Relational Database Contracts in the North of England

Relational Database
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 113 119 162
Rank change year-on-year +6 +43 -10
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 53 67 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.61% 1.41% 1.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.12% 9.60% 6.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 53 48
10th Percentile £393 £375 £414
25th Percentile £434 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £534 £490
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +9.01% -6.69%
75th Percentile £545 £600 £620
90th Percentile £563 £675 £677
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +2.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 581 698 843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.63% 14.64% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 521 612
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £571 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £645 £688
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 19
10th Percentile £22.72 £11.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £23.30 £14.00 £39.80
Median hourly rate £26.47 £40.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.25% -17.86% +78.18%
75th Percentile £33.11 £44.74 £65.00
90th Percentile £59.34 £50.69 £65.20
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in the North of England

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Relational Database in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in the North of England

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in the North of England

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Relational Database in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in the North of England

Relational Database
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +26 48 £463 -13.39% 40
Yorkshire -15 3 £550 - 31
North East 0 2 - - 12
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (9.43%) JBoss
2 2 (3.77%) Camunda
2 2 (3.77%) OpenEdge
2 2 (3.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 16 (30.19%) AWS
2 12 (22.64%) Serverless
3 11 (20.75%) Azure
4 5 (9.43%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (9.43%) OpenShift
5 4 (7.55%) dbt
6 3 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (5.66%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (5.66%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (3.77%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.77%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.89%) GCP
8 1 (1.89%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (67.92%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (39.62%) RDBMS
3 17 (32.08%) NoSQL
4 14 (26.42%) MongoDB
5 10 (18.87%) MySQL
5 10 (18.87%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (11.32%) SQL Server
7 5 (9.43%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (7.55%) Airbyte
9 3 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (5.66%) Data Lake
10 2 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database
11 1 (1.89%) Power BI
11 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (32.08%) Jenkins
2 10 (18.87%) Gradle
2 10 (18.87%) JUnit
2 10 (18.87%) Liquibase
2 10 (18.87%) Mockito
3 7 (13.21%) Git
3 7 (13.21%) GitLab
4 5 (9.43%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (9.43%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (9.43%) JIRA
4 5 (9.43%) SonarQube
4 5 (9.43%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (9.43%) TeamCity
5 3 (5.66%) ERwin
6 1 (1.89%) Maven
General
1 15 (28.30%) Finance
2 11 (20.75%) Public Sector
3 10 (18.87%) Electronics
3 10 (18.87%) Manufacturing
3 10 (18.87%) Marketing
3 10 (18.87%) Telecoms
4 8 (15.09%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.55%) Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Back Office
6 1 (1.89%) Front Office
6 1 (1.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (30.19%) Developer
2 13 (24.53%) DBA
3 11 (20.75%) Java Developer
4 8 (15.09%) Data Engineer
4 8 (15.09%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 6 (11.32%) Administrator
5 6 (11.32%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (11.32%) Senior
6 5 (9.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 5 (9.43%) Java Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) React Developer
6 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Software Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Azure Developer
7 4 (7.55%) Node.js Developer
7 4 (7.55%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) MongoDB DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (37.74%) Kafka
2 18 (33.96%) Spring Boot
3 13 (24.53%) Spring
4 12 (22.64%) JSON
4 12 (22.64%) XML
5 11 (20.75%) React
6 10 (18.87%) OpenAPI
6 10 (18.87%) Swagger
7 8 (15.09%) Node.js
8 6 (11.32%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (7.55%) Express.js
9 4 (7.55%) REST
9 4 (7.55%) RESTful
10 3 (5.66%) AngularJS
11 1 (1.89%) .NET Framework
11 1 (1.89%) CSS
11 1 (1.89%) CSS3
11 1 (1.89%) HTML
11 1 (1.89%) HTML5
11 1 (1.89%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.89%) NHS
2 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.21%) Linux
2 5 (9.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (9.43%) Windows
3 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.94%) DevOps
2 26 (49.06%) Microservices
3 25 (47.17%) Agile
4 19 (35.85%) CI/CD
4 19 (35.85%) Containerisation
5 15 (28.30%) Migration
6 14 (26.42%) TDD
7 12 (22.64%) Database Security
8 11 (20.75%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (20.75%) Event-Driven
8 11 (20.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 11 (20.75%) Mentoring
9 10 (18.87%) Build Automation
9 10 (18.87%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (18.87%) Digital Marketing
9 10 (18.87%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (18.87%) Programme Management
9 10 (18.87%) Software Engineering
10 8 (15.09%) Analytics
10 8 (15.09%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 23 (43.40%) Java
2 20 (37.74%) SQL
3 14 (26.42%) Python
4 10 (18.87%) TypeScript
5 5 (9.43%) Perl
6 4 (7.55%) SPARQL
7 1 (1.89%) Bash
7 1 (1.89%) C#
7 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.89%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (33.96%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.75%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.55%) Degree
4 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (50.94%) Docker
2 5 (9.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 19 (35.85%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.43%) Kibana
2 5 (9.43%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.89%) Ansible
3 1 (1.89%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.89%) Grafana
3 1 (1.89%) Graylog
3 1 (1.89%) Packer
3 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.89%) Puppet
3 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (30.19%) Oracle
2 10 (18.87%) SAP
3 6 (11.32%) Virgin Media
4 5 (9.43%) AppDynamics
4 5 (9.43%) Red Hat
4 5 (9.43%) Splunk
5 4 (7.55%) Databricks
5 4 (7.55%) Microsoft
6 3 (5.66%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.89%) Google