Android Studio
13 1 (0.39%) Ant
13 1 (0.39%) Eclipse
13 1 (0.39%) Gradle
13 1 (0.39%) Rational Rhapsody
13 1 (0.39%) Xcode
General
1 124 (48.25%) Social Skills
2 53 (20.62%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (19.84%) Finance
4 30 (11.67%) Public Sector
5 27 (10.51%) Retail
6 20 (7.78%) Law
7 17 (6.61%) Manufacturing
8 11 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.11%) Banking
9 8 (3.11%) Marketing
10 5 (1.95%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.56%) Back Office
11 4 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.17%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.78%) Advertising
13 2 (0.78%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.78%) Legal
13 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (35.80%) Developer
2 36 (14.01%) Analyst
2 36 (14.01%) Java Developer
3 33 (12.84%) Full-Stack Developer
4 29 (11.28%) Software Engineer
5 26 (10.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 21 (8.17%) Support Engineer
7 17 (6.61%) Senior
8 16 (6.23%) Consultant
9 15 (5.84%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 15 (5.84%) Software Support Engineer
10 14 (5.45%) Lead
11 12 (4.67%) Junior
11 12 (4.67%) Technical Support
12 10 (3.89%) Data Analyst
12 10 (3.89%) Database Consultant
12 10 (3.89%) Graduate
12 10 (3.89%) Graduate Consultant
12 10 (3.89%) Graduate Support Consultant
12 10 (3.89%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (21.40%) REST
2 49 (19.07%) Spring
3 47 (18.29%) Spring Boot
4 46 (17.90%) JSON
5 41 (15.95%) HTML
6 40 (15.56%) React
7 39 (15.18%) Web Services
8 33 (12.84%) XML
9 30 (11.67%) .NET
10 28 (10.89%) AngularJS
11 24 (9.34%) CSS
11 24 (9.34%) Hibernate
12 23 (8.95%) Apache Camel
12 23 (8.95%) jQuery
12 23 (8.95%) RESTful
13 22 (8.56%) Node.js
14 18 (7.00%) ActiveMQ
14 18 (7.00%) Vue
14 18 (7.00%) WireMock
15 15 (5.84%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.89%) Onboarding
2 27 (10.51%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (8.17%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (6.23%) Product Ownership
5 14 (5.45%) Cloud Native
6 11 (4.28%) Operational Technology
6 11 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (3.89%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.89%) e-Learning
8 7 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.72%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.56%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.56%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.56%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.17%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.78%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (0.78%) IoT
11 2 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.89%) Windows
2 18 (7.00%) Linux
3 9 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.95%) Unix
5 1 (0.39%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (41.25%) Problem-Solving
2 92 (35.80%) Agile
3 72 (28.02%) CI/CD
4 48 (18.68%) Full-Stack Development
5 45 (17.51%) DevOps
6 43 (16.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 43 (16.73%) Microservices
6 43 (16.73%) SDLC
7 39 (15.18%) Software Engineering
8 37 (14.40%) TDD
9 34 (13.23%) Scrum
10 32 (12.45%) Business Intelligence
10 32 (12.45%) Mentoring
11 29 (11.28%) Analytics
12 27 (10.51%) Client Onboarding
12 27 (10.51%) Workflow
13 24 (9.34%) BDD
14 22 (8.56%) Process Management
15 21 (8.17%) Data Modelling
15 21 (8.17%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 149 (57.98%) SQL
2 78 (30.35%) Python
3 66 (25.68%) Java
4 60 (23.35%) JavaScript
5 36 (14.01%) C#
6 23 (8.95%) Shell Script
7 22 (8.56%) PowerShell
8 15 (5.84%) PHP
9 11 (4.28%) Go
9 11 (4.28%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.72%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.33%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.56%) Delphi
12 4 (1.56%) R
13 3 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.78%) VBA
15 1 (0.39%) C
15 1 (0.39%) C++
15 1 (0.39%) Perl
15 1 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 52 (20.23%) Degree
2 28 (10.89%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (3.89%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.72%) ISTQB
4 7 (2.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 5 (1.95%) DBS Check
5 5 (1.95%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.78%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.78%) CISSP
6 2 (0.78%) MCSE
6 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.78%) OCP
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.17%) QA
2 20 (7.78%) Data Quality
3 10 (3.89%) GDPR
4 4 (1.56%) HL7
5 3 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.78%) DICOM
7 1 (0.39%) CDISC
7 1 (0.39%) COBIT
7 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.39%) NCSC
7 1 (0.39%) SLA
7 1 (0.39%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 47 (18.29%) Docker
2 6 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (19.84%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.17%) Kibana
3 14 (5.45%) Terraform
4 11 (4.28%) Ansible
5 7 (2.72%) Grafana
6 4 (1.56%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.17%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.17%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.78%) SCCM
9 1 (0.39%) Control-M
9 1 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 61 (23.74%) Microsoft
2 43 (16.73%) Oracle
3 20 (7.78%) Splunk
4 18 (7.00%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.33%) Dell
5 6 (2.33%) IFS
5 6 (2.33%) Zoho
6 5 (1.95%) Informatica
6 5 (1.95%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.95%) Talend
7 4 (1.56%) Databricks
7 4 (1.56%) Pega
7 4 (1.56%) WSO2
8 3 (1.17%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.17%) Google
8 3 (1.17%) HubSpot
8 3 (1.17%) IBM
8 3 (1.17%) SAP
9 2 (0.78%) Cognos
9 2 (0.78%) MuleSoft