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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 75 104
Rank change year-on-year -21 +29 +21
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 7 12 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.45% 0.96% 0.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.05% 8.45% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £460 £363 -
25th Percentile £475 £372 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -2.63% -17.39%
75th Percentile £525 £566 -
90th Percentile £540 £575 -
England median daily rate £460 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -10.68% -6.36% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £71.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £23.03 £72.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -68.23% +20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £32.77 £41.50 £63.63
% change year-on-year -21.05% -34.78% +15.70%

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 173 142 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.03% 11.41% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 67 122
10th Percentile £171 £213 £296
25th Percentile £402 £311 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.16% -20.10% -4.67%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £562
90th Percentile £650 £579 £675
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 12
10th Percentile £22.12 £15.00 £16.02
25th Percentile £24.64 £20.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £53.00 £30.09
Median % change year-on-year -38.68% +76.14% -26.12%
75th Percentile £39.88 £66.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £49.19 - -
England median hourly rate £46.50 £38.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +22.37% -17.71% -9.45%

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
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 5 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
Essex - 3 £450 - 8
Suffolk -2 2 - - 2
Hertfordshire -14 1 - - 9
Bedfordshire - 1 £550 - 6
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (42.86%) dbt
1 3 (42.86%) Serverless
1 3 (42.86%) Snowflake
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) RDBMS
2 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle Database
4 2 (28.57%) MySQL
4 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
5 1 (14.29%) Cognos Framework Manager
5 1 (14.29%) Cognos Report Studio
5 1 (14.29%) DataStage
5 1 (14.29%) DB2
5 1 (14.29%) Metadata
5 1 (14.29%) Power BI
5 1 (14.29%) Redis
5 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Snowflake Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Analytics Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Cognos Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Supply Chain Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
1 1 (14.29%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Data Modelling
2 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (57.14%) ETL
4 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Data Migration
4 3 (42.86%) Migration
5 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) High Availability
5 2 (28.57%) Microservices
5 2 (28.57%) Validation
5 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
6 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
6 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Consul
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) StreamSets
3 1 (14.29%) Cognos
3 1 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) Informatica