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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 96 98
Rank change year-on-year +50 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 70 23 42
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 4.40% 1.25% 1.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.13% 7.74% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 17 32
10th Percentile £321 £338 -
25th Percentile £372 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £473
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.05% -5.50%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £503
90th Percentile £575 £523 £525
UK median daily rate £475 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -8.65% -5.45% -5.29%

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 366 297 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.02% 16.18% 17.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 186 292
10th Percentile £313 £337 £375
25th Percentile £409 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £453 £480
Median % change year-on-year +4.97% -5.73% -2.04%
75th Percentile £538 £517 £550
90th Percentile £625 £644 £636
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile - £17.72 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £18.92 £18.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +180.76% +0.46% -7.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £20.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.49 £30.21 £50.00
% change year-on-year +34.03% -39.58% +8.70%

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 21 October 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 21 October 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 +21 53 £450 +12.50% 7
Edinburgh +29 17 £450 +5.88% 5
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 (2.86%) Apache
1 2 (2.86%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.86%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.43%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 15 (21.43%) AWS
2 8 (11.43%) Azure
3 7 (10.00%) GitHub
4 5 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 5 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (7.14%) Serverless
5 4 (5.71%) Amazon Cognito
5 4 (5.71%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (5.71%) Snowflake
6 3 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.29%) Firebase
6 3 (4.29%) GCP
7 2 (2.86%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (2.86%) CloudFront
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) MQTT
2 1 (1.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (30.00%) DB2
2 20 (28.57%) MongoDB
3 9 (12.86%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (12.86%) SQL Server
4 8 (11.43%) RDBMS
5 7 (10.00%) NoSQL
6 5 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (5.71%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (5.71%) MySQL
8 3 (4.29%) Data Lake
8 3 (4.29%) IBM InfoSphere
9 2 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 23 (32.86%) JUnit
2 6 (8.57%) Git
2 6 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.71%) Cypress.io
3 4 (5.71%) JIRA
3 4 (5.71%) Storybook
4 3 (4.29%) ERwin
4 3 (4.29%) Subversion
5 2 (2.86%) git-flow
5 2 (2.86%) Mockito
6 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.43%) Maven
6 1 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 40 (57.14%) Finance
2 31 (44.29%) Banking
3 28 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 25 (35.71%) Investment Banking
5 23 (32.86%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (27.14%) Front Office
7 6 (8.57%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.43%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.43%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (54.29%) Developer
2 31 (44.29%) Java Developer
3 19 (27.14%) SQL Developer
4 18 (25.71%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 18 (25.71%) Sybase Developer
5 11 (15.71%) Analyst
5 11 (15.71%) Data Analyst
6 10 (14.29%) Data Engineer
7 9 (12.86%) Core Java Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Lead
8 4 (5.71%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Python Data Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Python Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) React Developer
10 2 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (2.86%) Azure Software Engineer
10 2 (2.86%) Lead Developer
10 2 (2.86%) PowerShell Engineer
10 2 (2.86%) SQL Analyst
10 2 (2.86%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (40.00%) Spring
2 21 (30.00%) Kafka
3 19 (27.14%) JMS
4 8 (11.43%) Spring Boot
5 6 (8.57%) React
6 5 (7.14%) CSS
6 5 (7.14%) NumPy
6 5 (7.14%) Pandas
6 5 (7.14%) PySpark
7 4 (5.71%) AWS CDK
7 4 (5.71%) Jest
7 4 (5.71%) REST
7 4 (5.71%) RESTful
7 4 (5.71%) Tailwind CSS
8 3 (4.29%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.29%) AWS Amplify
8 3 (4.29%) GraphQL
8 3 (4.29%) SOAP
8 3 (4.29%) XML
9 2 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (42.86%) Data Structures
2 19 (27.14%) Equities
3 8 (11.43%) CMDB
3 8 (11.43%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (8.57%) Management Information System
4 6 (8.57%) Virtual Team
5 4 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (4.29%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.86%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.43%) Derivative
8 1 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.43%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (42.86%) Linux
2 6 (8.57%) Unix
3 2 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (54.29%) Agile
1 38 (54.29%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (35.71%) Performance Tuning
3 21 (30.00%) Multithreading
3 21 (30.00%) SDLC
4 20 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 19 (27.14%) Data Modelling
5 19 (27.14%) Database Tuning
5 19 (27.14%) Open Source
6 17 (24.29%) Analytics
7 14 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 14 (20.00%) Visualisation
8 11 (15.71%) Computer Science
8 11 (15.71%) Data Analysis
8 11 (15.71%) Data Architecture
8 11 (15.71%) DevOps
9 10 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
10 8 (11.43%) Data Analytics
10 8 (11.43%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 60 (85.71%) SQL
2 39 (55.71%) Java
3 35 (50.00%) Python
4 20 (28.57%) Shell Script
5 7 (10.00%) PL/SQL
6 6 (8.57%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.71%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.86%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.43%) C++
9 1 (1.43%) Perl
9 1 (1.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (8.57%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (4.29%) Degree
3 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.86%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.29%) QA
2 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.43%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (4.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.29%) Grafana
2 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.43%) Kibana
3 1 (1.43%) logstash
Vendors
1 19 (27.14%) Sybase
2 11 (15.71%) ServiceNow
3 8 (11.43%) Oracle
4 5 (7.14%) Databricks
5 4 (5.71%) IBM
6 3 (4.29%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.43%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.43%) Greenplum
7 1 (1.43%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.43%) Pega