Relational Database Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Relational Database
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Relational Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.76% - 0.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.98% - 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - -
South East median daily rate £425 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -20.93%

All Database & BI Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 43 12 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 10.91% 8.33% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 23
10th Percentile £379 £222 £331
25th Percentile £475 £263 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +54.29% -22.22% -11.76%
75th Percentile £592 £400 £500
90th Percentile £825 £433 £548
South East median daily rate £500 £493 £485
% change year-on-year +1.52% +1.55% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 0
10th Percentile £28.00 £21.48 -
25th Percentile £29.07 £22.41 -
Median hourly rate £47.54 £24.83 -
Median % change year-on-year +91.46% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £27.05 -
90th Percentile £54.88 £27.87 -
South East median hourly rate £36.71 £24.00 £48.18
% change year-on-year +52.96% -50.19% -12.40%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Relational Database relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Relational Database job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Relational Database
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Relational Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Relational Database.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 13 July 2026. 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
Oxford - 3 £530 - 2
Relational Database
South East

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Java Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) Celery
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Next.js
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (33.33%) OpenID
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Swagger
2 1 (33.33%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Argo
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform