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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 76 101
Rank change year-on-year -12 +25 +30
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 11 11 13
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.76% 0.84% 0.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.67% 8.66% 6.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 8
10th Percentile £458 - £475
25th Percentile £469 £363 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £400 £583
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -31.33% -2.92%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £626
90th Percentile £585 - £683
England median daily rate £470 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -10.48% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £57.15
25th Percentile - £71.25 £60.38
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year - +5.07% +16.46%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £75.88
90th Percentile - - £78.05
England median hourly rate - £41.50 £71.00
% change year-on-year - -41.55% +86.43%

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 194 127 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.43% 9.66% 11.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 59 137
10th Percentile £288 £213 £287
25th Percentile £445 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £513 £575
90th Percentile £650 £585 £675
England median daily rate £506 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.05% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 12
10th Percentile £22.95 £13.74 £16.02
25th Percentile £26.25 £15.55 £20.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £23.75 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -61.22% +50.38%
75th Percentile £44.75 £56.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.41 £66.00 -
England median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £47.90
% change year-on-year +24.29% -26.92% -4.21%

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 7 November 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 7 November 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
Norfolk - 4 £538 -
Essex - 4 £450 - 5
Suffolk 0 2 - -
Bedfordshire - 1 £550 -
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 4 (36.36%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon S3
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (36.36%) dbt
2 4 (36.36%) Serverless
2 4 (36.36%) Snowflake
3 3 (27.27%) IaaS
3 3 (27.27%) PaaS
3 3 (27.27%) SaaS
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (81.82%) RDBMS
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (36.36%) Oracle Database
3 3 (27.27%) Data Lake
4 2 (18.18%) MySQL
4 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
4 2 (18.18%) PowerCenter
5 1 (9.09%) Cognos Framework Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Cognos Report Studio
5 1 (9.09%) DataStage
5 1 (9.09%) DB2
5 1 (9.09%) Metadata
5 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (9.09%) Redis
5 1 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Snowflake Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Analytics Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Cognos Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) REST
1 3 (27.27%) SOAP
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 1 (9.09%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Data Modelling
2 8 (72.73%) ETL
3 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (45.45%) Data Integration
4 5 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (36.36%) Analytics
5 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
5 4 (36.36%) Data Migration
5 4 (36.36%) Migration
6 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
6 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
6 3 (27.27%) High Availability
6 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 2 (18.18%) Data Management
7 2 (18.18%) DevOps
7 2 (18.18%) Microservices
7 2 (18.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) Data Quality
2 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Consul
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle
2 4 (36.36%) Informatica
2 4 (36.36%) StreamSets
3 1 (9.09%) Cognos
3 1 (9.09%) IBM