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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 59 50
Rank change year-on-year +25 -9 -22
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 39 18 26
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.72% 2.45% 3.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.20% 13.43% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 11 24
10th Percentile £313 £378 -
25th Percentile £333 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £470 £460
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +2.17% -38.67%
75th Percentile £525 £514 £513
90th Percentile £570 £538 -
Scotland median daily rate £438 £470 £473
% change year-on-year -6.91% -0.53% -32.50%

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 184 134 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 26.98% 18.23% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 89 124
10th Percentile £313 £334 £363
25th Percentile £378 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -5.94%
75th Percentile £525 £490 £578
90th Percentile £575 £576 £675
Scotland median daily rate £470 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +0.37% -6.35% +2.56%
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 £19.50
% change year-on-year +33.43% +18.18% -15.22%

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 8 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 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.08%) AWS
2 7 (17.95%) Azure
3 3 (7.69%) Snowflake
4 2 (5.13%) GitHub
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.56%) GCP
5 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (28.21%) DB2
1 11 (28.21%) MongoDB
2 7 (17.95%) NoSQL
2 7 (17.95%) RDBMS
3 5 (12.82%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (12.82%) MySQL
3 5 (12.82%) SQL Server
4 3 (7.69%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.13%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (5.13%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 13 (33.33%) JUnit
2 2 (5.13%) Git
2 2 (5.13%) Mockito
3 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.56%) JIRA
3 1 (2.56%) NUnit
3 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (71.79%) Finance
2 20 (51.28%) Banking
3 16 (41.03%) Investment Banking
4 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 11 (28.21%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (25.64%) Front Office
7 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.56%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (38.46%) Developer
2 13 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 10 (25.64%) Analyst
3 10 (25.64%) Data Analyst
3 10 (25.64%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 10 (25.64%) SQL Developer
3 10 (25.64%) Sybase Developer
4 6 (15.38%) Data Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Azure Software Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) PowerShell Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Python Data Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Python Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Core Java Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Java Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Java Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) SQL Analyst
7 2 (5.13%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (33.33%) Spring
2 10 (25.64%) JMS
2 10 (25.64%) Kafka
3 5 (12.82%) NumPy
3 5 (12.82%) Pandas
3 5 (12.82%) PySpark
4 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 3 (7.69%) React
4 3 (7.69%) REST
4 3 (7.69%) Spring Boot
5 2 (5.13%) Hibernate
5 2 (5.13%) HTML
5 2 (5.13%) JPA
6 1 (2.56%) .NET
6 1 (2.56%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.56%) J2EE
6 1 (2.56%) JSON
6 1 (2.56%) SOAP
6 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 10 (25.64%) Equities
3 8 (20.51%) CMDB
4 7 (17.95%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (15.38%) Virtual Team
6 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
7 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
7 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
8 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
8 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.77%) Linux
2 4 (10.26%) Unix
3 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (61.54%) Agile
2 22 (56.41%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (38.46%) SDLC
4 14 (35.90%) Analytics
5 12 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
5 12 (30.77%) Software Engineering
6 11 (28.21%) Data Modelling
6 11 (28.21%) Multithreading
6 11 (28.21%) Visualisation
7 10 (25.64%) Database Tuning
7 10 (25.64%) Open Source
8 8 (20.51%) Data Analysis
8 8 (20.51%) Data Analytics
8 8 (20.51%) Data Architecture
8 8 (20.51%) Data Management
8 8 (20.51%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (17.95%) Business Analysis
9 7 (17.95%) Data Lineage
9 7 (17.95%) ITSM
9 7 (17.95%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (82.05%) SQL
2 20 (51.28%) Python
3 19 (48.72%) Java
4 10 (25.64%) Shell Script
5 5 (12.82%) PL/SQL
6 3 (7.69%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (5.13%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) ServiceNow
2 10 (25.64%) Sybase
3 4 (10.26%) Databricks
4 3 (7.69%) Cloudera
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.56%) Pega