Relational Database Contracts in the UK excluding London

Relational Database
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Relational Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Relational Database over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 205 206 206
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -33
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 190 282 385
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.93% 1.20% 1.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.45% 7.77% 7.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 185 254
10th Percentile £360 £384 £363
25th Percentile £400 £445 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +11.11% +7.61%
75th Percentile £577 £675 £568
90th Percentile £675 £750 £630
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £578
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.81% +10.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 11
10th Percentile £24.25 £54.88 £23.70
25th Percentile £26.50 £65.63 £45.63
Median hourly rate £35.50 £73.00 £50.20
Median % change year-on-year -51.37% +45.42% -8.73%
75th Percentile £43.81 £75.00 £60.38
90th Percentile £49.78 £77.00 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £68.75 £53.50
% change year-on-year -48.36% +28.50% -2.73%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

Relational Database is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,550 3,628 5,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.51% 15.44% 17.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,798 2,605 3,833
10th Percentile £313 £338 £328
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 114 130
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £31.84 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.19% +59.14% +42.86%
75th Percentile £59.24 £66.42 £55.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.50 £68.78
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £42.92
% change year-on-year -32.54% +38.16% +59.07%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in the UK excluding London

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Relational Database in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in the UK excluding London

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in the UK excluding London

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Relational Database in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in the UK excluding London

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Relational Database in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Relational Database in the UK excluding London

Relational Database
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
North of England +29 60 £534 +10.16% 36
North West +8 34 £534 +12.42% 20
South East -31 32 £525 -4.55% 38
Scotland +10 29 £425 -32.00% 29
Midlands +22 25 £400 -25.58% 26
Yorkshire +42 24 £550 -4.35% 15
South West +10 23 £538 -8.51% 19
Wales +29 15 £551 +13.03% 4
East Midlands +31 13 £375 -9.09% 11
West Midlands +8 12 £400 -27.27% 15
East of England -2 5 £442 -8.97% 15
North East +14 2 £650 - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £400 - 4
Relational Database
UK

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (5.79%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.68%) JBoss
3 5 (2.63%) Apache
4 4 (2.11%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.58%) Confluence
6 2 (1.05%) IIS
7 1 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.53%) nginx
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.05%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.53%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.53%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 62 (32.63%) Azure
2 57 (30.00%) AWS
3 31 (16.32%) Serverless
4 29 (15.26%) Power Platform
5 18 (9.47%) Amazon S3
5 18 (9.47%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (8.42%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (8.42%) GCP
7 13 (6.84%) GitHub
8 11 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.26%) OpenShift
10 9 (4.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (4.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.63%) IaaS
12 4 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.68%) Network Security
2 5 (2.63%) AMQP
2 5 (2.63%) Firewall
3 4 (2.11%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.11%) VPN
4 3 (1.58%) BGP
4 3 (1.58%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (1.58%) DNS
4 3 (1.58%) IOS XR
5 1 (0.53%) HTTP
5 1 (0.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (28.42%) SQL Server
2 46 (24.21%) RDBMS
3 44 (23.16%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (16.32%) MySQL
5 30 (15.79%) Tableau
6 29 (15.26%) NoSQL
6 29 (15.26%) Power BI
7 21 (11.05%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 18 (9.47%) MongoDB
10 14 (7.37%) Oracle Reports
11 12 (6.32%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 12 (6.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 11 (5.79%) Big Data
13 8 (4.21%) Data Lake
14 7 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (3.16%) InfluxDB
16 5 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (2.63%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 42 (22.11%) Git
2 25 (13.16%) Jenkins
3 19 (10.00%) GitLab
4 17 (8.95%) JUnit
5 14 (7.37%) JIRA
6 11 (5.79%) SonarQube
7 9 (4.74%) Postman
8 7 (3.68%) Cypress.io
8 7 (3.68%) Visual Studio
9 6 (3.16%) Burp Suite
10 5 (2.63%) AppScan
10 5 (2.63%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (2.63%) CA Release Automation
10 5 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (2.63%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (1.05%) CircleCI
12 2 (1.05%) Maven
13 1 (0.53%) Ant
13 1 (0.53%) Subversion
General
1 35 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (12.63%) Public Sector
4 17 (8.95%) Finance
5 6 (3.16%) Banking
6 4 (2.11%) Health Technology
7 3 (1.58%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.05%) Law
8 2 (1.05%) Marketing
8 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.53%) Games
9 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.53%) Local Government
9 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 69 (36.32%) Developer
2 30 (15.79%) Java Developer
3 20 (10.53%) Data Engineer
3 20 (10.53%) DBA
4 17 (8.95%) Architect
5 15 (7.89%) Full Stack Developer
6 13 (6.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 11 (5.79%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 9 (4.74%) Analyst
8 9 (4.74%) Lead
8 9 (4.74%) Senior
9 8 (4.21%) Data Architect
9 8 (4.21%) Site Engineer
10 7 (3.68%) Support Engineer
11 6 (3.16%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 6 (3.16%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.16%) Lead Developer
11 6 (3.16%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (3.16%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (15.79%) Spring
2 29 (15.26%) React
2 29 (15.26%) REST
2 29 (15.26%) Spring Boot
3 23 (12.11%) Elastic Stack
3 23 (12.11%) Kafka
4 16 (8.42%) JSON
5 15 (7.89%) RESTful
6 14 (7.37%) XML
7 13 (6.84%) Hibernate
8 12 (6.32%) JPA
9 11 (5.79%) .NET
9 11 (5.79%) HTML
10 8 (4.21%) AngularJS
10 8 (4.21%) CSS
11 7 (3.68%) Laravel
11 7 (3.68%) Node.js
11 7 (3.68%) Vue
12 6 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (3.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.58%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (8.95%) Data Structures
3 16 (8.42%) Public Cloud
4 15 (7.89%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (6.32%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.74%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (3.68%) NHS
8 6 (3.16%) Algorithms
8 6 (3.16%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.58%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.58%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.58%) Smart Meter
11 2 (1.05%) Clustering
11 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.05%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.53%) Legacy Code
12 1 (0.53%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 47 (24.74%) Linux
2 18 (9.47%) Unix
3 17 (8.95%) Windows
4 11 (5.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.63%) VMS
6 4 (2.11%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.53%) Android
7 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.53%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (43.68%) Agile
2 60 (31.58%) DevOps
3 50 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 40 (21.05%) Microservices
5 34 (17.89%) Data Modelling
5 34 (17.89%) Scrum
6 31 (16.32%) Business Intelligence
7 30 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (15.26%) Continuous Integration
8 29 (15.26%) ETL
9 28 (14.74%) Mentoring
10 25 (13.16%) Test Automation
11 23 (12.11%) Analytics
12 22 (11.58%) Full Stack Development
13 19 (10.00%) Migration
14 18 (9.47%) Unit Testing
15 17 (8.95%) Project Management
15 17 (8.95%) Software Engineering
15 17 (8.95%) Visualisation
16 15 (7.89%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 95 (50.00%) SQL
2 69 (36.32%) Java
3 50 (26.32%) Python
4 22 (11.58%) JavaScript
5 19 (10.00%) T-SQL
6 16 (8.42%) C#
6 16 (8.42%) TypeScript
7 14 (7.37%) Bash
7 14 (7.37%) Shell Script
8 11 (5.79%) Scala
9 10 (5.26%) PowerShell
10 9 (4.74%) Perl
10 9 (4.74%) PHP
11 7 (3.68%) Kotlin
12 6 (3.16%) C
12 6 (3.16%) Go
13 2 (1.05%) C++
13 2 (1.05%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.05%) VB
13 2 (1.05%) VB6
Qualifications
1 47 (24.74%) Security Cleared
2 34 (17.89%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.58%) DV Cleared
4 19 (10.00%) Degree
5 8 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.16%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.58%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.58%) ISEB
8 3 (1.58%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.05%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.05%) SANS
9 2 (1.05%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.53%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (19.47%) QA
2 6 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (23.16%) Docker
2 6 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.63%) vSphere
4 3 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.53%) HDFS
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 27 (14.21%) Ansible
3 22 (11.58%) Terraform
4 19 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 17 (8.95%) Progress Chef
6 16 (8.42%) Grafana
7 8 (4.21%) Graylog
8 6 (3.16%) Kibana
8 6 (3.16%) Nagios
8 6 (3.16%) Puppet
9 5 (2.63%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (2.63%) HP Fortify
9 5 (2.63%) Nessus
9 5 (2.63%) Packer
9 5 (2.63%) vRealize
9 5 (2.63%) WebInspect
9 5 (2.63%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.53%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.53%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 34 (17.89%) Oracle
2 33 (17.37%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.89%) Splunk
4 9 (4.74%) Google
5 7 (3.68%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.16%) AVEVA
6 6 (3.16%) Checkmarx
7 5 (2.63%) AppDynamics
7 5 (2.63%) Arqiva
7 5 (2.63%) Veracode
7 5 (2.63%) Veritas
7 5 (2.63%) VMware
8 4 (2.11%) Brio
9 3 (1.58%) Cisco
9 3 (1.58%) Databricks
9 3 (1.58%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.58%) TOWER Software
10 2 (1.05%) Ab Initio
10 2 (1.05%) Infragistics
10 2 (1.05%) Teradata