Relational Database Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Relational Database
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Relational Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 42 55
Rank change year-on-year -28 +13 +21
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 5 14 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.56% 2.35% 1.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.90% 13.46% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 5
10th Percentile £406 £356 £506
25th Percentile £413 £375 £677
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £445 £750
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% -40.63% +50.00%
75th Percentile £476 £514 -
90th Percentile £504 £533 £756
England median daily rate £460 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -12.38% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.52
25th Percentile - - £22.55
Median hourly rate - - £26.39
75th Percentile - - £30.87
90th Percentile - - £32.30
England median hourly rate £32.77 £41.50 £67.27
% change year-on-year -21.05% -38.30% +63.07%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 102 104 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.50% 17.48% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 68 76
10th Percentile £325 £318 £325
25th Percentile £382 £356 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.03% -14.98% +11.11%
75th Percentile £475 £531 £563
90th Percentile £563 £591 £700
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £15.63 - £11.39
25th Percentile £18.76 £21.25 £11.67
Median hourly rate £23.71 £22.50 £17.05
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% +31.95% -71.58%
75th Percentile £36.72 £23.75 £26.11
90th Percentile £56.69 - £30.39
England median hourly rate £48.72 £38.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +28.21% -17.71% -9.45%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Relational Database
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Relational Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Relational Database.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Northamptonshire -18 3 £433 +16.34% 1
Derbyshire - 1 - - 1
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) ChatGPT
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) Power Query
3 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (20.00%) Sqoop
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (40.00%) Data Science
3 2 (40.00%) Data Security
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Information Security
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) Python
4 1 (20.00%) C#
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (20.00%) PHP
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Ab Initio
1 1 (20.00%) Informatica
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Teradata