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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 88 100
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 +20
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 12 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.93% 0.53% 0.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.50% 7.27% 6.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 9
10th Percentile £458 - £504
25th Percentile £469 £363 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £375 £607
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -38.17% +10.27%
75th Percentile £563 £394 £675
90th Percentile £585 £398 £700
England median daily rate £490 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -6.67% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £57.15
25th Percentile £21.20 - £60.38
Median hourly rate £21.40 - £69.00
75th Percentile £21.60 - £75.88
90th Percentile - - £78.05
England median hourly rate £52.50 £38.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% -48.67% +53.85%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 160 110 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.43% 7.28% 11.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 62 150
10th Percentile £375 £213 £346
25th Percentile £450 £316 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.40% -12.50% -4.67%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £575
90th Percentile £650 £643 £675
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 7
10th Percentile £20.98 £13.69 £39.20
25th Percentile £23.81 £14.11 £58.13
Median hourly rate £31.64 £15.49 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +104.26% -78.63% +78.00%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £43.75 £22.63 £78.30
England median hourly rate £43.50 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -34.09% +22.22%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 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
Essex - 5 £450 - 4
Norfolk - 5 £538 - 6
Bedfordshire - 1 £550 - 2
Hertfordshire - 1 - - 12
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (41.67%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Amazon S3
2 5 (41.67%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (41.67%) dbt
2 5 (41.67%) Serverless
2 5 (41.67%) Snowflake
3 3 (25.00%) IaaS
3 3 (25.00%) PaaS
3 3 (25.00%) SaaS
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (91.67%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (83.33%) RDBMS
3 5 (41.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (41.67%) Oracle Database
4 4 (33.33%) Data Lake
5 2 (16.67%) Metadata
5 2 (16.67%) PowerCenter
6 1 (8.33%) Big Data
6 1 (8.33%) Cognos Framework Manager
6 1 (8.33%) Cognos Report Studio
6 1 (8.33%) DataStage
6 1 (8.33%) DB2
6 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
6 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) ER Studio
1 1 (8.33%) ERwin
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Digital Health
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Architect
2 5 (41.67%) Snowflake Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Analytics Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Support
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Support Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Cognos Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Modeller
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) REST
1 3 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Data Modelling
1 10 (83.33%) ETL
2 6 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 6 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Data Engineering
3 5 (41.67%) Data Migration
3 5 (41.67%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) Analytics
4 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 4 (33.33%) High Availability
5 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (16.67%) Validation
7 1 (8.33%) Data Management
7 1 (8.33%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (75.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 5 (41.67%) StreamSets
3 4 (33.33%) Informatica
4 1 (8.33%) Cognos
4 1 (8.33%) IBM