Relational Database Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Relational Database
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Relational Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 82 94
Rank change year-on-year -26 +12 +11
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 10 16 12
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.56% 1.38% 0.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.78% 8.89% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 7
10th Percentile £280 £281 £345
25th Percentile £325 £366 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +17.65% -12.82%
75th Percentile £569 £568 £563
90th Percentile £600 £592 £578
South East median daily rate £525 £208 £215
% change year-on-year +153.01% -3.49% -57.00%

All Database & BI Skills
Berkshire

Relational Database falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 173 180 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.67% 15.49% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 118 162
10th Percentile £312 £406 £382
25th Percentile £394 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £638 £664 £663
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 13
10th Percentile £24.96 - £26.24
25th Percentile £28.00 - £48.18
Median hourly rate £68.25 £32.05 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +112.95% -47.97% -6.67%
75th Percentile £82.25 - -
90th Percentile £83.71 - £64.10
South East median hourly rate £38.25 £28.03 £51.59
% change year-on-year +36.49% -45.68% +3.18%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Relational Database
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Relational Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in Berkshire over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in Berkshire

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Relational Database.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 4 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham -10 4 £325 -
Reading -25 4 £525 +3.86% 8
Relational Database
South East

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 4 (40.00%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (40.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (10.00%) Big Data
4 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (10.00%) MySQL
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI
4 1 (10.00%) Redis
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) JUnit
3 1 (10.00%) Liquibase
3 1 (10.00%) Mockito
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Python Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Data Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 5 (50.00%) Flask
1 5 (50.00%) RESTful
2 4 (40.00%) Django
2 4 (40.00%) Jinja
2 4 (40.00%) Kafka
2 4 (40.00%) NumPy
2 4 (40.00%) OpenAPI
2 4 (40.00%) Pandas
2 4 (40.00%) Swagger
3 3 (30.00%) pytest
3 3 (30.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (10.00%) Celery
4 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (10.00%) JWT
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (10.00%) PySpark
4 1 (10.00%) React
4 1 (10.00%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Data Structures
2 4 (40.00%) Algorithms
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 7 (70.00%) Analytics
2 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) Mathematics
4 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (40.00%) Data Integration
5 4 (40.00%) Microservices
5 4 (40.00%) OOP
5 4 (40.00%) TDD
6 3 (30.00%) AI
6 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
6 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
6 3 (30.00%) DataOps
6 3 (30.00%) Linear Programming
6 3 (30.00%) Mathematical Modelling
6 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Scala
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (30.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft