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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 81 113
Rank change year-on-year +20 +32 -26
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 53 37 31
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.37% 2.21% 1.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.36% 11.11% 7.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 24 23
10th Percentile £332 £382 £397
25th Percentile £366 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.85% +6.67% -38.98%
75th Percentile £560 £525 £513
90th Percentile £576 £546 £668
UK median daily rate £463 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -11.06% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £36.50 - -
25th Percentile £38.75 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £46.25 - £53.75
90th Percentile £48.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £32.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +30.77% -45.83% +166.84%

All Database & BI 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 324 333 430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.60% 19.92% 18.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 215 308
10th Percentile £313 £329 £393
25th Percentile £381 £391 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £482
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -3.43% -1.38%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £628 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 3
10th Percentile £30.25 - £18.93
25th Percentile £50.00 £19.59 £19.95
Median hourly rate £52.50 £23.05 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +127.82% +6.49% -27.87%
75th Percentile £64.00 £27.91 £37.70
90th Percentile £65.00 £28.19 £47.33
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £38.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +39.73% -10.33% -25.26%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend 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 14 February 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Relational Database in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 14 February 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
Glasgow +23 47 £440 -6.38% 6
Edinburgh -3 6 £431 -13.75% 2
Relational Database
UK

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.08%) AWS
2 10 (18.87%) Azure
3 4 (7.55%) GitHub
4 3 (5.66%) GCP
4 3 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (5.66%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (24.53%) MySQL
2 9 (16.98%) MongoDB
3 8 (15.09%) NoSQL
3 8 (15.09%) SQL Server
4 7 (13.21%) DB2
5 6 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (9.43%) RDBMS
7 4 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (5.66%) Data Lake
8 3 (5.66%) DynamoDB
8 3 (5.66%) IBM InfoSphere
9 2 (3.77%) Big Data
10 1 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 8 (15.09%) JUnit
2 4 (7.55%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.66%) ERwin
3 3 (5.66%) Git
4 2 (3.77%) Mockito
5 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.89%) NUnit
5 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (54.72%) Finance
2 16 (30.19%) Banking
3 15 (28.30%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (24.53%) Social Skills
5 12 (22.64%) Investment Banking
6 10 (18.87%) Public Sector
7 6 (11.32%) Front Office
8 3 (5.66%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (26.42%) Analyst
2 13 (24.53%) Data Analyst
3 10 (18.87%) Developer
4 9 (16.98%) Java Developer
5 7 (13.21%) Data Engineer
6 6 (11.32%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 6 (11.32%) SQL Developer
6 6 (11.32%) Sybase Developer
7 5 (9.43%) Operations Engineer
7 5 (9.43%) Software Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Azure Software Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Business Analyst
8 4 (7.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) PowerShell Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Python Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Senior
9 3 (5.66%) Data Business Analyst
9 3 (5.66%) Python Data Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.75%) Spring
2 9 (16.98%) React
3 6 (11.32%) JMS
3 6 (11.32%) Kafka
4 5 (9.43%) REST
5 4 (7.55%) NumPy
5 4 (7.55%) Pandas
5 4 (7.55%) PySpark
5 4 (7.55%) Redux
5 4 (7.55%) RESTful
5 4 (7.55%) Spring Boot
6 3 (5.66%) Django
6 3 (5.66%) Express.js
6 3 (5.66%) FastAPI
6 3 (5.66%) Flask
6 3 (5.66%) GraphQL
6 3 (5.66%) MERN Stack
6 3 (5.66%) NestJS
6 3 (5.66%) Node.js
7 2 (3.77%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) CMDB
2 11 (20.75%) Product Ownership
3 10 (18.87%) Data Structures
3 10 (18.87%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (16.98%) Virtual Team
5 6 (11.32%) Data Centre
5 6 (11.32%) Equities
6 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.09%) Linux
2 4 (7.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (47.17%) Agile
2 21 (39.62%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (32.08%) Data Modelling
3 17 (32.08%) SDLC
4 16 (30.19%) Data Architecture
5 14 (26.42%) Analytics
6 13 (24.53%) Microservices
7 12 (22.64%) Data Lineage
8 11 (20.75%) ITIL
8 11 (20.75%) ITSM
8 11 (20.75%) Software Engineering
8 11 (20.75%) Visualisation
9 10 (18.87%) Data Analysis
10 9 (16.98%) Time Management
10 9 (16.98%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (15.09%) Business Analysis
11 8 (15.09%) Change Control
11 8 (15.09%) Data Management
11 8 (15.09%) Data Visualisation
11 8 (15.09%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (67.92%) SQL
2 20 (37.74%) Java
3 18 (33.96%) Python
4 8 (15.09%) TypeScript
5 6 (11.32%) JavaScript
5 6 (11.32%) Shell Script
6 4 (7.55%) PL/SQL
6 4 (7.55%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.89%) C#
7 1 (1.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (7.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.77%) Degree
3 2 (3.77%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.98%) QA
2 4 (7.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.89%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (9.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (30.19%) ServiceNow
2 6 (11.32%) Oracle
2 6 (11.32%) Sybase
3 4 (7.55%) Databricks
4 3 (5.66%) Cloudera
4 3 (5.66%) IBM
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft