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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 86 114
Rank change year-on-year +28 +28 -22
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 49 32 28
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.20% 2.00% 1.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.86% 9.88% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 21 22
10th Percentile £329 £378 £400
25th Percentile £375 £420 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +0.51% -35.00%
75th Percentile £568 £525 £523
90th Percentile £578 £538 £671
UK median daily rate £463 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -11.06% -5.45% -4.35%

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 309 324 429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.21% 20.20% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 208 308
10th Percentile £325 £354 £389
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £470 £498
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -5.63% +1.63%
75th Percentile £550 £533 £575
90th Percentile £685 £633 £666
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 2
10th Percentile £34.50 - £18.59
25th Percentile £50.63 £19.59 £19.10
Median hourly rate £55.00 £23.05 £20.57
Median % change year-on-year +138.66% +12.03% -5.43%
75th Percentile £64.00 £27.91 £21.42
90th Percentile £66.00 £28.19 £21.55
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +42.86% -17.65% -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 4 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
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 4 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 +26 43 £488 +3.72% 7
Edinburgh +4 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 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (28.57%) AWS
2 8 (16.33%) Azure
3 3 (6.12%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.04%) GCP
4 1 (2.04%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.41%) MySQL
2 8 (16.33%) DB2
2 8 (16.33%) SQL Server
3 7 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 5 (10.20%) NoSQL
4 5 (10.20%) RDBMS
5 4 (8.16%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (6.12%) Data Lake
6 3 (6.12%) IBM InfoSphere
7 2 (4.08%) Big Data
8 1 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 9 (18.37%) JUnit
2 4 (8.16%) Git
3 3 (6.12%) ERwin
4 2 (4.08%) Mockito
5 1 (2.04%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.04%) git-flow
5 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.04%) NUnit
5 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (59.18%) Finance
2 18 (36.73%) Banking
3 14 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 13 (26.53%) Investment Banking
5 10 (20.41%) Public Sector
6 7 (14.29%) Front Office
7 3 (6.12%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (24.49%) Analyst
1 12 (24.49%) Developer
2 11 (22.45%) Data Analyst
2 11 (22.45%) Java Developer
3 7 (14.29%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 7 (14.29%) SQL Developer
3 7 (14.29%) Sybase Developer
4 6 (12.24%) Data Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Operations Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Software Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Software Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) PowerShell Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Business Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Data Modeller
7 3 (6.12%) Python Data Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Python Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Senior
7 3 (6.12%) Site Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.49%) Spring
2 7 (14.29%) JMS
2 7 (14.29%) Kafka
3 6 (12.24%) React
4 4 (8.16%) NumPy
4 4 (8.16%) Pandas
4 4 (8.16%) PySpark
4 4 (8.16%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.08%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.08%) REST
6 1 (2.04%) .NET
6 1 (2.04%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.04%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.04%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (2.04%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.04%) HTML
6 1 (2.04%) J2EE
6 1 (2.04%) JPA
6 1 (2.04%) RESTful
6 1 (2.04%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.49%) Data Structures
2 11 (22.45%) CMDB
3 10 (20.41%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (18.37%) Virtual Team
5 8 (16.33%) Product Ownership
6 7 (14.29%) Equities
7 5 (10.20%) Data Centre
8 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
9 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
9 1 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.41%) Linux
2 4 (8.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.90%) Agile
1 22 (44.90%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (34.69%) SDLC
3 15 (30.61%) Data Modelling
4 14 (28.57%) Data Architecture
5 13 (26.53%) Analytics
5 13 (26.53%) Software Engineering
6 11 (22.45%) Microservices
7 10 (20.41%) Data Lineage
7 10 (20.41%) ITIL
7 10 (20.41%) ITSM
7 10 (20.41%) Visualisation
8 9 (18.37%) Data Analysis
8 9 (18.37%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (18.37%) Time Management
8 9 (18.37%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (16.33%) Data Management
9 8 (16.33%) Runbook
10 7 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (14.29%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 36 (73.47%) SQL
2 22 (44.90%) Java
3 16 (32.65%) Python
4 7 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 5 (10.20%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.16%) PL/SQL
6 4 (8.16%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.04%) C#
8 1 (2.04%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.08%) Degree
4 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.41%) QA
2 3 (6.12%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 7 (14.29%) Oracle
2 7 (14.29%) Sybase
3 4 (8.16%) Databricks
4 3 (6.12%) Cloudera
4 3 (6.12%) IBM
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft