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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 78 98
Rank change year-on-year -37 +20 +3
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 7 18 11
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.38% 1.47% 0.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.14% 8.78% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 5
10th Percentile - £290 £336
25th Percentile £325 £389 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £473 £550
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% -14.09% +35.38%
75th Percentile - £513 £563
90th Percentile - £565 £585
South East median daily rate £525 £208 £205
% change year-on-year +153.01% +1.22% -62.73%

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 169 205 284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.29% 16.76% 17.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 133 168
10th Percentile £349 £406 £389
25th Percentile £438 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £525 £581
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% -9.64% +1.04%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £638 £650 £663
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 16
10th Percentile £26.86 - £31.00
25th Percentile £30.94 - £46.45
Median hourly rate £81.50 £32.05 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +154.29% -47.97% +2.67%
75th Percentile £83.68 - -
90th Percentile £89.60 - £64.73
South East median hourly rate £38.25 £24.00 £51.59
% change year-on-year +59.38% -53.48% +5.29%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -5 3 £325 -
Reading -37 3 £600 +34.83% 5
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 1 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) CPLEX
2 1 (14.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
3 1 (14.29%) Redis
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Python Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) FastAPI
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) Django
2 2 (28.57%) Flask
2 2 (28.57%) Jinja
2 2 (28.57%) NumPy
2 2 (28.57%) OpenAPI
2 2 (28.57%) Pandas
2 2 (28.57%) pytest
2 2 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) Swagger
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) Celery
3 1 (14.29%) Itk
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (14.29%) pydantic
3 1 (14.29%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Structures
2 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Analytics
2 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Mathematics
3 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Data Integration
4 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
4 3 (42.86%) DataOps
4 3 (42.86%) Validation
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (28.57%) Linear Programming
5 2 (28.57%) Mathematical Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Microservices
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (28.57%) Degree
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle