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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 93 120
Rank change year-on-year -22 +27 -9
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 2 6 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.062% 0.49% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.79% 2.56% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 14
10th Percentile - £33,050 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £74,063
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -29.11% +41.07%
75th Percentile £48,750 £63,125 £80,000
90th Percentile - £68,750 £83,759
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% +4.76%

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 252 234 405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.84% 18.99% 14.79%
Number of salaries quoted 196 193 323
10th Percentile £39,000 £37,500 £32,520
25th Percentile £46,104 £46,250 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,300
Median % change year-on-year - +1.18% +6.85%
75th Percentile £77,443 £72,500 £71,620
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,000 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +3.96%

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
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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ISPF
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Business Development
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Database Security
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JCL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 22301
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Broadcom
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle