Relational Database Job Trends in Birmingham

Relational Database
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 96 107
Rank change year-on-year -12 +11 -4
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 20 4 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.55% 0.33% 0.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.22% 1.88% 5.40%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 6
10th Percentile £51,250 £61,250 £56,875
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,125 £70,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -15.63% +77.78%
75th Percentile £90,000 £70,625 -
90th Percentile - £71,750 -
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% +15.00%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 277 213 278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.60% 17.79% 12.02%
Number of salaries quoted 196 174 160
10th Percentile £39,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £74,625 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Relational Database relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Relational Database job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Relational Database
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in Birmingham over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in Birmingham

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (45.00%) GitHub
2 9 (45.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Databricks
4 2 (10.00%) AWS
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.00%) Power Automate
4 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (10.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.00%) dbt
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (15.00%) Metadata
2 3 (15.00%) Metadata Repository
2 3 (15.00%) Star Schema
3 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.00%) Power BI
3 2 (10.00%) Power Query
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.00%) MySQL
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) NUnit
General
1 15 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (50.00%) Finance
4 5 (25.00%) Legal
5 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (10.00%) Retail
6 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Consultant
2 8 (40.00%) Applications Consultant
2 8 (40.00%) Mainframe Consultant
3 5 (25.00%) Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Data Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Data Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Databricks Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Data Architect
4 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow Developer
5 2 (10.00%) .NET Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Business Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.00%) DBA
6 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
6 1 (5.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (55.00%) .NET
2 8 (40.00%) ISPF
2 8 (40.00%) Spring
2 8 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (15.00%) Ajax
3 3 (15.00%) CSS
3 3 (15.00%) HTML
3 3 (15.00%) LDAP
3 3 (15.00%) Web Services
4 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (10.00%) Entity Framework
4 2 (10.00%) React
5 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (5.00%) Jest
5 1 (5.00%) NgRx
5 1 (5.00%) Redux
5 1 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (55.00%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (40.00%) Legacy Applications
2 8 (40.00%) Mainframe
3 3 (15.00%) CMDB
3 3 (15.00%) Taxonomies
4 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 12 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (45.00%) DevOps
2 9 (45.00%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (40.00%) Batch Processing
3 8 (40.00%) Business Development
3 8 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 8 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (40.00%) Re-Platforming
4 7 (35.00%) Data Modelling
5 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (20.00%) Agile
6 4 (20.00%) Data Migration
6 4 (20.00%) Data Strategy
6 4 (20.00%) Migration
7 3 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (15.00%) Data Lineage
7 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (15.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) COBOL
1 8 (40.00%) Java
1 8 (40.00%) JCL
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) C#
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (5.00%) Python
5 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) ISO 22301
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Broadcom
2 3 (15.00%) Databricks
2 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle