Relational Database Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Relational Database
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Relational Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 46 73
Rank change year-on-year -16 +27 -9
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.12% 0.29% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.85% 1.92% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.85%
75th Percentile - - £713
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £505 £538 £442
% change year-on-year -6.05% +21.74% -24.21%

All Database & BI Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 26 52 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 3.23% 14.99% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 31 25
10th Percentile £400 £425 £325
25th Percentile £456 £442 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £760 - £675
East of England median daily rate £505 £500 £418
% change year-on-year +1.00% +19.76% -14.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 2
10th Percentile £41.54 - £13.82
25th Percentile £78.75 £31.64 £14.02
Median hourly rate £80.50 £63.00 £14.56
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% +332.62% -77.42%
75th Percentile £84.00 £74.13 £14.89
90th Percentile - £82.25 £14.96
East of England median hourly rate £29.48 £31.64 £15.98
% change year-on-year -6.83% +98.00% -74.63%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Relational Database relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Relational Database job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Relational Database
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Relational Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Relational Database.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Relational Database within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 15 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £850 - 1
Relational Database
East of England

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Celery
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform