Relational Database Contracts in the Midlands

Relational Database
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 80 101 129
Rank change year-on-year +21 +28 +11
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 31 32 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.62% 1.16% 1.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.95% 7.69% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 20
10th Percentile £415 £351 £361
25th Percentile £465 £356 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £400 £545
Median % change year-on-year +23.25% -26.61% +10.10%
75th Percentile £525 £578 £614
90th Percentile £530 £750 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £15.63 £29.03 -
25th Percentile £16.15 £30.94 -
Median hourly rate £17.59 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.46% - -
75th Percentile £18.45 £38.69 -
90th Percentile £18.62 £39.78 -
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
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 283 416 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.79% 15.09% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 308 412
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £655 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 6
10th Percentile £16.31 - £21.53
25th Percentile £17.00 - £24.16
Median hourly rate £18.20 £14.00 £25.87
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -45.87% -26.10%
75th Percentile £19.25 £27.49 £32.93
90th Percentile £20.90 £40.50 £47.54
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in the Midlands

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in the Midlands

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in the Midlands

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in the Midlands

Relational Database
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +23 24 £493 +23.25% 45
East Midlands 0 6 £495 +13.14% 18
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (16.13%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.45%) Confluence
3 1 (3.23%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (16.13%) InfoPath
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (6.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 18 (58.06%) AWS
2 9 (29.03%) Azure
3 8 (25.81%) Power Platform
4 7 (22.58%) Serverless
5 5 (16.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (16.13%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (16.13%) Amazon S3
5 5 (16.13%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (16.13%) AWS CodeBuild
5 5 (16.13%) Azure Functions
5 5 (16.13%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (16.13%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (16.13%) Power Automate
5 5 (16.13%) PowerApps
6 3 (9.68%) AWS KMS
6 3 (9.68%) Route 53
7 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (6.45%) GCP
7 2 (6.45%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (48.39%) RDBMS
2 8 (25.81%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (25.81%) Power BI
3 6 (19.35%) MySQL
4 5 (16.13%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (9.68%) DynamoDB
6 3 (9.68%) MongoDB
6 3 (9.68%) Oracle Database
7 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
7 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
7 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
8 1 (3.23%) Data Mining
8 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (3.23%) MS Access
8 1 (3.23%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Git
1 8 (25.81%) JIRA
2 6 (19.35%) JUnit
2 6 (19.35%) Mockito
3 4 (12.90%) Jenkins
4 3 (9.68%) Cucumber
4 3 (9.68%) Gradle
4 3 (9.68%) Maven
5 2 (6.45%) ERwin
6 1 (3.23%) Ant
6 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (3.23%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (3.23%) ER Studio
6 1 (3.23%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.23%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (25.81%) Finance
2 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Local Government
4 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Java Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Architect
3 5 (16.13%) Senior
3 5 (16.13%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (12.90%) Automation Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Test Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Developer
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Data Modeller
6 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Python Developer
6 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Support Officer
6 2 (6.45%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (38.71%) .NET
2 8 (25.81%) HTML
2 8 (25.81%) REST
3 7 (22.58%) Spring
4 5 (16.13%) .NET Framework
4 5 (16.13%) ASP.NET
4 5 (16.13%) ASP.NET MVC
4 5 (16.13%) CSS
4 5 (16.13%) Entity Framework
4 5 (16.13%) HTML5 Canvas
5 4 (12.90%) React
5 4 (12.90%) Spring Boot
6 3 (9.68%) .NET Core
6 3 (9.68%) Hibernate
6 3 (9.68%) jQuery
6 3 (9.68%) RESTful
6 3 (9.68%) Web Services
6 3 (9.68%) WireMock
7 2 (6.45%) Django
7 2 (6.45%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Enterprise Cloud
1 5 (16.13%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) Agile
1 16 (51.61%) CI/CD
2 13 (41.94%) Microservices
3 8 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (22.58%) CRM
4 7 (22.58%) ETL
4 7 (22.58%) Workflow
5 6 (19.35%) Migration
5 6 (19.35%) TDD
6 5 (16.13%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (16.13%) Dashboard Development
6 5 (16.13%) Data Modelling
6 5 (16.13%) MVC
6 5 (16.13%) Scrum
6 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
7 4 (12.90%) Decision-Making
7 4 (12.90%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (12.90%) Software Delivery
7 4 (12.90%) Task Automation
8 3 (9.68%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 17 (54.84%) SQL
2 15 (48.39%) JavaScript
3 10 (32.26%) C#
4 8 (25.81%) Java
5 7 (22.58%) Python
6 4 (12.90%) TypeScript
7 3 (9.68%) R
8 1 (3.23%) C++
8 1 (3.23%) Perl
8 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
1 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) Degree
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Kibana
2 1 (3.23%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Oracle
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.68%) Talend
4 1 (3.23%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.23%) Databricks
4 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.23%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) Splunk
4 1 (3.23%) Sybase