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 4 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 111 119
Rank change year-on-year +23 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 34 22 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.66% 0.79% 1.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.91% 5.28% 6.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 16
10th Percentile £398 £354 £363
25th Percentile £444 £356 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -27.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £518 £436 £641
90th Percentile £524 £514 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £15.63 - -
25th Percentile £16.15 - -
Median hourly rate £17.59 £40.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -56.57% - -
75th Percentile £18.45 - -
90th Percentile £18.62 - -
England median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -18.46% -53.57% +49.73%

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 343 417 544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.70% 14.99% 16.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 309 364
10th Percentile £290 £285 £311
25th Percentile £388 £356 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £588
90th Percentile £631 £688 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 5
10th Percentile £17.62 - £21.04
25th Percentile £18.50 - £24.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £14.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -44.55% -27.86%
75th Percentile £33.88 £27.83 £26.48
90th Percentile £35.78 £40.50 £31.64
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -19.88% -31.73% +37.86%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +27 24 £490 +22.50% 156
East Midlands +5 9 £490 +30.67% 125
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 3 (8.82%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.88%) Confluence
3 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.94%) CICS
3 1 (2.94%) JBoss
3 1 (2.94%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) InfoPath
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (5.88%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 18 (52.94%) AWS
2 11 (32.35%) Azure
3 10 (29.41%) Serverless
4 8 (23.53%) Power Platform
5 7 (20.59%) Amazon S3
6 6 (17.65%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (17.65%) Azure Functions
6 6 (17.65%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (14.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (14.71%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (14.71%) AWS CodeBuild
8 4 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (8.82%) AWS KMS
9 3 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (8.82%) Azure Event Grid
9 3 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (8.82%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (8.82%) Power Automate
9 3 (8.82%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (29.41%) RDBMS
2 9 (26.47%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (23.53%) Power BI
4 7 (20.59%) SQL Server
5 6 (17.65%) MySQL
6 5 (14.71%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (8.82%) DB2
7 3 (8.82%) DynamoDB
7 3 (8.82%) MongoDB
7 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
7 3 (8.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (2.94%) Big Data
9 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
9 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
9 1 (2.94%) Sybase IQ
9 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Git
1 8 (23.53%) JIRA
2 6 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 6 (17.65%) JUnit
2 6 (17.65%) Mockito
3 4 (11.76%) Cucumber
3 4 (11.76%) Maven
4 3 (8.82%) Gradle
5 2 (5.88%) ERwin
6 1 (2.94%) Ant
6 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (2.94%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (2.94%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.94%) ER Studio
6 1 (2.94%) IntelliJ
6 1 (2.94%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.94%) Selenium
6 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.94%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Finance
3 2 (5.88%) Local Government
3 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Developer
2 7 (20.59%) Java Developer
3 4 (11.76%) Architect
3 4 (11.76%) Senior
4 3 (8.82%) Automation Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Senior Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.88%) .NET Developer
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Developer
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Data Modeller
5 2 (5.88%) Integration Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Platform Support Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Support Officer
5 2 (5.88%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (32.35%) .NET
2 9 (26.47%) REST
3 8 (23.53%) Spring
4 7 (20.59%) Web Services
5 6 (17.65%) HTML
5 6 (17.65%) RESTful
6 5 (14.71%) React
6 5 (14.71%) Spring Boot
7 3 (8.82%) .NET Core
7 3 (8.82%) .NET Framework
7 3 (8.82%) ASP.NET
7 3 (8.82%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (8.82%) CSS
7 3 (8.82%) Entity Framework
7 3 (8.82%) Hibernate
7 3 (8.82%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (8.82%) jQuery
7 3 (8.82%) WireMock
8 2 (5.88%) Django
8 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Enterprise Cloud
1 3 (8.82%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.94%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.94%) IoT
3 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.94%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Linux
2 3 (8.82%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 12 (35.29%) Agile
2 12 (35.29%) ETL
2 12 (35.29%) Microservices
3 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (26.47%) Analytics
6 7 (20.59%) Data Modelling
6 7 (20.59%) TDD
7 6 (17.65%) CRM
7 6 (17.65%) Dashboard Development
7 6 (17.65%) DevOps
8 5 (14.71%) Data Integration
8 5 (14.71%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (14.71%) Software Engineering
9 4 (11.76%) Data Architecture
9 4 (11.76%) Migration
9 4 (11.76%) Scrum
9 4 (11.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (61.76%) SQL
2 14 (41.18%) JavaScript
3 12 (35.29%) Java
4 11 (32.35%) C#
5 7 (20.59%) Python
6 4 (11.76%) TypeScript
7 3 (8.82%) R
8 1 (2.94%) C++
8 1 (2.94%) COBOL
8 1 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.94%) JCL
8 1 (2.94%) Perl
8 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) Degree
3 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Docker
2 3 (8.82%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Kibana
2 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Oracle
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.82%) Cognos
3 3 (8.82%) IBM
4 1 (2.94%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.94%) Databricks
4 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.94%) SAP
4 1 (2.94%) Splunk
4 1 (2.94%) Sybase