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 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 100 95
Rank change year-on-year +47 -5 -9
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 61 19 48
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.88% 1.10% 1.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.63% 6.29% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 10 38
10th Percentile £325 £375 -
25th Percentile £375 £396 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £448 £438
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% +2.29% -23.91%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £500
90th Percentile £575 £521 £517
UK median daily rate £450 £518 £540
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -6.09%

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 346 302 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.02% 17.56% 17.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 184 296
10th Percentile £313 £356 £398
25th Percentile £402 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.00% +4.38%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £570
90th Percentile £610 £675 £647
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £535
% change year-on-year -5.12% -1.50% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £19.00 £18.26 -
25th Percentile £30.63 - £18.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £19.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +155.23% +0.46% -15.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £25.71 £20.75
90th Percentile £56.00 £28.07 -
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +37.90% -31.69% -7.64%

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 12 December 2025.

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 12 December 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 +27 47 £438 -2.23% 9
Edinburgh +18 14 £450 +5.88% 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.28%) Apache
1 2 (3.28%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.64%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (22.95%) AWS
2 9 (14.75%) Azure
3 3 (4.92%) GCP
3 3 (4.92%) GitHub
3 3 (4.92%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.95%) DB2
1 14 (22.95%) MongoDB
2 9 (14.75%) SQL Server
3 8 (13.11%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (11.48%) MySQL
4 7 (11.48%) NoSQL
4 7 (11.48%) RDBMS
5 5 (8.20%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.92%) Data Lake
6 3 (4.92%) IBM InfoSphere
7 2 (3.28%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (3.28%) Big Data
8 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 16 (26.23%) JUnit
2 7 (11.48%) Git
3 4 (6.56%) JIRA
4 3 (4.92%) ERwin
4 3 (4.92%) Subversion
5 2 (3.28%) git-flow
5 2 (3.28%) Mockito
6 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.64%) NUnit
6 1 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (57.38%) Finance
2 27 (44.26%) Banking
3 21 (34.43%) Investment Banking
4 20 (32.79%) Social Skills
5 17 (27.87%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (21.31%) Front Office
7 10 (16.39%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.64%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (39.34%) Developer
2 19 (31.15%) Java Developer
3 14 (22.95%) SQL Developer
4 13 (21.31%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 13 (21.31%) Sybase Developer
5 12 (19.67%) Analyst
5 12 (19.67%) Data Analyst
6 10 (16.39%) Data Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Software Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Core Java Developer
8 4 (6.56%) Lead
9 3 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Azure Software Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Data Modeller
9 3 (4.92%) PowerShell Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Python Data Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Python Engineer
10 2 (3.28%) Lead Developer
10 2 (3.28%) Lead Software Developer
10 2 (3.28%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (34.43%) Spring
2 13 (21.31%) JMS
2 13 (21.31%) Kafka
3 7 (11.48%) Spring Boot
4 5 (8.20%) NumPy
4 5 (8.20%) Pandas
4 5 (8.20%) PySpark
5 4 (6.56%) React
6 3 (4.92%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.92%) REST
6 3 (4.92%) SOAP
6 3 (4.92%) XML
7 2 (3.28%) Hibernate
7 2 (3.28%) HTML
7 2 (3.28%) JPA
7 2 (3.28%) Spring Security
7 2 (3.28%) Spring Web Flow
7 2 (3.28%) Thymeleaf
7 2 (3.28%) Web Services
8 1 (1.64%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 20 (32.79%) Data Structures
2 13 (21.31%) Equities
3 10 (16.39%) CMDB
3 10 (16.39%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (13.11%) Virtual Team
5 4 (6.56%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (6.56%) Management Information System
5 4 (6.56%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (31.15%) Linux
2 5 (8.20%) Unix
3 2 (3.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (54.10%) Agile
2 29 (47.54%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (34.43%) Data Modelling
4 19 (31.15%) Analytics
5 18 (29.51%) SDLC
6 16 (26.23%) Software Engineering
6 16 (26.23%) Visualisation
7 15 (24.59%) Performance Tuning
8 14 (22.95%) Multithreading
9 13 (21.31%) Data Architecture
9 13 (21.31%) Database Tuning
9 13 (21.31%) Open Source
10 12 (19.67%) Data Visualisation
11 11 (18.03%) Data Analysis
12 10 (16.39%) Data Management
13 9 (14.75%) Business Analysis
13 9 (14.75%) Configuration Management
13 9 (14.75%) ITIL
13 9 (14.75%) Programme Management
13 9 (14.75%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (83.61%) SQL
2 30 (49.18%) Java
3 28 (45.90%) Python
4 13 (21.31%) Shell Script
5 7 (11.48%) PL/SQL
6 4 (6.56%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.92%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.64%) C#
9 1 (1.64%) C++
9 1 (1.64%) Perl
9 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (4.92%) Degree
3 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.28%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) QA
2 3 (4.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (4.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.92%) Grafana
2 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.64%) Kibana
3 1 (1.64%) logstash
Vendors
1 13 (21.31%) ServiceNow
1 13 (21.31%) Sybase
2 8 (13.11%) Oracle
3 4 (6.56%) Databricks
4 3 (4.92%) Cloudera
4 3 (4.92%) IBM
5 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.64%) Pega