Relational Database
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Relational Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Relational Database over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 185 94
Rank change year-on-year -12 -91 +46
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 1,506 2,061 5,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.52% 2.04% 3.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.28% 9.57% 13.19%
Number of salaries quoted 909 1,354 2,241
10th Percentile £36,096 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,199 £48,750 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £84,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £92,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Relational Database is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,181 21,530 43,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 21.31% 27.95%
Number of salaries quoted 12,558 13,451 21,070
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £79,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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 -16 1,214 £58,500 -13.33% 254
UK excluding London +15 1,044 £52,500 -2.78% 164
Work from Home -11 680 £57,500 -8.00% 142
London -51 412 £68,750 -11.29% 115
South East +73 293 £55,000 -4.35% 34
North of England +45 254 £55,000 - 43
Scotland +16 174 £50,000 -0.47% 27
North West +47 171 £55,000 +5.77% 24
Midlands -44 111 £52,500 - 21
South West -38 110 £48,500 -11.82% 18
West Midlands -28 76 £55,000 +4.76% 14
Yorkshire +42 74 £52,500 -16.00% 17
East of England +6 54 £48,500 -25.38% 18
East Midlands -19 35 £50,000 -13.04% 7
Wales +4 31 £36,476 -18.94% 4
Northern Ireland -25 17 £34,628 -30.75% 4
North East -16 9 £71,500 +49.98% 2

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 56 (3.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (3.19%) WebLogic
3 34 (2.26%) SharePoint
4 30 (1.99%) IIS
5 29 (1.93%) OpenStack
6 28 (1.86%) Confluence
7 25 (1.66%) Apache
7 25 (1.66%) Apache Spark
8 18 (1.20%) SAS
9 14 (0.93%) ArcGIS
10 12 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
11 10 (0.66%) JBoss
11 10 (0.66%) nginx
11 10 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
12 9 (0.60%) Umbraco
13 6 (0.40%) CMS
13 6 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
13 6 (0.40%) WordPress
14 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 48 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.40%) Trello
5 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.27%) SPSS
7 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.20%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.13%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 46 (3.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 42 (2.79%) Endur
3 8 (0.53%) NEC Housing
4 7 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 7 (0.46%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.46%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 7 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.46%) thinkFolio
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
6 5 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.20%) Raiser’s Edge
8 2 (0.13%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.13%) MIS ActiveH
8 2 (0.13%) Relativity
8 2 (0.13%) Veritas eDiscovery
9 1 (0.066%) Data Workbench
9 1 (0.066%) Oracle FAH
9 1 (0.066%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.066%) Ringtail
Cloud Services
1 518 (34.40%) Azure
2 468 (31.08%) AWS
3 250 (16.60%) Serverless
4 187 (12.42%) Azure DevOps
5 137 (9.10%) IBM Cloud
5 137 (9.10%) Power Platform
6 134 (8.90%) Azure Functions
7 132 (8.76%) Azure Service Bus
8 130 (8.63%) Azure Logic Apps
9 125 (8.30%) Azure API Management
10 100 (6.64%) Amazon EKS
11 99 (6.57%) GCP
12 66 (4.38%) SaaS
13 63 (4.18%) Amazon ECS
13 63 (4.18%) Amazon S3
14 55 (3.65%) Amazon SQS
15 40 (2.66%) Amazon EC2
16 33 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
17 32 (2.12%) Power Automate
18 31 (2.06%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.45%) TCP/IP
2 56 (3.72%) DNS
3 51 (3.39%) SSL
4 46 (3.05%) BGP
5 18 (1.20%) Internet
5 18 (1.20%) SSH
6 13 (0.86%) SNMP
7 12 (0.80%) AMQP
8 11 (0.73%) Network Security
9 10 (0.66%) HTTP
10 8 (0.53%) Firewall
11 6 (0.40%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.27%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.27%) SMTP
12 4 (0.27%) Wireless
13 3 (0.20%) Broadband
13 3 (0.20%) FTP
13 3 (0.20%) LAN
13 3 (0.20%) NaaS
13 3 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 432 (28.69%) SQL Server
2 364 (24.17%) RDBMS
3 297 (19.72%) NoSQL
4 284 (18.86%) PostgreSQL
5 259 (17.20%) MySQL
6 218 (14.48%) MongoDB
7 157 (10.42%) DB2
8 134 (8.90%) Power BI
9 130 (8.63%) Data Warehouse
10 103 (6.84%) Amazon RDS
11 101 (6.71%) Oracle Database
12 61 (4.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 47 (3.12%) Big Data
14 44 (2.92%) Data Lake
14 44 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
15 41 (2.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 37 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
17 27 (1.79%) Hadoop
17 27 (1.79%) Tableau
18 26 (1.73%) Looker
Development Applications
1 251 (16.67%) Git
2 104 (6.91%) Jenkins
3 63 (4.18%) JIRA
4 47 (3.12%) JUnit
5 36 (2.39%) JDeveloper
5 36 (2.39%) Visual Studio
6 35 (2.32%) Postman
7 29 (1.93%) Selenium
8 26 (1.73%) Maven
9 22 (1.46%) GitLab
10 20 (1.33%) Eclipse
11 17 (1.13%) Oracle Forms
12 15 (1.00%) WebDriver
13 14 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 11 (0.73%) NUnit
15 10 (0.66%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.66%) Mockito
15 10 (0.66%) MSTest
16 9 (0.60%) Bitbucket
17 8 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 384 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 274 (18.19%) Finance
3 227 (15.07%) Public Sector
4 218 (14.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 182 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
6 169 (11.22%) Law
7 160 (10.62%) Marketing
8 78 (5.18%) Legal
9 57 (3.78%) Games
10 56 (3.72%) Retail
11 47 (3.12%) Banking
12 24 (1.59%) Local Government
13 22 (1.46%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.13%) Investment Banking
14 17 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
15 16 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (1.00%) Publishing
17 14 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (0.86%) Automotive
18 13 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 578 (38.38%) Developer
2 250 (16.60%) Senior
3 221 (14.67%) Software Engineer
4 206 (13.68%) Lead
5 200 (13.28%) Full Stack Developer
6 147 (9.76%) Architect
7 132 (8.76%) Azure Developer
8 108 (7.17%) Senior Developer
9 91 (6.04%) Analyst
10 84 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
11 82 (5.44%) Data Engineer
11 82 (5.44%) Java Developer
12 70 (4.65%) Lead Architect
13 69 (4.58%) Software Developer
14 65 (4.32%) Lead Solutions Architect
15 62 (4.12%) DBA
16 59 (3.92%) Java Engineer
17 53 (3.52%) Java Software Engineer
18 46 (3.05%) Full Stack Engineer
19 42 (2.79%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (24.04%) .NET
2 352 (23.37%) React
3 347 (23.04%) HTML
4 333 (22.11%) CSS
5 324 (21.51%) AngularJS
6 300 (19.92%) Node.js
7 277 (18.39%) REST
8 268 (17.80%) Web Services
9 227 (15.07%) Spring
10 203 (13.48%) Spring Boot
11 194 (12.88%) ASP.NET
12 192 (12.75%) jQuery
13 178 (11.82%) Vue
14 159 (10.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 139 (9.23%) JSON
16 137 (9.10%) ASP.NET Core
17 125 (8.30%) Backbone.js
17 125 (8.30%) Ember.js
18 119 (7.90%) RESTful
19 101 (6.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 229 (15.21%) Algorithms
2 210 (13.94%) Data Structures
3 138 (9.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 137 (9.10%) Blockchain
5 125 (8.30%) Management Information System
6 113 (7.50%) Public Cloud
7 107 (7.10%) Cloud Native
8 76 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
9 58 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
10 48 (3.19%) Product Ownership
11 44 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
12 42 (2.79%) Swaptions
13 41 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
14 33 (2.19%) Onboarding
15 22 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
16 21 (1.39%) CMDB
17 20 (1.33%) Hedge funds
18 19 (1.26%) Mainframe
18 19 (1.26%) Virtual Team
19 16 (1.06%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 287 (19.06%) Linux
2 245 (16.27%) Windows
3 129 (8.57%) Android
3 129 (8.57%) Apple iOS
4 51 (3.39%) Unix
5 46 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (1.13%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.20%) Solaris
10 2 (0.13%) CentOS
10 2 (0.13%) Debian
11 1 (0.066%) AIX
11 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.066%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (33.86%) Agile
2 435 (28.88%) DevOps
3 366 (24.30%) Software Engineering
4 349 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
5 346 (22.97%) Full Stack Development
6 303 (20.12%) SDLC
7 300 (19.92%) Design Patterns
8 258 (17.13%) Artificial Intelligence
8 258 (17.13%) CI/CD
9 247 (16.40%) OO
10 239 (15.87%) Microservices
11 217 (14.41%) Data Modelling
12 202 (13.41%) OOP
13 191 (12.68%) Web Development
14 190 (12.62%) Computer Science
15 189 (12.55%) Business Intelligence
16 188 (12.48%) MVC
17 160 (10.62%) User Experience
18 151 (10.03%) Mentoring
19 150 (9.96%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 821 (54.52%) SQL
2 631 (41.90%) Java
3 494 (32.80%) JavaScript
4 451 (29.95%) Python
5 387 (25.70%) C#
6 131 (8.70%) T-SQL
7 94 (6.24%) Go
8 90 (5.98%) PHP
9 78 (5.18%) TypeScript
10 67 (4.45%) Perl
11 60 (3.98%) Bash
12 49 (3.25%) VB
13 48 (3.19%) Ruby
14 45 (2.99%) PowerShell
15 37 (2.46%) Scala
16 28 (1.86%) C
17 27 (1.79%) Shell Script
18 20 (1.33%) C++
19 19 (1.26%) COBOL
20 18 (1.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 291 (19.32%) Degree
2 189 (12.55%) Security Cleared
3 156 (10.36%) SC Cleared
4 116 (7.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (4.58%) Azure Certification
6 63 (4.18%) AWS Certification
7 46 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 41 (2.72%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (1.26%) CTC Cleared
11 9 (0.60%) PMI Certification
12 8 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
13 7 (0.46%) HND
14 6 (0.40%) IIBA
15 5 (0.33%) HNC
15 5 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.27%) DV Cleared
17 3 (0.20%) DBS Check
17 3 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (7.77%) QA
2 48 (3.19%) Data Quality
3 31 (2.06%) GDPR
4 26 (1.73%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.33%) PMO
6 15 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.80%) HIPAA
8 10 (0.66%) SLA
9 7 (0.46%) CDISC
10 6 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.40%) JTAG
10 6 (0.40%) SOC 1
11 5 (0.33%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.20%) GRC
14 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
15 1 (0.066%) COREP
15 1 (0.066%) IFRS 17
15 1 (0.066%) NIST
System Software
1 200 (13.28%) Docker
2 31 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.20%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.40%) Firmware
6 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.13%) vSphere
8 1 (0.066%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.066%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 174 (11.55%) Kubernetes
2 114 (7.57%) Terraform
3 51 (3.39%) Ansible
4 45 (2.99%) Grafana
5 39 (2.59%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.86%) WMI
7 6 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.33%) logstash
8 5 (0.33%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.27%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.27%) Kibana
10 3 (0.20%) Podman
11 2 (0.13%) Control-M
11 2 (0.13%) cPanel
11 2 (0.13%) Puppet
12 1 (0.066%) Hadoop YARN
12 1 (0.066%) Packer
12 1 (0.066%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 362 (24.04%) Oracle
2 286 (18.99%) Microsoft
3 169 (11.22%) IBM
4 137 (9.10%) Red Hat
5 86 (5.71%) Google
6 55 (3.65%) Sybase
7 50 (3.32%) Splunk
8 48 (3.19%) Dynatrace
9 46 (3.05%) Sparx
10 42 (2.79%) OpenLink
10 42 (2.79%) TIBCO
11 29 (1.93%) Atlassian
11 29 (1.93%) Databricks
11 29 (1.93%) WSO2
12 25 (1.66%) VMware
13 19 (1.26%) Unisys
14 15 (1.00%) Civica
15 14 (0.93%) Cognos
16 13 (0.86%) Salesforce
17 11 (0.73%) Remedy