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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 71 100
Rank change year-on-year -31 +29 -4
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 19 19 14
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.01% 1.68% 0.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.64% 10.86% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 9
10th Percentile - £406 £363
25th Percentile £204 £434 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £478 £525
Median % change year-on-year -42.41% -9.05% +7.69%
75th Percentile £378 £523 £563
90th Percentile £541 £550 £605
South East median daily rate £405 £478 £525
% change year-on-year -15.18% -9.05% -10.64%

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 220 175 262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 11.72% 15.47% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 117 145
10th Percentile £292 £404 £303
25th Percentile £375 £455 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £505 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -0.59% -3.24%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £638
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 15
10th Percentile £24.49 - £19.59
25th Percentile £29.44 - £34.47
Median hourly rate £79.15 £32.05 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +146.96% -47.46% -16.15%
75th Percentile £82.25 - £61.60
90th Percentile £83.60 - -
South East median hourly rate £36.71 £25.88 £43.34
% change year-on-year +41.85% -40.29% -26.03%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -25 9 £525 -10.41%
Wokingham -18 5 £325 -
Windsor -2 4 £208 -57.54%
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 (26.32%) Appian
2 3 (15.79%) IIS
2 3 (15.79%) JBoss
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (15.79%) Tomcat
2 3 (15.79%) WebLogic
3 1 (5.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
1 3 (15.79%) AWS
1 3 (15.79%) GitHub
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (5.26%) Matillion
2 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.26%) Serverless
2 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (36.84%) MySQL
3 6 (31.58%) NoSQL
4 5 (26.32%) MongoDB
5 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
6 3 (15.79%) RDBMS
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (10.53%) Big Data
7 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
7 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (10.53%) DynamoDB
7 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database
8 1 (5.26%) Power BI
8 1 (5.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Git
1 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) GitLab
3 1 (5.26%) JUnit
3 1 (5.26%) Liquibase
3 1 (5.26%) Mockito
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Telecoms
3 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Python Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Technical Support
3 3 (15.79%) Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Appian Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Platform Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) Kafka
2 5 (26.32%) FastAPI
2 5 (26.32%) Flask
2 5 (26.32%) RESTful
3 4 (21.05%) Django
3 4 (21.05%) Jinja
3 4 (21.05%) NumPy
3 4 (21.05%) OpenAPI
3 4 (21.05%) Pandas
3 4 (21.05%) REST
3 4 (21.05%) Swagger
3 4 (21.05%) Web Services
4 3 (15.79%) pytest
4 3 (15.79%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (15.79%) SOAP
5 2 (10.53%) .NET
5 2 (10.53%) J2EE
5 2 (10.53%) PySpark
5 2 (10.53%) React
6 1 (5.26%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Algorithms
1 4 (21.05%) Data Structures
1 4 (21.05%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (15.79%) N-Tier
3 2 (10.53%) Client/Server
4 1 (5.26%) AI Agents
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (5.26%) Life Science
4 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
1 6 (31.58%) Windows
2 4 (21.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) OOP
2 7 (36.84%) Agile
3 6 (31.58%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (31.58%) OO
3 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
4 5 (26.32%) Microservices
4 5 (26.32%) TDD
5 4 (21.05%) Analytics
5 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
5 4 (21.05%) Data Modelling
5 4 (21.05%) DevOps
5 4 (21.05%) Mathematics
5 4 (21.05%) Process Improvement
5 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) Data Analytics
6 3 (15.79%) Linear Programming
6 3 (15.79%) Mathematical Modelling
6 3 (15.79%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Python
2 10 (52.63%) SQL
3 7 (36.84%) Java
4 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
5 4 (21.05%) Perl
6 2 (10.53%) Bash
6 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
6 2 (10.53%) Scala
7 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Alteryx