Relational Database Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Relational Database
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Relational Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 111 126
Rank change year-on-year +12 +15 -5
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 29 13 19
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 1.43% 0.62% 0.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.43% 3.82% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 9
10th Percentile £204 £200 £196
25th Percentile £342 £230 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £381 £375
Median % change year-on-year +13.11% +1.67% -30.23%
75th Percentile £500 £541 £538
90th Percentile £519 £656 £605
South East median daily rate £208 £205 £500
% change year-on-year +1.22% -59.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £52.67
25th Percentile - - £55.90
Median hourly rate - - £61.53
75th Percentile - - £66.90
90th Percentile - - £69.96
South East median hourly rate - - £67.27

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 278 340 373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.74% 16.14% 14.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 215 267
10th Percentile £325 £363 £315
25th Percentile £413 £416 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £642 £640
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 12
10th Percentile - £36.86 £34.14
25th Percentile £23.50 £41.25 £54.75
Median hourly rate £24.00 £48.18 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.19% -21.66% +164.52%
75th Percentile £24.50 £64.73 £73.94
90th Percentile - - £79.78
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £48.18 £50.00
% change year-on-year -16.98% -3.64% +125.63%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Relational Database
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Relational Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in the Thames Valley

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Relational Database.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 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
Berkshire +17 24 £435 +117.50% 14
Buckinghamshire +1 4 £431 -32.35% 7
Oxfordshire -12 1 - - 3
Relational Database
South East

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (13.79%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (13.79%) Apache Spark
2 3 (10.34%) Apache
2 3 (10.34%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.45%) Jupyter
3 1 (3.45%) nginx
3 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (55.17%) AWS
2 10 (34.48%) Azure
3 9 (31.03%) GCP
4 6 (20.69%) Power Platform
5 5 (17.24%) GitHub
6 4 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (13.79%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (13.79%) dbt
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (10.34%) OCI
7 3 (10.34%) SaaS
7 3 (10.34%) Serverless
8 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (3.45%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (3.45%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (34.48%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (31.03%) MySQL
3 7 (24.14%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (20.69%) Power BI
4 6 (20.69%) SQL Server
5 5 (17.24%) MongoDB
5 5 (17.24%) Oracle Database
5 5 (17.24%) RDBMS
6 4 (13.79%) Data Lake
6 4 (13.79%) Tableau
7 3 (10.34%) Big Data
7 3 (10.34%) Hadoop
7 3 (10.34%) Oracle Database 11g
7 3 (10.34%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (10.34%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
9 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (3.45%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 22 (75.86%) Social Skills
2 14 (48.28%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 4 (13.79%) Telecoms
4 3 (10.34%) Finance
5 2 (6.90%) Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Automotive
6 1 (3.45%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (3.45%) Legal
6 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Developer
2 4 (13.79%) Data Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (13.79%) Technical Support
3 3 (10.34%) AWS Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Data Scientist
3 3 (10.34%) Oracle Specialist
3 3 (10.34%) Python Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Senior
3 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Telecoms Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Data Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Database Specialist
5 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Informatica Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) IT Support
5 1 (3.45%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) REST
2 7 (24.14%) SOAP
3 6 (20.69%) OAuth
4 5 (17.24%) NumPy
4 5 (17.24%) Pandas
5 4 (13.79%) Node.js
5 4 (13.79%) scikit-learn
6 3 (10.34%) GraphQL
6 3 (10.34%) OAuth2
6 3 (10.34%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 3 (10.34%) React
7 2 (6.90%) RESTful
8 1 (3.45%) Django
8 1 (3.45%) FastAPI
8 1 (3.45%) FreeSWITCH
8 1 (3.45%) HTML
8 1 (3.45%) JSON
8 1 (3.45%) OpenID
8 1 (3.45%) Web Services
8 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Algorithms
2 3 (10.34%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.45%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.45%) Clustering
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Linux
2 5 (17.24%) Windows
3 4 (13.79%) Unix
4 1 (3.45%) CentOS
4 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (72.41%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (37.93%) Data Engineering
3 10 (34.48%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (31.03%) Agile
4 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
4 9 (31.03%) Data Modelling
4 9 (31.03%) Decision-Making
4 9 (31.03%) ETL
4 9 (31.03%) Visualisation
5 7 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (24.14%) Computer Science
6 6 (20.69%) Data Integration
6 6 (20.69%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (17.24%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (17.24%) Data Visualisation
7 5 (17.24%) High Availability
7 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (17.24%) Translating Business Requirements
7 5 (17.24%) Validation
7 5 (17.24%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 20 (68.97%) Python
2 19 (65.52%) SQL
3 8 (27.59%) Java
4 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
4 4 (13.79%) Perl
5 3 (10.34%) PL/SQL
6 2 (6.90%) Bash
6 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) Degree
2 7 (24.14%) Master's Degree
3 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) OCP
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) Data Quality
1 5 (17.24%) GDPR
2 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.45%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.45%) NIST
3 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Argo
1 1 (3.45%) Grafana
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (37.93%) Oracle
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.34%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) Databricks
4 1 (3.45%) Informatica
4 1 (3.45%) Pega