Relational Database Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Relational Database
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Relational Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 79 82
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 +22
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 31 10 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.29% 0.75% 0.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.51% 6.17% 9.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 4 5
10th Percentile £410 £458 -
25th Percentile £473 £469 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +28.13% -33.14%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £575
90th Percentile - £585 -
England median daily rate £517 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.71% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £26.18 - -
25th Percentile £34.31 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £48.25 - £72.50
75th Percentile £61.81 - £73.75
90th Percentile £69.73 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £52.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year +42.86% +26.51% -44.67%

All Database & BI Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 177 162 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 7.37% 12.09% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 95 62
10th Percentile £350 £349 £213
25th Percentile £413 £450 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £501 £375
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +33.47% -25.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £534
90th Percentile £707 £650 £585
England median daily rate £510 £512 £550
% change year-on-year -0.44% -6.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 5 10
10th Percentile £20.44 £22.95 £13.69
25th Percentile £20.88 £26.25 £14.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.50 £16.99
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +91.29% -74.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £44.75 £26.56
90th Percentile - £51.41 £34.56
England median hourly rate £41.71 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -0.68% +19.99% -33.33%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in the East of England

Relational Database
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in the East of England

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Relational Database in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Relational Database in the East of England

Relational Database
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 10 October 2026. 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
Essex -10 14 £552 +22.61% 5
Hertfordshire - 9 £420 - 6
Cambridgeshire - 5 £525 - 21
Bedfordshire -2 3 £600 +9.09% 3
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) ENOVIA
1 1 (3.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) GCP
2 9 (29.03%) AWS
3 3 (9.68%) Azure
4 2 (6.45%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.23%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (41.94%) Firewall
1 13 (41.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (19.35%) MySQL
3 4 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (9.68%) Redis
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.23%) Power BI
5 1 (3.23%) Power Query
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 12 (38.71%) Finance
2 11 (35.48%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
3 10 (32.26%) Banking
4 9 (29.03%) Manufacturing
5 6 (19.35%) Law
5 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
6 4 (12.90%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (12.90%) Retail
7 2 (6.45%) Automotive
8 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (51.61%) Developer
2 12 (38.71%) Software Engineer
3 11 (35.48%) Java Developer
3 11 (35.48%) Java Engineer
3 11 (35.48%) Java Software Engineer
4 10 (32.26%) Backend Developer
5 9 (29.03%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 9 (29.03%) IAM Developer
5 9 (29.03%) Java Software Developer
5 9 (29.03%) Software Developer
6 5 (16.13%) Data Engineer
7 4 (12.90%) Python Engineer
8 3 (9.68%) Senior
9 2 (6.45%) Analyst
9 2 (6.45%) Architect
9 2 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (6.45%) Data Analyst
9 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (6.45%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (6.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) RESTful
2 4 (12.90%) Hibernate
2 4 (12.90%) OAuth
2 4 (12.90%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (9.68%) JWT
3 3 (9.68%) REST
4 2 (6.45%) Celery
4 2 (6.45%) Django
4 2 (6.45%) React
4 2 (6.45%) Terraform
4 2 (6.45%) Vue
5 1 (3.23%) .NET
5 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.23%) Kafka
5 1 (3.23%) Node.js
5 1 (3.23%) OAuth2
5 1 (3.23%) Spring
5 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.23%) Thymeleaf
5 1 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Life Science
2 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.45%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
1 2 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (6.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (70.97%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (61.29%) CI/CD
2 19 (61.29%) Software Engineering
3 17 (54.84%) Agile
4 15 (48.39%) DevOps
5 13 (41.94%) Identity Management
5 13 (41.94%) Load Balancing
6 11 (35.48%) Identity Access Management
6 11 (35.48%) Web Development
7 10 (32.26%) ETL
8 9 (29.03%) Data Modelling
8 9 (29.03%) Validation
9 8 (25.81%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (22.58%) Migration
11 6 (19.35%) Data Migration
11 6 (19.35%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 4 (12.90%) Collaborative Working
12 4 (12.90%) Data Engineering
12 4 (12.90%) Data Integration
12 4 (12.90%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) Java
2 13 (41.94%) Python
3 8 (25.81%) SQL
4 1 (3.23%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) Data Quality
2 4 (12.90%) QA
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Ansible
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (3.23%) Google
1 1 (3.23%) Siemens