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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 243 204
Rank change year-on-year -91 -39 -21
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 206 337 758
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 1.14% 1.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.11% 6.81% 7.62%
Number of salaries quoted 148 163 544
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,318 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +7.27% -4.55%
75th Percentile £58,750 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,190 £80,000 £83,756
UK median annual salary £57,500 £63,250 £57,547
% change year-on-year -9.09% +9.91% -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 4,034 4,950 9,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.00% 16.79% 18.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,404 2,765 7,562
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £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 £82,500 £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 3 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 3 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 -50 70 £46,000 -23.33% 68
North of England -25 60 £55,000 - 56
Midlands -18 36 £38,750 -13.89% 20
Yorkshire -27 32 £60,000 +20.00% 21
North West +3 27 £55,000 - 24
South West -45 23 £43,953 -12.09% 31
West Midlands +13 22 £42,750 -5.00% 10
East Midlands -25 14 £37,500 - 9
East of England -30 11 £42,500 -32.00% 27
Scotland -29 7 £26,000 -58.40% 8
Wales -17 3 £51,250 -21.15% 9
North East -20 1 - - 13
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 (5.34%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.43%) CMS
3 3 (1.46%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.97%) Confluence
4 2 (0.97%) Mendix
4 2 (0.97%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.49%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.49%) Camunda
5 1 (0.49%) JBoss
5 1 (0.49%) nginx
5 1 (0.49%) SAS
5 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (9.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (8.74%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.46%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.49%) Shopify
1 1 (0.49%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 63 (30.58%) AWS
2 50 (24.27%) Azure
3 32 (15.53%) Power Platform
4 28 (13.59%) Serverless
5 24 (11.65%) Amazon ECS
6 22 (10.68%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (6.31%) GCP
7 13 (6.31%) SaaS
8 10 (4.85%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (4.37%) GitHub
10 8 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (3.40%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.43%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (1.94%) OpenShift
15 3 (1.46%) DigitalOcean
15 3 (1.46%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.85%) Intranet
2 6 (2.91%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.91%) Wireless
3 2 (0.97%) Broadband
3 2 (0.97%) Firewall
4 1 (0.49%) DNS
4 1 (0.49%) HTTP
4 1 (0.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (25.24%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (22.33%) SQL Server
3 31 (15.05%) Power BI
4 28 (13.59%) MySQL
5 26 (12.62%) RDBMS
6 12 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (5.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (4.85%) Metadata
8 9 (4.37%) NoSQL
9 8 (3.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (2.91%) DB2
11 5 (2.43%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.94%) FileMaker
12 4 (1.94%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.94%) Redis
13 2 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.97%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.97%) OLAP
13 2 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (17.48%) Git
2 26 (12.62%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.77%) JIRA
4 14 (6.80%) JUnit
5 10 (4.85%) Mockito
6 9 (4.37%) JMeter
7 8 (3.88%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.91%) Selenium
9 4 (1.94%) GitLab
9 4 (1.94%) Postman
9 4 (1.94%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.46%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.97%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.97%) Jaeger
12 1 (0.49%) Ant
12 1 (0.49%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.49%) Gradle
12 1 (0.49%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.49%) Zephyr
General
1 92 (44.66%) Social Skills
2 47 (22.82%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (16.02%) Finance
4 17 (8.25%) Manufacturing
5 15 (7.28%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.37%) Retail
7 8 (3.88%) Law
8 4 (1.94%) Marketing
9 3 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.46%) Legal
10 2 (0.97%) Back Office
10 2 (0.97%) Banking
10 2 (0.97%) German Language
11 1 (0.49%) Electronics
11 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.49%) Local Government
11 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (42.72%) Developer
2 32 (15.53%) Analyst
3 27 (13.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 22 (10.68%) Java Developer
5 17 (8.25%) Software Engineer
6 16 (7.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 15 (7.28%) Senior
8 12 (5.83%) Data Analyst
8 12 (5.83%) Data Engineer
9 11 (5.34%) Junior
9 11 (5.34%) Senior Developer
9 11 (5.34%) Support Engineer
10 10 (4.85%) C# Developer
11 9 (4.37%) Architect
12 8 (3.88%) Applications Support
12 8 (3.88%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 8 (3.88%) Report Analyst
12 8 (3.88%) Support Analyst
13 7 (3.40%) Software Support Engineer
13 7 (3.40%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (22.33%) REST
2 39 (18.93%) React
3 29 (14.08%) Spring
4 28 (13.59%) Spring Boot
5 27 (13.11%) Node.js
6 26 (12.62%) HTML
7 25 (12.14%) JSON
7 25 (12.14%) Web Services
7 25 (12.14%) XML
8 21 (10.19%) .NET
8 21 (10.19%) AngularJS
9 20 (9.71%) CSS
10 17 (8.25%) Vue
11 15 (7.28%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (6.31%) jQuery
13 12 (5.83%) Apache Camel
13 12 (5.83%) Laravel
14 10 (4.85%) SOAP
14 10 (4.85%) WinForms
15 9 (4.37%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.22%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (5.34%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.85%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.85%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (4.37%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.88%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.40%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.43%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.94%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.94%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.94%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.46%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.46%) Replication
10 2 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.49%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.71%) Windows
2 14 (6.80%) Linux
3 8 (3.88%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.43%) Unix
5 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (37.86%) Problem-Solving
2 71 (34.47%) Agile
3 48 (23.30%) CI/CD
4 40 (19.42%) Full-Stack Development
5 39 (18.93%) DevOps
6 37 (17.96%) Business Intelligence
7 36 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (16.02%) SDLC
9 32 (15.53%) Analytics
10 31 (15.05%) Microservices
11 29 (14.08%) Data Modelling
12 28 (13.59%) Scrum
13 26 (12.62%) TDD
14 25 (12.14%) ETL
14 25 (12.14%) Software Engineering
15 22 (10.68%) Mentoring
16 19 (9.22%) Kanban
16 19 (9.22%) Workflow
17 18 (8.74%) Containerisation
18 17 (8.25%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 113 (54.85%) SQL
2 61 (29.61%) Python
3 59 (28.64%) JavaScript
4 51 (24.76%) Java
5 38 (18.45%) C#
6 19 (9.22%) PHP
7 17 (8.25%) PowerShell
8 13 (6.31%) TypeScript
9 12 (5.83%) Delphi
10 9 (4.37%) Go
10 9 (4.37%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.43%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.46%) R
13 2 (0.97%) Bash
13 2 (0.97%) C
13 2 (0.97%) Scala
14 1 (0.49%) C++
14 1 (0.49%) Groovy
14 1 (0.49%) Perl
14 1 (0.49%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 25 (12.14%) Degree
2 17 (8.25%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.40%) ISTQB
3 7 (3.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 7 (3.40%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.46%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.97%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.97%) CISSP
6 2 (0.97%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.97%) MCSE
6 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.97%) OCP
6 2 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.59%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.77%) QA
3 10 (4.85%) GDPR
4 3 (1.46%) HL7
5 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.49%) NCSC
5 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (18.93%) Docker
2 6 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (16.99%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.83%) Terraform
3 9 (4.37%) Ansible
4 8 (3.88%) Kibana
5 4 (1.94%) Grafana
6 3 (1.46%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.97%) Argo
7 2 (0.97%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.97%) SCCM
8 1 (0.49%) Control-M
8 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 48 (23.30%) Microsoft
2 36 (17.48%) Oracle
3 8 (3.88%) Dynatrace
3 8 (3.88%) Splunk
4 7 (3.40%) Google
5 5 (2.43%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.94%) Databricks
6 4 (1.94%) Pega
6 4 (1.94%) WSO2
6 4 (1.94%) Zoho
7 3 (1.46%) HubSpot
7 3 (1.46%) Informatica
7 3 (1.46%) Talend
8 2 (0.97%) IBM
8 2 (0.97%) IFS
8 2 (0.97%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.97%) OutSystems
8 2 (0.97%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.97%) SAP
8 2 (0.97%) Siemens