Relational Database Contracts in Manchester

Relational Database
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 71 94
Rank change year-on-year +34 +23 +17
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 42 25 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.76% 1.77% 1.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.83% 10.55% 6.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 24 14
10th Percentile £409 £381 £414
25th Percentile £445 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £534 £535
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% -0.19% +1.90%
75th Percentile £545 £540 £650
90th Percentile £563 £585 £693
North West median daily rate £463 £531 £475
% change year-on-year -12.90% +11.79% -9.52%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 184 237 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 20.86% 16.77% 16.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 185 217
10th Percentile £372 £368 £345
25th Percentile £407 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £551 £550 £575
90th Percentile £614 £670 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 8
10th Percentile - £35.45 £35.00
25th Percentile £24.25 £55.25 £38.45
Median hourly rate £24.50 £68.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.36% +30.95% -
75th Percentile £40.75 £74.63 £65.25
90th Percentile £69.55 £78.45 £66.00
North West median hourly rate £25.43 £42.50 £40.80
% change year-on-year -40.16% +4.18% +8.79%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in Manchester

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in Manchester

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in Manchester over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in Manchester

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in Manchester

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (4.76%) Camunda
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.19%) Azure
2 10 (23.81%) AWS
3 9 (21.43%) Serverless
4 5 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (9.52%) dbt
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (76.19%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (30.95%) NoSQL
2 13 (30.95%) RDBMS
3 10 (23.81%) MongoDB
4 7 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (9.52%) Airbyte
5 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
6 3 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (7.14%) Data Lake
6 3 (7.14%) MySQL
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (26.19%) Jenkins
2 10 (23.81%) Gradle
2 10 (23.81%) JUnit
2 10 (23.81%) Liquibase
2 10 (23.81%) Mockito
3 6 (14.29%) GitLab
4 3 (7.14%) ERwin
5 1 (2.38%) Git
5 1 (2.38%) Maven
General
1 15 (35.71%) Finance
2 11 (26.19%) Public Sector
3 10 (23.81%) Electronics
3 10 (23.81%) Manufacturing
3 10 (23.81%) Marketing
3 10 (23.81%) Telecoms
4 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
5 4 (9.52%) Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Back Office
6 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.38%) Military
6 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Developer
1 11 (26.19%) Java Developer
2 10 (23.81%) DBA
3 8 (19.05%) Data Engineer
4 7 (16.67%) Senior
5 6 (14.29%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 5 (11.90%) Administrator
6 5 (11.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (11.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 5 (11.90%) Java Engineer
6 5 (11.90%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (11.90%) React Developer
6 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 5 (11.90%) Software Engineer
7 4 (9.52%) Azure Developer
7 4 (9.52%) Node.js Developer
7 4 (9.52%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) Data Modeller
8 3 (7.14%) MongoDB DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (40.48%) Kafka
2 12 (28.57%) Spring
2 12 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 10 (23.81%) OpenAPI
3 10 (23.81%) React
3 10 (23.81%) Swagger
4 9 (21.43%) JSON
4 9 (21.43%) XML
5 7 (16.67%) Node.js
6 5 (11.90%) REST
7 4 (9.52%) Express.js
8 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
8 2 (4.76%) RESTful
9 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (2.38%) Java EE
9 1 (2.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.38%) Credit Derivative
2 1 (2.38%) Derivative
2 1 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.38%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (45.24%) Agile
1 19 (45.24%) Containerisation
1 19 (45.24%) Microservices
2 18 (42.86%) DevOps
3 13 (30.95%) CI/CD
3 13 (30.95%) TDD
4 11 (26.19%) Event-Driven
4 11 (26.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 11 (26.19%) Migration
5 10 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (23.81%) Digital Marketing
5 10 (23.81%) Programme Management
5 10 (23.81%) Software Engineering
6 9 (21.43%) Database Security
7 8 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (16.67%) Data Modelling
8 7 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 6 (14.29%) Event-Driven Programming
9 6 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (45.24%) Java
1 19 (45.24%) SQL
2 10 (23.81%) Python
2 10 (23.81%) TypeScript
3 4 (9.52%) SPARQL
4 1 (2.38%) Bash
4 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.38%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 11 (26.19%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.52%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) Basel III
1 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.38%) MiFID
System Software
1 22 (52.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.38%) Ansible
2 1 (2.38%) Grafana
2 1 (2.38%) Graylog
2 1 (2.38%) Packer
2 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.38%) Puppet
2 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (30.95%) Oracle
2 10 (23.81%) SAP
3 6 (14.29%) Virgin Media
4 4 (9.52%) Databricks
5 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.38%) Sybase