Relational Database Contracts in Northern Ireland

Relational Database
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 20 26
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 +3
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 10 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 4.39% 2.78% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 27.03% 33.33% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile - £153 -
25th Percentile £470 £296 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £575
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -30.43% +13.30%
75th Percentile £688 £441 £588
90th Percentile £703 £469 -
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £588
% change year-on-year -4.76% -10.75% +2.30%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 37 12 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 16.23% 8.33% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 8 12
10th Percentile £400 £240 £320
25th Percentile £410 £328 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £569 £450 £522
90th Percentile £639 £544 £619
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.10
Median hourly rate - - £11.20
75th Percentile - - £11.29
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £35.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.41% -35.45% +35.04%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in Northern Ireland

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Relational Database in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in Northern Ireland

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in Northern Ireland

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Relational Database in Northern Ireland.

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in Northern Ireland

Relational Database
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 3 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
County Antrim -9 10 £500 +25.00% 20
Relational Database
UK

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 2 (20.00%) GemFire
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
1 4 (40.00%) HTTP
1 4 (40.00%) Internet
1 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (50.00%) DB2
3 4 (40.00%) MySQL
4 2 (20.00%) Apache Ignite
5 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (20.00%) Front Office
5 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Account Manager
1 3 (30.00%) Technical Account Manager
1 3 (30.00%) Technical Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Core Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) DBA
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Junior
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Kafka
1 2 (20.00%) Spring
1 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (40.00%) Onboarding
1 4 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (10.00%) Derivative
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Unix
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Application Security
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Target Operating Model
4 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (10.00%) Database Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Low Latency
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (10.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Perl
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Sybase