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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 50 94
Rank change year-on-year -39 +44 -7
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 46 77 24
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.01% 4.85% 1.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.71% 20.87% 8.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 32 20
10th Percentile £409 £375 £340
25th Percentile £421 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £463 £438
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +5.71% -7.89%
75th Percentile £493 £525 £538
90th Percentile £545 £575 £564
UK median daily rate £502 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.30% -4.76% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -9.52% +29.63% -46.00%

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 362 369 278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 15.81% 23.24% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 201 185
10th Percentile £313 £310 £290
25th Percentile £363 £419 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £494 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.97% +9.78% -6.25%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £519
90th Percentile £559 £600 £595
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £17.57 - £17.45
25th Percentile £24.58 £52.50 £18.26
Median hourly rate £37.50 £55.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +180.76% -69.57%
75th Percentile £44.38 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £47.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +2.00% +15.38% -40.91%

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 27 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
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 27 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 -26 41 £450 -2.17% 17
Edinburgh -20 5 £495 +7.03% 11
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 (2.17%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) ChatGPT
2 13 (28.26%) GitHub
3 12 (26.09%) Anthropic Claude
3 12 (26.09%) Snowflake
4 11 (23.91%) GitHub Copilot
5 10 (21.74%) Power Platform
6 5 (10.87%) AWS
7 4 (8.70%) Azure
8 3 (6.52%) GCP
8 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (2.17%) Kong
10 1 (2.17%) SaaS
10 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) HTTP
1 1 (2.17%) HTTPS
1 1 (2.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (30.43%) Db2
2 12 (26.09%) Metadata
3 10 (21.74%) Power BI
4 9 (19.57%) MySQL
4 9 (19.57%) SQL Server
4 9 (19.57%) Tableau
5 8 (17.39%) MongoDB
5 8 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (8.70%) RDBMS
7 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database
7 2 (4.35%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.17%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (2.17%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (2.17%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (2.17%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Git
2 2 (4.35%) GitLab
2 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.35%) Selenium
3 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.17%) ER Studio
3 1 (2.17%) ERwin
3 1 (2.17%) git-flow
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (2.17%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.17%) Subversion
3 1 (2.17%) webpack
General
1 25 (54.35%) Finance
1 25 (54.35%) Social Skills
2 18 (39.13%) Banking
3 12 (26.09%) Investment Banking
4 11 (23.91%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (19.57%) Front Office
6 6 (13.04%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.17%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.17%) Legal
7 1 (2.17%) Local Government
7 1 (2.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (45.65%) Developer
2 11 (23.91%) Python Developer
2 11 (23.91%) Site Engineer
2 11 (23.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 10 (21.74%) Java Developer
4 8 (17.39%) Senior
5 3 (6.52%) Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Core Java Developer
5 3 (6.52%) Gen AI Developer
5 3 (6.52%) Lead
5 3 (6.52%) Python Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.52%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) DB2 Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Perl Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Sybase Developer
7 1 (2.17%) Power BI Developer
7 1 (2.17%) Production DBA
7 1 (2.17%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) Spring
1 4 (8.70%) Spring Boot
2 3 (6.52%) RESTful
3 2 (4.35%) Hibernate
3 2 (4.35%) React
3 2 (4.35%) REST
3 2 (4.35%) Web Services
4 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.17%) CSS
4 1 (2.17%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.17%) JSON
4 1 (2.17%) JWT
4 1 (2.17%) Kafka
4 1 (2.17%) OAuth
4 1 (2.17%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.17%) OpenID
4 1 (2.17%) Playwright
4 1 (2.17%) Quarkus
4 1 (2.17%) SOAP
4 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 14 (30.43%) Equity Derivative
2 11 (23.91%) Derivative
3 5 (10.87%) Data Structures
4 4 (8.70%) Legacy Code
5 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
5 3 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (6.52%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.91%) Linux
2 10 (21.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (69.57%) CI/CD
2 23 (50.00%) LLM
3 22 (47.83%) AI
4 18 (39.13%) Agile
4 18 (39.13%) Risk Management
5 16 (34.78%) Data Pipeline
5 16 (34.78%) Generative AI
6 15 (32.61%) Test Automation
7 14 (30.43%) BDD
7 14 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (28.26%) Root Cause Analysis
8 13 (28.26%) TDD
9 12 (26.09%) Data Modelling
9 12 (26.09%) Observability
9 12 (26.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 11 (23.91%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (23.91%) Data Governance
10 11 (23.91%) Data Lineage
11 10 (21.74%) Software Delivery
11 10 (21.74%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (63.04%) Python
2 28 (60.87%) SQL
3 21 (45.65%) Java
4 9 (19.57%) C++
5 4 (8.70%) Shell Script
6 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.52%) Perl
7 2 (4.35%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (4.35%) Degree
1 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (28.26%) Data Quality
2 12 (26.09%) QA
3 3 (6.52%) Accessibility
4 2 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (2.17%) GDPR
5 1 (2.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (30.43%) Oracle
2 13 (28.26%) Sybase
3 10 (21.74%) IBM
4 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.35%) Google
6 1 (2.17%) Avaloq
6 1 (2.17%) Charles River
6 1 (2.17%) Sparx
6 1 (2.17%) webMethods