Relational Database Contracts in Scotland

Relational Database
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Relational Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Relational Database over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 99 108
Rank change year-on-year +54 +9 -9
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 72 32 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.53% 1.47% 2.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.57% 8.23% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 26 47
10th Percentile £408 £361 £377
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -28.00% +44.93%
75th Percentile £538 £561 £750
90th Percentile £550 £675 -
UK median daily rate £521 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -5.27% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £62.84
25th Percentile - £51.25 £63.83
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £66.56
Median % change year-on-year - -21.13% -
75th Percentile - £53.75 £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £35.50 £69.38
% change year-on-year +47.89% -48.83% +29.67%

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 350 389 590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.00% 17.87% 21.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 292 467
10th Percentile £287 £324 £400
25th Percentile £408 £400 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -3.06% +1.77%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £599 £655 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £24.60 £19.83
25th Percentile - £29.04 £27.94
Median hourly rate £19.59 £37.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.15% +5.91% +34.62%
75th Percentile - £45.72 £67.66
90th Percentile - £50.54 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £33.11 £40.13 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.48% -33.13% +39.80%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Relational Database in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in Scotland

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in Scotland

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Relational Database in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend 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 9 May 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 +19 53 £473 +11.18% 17
Edinburgh +22 15 £481 +20.31% 10
Stirling - 3 £400 -
Perthshire +1 1 - -
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 2 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.39%) Apache
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.00%) Azure
2 13 (18.06%) AWS
3 8 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 8 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (11.11%) Serverless
4 5 (6.94%) CloudFront
4 5 (6.94%) Snowflake
5 4 (5.56%) Amazon Cognito
5 4 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (5.56%) GitHub
5 4 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.17%) Firebase
6 3 (4.17%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.17%) Route 53
7 2 (2.78%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.78%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.78%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (43.06%) DB2
2 28 (38.89%) MongoDB
3 24 (33.33%) RDBMS
4 11 (15.28%) Oracle Database
5 7 (9.72%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (9.72%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (4.17%) MySQL
7 2 (2.78%) CockroachDB
7 2 (2.78%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.39%) Big Data
8 1 (1.39%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.39%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (48.61%) JUnit
2 16 (22.22%) Git
3 5 (6.94%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.94%) Oracle APEX
4 4 (5.56%) Cypress.io
4 4 (5.56%) Storybook
5 3 (4.17%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.78%) Ant
6 2 (2.78%) Selenium
6 2 (2.78%) webpack
7 1 (1.39%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.39%) Mercurial
7 1 (1.39%) MSTest
7 1 (1.39%) NUnit
7 1 (1.39%) Postman
7 1 (1.39%) Ranorex
7 1 (1.39%) Subversion
General
1 35 (48.61%) Finance
2 32 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 28 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (26.39%) Front Office
5 14 (19.44%) Banking
5 14 (19.44%) Investment Banking
6 9 (12.50%) Back Office
7 8 (11.11%) Public Sector
8 4 (5.56%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.78%) Legal
10 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (69.44%) Developer
2 41 (56.94%) Java Developer
3 7 (9.72%) Analyst
3 7 (9.72%) Core Java Developer
3 7 (9.72%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 7 (9.72%) SQL Developer
3 7 (9.72%) Sybase Developer
3 7 (9.72%) Systems Analyst
4 4 (5.56%) Senior
4 4 (5.56%) Software Engineer
5 3 (4.17%) DBA
5 3 (4.17%) Linux Developer
5 3 (4.17%) Python Developer
5 3 (4.17%) React Developer
5 3 (4.17%) Senior Developer
6 2 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (2.78%) AWS Software Engineer
6 2 (2.78%) Data Engineer
6 2 (2.78%) Python Engineer
6 2 (2.78%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (48.61%) Spring
2 32 (44.44%) Kafka
3 23 (31.94%) JMS
4 9 (12.50%) REST
5 7 (9.72%) RESTful
6 6 (8.33%) CSS
6 6 (8.33%) React
6 6 (8.33%) Spring Boot
7 5 (6.94%) JSON
7 5 (6.94%) Node.js
8 4 (5.56%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.56%) AWS CDK
8 4 (5.56%) Jest
8 4 (5.56%) Tailwind CSS
9 3 (4.17%) AWS Amplify
9 3 (4.17%) GraphQL
9 3 (4.17%) JSON Schema
9 3 (4.17%) Loki
9 3 (4.17%) OAuth
9 3 (4.17%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 36 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 20 (27.78%) Equities
3 7 (9.72%) Equity Derivative
4 4 (5.56%) Derivative
5 3 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 42 (58.33%) Linux
2 10 (13.89%) Unix
3 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (66.67%) Agile
2 42 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (41.67%) Multithreading
4 27 (37.50%) SDLC
5 25 (34.72%) Open Source
6 24 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
7 23 (31.94%) Software Engineering
8 22 (30.56%) CI/CD
9 20 (27.78%) Database Tuning
10 17 (23.61%) DevOps
11 11 (15.28%) Concurrent Programming
11 11 (15.28%) Test Automation
12 8 (11.11%) API Development
12 8 (11.11%) Event-Driven
13 7 (9.72%) Computer Science
13 7 (9.72%) Data Design
13 7 (9.72%) Data Modelling
13 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure as Code
14 5 (6.94%) Investment Management
14 5 (6.94%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (81.94%) SQL
2 44 (61.11%) Java
3 38 (52.78%) Python
4 27 (37.50%) Shell Script
5 12 (16.67%) PL/SQL
6 8 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 7 (9.72%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.78%) C#
9 1 (1.39%) C++
9 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.78%) QA
3 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (4.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (2.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (2.78%) Docker
3 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (6.94%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.56%) Terraform
3 3 (4.17%) Ansible
3 3 (4.17%) Grafana
3 3 (4.17%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.39%) Podman
4 1 (1.39%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 30 (41.67%) Sybase
2 14 (19.44%) Oracle
3 5 (6.94%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.56%) Splunk
5 3 (4.17%) IBM
5 3 (4.17%) Veritas
5 3 (4.17%) VMware
6 1 (1.39%) Databricks
6 1 (1.39%) Greenplum
6 1 (1.39%) Netskope
6 1 (1.39%) Proofpoint
6 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.39%) Symantec