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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 92 109
Rank change year-on-year +8 +17 -19
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 26 10 17
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.72% 0.75% 0.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.81% 4.52% 7.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 8
10th Percentile - £200 £194
25th Percentile £204 £267 £279
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £489 £419
Median % change year-on-year -15.60% +16.72% -19.86%
75th Percentile £500 £566 £538
90th Percentile £519 £601 £556
South East median daily rate £208 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -56.32% -9.52% -4.55%
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 - - £67.27
% change year-on-year - - -3.91%

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 203 221 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.39% 16.54% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 132 148
10th Percentile £410 £376 £350
25th Percentile £425 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% - +17.95%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £675
90th Percentile £664 £675 £689
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +4.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 14
10th Percentile - £34.67 £29.50
25th Percentile - £41.25 £56.87
Median hourly rate - £63.15 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - +0.24% -18.55%
75th Percentile - £64.95 £70.88
90th Percentile - £65.62 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £38.50 £63.15 £54.50
% change year-on-year -39.03% +15.87% +37.11%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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
Windsor +4 14 £208 -38.75%
Reading +10 8 £473 - 5
Wokingham -29 2 - - 2
Bracknell -8 1 £500 -15.97%
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 3 (11.54%) Appian
2 2 (7.69%) Apache
2 2 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.69%) IIS
2 2 (7.69%) JBoss
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (7.69%) Tomcat
2 2 (7.69%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.85%) Jupyter
3 1 (3.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) Azure
3 4 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (15.38%) GCP
3 4 (15.38%) GitHub
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.69%) Serverless
5 2 (7.69%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.85%) iPaaS
6 1 (3.85%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (3.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (50.00%) MySQL
2 8 (30.77%) RDBMS
3 6 (23.08%) SQL Server
4 5 (19.23%) MongoDB
4 5 (19.23%) Oracle Database
4 5 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (7.69%) Big Data
5 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (7.69%) Hadoop
5 2 (7.69%) Power BI
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.85%) Parquet
6 1 (3.85%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) Gradle
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Maven
General
1 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.85%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Developer
1 8 (30.77%) Technical Support
2 5 (19.23%) Architect
3 4 (15.38%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Data Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Platform Integration Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) REST
2 6 (23.08%) SOAP
3 5 (19.23%) OAuth
4 4 (15.38%) Node.js
5 3 (11.54%) GraphQL
5 3 (11.54%) NumPy
5 3 (11.54%) Pandas
5 3 (11.54%) React
5 3 (11.54%) Web Services
6 2 (7.69%) HTML
6 2 (7.69%) OAuth2
6 2 (7.69%) scikit-learn
7 1 (3.85%) .NET
7 1 (3.85%) CSS
7 1 (3.85%) FreeSWITCH
7 1 (3.85%) J2EE
7 1 (3.85%) JSON
7 1 (3.85%) JSP
7 1 (3.85%) RESTful
7 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Client/Server
2 2 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (7.69%) N-Tier
2 2 (7.69%) Replication
3 1 (3.85%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.85%) Clustering
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (38.46%) Linux
2 9 (34.62%) Windows
3 8 (30.77%) Unix
4 1 (3.85%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Computer Science
2 11 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (38.46%) OO
4 9 (34.62%) OOP
5 8 (30.77%) Process Improvement
6 7 (26.92%) Agile
7 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
7 6 (23.08%) Data Modelling
8 5 (19.23%) Data Engineering
9 4 (15.38%) Data Governance
10 3 (11.54%) API Integration
10 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (11.54%) Data Architecture
10 3 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
10 3 (11.54%) Data Visualisation
10 3 (11.54%) Decision-Making
10 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
10 3 (11.54%) Machine Learning
10 3 (11.54%) Master Data Management
10 3 (11.54%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) Python
1 16 (61.54%) SQL
2 13 (50.00%) Java
3 8 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 8 (30.77%) Perl
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) Degree
2 10 (38.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (11.54%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.85%) OCP
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Vendors
1 17 (65.38%) Oracle
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.85%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) Informatica
4 1 (3.85%) Pega