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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 58 56
Rank change year-on-year +27 -2 -28
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 41 22 22
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.17% 3.00% 2.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.70% 15.71% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 15 20
10th Percentile £314 £383 -
25th Percentile £340 £423 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% +4.44% -40.00%
75th Percentile £534 £514 £513
90th Percentile £570 £545 £581
Scotland median daily rate £450 £490 £450
% change year-on-year -8.16% +8.89% -40.00%

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 166 140 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.00% 19.10% 19.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 92 119
10th Percentile £313 £338 £323
25th Percentile £380 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £431 £465
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -7.26% -8.60%
75th Percentile £525 £491 £581
90th Percentile £575 £580 £675
Scotland median daily rate £464 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -1.33% -6.00% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 £19.59 -
Median % change year-on-year +155.23% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £30.75 £23.05 £20.57
% change year-on-year +33.43% +12.03% -2.05%

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 22 January 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.44%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (24.39%) AWS
2 8 (19.51%) Azure
3 3 (7.32%) Snowflake
4 2 (4.88%) GitHub
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.44%) GCP
5 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.95%) DB2
1 9 (21.95%) MongoDB
2 7 (17.07%) NoSQL
2 7 (17.07%) RDBMS
3 6 (14.63%) MySQL
3 6 (14.63%) SQL Server
4 5 (12.20%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (7.32%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.88%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (4.88%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 11 (26.83%) JUnit
2 2 (4.88%) Git
2 2 (4.88%) Mockito
3 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.44%) JIRA
3 1 (2.44%) NUnit
3 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (70.73%) Finance
2 18 (43.90%) Banking
3 14 (34.15%) Investment Banking
4 13 (31.71%) Social Skills
5 11 (26.83%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (19.51%) Front Office
7 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
8 2 (4.88%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.44%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Developer
2 12 (29.27%) Analyst
3 11 (26.83%) Data Analyst
3 11 (26.83%) Java Developer
4 8 (19.51%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 8 (19.51%) SQL Developer
4 8 (19.51%) Sybase Developer
5 6 (14.63%) Data Engineer
6 5 (12.20%) Software Engineer
7 4 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (9.76%) Azure Software Engineer
7 4 (9.76%) PowerShell Engineer
8 3 (7.32%) Business Analyst
8 3 (7.32%) Python Data Engineer
8 3 (7.32%) Python Engineer
8 3 (7.32%) Senior
9 2 (4.88%) Java Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Operations Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Senior Java Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) Spring
2 8 (19.51%) JMS
2 8 (19.51%) Kafka
3 5 (12.20%) NumPy
3 5 (12.20%) Pandas
3 5 (12.20%) PySpark
4 3 (7.32%) AngularJS
4 3 (7.32%) React
4 3 (7.32%) REST
4 3 (7.32%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.88%) Hibernate
5 2 (4.88%) HTML
5 2 (4.88%) JPA
6 1 (2.44%) .NET
6 1 (2.44%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.44%) J2EE
6 1 (2.44%) JSON
6 1 (2.44%) SOAP
6 1 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.83%) Data Structures
2 10 (24.39%) CMDB
3 9 (21.95%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (19.51%) Equities
4 8 (19.51%) Virtual Team
5 4 (9.76%) Data Centre
5 4 (9.76%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (24.39%) Linux
2 4 (9.76%) Unix
3 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (53.66%) Agile
1 22 (53.66%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (34.15%) Analytics
2 14 (34.15%) SDLC
3 13 (31.71%) Software Engineering
4 11 (26.83%) Data Modelling
4 11 (26.83%) Visualisation
5 10 (24.39%) Data Analysis
5 10 (24.39%) Data Architecture
5 10 (24.39%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (21.95%) Data Lineage
6 9 (21.95%) ITIL
6 9 (21.95%) ITSM
6 9 (21.95%) Multithreading
7 8 (19.51%) Data Analytics
7 8 (19.51%) Data Management
7 8 (19.51%) Data Pipeline
7 8 (19.51%) Database Tuning
7 8 (19.51%) Open Source
7 8 (19.51%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (80.49%) SQL
2 18 (43.90%) Java
2 18 (43.90%) Python
3 8 (19.51%) Shell Script
4 5 (12.20%) PL/SQL
5 4 (9.76%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.88%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.44%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (4.88%) Degree
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (31.71%) ServiceNow
2 8 (19.51%) Sybase
3 4 (9.76%) Databricks
4 3 (7.32%) Cloudera
5 2 (4.88%) Oracle
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.44%) Pega