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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 113 94
Rank change year-on-year +25 -19 +32
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 5 13 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.42% 0.59% 0.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.54% 4.35% 4.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 10
10th Percentile - £42,375 £33,125
25th Percentile £26,250 £49,688 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £41,750
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +43.71% -24.09%
75th Percentile £69,688 £65,000 £63,125
90th Percentile £71,375 £69,500 £69,625
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £58,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year -19.15% +23.68% -9.52%

All Database and 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 197 299 245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.62% 13.68% 18.96%
Number of salaries quoted 159 149 220
10th Percentile £36,000 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £41,875 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.95%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £74,000 £84,964 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -2.91%

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 October 2025.

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 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) SaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) MySQL
3 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Junior
2 2 (40.00%) Junior Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) CSS
1 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) React
2 3 (60.00%) Vue
3 2 (40.00%) Laravel
3 2 (40.00%) Next.js
3 2 (40.00%) Node.js
3 2 (40.00%) React Native
3 2 (40.00%) Spring
4 1 (20.00%) .NET
4 1 (20.00%) Bootstrap
4 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (20.00%) jQuery
4 1 (20.00%) JSP
4 1 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (20.00%) Spring MVC
4 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 2 (40.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) OOD
3 1 (20.00%) OOP
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) PHP
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk