Relational Database Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Relational Database
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Relational Database skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 87 93
Rank change year-on-year +42 +6 +22
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 77 26 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.84% 1.40% 2.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.37% 8.87% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 21 43
10th Percentile £333 £341 -
25th Percentile £409 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -10.53% -1.55%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £513
90th Percentile £575 £563 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £62.84
25th Percentile - - £63.83
Median hourly rate - - £66.56
75th Percentile - - £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £38.50 £74.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% -47.97% +48.00%

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 378 293 440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.77% 15.79% 17.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 192 330
10th Percentile £313 £333 £392
25th Percentile £419 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £461 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.10% -3.91% -2.04%
75th Percentile £538 £535 £544
90th Percentile £625 £636 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £535 £542
% change year-on-year -6.54% -1.20% -1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile - £17.45 £29.14
25th Percentile £52.50 £18.26 £41.53
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £64.38
Median % change year-on-year +180.76% -69.57% +179.89%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £67.66
90th Percentile - - £68.31
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% -36.36% +23.10%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in Scotland

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

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 16 September 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 +20 61 £460 +8.24% 1
Edinburgh +18 16 £463 +12.12% 4
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 3 (3.90%) Apache
1 3 (3.90%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.60%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.30%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 15 (19.48%) AWS
2 10 (12.99%) Azure
3 7 (9.09%) GitHub
4 6 (7.79%) Snowflake
5 5 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (6.49%) Serverless
6 4 (5.19%) Amazon Cognito
6 4 (5.19%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.19%) AWS CodePipeline
6 4 (5.19%) GCP
6 4 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.90%) Firebase
8 2 (2.60%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (2.60%) CloudFront
9 1 (1.30%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (1.30%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) MQTT
2 1 (1.30%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (32.47%) DB2
2 22 (28.57%) MongoDB
3 16 (20.78%) RDBMS
4 7 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 6 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (6.49%) NoSQL
7 4 (5.19%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (5.19%) MySQL
8 2 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.60%) CockroachDB
8 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.60%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.30%) Big Data
9 1 (1.30%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 28 (36.36%) JUnit
2 8 (10.39%) Git
3 6 (7.79%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.19%) Cypress.io
4 4 (5.19%) JIRA
4 4 (5.19%) Storybook
5 3 (3.90%) Subversion
6 2 (2.60%) git-flow
7 1 (1.30%) Maven
7 1 (1.30%) Mockito
7 1 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 41 (53.25%) Finance
2 29 (37.66%) Banking
3 27 (35.06%) Social Skills
4 23 (29.87%) Investment Banking
5 22 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (25.97%) Front Office
7 6 (7.79%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.30%) Back Office
9 1 (1.30%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (64.94%) Developer
2 40 (51.95%) Java Developer
3 17 (22.08%) SQL Developer
4 16 (20.78%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 16 (20.78%) Sybase Developer
5 13 (16.88%) Core Java Developer
6 10 (12.99%) Analyst
6 10 (12.99%) Data Engineer
7 9 (11.69%) Data Analyst
8 6 (7.79%) Senior
9 4 (5.19%) Lead
10 3 (3.90%) Python Data Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Python Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Python Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) React Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Software Developer
11 2 (2.60%) Architect
11 2 (2.60%) Business Analyst
11 2 (2.60%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (41.56%) Spring
2 27 (35.06%) Kafka
3 21 (27.27%) JMS
4 11 (14.29%) Spring Boot
5 8 (10.39%) React
6 5 (6.49%) CSS
6 5 (6.49%) Pandas
6 5 (6.49%) PySpark
6 5 (6.49%) REST
7 4 (5.19%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.19%) AWS CDK
7 4 (5.19%) Jest
7 4 (5.19%) NumPy
7 4 (5.19%) RESTful
7 4 (5.19%) Tailwind CSS
8 3 (3.90%) AWS Amplify
8 3 (3.90%) GraphQL
8 3 (3.90%) SOAP
8 3 (3.90%) XML
9 2 (2.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (45.45%) Data Structures
2 19 (24.68%) Equities
3 7 (9.09%) CMDB
3 7 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (7.79%) Management Information System
5 5 (6.49%) Virtual Team
6 4 (5.19%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (3.90%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.90%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.60%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.60%) Derivative
9 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (49.35%) Linux
2 8 (10.39%) Unix
3 3 (3.90%) Windows
4 1 (1.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (62.34%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (51.95%) Agile
3 26 (33.77%) Multithreading
4 25 (32.47%) Performance Tuning
5 24 (31.17%) Software Engineering
6 22 (28.57%) Open Source
7 21 (27.27%) SDLC
8 19 (24.68%) Database Tuning
9 17 (22.08%) Data Modelling
10 15 (19.48%) Analytics
10 15 (19.48%) CI/CD
11 14 (18.18%) Computer Science
12 13 (16.88%) DevOps
13 12 (15.58%) Visualisation
14 10 (12.99%) Data Analysis
15 9 (11.69%) Data Pipeline
15 9 (11.69%) Data Visualisation
15 9 (11.69%) Microservices
16 8 (10.39%) Concurrent Programming
16 8 (10.39%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 68 (88.31%) SQL
2 47 (61.04%) Java
3 41 (53.25%) Python
4 22 (28.57%) Shell Script
5 9 (11.69%) PL/SQL
6 5 (6.49%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.19%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.30%) C++
8 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (6.49%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (2.60%) Degree
3 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.30%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.19%) QA
2 2 (2.60%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (5.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.90%) Grafana
2 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.30%) Kibana
3 1 (1.30%) logstash
3 1 (1.30%) Podman
3 1 (1.30%) RSA Archer
3 1 (1.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (29.87%) Sybase
2 9 (11.69%) Oracle
2 9 (11.69%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.19%) Databricks
3 4 (5.19%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.90%) IBM
5 2 (2.60%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.30%) Greenplum
6 1 (1.30%) Netskope
6 1 (1.30%) Pega
6 1 (1.30%) Proofpoint
6 1 (1.30%) Splunk
6 1 (1.30%) Symantec