Relational Database Contract Job Trends in London

Relational Database
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Relational Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 157 160
Rank change year-on-year -33 +3 -14
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 230 224 279
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.32% 1.76% 1.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.03% 7.91% 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 148 207
10th Percentile £351 £362 £400
25th Percentile £413 £449 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% -11.54%
75th Percentile £600 £672 £692
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
England median daily rate £455 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - £44.28 -
25th Percentile £41.25 £45.44 £43.03
Median hourly rate £42.50 £48.75 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +5.85% +104.83%
75th Percentile £43.75 £51.94 £49.08
90th Percentile - £53.03 -
England median hourly rate £32.77 £26.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +23.64% -13.11% -46.96%

All Database & BI 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 3,271 2,832 3,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.84% 22.30% 21.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,248 1,992 2,778
10th Percentile £363 £373 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £630 £713 £700
90th Percentile £749 £838 £825
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 33 38
10th Percentile £23.93 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £32.32 £28.60 £25.48
Median hourly rate £48.25 £40.50 £47.28
Median % change year-on-year +19.14% -14.34% +8.36%
75th Percentile £65.31 £58.75 £54.03
90th Percentile £85.50 £75.50 £63.98
England median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -29.08%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in London

Relational Database
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in London over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in London

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

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 18 April 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
Central London -18 28 £565 +21.51% 23
South London -19 5 £515 - 1
West London -25 5 £208 -60.48% 2
East London -4 1 £432 -12.73% 2
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 15 (6.52%) Apache Spark
2 10 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 9 (3.91%) Apache
4 8 (3.48%) WebLogic
5 7 (3.04%) WebSphere
6 5 (2.17%) Confluence
6 5 (2.17%) SharePoint
7 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.87%) Camunda
8 2 (0.87%) Drupal
8 2 (0.87%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.87%) WordPress
9 1 (0.43%) Appian
9 1 (0.43%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.43%) IIS
9 1 (0.43%) JBoss
9 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.04%) BusinessWorks
2 6 (2.61%) Findur
2 6 (2.61%) Summit
3 3 (1.30%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.87%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.87%) Finacle
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.43%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.43%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.43%) Magento
5 1 (0.43%) Shopify
5 1 (0.43%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.43%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 84 (36.52%) AWS
2 53 (23.04%) Azure
3 25 (10.87%) GCP
3 25 (10.87%) Power Platform
4 18 (7.83%) Amazon S3
5 13 (5.65%) Serverless
6 12 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (5.22%) GitHub
7 9 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (3.91%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (3.48%) dbt
9 7 (3.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (3.04%) SaaS
9 7 (3.04%) Snowflake
10 6 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.74%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (1.74%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.87%) SMS
2 1 (0.43%) Firewall
2 1 (0.43%) HTTP
2 1 (0.43%) Multicast
2 1 (0.43%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (20.87%) PostgreSQL
1 48 (20.87%) SQL Server
2 44 (19.13%) RDBMS
3 24 (10.43%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (10.43%) Power BI
4 21 (9.13%) MySQL
5 19 (8.26%) Metadata
6 17 (7.39%) MongoDB
7 16 (6.96%) NoSQL
8 14 (6.09%) Data Lake
9 12 (5.22%) DB2
9 12 (5.22%) Oracle Database
10 11 (4.78%) Spark SQL
11 8 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (3.48%) Big Data
11 8 (3.48%) Tableau
12 6 (2.61%) Crystal Reports
12 6 (2.61%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (2.61%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 37 (16.09%) Git
2 17 (7.39%) JIRA
3 14 (6.09%) Jenkins
4 13 (5.65%) JUnit
5 12 (5.22%) GitLab
6 7 (3.04%) Mockito
7 6 (2.61%) Maven
8 4 (1.74%) ERwin
8 4 (1.74%) Gradle
8 4 (1.74%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (1.74%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.74%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (1.74%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.74%) Toad
9 3 (1.30%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.87%) Ant
10 2 (0.87%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.87%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.87%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.87%) Selenium
General
1 77 (33.48%) Finance
2 70 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 36 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (11.30%) Banking
5 14 (6.09%) Front Office
5 14 (6.09%) Investment Banking
6 11 (4.78%) Publishing
7 8 (3.48%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.74%) Retail
9 3 (1.30%) Back Office
9 3 (1.30%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.87%) Marketing
11 1 (0.43%) Billing
11 1 (0.43%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.43%) French Language
11 1 (0.43%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 110 (47.83%) Developer
2 42 (18.26%) Senior
3 25 (10.87%) Data Engineer
3 25 (10.87%) Java Developer
3 25 (10.87%) Python Developer
4 19 (8.26%) Senior Developer
4 19 (8.26%) Software Engineer
5 18 (7.83%) Analyst
6 11 (4.78%) Business Analyst
6 11 (4.78%) Senior Java Developer
7 9 (3.91%) C# Developer
7 9 (3.91%) Python Engineer
7 9 (3.91%) Senior Data Engineer
8 8 (3.48%) .NET Developer
8 8 (3.48%) Junior
8 8 (3.48%) Junior Software Engineer
8 8 (3.48%) Lead
9 7 (3.04%) AWS Developer
10 6 (2.61%) C# .NET Developer
10 6 (2.61%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (25.22%) REST
2 33 (14.35%) React
3 32 (13.91%) .NET
4 31 (13.48%) RESTful
5 29 (12.61%) Spring
6 28 (12.17%) Spring Boot
7 27 (11.74%) Kafka
8 23 (10.00%) XML
9 17 (7.39%) CSS
10 15 (6.52%) Web Services
11 14 (6.09%) GraphQL
11 14 (6.09%) HTML
12 12 (5.22%) JSON
13 11 (4.78%) .NET Framework
13 11 (4.78%) PySpark
14 10 (4.35%) Django
14 10 (4.35%) FastAPI
14 10 (4.35%) SOAP
15 9 (3.91%) AngularJS
15 9 (3.91%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.09%) Cloud Native
1 14 (6.09%) Data Structures
1 14 (6.09%) Management Information System
2 13 (5.65%) Fixed Income
3 9 (3.91%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (3.91%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.48%) Derivative
4 8 (3.48%) Distributed Computing
4 8 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.48%) Equities
4 8 (3.48%) Hedge funds
5 6 (2.61%) AI Agents
5 6 (2.61%) Credit Risk
5 6 (2.61%) Market Risk
6 5 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.17%) Legacy Code
6 5 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.17%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.74%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.74%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.13%) Linux
2 18 (7.83%) Unix
3 9 (3.91%) Windows
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (33.48%) CI/CD
2 73 (31.74%) Agile
3 61 (26.52%) DevOps
4 53 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (22.17%) Analytics
6 47 (20.43%) ETL
7 43 (18.70%) Containerisation
7 43 (18.70%) Data Modelling
7 43 (18.70%) Microservices
8 41 (17.83%) SDLC
9 38 (16.52%) AI
10 36 (15.65%) Software Engineering
11 35 (15.22%) Data Pipeline
12 34 (14.78%) Performance Tuning
13 33 (14.35%) Data Engineering
14 31 (13.48%) Observability
15 29 (12.61%) Business Intelligence
16 26 (11.30%) Computer Science
16 26 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
17 25 (10.87%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 149 (64.78%) SQL
2 83 (36.09%) Python
3 63 (27.39%) Java
4 31 (13.48%) JavaScript
5 30 (13.04%) C#
6 20 (8.70%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.65%) PL/SQL
8 12 (5.22%) Scala
9 9 (3.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (3.48%) PHP
10 8 (3.48%) R
11 7 (3.04%) Perl
11 7 (3.04%) XPath
12 6 (2.61%) Shell Script
13 5 (2.17%) Go
13 5 (2.17%) Ruby
14 4 (1.74%) Delphi
15 3 (1.30%) Bash
16 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
17 1 (0.43%) CFML
Qualifications
1 35 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 31 (13.48%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.96%) Degree
4 14 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.61%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.30%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.30%) MBA
7 3 (1.30%) Tableau Certification
8 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.87%) OCP
8 2 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.43%) CFA
9 1 (0.43%) CISSP
9 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.87%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.65%) GDPR
3 11 (4.78%) QA
4 7 (3.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.30%) IFRS
6 2 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.87%) NCSC
6 2 (0.87%) SLA
7 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.43%) EMIR
7 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.43%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.43%) MiFID
7 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.43%) Solvency II
System Software
1 65 (28.26%) Docker
2 2 (0.87%) GridGain
3 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 55 (23.91%) Kubernetes
2 20 (8.70%) Terraform
3 7 (3.04%) TIBCO Hawk
4 5 (2.17%) Grafana
5 3 (1.30%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.30%) Puppet
6 2 (0.87%) Kibana
7 1 (0.43%) Ansible
7 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 61 (26.52%) Oracle
2 26 (11.30%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.91%) Adobe
3 9 (3.91%) IBM
4 8 (3.48%) Databricks
4 8 (3.48%) TIBCO
5 7 (3.04%) BEA
5 7 (3.04%) Informatica
6 6 (2.61%) Sybase
7 4 (1.74%) DevExpress
7 4 (1.74%) Google
7 4 (1.74%) OpenLink
8 3 (1.30%) MicroStrategy
8 3 (1.30%) Sparx
9 2 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.87%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.87%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.87%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.87%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.87%) Solace