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

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	109	80	101
Rank change year-on-year	-29	+21	+2
Contract jobs citing Relational Database	7	19	10
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire	0.38%	1.53%	0.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	4.38%	9.00%	3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted	5	9	5
10^th Percentile	-	£300	£248
25^th Percentile	£325	£413	£319
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£600	£500	£375
Median % change year-on-year	+20.00%	+33.33%	+7.14%
75^th Percentile	-	-	£563
90^th Percentile	-	£560	£585
South East median daily rate	£475	£208	£205
% change year-on-year	+128.92%	+1.22%	-61.68%

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.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills	160	211	285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire	8.69%	17.00%	17.46%
Number of daily rates quoted	110	141	173
10^th Percentile	£363	£406	£385
25^th Percentile	£450	£425	£455
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£525	£575
Median % change year-on-year	+4.76%	-8.70%	-
75^th Percentile	£600	£600	£650
90^th 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	8	0	16
10^th Percentile	£54.54	-	£31.00
25^th Percentile	£66.44	-	£46.45
Median hourly rate	£82.96	-	£61.60
Median % change year-on-year	-	-	-14.44%
75^th Percentile	£89.69	-	-
90^th Percentile	£96.25	-	£64.73
South East median hourly rate	£30.50	£13.50	£51.59
% change year-on-year	+125.93%	-73.83%	+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 Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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 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.

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 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	+1	3	£325	-
Reading	-33	3	£600	+34.83%	6
Relational Database South East

Relational Database Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 17 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Relational Database also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region with a requirement for Relational Database.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Problem-Solving	85.7%	6
1	Python	85.7%	6
3	Analytics	71.4%	5
3	Data Pipeline	71.4%	5
3	DevOps	71.4%	5
6	Git	57.1%	4
6	Mathematics	57.1%	4
6	Security Cleared	57.1%	4
6	Stakeholder Engagement	57.1%	4
10	Azure	42.9%	3
10	Business Intelligence	42.9%	3
10	Containerisation	42.9%	3
10	Continuous Improvement	42.9%	3
10	Data Engineering	42.9%	3
10	Data Integration	42.9%	3
10	Data Modelling	42.9%	3
10	Data Quality	42.9%	3
10	DataOps	42.9%	3
10	FastAPI	42.9%	3
10	Kafka	42.9%	3
10	PostgreSQL	42.9%	3
10	QA	42.9%	3
10	SC Cleared	42.9%	3
10	SQL	42.9%	3
10	Validation	42.9%	3
26	Agile	28.6%	2
26	AI	28.6%	2
26	AWS	28.6%	2
26	CI/CD	28.6%	2
26	Collaborative Working	28.6%	2

Relational Database Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Database & Business Intelligence

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	PostgreSQL	42.9%	3
2	MongoDB	28.6%	2
2	NoSQL	28.6%	2
4	Power BI	14.3%	1
4	Redis	14.3%	1
4	SQL Server	14.3%	1