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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 74 107
Rank change year-on-year -29 +33 +13
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 4 10 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.22% 0.95% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.40% 6.62% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £434 £261
25th Percentile - £484 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +13.16% +111.11%
75th Percentile - £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £470 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -9.62% -5.45% -5.98%
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% -
75th Percentile - £73.75 £26.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £57.25
% change year-on-year +6.25% -30.13% +154.61%

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 167 151 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.36% 14.35% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 83 99
10th Percentile £216 £311 £253
25th Percentile £368 £341 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -6.17%
75th Percentile £628 £575 £552
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -6.98% - -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 13
10th Percentile £22.89 £31.65 £16.52
25th Percentile £26.44 £55.13 £20.50
Median hourly rate £33.75 £64.50 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year -47.67% +156.16% -60.03%
75th Percentile £62.45 £66.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £83.13 £79.70 -
England median hourly rate £54.50 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +34.57% -4.71% -25.26%

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 12 February 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 +1 2 - -
Hertfordshire -18 1 - - 2
Essex - 1 - - 1
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 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) dbt
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
1 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (25.00%) Power BI
3 1 (25.00%) Redis
3 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Supply Chain Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Consul
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) StreamSets