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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 33 46
Rank change year-on-year -12 +13 -4
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 48 58 23
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 4.62% 7.25% 3.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.43% 26.98% 17.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 26 20
10th Percentile £332 £392 £333
25th Percentile £396 £415 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £473 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.05% +11.18% -
75th Percentile £482 £550 £558
90th Percentile £530 £575 £675
Scotland median daily rate £425 £466 £450
% change year-on-year -8.85% +3.61% +2.86%
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 214 215 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 20.62% 26.88% 18.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 120 102
10th Percentile £306 £299 £324
25th Percentile £320 £375 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £471 £430
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% +9.53% -10.32%
75th Percentile £489 £575 £500
90th Percentile £568 £610 £575
Scotland median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £26.17 £17.45
25th Percentile - £36.05 £18.26
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +180.76% -60.57%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £36.67
90th Percentile - - £46.92
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year -9.09% +180.76% -44.03%

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 30 July 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 16 (33.33%) GitHub
2 14 (29.17%) ChatGPT
3 12 (25.00%) Anthropic Claude
4 11 (22.92%) GitHub Copilot
4 11 (22.92%) Snowflake
5 9 (18.75%) AWS
5 9 (18.75%) Power Platform
6 5 (10.42%) Azure
6 5 (10.42%) GCP
6 5 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (31.25%) MySQL
2 13 (27.08%) Db2
3 12 (25.00%) Metadata
3 12 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 12 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (18.75%) Power BI
4 9 (18.75%) SQL Server
4 9 (18.75%) Tableau
5 4 (8.33%) DynamoDB
5 4 (8.33%) NoSQL
6 3 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (6.25%) RDBMS
7 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database
7 2 (4.17%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.08%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (2.08%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Git
1 4 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.08%) ER Studio
2 1 (2.08%) ERwin
2 1 (2.08%) GitLab
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.08%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (2.08%) Selenium
2 1 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.08%) Subversion
General
1 28 (58.33%) Finance
2 23 (47.92%) Social Skills
3 18 (37.50%) Banking
4 12 (25.00%) Investment Banking
5 11 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (18.75%) Front Office
7 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.08%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.08%) Legal
8 1 (2.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (37.50%) Developer
2 12 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 12 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 10 (20.83%) Python Developer
4 9 (18.75%) Java Developer
4 9 (18.75%) Senior
5 4 (8.33%) Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Python Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Core Java Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Data Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Gen AI Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Lead
7 2 (4.17%) Perl Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) React
2 5 (10.42%) Redux
2 5 (10.42%) RESTful
3 4 (8.33%) Django
3 4 (8.33%) Express.js
3 4 (8.33%) FastAPI
3 4 (8.33%) Flask
3 4 (8.33%) GraphQL
3 4 (8.33%) MERN Stack
3 4 (8.33%) NestJS
3 4 (8.33%) Node.js
3 4 (8.33%) REST
4 2 (4.17%) Spring
4 2 (4.17%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.08%) CSS
5 1 (2.08%) CSS3
5 1 (2.08%) HTML
5 1 (2.08%) HTML5
5 1 (2.08%) Spring MVC
5 1 (2.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.17%) Equity Derivative
2 11 (22.92%) Derivative
3 6 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 5 (10.42%) Data Structures
5 4 (8.33%) Legacy Code
6 3 (6.25%) CMDB
6 3 (6.25%) Management Information System
7 2 (4.17%) Data Centre
8 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
8 1 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.92%) Linux
2 10 (20.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 23 (47.92%) LLM
3 22 (45.83%) AI
4 20 (41.67%) Agile
5 18 (37.50%) Risk Management
6 16 (33.33%) Generative AI
6 16 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
8 14 (29.17%) BDD
8 14 (29.17%) Data Lineage
8 14 (29.17%) Test Automation
9 13 (27.08%) Data Modelling
9 13 (27.08%) Root Cause Analysis
9 13 (27.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 13 (27.08%) TDD
10 12 (25.00%) Observability
11 10 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (20.83%) Data Governance
12 9 (18.75%) Data Architecture
12 9 (18.75%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (66.67%) Python
2 28 (58.33%) SQL
3 20 (41.67%) Java
4 9 (18.75%) C++
5 7 (14.58%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.33%) Shell Script
6 4 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 3 (6.25%) Perl
8 2 (4.17%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (25.00%) QA
2 11 (22.92%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (10.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.42%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (27.08%) Oracle
1 13 (27.08%) Sybase
2 10 (20.83%) IBM
3 3 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.08%) Avaloq
5 1 (2.08%) Charles River
5 1 (2.08%) Google
5 1 (2.08%) Sparx