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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 251 198
Rank change year-on-year -130 -53 +2
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 194 278 971
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.31% 1.06% 1.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.01% 6.57% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 135 177 612
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,965 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.85% +12.17% -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 4,839 4,229 11,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.79% 16.07% 17.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,726 2,971 8,292
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,544 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,588 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £69,875 £71,250 £65,063
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.98%

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 April 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 April 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 -65 66 £51,250 -14.58% 33
North of England -53 62 £60,000 +9.09% 49
Yorkshire -42 32 £62,500 +13.64% 19
North West -35 28 £57,500 +4.55% 24
Midlands -56 27 £33,500 -25.56% 36
South West -64 26 £50,000 +5.26% 18
East Midlands -47 14 £37,500 - 15
West Midlands -32 13 £32,500 -27.78% 21
East of England -34 12 £42,500 -31.45% 16
Scotland -38 4 £26,000 -61.48% 16
Wales -45 3 £41,250 -36.54% 7
North East -35 2 £45,000 +0.42% 6
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 9 (4.64%) OpenStack
2 7 (3.61%) CMS
3 4 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.55%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.03%) CICS
5 2 (1.03%) Confluence
5 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.52%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.52%) Camunda
6 1 (0.52%) Mendix
6 1 (0.52%) nginx
6 1 (0.52%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.52%) SAS
6 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (10.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (6.70%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.03%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.03%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.52%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.52%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.52%) Shopify
2 1 (0.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 64 (32.99%) AWS
2 59 (30.41%) Azure
3 34 (17.53%) Power Platform
4 23 (11.86%) GCP
4 23 (11.86%) Serverless
5 19 (9.79%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (8.76%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (5.15%) SaaS
9 9 (4.64%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.64%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (3.09%) GitHub
13 4 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.55%) DigitalOcean
14 3 (1.55%) OpenShift
14 3 (1.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.15%) Intranet
2 2 (1.03%) Broadband
2 2 (1.03%) Firewall
2 2 (1.03%) LAN
2 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.03%) WAN
2 2 (1.03%) Wireless
3 1 (0.52%) Network Security
3 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (27.32%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (26.80%) SQL Server
3 34 (17.53%) Power BI
4 30 (15.46%) MySQL
5 22 (11.34%) RDBMS
6 18 (9.28%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (9.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 15 (7.73%) NoSQL
8 12 (6.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (5.67%) Metadata
9 11 (5.67%) MongoDB
10 7 (3.61%) DB2
11 6 (3.09%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (2.58%) BigQuery
12 5 (2.58%) Tableau
13 4 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (2.06%) DynamoDB
13 4 (2.06%) Oracle Database
13 4 (2.06%) Redis
Development Applications
1 44 (22.68%) Git
2 22 (11.34%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.70%) JIRA
4 9 (4.64%) JUnit
5 6 (3.09%) Cucumber
5 6 (3.09%) Selenium
6 5 (2.58%) Mockito
7 4 (2.06%) JMeter
8 3 (1.55%) GitLab
8 3 (1.55%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.03%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.03%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.03%) IntelliJ
9 2 (1.03%) Jaeger
9 2 (1.03%) MSTest
9 2 (1.03%) Postman
9 2 (1.03%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.52%) Ant
10 1 (0.52%) ERwin
10 1 (0.52%) Poetry
General
1 81 (41.75%) Social Skills
2 49 (25.26%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (15.98%) Finance
4 16 (8.25%) Manufacturing
5 12 (6.19%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.58%) Law
6 5 (2.58%) Legal
7 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.03%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.03%) Aviation
8 2 (1.03%) Back Office
8 2 (1.03%) Banking
8 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.03%) Marketing
8 2 (1.03%) Police
8 2 (1.03%) Retail
9 1 (0.52%) Electronics
9 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 81 (41.75%) Developer
2 32 (16.49%) Analyst
3 21 (10.82%) Senior
4 20 (10.31%) Data Engineer
4 20 (10.31%) Java Developer
5 19 (9.79%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (7.73%) Applications Support
6 15 (7.73%) Software Engineer
7 14 (7.22%) Data Analyst
8 13 (6.70%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.19%) Support Analyst
10 11 (5.67%) C# Developer
11 10 (5.15%) Applications Support Analyst
11 10 (5.15%) Junior
12 8 (4.12%) Applications Developer
12 8 (4.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 8 (4.12%) Report Analyst
13 7 (3.61%) PHP Developer
14 6 (3.09%) Junior Developer
14 6 (3.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (19.59%) REST
2 36 (18.56%) React
3 24 (12.37%) Spring
4 23 (11.86%) HTML
5 22 (11.34%) Spring Boot
6 21 (10.82%) .NET
6 21 (10.82%) CSS
6 21 (10.82%) XML
7 20 (10.31%) Node.js
8 19 (9.79%) Web Services
9 16 (8.25%) Elastic Stack
10 15 (7.73%) AngularJS
11 14 (7.22%) Vue
12 13 (6.70%) JSON
13 12 (6.19%) Kafka
14 11 (5.67%) RESTful
14 11 (5.67%) WinForms
15 10 (5.15%) Laravel
16 9 (4.64%) Django
16 9 (4.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.25%) Cloud Native
1 16 (8.25%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (5.15%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.64%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.61%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.61%) Replication
5 7 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.58%) Legacy Code
7 4 (2.06%) CUDA
7 4 (2.06%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.55%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.55%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.03%) e-Learning
9 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.03%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.03%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.52%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.22%) Windows
2 10 (5.15%) Linux
3 4 (2.06%) Unix
4 3 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (35.57%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (32.99%) Agile
3 50 (25.77%) CI/CD
4 47 (24.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (21.65%) Analytics
6 41 (21.13%) Business Intelligence
7 38 (19.59%) Data Modelling
7 38 (19.59%) DevOps
8 35 (18.04%) ETL
9 32 (16.49%) Full-Stack Development
10 29 (14.95%) Microservices
11 27 (13.92%) Scrum
11 27 (13.92%) SDLC
12 26 (13.40%) Software Engineering
13 23 (11.86%) TDD
14 20 (10.31%) Validation
15 19 (9.79%) Data Pipeline
15 19 (9.79%) Decision-Making
15 19 (9.79%) Kanban
16 18 (9.28%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 107 (55.15%) SQL
2 54 (27.84%) JavaScript
3 50 (25.77%) Python
4 47 (24.23%) Java
5 35 (18.04%) C#
6 16 (8.25%) PHP
7 13 (6.70%) Delphi
8 11 (5.67%) TypeScript
9 9 (4.64%) T-SQL
10 7 (3.61%) Go
10 7 (3.61%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.06%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.06%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.55%) R
12 3 (1.55%) Scala
13 2 (1.03%) Bash
13 2 (1.03%) C
13 2 (1.03%) C++
14 1 (0.52%) Haskell
14 1 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (14.95%) Degree
2 15 (7.73%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.67%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.55%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.55%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.52%) CISSP
7 1 (0.52%) MCSE
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.52%) OCP
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (20.62%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.70%) GDPR
3 9 (4.64%) QA
4 3 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.03%) HL7
5 2 (1.03%) SLA
5 2 (1.03%) WCAG
6 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.52%) NCSC
6 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (18.56%) Docker
2 4 (2.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (17.01%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.76%) Terraform
3 8 (4.12%) Ansible
4 6 (3.09%) Kibana
5 5 (2.58%) Grafana
5 5 (2.58%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.03%) Argo
6 2 (1.03%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.52%) Control-M
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.52%) SCCM
7 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (22.68%) Microsoft
2 41 (21.13%) Oracle
3 8 (4.12%) Google
4 7 (3.61%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.09%) Databricks
6 5 (2.58%) IBM
7 4 (2.06%) Pega
8 3 (1.55%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.55%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.55%) IFS
8 3 (1.55%) Informatica
8 3 (1.55%) Splunk
8 3 (1.55%) Talend
9 2 (1.03%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.03%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.03%) SAP
9 2 (1.03%) Siemens
9 2 (1.03%) WSO2
10 1 (0.52%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.52%) Infor