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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 251 194
Rank change year-on-year -107 -57 -9
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 198 287 867
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.36% 1.06% 1.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.64% 6.29% 7.95%
Number of salaries quoted 137 179 580
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £69,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,910 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.20% +12.61% -11.54%

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 4,265 4,561 10,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.84% 16.92% 18.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,485 2,907 8,020
10th Percentile £33,600 £32,800 £31,579
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,500
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 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -8.49%

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 21 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 21 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
North of England -42 65 £60,000 +9.09% 31
South East -45 63 £50,000 -16.67% 47
Yorkshire -30 34 £60,000 +9.09% 15
Midlands -25 32 £34,750 -18.24% 23
North West -20 29 £55,000 - 14
South West -40 24 £46,500 -7.00% 17
West Midlands -13 18 £32,500 -27.78% 14
East Midlands -41 14 £37,500 - 9
East of England -28 9 £42,500 -32.00% 10
Scotland -31 6 £25,500 -62.22% 9
Wales -41 3 £51,250 -21.15% 5
North East -26 2 £45,000 +2.71% 4
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 12 (6.06%) OpenStack
2 7 (3.54%) CMS
3 4 (2.02%) Headless CMS
4 3 (1.52%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.01%) CICS
5 2 (1.01%) Confluence
5 2 (1.01%) Mendix
6 1 (0.51%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.51%) Camunda
6 1 (0.51%) JBoss
6 1 (0.51%) nginx
6 1 (0.51%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.51%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (9.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (8.08%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.51%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.51%) Shopify
2 1 (0.51%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 68 (34.34%) AWS
2 55 (27.78%) Azure
3 30 (15.15%) Power Platform
4 26 (13.13%) Serverless
5 23 (11.62%) Amazon ECS
6 21 (10.61%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (10.61%) GCP
7 13 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (5.05%) SaaS
9 9 (4.55%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.55%) GitHub
10 7 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (3.54%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (2.02%) OpenShift
13 3 (1.52%) DigitalOcean
13 3 (1.52%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.05%) Intranet
2 5 (2.53%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.02%) Wireless
4 2 (1.01%) Broadband
4 2 (1.01%) Firewall
5 1 (0.51%) DNS
5 1 (0.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (28.79%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (22.73%) SQL Server
3 32 (16.16%) MySQL
4 29 (14.65%) Power BI
5 26 (13.13%) RDBMS
6 15 (7.58%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (6.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (6.06%) NoSQL
9 10 (5.05%) Metadata
10 9 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (4.04%) DB2
11 8 (4.04%) MongoDB
12 5 (2.53%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (2.53%) BigQuery
13 4 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (2.02%) Redis
14 3 (1.52%) FileMaker
14 3 (1.52%) MariaDB
14 3 (1.52%) Oracle Database
15 2 (1.01%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 43 (21.72%) Git
2 27 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.57%) JIRA
3 13 (6.57%) JUnit
4 9 (4.55%) Mockito
5 8 (4.04%) Cucumber
6 7 (3.54%) JMeter
7 6 (3.03%) Selenium
8 4 (2.02%) GitLab
8 4 (2.02%) Postman
8 4 (2.02%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.52%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.01%) Eclipse
10 2 (1.01%) IntelliJ
10 2 (1.01%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.51%) Gradle
11 1 (0.51%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 80 (40.40%) Social Skills
2 44 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (16.16%) Finance
4 17 (8.59%) Manufacturing
5 13 (6.57%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.04%) Law
7 4 (2.02%) Legal
7 4 (2.02%) Marketing
8 3 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.52%) Retail
9 2 (1.01%) Back Office
9 2 (1.01%) Banking
9 2 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.51%) Electronics
10 1 (0.51%) German Language
10 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Local Government
10 1 (0.51%) Police
10 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (43.43%) Developer
2 32 (16.16%) Analyst
3 27 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
4 25 (12.63%) Java Developer
5 18 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 16 (8.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 16 (8.08%) Senior
7 12 (6.06%) Data Analyst
7 12 (6.06%) Data Engineer
7 12 (6.06%) Junior
7 12 (6.06%) Senior Developer
8 11 (5.56%) Applications Support
9 10 (5.05%) C# Developer
9 10 (5.05%) Support Analyst
10 8 (4.04%) Report Analyst
10 8 (4.04%) Support Engineer
11 7 (3.54%) Applications Developer
11 7 (3.54%) Applications Support Analyst
11 7 (3.54%) Architect
12 6 (3.03%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (21.21%) REST
2 38 (19.19%) React
3 29 (14.65%) Spring
4 28 (14.14%) HTML
4 28 (14.14%) Node.js
4 28 (14.14%) Spring Boot
5 24 (12.12%) CSS
6 23 (11.62%) .NET
6 23 (11.62%) Web Services
7 22 (11.11%) XML
8 19 (9.60%) AngularJS
9 17 (8.59%) JSON
9 17 (8.59%) Vue
10 16 (8.08%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (5.56%) Apache Camel
11 11 (5.56%) jQuery
11 11 (5.56%) Laravel
11 11 (5.56%) SOAP
12 10 (5.05%) Kafka
12 10 (5.05%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.05%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (5.05%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.04%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.03%) Replication
7 4 (2.02%) e-Learning
7 4 (2.02%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.02%) Legacy Code
7 4 (2.02%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.02%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.01%) CUDA
9 2 (1.01%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.01%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.51%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.59%) Windows
2 14 (7.07%) Linux
3 6 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.53%) Unix
5 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (34.85%) Problem-Solving
2 68 (34.34%) Agile
3 53 (26.77%) CI/CD
4 43 (21.72%) DevOps
5 42 (21.21%) Full-Stack Development
6 36 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
7 35 (17.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (16.67%) Analytics
9 31 (15.66%) Microservices
9 31 (15.66%) SDLC
10 30 (15.15%) Data Modelling
11 28 (14.14%) Software Engineering
12 27 (13.64%) Scrum
13 26 (13.13%) ETL
14 25 (12.63%) TDD
15 21 (10.61%) Mentoring
16 19 (9.60%) Containerisation
17 18 (9.09%) Kanban
17 18 (9.09%) Workflow
18 17 (8.59%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 101 (51.01%) SQL
2 61 (30.81%) JavaScript
3 54 (27.27%) Java
4 52 (26.26%) Python
5 34 (17.17%) C#
6 21 (10.61%) PHP
7 14 (7.07%) TypeScript
8 12 (6.06%) Delphi
9 9 (4.55%) Go
9 9 (4.55%) PowerShell
10 7 (3.54%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.53%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.52%) R
13 2 (1.01%) Bash
13 2 (1.01%) C
13 2 (1.01%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.01%) Scala
14 1 (0.51%) C++
14 1 (0.51%) Perl
14 1 (0.51%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 25 (12.63%) Degree
2 15 (7.58%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.54%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.53%) ISTQB
6 5 (2.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.01%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.51%) CISSP
9 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.51%) MCSE
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.51%) OCP
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.65%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.56%) QA
3 10 (5.05%) GDPR
4 2 (1.01%) HL7
5 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.51%) NCSC
5 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (19.70%) Docker
2 4 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (18.69%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.08%) Terraform
3 10 (5.05%) Ansible
4 6 (3.03%) Kibana
5 4 (2.02%) Grafana
6 3 (1.52%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.01%) Argo
7 2 (1.01%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.51%) Control-M
8 1 (0.51%) SCCM
8 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (23.74%) Microsoft
2 37 (18.69%) Oracle
3 10 (5.05%) Google
4 7 (3.54%) Pega
5 6 (3.03%) Dynatrace
5 6 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.03%) Splunk
6 5 (2.53%) WSO2
7 4 (2.02%) Databricks
7 4 (2.02%) HubSpot
8 3 (1.52%) Informatica
8 3 (1.52%) Talend
9 2 (1.01%) IBM
9 2 (1.01%) IFS
9 2 (1.01%) OutSystems
9 2 (1.01%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.01%) SAP
9 2 (1.01%) Siemens
10 1 (0.51%) Aderant
10 1 (0.51%) iManage