Relational Database Contracts in the North West

Relational Database
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 72 98 107
Rank change year-on-year +26 +9 +13
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 48 39 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.44% 1.42% 1.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.20% 9.33% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 31 41
10th Percentile £393 £375 £413
25th Percentile £438 £401 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £534 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +12.42% -9.52%
75th Percentile £545 £546 £620
90th Percentile £563 £650 £680
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +2.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 338 418 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.17% 15.17% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 318 374
10th Percentile £354 £346 £338
25th Percentile £402 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.20% -2.00%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £635 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 18
10th Percentile £22.72 £26.85 £35.00
25th Percentile £22.92 £39.44 £39.70
Median hourly rate £25.43 £42.50 £47.29
Median % change year-on-year -40.16% -10.12% +60.29%
75th Percentile £29.85 £46.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £69.50 £65.30
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in the North West

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in the North West

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in the North West

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in the North West

Relational Database
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +26 41 £463 -13.39% 26
Cheshire -1 5 £393 +4.80% 6
Lancashire - 1 - - 11
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (10.42%) JBoss
2 2 (4.17%) Camunda
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.25%) AWS
2 12 (25.00%) Serverless
3 10 (20.83%) Azure
4 5 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (10.42%) OpenShift
5 4 (8.33%) dbt
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (72.92%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (41.67%) RDBMS
3 16 (33.33%) NoSQL
4 13 (27.08%) MongoDB
5 10 (20.83%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (14.58%) MySQL
7 5 (10.42%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (8.33%) Airbyte
9 3 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (6.25%) Data Lake
9 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
10 2 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (2.08%) Power BI
11 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 10 (20.83%) Gradle
2 10 (20.83%) JUnit
2 10 (20.83%) Liquibase
2 10 (20.83%) Mockito
3 6 (12.50%) Git
3 6 (12.50%) GitLab
4 5 (10.42%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (10.42%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (10.42%) JIRA
4 5 (10.42%) SonarQube
4 5 (10.42%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (10.42%) TeamCity
5 3 (6.25%) ERwin
6 1 (2.08%) Maven
General
1 14 (29.17%) Finance
2 11 (22.92%) Public Sector
3 10 (20.83%) Electronics
3 10 (20.83%) Manufacturing
3 10 (20.83%) Marketing
3 10 (20.83%) Telecoms
4 7 (14.58%) Social Skills
5 4 (8.33%) Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (25.00%) DBA
1 12 (25.00%) Developer
2 11 (22.92%) Java Developer
3 8 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 8 (16.67%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 6 (12.50%) Senior
5 5 (10.42%) Administrator
5 5 (10.42%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (10.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 5 (10.42%) Java Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) React Developer
5 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Software Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Azure Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Node.js Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (41.67%) Kafka
2 17 (35.42%) Spring Boot
3 12 (25.00%) JSON
3 12 (25.00%) Spring
3 12 (25.00%) XML
4 10 (20.83%) OpenAPI
4 10 (20.83%) React
4 10 (20.83%) Swagger
5 7 (14.58%) Node.js
6 6 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (8.33%) Express.js
7 4 (8.33%) REST
8 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
8 2 (4.17%) RESTful
9 1 (2.08%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.08%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.50%) Linux
2 5 (10.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (10.42%) Windows
3 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (54.17%) DevOps
2 24 (50.00%) Microservices
3 22 (45.83%) Agile
4 19 (39.58%) Containerisation
5 18 (37.50%) CI/CD
6 15 (31.25%) Migration
7 13 (27.08%) TDD
8 12 (25.00%) Database Security
9 11 (22.92%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (22.92%) Event-Driven
9 11 (22.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 10 (20.83%) Build Automation
10 10 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (20.83%) Digital Marketing
10 10 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (20.83%) Mentoring
10 10 (20.83%) Programme Management
10 10 (20.83%) Software Engineering
11 8 (16.67%) Analytics
11 8 (16.67%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 22 (45.83%) Java
2 17 (35.42%) SQL
3 13 (27.08%) Python
4 10 (20.83%) TypeScript
5 5 (10.42%) Perl
6 4 (8.33%) SPARQL
7 1 (2.08%) Bash
7 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 27 (56.25%) Docker
2 5 (10.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (39.58%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.42%) Kibana
2 5 (10.42%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.08%) Ansible
3 1 (2.08%) Grafana
3 1 (2.08%) Graylog
3 1 (2.08%) Packer
3 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.08%) Puppet
3 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (31.25%) Oracle
2 10 (20.83%) SAP
3 6 (12.50%) Virgin Media
4 5 (10.42%) AppDynamics
4 5 (10.42%) Red Hat
4 5 (10.42%) Splunk
5 4 (8.33%) Databricks
6 3 (6.25%) Cloudera
7 2 (4.17%) Microsoft