Relational Database Contracts with Work from Home Options

Relational Database
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 172 156
Rank change year-on-year +2 -16 +14
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 178 368 768
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.18% 1.46% 1.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.20% 7.70% 8.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 271 536
10th Percentile £356 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £464 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £622 £750 £653
90th Percentile £720 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £578
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.81% +10.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 14
10th Percentile - £69.25 £30.09
25th Percentile - £72.19 £47.19
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year - +27.66% +2.40%
75th Percentile - - £65.54
90th Percentile - £77.75 -
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £68.75 £53.50
% change year-on-year -48.36% +28.50% -2.73%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,871 4,781 9,580
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.11% 19.03% 21.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,114 3,492 6,964
10th Percentile £356 £381 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 83 83
10th Percentile £19.89 £22.20 £19.20
25th Percentile £22.52 £41.75 £22.08
Median hourly rate £40.13 £65.00 £46.67
Median % change year-on-year -38.27% +39.28% +50.55%
75th Percentile £61.88 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £70.63 £85.00 £68.20
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £42.92
% change year-on-year -32.54% +38.16% +59.07%

Relational Database
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Relational Database trend for jobs with a WFH option

Relational Database
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Relational Database.

Relational Database daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Relational Database over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Relational Database daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Relational Database.

Relational Database hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (4.49%) JBoss
1 8 (4.49%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.37%) Confluence
3 5 (2.81%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.25%) Apache
4 4 (2.25%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.69%) nginx
5 3 (1.69%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.69%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.56%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.56%) Appian
7 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.56%) SAS
7 1 (0.56%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.56%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) MIS ActiveH
1 3 (1.69%) NEC Housing
1 3 (1.69%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.12%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.56%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 62 (34.83%) AWS
2 60 (33.71%) Azure
3 20 (11.24%) Serverless
4 15 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (7.87%) Power Platform
6 12 (6.74%) GCP
7 11 (6.18%) SaaS
8 10 (5.62%) Amazon S3
8 10 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (5.06%) GitHub
10 8 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (3.93%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (3.37%) PaaS
13 5 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
15 3 (1.69%) AWS Fargate
15 3 (1.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.49%) Firewall
2 6 (3.37%) DNS
3 5 (2.81%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.69%) BGP
4 3 (1.69%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (1.69%) IOS XR
4 3 (1.69%) VPN
5 2 (1.12%) HTTP
6 1 (0.56%) DHCP
6 1 (0.56%) FTP
6 1 (0.56%) Intranet
6 1 (0.56%) Network Security
6 1 (0.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (33.71%) SQL Server
2 50 (28.09%) RDBMS
3 29 (16.29%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (15.73%) NoSQL
5 27 (15.17%) MySQL
6 22 (12.36%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (10.67%) MongoDB
8 11 (6.18%) Oracle Reports
9 9 (5.06%) Power BI
9 9 (5.06%) Tableau
10 7 (3.93%) Big Data
11 6 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (2.81%) Oracle Database
13 4 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (2.25%) Data Lake
13 4 (2.25%) Data Mining
13 4 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (1.69%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 23 (12.92%) Git
2 19 (10.67%) JIRA
3 9 (5.06%) Cypress.io
3 9 (5.06%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.37%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.81%) Postman
5 5 (2.81%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.25%) GitLab
6 4 (2.25%) Selenium
6 4 (2.25%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.69%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.69%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (1.69%) CA Release Automation
7 3 (1.69%) HP UFT
7 3 (1.69%) Katalon Studio
7 3 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.12%) Burp Suite
8 2 (1.12%) JUnit
9 1 (0.56%) JMeter
9 1 (0.56%) Toad
General
1 69 (38.76%) Social Skills
2 36 (20.22%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (11.24%) Finance
3 20 (11.24%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.18%) Banking
5 9 (5.06%) Front Office
6 7 (3.93%) Marketing
7 6 (3.37%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.25%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.69%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.12%) Retail
11 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.56%) Billing
12 1 (0.56%) Legal
12 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 58 (32.58%) Developer
2 25 (14.04%) Architect
3 21 (11.80%) DBA
4 14 (7.87%) Analyst
5 13 (7.30%) Lead
6 11 (6.18%) .NET Developer
6 11 (6.18%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 11 (6.18%) Senior
7 10 (5.62%) Data Engineer
8 9 (5.06%) Java Developer
8 9 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (4.49%) Data Architect
9 8 (4.49%) Full Stack Developer
10 7 (3.93%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.93%) C# Developer
10 7 (3.93%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) React Developer
10 7 (3.93%) Senior Developer
10 7 (3.93%) Technical Architect
11 6 (3.37%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.48%) React
2 23 (12.92%) .NET
2 23 (12.92%) Kafka
3 21 (11.80%) RESTful
4 19 (10.67%) AngularJS
5 18 (10.11%) JSON
5 18 (10.11%) REST
6 16 (8.99%) HTML
6 16 (8.99%) Spring Boot
7 15 (8.43%) Spring
8 14 (7.87%) ASP.NET
8 14 (7.87%) XML
9 13 (7.30%) .NET Framework
9 13 (7.30%) CSS
9 13 (7.30%) Web Services
10 11 (6.18%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (6.18%) SOAP
11 9 (5.06%) Vue
12 8 (4.49%) Entity Framework
12 8 (4.49%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.74%) Data Structures
2 11 (6.18%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.06%) Algorithms
4 9 (5.06%) Public Cloud
5 8 (4.49%) NHS
6 7 (3.93%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.81%) IoT
7 5 (2.81%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.25%) Derivative
8 4 (2.25%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.12%) Equities
10 2 (1.12%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 23 (12.92%) Linux
2 17 (9.55%) Windows
3 9 (5.06%) Unix
4 8 (4.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.25%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.56%) CentOS
6 1 (0.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (39.33%) Agile
2 48 (26.97%) DevOps
3 38 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (17.42%) CI/CD
5 28 (15.73%) Data Modelling
6 27 (15.17%) SDLC
7 24 (13.48%) Migration
8 23 (12.92%) Test Automation
9 22 (12.36%) Microservices
10 20 (11.24%) Computer Science
10 20 (11.24%) Design Patterns
11 19 (10.67%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (8.99%) Full Stack Development
13 15 (8.43%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (8.43%) Mentoring
13 15 (8.43%) Software Engineering
14 14 (7.87%) Analytics
14 14 (7.87%) Clean Code
14 14 (7.87%) ETL
15 13 (7.30%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 86 (48.31%) SQL
2 40 (22.47%) Java
3 37 (20.79%) C#
4 33 (18.54%) Python
5 30 (16.85%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.87%) TypeScript
7 11 (6.18%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.49%) Bash
9 7 (3.93%) Perl
9 7 (3.93%) PHP
10 6 (3.37%) C++
10 6 (3.37%) Scala
11 5 (2.81%) T-SQL
12 4 (2.25%) Go
12 4 (2.25%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.25%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.69%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.69%) Rust
14 2 (1.12%) VB
14 2 (1.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 26 (14.61%) Degree
2 19 (10.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 19 (10.67%) Security Cleared
3 17 (9.55%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.81%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.12%) SANS
6 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.11%) QA
2 9 (5.06%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.69%) MiFID
4 1 (0.56%) COPPA
4 1 (0.56%) EMIR
4 1 (0.56%) FATCA
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (12.36%) Docker
2 9 (5.06%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 26 (14.61%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.30%) Ansible
2 13 (7.30%) Terraform
3 7 (3.93%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.37%) Grafana
4 6 (3.37%) Progress Chef
5 5 (2.81%) Kibana
6 4 (2.25%) Nagios
7 3 (1.69%) Graylog
7 3 (1.69%) Puppet
7 3 (1.69%) Zipkin
8 2 (1.12%) Opsgenie
8 2 (1.12%) Packer
9 1 (0.56%) Control-M
9 1 (0.56%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.56%) logstash
9 1 (0.56%) Nessus
9 1 (0.56%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 48 (26.97%) Oracle
2 30 (16.85%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.62%) Splunk
4 9 (5.06%) AVEVA
5 8 (4.49%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.93%) Google
6 7 (3.93%) IBM
6 7 (3.93%) SAP
7 4 (2.25%) Brio
7 4 (2.25%) Databricks
7 4 (2.25%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.25%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.69%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.69%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.69%) Cisco
8 3 (1.69%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.69%) Micro Focus
8 3 (1.69%) Murex
8 3 (1.69%) NEC
8 3 (1.69%) Temenos