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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 105 89
Rank change year-on-year +6 -16 +11
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 4 20 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.23% 1.09% 1.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.90% 7.33% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 4 13 9
10th Percentile - - £33,750
25th Percentile £26,250 £37,500 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% -20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £38,750 £47,500 £65,603
90th Percentile £56,750 £62,250 £71,500
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £36,250
% change year-on-year +5.56% +24.14% -30.95%

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 211 273 276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.06% 14.85% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 170 138 235
10th Percentile £34,750 £35,575 £40,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £45,388
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £68,438 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,500 £80,750 £82,950
West Midlands median annual salary £50,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -

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 8 January 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) SaaS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (75.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Junior
1 3 (75.00%) Junior Software Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) React
2 3 (75.00%) Laravel
2 3 (75.00%) Next.js
2 3 (75.00%) Node.js
2 3 (75.00%) React Native
2 3 (75.00%) Vue
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) JSP
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree