Relational Database Contract Job Trends in the South East

Relational Database
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Relational Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 112 117
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 +33
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 79 58 88
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.81% 1.56% 1.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.68% 10.80% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 34 58
10th Percentile £175 £200 £208
25th Percentile £204 £203 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £205 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -59.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £439 £475 £586
90th Percentile £519 £619 £674
England median daily rate £460 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -12.38% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £46.25
25th Percentile - - £52.51
Median hourly rate - - £67.27
75th Percentile - - £76.53
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £32.77 £41.50 £67.27
% change year-on-year -21.05% -38.30% +63.07%

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 538 537 692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.30% 14.42% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 346 498
10th Percentile £205 £260 £299
25th Percentile £353 £385 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £573 £638 £630
90th Percentile £660 £673 £675
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 36
10th Percentile £30.10 £34.67 £21.00
25th Percentile - £41.25 £29.61
Median hourly rate £40.00 £63.15 £50.53
Median % change year-on-year -36.66% +24.98% +114.69%
75th Percentile £52.58 £64.95 £71.92
90th Percentile £75.09 £65.62 £78.15
England median hourly rate £48.72 £38.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +28.21% -17.71% -9.45%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Relational Database relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Relational Database job vacancy trend in the South East

Relational Database
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Relational Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Relational Database

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 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in the South East

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Relational Database.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Relational Database

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 20 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
Surrey +14 39 £208 +1.22% 3
Thames Valley +6 31 £425 +11.48% 12
Berkshire +17 27 £435 +117.50% 4
Hampshire -15 9 £375 -42.31% 7
Buckinghamshire +3 3 £425 -33.33% 7
Oxfordshire -14 1 - - 1
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (5.06%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.80%) Apache
2 3 (3.80%) IIS
2 3 (3.80%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.27%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.27%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 25 (31.65%) SaaS
2 21 (26.58%) AWS
2 21 (26.58%) Sauce Labs
3 14 (17.72%) Azure
4 10 (12.66%) GCP
5 8 (10.13%) GitHub
6 5 (6.33%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (6.33%) Power Platform
7 4 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.06%) dbt
8 3 (3.80%) Amazon Cognito
8 3 (3.80%) OCI
8 3 (3.80%) Serverless
9 2 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.53%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.27%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (1.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 18 (22.78%) Wireless
2 1 (1.27%) Asterisk PBX
2 1 (1.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (58.23%) MySQL
2 14 (17.72%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (17.72%) SQL Server
3 11 (13.92%) RDBMS
4 10 (12.66%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (10.13%) MongoDB
6 7 (8.86%) MariaDB
7 6 (7.59%) Oracle Database
8 5 (6.33%) Power BI
8 5 (6.33%) Tableau
9 4 (5.06%) Big Data
9 4 (5.06%) Data Lake
10 3 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (3.80%) Hadoop
10 3 (3.80%) Oracle Database 11g
10 3 (3.80%) Oracle Database 12c
10 3 (3.80%) Oracle ODI
11 2 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (2.53%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (2.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (36.71%) Browser DevTools
2 21 (26.58%) Android Studio
2 21 (26.58%) Eclipse
2 21 (26.58%) Xcode
3 8 (10.13%) Git
4 7 (8.86%) Firebug
5 2 (2.53%) Gradle
6 1 (1.27%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.27%) Gatling
6 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.27%) JIRA
6 1 (1.27%) JUnit
6 1 (1.27%) Maven
6 1 (1.27%) Selenium
6 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (72.15%) Social Skills
2 17 (21.52%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.33%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (6.33%) Finance
4 4 (5.06%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.53%) Banking
7 1 (1.27%) Automotive
7 1 (1.27%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 40 (50.63%) Technical Support
2 30 (37.97%) Support Engineer
3 29 (36.71%) Technical Engineer
3 29 (36.71%) Technical Support Engineer
4 22 (27.85%) UX Engineer
5 18 (22.78%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 14 (17.72%) Developer
7 7 (8.86%) JavaScript Engineer
8 6 (7.59%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (7.59%) Java Developer
9 5 (6.33%) Architect
9 5 (6.33%) Data Architect
9 5 (6.33%) Data Engineer
10 4 (5.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 4 (5.06%) Senior
11 3 (3.80%) AWS Developer
11 3 (3.80%) Data Scientist
11 3 (3.80%) Oracle Specialist
11 3 (3.80%) Senior Developer
11 3 (3.80%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (39.24%) React
2 30 (37.97%) CSS
3 28 (35.44%) AngularJS
4 25 (31.65%) GraphQL
5 22 (27.85%) Ajax
6 16 (20.25%) REST
7 9 (11.39%) HTML
8 8 (10.13%) XML
9 7 (8.86%) SOAP
10 6 (7.59%) OAuth
10 6 (7.59%) RESTful
11 5 (6.33%) NumPy
11 5 (6.33%) Pandas
11 5 (6.33%) Spring
12 4 (5.06%) JPA
12 4 (5.06%) Node.js
12 4 (5.06%) scikit-learn
12 4 (5.06%) Spring Boot
13 3 (3.80%) Hibernate
13 3 (3.80%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 22 (27.85%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.06%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.80%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.53%) Clustering
4 2 (2.53%) Replication
5 1 (1.27%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 36 (45.57%) Windows
2 34 (43.04%) Linux
3 33 (41.77%) Unix
4 21 (26.58%) Android
5 3 (3.80%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.27%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (50.63%) OO
2 25 (31.65%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (29.11%) User Experience
4 22 (27.85%) Mobile Application Development
5 16 (20.25%) Agile
6 14 (17.72%) Computer Science
7 13 (16.46%) CI/CD
7 13 (16.46%) Data Modelling
8 12 (15.19%) Data Engineering
8 12 (15.19%) OOP
9 11 (13.92%) Data Pipeline
9 11 (13.92%) ETL
10 10 (12.66%) Customer Service
10 10 (12.66%) Decision-Making
10 10 (12.66%) Visualisation
11 9 (11.39%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (11.39%) Process Improvement
12 8 (10.13%) Business Intelligence
13 7 (8.86%) Analytics
13 7 (8.86%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 54 (68.35%) Python
2 45 (56.96%) Java
3 43 (54.43%) JavaScript
4 35 (44.30%) SQL
5 33 (41.77%) Perl
6 5 (6.33%) Bash
6 5 (6.33%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.80%) C#
7 3 (3.80%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (22.78%) Degree
2 11 (13.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (10.13%) Master's Degree
4 6 (7.59%) Security Cleared
5 4 (5.06%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.80%) OCP
6 3 (3.80%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (2.53%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.86%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.33%) GDPR
3 3 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.27%) NIST
4 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 7 (8.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.06%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.27%) Argo
2 1 (1.27%) Grafana
2 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 50 (63.29%) Oracle
2 32 (40.51%) Microsoft
3 21 (26.58%) Splunk
4 19 (24.05%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.80%) Google
6 1 (1.27%) Databricks
6 1 (1.27%) Informatica
6 1 (1.27%) Pega
6 1 (1.27%) RedGate