Relational Database Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Relational Database
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Relational Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 27 50
Rank change year-on-year -29 +23 -15
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 44 56 16
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.65% 7.47% 2.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.96% 26.17% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 23 14
10th Percentile £409 £317 £335
25th Percentile £421 £375 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £470 £413
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +13.94% -13.16%
75th Percentile £499 £531 £531
90th Percentile £548 £575 £561
Scotland median daily rate £470 £463 £438
% change year-on-year +1.62% +5.71% -7.89%

All Database & BI 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 245 214 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 20.33% 28.53% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 114 85
10th Percentile £311 £313 £319
25th Percentile £358 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £471 £420
Median % change year-on-year -12.95% +12.14% -12.41%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £500
90th Percentile £550 £643 £575
Scotland median daily rate £437 £493 £450
% change year-on-year -11.31% +9.56% -7.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £17.72
25th Percentile - £52.50 £18.92
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year - +180.76% -69.57%
75th Percentile - £57.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate - £55.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year - +180.76% -69.57%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Relational Database
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in Glasgow over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in Glasgow

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.27%) ChatGPT
1 12 (27.27%) Snowflake
2 11 (25.00%) GitHub
3 10 (22.73%) Anthropic Claude
3 10 (22.73%) Power Platform
4 9 (20.45%) GitHub Copilot
5 4 (9.09%) AWS
6 3 (6.82%) Azure
6 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (4.55%) GCP
7 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.55%) SaaS
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.00%) Db2
2 10 (22.73%) Metadata
3 9 (20.45%) Power BI
3 9 (20.45%) SQL Server
4 8 (18.18%) MySQL
4 8 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (18.18%) Tableau
5 6 (13.64%) MongoDB
6 5 (11.36%) RDBMS
7 4 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (6.82%) Oracle Database
9 2 (4.55%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
10 1 (2.27%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database 10g
10 1 (2.27%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Git
2 3 (6.82%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.55%) Artifactory
3 2 (4.55%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.55%) GitLab
3 2 (4.55%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.27%) ER Studio
4 1 (2.27%) ERwin
4 1 (2.27%) git-flow
4 1 (2.27%) JIRA
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.27%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (2.27%) Selenium
4 1 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.27%) Subversion
General
1 25 (56.82%) Finance
2 23 (52.27%) Social Skills
3 19 (43.18%) Banking
4 12 (27.27%) Investment Banking
5 9 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (15.91%) Front Office
7 4 (9.09%) Public Sector
8 2 (4.55%) Prime Brokerage
8 2 (4.55%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
9 1 (2.27%) Back Office
9 1 (2.27%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (2.27%) Legal
9 1 (2.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (50.00%) Developer
2 11 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 11 (25.00%) Python Developer
3 10 (22.73%) Site Engineer
3 10 (22.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 9 (20.45%) Senior
5 4 (9.09%) Core Java Developer
5 4 (9.09%) Gen AI Developer
5 4 (9.09%) Python Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Oracle Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Perl Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Programmer
7 2 (4.55%) Python Programmer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Programmer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Python Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) Spring
2 3 (6.82%) Kafka
2 3 (6.82%) Spring Boot
3 2 (4.55%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.55%) REST
3 2 (4.55%) RESTful
3 2 (4.55%) Web Services
4 1 (2.27%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.27%) Hibernate
4 1 (2.27%) JWT
4 1 (2.27%) Node.js
4 1 (2.27%) Playwright
4 1 (2.27%) RxJS
4 1 (2.27%) SOAP
4 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.27%) Equity Derivative
2 9 (20.45%) Derivative
3 8 (18.18%) Data Structures
4 5 (11.36%) Legacy Code
5 3 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (6.82%) Management Information System
6 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.55%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (4.55%) Equities
7 1 (2.27%) AI Agents
7 1 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (2.27%) IoT
7 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (31.82%) Linux
2 10 (22.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (65.91%) CI/CD
2 20 (45.45%) AI
2 20 (45.45%) LLM
3 19 (43.18%) Agile
4 16 (36.36%) Generative AI
4 16 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (36.36%) Risk Management
5 14 (31.82%) Test Automation
6 13 (29.55%) TDD
7 12 (27.27%) BDD
7 12 (27.27%) Data Modelling
7 12 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
7 12 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
7 12 (27.27%) Software Engineering
8 11 (25.00%) Observability
8 11 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 10 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (20.45%) Data Lineage
10 9 (20.45%) Event-Driven
10 9 (20.45%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 28 (63.64%) Python
1 28 (63.64%) SQL
2 21 (47.73%) Java
3 9 (20.45%) C++
4 4 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.82%) Perl
6 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.55%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.55%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.27%) Scala
7 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (27.27%) QA
2 10 (22.73%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (6.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.27%) Podman
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) Oracle
2 11 (25.00%) Sybase
3 8 (18.18%) IBM
4 2 (4.55%) Google
5 1 (2.27%) Avaloq
5 1 (2.27%) Charles River
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.27%) Sparx