Relational Database Contract Job Trends in Essex

Relational Database
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Relational Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 5 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 4.35% - 2.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 38.46% - 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £535
25th Percentile - - £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £583
75th Percentile - - £595
90th Percentile - - £604
East of England median daily rate £513 £400 £590
% change year-on-year +28.13% -32.20% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £76.50
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £79.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate - £72.50 £69.00
% change year-on-year - +5.07% +16.46%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 13 19 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 11.30% 15.08% 18.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 29
10th Percentile £361 £165 £188
25th Percentile £400 £213 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £225 £450
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -50.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £508 £318 £553
90th Percentile £571 £320 £575
East of England median daily rate £500 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £16.38 -
25th Percentile - £16.99 £20.50
Median hourly rate - £17.99 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -14.33% -72.73%
75th Percentile - £19.00 £36.00
90th Percentile - £19.60 £62.10
East of England median hourly rate £32.50 £20.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year +62.50% -67.35% +50.38%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Relational Database relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Relational Database job vacancy trend in Essex

Relational Database
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Relational Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Relational Database.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 30 October 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
Basildon - 5 £450 -
Relational Database
East of England

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 5 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (100.00%) dbt
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
1 5 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EMR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 5 (100.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
1 5 (100.00%) Snowflake Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 5 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) Data Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (80.00%) High Availability
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) StreamSets