Relational Database Job Trends in the Midlands

Relational Database
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 173 207
Rank change year-on-year -53 +34 -24
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 26 41 102
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.21% 0.84% 0.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.76% 5.81% 5.58%
Number of salaries quoted 13 33 79
10th Percentile - £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £43,750 £65,603 £63,750
90th Percentile £47,750 £78,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £63,250 £57,501
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.85%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 941 706 1,827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.75% 14.52% 16.24%
Number of salaries quoted 584 545 1,450
10th Percentile £31,825 £36,250 £31,988
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +12.17% -11.54%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Relational Database
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in the Midlands

Relational Database
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Relational Database within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands -51 14 £37,500 - 8
West Midlands -43 12 £33,500 -25.56% 17
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) Power Platform
2 6 (23.08%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (19.23%) Azure
4 3 (11.54%) AWS
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.85%) dbt
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.85%) Pulumi
6 1 (3.85%) SaaS
6 1 (3.85%) Serverless
6 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (42.31%) Power BI
3 3 (11.54%) MySQL
3 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (7.69%) MariaDB
4 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.85%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (3.85%) Metadata
5 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Jaeger
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) JUnit
2 1 (3.85%) Selenium
General
1 20 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 9 (34.62%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Developer
2 10 (38.46%) C# Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) ERP Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) ERP Support
4 4 (15.38%) Support Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Junior
6 2 (7.69%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Data Integration Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) DBA
7 1 (3.85%) Lead
7 1 (3.85%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (3.85%) PHP Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) SQL DBA
7 1 (3.85%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (46.15%) XML
2 11 (42.31%) WinForms
3 3 (11.54%) CSS
3 3 (11.54%) HTML
4 2 (7.69%) Django
4 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (7.69%) Flask
4 2 (7.69%) React
5 1 (3.85%) ARM Templates
5 1 (3.85%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.85%) Laravel
5 1 (3.85%) Next.js
5 1 (3.85%) Node.js
5 1 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (3.85%) pytest
5 1 (3.85%) React Native
5 1 (3.85%) REST
5 1 (3.85%) Spring
5 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Legacy Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
1 12 (46.15%) SDLC
2 8 (30.77%) Mentoring
3 7 (26.92%) Analytics
4 6 (23.08%) Data Cleansing
4 6 (23.08%) ERP
4 6 (23.08%) Migration
4 6 (23.08%) Validation
5 5 (19.23%) Business Process Analysis
5 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
5 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (19.23%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (15.38%) DevOps
7 3 (11.54%) Agile
7 3 (11.54%) Clean Code
7 3 (11.54%) Data Modelling
7 3 (11.54%) E-Commerce
7 3 (11.54%) ETL
7 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Delphi
2 11 (42.31%) C#
3 10 (38.46%) SQL
4 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 5 (19.23%) Python
5 3 (11.54%) Java
5 3 (11.54%) PHP
6 1 (3.85%) Bash
6 1 (3.85%) Bicep
6 1 (3.85%) C
6 1 (3.85%) Go
6 1 (3.85%) Scala
6 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 2 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) ISO 22301
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Ansible
2 1 (3.85%) Argo
2 1 (3.85%) Grafana
2 1 (3.85%) Kustomize
2 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Oracle
2 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) Google