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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 108 101
Rank change year-on-year +15 -7 +38
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 4 14 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.33% 0.61% 0.92%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.85% 5.17% 4.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 9
10th Percentile £61,250 £56,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £63,125 £70,625 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +77.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70,625 - £67,500
90th Percentile £71,750 - £70,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -3.26%

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 216 271 266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.97% 11.80% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 177 158 237
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £38,125
25th Percentile £44,000 £42,827 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £84,964 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -1.71%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database 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 and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (25.00%) ColdFusion
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (25.00%) Back Office
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) Bootstrap
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) Vue
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) ColdBox
3 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) Laravel
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (25.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) CentOS
1 1 (25.00%) Debian
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) OOD
2 1 (25.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Product Management
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) SOLID
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk