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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 31 51
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 -6
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 45 52 25
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.02% 6.82% 2.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.86% 30.95% 14.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 30 22
10th Percentile £352 £408 £333
25th Percentile £410 £421 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £473 £413
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% +14.55% -41.95%
75th Percentile £568 £550 £561
90th Percentile £577 £575 £675
Scotland median daily rate £475 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -28.00%
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 174 168 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 23.29% 22.02% 20.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 104 138
10th Percentile £313 £284 £305
25th Percentile £320 £372 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £453 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.61% +6.47% -15.00%
75th Percentile £495 £550 £505
90th Percentile £570 £589 £600
Scotland median daily rate £430 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -9.47% - -2.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £36.50 - -
25th Percentile £38.75 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £19.59 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +116.95% -62.69% +50.00%
75th Percentile £46.25 - £53.75
90th Percentile £48.50 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £19.59 £37.07
% change year-on-year +155.23% -47.15% +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 15 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 13 (28.89%) AWS
2 11 (24.44%) GitHub
2 11 (24.44%) Snowflake
3 9 (20.00%) ChatGPT
4 8 (17.78%) Power Platform
5 7 (15.56%) Anthropic Claude
6 6 (13.33%) Azure
6 6 (13.33%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (8.89%) GCP
9 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (44.44%) MySQL
2 12 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (22.22%) MongoDB
4 9 (20.00%) Metadata
4 9 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 8 (17.78%) DB2
5 8 (17.78%) Power BI
5 8 (17.78%) Tableau
6 4 (8.89%) DynamoDB
6 4 (8.89%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.44%) RDBMS
7 2 (4.44%) Semantic Layer
8 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 23 (51.11%) Finance
2 15 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 11 (24.44%) Banking
4 10 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (22.22%) Investment Banking
5 8 (17.78%) Public Sector
6 7 (15.56%) Front Office
7 3 (6.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 13 (28.89%) Site Engineer
1 13 (28.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) Developer
3 8 (17.78%) Java Developer
3 8 (17.78%) Senior
4 5 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Python Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Python Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Software Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) DB2 Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Perl Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.22%) 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 10 (22.22%) 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%) Management Information System
5 3 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (6.67%) Virtual Team
6 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
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 26 (57.78%) CI/CD
2 20 (44.44%) AI
3 19 (42.22%) Agile
4 18 (40.00%) LLM
5 15 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 14 (31.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 13 (28.89%) Data Lineage
7 13 (28.89%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (26.67%) Generative AI
8 12 (26.67%) Microservices
8 12 (26.67%) Observability
9 11 (24.44%) Risk Management
9 11 (24.44%) Runbook
10 10 (22.22%) BDD
11 9 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (20.00%) Data Architecture
11 9 (20.00%) Data Modelling
11 9 (20.00%) ITSM
11 9 (20.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 25 (55.56%) Python
2 22 (48.89%) SQL
3 21 (46.67%) Java
4 8 (17.78%) JavaScript
4 8 (17.78%) TypeScript
5 6 (13.33%) C++
6 3 (6.67%) Perl
7 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.22%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (6.67%) 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 11 (24.44%) Oracle
2 8 (17.78%) Sybase
3 5 (11.11%) IBM
3 5 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft