Relational Database Contracts in Edinburgh

Relational Database
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Relational Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Relational Database over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 69 101
Rank change year-on-year +15 +32 +15
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 13 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.08% 0.37% 0.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.03% 2.05% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 8
10th Percentile - - £261
25th Percentile £456 - £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £460
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -13.00% -0.59%
75th Percentile £525 - £503
90th Percentile £530 - £595
Scotland median daily rate £470 £425 £625
% change year-on-year +10.59% -32.00% +40.85%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 144 146 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.04% 17.91% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 106 256
10th Percentile £413 £381 £402
25th Percentile £450 £431 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £497 £489
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% +1.64% -2.20%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £544
90th Percentile £612 £669 £625
Scotland median daily rate £471 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.04% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.32 - -
Median hourly rate £27.35 - -
75th Percentile £28.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £26.50 £37.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.51% +5.91% +34.62%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in Edinburgh

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Relational Database in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in Edinburgh

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Relational Database in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in Edinburgh

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) AWS
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon S3
3 5 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (38.46%) Serverless
4 4 (30.77%) CloudFront
5 3 (23.08%) Route 53
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (15.38%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (15.38%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (15.38%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (15.38%) GitHub
6 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (15.38%) Yarn
7 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle Database
1 6 (46.15%) RDBMS
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
4 3 (23.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (23.08%) MySQL
5 1 (7.69%) Big Data
5 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
5 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) Ant
2 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (15.38%) Storybook
2 2 (15.38%) webpack
3 1 (7.69%) JUnit
3 1 (7.69%) MSTest
3 1 (7.69%) NUnit
3 1 (7.69%) Postman
3 1 (7.69%) Ranorex
3 1 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Back Office
3 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) DBA
1 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) SQL DBA
2 2 (15.38%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Open Source Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) React Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) JSON
1 4 (30.77%) Node.js
1 4 (30.77%) RESTful
2 3 (23.08%) CSS
2 3 (23.08%) JSON Schema
2 3 (23.08%) OAuth
2 3 (23.08%) REST
3 2 (15.38%) AWS CDK
3 2 (15.38%) Jest
3 2 (15.38%) Playwright
3 2 (15.38%) React
3 2 (15.38%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (15.38%) TypeORM
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
4 1 (7.69%) Great Expectations
4 1 (7.69%) OpenAPI
4 1 (7.69%) PySpark
4 1 (7.69%) Swagger
4 1 (7.69%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) API Development
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) Database Security
4 3 (23.08%) Fintech
5 2 (15.38%) Clean Code
5 2 (15.38%) Data Design
5 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps
5 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (15.38%) High Availability
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (15.38%) OWASP
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) SQL Optimisation
5 2 (15.38%) User Experience
6 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) PL/SQL
3 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
4 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.69%) C#
5 1 (7.69%) Java
5 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.69%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (15.38%) QA
3 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft