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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 91 97
Rank change year-on-year +32 +6 -9
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 49 24 44
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.26% 1.48% 1.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.08% 7.95% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 15 34
10th Percentile £319 £383 -
25th Percentile £366 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% +4.44% -35.71%
75th Percentile £534 £525 £509
90th Percentile £578 £538 £522
UK median daily rate £450 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -13.46% -3.70% -6.09%

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 325 302 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.62% 18.56% 17.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 189 299
10th Percentile £313 £356 £399
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £469 £498
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% -5.73% +2.05%
75th Percentile £544 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £651
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £15.13 £17.99 -
25th Percentile £20.94 - £18.25
Median hourly rate £30.75 £19.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.97% +0.46% -15.22%
75th Percentile £40.44 £27.75 £20.75
90th Percentile £46.18 £28.13 -
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £31.55 £47.50
% change year-on-year +71.18% -33.59% -13.64%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 +25 40 £425 -9.57% 1
Edinburgh +8 9 £450 -10.00% 3
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 2 (4.08%) Apache
1 2 (4.08%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.04%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.53%) AWS
2 8 (16.33%) Azure
3 3 (6.12%) GitHub
3 3 (6.12%) Snowflake
4 2 (4.08%) GCP
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.49%) DB2
1 12 (24.49%) MongoDB
2 8 (16.33%) SQL Server
3 7 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 7 (14.29%) RDBMS
4 6 (12.24%) MySQL
5 5 (10.20%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (6.12%) Data Lake
7 3 (6.12%) IBM InfoSphere
8 2 (4.08%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (4.08%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 14 (28.57%) JUnit
2 6 (12.24%) Git
3 4 (8.16%) JIRA
4 3 (6.12%) ERwin
4 3 (6.12%) Subversion
5 2 (4.08%) Mockito
6 1 (2.04%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.04%) git-flow
6 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.04%) NUnit
6 1 (2.04%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (61.22%) Finance
2 22 (44.90%) Banking
3 17 (34.69%) Investment Banking
3 17 (34.69%) Social Skills
4 15 (30.61%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (22.45%) Front Office
6 9 (18.37%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.04%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (38.78%) Developer
2 15 (30.61%) Java Developer
3 11 (22.45%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 11 (22.45%) SQL Developer
3 11 (22.45%) Sybase Developer
4 10 (20.41%) Analyst
4 10 (20.41%) Data Analyst
5 6 (12.24%) Data Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Software Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Data Modeller
7 3 (6.12%) Lead
7 3 (6.12%) PowerShell Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Python Data Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Python Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Java Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Senior
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Java Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (36.73%) Spring
2 11 (22.45%) JMS
2 11 (22.45%) Kafka
3 6 (12.24%) Spring Boot
4 5 (10.20%) NumPy
4 5 (10.20%) Pandas
4 5 (10.20%) PySpark
5 4 (8.16%) React
6 3 (6.12%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.12%) REST
6 3 (6.12%) SOAP
6 3 (6.12%) XML
7 2 (4.08%) Hibernate
7 2 (4.08%) HTML
7 2 (4.08%) JPA
7 2 (4.08%) Spring Security
7 2 (4.08%) Spring Web Flow
7 2 (4.08%) Thymeleaf
7 2 (4.08%) Web Services
8 1 (2.04%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 16 (32.65%) Data Structures
2 11 (22.45%) Equities
3 8 (16.33%) CMDB
4 7 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (12.24%) Virtual Team
6 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
7 3 (6.12%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (4.08%) Data Centre
8 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
9 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
9 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
9 1 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (30.61%) Linux
2 5 (10.20%) Unix
3 2 (4.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (59.18%) Agile
2 23 (46.94%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (32.65%) SDLC
4 15 (30.61%) Data Modelling
5 14 (28.57%) Analytics
6 13 (26.53%) Performance Tuning
6 13 (26.53%) Software Engineering
7 12 (24.49%) Multithreading
8 11 (22.45%) Data Architecture
8 11 (22.45%) Database Tuning
8 11 (22.45%) Open Source
8 11 (22.45%) Visualisation
9 8 (16.33%) CI/CD
9 8 (16.33%) Data Analysis
9 8 (16.33%) Data Analytics
9 8 (16.33%) Data Management
9 8 (16.33%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (14.29%) Data Lineage
10 7 (14.29%) Microservices
10 7 (14.29%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (81.63%) SQL
2 25 (51.02%) Java
3 22 (44.90%) Python
4 11 (22.45%) Shell Script
5 7 (14.29%) PL/SQL
6 4 (8.16%) JavaScript
7 3 (6.12%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.04%) C#
9 1 (2.04%) C++
9 1 (2.04%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (6.12%) Degree
3 2 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.08%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) QA
2 3 (6.12%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (6.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (22.45%) ServiceNow
1 11 (22.45%) Sybase
2 7 (14.29%) Oracle
3 4 (8.16%) Databricks
4 3 (6.12%) Cloudera
4 3 (6.12%) IBM
5 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.04%) Pega