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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 86 76
Rank change year-on-year -4 -10 +32
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 31 37 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.80% 1.71% 2.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.85% 7.49% 13.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 25 57
10th Percentile £413 £405 £413
25th Percentile £425 £535 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £637 £650 £775
90th Percentile £743 £733 £825
Central London median daily rate £480 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -20.00% -4.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £50.00

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 395 494 725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.89% 22.78% 21.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 348 441
10th Percentile £404 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £575 £609
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -5.58% +3.66%
75th Percentile £690 £710 £730
90th Percentile £775 £800 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile £21.94 - £42.50
25th Percentile £30.09 £46.75 £49.38
Median hourly rate £48.58 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% -42.32% +52.89%
75th Percentile £72.81 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £89.13 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
% change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +52.89%

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 17 June 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 8 (25.81%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) Power Platform
3 4 (12.90%) Azure
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (6.45%) dbt
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.23%) GCP
5 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 6 (19.35%) MongoDB
2 6 (19.35%) MySQL
2 6 (19.35%) Power BI
3 5 (16.13%) SQL Server
4 4 (12.90%) Big Data
4 4 (12.90%) Data Lake
4 4 (12.90%) Hadoop
4 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
5 3 (9.68%) CockroachDB
5 3 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (9.68%) DB2
5 3 (9.68%) RDBMS
6 2 (6.45%) Airbyte
6 2 (6.45%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (6.45%) Tableau
6 2 (6.45%) Tableau Server
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
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
General
1 11 (35.48%) Finance
2 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Retail
4 2 (6.45%) Retail Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Billing
5 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.23%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Developer
2 9 (29.03%) Senior
3 7 (22.58%) Data Engineer
4 6 (19.35%) Senior Developer
5 5 (16.13%) Java Developer
6 4 (12.90%) Analyst
6 4 (12.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 3 (9.68%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (9.68%) Python Engineer
7 3 (9.68%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (6.45%) Angular Developer
8 2 (6.45%) Data Modeller
8 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (6.45%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
8 2 (6.45%) Python Data Engineer
8 2 (6.45%) Ruby Developer
8 2 (6.45%) Senior Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) AngularJS
2 5 (16.13%) Spring
3 4 (12.90%) Kafka
3 4 (12.90%) React
4 3 (9.68%) REST
4 3 (9.68%) RESTful
4 3 (9.68%) Web Services
5 2 (6.45%) .NET
5 2 (6.45%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (6.45%) PySpark
5 2 (6.45%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (6.45%) WebSockets
6 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
6 1 (3.23%) Apache Avro
6 1 (3.23%) Apache Beam
6 1 (3.23%) Django
6 1 (3.23%) Entity Framework
6 1 (3.23%) JSON
6 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
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%) 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 13 (41.94%) Agile
2 9 (29.03%) DevOps
3 8 (25.81%) ETL
4 7 (22.58%) Data Modelling
5 6 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (19.35%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (19.35%) Microservices
5 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (19.35%) SDLC
5 6 (19.35%) TDD
6 5 (16.13%) Analytics
6 5 (16.13%) Data Science
6 5 (16.13%) Decision-Making
6 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
6 5 (16.13%) Visualisation
7 4 (12.90%) Data Analysis
7 4 (12.90%) Data Engineering
7 4 (12.90%) Data Management
7 4 (12.90%) High Availability
7 4 (12.90%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) Python
2 17 (54.84%) SQL
3 12 (38.71%) Java
4 5 (16.13%) Scala
4 5 (16.13%) Shell Script
5 3 (9.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.68%) Perl
5 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.45%) C#
6 2 (6.45%) Ruby
6 2 (6.45%) SPARQL
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 4 (12.90%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) 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%) Databricks
4 2 (6.45%) Dataiku
4 2 (6.45%) IBM
4 2 (6.45%) Red Hat
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