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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 73 103
Rank change year-on-year -22 +30 -17
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 23 16 14
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.26% 1.43% 0.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.13% 9.41% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 9
10th Percentile - £411 £363
25th Percentile £204 £460 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £489 £525
Median % change year-on-year -57.54% -6.90% +7.69%
75th Percentile £395 £576 £563
90th Percentile £568 £590 £605
South East median daily rate £290 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -43.41% -2.38% -12.50%

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 227 170 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.43% 15.19% 12.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 116 132
10th Percentile £269 £406 £301
25th Percentile £380 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £600 £650
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 11
10th Percentile £24.49 - £19.00
25th Percentile £29.44 £32.05 £40.49
Median hourly rate £79.15 £47.90 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +65.25% -22.24% -18.41%
75th Percentile £82.25 £65.62 -
90th Percentile £83.60 - £67.50
South East median hourly rate £36.71 £29.91 £58.91
% change year-on-year +22.76% -49.23% +2.44%

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 27 May 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 27 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -16 10 £538 -8.28% 2
Windsor +1 9 £208 -56.54%
Wokingham -22 3 £390 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (21.74%) Appian
2 3 (13.04%) IIS
2 3 (13.04%) JBoss
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (13.04%) Tomcat
2 3 (13.04%) WebLogic
3 1 (4.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
1 3 (13.04%) AWS
1 3 (13.04%) GitHub
2 2 (8.70%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.35%) Matillion
3 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.35%) Serverless
3 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (47.83%) MySQL
2 7 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (21.74%) RDBMS
3 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
4 4 (17.39%) NoSQL
5 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
5 3 (13.04%) Oracle Database
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (8.70%) Big Data
6 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
6 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (8.70%) DynamoDB
7 1 (4.35%) Power BI
7 1 (4.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Git
2 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
3 3 (13.04%) GitLab
4 1 (4.35%) Gradle
4 1 (4.35%) JUnit
4 1 (4.35%) Liquibase
4 1 (4.35%) Maven
4 1 (4.35%) Mockito
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
3 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Technical Support
2 6 (26.09%) Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Data Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Lead
4 3 (13.04%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Appian Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Python Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Data Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (4.35%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) Kafka
1 4 (17.39%) REST
1 4 (17.39%) Web Services
2 3 (13.04%) FastAPI
2 3 (13.04%) Flask
2 3 (13.04%) RESTful
2 3 (13.04%) SOAP
3 2 (8.70%) .NET
3 2 (8.70%) Django
3 2 (8.70%) J2EE
3 2 (8.70%) Jinja
3 2 (8.70%) NumPy
3 2 (8.70%) OpenAPI
3 2 (8.70%) Pandas
3 2 (8.70%) PySpark
3 2 (8.70%) React
3 2 (8.70%) Spring
3 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
3 2 (8.70%) Swagger
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (13.04%) N-Tier
2 2 (8.70%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.70%) Client/Server
2 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (4.35%) Life Science
3 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Linux
1 10 (43.48%) Windows
2 8 (34.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) OO
1 10 (43.48%) OOP
2 9 (39.13%) Computer Science
3 8 (34.78%) Agile
3 8 (34.78%) Process Improvement
4 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 6 (26.09%) Data Modelling
5 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (17.39%) Microservices
6 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
7 3 (13.04%) AI
7 3 (13.04%) Business Process Modelling
7 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
7 3 (13.04%) Data Architecture
7 3 (13.04%) Data Engineering
7 3 (13.04%) Data Governance
7 3 (13.04%) ETL
7 3 (13.04%) SOA
7 3 (13.04%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) SQL
2 13 (56.52%) Python
3 12 (52.17%) Java
4 9 (39.13%) JavaScript
5 8 (34.78%) Perl
6 2 (8.70%) Bash
6 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 2 (8.70%) Scala
7 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (39.13%) Degree
2 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) Oracle
2 3 (13.04%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) Alteryx
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft