Relational Database Contracts

Relational Database
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Relational Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Relational Database over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 182 157
Rank change year-on-year -14 -25 -1
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 512 875 1,617
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.19% 1.48% 1.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.03% 8.25% 9.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 601 1,124
10th Percentile £368 £413 £408
25th Percentile £425 £475 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £550 £495
% change year-on-year -2.91% +11.11% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 27 20
10th Percentile £24.25 - £19.63
25th Percentile £26.50 £21.24 £38.44
Median hourly rate £35.50 £68.75 £51.85
Median % change year-on-year -48.36% +32.59% -5.73%
75th Percentile £43.81 £75.00 £65.51
90th Percentile £49.78 £78.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.50 £73.00 £50.20
% change year-on-year -51.37% +45.42% -8.73%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Relational Database is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,284 10,606 17,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.88% 17.93% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,196 7,543 12,708
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £771 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 187 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £33.70 £22.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +37.86% +57.64%
75th Percentile £58.88 £73.11 £62.05
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% +44.33%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Relational Database.

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Relational Database.

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Relational Database over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Relational Database within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -28 435 £550 -8.33% 268
London -13 276 £575 -11.54% 123
UK excluding London +2 200 £534 -2.91% 170
Work from Home +5 177 £540 -10.00% 174
North of England +35 66 £537 +9.62% 39
North West +7 38 £534 +12.42% 20
South East -29 34 £525 -6.67% 38
Midlands +21 30 £400 -26.61% 31
Scotland +1 28 £413 -34.00% 28
Yorkshire +39 26 £550 -4.35% 18
South West +18 23 £538 -8.51% 17
East Midlands +36 15 £400 -3.03% 12
Wales +25 15 £551 +13.03% 5
West Midlands +8 14 £400 -27.27% 19
East of England +4 5 £442 -8.97% 14
North East +18 2 £650 - 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £400 - 5

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 24 (4.69%) Apache
1 24 (4.69%) Apache Spark
2 19 (3.71%) Confluence
3 17 (3.32%) JBoss
4 10 (1.95%) nginx
4 10 (1.95%) SAS
4 10 (1.95%) Tomcat
5 9 (1.76%) OpenStack
5 9 (1.76%) Oracle Workflow
5 9 (1.76%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.98%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.78%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.59%) IIS
8 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.39%) CMS
9 2 (0.39%) GemFire
9 2 (0.39%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.20%) CoreMedia CMS
10 1 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 11 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.59%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.76%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.59%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (0.59%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.39%) Endur
4 2 (0.39%) OPENHousing
4 2 (0.39%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.20%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.20%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 148 (28.91%) AWS
2 136 (26.56%) Azure
3 52 (10.16%) Serverless
4 50 (9.77%) Power Platform
5 47 (9.18%) GCP
6 33 (6.45%) GitHub
7 32 (6.25%) Amazon S3
7 32 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
8 24 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (3.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (2.93%) SaaS
11 13 (2.54%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (2.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 12 (2.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 11 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (1.95%) OpenShift
14 10 (1.95%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.93%) Firewall
2 14 (2.73%) DNS
3 7 (1.37%) Network Security
4 6 (1.17%) AMQP
4 6 (1.17%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.78%) HTTP
5 4 (0.78%) VPN
6 3 (0.59%) BGP
6 3 (0.59%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (0.59%) IOS XR
6 3 (0.59%) SSL
7 1 (0.20%) DHCP
7 1 (0.20%) FTP
7 1 (0.20%) Intranet
7 1 (0.20%) SAN
7 1 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (28.52%) RDBMS
2 137 (26.76%) SQL Server
3 109 (21.29%) PostgreSQL
4 67 (13.09%) MySQL
5 66 (12.89%) NoSQL
6 61 (11.91%) Data Warehouse
7 45 (8.79%) Power BI
8 39 (7.62%) Tableau
9 36 (7.03%) MongoDB
10 27 (5.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 24 (4.69%) Data Lake
12 21 (4.10%) Big Data
13 18 (3.52%) Oracle Reports
14 15 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (2.93%) BigQuery
15 14 (2.73%) Metadata
16 13 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (2.54%) DB2
16 13 (2.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 12 (2.34%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 83 (16.21%) Git
2 51 (9.96%) JIRA
3 40 (7.81%) Jenkins
4 32 (6.25%) JUnit
5 25 (4.88%) GitLab
6 24 (4.69%) TeamCity
7 20 (3.91%) Cypress.io
8 12 (2.34%) SonarQube
9 11 (2.15%) Postman
10 7 (1.37%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.37%) Burp Suite
10 7 (1.37%) Visual Studio
11 6 (1.17%) AppScan
11 6 (1.17%) Selenium
11 6 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.98%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (0.98%) CA Release Automation
12 5 (0.98%) Gradle
12 5 (0.98%) Maven
13 4 (0.78%) Subversion
General
1 144 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 104 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
3 88 (17.19%) Finance
4 62 (12.11%) Banking
5 60 (11.72%) Public Sector
6 37 (7.23%) Investment Banking
7 36 (7.03%) Front Office
8 11 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.15%) Marketing
9 8 (1.56%) Back Office
9 8 (1.56%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (0.98%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.98%) Retail
12 4 (0.78%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.78%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.59%) Agriculture
13 3 (0.59%) Law
13 3 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 175 (34.18%) Developer
2 58 (11.33%) Architect
3 57 (11.13%) Java Developer
4 50 (9.77%) Senior
5 47 (9.18%) Data Engineer
6 43 (8.40%) Analyst
7 36 (7.03%) Lead
8 31 (6.05%) DBA
9 29 (5.66%) Full Stack Developer
10 22 (4.30%) Data Architect
11 20 (3.91%) C# Developer
12 19 (3.71%) Applications Support
12 19 (3.71%) Senior Developer
13 18 (3.52%) DevOps Engineer
14 16 (3.13%) Electronic Trading Developer
14 16 (3.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 15 (2.93%) .NET Developer
15 15 (2.93%) Business Analyst
16 14 (2.73%) Data Modeller
17 13 (2.54%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (15.04%) React
2 68 (13.28%) Spring
3 61 (11.91%) REST
3 61 (11.91%) Spring Boot
4 45 (8.79%) .NET
5 41 (8.01%) Kafka
6 39 (7.62%) AngularJS
6 39 (7.62%) JSON
7 38 (7.42%) RESTful
8 34 (6.64%) CSS
9 31 (6.05%) Elastic Stack
10 30 (5.86%) HTML
11 29 (5.66%) Web Services
11 29 (5.66%) XML
12 25 (4.88%) Hibernate
13 22 (4.30%) JPA
13 22 (4.30%) Node.js
14 21 (4.10%) Middleware
15 17 (3.32%) SOAP
15 17 (3.32%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.20%) Data Structures
2 35 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (5.27%) Algorithms
4 24 (4.69%) Fixed Income
4 24 (4.69%) Public Cloud
5 23 (4.49%) Derivative
6 21 (4.10%) Product Ownership
7 19 (3.71%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (3.71%) Linux Command Line
8 16 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (3.13%) Equities
9 12 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.95%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.95%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.76%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.76%) NHS
11 9 (1.76%) Replication
11 9 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.56%) CMDB
13 6 (1.17%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 96 (18.75%) Linux
2 53 (10.35%) Windows
3 47 (9.18%) Unix
4 24 (4.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (3.13%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.98%) VMS
7 2 (0.39%) CentOS
8 1 (0.20%) Android
8 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (37.50%) Agile
2 135 (26.37%) DevOps
3 96 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 92 (17.97%) CI/CD
4 92 (17.97%) Data Modelling
5 82 (16.02%) Microservices
6 72 (14.06%) Scrum
7 68 (13.28%) ETL
8 63 (12.30%) Business Intelligence
9 60 (11.72%) Continuous Integration
9 60 (11.72%) Test Automation
10 56 (10.94%) Design Patterns
10 56 (10.94%) Migration
11 51 (9.96%) Analytics
11 51 (9.96%) SDLC
12 50 (9.77%) Computer Science
13 48 (9.38%) Full Stack Development
14 47 (9.18%) Mentoring
14 47 (9.18%) TDD
15 42 (8.20%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 260 (50.78%) SQL
2 156 (30.47%) Java
3 123 (24.02%) Python
4 80 (15.63%) C#
5 64 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 54 (10.55%) TypeScript
7 45 (8.79%) PowerShell
8 42 (8.20%) T-SQL
9 25 (4.88%) Bash
9 25 (4.88%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.71%) Perl
10 19 (3.71%) Scala
11 16 (3.13%) Go
12 15 (2.93%) C++
13 14 (2.73%) PHP
14 12 (2.34%) C
15 9 (1.76%) Kotlin
15 9 (1.76%) PL/SQL
16 6 (1.17%) R
17 4 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 91 (17.77%) Security Cleared
2 74 (14.45%) SC Cleared
3 66 (12.89%) Degree
4 33 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (5.86%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.54%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.17%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.78%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.78%) SANS
11 3 (0.59%) ISEB
11 3 (0.59%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.39%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.20%) BC Cleared
13 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (11.13%) QA
2 20 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.17%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.98%) MiFID
5 4 (0.78%) ISO 15022
6 3 (0.59%) GDPR
7 2 (0.39%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.20%) COPPA
8 1 (0.20%) COREP
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) EMIR
8 1 (0.20%) FATCA
8 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) NCSC
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
8 1 (0.20%) SLA
8 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (15.23%) Docker
2 20 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.98%) vSphere
4 4 (0.78%) HDFS
4 4 (0.78%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 4 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.20%) KVM
6 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 94 (18.36%) Kubernetes
2 46 (8.98%) Terraform
3 39 (7.62%) Ansible
4 32 (6.25%) Grafana
5 24 (4.69%) Prometheus
6 21 (4.10%) Progress Chef
7 11 (2.15%) Graylog
8 10 (1.95%) ITRS Geneos
8 10 (1.95%) Puppet
9 9 (1.76%) Nagios
10 8 (1.56%) Packer
11 7 (1.37%) Kibana
12 6 (1.17%) HP Fortify
12 6 (1.17%) Nessus
12 6 (1.17%) WebInspect
13 5 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.98%) vRealize
13 5 (0.98%) Zipkin
14 3 (0.59%) Istio
15 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 112 (21.88%) Oracle
2 71 (13.87%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.47%) Google
4 27 (5.27%) IBM
5 21 (4.10%) Splunk
6 19 (3.71%) Databricks
6 19 (3.71%) ServiceNow
7 17 (3.32%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.54%) AVEVA
8 13 (2.54%) Dynatrace
9 11 (2.15%) SAP
10 9 (1.76%) Temenos
10 9 (1.76%) Veritas
11 8 (1.56%) Sybase
12 7 (1.37%) Checkmarx
13 6 (1.17%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.17%) ION Trading
13 6 (1.17%) Veracode
13 6 (1.17%) VMware
14 5 (0.98%) Arqiva