Relational Database Jobs

Relational Database
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Relational Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Relational Database over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 198 177
Rank change year-on-year -81 -21 -84
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 539 1,504 2,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.03% 1.53% 2.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.25% 8.29% 9.72%
Number of salaries quoted 330 914 1,423
10th Percentile £38,200 £36,036 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,212 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.17% -11.54% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +4.76%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,436 18,137 22,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.26% 18.44% 21.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,214 12,594 13,904
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Relational Database.

Salary trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England -67 473 £64,250 +7.08% 473
UK excluding London -99 309 £60,000 +14.29% 262
London -15 226 £75,000 +9.09% 244
Work from Home -60 205 £61,206 +6.45% 313
South East -41 94 £60,000 +9.09% 66
Midlands +16 64 £45,000 -14.29% 44
North of England -85 60 £55,000 - 59
West Midlands +23 46 £52,500 -2.33% 34
North West -92 38 £55,000 - 27
South West +41 33 £48,750 -1.02% 33
Yorkshire +19 22 £55,000 +4.76% 23
Wales +30 20 £65,000 +78.20% 2
Scotland -3 20 £68,750 +30.95% 30
East Midlands +31 18 £37,500 -25.00% 10
East of England +19 17 £62,000 +27.84% 32
North East +48 4 £44,812 -40.10% 9
Northern Ireland +20 1 £28,000 -19.14% 10

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 78 (14.47%) Confluence
2 20 (3.71%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (3.34%) Apache
5 12 (2.23%) JBoss
5 12 (2.23%) Red Hat Fuse
6 8 (1.48%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.30%) IIS
8 6 (1.11%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.74%) GemFire
11 3 (0.56%) CMS
11 3 (0.56%) OpenEdge
12 2 (0.37%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.37%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.19%) Appian
13 1 (0.19%) Camunda
13 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.19%) Luigi
13 1 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 49 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.93%) InDesign
4 4 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.37%) Trello
7 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (2.04%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.30%) Raiser’s Edge
3 4 (0.74%) Relativity
3 4 (0.74%) Ringtail
3 4 (0.74%) Veritas eDiscovery
4 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.56%) HFM
4 3 (0.56%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.37%) Endur
6 1 (0.19%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.19%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 138 (25.60%) Azure
2 137 (25.42%) AWS
3 61 (11.32%) Serverless
4 58 (10.76%) Power Platform
5 45 (8.35%) GCP
6 39 (7.24%) Amazon ECS
7 38 (7.05%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (4.08%) GitHub
10 21 (3.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 17 (3.15%) Azure Data Factory
11 17 (3.15%) SaaS
12 14 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
14 12 (2.23%) Amazon S3
14 12 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (2.04%) Boomi
15 11 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.64%) Network Security
2 20 (3.71%) TCP/IP
3 16 (2.97%) Firewall
4 10 (1.86%) HTTP
4 10 (1.86%) Internet
5 8 (1.48%) FTP
5 8 (1.48%) SMTP
6 7 (1.30%) LAN
6 7 (1.30%) VPN
6 7 (1.30%) WAN
7 6 (1.11%) DNS
8 5 (0.93%) Modbus
8 5 (0.93%) MQTT
9 4 (0.74%) Telnet
10 1 (0.19%) SSL
10 1 (0.19%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (23.19%) RDBMS
2 123 (22.82%) PostgreSQL
3 103 (19.11%) SQL Server
4 98 (18.18%) MySQL
5 62 (11.50%) NoSQL
6 46 (8.53%) Power BI
7 43 (7.98%) Data Warehouse
8 33 (6.12%) MongoDB
9 19 (3.53%) Big Data
10 17 (3.15%) Data Lake
11 16 (2.97%) Hadoop
11 16 (2.97%) Tableau
12 13 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (2.41%) BigQuery
12 13 (2.41%) DB2
12 13 (2.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 12 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (1.86%) Oracle Reports
15 9 (1.67%) Metadata
15 9 (1.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 144 (26.72%) Git
2 96 (17.81%) JIRA
3 68 (12.62%) Jenkins
4 42 (7.79%) Bitbucket
5 36 (6.68%) JUnit
6 19 (3.53%) JMeter
7 18 (3.34%) Mockito
8 16 (2.97%) Cucumber
8 16 (2.97%) GitLab
8 16 (2.97%) Visual Studio
9 15 (2.78%) Postman
9 15 (2.78%) Selenium
10 9 (1.67%) Artifactory
10 9 (1.67%) Gradle
10 9 (1.67%) Moq
10 9 (1.67%) SpecFlow
11 8 (1.48%) git-flow
11 8 (1.48%) SoapUI
12 6 (1.11%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.93%) Fiddler
General
1 176 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 129 (23.93%) Finance
3 104 (19.29%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (12.80%) Public Sector
5 53 (9.83%) Banking
6 35 (6.49%) Marketing
7 22 (4.08%) Manufacturing
8 19 (3.53%) Front Office
9 14 (2.60%) Law
10 12 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.23%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (2.04%) Back Office
11 11 (2.04%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.67%) Games
12 9 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.67%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.30%) Electronics
14 7 (1.30%) Retail
15 6 (1.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 161 (29.87%) Developer
2 104 (19.29%) Senior
3 64 (11.87%) Analyst
3 64 (11.87%) Software Engineer
4 43 (7.98%) Java Developer
4 43 (7.98%) Lead
5 41 (7.61%) Senior Developer
6 37 (6.86%) Data Engineer
7 24 (4.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 24 (4.45%) Principal Engineer
7 24 (4.45%) Senior Software Engineer
7 24 (4.45%) Support Analyst
8 21 (3.90%) Architect
9 19 (3.53%) .NET Developer
10 18 (3.34%) Data Scientist
11 16 (2.97%) IT Engineer
11 16 (2.97%) Software Developer
11 16 (2.97%) Systems Engineer
12 15 (2.78%) C# Developer
13 14 (2.60%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (22.08%) .NET
2 81 (15.03%) REST
3 78 (14.47%) HTML
4 66 (12.24%) Spring Boot
5 64 (11.87%) Spring
5 64 (11.87%) Web Services
6 60 (11.13%) CSS
7 59 (10.95%) React
8 52 (9.65%) Kafka
9 32 (5.94%) .NET Framework
9 32 (5.94%) RESTful
10 31 (5.75%) Hibernate
11 30 (5.57%) .NET Core
11 30 (5.57%) Apache Camel
12 29 (5.38%) AngularJS
12 29 (5.38%) ASP.NET
13 28 (5.19%) jQuery
14 27 (5.01%) JSON
15 24 (4.45%) XML
16 23 (4.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (7.98%) Distributed Systems
1 43 (7.98%) Management Information System
2 21 (3.90%) Data Structures
3 18 (3.34%) IoT
4 17 (3.15%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.97%) Cloud Native
6 15 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (2.60%) Algorithms
7 14 (2.60%) Virtual Team
8 13 (2.41%) Client/Server
8 13 (2.41%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.86%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.48%) Equities
12 7 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.30%) Fixed Income
12 7 (1.30%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.30%) Security Operations Centre
13 6 (1.11%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 119 (22.08%) Linux
2 85 (15.77%) Windows
3 52 (9.65%) Unix
4 8 (1.48%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.30%) CentOS
5 7 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.11%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.93%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.74%) Rocky
9 2 (0.37%) Android
9 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.37%) Debian
10 1 (0.19%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (48.05%) Agile
2 161 (29.87%) CI/CD
3 149 (27.64%) Problem-Solving
4 116 (21.52%) Microservices
5 113 (20.96%) Computer Science
6 107 (19.85%) DevOps
7 94 (17.44%) Software Engineering
8 79 (14.66%) Scrum
9 77 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 73 (13.54%) Analytics
11 70 (12.99%) Continuous Integration
11 70 (12.99%) Test Automation
12 69 (12.80%) Full-Stack Development
13 68 (12.62%) Data Modelling
14 65 (12.06%) TDD
15 61 (11.32%) Business Intelligence
16 59 (10.95%) Coaching
17 52 (9.65%) Data Science
17 52 (9.65%) Machine Learning
18 47 (8.72%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 282 (52.32%) SQL
2 197 (36.55%) Python
3 142 (26.35%) Java
4 124 (23.01%) C#
5 114 (21.15%) JavaScript
6 41 (7.61%) TypeScript
7 35 (6.49%) T-SQL
8 32 (5.94%) C++
9 26 (4.82%) R
10 24 (4.45%) PHP
11 22 (4.08%) PowerShell
12 20 (3.71%) Go
13 19 (3.53%) Shell Script
14 18 (3.34%) Bash
15 15 (2.78%) PL/SQL
16 12 (2.23%) Scala
17 10 (1.86%) VB.NET
18 9 (1.67%) C
19 6 (1.11%) Apex Code
19 6 (1.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 111 (20.59%) Degree
2 52 (9.65%) Security Cleared
3 45 (8.35%) SC Cleared
4 42 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (5.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 24 (4.45%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.23%) OCP
7 12 (2.23%) Oracle Certification
8 10 (1.86%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.30%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.30%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.56%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.56%) PhD
11 2 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.37%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.19%) CISSP
12 1 (0.19%) HND
12 1 (0.19%) IIBA
12 1 (0.19%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.24%) QA
2 34 (6.31%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.34%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.78%) GDPR
5 12 (2.23%) SLA
6 6 (1.11%) CDISC
7 4 (0.74%) HL7
8 3 (0.56%) PMO
9 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.37%) GRC
9 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.37%) NCSC
9 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.19%) COBIT
10 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 107 (19.85%) Docker
2 10 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.93%) Firmware
4 4 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.74%) vSphere
5 3 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 106 (19.67%) Kubernetes
2 65 (12.06%) Ansible
3 30 (5.57%) Terraform
4 25 (4.64%) Kibana
5 11 (2.04%) Grafana
5 11 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.30%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.11%) QRadar
8 5 (0.93%) Argo
8 5 (0.93%) ZABBIX
9 4 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.56%) Istio
11 1 (0.19%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.19%) Nagios
11 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 89 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 55 (10.20%) Oracle
3 51 (9.46%) Atlassian
4 29 (5.38%) Google
5 26 (4.82%) Splunk
6 22 (4.08%) Databricks
7 20 (3.71%) Dynatrace
8 18 (3.34%) ServiceNow
9 13 (2.41%) SAP
10 10 (1.86%) Adobe
10 10 (1.86%) MuleSoft
10 10 (1.86%) VMware
11 9 (1.67%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.30%) SolarWinds
13 6 (1.11%) Sybase
13 6 (1.11%) TIBCO
14 5 (0.93%) IBM
14 5 (0.93%) Informatica
14 5 (0.93%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.74%) Solace