Relational Database Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Relational Database
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Relational Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 50 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 17 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 2.67% 1.10% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.89% 8.06% -
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 0
10th Percentile £313 £306 -
25th Percentile £325 £310 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% - -
75th Percentile £403 - -
90th Percentile £419 - -
North West median daily rate £406 £413 £535
% change year-on-year -1.58% -22.90% -0.47%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 90 62 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.15% 13.60% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 43 34
10th Percentile £305 £316 -
25th Percentile £342 £358 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £496 £463
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% +7.27% -6.57%
75th Percentile £498 £563 £534
90th Percentile £686 £630 £564
North West median daily rate £425 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -10.53% -7.32% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £86.00 - £14.00
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £25.43 £52.50
% change year-on-year +192.02% -51.56% -19.23%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Relational Database
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Relational Database
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. 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
Knutsford -12 15 £358 +0.56%
Warrington - 1 £410 -
Crewe - 1 - -
Relational Database
North West

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (17.65%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) OpenShift
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) GitHub
2 5 (29.41%) GitHub Copilot
2 5 (29.41%) IaaS
2 5 (29.41%) PaaS
2 5 (29.41%) SaaS
3 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) MySQL
1 6 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (23.53%) RDBMS
3 2 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.88%) Power BI
4 1 (5.88%) Power Query
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Git
2 5 (29.41%) GitLab
3 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 3 (17.65%) SonarQube
3 3 (17.65%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (17.65%) TeamCity
4 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (11.76%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (11.76%) JIRA
5 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Data Scientist
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Platform Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) Spring Boot
2 6 (35.29%) RESTful
3 5 (29.41%) AngularJS
3 5 (29.41%) Hibernate
3 5 (29.41%) Node.js
3 5 (29.41%) Spring
4 4 (23.53%) Spring MVC
4 4 (23.53%) Spring Security
5 3 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (5.88%) .NET
6 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
6 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Linux
1 8 (47.06%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) Code Quality
2 8 (47.06%) Containerisation
2 8 (47.06%) Microservices
3 7 (41.18%) Observability
4 6 (35.29%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) AI
4 6 (35.29%) TDD
5 5 (29.41%) API Design
5 5 (29.41%) ETL
5 5 (29.41%) MVC
5 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
6 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
6 4 (23.53%) DevOps
7 3 (17.65%) Analytics
7 3 (17.65%) Change Management
7 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (17.65%) Runbook
7 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Python
2 7 (41.18%) Java
3 5 (29.41%) PHP
4 3 (17.65%) Perl
4 3 (17.65%) SQL
5 1 (5.88%) C#
5 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (23.53%) Degree
3 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 13 (76.47%) Docker
2 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (76.47%) Kubernetes
2 5 (29.41%) Grafana
3 3 (17.65%) Kibana
3 3 (17.65%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Oracle
2 8 (47.06%) AppDynamics
3 3 (17.65%) Cloudera
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
3 3 (17.65%) Splunk
4 1 (5.88%) Sage
4 1 (5.88%) SAP