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 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 72 98
Rank change year-on-year +19 +26 +7
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 14 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.23% 0.23% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.86% 1.28% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile £447 - £453
25th Percentile £456 - £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £400 £488
Median % change year-on-year +20.31% -17.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £525 - £588
90th Percentile £529 - £655
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% +11.11%

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 142 156 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.61% 17.81% 22.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 115 205
10th Percentile £413 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £480 £496
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -3.23% -0.80%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £550
90th Percentile £596 £660 £633
Scotland median daily rate £470 £454 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -9.25% -

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 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) AWS
3 7 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 7 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (50.00%) Serverless
4 5 (35.71%) CloudFront
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon Cognito
5 4 (28.57%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (28.57%) GitHub
5 4 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (21.43%) Firebase
6 3 (21.43%) Route 53
7 2 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (14.29%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (14.29%) Yarn
8 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (7.14%) GCP
8 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (35.71%) Oracle Database
2 5 (35.71%) RDBMS
3 3 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (21.43%) MySQL
3 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.14%) Big Data
4 1 (7.14%) Delta Lake
4 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Cypress.io
1 4 (28.57%) Git
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 4 (28.57%) Storybook
2 2 (14.29%) Ant
2 2 (14.29%) webpack
3 1 (7.14%) JUnit
3 1 (7.14%) MSTest
3 1 (7.14%) NUnit
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (7.14%) Postman
3 1 (7.14%) Ranorex
3 1 (7.14%) Selenium
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Back Office
3 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) DBA
2 3 (21.43%) React Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) SQL DBA
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Open Source Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) RESTful
2 4 (28.57%) AWS CDK
2 4 (28.57%) CSS
2 4 (28.57%) Jest
2 4 (28.57%) JSON
2 4 (28.57%) React
2 4 (28.57%) Tailwind CSS
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Amplify
3 3 (21.43%) GraphQL
3 3 (21.43%) JSON Schema
3 3 (21.43%) Node.js
3 3 (21.43%) OAuth
3 3 (21.43%) Playwright
4 2 (14.29%) REST
4 2 (14.29%) TypeORM
5 1 (7.14%) Great Expectations
5 1 (7.14%) OpenAPI
5 1 (7.14%) Pandas
5 1 (7.14%) PySpark
5 1 (7.14%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) API Development
3 4 (28.57%) Clean Code
3 4 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (28.57%) OWASP
3 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (28.57%) User Experience
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Database Security
4 3 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Fintech
4 3 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (21.43%) Responsive Web Design
4 3 (21.43%) Secure Coding
4 3 (21.43%) Workflow
5 2 (14.29%) Microservices
5 2 (14.29%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) SQL
1 7 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 5 (35.71%) PL/SQL
3 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft