Relational Database Contracts in the South East

Relational Database
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Relational Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Relational Database over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 172 141
Rank change year-on-year +54 -31 +28
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 41 33 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.36% 0.59% 1.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.98% 5.43% 9.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 53
10th Percentile £406 £373 £413
25th Percentile £466 £422 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -6.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £586 £625 £675
90th Percentile £600 £675 £698
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £67.00
25th Percentile £51.25 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.50 £30.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.11% -53.08% +33.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 411 608 867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.65% 10.94% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 374 606
10th Percentile £333 £319 £317
25th Percentile £409 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £684
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 31 39
10th Percentile £23.24 £18.20 £22.16
25th Percentile £24.40 £21.55 £32.30
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%
75th Percentile £49.38 £67.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £65.62 £80.00 £76.44
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in the South East

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Relational Database in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in the South East

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in the South East

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Relational Database in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in the South East

Relational Database
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +42 19 £489 -6.90% 25
Hampshire +37 16 £520 - 17
Berkshire +32 16 £489 -6.90% 17
Surrey +16 5 £500 -20.00% 8
Oxfordshire - 2 - - 6
Buckinghamshire +12 1 - - 3
East Sussex -2 1 £625 - 6
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (14.63%) Apache
2 5 (12.20%) CMS
3 4 (9.76%) Apache Spark
3 4 (9.76%) Confluence
3 4 (9.76%) Drupal
3 4 (9.76%) WordPress
4 2 (4.88%) JBoss
5 1 (2.44%) Gunicorn
5 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.44%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.44%) CATIA
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (36.59%) AWS
2 7 (17.07%) Azure
2 7 (17.07%) GCP
3 4 (9.76%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.32%) GitHub
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.88%) PaaS
5 2 (4.88%) SaaS
5 2 (4.88%) Serverless
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.44%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) Internet
2 2 (4.88%) HTTP
2 2 (4.88%) MQTT
2 2 (4.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (36.59%) MySQL
2 11 (26.83%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (21.95%) Big Data
4 7 (17.07%) MongoDB
4 7 (17.07%) RDBMS
5 6 (14.63%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (14.63%) SQL Server
6 5 (12.20%) Metadata
7 4 (9.76%) Hadoop
7 4 (9.76%) NoSQL
7 4 (9.76%) Power BI
7 4 (9.76%) Redis
8 3 (7.32%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (4.88%) Apache Hive
9 2 (4.88%) Spark SQL
10 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
10 1 (2.44%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 12 (29.27%) Git
2 7 (17.07%) JIRA
3 6 (14.63%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (9.76%) ERwin
4 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
4 4 (9.76%) PowerDesigner
4 4 (9.76%) Subversion
5 2 (4.88%) CA Release Automation
5 2 (4.88%) JMeter
5 2 (4.88%) JUnit
5 2 (4.88%) Mockito
5 2 (4.88%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.88%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (4.88%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.44%) Poetry
6 1 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.76%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Automotive
5 3 (7.32%) Finance
6 2 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (36.59%) Developer
2 7 (17.07%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (14.63%) Senior
3 6 (14.63%) Software Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Java Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Analyst
5 4 (9.76%) Data Modeller
5 4 (9.76%) PHP Software Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Python Developer
7 2 (4.88%) AWS Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Big Data Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Hadoop Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Pensions Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Data Modeller
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (31.71%) Web Services
2 7 (17.07%) REST
3 6 (14.63%) .NET
3 6 (14.63%) HTML
3 6 (14.63%) jQuery
3 6 (14.63%) React
3 6 (14.63%) SOAP
3 6 (14.63%) Spring Boot
4 5 (12.20%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (12.20%) AngularJS
4 5 (12.20%) Kafka
4 5 (12.20%) XML
5 4 (9.76%) Ajax
5 4 (9.76%) CodeIgniter
5 4 (9.76%) CSS
5 4 (9.76%) LAMP
5 4 (9.76%) RESTful
5 4 (9.76%) Spring
6 3 (7.32%) JSON
6 3 (7.32%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Legacy Code
2 3 (7.32%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.88%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.88%) Infotainment
3 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.44%) CMDB
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.44%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Linux
2 5 (12.20%) Unix
3 3 (7.32%) Windows
4 2 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Agile
2 14 (34.15%) CI/CD
3 13 (31.71%) Microservices
4 12 (29.27%) OO
5 10 (24.39%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (21.95%) Software Engineering
7 8 (19.51%) MVC
8 7 (17.07%) Migration
8 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (17.07%) Scrum
9 6 (14.63%) Code Quality
9 6 (14.63%) Containerisation
9 6 (14.63%) Data Cleansing
9 6 (14.63%) Data Science
9 6 (14.63%) TDD
10 5 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (12.20%) Computer Science
10 5 (12.20%) Data Modelling
10 5 (12.20%) Multithreading
10 5 (12.20%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 21 (51.22%) SQL
2 18 (43.90%) Python
3 15 (36.59%) JavaScript
4 10 (24.39%) Java
5 7 (17.07%) PHP
6 5 (12.20%) C#
7 3 (7.32%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.88%) Perl
9 1 (2.44%) C++
9 1 (2.44%) COBOL
9 1 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (2.44%) Ruby
9 1 (2.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.07%) SC Cleared
3 6 (14.63%) Degree
4 5 (12.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.44%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) OCP
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.44%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (24.39%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (26.83%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.76%) Kibana
3 2 (4.88%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (26.83%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.07%) Zend
3 6 (14.63%) SAP
4 5 (12.20%) Splunk
5 4 (9.76%) Google
5 4 (9.76%) Oracle
6 2 (4.88%) AppDynamics
6 2 (4.88%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.88%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.44%) Alteryx
7 1 (2.44%) BMC
7 1 (2.44%) Remedy