Relational Database Contracts in the City of London

Relational Database
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Relational Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Relational Database over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 88 70
Rank change year-on-year 0 -18 +32
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 31 38 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.76% 1.73% 3.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.93% 7.79% 15.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 26 68
10th Percentile £409 £406 £411
25th Percentile £425 £531 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -4.00% +5.89%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £770
90th Percentile £800 £708 £825
Central London median daily rate £480 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -20.00% -4.00% +7.71%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 391 488 770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.25% 22.21% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 328 487
10th Percentile £405 £403 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £702 £730
90th Percentile £763 £791 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £41.16 - £43.13
25th Percentile £50.97 £46.75 £58.41
Median hourly rate £67.33 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +38.81% -42.32% +38.99%
75th Percentile £83.67 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £93.47 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
% change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +38.99%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in the City of London

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Relational Database in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in the City of London

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in the City of London

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Relational Database in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in the City of London

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (19.35%) Apache Spark
2 4 (12.90%) Apache
3 2 (6.45%) IIS
4 1 (3.23%) Alfresco
4 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (3.23%) Camunda
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) AWS
2 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.45%) Azure
3 2 (6.45%) dbt
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.23%) GCP
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) HTTP
2 1 (3.23%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (22.58%) MongoDB
3 6 (19.35%) MySQL
3 6 (19.35%) SQL Server
4 5 (16.13%) Big Data
5 4 (12.90%) Hadoop
5 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
5 4 (12.90%) Power BI
6 3 (9.68%) CockroachDB
6 3 (9.68%) DB2
6 3 (9.68%) RDBMS
7 2 (6.45%) Airbyte
7 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
7 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (6.45%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (6.45%) Tableau
7 2 (6.45%) Tableau Server
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (3.23%) Apache Hive
8 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) JIRA
1 2 (6.45%) JMeter
1 2 (6.45%) JUnit
2 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.23%) JBehave
2 1 (3.23%) LoadRunner
2 1 (3.23%) Postman
General
1 15 (48.39%) Finance
2 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Banking
3 4 (12.90%) Front Office
4 3 (9.68%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (9.68%) Investment Banking
4 3 (9.68%) Retail
4 3 (9.68%) Retail Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.23%) Billing
6 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Developer
2 8 (25.81%) Data Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Java Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Analyst
4 5 (16.13%) Senior
5 4 (12.90%) AWS Data Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Python Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Data Modeller
6 3 (9.68%) Python Data Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) .NET Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Administrator
7 2 (6.45%) Data Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) DBA
7 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.45%) SQL Data Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) AngularJS
2 5 (16.13%) Spring
3 4 (12.90%) Kafka
3 4 (12.90%) React
3 4 (12.90%) RESTful
4 3 (9.68%) .NET
4 3 (9.68%) PySpark
4 3 (9.68%) REST
4 3 (9.68%) Web Services
5 2 (6.45%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (6.45%) WebSockets
6 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
6 1 (3.23%) Apache Avro
6 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET
6 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (3.23%) Django
6 1 (3.23%) Entity Framework
6 1 (3.23%) JSON
6 1 (3.23%) OAuth
6 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Data Structures
2 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.45%) Private Cloud
3 2 (6.45%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.45%) Replication
4 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (3.23%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.23%) PKI
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Linux
2 5 (16.13%) Unix
3 2 (6.45%) Windows
4 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) DevOps
2 8 (25.81%) Agile
2 8 (25.81%) ETL
3 7 (22.58%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (19.35%) Microservices
4 6 (19.35%) TDD
5 5 (16.13%) Data Engineering
5 5 (16.13%) Data Science
5 5 (16.13%) SDLC
5 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
6 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
6 4 (12.90%) Containerisation
6 4 (12.90%) Data Management
6 4 (12.90%) Data Modelling
6 4 (12.90%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (12.90%) High Availability
6 4 (12.90%) Requirements Analysis
7 3 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (9.68%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) Python
2 17 (54.84%) SQL
3 13 (41.94%) Java
4 5 (16.13%) Scala
4 5 (16.13%) Shell Script
5 3 (9.68%) C#
5 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.68%) Perl
5 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.45%) SPARQL
7 1 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.23%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
1 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Oracle
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.68%) Sybase
4 2 (6.45%) IBM
4 2 (6.45%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.23%) Databricks
5 1 (3.23%) Google
5 1 (3.23%) HP
5 1 (3.23%) ION Trading
5 1 (3.23%) SAP
5 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow