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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 82 95
Rank change year-on-year -5 +13 +8
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 24 11 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.10% 0.87% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.12% 7.19% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 3
10th Percentile £410 £458 -
25th Percentile £466 £469 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £513 £375
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% +36.67% -38.17%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £550
90th Percentile £675 £585 £648
England median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.75 £21.20 -
Median hourly rate £21.50 £21.40 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% - -
75th Percentile £22.25 £21.60 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £36.95 £40.50
% change year-on-year +15.02% -8.77% -46.00%

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 170 153 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 7.81% 12.14% 6.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 93 63
10th Percentile £354 £376 £240
25th Percentile £410 £450 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £410
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +21.95% -18.00%
75th Percentile £595 £580 £500
90th Percentile £626 £650 £649
England median daily rate £500 £515 £540
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 6 8
10th Percentile £20.44 £19.28 £13.69
25th Percentile £20.75 £20.86 £14.11
Median hourly rate £53.00 £26.52 £15.49
Median % change year-on-year +99.85% +71.21% -75.41%
75th Percentile £70.00 £31.64 £18.50
90th Percentile - - £22.63
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.58 £37.50
% change year-on-year +10.63% -7.80% -31.82%

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 12 August 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
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 12 August 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 11 £505 +12.22% 2
Hertfordshire -10 6 £420 - 2
Cambridgeshire - 5 - - 5
Bedfordshire +9 2 £600 +9.09%
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 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) GCP
2 6 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) Azure AKS
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (41.67%) Firewall
1 10 (41.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (29.17%) MySQL
3 5 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (16.67%) Redis
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.17%) Metadata
5 1 (4.17%) Power BI
5 1 (4.17%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
General
1 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 8 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (29.17%) Banking
4 6 (25.00%) Manufacturing
5 4 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (16.67%) Retail
6 3 (12.50%) Law
6 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
7 2 (8.33%) Automotive
8 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Developer
2 9 (37.50%) Software Engineer
3 8 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 8 (33.33%) Java Engineer
3 8 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
4 7 (29.17%) Backend Developer
5 6 (25.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 6 (25.00%) IAM Developer
5 6 (25.00%) Java Software Developer
5 6 (25.00%) Software Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Senior
7 2 (8.33%) Architect
7 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Python Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Migration Specialist
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Supply Chain Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) Hibernate
1 5 (20.83%) OAuth
1 5 (20.83%) RESTful
1 5 (20.83%) SQLAlchemy
2 4 (16.67%) JWT
3 3 (12.50%) Celery
3 3 (12.50%) Django
3 3 (12.50%) REST
4 2 (8.33%) OAuth2
4 2 (8.33%) React
4 2 (8.33%) Spring
4 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
4 2 (8.33%) Vue
5 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.17%) Flask
5 1 (4.17%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.17%) JPA
5 1 (4.17%) Kafka
5 1 (4.17%) Node.js
5 1 (4.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Life Science
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) LIMS
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
1 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (8.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) CI/CD
1 17 (70.83%) Software Engineering
2 16 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (54.17%) Agile
4 12 (50.00%) DevOps
5 10 (41.67%) Identity Management
5 10 (41.67%) Load Balancing
6 8 (33.33%) ETL
6 8 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
6 8 (33.33%) Web Development
7 7 (29.17%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
8 6 (25.00%) Validation
9 5 (20.83%) Data Engineering
9 5 (20.83%) Informatics
10 4 (16.67%) Biotechnology
10 4 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (16.67%) Data Integration
10 4 (16.67%) Migration
11 3 (12.50%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) Java
2 11 (45.83%) Python
3 5 (20.83%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Ansible
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.17%) Google