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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 84 100
Rank change year-on-year -27 +16 +22
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 3 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.16% 0.40% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.90% 2.74% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £515 £288
25th Percentile - £519 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% +111.11%
75th Percentile - £575 £534
90th Percentile - - £641
England median daily rate £463 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -11.90% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £71.25 £22.75
Median hourly rate £23.03 £72.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.23% +195.92% -66.21%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £26.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £26.50 £43.28
% change year-on-year +60.38% -38.77% +92.47%

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 158 146 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.32% 14.44% 8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 88 96
10th Percentile £215 £314 £243
25th Percentile £363 £390 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.86% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 11
10th Percentile £20.75 £23.63 £15.52
25th Percentile £24.64 £44.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £63.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.41% +157.14% -61.11%
75th Percentile £54.38 £66.00 £34.25
90th Percentile £82.60 £78.85 £77.50
England median hourly rate £49.36 £34.06 £40.25
% change year-on-year +44.94% -15.39% -32.92%

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 14 March 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
Suffolk - 2 - - 1
Hertfordshire -27 1 - - 2
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 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Supply Chain Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Consul