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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 100 99
Rank change year-on-year +23 -1 +9
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 15 13 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.28% 0.77% 0.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.15% 4.68% 6.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 6
10th Percentile £281 £345 £275
25th Percentile £366 £388 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £568 £563 £555
90th Percentile £592 £578 £638
South East median daily rate £208 £213 £513
% change year-on-year -2.35% -58.54% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £72.00
South East median hourly rate £52.50 - £71.00
% change year-on-year - - +37.20%

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 184 278 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.69% 16.38% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 168 164
10th Percentile £406 £376 £350
25th Percentile £436 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £653
90th Percentile £664 £663 £713
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £544
% change year-on-year -10.00% -8.05% +8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 4
10th Percentile - £26.24 £54.70
25th Percentile - £48.18 £56.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.97% -6.67% +57.14%
75th Percentile - - £73.80
90th Percentile - £64.10 £77.03
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £51.59 £52.25
% change year-on-year -37.88% -1.26% +134.83%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +23 8 £506 +18.94% 1
Windsor -6 3 £500 -16.67% 1
Wokingham - 1 - -
Relational Database
South East

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 4 (26.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (6.67%) Apache
3 1 (6.67%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) GCP
3 4 (26.67%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (26.67%) dbt
3 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
3 4 (26.67%) Serverless
4 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) GitHub
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (26.67%) Power BI
2 4 (26.67%) RDBMS
2 4 (26.67%) Tableau
3 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (13.33%) MySQL
5 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (6.67%) Big Data
5 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
5 1 (6.67%) Data Vault
5 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
5 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
5 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) JMeter
2 2 (13.33%) JUnit
2 2 (13.33%) Mockito
2 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (6.67%) Subversion
3 1 (6.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Automotive
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Data Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Telecoms Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Data Scientist
4 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Developer
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Support
5 1 (6.67%) Remedy Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) HTML
1 5 (33.33%) JSON
1 5 (33.33%) XML
2 4 (26.67%) jQuery
2 4 (26.67%) REST
3 3 (20.00%) SOAP
4 2 (13.33%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (13.33%) Apache Camel
4 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
4 2 (13.33%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (13.33%) NumPy
4 2 (13.33%) Pandas
4 2 (13.33%) RESTful
4 2 (13.33%) scikit-learn
4 2 (13.33%) Spring
4 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
4 2 (13.33%) Web Services
4 2 (13.33%) WireMock
5 1 (6.67%) Kafka
5 1 (6.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
1 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) CMDB
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Unix
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile
1 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 7 (46.67%) Data Engineering
2 7 (46.67%) Data Pipeline
2 7 (46.67%) Workflow
3 6 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 6 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 5 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 5 (33.33%) DevOps
4 5 (33.33%) ETL
4 5 (33.33%) Validation
5 4 (26.67%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (26.67%) Data Transformation
5 4 (26.67%) WFM
6 3 (20.00%) Microservices
6 3 (20.00%) OO
7 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
7 2 (13.33%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Python
2 9 (60.00%) SQL
3 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (26.67%) Java
5 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (13.33%) Apex Code
6 2 (13.33%) SOQL
7 1 (6.67%) Bash
7 1 (6.67%) Perl
7 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) HIPAA
2 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Dynatrace
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
2 2 (13.33%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) BMC
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Pega
3 1 (6.67%) Remedy