Relational Database Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Relational Database
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Relational Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 57 76
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 +20
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 15 6 5
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.13% 0.91% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.11% 6.12% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £393 - £268
25th Percentile £458 £164 £277
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £410 £394
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +4.13% -21.25%
75th Percentile £583 £500 £500
90th Percentile £607 £545 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £410 £394
% change year-on-year +25.00% +4.13% -21.25%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 135 98 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 19.18% 14.87% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 56 103
10th Percentile £375 £325 £353
25th Percentile £403 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £634 £567 £640
90th Percentile £699 £649 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.31% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £19.28 £19.82
25th Percentile - £20.44 £20.38
Median hourly rate - £23.25 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +9.10% +35.30%
75th Percentile - £26.44 £21.64
90th Percentile - £27.83 £21.84
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £27.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year - +29.05% +15.44%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in Leeds

Relational Database
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in Leeds over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in Leeds

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) AWS
3 4 (26.67%) GCP
3 4 (26.67%) GitHub
3 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
3 4 (26.67%) Serverless
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (13.33%) dbt
5 2 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (13.33%) Power Automate
5 2 (13.33%) PowerApps
5 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (26.67%) RDBMS
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (13.33%) BigQuery
3 2 (13.33%) Bigtable
3 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB
3 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (13.33%) Power BI
3 2 (13.33%) Power Query
3 2 (13.33%) Tableau
4 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (13.33%) Gradle
3 2 (13.33%) JIRA
3 2 (13.33%) JUnit
3 2 (13.33%) Log4j
3 2 (13.33%) Maven
3 2 (13.33%) Mockito
3 2 (13.33%) Subversion
4 1 (6.67%) Bundler
4 1 (6.67%) ESLint
4 1 (6.67%) Jasmine
4 1 (6.67%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
4 1 (6.67%) webpack
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Applications Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Architect
3 2 (13.33%) GCP Architect
3 2 (13.33%) GCP Data Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Power Apps Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Power BI Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Spring
1 5 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 4 (26.67%) .NET
2 4 (26.67%) Kafka
3 3 (20.00%) React
3 3 (20.00%) RESTful
4 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (13.33%) Lambda Expressions
4 2 (13.33%) Node.js
4 2 (13.33%) PowerMock
4 2 (13.33%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
5 1 (6.67%) Blazor
5 1 (6.67%) Enzyme
5 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
5 1 (6.67%) Jest
5 1 (6.67%) Playwright
5 1 (6.67%) REST
5 1 (6.67%) Spring WebFlux
5 1 (6.67%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
1 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (33.33%) Microservices
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Architectural Design
4 2 (13.33%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (13.33%) Data Design
4 2 (13.33%) Distributed Cache
4 2 (13.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (13.33%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) Python
4 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (13.33%) ANSI SQL
5 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (13.33%) Scala
5 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (6.67%) Bicep
6 1 (6.67%) C#
6 1 (6.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Control-M
2 2 (13.33%) Packer
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Brio
2 2 (13.33%) Splunk