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 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 55 108
Rank change year-on-year -17 +53 -14
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 40 63 32
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.33% 3.83% 1.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.50% 18.26% 7.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 37 25
10th Percentile £356 £408 £389
25th Percentile £384 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £470 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.06% +10.59% -34.62%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £575
90th Percentile £580 £550 £675
UK median daily rate £455 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £41.00 - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £26.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.53% -34.57% -37.69%

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 320 345 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.67% 20.96% 18.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 224 305
10th Percentile £313 £293 £335
25th Percentile £358 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -2.63% -3.06%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £620 £589 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 3
10th Percentile £19.53 £20.72 £18.93
25th Percentile £39.69 £22.42 £19.95
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.50 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +88.68% +22.46% -38.17%
75th Percentile £54.69 £28.07 £37.70
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.25 £47.33
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +54.73% -17.60% -32.54%

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 13 April 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 13 April 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 13 April 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 -3 33 £453 -3.72% 8
Edinburgh -5 7 £538 +7.50% 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (37.50%) AWS
2 7 (17.50%) Azure
2 7 (17.50%) GitHub
3 4 (10.00%) GCP
3 4 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (7.50%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (7.50%) ChatGPT
4 3 (7.50%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon SageMaker
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (37.50%) MySQL
2 8 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 6 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
4 5 (12.50%) DynamoDB
4 5 (12.50%) NoSQL
5 4 (10.00%) DB2
6 3 (7.50%) Metadata
7 2 (5.00%) Big Data
7 2 (5.00%) Power BI
7 2 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.50%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) JUnit
2 1 (2.50%) NUnit
2 1 (2.50%) Selenium
2 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (42.50%) Finance
2 12 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (20.00%) Banking
5 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
6 6 (15.00%) Investment Banking
7 4 (10.00%) Front Office
8 3 (7.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) Data Engineer
1 7 (17.50%) Developer
2 6 (15.00%) Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Senior
3 5 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Software Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) PowerShell Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Data Modeller
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (27.50%) React
2 6 (15.00%) RESTful
3 5 (12.50%) Redux
4 4 (10.00%) Django
4 4 (10.00%) Express.js
4 4 (10.00%) FastAPI
4 4 (10.00%) Flask
4 4 (10.00%) GraphQL
4 4 (10.00%) MERN Stack
4 4 (10.00%) NestJS
4 4 (10.00%) Node.js
4 4 (10.00%) REST
4 4 (10.00%) Spring
5 3 (7.50%) Spring Boot
6 2 (5.00%) HTML
6 2 (5.00%) Kafka
7 1 (2.50%) .NET
7 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.50%) CSS
7 1 (2.50%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 7 (17.50%) CMDB
3 5 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (12.50%) Virtual Team
4 4 (10.00%) Data Centre
5 3 (7.50%) Data Structures
5 3 (7.50%) Derivative
5 3 (7.50%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.50%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) Microservices
2 14 (35.00%) Agile
3 12 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (27.50%) CI/CD
4 11 (27.50%) SDLC
5 10 (25.00%) Data Lineage
5 10 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (25.00%) Runbook
6 8 (20.00%) Analytics
6 8 (20.00%) ITSM
6 8 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (17.50%) Data Architecture
7 7 (17.50%) Data Modelling
7 7 (17.50%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (15.00%) DevOps
8 6 (15.00%) Event-Driven
8 6 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (15.00%) ITIL
9 5 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 5 (12.50%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 19 (47.50%) SQL
2 17 (42.50%) Java
3 10 (25.00%) Python
4 9 (22.50%) TypeScript
5 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
6 3 (7.50%) C++
6 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.50%) C#
7 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.00%) QA
2 7 (17.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) ServiceNow
2 6 (15.00%) Oracle
3 4 (10.00%) Sybase
4 3 (7.50%) IBM
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft