Relational Database Job Trends in Staffordshire

Relational Database
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 64 36
Rank change year-on-year -11 -28 +26
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 2 2 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 0.20% 0.36% 2.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.64% 3.77% 16.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 11
10th Percentile £61,300 £35,250 -
25th Percentile £61,375 £39,375 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £50,000 £30,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% +63.93% -39.00%
75th Percentile £64,875 £56,875 £35,000
90th Percentile £65,100 £58,750 -
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% +20.00% -28.57%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 55 53 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 5.54% 9.55% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 30 34 62
10th Percentile £29,775 £38,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £33,438 £41,313 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £53,516 £58,750
90th Percentile £65,350 £57,500 £64,875
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Relational Database
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Relational Database within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Burton-upon-Trent - 2 £63,000 -
Relational Database
West Midlands

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 2 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Scala
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft