Relational Database Contracts in Scotland

Relational Database
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 50 104 97
Rank change year-on-year +54 -7 +12
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 71 25 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.37% 1.13% 2.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.83% 6.28% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 20 51
10th Percentile £407 £385 £378
25th Percentile £424 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £425 £625
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% -32.00% +40.85%
75th Percentile £538 £601 £750
90th Percentile £550 £675 -
UK median daily rate £521 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -5.27% -8.33% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £62.84
25th Percentile - £51.25 £63.83
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £66.56
Median % change year-on-year - -21.13% -
75th Percentile - £53.75 £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £35.50 £66.88
% change year-on-year +47.89% -46.92% +28.98%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 358 398 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.03% 17.95% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 295 486
10th Percentile £300 £325 £400
25th Percentile £408 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £538 £558 £550
90th Percentile £589 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £20.72 £24.60 £19.83
25th Percentile £22.42 £29.04 £27.94
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +5.91% +34.62%
75th Percentile £28.07 £45.72 £67.66
90th Percentile £28.25 £50.54 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in Scotland

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in Scotland

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in Scotland

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in Scotland

Relational Database
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +31 54 £470 +10.59% 22
Edinburgh +15 13 £500 +25.00% 12
Stirling - 3 £400 -
Perthshire - 1 - -
Relational Database
UK

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (1.41%) Apache
1 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.35%) Azure
2 11 (15.49%) AWS
3 6 (8.45%) Amazon S3
3 6 (8.45%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (8.45%) Serverless
4 4 (5.63%) CloudFront
4 4 (5.63%) Snowflake
5 3 (4.23%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.23%) Route 53
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (2.82%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.82%) GitHub
6 2 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.82%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.82%) Yarn
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (42.25%) DB2
2 29 (40.85%) MongoDB
3 25 (35.21%) RDBMS
4 11 (15.49%) Oracle Database
5 6 (8.45%) SQL Server
6 5 (7.04%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (4.23%) MySQL
7 3 (4.23%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.82%) CockroachDB
8 2 (2.82%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.41%) Big Data
9 1 (1.41%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.41%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 36 (50.70%) JUnit
2 16 (22.54%) Git
3 5 (7.04%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (4.23%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.23%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.82%) Ant
5 2 (2.82%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.82%) Selenium
5 2 (2.82%) Storybook
5 2 (2.82%) webpack
6 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.41%) Mercurial
6 1 (1.41%) MSTest
6 1 (1.41%) NUnit
6 1 (1.41%) Postman
6 1 (1.41%) Ranorex
6 1 (1.41%) Subversion
General
1 34 (47.89%) Finance
2 30 (42.25%) Social Skills
3 28 (39.44%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (28.17%) Front Office
5 13 (18.31%) Banking
5 13 (18.31%) Investment Banking
6 9 (12.68%) Back Office
7 8 (11.27%) Public Sector
8 3 (4.23%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.82%) Legal
10 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (69.01%) Developer
2 42 (59.15%) Java Developer
3 7 (9.86%) Analyst
3 7 (9.86%) Core Java Developer
3 7 (9.86%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 7 (9.86%) SQL Developer
3 7 (9.86%) Sybase Developer
3 7 (9.86%) Systems Analyst
4 5 (7.04%) Software Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Senior
6 3 (4.23%) DBA
6 3 (4.23%) Linux Developer
6 3 (4.23%) Python Developer
6 3 (4.23%) Senior Developer
7 2 (2.82%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (2.82%) AWS Software Engineer
7 2 (2.82%) Java Engineer
7 2 (2.82%) Python Engineer
7 2 (2.82%) Senior Python Developer
7 2 (2.82%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (50.70%) Spring
2 31 (43.66%) Kafka
3 23 (32.39%) JMS
4 9 (12.68%) REST
5 6 (8.45%) Spring Boot
6 5 (7.04%) JSON
6 5 (7.04%) Node.js
6 5 (7.04%) RESTful
7 4 (5.63%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.63%) CSS
7 4 (5.63%) Middleware
7 4 (5.63%) React
8 3 (4.23%) JSON Schema
8 3 (4.23%) Loki
8 3 (4.23%) OAuth
9 2 (2.82%) Django
9 2 (2.82%) HTML
9 2 (2.82%) Jest
9 2 (2.82%) MSMQ
9 2 (2.82%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 37 (52.11%) Data Structures
2 19 (26.76%) Equities
3 6 (8.45%) Equity Derivative
4 4 (5.63%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.23%) Derivative
5 3 (4.23%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 44 (61.97%) Linux
2 9 (12.68%) Unix
3 1 (1.41%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (67.61%) Agile
2 42 (59.15%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (42.25%) Multithreading
4 28 (39.44%) SDLC
5 25 (35.21%) Open Source
6 24 (33.80%) Software Engineering
7 21 (29.58%) Performance Tuning
8 20 (28.17%) CI/CD
9 19 (26.76%) Database Tuning
10 16 (22.54%) DevOps
11 12 (16.90%) Concurrent Programming
12 10 (14.08%) Test Automation
13 8 (11.27%) API Development
13 8 (11.27%) Event-Driven
14 7 (9.86%) Computer Science
14 7 (9.86%) Data Design
15 6 (8.45%) Data Modelling
16 5 (7.04%) Data Protection
16 5 (7.04%) Investment Management
16 5 (7.04%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (84.51%) SQL
2 46 (64.79%) Java
3 37 (52.11%) Python
4 25 (35.21%) Shell Script
5 12 (16.90%) PL/SQL
6 6 (8.45%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.45%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.82%) C#
8 1 (1.41%) C++
8 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.68%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.82%) QA
3 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (4.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (2.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (2.82%) Docker
3 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (7.04%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.63%) Terraform
3 3 (4.23%) Ansible
3 3 (4.23%) Grafana
3 3 (4.23%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.41%) Podman
4 1 (1.41%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 30 (42.25%) Sybase
2 14 (19.72%) Oracle
3 5 (7.04%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.63%) Splunk
5 3 (4.23%) IBM
5 3 (4.23%) Veritas
5 3 (4.23%) VMware
6 1 (1.41%) Netskope
6 1 (1.41%) Proofpoint
6 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.41%) Symantec