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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 47 85
Rank change year-on-year -24 +38 +7
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 56 82 29
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.51% 4.87% 1.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.22% 20.60% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 38 23
10th Percentile £339 £400 £334
25th Percentile £409 £413 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +8.82% -
75th Percentile £488 £538 £538
90th Percentile £517 £575 £573
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -10.64%
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 £50.00 £52.50 £46.50
% change year-on-year -4.76% +12.90% -38.00%

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 368 398 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.48% 23.62% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 228 200
10th Percentile £313 £300 £312
25th Percentile £356 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.95% +8.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £488 £545 £514
90th Percentile £569 £600 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £26.16 £26.17 £17.45
25th Percentile £35.63 £36.05 £18.26
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +180.76% -44.03%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £36.67
90th Percentile - - £46.92
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £34.99 £35.25
% change year-on-year +10.03% -0.74% -35.91%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -18 47 £425 -9.57% 8
Edinburgh -14 9 £485 +4.86% 4
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.36%) GitHub
2 14 (25.00%) ChatGPT
3 12 (21.43%) Anthropic Claude
3 12 (21.43%) Snowflake
4 11 (19.64%) GitHub Copilot
5 10 (17.86%) AWS
5 10 (17.86%) Power Platform
6 8 (14.29%) Azure
7 7 (12.50%) GCP
8 6 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.79%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (1.79%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.79%) Kong
10 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) HTTP
1 1 (1.79%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.00%) Db2
1 14 (25.00%) MySQL
2 12 (21.43%) Metadata
2 12 (21.43%) MongoDB
2 12 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (17.86%) Power BI
4 9 (16.07%) SQL Server
4 9 (16.07%) Tableau
5 5 (8.93%) DynamoDB
5 5 (8.93%) NoSQL
6 4 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (5.36%) RDBMS
8 2 (3.57%) Oracle Database
8 2 (3.57%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.79%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database 10g
9 1 (1.79%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.93%) Git
3 2 (3.57%) Selenium
4 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.79%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.79%) ERwin
4 1 (1.79%) GitLab
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.79%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.79%) Subversion
4 1 (1.79%) webpack
General
1 27 (48.21%) Finance
2 25 (44.64%) Social Skills
3 19 (33.93%) Banking
4 15 (26.79%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (21.43%) Investment Banking
6 9 (16.07%) Front Office
7 6 (10.71%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.79%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.79%) Legal
8 1 (1.79%) Local Government
8 1 (1.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (37.50%) Developer
2 11 (19.64%) Python Developer
2 11 (19.64%) Site Engineer
2 11 (19.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 10 (17.86%) Java Developer
3 10 (17.86%) Senior
4 6 (10.71%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Analyst
6 4 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Python Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Core Java Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) Gen AI Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Lead
7 3 (5.36%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.57%) Perl Developer
8 2 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (3.57%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.50%) React
1 7 (12.50%) RESTful
2 5 (8.93%) Redux
2 5 (8.93%) REST
3 4 (7.14%) Django
3 4 (7.14%) Express.js
3 4 (7.14%) FastAPI
3 4 (7.14%) Flask
3 4 (7.14%) GraphQL
3 4 (7.14%) MERN Stack
3 4 (7.14%) NestJS
3 4 (7.14%) Node.js
3 4 (7.14%) Spring
3 4 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.57%) CSS
4 2 (3.57%) Kafka
5 1 (1.79%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.79%) CSS3
5 1 (1.79%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.79%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.00%) Equity Derivative
2 11 (19.64%) Derivative
3 5 (8.93%) Data Structures
3 5 (8.93%) Product Ownership
4 4 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.14%) Legacy Code
5 3 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.57%) CMDB
7 1 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (19.64%) Linux
2 10 (17.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (64.29%) CI/CD
2 23 (41.07%) LLM
3 22 (39.29%) Agile
3 22 (39.29%) AI
4 20 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
5 18 (32.14%) Risk Management
6 16 (28.57%) Generative AI
7 15 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (26.79%) Test Automation
8 14 (25.00%) BDD
8 14 (25.00%) Data Modelling
9 13 (23.21%) Data Lineage
9 13 (23.21%) Root Cause Analysis
9 13 (23.21%) TDD
10 12 (21.43%) Analytics
10 12 (21.43%) Observability
10 12 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 11 (19.64%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (19.64%) Data Governance
12 10 (17.86%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (58.93%) Python
2 32 (57.14%) SQL
3 22 (39.29%) Java
4 9 (16.07%) C++
5 8 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.14%) Shell Script
6 4 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.36%) Perl
8 2 (3.57%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.57%) Degree
3 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 12 (21.43%) QA
3 3 (5.36%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.36%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.79%) GDPR
4 1 (1.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (26.79%) Oracle
2 13 (23.21%) Sybase
3 10 (17.86%) IBM
4 4 (7.14%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.57%) Google
5 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.79%) Avaloq
6 1 (1.79%) Charles River
6 1 (1.79%) Sparx
6 1 (1.79%) webMethods