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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 183 178
Rank change year-on-year +15 -5 -8
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 456 462 645
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.64% 1.38% 1.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.04% 7.52% 8.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 339 458
10th Percentile £325 £319 £400
25th Percentile £409 £406 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -10.42% +1.69%
75th Percentile £596 £608 £738
90th Percentile £750 £725 £806
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £589
% change year-on-year -4.76% -10.87% +2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 18
10th Percentile £17.01 - £53.50
25th Percentile £19.36 - £70.69
Median hourly rate £36.95 £40.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% -46.00% +53.85%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £78.56
90th Percentile - - £82.65
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £46.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +12.90% -38.00% +50.00%

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 5,044 6,144 7,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.16% 18.32% 17.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,490 4,403 5,548
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £825 £760
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £541
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.95% -1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 91 145
10th Percentile £18.69 £14.25 £21.02
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.38 £32.40
Median hourly rate £34.65 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% -31.82% +32.16%
75th Percentile £64.38 £60.78 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.74 £71.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.11% -33.64% +35.04%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -15 242 £550 - 352
North of England +3 75 £441 -15.95% 66
North West +31 54 £425 -6.08% 42
South East +26 54 £418 +17.19% 106
Midlands -5 30 £490 +22.50% 30
South West +21 26 £450 -16.28% 27
West Midlands -2 19 £498 -0.50% 22
Yorkshire -29 19 £488 -11.36% 17
East of England +14 11 £513 -24.07% 29
East Midlands -3 11 £490 +28.52% 8
North East - 2 - - 7
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 23 (5.04%) Apache Spark
2 18 (3.95%) JBoss
3 17 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (3.07%) Apache
5 8 (1.75%) GemFire
5 8 (1.75%) Oracle Coherence
5 8 (1.75%) SAS
6 6 (1.32%) Confluence
7 5 (1.10%) Camunda
8 4 (0.88%) Alfresco
8 4 (0.88%) nginx
8 4 (0.88%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.66%) CICS
9 3 (0.66%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.44%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.44%) Appian
10 2 (0.44%) IIS
10 2 (0.44%) Moodle
10 2 (0.44%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 19 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Endur
2 3 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.44%) Kondor
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.22%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 139 (30.48%) AWS
2 75 (16.45%) Azure
3 51 (11.18%) Serverless
4 43 (9.43%) Power Platform
5 38 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 32 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (5.92%) GCP
8 23 (5.04%) OpenShift
9 19 (4.17%) GitHub
10 18 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (3.29%) Amazon SQS
11 15 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (3.29%) dbt
11 15 (3.29%) SaaS
12 13 (2.85%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (2.63%) PaaS
14 9 (1.97%) Adobe Analytics
14 9 (1.97%) IaaS
14 9 (1.97%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.97%) HTTP
2 5 (1.10%) Wireless
3 4 (0.88%) POP3
3 4 (0.88%) SMTP
3 4 (0.88%) SSL
4 3 (0.66%) Firewall
4 3 (0.66%) Internet
5 2 (0.44%) AMQP
5 2 (0.44%) LAN
5 2 (0.44%) SMS
6 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.22%) Multicast
6 1 (0.22%) NAS
6 1 (0.22%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (28.95%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (20.39%) RDBMS
3 62 (13.60%) MongoDB
3 62 (13.60%) MySQL
4 60 (13.16%) SQL Server
5 56 (12.28%) Data Warehouse
6 44 (9.65%) NoSQL
7 40 (8.77%) Power BI
8 29 (6.36%) DB2
9 21 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
10 19 (4.17%) Big Data
11 18 (3.95%) Data Lake
12 17 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (3.73%) Tableau
13 15 (3.29%) Oracle Database
14 13 (2.85%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (2.85%) Hadoop
15 10 (2.19%) DynamoDB
16 9 (1.97%) Oracle Reports
17 7 (1.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 70 (15.35%) Git
2 64 (14.04%) JUnit
3 60 (13.16%) Jenkins
4 42 (9.21%) JIRA
5 36 (7.89%) Gradle
6 32 (7.02%) Mockito
7 30 (6.58%) Liquibase
8 15 (3.29%) GitLab
8 15 (3.29%) SonarQube
9 14 (3.07%) TeamCity
10 13 (2.85%) Cucumber
11 12 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (2.41%) Bitbucket Server
12 11 (2.41%) Browser DevTools
12 11 (2.41%) CA Release Automation
13 8 (1.75%) Bitbucket
13 8 (1.75%) ERwin
13 8 (1.75%) Maven
14 7 (1.54%) Eclipse
15 6 (1.32%) Selenium
General
1 153 (33.55%) Social Skills
2 145 (31.80%) Finance
3 77 (16.89%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (11.18%) Banking
5 45 (9.87%) Public Sector
6 30 (6.58%) Marketing
7 27 (5.92%) Telecoms
8 25 (5.48%) Investment Banking
9 23 (5.04%) Manufacturing
10 21 (4.61%) Electronics
11 15 (3.29%) Front Office
12 13 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (2.19%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.88%) Back Office
16 4 (0.88%) Digital Healthcare
17 3 (0.66%) Retail
18 2 (0.44%) Billing
18 2 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 206 (45.18%) Developer
2 89 (19.52%) Senior
3 87 (19.08%) Java Developer
4 68 (14.91%) Senior Developer
5 45 (9.87%) Data Engineer
6 43 (9.43%) Senior Java Developer
7 33 (7.24%) Analyst
8 29 (6.36%) Lead
9 23 (5.04%) Full-Stack Developer
10 20 (4.39%) .NET Developer
10 20 (4.39%) DBA
10 20 (4.39%) React Developer
11 19 (4.17%) Architect
11 19 (4.17%) Python Developer
11 19 (4.17%) Software Engineer
12 18 (3.95%) SQL Developer
13 17 (3.73%) Investment Banking Java Developer
13 17 (3.73%) Java Engineer
13 17 (3.73%) Linux Developer
13 17 (3.73%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (21.05%) Spring
2 85 (18.64%) Kafka
3 81 (17.76%) React
4 79 (17.32%) Spring Boot
5 65 (14.25%) .NET
6 57 (12.50%) AngularJS
7 55 (12.06%) HTML
8 53 (11.62%) REST
9 44 (9.65%) RESTful
10 43 (9.43%) CSS
10 43 (9.43%) XML
11 33 (7.24%) OpenAPI
11 33 (7.24%) Swagger
12 29 (6.36%) JSON
13 28 (6.14%) Web Services
14 25 (5.48%) Node.js
15 24 (5.26%) .NET Framework
16 21 (4.61%) JMS
16 21 (4.61%) SOAP
17 20 (4.39%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.92%) Data Structures
2 19 (4.17%) Equities
3 13 (2.85%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.19%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.19%) PKI
6 9 (1.97%) Algorithms
6 9 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (1.97%) Fixed Income
7 8 (1.75%) Reinsurance
8 7 (1.54%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.54%) Derivative
8 7 (1.54%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.32%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.32%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.10%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 81 (17.76%) Linux
2 42 (9.21%) Windows
3 30 (6.58%) Unix
4 19 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.10%) Android
5 5 (1.10%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.44%) AIX
6 2 (0.44%) CentOS
7 1 (0.22%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (38.60%) Agile
2 132 (28.95%) CI/CD
3 118 (25.88%) DevOps
4 114 (25.00%) Microservices
5 104 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
6 71 (15.57%) Containerisation
6 71 (15.57%) ETL
6 71 (15.57%) Migration
7 67 (14.69%) TDD
8 64 (14.04%) Business Intelligence
9 62 (13.60%) Data Modelling
9 62 (13.60%) Software Engineering
10 60 (13.16%) Analytics
11 52 (11.40%) OO
12 47 (10.31%) Continuous Integration
13 46 (10.09%) SDLC
14 44 (9.65%) Full-Stack Development
14 44 (9.65%) Test Automation
15 43 (9.43%) Visualisation
16 41 (8.99%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 255 (55.92%) SQL
2 168 (36.84%) Python
3 164 (35.96%) Java
4 75 (16.45%) JavaScript
5 57 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 55 (12.06%) C#
7 33 (7.24%) Shell Script
8 26 (5.70%) Perl
9 14 (3.07%) PL/SQL
10 12 (2.63%) Ruby
11 11 (2.41%) R
12 10 (2.19%) Scala
13 9 (1.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (1.75%) C++
14 8 (1.75%) RPG
14 8 (1.75%) RPG IV
15 7 (1.54%) PHP
15 7 (1.54%) T-SQL
16 6 (1.32%) PowerShell
17 5 (1.10%) C
Qualifications
1 76 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 64 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 58 (12.72%) Degree
4 18 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.19%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.75%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (1.32%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.10%) MCPD
9 5 (1.10%) MCSD
10 3 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.66%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.22%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.22%) OCP
12 1 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.22%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.77%) Data Quality
2 30 (6.58%) QA
3 9 (1.97%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.10%) GDPR
5 4 (0.88%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.66%) MiFID
7 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.44%) Basel III
7 2 (0.44%) SLA
8 1 (0.22%) EMIR
8 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 113 (24.78%) Docker
2 21 (4.61%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.75%) GridGain
4 3 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 69 (15.13%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.61%) Terraform
3 15 (3.29%) Kibana
4 13 (2.85%) Progress Chef
5 11 (2.41%) Ansible
6 7 (1.54%) Grafana
7 4 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.66%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.44%) Control-M
10 1 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 106 (23.25%) Oracle
2 44 (9.65%) Microsoft
3 29 (6.36%) SAP
4 28 (6.14%) Sybase
5 21 (4.61%) Splunk
6 20 (4.39%) ServiceNow
7 17 (3.73%) AppDynamics
7 17 (3.73%) Red Hat
8 14 (3.07%) IBM
9 9 (1.97%) Adobe
10 8 (1.75%) Cloudera
10 8 (1.75%) GoldenSource
10 8 (1.75%) Google
10 8 (1.75%) TIBCO
11 7 (1.54%) Databricks
11 7 (1.54%) Informatica
11 7 (1.54%) Teradata
12 5 (1.10%) Blue Prism
12 5 (1.10%) StreamSets
13 4 (0.88%) Virgin Media