Relational Database Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Relational Database
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Relational Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 24 18
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 +23
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 5 11 17
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 2.24% 4.42% 7.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.16% 21.57% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 13
10th Percentile £436 £211 £191
25th Percentile £453 £381 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £479 £210
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% +127.98% -50.59%
75th Percentile £527 £542 £217
90th Percentile £571 £544 £538
South Wales median daily rate £485 £479 £210
% change year-on-year +1.31% +127.98% -61.82%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 38 51 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 17.04% 20.48% 29.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 38 51
10th Percentile £303 £188 £193
25th Percentile £350 £356 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £523 £325
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% +60.77% -38.10%
75th Percentile £501 £550 £528
90th Percentile £690 £638 £700
South Wales median daily rate £425 £523 £388
% change year-on-year -18.66% +34.84% -29.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £17.85
25th Percentile - - £19.13
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile - - £24.88
90th Percentile - - £25.55
South Wales median hourly rate £30.00 £25.84 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.10% +14.84% +25.00%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Relational Database relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Relational Database job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Relational Database
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Relational Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in Cardiff over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in Cardiff

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Relational Database.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) JMeter
1 2 (40.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) API Design
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Test Management
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) Python
4 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Google