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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 45 50
Rank change year-on-year +18 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 64 22 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 8.00% 2.87% 3.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 32.82% 15.17% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 20 21
10th Percentile £408 £333 £376
25th Percentile £418 £384 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -2.78% -
75th Percentile £550 £591 £638
90th Percentile £575 £675 £745
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +4.44% -4.15% -0.11%
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 195 145 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 24.38% 18.93% 18.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 111 122
10th Percentile £292 £313 £375
25th Percentile £375 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £579
90th Percentile £589 £575 £650
Scotland median daily rate £472 £450 £496
% change year-on-year +4.89% -9.27% -0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £26.17 £17.45 £24.95
25th Percentile £36.05 £18.26 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +180.76% -44.03% +8.53%
75th Percentile £57.50 £36.67 £66.56
90th Percentile - £46.92 £67.88
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £20.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year +166.80% -41.10% +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 5 July 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.25%) AWS
1 4 (6.25%) Azure
1 4 (6.25%) Snowflake
2 3 (4.69%) OpenShift
3 1 (1.56%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (1.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.56%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (54.69%) DB2
2 31 (48.44%) MongoDB
3 13 (20.31%) RDBMS
4 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.13%) CockroachDB
6 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (59.38%) JUnit
2 7 (10.94%) Git
3 3 (4.69%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.56%) Maven
4 1 (1.56%) Mercurial
4 1 (1.56%) Selenium
4 1 (1.56%) Subversion
General
1 37 (57.81%) Finance
2 34 (53.13%) Social Skills
3 31 (48.44%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (37.50%) Front Office
5 21 (32.81%) Banking
5 21 (32.81%) Investment Banking
6 4 (6.25%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.13%) Back Office
7 2 (3.13%) Legal
7 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (85.94%) Developer
2 51 (79.69%) Java Developer
3 14 (21.88%) SQL Developer
4 13 (20.31%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 13 (20.31%) Sybase Developer
5 12 (18.75%) Core Java Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Linux Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Python Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Senior
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.13%) Applications Support
8 2 (3.13%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) Senior Python Developer
8 2 (3.13%) Systems Analyst
9 1 (1.56%) Applications Specialist
9 1 (1.56%) Configuration Management Analyst
9 1 (1.56%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
9 1 (1.56%) Site Engineer
9 1 (1.56%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (60.94%) Spring
2 36 (56.25%) Kafka
3 26 (40.63%) JMS
4 7 (10.94%) Spring Boot
5 4 (6.25%) REST
6 3 (4.69%) Loki
6 3 (4.69%) Middleware
7 2 (3.13%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.13%) Django
7 2 (3.13%) JSON
7 2 (3.13%) MSMQ
7 2 (3.13%) React
8 1 (1.56%) FastAPI
8 1 (1.56%) HTML
8 1 (1.56%) Java EE
8 1 (1.56%) JAX-RS
8 1 (1.56%) JPA
8 1 (1.56%) pytest
8 1 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 43 (67.19%) Data Structures
2 25 (39.06%) Equities
3 7 (10.94%) Equity Derivative
4 4 (6.25%) Derivative
4 4 (6.25%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.13%) CMDB
5 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.13%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 50 (78.13%) Linux
2 10 (15.63%) Unix
3 1 (1.56%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (78.13%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (70.31%) Agile
3 33 (51.56%) Multithreading
4 29 (45.31%) SDLC
5 28 (43.75%) Open Source
6 24 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
6 24 (37.50%) Software Engineering
7 23 (35.94%) Database Tuning
8 12 (18.75%) Computer Science
9 10 (15.63%) Concurrent Programming
9 10 (15.63%) Test Automation
10 8 (12.50%) Data Modelling
10 8 (12.50%) DevOps
10 8 (12.50%) Event-Driven
11 7 (10.94%) CI/CD
12 5 (7.81%) ITIL
13 4 (6.25%) Investment Management
13 4 (6.25%) Microservices
13 4 (6.25%) Risk Management
13 4 (6.25%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (92.19%) SQL
2 51 (79.69%) Java
3 39 (60.94%) Python
4 30 (46.88%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.13%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (3.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.56%) Docker
3 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 4 (6.25%) Terraform
2 3 (4.69%) Ansible
2 3 (4.69%) Grafana
2 3 (4.69%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.56%) Podman
3 1 (1.56%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 34 (53.13%) Sybase
2 5 (7.81%) Oracle
3 4 (6.25%) IBM
3 4 (6.25%) Splunk
4 3 (4.69%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.69%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.69%) Veritas
4 3 (4.69%) VMware
5 1 (1.56%) Databricks
5 1 (1.56%) Greenplum
5 1 (1.56%) Netskope
5 1 (1.56%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.56%) Symantec