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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 49 44
Rank change year-on-year +19 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 54 17 29
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 7.30% 2.44% 3.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.09% 13.18% 20.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 13 26
10th Percentile £315 £334 -
25th Percentile £348 £348 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £460
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -13.04% -23.33%
75th Percentile £525 £480 £500
90th Percentile £575 £508 £513
Scotland median daily rate £450 £425 £470
% change year-on-year +5.88% -9.57% -6.33%

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 207 129 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 27.97% 18.48% 17.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 85 108
10th Percentile £313 £322 -
25th Percentile £386 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £408 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.11% -14.21% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £484 £541
90th Percentile £643 £560 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile - £17.72 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £18.92 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 -
Median % change year-on-year +180.76% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 -
% change year-on-year +180.76% - -

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 16 October 2025.

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 2 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.11%) AWS
2 5 (9.26%) Azure
3 4 (7.41%) Snowflake
4 2 (3.70%) GitHub
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.85%) GCP
5 1 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (40.74%) DB2
2 21 (38.89%) MongoDB
3 8 (14.81%) RDBMS
4 7 (12.96%) NoSQL
5 5 (9.26%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (9.26%) SQL Server
6 3 (5.56%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (3.70%) MySQL
8 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (44.44%) JUnit
2 2 (3.70%) Git
2 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.70%) Mockito
3 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.85%) JIRA
3 1 (1.85%) Maven
General
1 38 (70.37%) Finance
2 30 (55.56%) Banking
3 26 (48.15%) Investment Banking
4 24 (44.44%) Social Skills
5 21 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (37.04%) Front Office
7 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.85%) Back Office
8 1 (1.85%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 33 (61.11%) Developer
2 31 (57.41%) Java Developer
3 19 (35.19%) SQL Developer
4 18 (33.33%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 18 (33.33%) Sybase Developer
5 12 (22.22%) Analyst
6 11 (20.37%) Data Analyst
7 9 (16.67%) Core Java Developer
8 6 (11.11%) Data Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Python Data Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Python Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Business Analyst
10 2 (3.70%) Java Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Senior
10 2 (3.70%) Senior Java Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Software Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) SQL Analyst
10 2 (3.70%) SQL Data Analyst
11 1 (1.85%) Data Business Analyst
11 1 (1.85%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (44.44%) Spring
2 22 (40.74%) Kafka
3 20 (37.04%) JMS
4 5 (9.26%) NumPy
4 5 (9.26%) Pandas
4 5 (9.26%) PySpark
5 4 (7.41%) REST
5 4 (7.41%) Spring Boot
6 3 (5.56%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.70%) Hibernate
7 2 (3.70%) HTML
7 2 (3.70%) J2EE
7 2 (3.70%) JPA
7 2 (3.70%) JSON
8 1 (1.85%) CSS
8 1 (1.85%) OAuth
8 1 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.85%) RESTful
8 1 (1.85%) SOAP
8 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (55.56%) Data Structures
2 20 (37.04%) Equities
3 8 (14.81%) CMDB
4 7 (12.96%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (11.11%) Management Information System
5 6 (11.11%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.70%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.70%) Derivative
6 2 (3.70%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (53.70%) Linux
2 5 (9.26%) Unix
3 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (72.22%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (66.67%) Agile
3 23 (42.59%) Performance Tuning
4 22 (40.74%) Multithreading
4 22 (40.74%) SDLC
5 20 (37.04%) Database Tuning
5 20 (37.04%) Open Source
6 18 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 14 (25.93%) Analytics
7 14 (25.93%) Data Modelling
8 11 (20.37%) Visualisation
9 10 (18.52%) Computer Science
10 9 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (14.81%) Data Analysis
11 8 (14.81%) Data Analytics
11 8 (14.81%) Data Architecture
11 8 (14.81%) Data Management
12 7 (12.96%) Business Analysis
12 7 (12.96%) Data Visualisation
12 7 (12.96%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (94.44%) SQL
2 34 (62.96%) Java
3 31 (57.41%) Python
4 21 (38.89%) Shell Script
5 6 (11.11%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (37.04%) Sybase
2 11 (20.37%) ServiceNow
3 5 (9.26%) Databricks
4 3 (5.56%) Cloudera
4 3 (5.56%) Oracle
5 1 (1.85%) Greenplum
5 1 (1.85%) IBM
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.85%) Pega