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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 196 228
Rank change year-on-year -113 +32 -73
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 270 703 501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.79% 1.28% 1.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.52% 9.93% 7.07%
Number of salaries quoted 167 272 418
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £44,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £65,000 £74,813 £71,825
90th Percentile £74,250 £86,250 £84,056
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

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 4,141 7,077 7,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.10% 12.84% 20.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,548 3,862 5,673
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £39,250 £41,340 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% +4.21%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,759 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.40% +0.41% +4.17%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -75 100 £41,000 -25.45% 99
North of England -63 50 £52,500 -19.23% 64
Scotland +14 33 £49,500 -1.00% 7
South West +35 32 £52,500 +2.44% 21
Midlands +3 31 £47,500 -19.15% 41
North West -52 30 £52,500 -19.23% 39
West Midlands +26 26 £55,000 -4.35% 30
East of England -32 21 £58,500 +1.74% 32
Yorkshire -3 14 £60,000 -5.88% 21
North East +6 6 £52,500 -4.11% 4
East Midlands +6 5 £40,000 -46.67% 10
Wales +13 4 £50,000 +5.69% 5
Northern Ireland +11 1 £28,000 +1.82% 6
Relational Database
UK

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (3.70%) Confluence
2 7 (2.59%) JBoss
2 7 (2.59%) Red Hat Fuse
3 6 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.48%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.11%) Apache
5 3 (1.11%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.37%) Appian
7 1 (0.37%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.37%) IIS
7 1 (0.37%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.37%) SAS
7 1 (0.37%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 92 (34.07%) AWS
2 60 (22.22%) Azure
3 44 (16.30%) Serverless
4 37 (13.70%) Amazon ECS
5 35 (12.96%) Amazon EKS
6 28 (10.37%) Amazon EC2
7 27 (10.00%) SaaS
8 22 (8.15%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (8.15%) Power Platform
9 18 (6.67%) GitHub
10 14 (5.19%) Amazon S3
11 11 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (4.07%) Snowflake
12 9 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (2.59%) Boomi
14 5 (1.85%) Power Automate
15 4 (1.48%) dbt
15 4 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
15 4 (1.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.85%) Firewall
1 5 (1.85%) HTTP
1 5 (1.85%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.48%) Internet
3 3 (1.11%) AMQP
3 3 (1.11%) FTP
3 3 (1.11%) LAN
3 3 (1.11%) Network Security
3 3 (1.11%) SMTP
3 3 (1.11%) VPN
3 3 (1.11%) WAN
4 2 (0.74%) DNS
5 1 (0.37%) Broadband
5 1 (0.37%) SAN
5 1 (0.37%) Wireless
5 1 (0.37%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (30.00%) RDBMS
2 78 (28.89%) SQL Server
3 62 (22.96%) PostgreSQL
4 39 (14.44%) MySQL
5 22 (8.15%) MongoDB
6 19 (7.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 18 (6.67%) NoSQL
7 18 (6.67%) Power BI
8 17 (6.30%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (5.19%) Oracle Database
10 10 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (3.33%) Data Lake
12 8 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (2.59%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (2.59%) Big Data
14 6 (2.22%) Metadata
14 6 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 49 (18.15%) Git
2 41 (15.19%) Jenkins
3 35 (12.96%) JUnit
4 24 (8.89%) JMeter
4 24 (8.89%) Mockito
5 16 (5.93%) JIRA
6 6 (2.22%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.22%) Selenium
7 5 (1.85%) GitLab
8 4 (1.48%) Postman
9 3 (1.11%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.11%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.11%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.37%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.37%) Maven
10 1 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.37%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.37%) Subversion
10 1 (0.37%) Xcode
General
1 105 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 55 (20.37%) Finance
3 43 (15.93%) Public Sector
4 40 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (10.37%) Retail
6 27 (10.00%) Law
7 25 (9.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (6.67%) Banking
9 12 (4.44%) Manufacturing
10 9 (3.33%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.22%) Back Office
11 6 (2.22%) Marketing
11 6 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.85%) Advertising
12 5 (1.85%) Digital Healthcare
12 5 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.85%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 96 (35.56%) Developer
2 47 (17.41%) Java Developer
3 33 (12.22%) Software Engineer
4 31 (11.48%) Analyst
5 25 (9.26%) Senior
6 22 (8.15%) Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (7.78%) Java Engineer
8 20 (7.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 20 (7.41%) Lead
9 18 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
10 13 (4.81%) Consultant
10 13 (4.81%) Senior Developer
10 13 (4.81%) Support Engineer
11 11 (4.07%) Software Developer
11 11 (4.07%) Software Support Engineer
11 11 (4.07%) Technical Support
12 10 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
12 10 (3.70%) DBA
13 9 (3.33%) .NET Developer
13 9 (3.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (25.19%) Spring
1 68 (25.19%) Spring Boot
2 56 (20.74%) REST
3 51 (18.89%) Web Services
4 44 (16.30%) JSON
5 43 (15.93%) HTML
6 38 (14.07%) RESTful
7 35 (12.96%) Hibernate
8 32 (11.85%) Kafka
9 31 (11.48%) Apache Camel
10 30 (11.11%) React
11 28 (10.37%) .NET
11 28 (10.37%) jQuery
12 27 (10.00%) XML
13 24 (8.89%) ActiveMQ
13 24 (8.89%) WireMock
14 18 (6.67%) AngularJS
14 18 (6.67%) CSS
15 17 (6.30%) SOAP
16 9 (3.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.22%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (9.26%) Onboarding
3 19 (7.04%) Cloud Native
4 16 (5.93%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (5.56%) Data Structures
6 14 (5.19%) Operational Technology
7 13 (4.81%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.70%) Algorithms
9 9 (3.33%) Public Cloud
10 8 (2.96%) Life Science
11 7 (2.59%) SCADA
12 6 (2.22%) Client/Server
12 6 (2.22%) e-Learning
12 6 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (2.22%) Mobile App
12 6 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.85%) LIMS
14 4 (1.48%) Clustering
14 4 (1.48%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.89%) Linux
2 20 (7.41%) Windows
3 8 (2.96%) Unix
4 4 (1.48%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.74%) CentOS
5 2 (0.74%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.37%) AIX
6 1 (0.37%) Android
6 1 (0.37%) Debian
6 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (40.74%) Agile
2 79 (29.26%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (27.41%) CI/CD
4 62 (22.96%) Microservices
5 48 (17.78%) DevOps
6 45 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 44 (16.30%) SDLC
7 44 (16.30%) TDD
8 43 (15.93%) Scrum
9 34 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (12.59%) Full-Stack Development
10 33 (12.22%) Business Intelligence
11 32 (11.85%) Computer Science
12 31 (11.48%) BDD
13 30 (11.11%) ETL
13 30 (11.11%) Mentoring
14 26 (9.63%) Workflow
15 24 (8.89%) Data Analysis
15 24 (8.89%) Migration
15 24 (8.89%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 166 (61.48%) SQL
2 94 (34.81%) Java
3 81 (30.00%) Python
4 62 (22.96%) JavaScript
5 35 (12.96%) C#
6 28 (10.37%) Shell Script
7 20 (7.41%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.19%) T-SQL
9 10 (3.70%) PL/SQL
10 9 (3.33%) TypeScript
11 8 (2.96%) Go
11 8 (2.96%) PHP
12 7 (2.59%) C++
13 6 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (1.85%) Bash
15 4 (1.48%) R
16 2 (0.74%) C
16 2 (0.74%) Fortran
16 2 (0.74%) Perl
16 2 (0.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 57 (21.11%) Degree
2 37 (13.70%) Security Cleared
3 22 (8.15%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.59%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.22%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.22%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.11%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.11%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.74%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.74%) OCP
9 2 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.74%) PhD
10 1 (0.37%) CISSP
10 1 (0.37%) MCSE
10 1 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.93%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.19%) QA
3 9 (3.33%) GDPR
4 8 (2.96%) HL7
5 7 (2.59%) SLA
6 3 (1.11%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.74%) DICOM
8 1 (0.37%) CDISC
8 1 (0.37%) COBIT
8 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.37%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 62 (22.96%) Docker
2 7 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (22.96%) Kubernetes
2 29 (10.74%) Kibana
3 14 (5.19%) Terraform
4 12 (4.44%) Ansible
5 4 (1.48%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.11%) Grafana
6 3 (1.11%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.37%) Argo
7 1 (0.37%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.37%) QRadar
7 1 (0.37%) SCCM
7 1 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 54 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 48 (17.78%) Oracle
3 33 (12.22%) Splunk
4 24 (8.89%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.70%) Databricks
6 7 (2.59%) Rockwell
6 7 (2.59%) Siemens
6 7 (2.59%) Talend
7 6 (2.22%) Dell
7 6 (2.22%) IBM
7 6 (2.22%) IFS
7 6 (2.22%) Informatica
8 5 (1.85%) RedGate
8 5 (1.85%) Zoho
9 4 (1.48%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.48%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.48%) Moogsoft
9 4 (1.48%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.11%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.11%) StreamSets