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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 52 89
Rank change year-on-year -44 +37 +4
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 47 71 26
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.99% 4.43% 1.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.05% 19.51% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 30 21
10th Percentile £409 £324 £341
25th Percentile £425 £375 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £503 £525 £513
90th Percentile £545 £575 £556
UK median daily rate £510 £481 £525
% change year-on-year +5.97% -8.33% -4.55%

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 390 364 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.50% 22.74% 16.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 204 197
10th Percentile £313 £316 £330
25th Percentile £375 £412 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.88% +8.50% -6.25%
75th Percentile £509 £538 £525
90th Percentile £588 £625 £630
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £17.72
25th Percentile - £52.50 £18.92
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year - +180.76% -69.57%
75th Percentile - £57.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £38.96 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.24% +11.31% -33.33%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -28 43 £460 +2.22% 29
Edinburgh -16 3 £495 +10.00% 16
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 (2.13%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.53%) ChatGPT
1 12 (25.53%) Power Platform
1 12 (25.53%) Snowflake
2 11 (23.40%) GitHub
3 10 (21.28%) Anthropic Claude
4 9 (19.15%) GitHub Copilot
5 6 (12.77%) Azure
6 4 (8.51%) AWS
7 3 (6.38%) GCP
7 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (6.38%) SaaS
8 2 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.13%) Kong
9 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) HTTP
1 1 (2.13%) HTTPS
1 1 (2.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (25.53%) Db2
2 10 (21.28%) Metadata
2 10 (21.28%) Power BI
3 9 (19.15%) SQL Server
4 7 (14.89%) MySQL
4 7 (14.89%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (14.89%) Tableau
5 6 (12.77%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (12.77%) MongoDB
5 6 (12.77%) RDBMS
6 4 (8.51%) Oracle Database
7 2 (4.26%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (4.26%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.13%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (2.13%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (2.13%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (2.13%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Git
2 4 (8.51%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.38%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (4.26%) Artifactory
4 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.26%) GitLab
4 2 (4.26%) JIRA
5 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.13%) ER Studio
5 1 (2.13%) ERwin
5 1 (2.13%) git-flow
5 1 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (2.13%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (2.13%) Selenium
5 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.13%) Subversion
5 1 (2.13%) webpack
General
1 26 (55.32%) Social Skills
2 25 (53.19%) Finance
3 19 (40.43%) Banking
4 12 (25.53%) Investment Banking
5 11 (23.40%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (14.89%) Front Office
6 7 (14.89%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.26%) Back Office
7 2 (4.26%) Prime Brokerage
7 2 (4.26%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
8 1 (2.13%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.13%) Legal
8 1 (2.13%) Local Government
8 1 (2.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (51.06%) Developer
2 12 (25.53%) Python Developer
3 10 (21.28%) Java Developer
4 9 (19.15%) Senior
4 9 (19.15%) Site Engineer
4 9 (19.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Gen AI Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Python Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Core Java Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Lead
6 3 (6.38%) Oracle Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Perl Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Programmer
7 2 (4.26%) Python Programmer
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Python Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.77%) Spring
2 4 (8.51%) REST
2 4 (8.51%) Spring Boot
3 3 (6.38%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.38%) Kafka
3 3 (6.38%) RESTful
4 2 (4.26%) CSS
4 2 (4.26%) Node.js
4 2 (4.26%) Web Services
5 1 (2.13%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.13%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.13%) HTML
5 1 (2.13%) JWT
5 1 (2.13%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.13%) OpenID
5 1 (2.13%) Playwright
5 1 (2.13%) React
5 1 (2.13%) RxJS
5 1 (2.13%) SOAP
5 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.53%) Equity Derivative
2 9 (19.15%) Derivative
3 8 (17.02%) Data Structures
4 5 (10.64%) Legacy Code
5 4 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
6 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
7 2 (4.26%) AI Agents
7 2 (4.26%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (4.26%) Equities
7 2 (4.26%) IoT
7 2 (4.26%) Virtual Team
8 1 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
8 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (25.53%) Linux
2 9 (19.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (63.83%) CI/CD
2 20 (42.55%) Agile
2 20 (42.55%) AI
3 19 (40.43%) LLM
4 16 (34.04%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (34.04%) Risk Management
5 15 (31.91%) Generative AI
6 14 (29.79%) Test Automation
7 13 (27.66%) Data Modelling
7 13 (27.66%) TDD
8 12 (25.53%) BDD
8 12 (25.53%) Software Engineering
9 11 (23.40%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (23.40%) Data Pipeline
9 11 (23.40%) Root Cause Analysis
10 10 (21.28%) Observability
10 10 (21.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 9 (19.15%) Data Governance
11 9 (19.15%) Data Lineage
12 8 (17.02%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 31 (65.96%) SQL
2 29 (61.70%) Python
3 21 (44.68%) Java
4 9 (19.15%) C++
5 4 (8.51%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.51%) Shell Script
6 3 (6.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (6.38%) Perl
6 3 (6.38%) PL/SQL
6 3 (6.38%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.13%) Scala
8 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (4.26%) Degree
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (25.53%) Data Quality
1 12 (25.53%) QA
2 3 (6.38%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.13%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) Oracle
2 11 (23.40%) Sybase
3 8 (17.02%) IBM
4 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.26%) Google
6 1 (2.13%) Avaloq
6 1 (2.13%) Charles River
6 1 (2.13%) Sparx
6 1 (2.13%) webMethods