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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 103 102
Rank change year-on-year +16 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 23 6 17
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.63% 0.37% 0.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.68% 2.17% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 7
10th Percentile £207 - £192
25th Percentile £320 - £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £200 £350
Median % change year-on-year +122.50% -42.86% -32.69%
75th Percentile £500 £278 £503
90th Percentile £519 £325 £563
South East median daily rate £208 £205 £513
% change year-on-year +1.22% -60.00% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £52.67
25th Percentile - - £55.90
Median hourly rate - - £61.53
75th Percentile - - £66.90
90th Percentile - - £69.96
South East median hourly rate - - £68.63

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 197 276 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.97% 17.24% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 164 171
10th Percentile £410 £385 £350
25th Percentile £415 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -2.17% +19.79%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £663
90th Percentile £650 £674 £713
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 10
10th Percentile - £20.61 £55.60
25th Percentile - £41.25 £57.88
Median hourly rate - £48.18 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - -23.52% +14.55%
75th Percentile - £63.53 £77.83
90th Percentile - £64.73 £80.82
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £45.34 £50.53
% change year-on-year -11.78% -10.27% +129.67%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 +21 8 £445 +31.85% 2
Windsor +3 8 £318 +58.75% 1
Wokingham - 2 - -
Bracknell -9 1 £500 -
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 4 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (17.39%) Apache Spark
2 3 (13.04%) Apache
3 1 (4.35%) Jupyter
3 1 (4.35%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 15 (65.22%) AWS
2 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 9 (39.13%) GCP
3 5 (21.74%) Power Platform
4 4 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (17.39%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (17.39%) dbt
4 4 (17.39%) GitHub
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon Cognito
5 3 (13.04%) Serverless
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (4.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) MySQL
2 7 (30.43%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
4 5 (21.74%) MongoDB
4 5 (21.74%) Power BI
4 5 (21.74%) RDBMS
5 4 (17.39%) Tableau
6 3 (13.04%) Big Data
6 3 (13.04%) Hadoop
7 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
7 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
8 1 (4.35%) Data Vault
8 1 (4.35%) Parquet
8 1 (4.35%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 18 (78.26%) Social Skills
2 11 (47.83%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Automotive
5 1 (4.35%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Finance
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Data Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) AWS Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Data Scientist
3 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Technical Support
3 3 (13.04%) Telecoms Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Data Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Python Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Developer
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Informatica Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) IT Support
5 1 (4.35%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (4.35%) VoIP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) REST
2 5 (21.74%) NumPy
2 5 (21.74%) OAuth
2 5 (21.74%) Pandas
3 4 (17.39%) Node.js
3 4 (17.39%) scikit-learn
3 4 (17.39%) SOAP
4 3 (13.04%) GraphQL
4 3 (13.04%) React
5 2 (8.70%) OAuth2
6 1 (4.35%) FreeSWITCH
6 1 (4.35%) HTML
6 1 (4.35%) JSON
6 1 (4.35%) Kafka
6 1 (4.35%) Plotly
6 1 (4.35%) RESTful
6 1 (4.35%) Web Services
6 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Algorithms
2 3 (13.04%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) Client/Server
4 1 (4.35%) Clustering
4 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Windows
3 3 (13.04%) Unix
4 1 (4.35%) CentOS
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (47.83%) Data Engineering
3 10 (43.48%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (39.13%) Visualisation
5 8 (34.78%) Data Modelling
5 8 (34.78%) Decision-Making
6 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
7 6 (26.09%) Agile
7 6 (26.09%) Computer Science
7 6 (26.09%) ETL
8 5 (21.74%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (21.74%) Data Visualisation
8 5 (21.74%) Validation
8 5 (21.74%) Workflow
9 4 (17.39%) Data Science
9 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (17.39%) Predictive Analysis
9 4 (17.39%) Time Series Analysis
9 4 (17.39%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) Python
2 15 (65.22%) SQL
3 7 (30.43%) Java
4 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.04%) Perl
5 2 (8.70%) Bash
5 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) Degree
2 7 (30.43%) Master's Degree
3 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.35%) OCP
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) Data Quality
2 4 (17.39%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Oracle
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.04%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) Informatica
4 1 (4.35%) Pega