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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 73 109
Rank change year-on-year +12 +36 -19
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 46 46 24
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.83% 2.70% 1.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.84% 12.89% 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 30 16
10th Percentile £352 £390 £391
25th Percentile £375 £416 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £490 £438
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% +12.00% -41.67%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £600
90th Percentile £577 £550 £675
UK median daily rate £461 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -12.14% -4.55% -4.35%
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 £26.50 £51.78
% change year-on-year +88.68% -48.82% +130.28%

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 310 357 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 19.08% 20.99% 17.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 237 293
10th Percentile £313 £300 £345
25th Percentile £363 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -1.54%
75th Percentile £540 £538 £575
90th Percentile £655 £612 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 3
10th Percentile £36.50 - £18.93
25th Percentile - £19.59 £19.95
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.05 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +116.97% +6.49% -27.87%
75th Percentile £57.25 £27.91 £37.70
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.19 £47.33
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £30.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.39% -29.16% -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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 +11 35 £455 -3.19% 1
Edinburgh +4 11 £450 -10.00% 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 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.96%) AWS
2 9 (19.57%) Azure
3 4 (8.70%) GCP
3 4 (8.70%) GitHub
3 4 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.26%) MySQL
2 8 (17.39%) MongoDB
2 8 (17.39%) SQL Server
3 7 (15.22%) NoSQL
3 7 (15.22%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (10.87%) DynamoDB
5 4 (8.70%) DB2
6 3 (6.52%) IBM InfoSphere
7 2 (4.35%) Big Data
8 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) JUnit
2 4 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.52%) ERwin
4 2 (4.35%) Git
5 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.17%) Mockito
5 1 (2.17%) NUnit
5 1 (2.17%) Selenium
5 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (41.30%) Finance
2 15 (32.61%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (23.91%) Public Sector
4 10 (21.74%) Banking
5 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
6 8 (17.39%) Investment Banking
7 4 (8.70%) Front Office
8 3 (6.52%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Analyst
2 8 (17.39%) Data Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Data Analyst
3 7 (15.22%) Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Java Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Operations Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Azure Software Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 4 (8.70%) PowerShell Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Senior
6 4 (8.70%) Software Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) SQL Developer
6 4 (8.70%) Sybase Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Business Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Data Modeller
7 3 (6.52%) Site Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) React
2 8 (17.39%) Spring
3 5 (10.87%) Kafka
3 5 (10.87%) Redux
3 5 (10.87%) REST
3 5 (10.87%) RESTful
4 4 (8.70%) Django
4 4 (8.70%) Express.js
4 4 (8.70%) FastAPI
4 4 (8.70%) Flask
4 4 (8.70%) GraphQL
4 4 (8.70%) JMS
4 4 (8.70%) MERN Stack
4 4 (8.70%) NestJS
4 4 (8.70%) Node.js
5 3 (6.52%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.35%) HTML
6 2 (4.35%) J2EE
7 1 (2.17%) .NET
7 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.09%) Product Ownership
2 9 (19.57%) CMDB
3 7 (15.22%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (15.22%) Virtual Team
4 6 (13.04%) Data Structures
5 4 (8.70%) Data Centre
5 4 (8.70%) Equities
6 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) Linux
2 2 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (41.30%) Agile
2 15 (32.61%) Microservices
2 15 (32.61%) SDLC
3 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (26.09%) Data Architecture
5 11 (23.91%) Data Modelling
6 10 (21.74%) Analytics
7 9 (19.57%) Data Lineage
8 8 (17.39%) ITIL
8 8 (17.39%) ITSM
8 8 (17.39%) Runbook
8 8 (17.39%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (15.22%) CI/CD
9 7 (15.22%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (15.22%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (15.22%) Time Management
10 6 (13.04%) DevOps
10 6 (13.04%) Software Engineering
10 6 (13.04%) Visualisation
11 5 (10.87%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (56.52%) SQL
2 17 (36.96%) Java
3 12 (26.09%) Python
4 9 (19.57%) TypeScript
5 7 (15.22%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 4 (8.70%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.17%) C#
7 1 (2.17%) Perl
7 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (8.70%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) QA
2 7 (15.22%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.17%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (21.74%) ServiceNow
2 7 (15.22%) Oracle
3 4 (8.70%) Sybase
4 3 (6.52%) IBM
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.17%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.17%) Databricks