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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 29 51
Rank change year-on-year -5 +22 -14
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 45 53 23
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.96% 6.82% 2.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.32% 30.64% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 31 20
10th Percentile £354 £408 £340
25th Percentile £412 £423 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £413
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +15.15% -43.49%
75th Percentile £570 £550 £591
90th Percentile £575 £575 £675
Scotland median daily rate £490 £473 £425
% change year-on-year +3.70% +11.18% -32.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -21.13%

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 185 173 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 24.50% 22.27% 20.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 108 134
10th Percentile £313 £287 £288
25th Percentile £320 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £453 £445
Median % change year-on-year -10.61% +1.69% -11.00%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £509
90th Percentile £570 £589 £612
Scotland median daily rate £425 £474 £475
% change year-on-year -10.24% -0.32% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £36.50 £20.16 -
25th Percentile £38.75 £21.01 £51.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £23.05 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.42% -56.10% +50.00%
75th Percentile £46.25 £25.71 £53.75
90th Percentile £48.50 £26.93 -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £26.50 £37.07
% change year-on-year +88.68% -28.51% +5.91%

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 8 May 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (33.33%) AWS
2 11 (24.44%) GitHub
3 9 (20.00%) ChatGPT
3 9 (20.00%) Snowflake
4 7 (15.56%) Anthropic Claude
4 7 (15.56%) Power Platform
5 6 (13.33%) Azure
5 6 (13.33%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (8.89%) GCP
8 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (46.67%) MySQL
2 11 (24.44%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (22.22%) MongoDB
4 9 (20.00%) Metadata
4 9 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 8 (17.78%) DB2
6 7 (15.56%) Power BI
6 7 (15.56%) Tableau
7 4 (8.89%) DynamoDB
7 4 (8.89%) NoSQL
8 2 (4.44%) RDBMS
8 2 (4.44%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.44%) Git
3 1 (2.22%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.22%) NUnit
3 1 (2.22%) Selenium
3 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (48.89%) Finance
2 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
3 10 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (22.22%) Banking
3 10 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 9 (20.00%) Investment Banking
5 7 (15.56%) Front Office
6 3 (6.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Site Engineer
1 12 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) Developer
3 8 (17.78%) Java Developer
4 7 (15.56%) Senior
5 5 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Python Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Business Analyst
7 3 (6.67%) Data Analyst
7 3 (6.67%) Python Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Software Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Core Java Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Data Business Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) Data Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Gen AI Developer
8 2 (4.44%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (24.44%) React
2 6 (13.33%) RESTful
3 5 (11.11%) Redux
4 4 (8.89%) Django
4 4 (8.89%) Express.js
4 4 (8.89%) FastAPI
4 4 (8.89%) Flask
4 4 (8.89%) GraphQL
4 4 (8.89%) MERN Stack
4 4 (8.89%) NestJS
4 4 (8.89%) Node.js
4 4 (8.89%) REST
5 3 (6.67%) Spring
5 3 (6.67%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.44%) HTML
7 1 (2.22%) .NET
7 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.22%) CSS
7 1 (2.22%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.67%) Product Ownership
2 9 (20.00%) Derivative
2 9 (20.00%) Equity Derivative
3 5 (11.11%) CMDB
4 4 (8.89%) Data Centre
5 3 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (6.67%) Virtual Team
6 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
6 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.78%) Linux
2 6 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 18 (40.00%) AI
3 17 (37.78%) Agile
3 17 (37.78%) LLM
4 14 (31.11%) Microservices
4 14 (31.11%) Root Cause Analysis
5 13 (28.89%) Data Lineage
5 13 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (28.89%) Runbook
5 13 (28.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 12 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (24.44%) Generative AI
8 10 (22.22%) BDD
8 10 (22.22%) Observability
8 10 (22.22%) Risk Management
8 10 (22.22%) SDLC
9 9 (20.00%) Data Architecture
9 9 (20.00%) Data Modelling
9 9 (20.00%) ITSM
10 8 (17.78%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (51.11%) Java
1 23 (51.11%) Python
2 21 (46.67%) SQL
3 9 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 8 (17.78%) JavaScript
5 6 (13.33%) C++
6 3 (6.67%) Perl
7 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.22%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (8.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (37.78%) QA
2 6 (13.33%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.44%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) Oracle
2 8 (17.78%) Sybase
3 5 (11.11%) IBM
3 5 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft