Relational Database Job Trends in the West Midlands

Relational Database
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 145 176
Rank change year-on-year -54 +31 -11
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 8 29 77
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.095% 0.90% 1.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.38% 6.32% 6.55%
Number of salaries quoted 8 23 57
10th Percentile - £37,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £45,000 £65,302 £63,750
90th Percentile £53,700 £100,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £64,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -10.16% +9.40% -13.33%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 579 459 1,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.91% 14.23% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 413 318 974
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,423 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Relational Database
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in the West Midlands

Relational Database
Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Warwickshire -7 4 £32,500 - 3
Worcestershire - 2 £42,500 - 1
Birmingham -18 1 £47,500 +5.56% 4
Staffordshire - 1 £63,500 -
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) dbt
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (25.00%) MariaDB
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
General
1 7 (87.50%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) ERP Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) ERP Support
1 4 (50.00%) Support Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) PHP Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) CSS
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Business Process Analysis
2 4 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 4 (50.00%) ERP
2 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Validation
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (25.00%) ETL
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Refactoring
5 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (12.50%) Bicep
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
3 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 22301
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle