Relational Database Contracts in Glasgow

Relational Database
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 31 62 32
Rank change year-on-year +31 -30 +18
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 54 20 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 6.77% 2.28% 6.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.34% 11.30% 29.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 18 42
10th Percentile £408 £384 £378
25th Percentile £421 £400 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £425 £740
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% -42.59% +74.69%
75th Percentile £547 £647 £750
90th Percentile £553 £675 -
Scotland median daily rate £470 £425 £625
% change year-on-year +10.59% -32.00% +40.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £62.84
25th Percentile - £51.25 £63.83
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £66.56
Median % change year-on-year - -21.13% -
75th Percentile - £53.75 £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
Scotland median hourly rate - £52.50 £66.56
% change year-on-year - -21.13% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 178 177 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 22.31% 20.18% 21.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 137 146
10th Percentile £288 £303 £376
25th Percentile £372 £381 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -7.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £533 £638
90th Percentile £589 £645 £750
Scotland median daily rate £471 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.04% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £20.16 - £24.95
25th Percentile £21.01 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £23.05 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.10% +50.00% -25.53%
75th Percentile £25.71 £53.75 £66.56
90th Percentile £26.93 - £67.88
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in Glasgow

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in Glasgow

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in Glasgow

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in Glasgow

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (9.26%) AWS
1 5 (9.26%) Azure
2 3 (5.56%) OpenShift
2 3 (5.56%) Snowflake
3 1 (1.85%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (1.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (1.85%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.85%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.85%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (55.56%) DB2
2 29 (53.70%) MongoDB
3 15 (27.78%) RDBMS
4 3 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.70%) CockroachDB
6 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (64.81%) JUnit
2 7 (12.96%) Git
3 3 (5.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.85%) Mercurial
4 1 (1.85%) Selenium
4 1 (1.85%) Subversion
General
1 29 (53.70%) Finance
2 28 (51.85%) Social Skills
3 27 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (37.04%) Front Office
5 13 (24.07%) Banking
5 13 (24.07%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.56%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.70%) Back Office
7 2 (3.70%) Legal
7 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (83.33%) Developer
2 42 (77.78%) Java Developer
3 7 (12.96%) Core Java Developer
3 7 (12.96%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 7 (12.96%) SQL Developer
3 7 (12.96%) Sybase Developer
4 3 (5.56%) Linux Developer
4 3 (5.56%) Python Developer
4 3 (5.56%) Senior
4 3 (5.56%) Senior Developer
4 3 (5.56%) Software Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) Analyst
5 2 (3.70%) Applications Support
5 2 (3.70%) Java Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) Senior Python Developer
5 2 (3.70%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (1.85%) Applications Specialist
6 1 (1.85%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (1.85%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (66.67%) Spring
2 31 (57.41%) Kafka
3 23 (42.59%) JMS
4 6 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 4 (7.41%) Middleware
6 3 (5.56%) Loki
6 3 (5.56%) REST
7 2 (3.70%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.70%) Django
7 2 (3.70%) MSMQ
7 2 (3.70%) React
8 1 (1.85%) DOM
8 1 (1.85%) EJB
8 1 (1.85%) Java EE
8 1 (1.85%) JDBC
8 1 (1.85%) JPA
8 1 (1.85%) JSON
8 1 (1.85%) pytest
8 1 (1.85%) RESTful
8 1 (1.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (66.67%) Data Structures
2 19 (35.19%) Equities
3 6 (11.11%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (5.56%) Derivative
5 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 44 (81.48%) Linux
2 9 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (1.85%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (74.07%) Agile
1 40 (74.07%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (55.56%) Multithreading
3 27 (50.00%) SDLC
4 24 (44.44%) Open Source
5 22 (40.74%) Software Engineering
6 19 (35.19%) Performance Tuning
7 18 (33.33%) Database Tuning
8 12 (22.22%) Concurrent Programming
9 9 (16.67%) Test Automation
10 8 (14.81%) Event-Driven
11 7 (12.96%) CI/CD
11 7 (12.96%) Computer Science
11 7 (12.96%) DevOps
12 5 (9.26%) Investment Management
12 5 (9.26%) Wealth Management
13 4 (7.41%) Data Modelling
13 4 (7.41%) Data Protection
14 3 (5.56%) ITIL
14 3 (5.56%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 48 (88.89%) SQL
2 45 (83.33%) Java
3 36 (66.67%) Python
4 25 (46.30%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.70%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.85%) C#
6 1 (1.85%) C++
6 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (3.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.85%) Docker
3 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.41%) Terraform
3 3 (5.56%) Ansible
3 3 (5.56%) Grafana
3 3 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.85%) Podman
4 1 (1.85%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 30 (55.56%) Sybase
2 4 (7.41%) Oracle
2 4 (7.41%) Splunk
3 3 (5.56%) IBM
3 3 (5.56%) Veritas
3 3 (5.56%) VMware
4 2 (3.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.85%) Netskope
5 1 (1.85%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.85%) Symantec