Relational Database Contract Job Trends in the South West

Relational Database
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Relational Database skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 112 126
Rank change year-on-year +21 +14 +26
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 23 33 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.19% 1.21% 0.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.22% 9.71% 7.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 30 14
10th Percentile £197 £470 £424
25th Percentile £324 £513 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £538 £671
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% -19.93% +34.25%
75th Percentile £550 £570 £738
90th Percentile £575 £576 £785
England median daily rate £500 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £73.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +50.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 205 340 408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.57% 12.51% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 249 283
10th Percentile £297 £375 £392
25th Percentile £368 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.29% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £575 £613 £675
90th Percentile £663 £681 £725
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 30
10th Percentile £41.80 - £22.38
25th Percentile £65.00 £17.50 £47.45
Median hourly rate £70.00 £30.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.33% -59.46% +34.55%
75th Percentile - £71.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £78.46 £85.00 £82.71
England median hourly rate £38.23 £33.22 £55.00
% change year-on-year +15.10% -39.61% +28.71%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in the South West

Relational Database
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in the South West over the 6 months to 30 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in the South West

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Relational Database
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
Bristol +16 11 £335 -40.44% 5
Wiltshire +11 6 £350 -26.32% 1
Gloucestershire +13 2 £550 - 1
Dorset - 2 - - 1
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (17.39%) SAS
2 2 (8.70%) Alfresco
2 2 (8.70%) Camunda
2 2 (8.70%) Confluence
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) AWS
2 5 (21.74%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) Power Automate
3 4 (17.39%) Adobe Analytics
4 2 (8.70%) npm
4 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) HTTP
2 2 (8.70%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (21.74%) RDBMS
3 4 (17.39%) MySQL
4 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
4 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
5 2 (8.70%) CockroachDB
5 2 (8.70%) InfluxDB
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
5 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Git
1 7 (30.43%) JIRA
2 2 (8.70%) JUnit
2 2 (8.70%) Maven
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Banking
3 4 (17.39%) Marketing
4 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Military
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Analytics Manager
2 4 (17.39%) Data Analytics Manager
2 4 (17.39%) Data Manager
2 4 (17.39%) Insight Manager
2 4 (17.39%) Senior
2 4 (17.39%) Senior Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Strategy Manager
3 3 (13.04%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Django Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.70%) IT Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) IT Support
4 2 (8.70%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Python Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Python/Django Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) AngularJS
2 7 (30.43%) React
2 7 (30.43%) XML
3 5 (21.74%) JMS
3 5 (21.74%) SOAP
3 5 (21.74%) XSD
4 4 (17.39%) REST
5 2 (8.70%) Django
5 2 (8.70%) Hibernate
5 2 (8.70%) HTML
5 2 (8.70%) JPA
5 2 (8.70%) Kafka
5 2 (8.70%) Keycloak
5 2 (8.70%) Spring
5 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
1 2 (8.70%) Data Fabric
1 2 (8.70%) PKI
1 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) CentOS
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Agile
2 9 (39.13%) Test Automation
3 7 (30.43%) ETL
4 5 (21.74%) OO
4 5 (21.74%) OOP
4 5 (21.74%) Scrum
4 5 (21.74%) TDD
5 4 (17.39%) Analytics
5 4 (17.39%) Business Transformation
5 4 (17.39%) Critical Thinking
5 4 (17.39%) Data Extraction
5 4 (17.39%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (17.39%) Digital Banking
5 4 (17.39%) Microservices
5 4 (17.39%) Migration
5 4 (17.39%) Project Delivery
5 4 (17.39%) SOLID
5 4 (17.39%) Storytelling
5 4 (17.39%) Visualisation
5 4 (17.39%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) SQL
2 6 (26.09%) Java
3 4 (17.39%) Python
3 4 (17.39%) R
4 2 (8.70%) C
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Terraform
2 2 (8.70%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) Grafana
2 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Oracle
2 5 (21.74%) Blue Prism
2 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 5 (21.74%) ServiceNow
3 4 (17.39%) Adobe
3 4 (17.39%) Teradata
4 2 (8.70%) Talend
5 1 (4.35%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.35%) SnapLogic