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 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 101 109
Rank change year-on-year +27 +8 +4
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 59 19 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.68% 0.80% 1.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.04% 5.81% 7.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 17 29
10th Percentile £340 £375 £409
25th Percentile £363 £401 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £453 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% -21.30% +2.22%
75th Percentile £545 £538 £675
90th Percentile £563 £590 £708
England median daily rate £510 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -5.12% -10.42% +1.69%

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 327 327 499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.88% 13.76% 16.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 223 356
10th Percentile £313 £358 £336
25th Percentile £373 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £465 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.87% -6.06% -2.94%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £596
90th Percentile £599 £610 £675
England median daily rate £515 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.28% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 16
10th Percentile £21.02 £25.60 £28.55
25th Percentile £21.39 £31.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £40.30
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +17.88% +0.36%
75th Percentile £62.50 £69.25 £55.35
90th Percentile £79.38 £70.85 £64.50
England median hourly rate £34.65 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% -34.09% +35.04%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +21 40 £500 +10.50% 18
Cheshire - 17 £363 - 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 11 (18.64%) JBoss
2 3 (5.08%) Apache
3 2 (3.39%) CICS
4 1 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.69%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 21 (35.59%) AWS
2 16 (27.12%) Serverless
3 13 (22.03%) OpenShift
4 10 (16.95%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (16.95%) Azure
5 9 (15.25%) PaaS
5 9 (15.25%) SaaS
6 8 (13.56%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (10.17%) Amazon EventBridge
7 6 (10.17%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (10.17%) GitHub
8 5 (8.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (8.47%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (8.47%) Apigee
8 5 (8.47%) AWS Fargate
8 5 (8.47%) Datadog
8 5 (8.47%) GCP
8 5 (8.47%) IaaS
8 5 (8.47%) Loggly
8 5 (8.47%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) Firewall
1 3 (5.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (54.24%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (44.07%) RDBMS
3 16 (27.12%) NoSQL
4 10 (16.95%) MongoDB
4 10 (16.95%) SQL Server
5 9 (15.25%) MySQL
6 8 (13.56%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (11.86%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (11.86%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (8.47%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (8.47%) BigQuery
8 5 (8.47%) DynamoDB
8 5 (8.47%) Redis
9 3 (5.08%) Oracle Database
10 2 (3.39%) DB2
11 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
11 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 25 (42.37%) Jenkins
2 15 (25.42%) Git
2 15 (25.42%) Gradle
3 13 (22.03%) SonarQube
4 10 (16.95%) JUnit
4 10 (16.95%) Liquibase
4 10 (16.95%) Mockito
5 8 (13.56%) JIRA
5 8 (13.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (13.56%) TeamCity
6 7 (11.86%) Bitbucket Server
6 7 (11.86%) CA Release Automation
6 7 (11.86%) Maven
7 5 (8.47%) GitLab
7 5 (8.47%) SonarLint
8 2 (3.39%) Cucumber
8 2 (3.39%) Eclipse
8 2 (3.39%) IntelliJ
8 2 (3.39%) REST Assured
8 2 (3.39%) Selenium
General
1 18 (30.51%) Finance
2 13 (22.03%) Public Sector
3 10 (16.95%) Electronics
3 10 (16.95%) Manufacturing
3 10 (16.95%) Marketing
3 10 (16.95%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.95%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.78%) Banking
5 2 (3.39%) Back Office
5 2 (3.39%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.69%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (18.64%) DBA
1 11 (18.64%) Developer
2 9 (15.25%) Java Developer
3 7 (11.86%) Architect
3 7 (11.86%) Java Architect
3 7 (11.86%) Java Technical Architect
3 7 (11.86%) Technical Architect
4 6 (10.17%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 5 (8.47%) Administrator
5 5 (8.47%) Java Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Lead
5 5 (8.47%) React Developer
5 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (6.78%) MongoDB DBA
7 3 (5.08%) DevOps Specialist
7 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (42.37%) Spring Boot
2 21 (35.59%) Kafka
3 12 (20.34%) Spring
4 11 (18.64%) JSON
4 11 (18.64%) XML
5 10 (16.95%) OpenAPI
5 10 (16.95%) React
5 10 (16.95%) Swagger
6 9 (15.25%) Node.js
6 9 (15.25%) RESTful
7 8 (13.56%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (11.86%) AngularJS
9 5 (8.47%) Dropwizard
9 5 (8.47%) J2EE
9 5 (8.47%) JWT
9 5 (8.47%) Micronaut
10 4 (6.78%) Celery
10 4 (6.78%) Express.js
11 3 (5.08%) REST
11 3 (5.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.17%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.47%) N-Tier
3 4 (6.78%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.08%) PKI
5 2 (3.39%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (3.39%) Derivative
5 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.39%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.39%) Market Risk
5 2 (3.39%) VSAM
6 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 18 (30.51%) Linux
2 16 (27.12%) Windows
3 8 (13.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (50.85%) DevOps
1 30 (50.85%) Microservices
2 29 (49.15%) CI/CD
3 27 (45.76%) Agile
4 26 (44.07%) Containerisation
5 19 (32.20%) TDD
6 18 (30.51%) Migration
7 14 (23.73%) Event-Driven
7 14 (23.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 13 (22.03%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (20.34%) Build Automation
9 12 (20.34%) Mentoring
9 12 (20.34%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (18.64%) Observability
11 10 (16.95%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (16.95%) Clean Code
11 10 (16.95%) Code Quality
11 10 (16.95%) Database Security
11 10 (16.95%) Digital Marketing
11 10 (16.95%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (50.85%) Java
2 25 (42.37%) Python
3 19 (32.20%) SQL
4 10 (16.95%) TypeScript
5 8 (13.56%) Perl
6 5 (8.47%) PHP
7 2 (3.39%) COBOL
7 2 (3.39%) JCL
8 1 (1.69%) C#
8 1 (1.69%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (23.73%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.95%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.08%) Degree
4 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.39%) Basel III
1 2 (3.39%) MiFID
System Software
1 38 (64.41%) Docker
2 8 (13.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (42.37%) Kubernetes
2 9 (15.25%) Progress Chef
3 8 (13.56%) Kibana
4 5 (8.47%) Grafana
4 5 (8.47%) Terraform
5 3 (5.08%) Ansible
Vendors
1 25 (42.37%) Oracle
2 13 (22.03%) AppDynamics
3 10 (16.95%) SAP
4 8 (13.56%) Microsoft
4 8 (13.56%) Red Hat
4 8 (13.56%) Splunk
5 7 (11.86%) Cloudera
6 5 (8.47%) Gigya
7 4 (6.78%) Virgin Media
8 3 (5.08%) IBM
9 2 (3.39%) Sybase
10 1 (1.69%) Databricks
10 1 (1.69%) Pega