Relational Database Contracts in London

Relational Database
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Relational Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Relational Database over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 156 144
Rank change year-on-year -3 -12 -16
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 216 276 497
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.72% 1.55% 1.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.71% 7.18% 8.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 200 344
10th Percentile £364 £400 £413
25th Percentile £449 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £671 £702 £758
90th Percentile £786 £826 £806
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £21.24
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £22.49
75th Percentile £53.75 - £23.73
90th Percentile - - £31.60
England median hourly rate £26.50 £30.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.11% -53.08% +33.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,800 3,842 5,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.31% 21.55% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,981 2,833 4,047
10th Percentile £375 £378 £400
25th Percentile £450 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.17% -1.71%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 37 53
10th Percentile £22.27 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £28.03 £25.79 £24.50
Median hourly rate £39.31 £50.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £76.50 £64.73 £88.30
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in London

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Relational Database in London.

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in London

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in London

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Relational Database in London.

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in London

Relational Database
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Central London -8 32 £480 -20.00% 24
South London +9 10 - - 4
West London +15 4 £525 +17.19% 7
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (9.26%) Apache Spark
2 11 (5.09%) Apache
3 8 (3.70%) GemFire
3 8 (3.70%) Oracle Coherence
4 7 (3.24%) SAS
5 6 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (2.78%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.85%) Camunda
7 3 (1.39%) JBoss
7 3 (1.39%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.93%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.93%) IIS
8 2 (0.93%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.46%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Endur
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle TCA
2 1 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 56 (25.93%) AWS
2 30 (13.89%) Azure
3 26 (12.04%) Power Platform
4 18 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 16 (7.41%) Serverless
6 12 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (5.09%) GCP
8 8 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.24%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (3.24%) PowerApps
10 6 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.31%) GitHub
12 4 (1.85%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (1.85%) dbt
13 3 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.39%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.85%) HTTP
2 3 (1.39%) POP3
2 3 (1.39%) SMTP
3 2 (0.93%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.93%) SSH
3 2 (0.93%) SSL
4 1 (0.46%) Firewall
4 1 (0.46%) Intranet
4 1 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.46%) Multicast
4 1 (0.46%) VPN
4 1 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (23.61%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (18.98%) RDBMS
3 29 (13.43%) MongoDB
4 25 (11.57%) SQL Server
5 23 (10.65%) NoSQL
6 20 (9.26%) Power BI
7 18 (8.33%) Big Data
8 16 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (6.94%) DB2
10 14 (6.48%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (6.48%) MySQL
11 12 (5.56%) Oracle Database
11 12 (5.56%) Tableau
12 11 (5.09%) Data Lake
13 10 (4.63%) Hadoop
14 8 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (3.70%) BusinessObjects
15 7 (3.24%) Data Vault
15 7 (3.24%) Snowflake Schema
16 6 (2.78%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 36 (16.67%) JUnit
2 24 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 18 (8.33%) Gradle
4 13 (6.02%) Git
4 13 (6.02%) Mockito
5 11 (5.09%) Liquibase
6 10 (4.63%) GitLab
7 9 (4.17%) JIRA
8 7 (3.24%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.31%) ERwin
9 5 (2.31%) JMeter
10 4 (1.85%) Maven
10 4 (1.85%) Selenium
10 4 (1.85%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.39%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.39%) git-flow
11 3 (1.39%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.93%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.93%) NUnit
12 2 (0.93%) Toad
General
1 74 (34.26%) Finance
2 70 (32.41%) Social Skills
3 56 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.11%) Banking
4 24 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.87%) Investment Banking
6 15 (6.94%) Marketing
7 14 (6.48%) Front Office
8 13 (6.02%) Telecoms
9 11 (5.09%) Electronics
9 11 (5.09%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.31%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.31%) Retail
12 3 (1.39%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.39%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.93%) Billing
13 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 108 (50.00%) Developer
2 52 (24.07%) Java Developer
3 50 (23.15%) Senior
4 38 (17.59%) Senior Developer
5 32 (14.81%) Data Engineer
6 28 (12.96%) Senior Java Developer
7 14 (6.48%) Analyst
8 13 (6.02%) .NET Developer
8 13 (6.02%) Data Modeller
8 13 (6.02%) SQL Developer
9 12 (5.56%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 12 (5.56%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 11 (5.09%) Linux Developer
10 11 (5.09%) Senior Data Engineer
10 11 (5.09%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
10 11 (5.09%) Senior SQL Developer
11 10 (4.63%) AWS Data Engineer
11 10 (4.63%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (4.63%) Lead
12 9 (4.17%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (21.30%) Spring
2 39 (18.06%) Kafka
3 32 (14.81%) .NET
4 31 (14.35%) AngularJS
5 30 (13.89%) Spring Boot
6 23 (10.65%) REST
7 22 (10.19%) React
8 19 (8.80%) ASP.NET
9 16 (7.41%) .NET Framework
9 16 (7.41%) Entity Framework
9 16 (7.41%) Web Services
10 15 (6.94%) Swagger
11 14 (6.48%) OpenAPI
12 13 (6.02%) HTML
13 12 (5.56%) JMS
14 11 (5.09%) RESTful
15 10 (4.63%) .NET Core
15 10 (4.63%) XML
16 8 (3.70%) ASP.NET MVC
16 8 (3.70%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.87%) Data Structures
2 11 (5.09%) Equities
3 10 (4.63%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.24%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.31%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.31%) N-Tier
5 5 (2.31%) PKI
6 4 (1.85%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.85%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.39%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.39%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.39%) Grid Computing
7 3 (1.39%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.39%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.39%) Replication
8 2 (0.93%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 34 (15.74%) Linux
2 14 (6.48%) Unix
3 11 (5.09%) Windows
4 6 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (35.65%) Agile
2 65 (30.09%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (25.46%) DevOps
4 49 (22.69%) CI/CD
5 43 (19.91%) Microservices
6 41 (18.98%) Data Modelling
7 39 (18.06%) Software Engineering
8 35 (16.20%) Business Intelligence
8 35 (16.20%) TDD
9 33 (15.28%) Performance Tuning
10 27 (12.50%) Analytics
11 26 (12.04%) Visualisation
12 25 (11.57%) Containerisation
13 24 (11.11%) ETL
13 24 (11.11%) Migration
13 24 (11.11%) SDLC
14 23 (10.65%) Data Science
15 22 (10.19%) Computer Science
16 21 (9.72%) Unit Testing
17 19 (8.80%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 130 (60.19%) SQL
2 83 (38.43%) Java
3 78 (36.11%) Python
4 30 (13.89%) C#
5 21 (9.72%) Shell Script
6 16 (7.41%) TypeScript
7 14 (6.48%) JavaScript
8 13 (6.02%) PL/SQL
9 11 (5.09%) Scala
10 8 (3.70%) RPG
10 8 (3.70%) RPG IV
11 7 (3.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (3.24%) PowerShell
12 6 (2.78%) Perl
12 6 (2.78%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.85%) C++
13 4 (1.85%) Ruby
14 2 (0.93%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.93%) C
14 2 (0.93%) VB
Qualifications
1 43 (19.91%) SC Cleared
1 43 (19.91%) Security Cleared
2 40 (18.52%) Degree
3 12 (5.56%) Numerate Degree
4 9 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.31%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.31%) MCPD
6 5 (2.31%) MCSD
7 3 (1.39%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.46%) OCP
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.46%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.26%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.31%) QA
3 3 (1.39%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.46%) GDPR
5 1 (0.46%) MiFID
5 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (18.06%) Docker
2 8 (3.70%) GridGain
3 7 (3.24%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 32 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.09%) Terraform
3 5 (2.31%) Ansible
4 3 (1.39%) Kibana
4 3 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.46%) Argo
5 1 (0.46%) Grafana
Vendors
1 40 (18.52%) Oracle
2 27 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 21 (9.72%) SAP
4 20 (9.26%) Sybase
5 7 (3.24%) IBM
5 7 (3.24%) TIBCO
6 6 (2.78%) Alteryx
7 5 (2.31%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.31%) Splunk
8 4 (1.85%) Databricks
8 4 (1.85%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.85%) VMware
9 3 (1.39%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.39%) Genesys
9 3 (1.39%) Google
9 3 (1.39%) ION Trading
9 3 (1.39%) OpenLink
9 3 (1.39%) Solace
9 3 (1.39%) Sparx
10 2 (0.93%) Adobe