Relational Database Contracts in England

Relational Database
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 189 178
Rank change year-on-year +25 -11 -9
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 436 486 692
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.64% 1.31% 1.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.93% 7.42% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 361 477
10th Percentile £358 £360 £413
25th Percentile £425 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £597 £625 £738
90th Percentile £740 £738 £806
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -4.65% -10.42% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 22
10th Percentile £17.36 £24.53 £23.87
25th Percentile £19.97 £27.19 £56.88
Median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% -56.67% +57.89%
75th Percentile £53.75 £36.94 £78.00
90th Percentile - £39.08 £79.43
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £40.50 £74.00
% change year-on-year +29.63% -45.27% +48.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,880 6,554 8,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.36% 17.63% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,377 4,717 5,948
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £813 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 141 157
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.00 £32.40
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -34.29% +55.00%
75th Percentile £62.88 £51.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £82.70
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -6.67% -34.78% +52.12%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in England

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in England

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in England over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in England

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in England

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Relational Database in England over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Relational Database in England

Relational Database
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 7 July 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
London -1 225 £550 - 393
North of England -3 67 £445 -15.24% 88
North West +36 58 £445 -6.32% 56
South East +56 52 £476 +12.06% 115
South West +39 29 £525 -2.33% 42
Midlands +12 29 £488 +21.88% 38
West Midlands +7 19 £490 +22.50% 23
East of England +28 10 £475 -29.63% 21
East Midlands -1 10 £476 +24.92% 14
Yorkshire -34 7 £550 - 24
North East 0 2 - - 8
Relational Database
UK

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 28 (6.42%) Apache Spark
2 22 (5.05%) Apache
3 18 (4.13%) JBoss
4 16 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (2.52%) Confluence
6 10 (2.29%) SAS
7 9 (2.06%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.83%) GemFire
8 8 (1.83%) Oracle Coherence
9 5 (1.15%) Camunda
10 4 (0.92%) Alfresco
10 4 (0.92%) CMS
10 4 (0.92%) Drupal
10 4 (0.92%) WordPress
11 3 (0.69%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.46%) Appian
12 2 (0.46%) CICS
12 2 (0.46%) IIS
12 2 (0.46%) MQSeries
12 2 (0.46%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 16 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.38%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.23%) CATIA
5 1 (0.23%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Endur
2 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.46%) Kondor
2 2 (0.46%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.23%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 135 (30.96%) AWS
2 76 (17.43%) Azure
3 48 (11.01%) Serverless
4 42 (9.63%) Power Platform
5 34 (7.80%) Amazon S3
6 29 (6.65%) GCP
7 28 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (5.28%) OpenShift
9 21 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (3.67%) dbt
11 15 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (3.44%) GitHub
12 13 (2.98%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (2.98%) PaaS
13 12 (2.75%) SaaS
14 11 (2.52%) Power Automate
15 10 (2.29%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (2.29%) Amazon SQS
15 10 (2.29%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.29%) HTTP
2 7 (1.61%) Internet
3 6 (1.38%) SSL
4 4 (0.92%) Firewall
4 4 (0.92%) POP3
4 4 (0.92%) SMTP
5 3 (0.69%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.69%) SSH
6 2 (0.46%) LAN
6 2 (0.46%) SMS
7 1 (0.23%) AMQP
7 1 (0.23%) Intranet
7 1 (0.23%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.23%) Multicast
7 1 (0.23%) VPN
7 1 (0.23%) Wireless
7 1 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (27.75%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (22.94%) RDBMS
3 61 (13.99%) MongoDB
4 56 (12.84%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (12.84%) SQL Server
5 51 (11.70%) MySQL
6 49 (11.24%) NoSQL
7 36 (8.26%) Power BI
8 29 (6.65%) Big Data
9 27 (6.19%) DB2
10 23 (5.28%) Data Lake
11 22 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
12 20 (4.59%) Oracle Database
13 16 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
14 14 (3.21%) Hadoop
15 13 (2.98%) Tableau
16 11 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
17 10 (2.29%) DynamoDB
18 9 (2.06%) Metadata
18 9 (2.06%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 67 (15.37%) JUnit
2 64 (14.68%) Git
3 62 (14.22%) Jenkins
4 44 (10.09%) JIRA
5 41 (9.40%) Gradle
6 35 (8.03%) Mockito
7 30 (6.88%) Liquibase
8 16 (3.67%) Bitbucket Server
8 16 (3.67%) Cucumber
8 16 (3.67%) GitLab
8 16 (3.67%) SonarQube
9 14 (3.21%) ERwin
10 13 (2.98%) Maven
10 13 (2.98%) TeamCity
11 12 (2.75%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (2.52%) CA Release Automation
13 7 (1.61%) Bitbucket
14 6 (1.38%) Selenium
15 5 (1.15%) IntelliJ
15 5 (1.15%) JMeter
General
1 139 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 131 (30.05%) Finance
3 81 (18.58%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (10.32%) Banking
5 42 (9.63%) Public Sector
6 30 (6.88%) Marketing
7 26 (5.96%) Telecoms
8 23 (5.28%) Investment Banking
8 23 (5.28%) Manufacturing
9 21 (4.82%) Electronics
10 14 (3.21%) Front Office
11 11 (2.52%) Financial Institution
11 11 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.92%) Back Office
14 4 (0.92%) Retail
15 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.46%) Billing
16 2 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 195 (44.72%) Developer
2 90 (20.64%) Senior
3 86 (19.72%) Java Developer
4 69 (15.83%) Senior Developer
5 50 (11.47%) Data Engineer
6 45 (10.32%) Senior Java Developer
7 31 (7.11%) Lead
8 26 (5.96%) Software Engineer
9 24 (5.50%) Analyst
10 19 (4.36%) DBA
10 19 (4.36%) Full-Stack Developer
10 19 (4.36%) Python Developer
10 19 (4.36%) React Developer
11 18 (4.13%) Architect
12 17 (3.90%) .NET Developer
12 17 (3.90%) Data Modeller
12 17 (3.90%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 17 (3.90%) SQL Developer
13 16 (3.67%) Investment Banking Java Developer
13 16 (3.67%) Linux Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (20.64%) Spring
2 85 (19.50%) Kafka
3 75 (17.20%) Spring Boot
4 68 (15.60%) React
5 56 (12.84%) .NET
6 55 (12.61%) AngularJS
7 52 (11.93%) REST
8 35 (8.03%) HTML
9 34 (7.80%) XML
10 33 (7.57%) OpenAPI
10 33 (7.57%) RESTful
10 33 (7.57%) Swagger
10 33 (7.57%) Web Services
11 26 (5.96%) SOAP
12 25 (5.73%) .NET Framework
13 24 (5.50%) Node.js
14 23 (5.28%) CSS
14 23 (5.28%) JSON
15 21 (4.82%) JMS
16 18 (4.13%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.19%) Data Structures
2 18 (4.13%) Equities
3 11 (2.52%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.29%) Fixed Income
4 10 (2.29%) PKI
5 8 (1.83%) Algorithms
5 8 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (1.61%) Derivative
7 6 (1.38%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.15%) Data Fabric
8 5 (1.15%) Distributed Applications
8 5 (1.15%) Market Risk
8 5 (1.15%) N-Tier
9 4 (0.92%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.92%) Legacy Code
9 4 (0.92%) Replication
10 3 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 82 (18.81%) Linux
2 37 (8.49%) Windows
3 32 (7.34%) Unix
4 20 (4.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.38%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.23%) AIX
6 1 (0.23%) Android
6 1 (0.23%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (36.93%) Agile
2 129 (29.59%) CI/CD
3 115 (26.38%) DevOps
4 113 (25.92%) Microservices
5 100 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
6 74 (16.97%) Migration
7 73 (16.74%) Containerisation
7 73 (16.74%) ETL
7 73 (16.74%) TDD
8 72 (16.51%) Software Engineering
9 66 (15.14%) Business Intelligence
9 66 (15.14%) Data Modelling
10 59 (13.53%) Analytics
11 43 (9.86%) Performance Tuning
12 42 (9.63%) Continuous Integration
13 41 (9.40%) Data Pipeline
13 41 (9.40%) Visualisation
14 40 (9.17%) OO
15 39 (8.94%) SDLC
16 38 (8.72%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 258 (59.17%) SQL
2 162 (37.16%) Python
3 154 (35.32%) Java
4 57 (13.07%) JavaScript
5 52 (11.93%) TypeScript
6 50 (11.47%) C#
7 34 (7.80%) Shell Script
8 19 (4.36%) Perl
9 14 (3.21%) PL/SQL
10 13 (2.98%) R
11 12 (2.75%) Scala
12 11 (2.52%) PHP
12 11 (2.52%) Ruby
13 9 (2.06%) C++
14 8 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (1.83%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.83%) RPG
14 8 (1.83%) RPG IV
15 7 (1.61%) T-SQL
16 6 (1.38%) C
Qualifications
1 91 (20.87%) Security Cleared
2 80 (18.35%) SC Cleared
3 59 (13.53%) Degree
4 16 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (2.06%) Numerate Degree
7 8 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.15%) MCPD
8 5 (1.15%) MCSD
9 4 (0.92%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.92%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.46%) OCP
11 2 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.46%) Sun Certification
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.23%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (8.94%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.59%) QA
3 5 (1.15%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.69%) GDPR
5 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.46%) Basel III
5 2 (0.46%) MiFID
5 2 (0.46%) SLA
6 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 114 (26.15%) Docker
2 21 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.83%) GridGain
4 4 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 80 (18.35%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.05%) Terraform
3 15 (3.44%) Kibana
4 13 (2.98%) Progress Chef
5 12 (2.75%) Ansible
6 8 (1.83%) Grafana
7 4 (0.92%) Data Guard
7 4 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.46%) Control-M
9 1 (0.23%) Argo
9 1 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 1 (0.23%) Graylog
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.23%) Packer
9 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 90 (20.64%) Oracle
2 49 (11.24%) Microsoft
3 33 (7.57%) SAP
4 30 (6.88%) Sybase
5 20 (4.59%) Splunk
6 18 (4.13%) Red Hat
7 17 (3.90%) AppDynamics
8 16 (3.67%) IBM
8 16 (3.67%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.29%) Databricks
9 10 (2.29%) Google
10 9 (2.06%) Adobe
11 8 (1.83%) Cloudera
11 8 (1.83%) TIBCO
12 7 (1.61%) Teradata
13 6 (1.38%) Informatica
14 5 (1.15%) Blue Prism
14 5 (1.15%) Dynatrace
14 5 (1.15%) Zend
15 4 (0.92%) SnapLogic