Relational Database Contract Job Trends in Reading

Relational Database
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Relational Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 90 82
Rank change year-on-year +38 -8 +8
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 10 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.72% 0.55% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.17% 2.84% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £419 £328 £375
25th Percentile £428 £341 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.67% -25.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £474 £475 £613
90th Percentile £490 £528 £665
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +33.33% +7.14% -31.71%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 109 211 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 18.70% 19.46% 14.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 130 114
10th Percentile £429 £380 £413
25th Percentile £500 £502 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +6.52% +19.79%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £662
90th Percentile £660 £663 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £508 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +0.87% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £61.60 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £61.60 £72.00
% change year-on-year - -14.44% +23.61%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in Reading

Relational Database
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) GCP
3 4 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (40.00%) dbt
3 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (30.00%) Azure
4 3 (30.00%) Serverless
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (10.00%) GitHub
6 1 (10.00%) iPaaS
6 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (40.00%) Power BI
2 4 (40.00%) Tableau
3 3 (30.00%) RDBMS
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (10.00%) Big Data
5 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
5 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (10.00%) MySQL
5 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (10.00%) Parquet
5 1 (10.00%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) JMeter
1 2 (20.00%) JUnit
1 2 (20.00%) Mockito
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Telecoms Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Database Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Informatica Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) REST
2 3 (30.00%) HTML
2 3 (30.00%) JSON
2 3 (30.00%) XML
3 2 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (20.00%) Apache Camel
3 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (20.00%) jQuery
3 2 (20.00%) OAuth
3 2 (20.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (20.00%) Spring
3 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (20.00%) Web Services
3 2 (20.00%) WireMock
4 1 (10.00%) NumPy
4 1 (10.00%) Pandas
4 1 (10.00%) RESTful
4 1 (10.00%) scikit-learn
4 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Workflow
2 6 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 5 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 5 (50.00%) ETL
3 5 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) Data Transformation
4 4 (40.00%) Validation
4 4 (40.00%) WFM
5 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (30.00%) Microservices
6 2 (20.00%) BDD
6 2 (20.00%) High Availability
6 2 (20.00%) SDLC
6 2 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 7 (70.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (10.00%) Bash
5 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 5 (50.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) OCP
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kibana
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
1 2 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Informatica
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Pega