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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 43 97
Rank change year-on-year -20 +54 +4
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 54 72 30
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.94% 4.51% 1.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.27% 20.40% 7.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 42 24
10th Percentile £356 £408 £353
25th Percentile £431 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £473 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +11.18% -32.00%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £566
90th Percentile £580 £550 £675
UK median daily rate £466 £521 £550
% change year-on-year -10.51% -5.27% -8.33%
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 £46.25 £52.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -11.90% +47.89% -48.36%

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 332 353 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.07% 22.13% 17.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 224 289
10th Percentile £313 £291 £324
25th Percentile £358 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £474 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.24% -0.32% -3.06%
75th Percentile £531 £541 £550
90th Percentile £625 £597 £658
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 2
10th Percentile £19.53 £20.72 £24.60
25th Percentile £39.69 £22.42 £29.04
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.50 £37.07
Median % change year-on-year +88.68% -28.51% +5.91%
75th Percentile £54.69 £28.07 £45.72
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.25 £50.54
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +51.70% -17.60% -32.54%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -5 45 £480 +1.05% 2
Edinburgh -8 9 £495 +2.86% 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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (29.63%) AWS
2 11 (20.37%) GitHub
3 9 (16.67%) ChatGPT
3 9 (16.67%) Snowflake
4 7 (12.96%) Anthropic Claude
4 7 (12.96%) Azure
4 7 (12.96%) Power Platform
5 6 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (9.26%) GCP
6 5 (9.26%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.85%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) HTTP
1 1 (1.85%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (38.89%) MySQL
2 11 (20.37%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (18.52%) MongoDB
4 9 (16.67%) DB2
4 9 (16.67%) Metadata
4 9 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 7 (12.96%) Power BI
5 7 (12.96%) Tableau
6 5 (9.26%) DynamoDB
6 5 (9.26%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.70%) RDBMS
7 2 (3.70%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.56%) Git
3 2 (3.70%) Selenium
4 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.85%) NUnit
4 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.85%) webpack
General
1 22 (40.74%) Finance
2 15 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 14 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 11 (20.37%) Banking
6 9 (16.67%) Investment Banking
7 7 (12.96%) Front Office
8 3 (5.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 12 (22.22%) Developer
1 12 (22.22%) Site Engineer
1 12 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 8 (14.81%) Java Developer
2 8 (14.81%) Senior
3 7 (12.96%) Data Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Python Developer
5 5 (9.26%) Analyst
5 5 (9.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Operations Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.56%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.56%) Python Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Azure Software Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Core Java Developer
8 2 (3.70%) Data Business Analyst
8 2 (3.70%) Gen AI Developer
8 2 (3.70%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (22.22%) React
2 7 (12.96%) RESTful
3 5 (9.26%) Redux
3 5 (9.26%) REST
4 4 (7.41%) Django
4 4 (7.41%) Express.js
4 4 (7.41%) FastAPI
4 4 (7.41%) Flask
4 4 (7.41%) GraphQL
4 4 (7.41%) MERN Stack
4 4 (7.41%) NestJS
4 4 (7.41%) Node.js
4 4 (7.41%) Spring
4 4 (7.41%) Spring Boot
5 2 (3.70%) CSS
5 2 (3.70%) HTML
6 1 (1.85%) .NET
6 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.85%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.85%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 9 (16.67%) Derivative
2 9 (16.67%) Equity Derivative
3 5 (9.26%) CMDB
4 4 (7.41%) Data Centre
4 4 (7.41%) Virtual Team
5 3 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.56%) Data Structures
5 3 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.81%) Linux
2 6 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (48.15%) CI/CD
2 18 (33.33%) Agile
2 18 (33.33%) AI
3 17 (31.48%) Data Pipeline
3 17 (31.48%) LLM
4 16 (29.63%) Microservices
5 14 (25.93%) Root Cause Analysis
6 13 (24.07%) Data Lineage
6 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (24.07%) Runbook
6 13 (24.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 11 (20.37%) Analytics
7 11 (20.37%) Generative AI
8 10 (18.52%) BDD
8 10 (18.52%) Data Modelling
8 10 (18.52%) Observability
8 10 (18.52%) Risk Management
8 10 (18.52%) SDLC
9 9 (16.67%) ITSM
9 9 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (46.30%) Java
1 25 (46.30%) SQL
2 24 (44.44%) Python
3 9 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 9 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 6 (11.11%) C++
5 3 (5.56%) Perl
6 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (33.33%) QA
2 10 (18.52%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (12.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (12.96%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (24.07%) Oracle
2 8 (14.81%) Sybase
3 5 (9.26%) IBM
3 5 (9.26%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.85%) webMethods