Relational Database Contracts in the UK excluding London

Relational Database
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 143 210 213
Rank change year-on-year +67 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 231 201 284
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.81% 0.97% 1.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.44% 7.75% 7.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 154 188
10th Percentile £400 £363 £389
25th Percentile £445 £400 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% -2.91% +11.11%
75th Percentile £545 £588 £675
90th Percentile £588 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £521 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -5.27% -8.33% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 15
10th Percentile £16.67 £24.25 £54.88
25th Percentile £18.74 £26.50 £65.63
Median hourly rate £21.40 £35.50 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.72% -51.37% +45.42%
75th Percentile £27.25 £43.81 £75.00
90th Percentile £43.15 £49.78 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £35.50 £66.88
% change year-on-year +47.89% -46.92% +28.98%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,019 2,594 3,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 12.49% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,827 2,673
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £660 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 96 114
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £21.96
25th Percentile £22.98 £18.03 £32.32
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%
75th Percentile £65.62 £58.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Scotland +54 71 £470 +10.59% 70
North of England +6 53 £463 -13.39% 263
North West +26 48 £463 -13.39% 122
South East +54 41 £513 -2.38% 327
Midlands +21 31 £493 +23.25% 232
West Midlands +23 24 £493 +23.25% 134
South West +43 21 £625 +16.28% 140
East Midlands 0 6 £495 +13.14% 84
Northern Ireland -4 6 £500 +25.00% 22
Wales -9 5 £525 -4.72% 26
East of England +27 3 £525 +10.53% 184
Yorkshire -15 3 £550 - 108
North East 0 2 - - 34
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 9 (3.90%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.46%) JBoss
3 7 (3.03%) Apache
3 7 (3.03%) SAS
4 6 (2.60%) Confluence
5 5 (2.16%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.16%) CMS
6 4 (1.73%) Drupal
6 4 (1.73%) WordPress
7 2 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.87%) Camunda
7 2 (0.87%) GemFire
7 2 (0.87%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.43%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.43%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.16%) InfoPath
3 4 (1.73%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.43%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 5 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.87%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.43%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 68 (29.44%) AWS
2 46 (19.91%) Azure
3 27 (11.69%) Serverless
4 21 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 14 (6.06%) Amazon S3
5 14 (6.06%) GCP
5 14 (6.06%) OpenShift
6 12 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.03%) Adobe Analytics
8 7 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.03%) Power Automate
8 7 (3.03%) PowerApps
9 6 (2.60%) AWS CodeBuild
9 6 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (2.60%) GitHub
9 6 (2.60%) Route 53
9 6 (2.60%) Snowflake
10 5 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.73%) Internet
2 2 (0.87%) HTTP
2 2 (0.87%) MQTT
2 2 (0.87%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (33.77%) RDBMS
2 60 (25.97%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (25.54%) MongoDB
4 34 (14.72%) MySQL
5 31 (13.42%) DB2
5 31 (13.42%) NoSQL
6 25 (10.82%) SQL Server
7 24 (10.39%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (7.79%) Oracle Database
9 17 (7.36%) Power BI
10 11 (4.76%) Big Data
11 10 (4.33%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (3.46%) Data Lake
14 7 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (2.60%) Hadoop
15 6 (2.60%) Metadata
16 5 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
17 4 (1.73%) Airbyte
Development Applications
1 54 (23.38%) JUnit
2 44 (19.05%) Git
3 29 (12.55%) Jenkins
4 20 (8.66%) JIRA
5 18 (7.79%) Mockito
6 13 (5.63%) Gradle
7 12 (5.19%) Bitbucket Server
8 10 (4.33%) ERwin
8 10 (4.33%) Liquibase
9 8 (3.46%) CA Release Automation
9 8 (3.46%) SonarQube
9 8 (3.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (3.46%) TeamCity
10 7 (3.03%) GitLab
11 6 (2.60%) Oracle APEX
12 5 (2.16%) Subversion
13 4 (1.73%) Bitbucket
13 4 (1.73%) Cucumber
13 4 (1.73%) Maven
13 4 (1.73%) PowerDesigner
General
1 74 (32.03%) Finance
2 67 (29.00%) Social Skills
3 39 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (13.42%) Public Sector
5 27 (11.69%) Banking
6 23 (9.96%) Front Office
7 17 (7.36%) Marketing
8 16 (6.93%) Investment Banking
9 12 (5.19%) Telecoms
10 10 (4.33%) Back Office
10 10 (4.33%) Electronics
10 10 (4.33%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.73%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.30%) Automotive
13 3 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.87%) Legal
14 2 (0.87%) Local Government
15 1 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 100 (43.29%) Developer
2 66 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 24 (10.39%) Software Engineer
4 23 (9.96%) Senior
5 19 (8.23%) Analyst
6 17 (7.36%) DBA
7 15 (6.49%) Full-Stack Developer
8 14 (6.06%) Data Engineer
9 13 (5.63%) Architect
10 10 (4.33%) Data Modeller
10 10 (4.33%) Java Engineer
10 10 (4.33%) Java Software Engineer
10 10 (4.33%) Python Developer
10 10 (4.33%) Senior Developer
11 9 (3.90%) SQL Developer
11 9 (3.90%) Systems Analyst
12 8 (3.46%) Core Java Developer
12 8 (3.46%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 7 (3.03%) Investment Banking Java Developer
13 7 (3.03%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (27.27%) Spring
2 59 (25.54%) Kafka
3 37 (16.02%) Spring Boot
4 30 (12.99%) REST
5 26 (11.26%) React
6 24 (10.39%) .NET
7 23 (9.96%) JMS
8 20 (8.66%) JSON
9 18 (7.79%) XML
10 17 (7.36%) HTML
10 17 (7.36%) Web Services
11 16 (6.93%) RESTful
12 15 (6.49%) Node.js
13 14 (6.06%) CSS
14 13 (5.63%) AngularJS
15 11 (4.76%) OpenAPI
15 11 (4.76%) Swagger
16 9 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
16 9 (3.90%) jQuery
17 7 (3.03%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 40 (17.32%) Data Structures
2 19 (8.23%) Equities
3 6 (2.60%) Equity Derivative
3 6 (2.60%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.16%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.16%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.73%) Derivative
5 4 (1.73%) Legacy Code
5 4 (1.73%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.73%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (0.87%) Infotainment
7 1 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.43%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.43%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.43%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (26.84%) Linux
2 16 (6.93%) Unix
3 15 (6.49%) Windows
4 8 (3.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.43%) AIX
5 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (48.05%) Agile
2 78 (33.77%) CI/CD
3 62 (26.84%) Microservices
3 62 (26.84%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (23.38%) Software Engineering
5 51 (22.08%) DevOps
6 38 (16.45%) Multithreading
6 38 (16.45%) SDLC
7 36 (15.58%) Migration
8 32 (13.85%) Containerisation
9 30 (12.99%) Business Intelligence
9 30 (12.99%) TDD
10 29 (12.55%) Open Source
11 28 (12.12%) Data Modelling
11 28 (12.12%) ETL
12 25 (10.82%) Analytics
13 24 (10.39%) Performance Tuning
14 23 (9.96%) Continuous Integration
14 23 (9.96%) Full-Stack Development
15 21 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 138 (59.74%) SQL
2 94 (40.69%) Java
3 80 (34.63%) Python
4 40 (17.32%) JavaScript
5 29 (12.55%) Shell Script
6 20 (8.66%) C#
6 20 (8.66%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.63%) PL/SQL
8 10 (4.33%) R
9 8 (3.46%) Perl
10 7 (3.03%) PHP
11 4 (1.73%) SPARQL
12 3 (1.30%) C++
13 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.87%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.43%) Bash
14 1 (0.43%) COBOL
14 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.43%) Ruby
14 1 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 41 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 31 (13.42%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.49%) Degree
4 7 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.87%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.43%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.43%) OCP
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.43%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.90%) Disclosure Scotland
2 8 (3.46%) QA
3 7 (3.03%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (22.08%) Docker
2 8 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (0.87%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (20.78%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.76%) Terraform
3 10 (4.33%) Kibana
4 8 (3.46%) Progress Chef
5 5 (2.16%) Ansible
6 4 (1.73%) Grafana
6 4 (1.73%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.87%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 2 (0.87%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.87%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.43%) Graylog
8 1 (0.43%) Packer
8 1 (0.43%) Podman
8 1 (0.43%) Puppet
8 1 (0.43%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 51 (22.08%) Oracle
2 32 (13.85%) Sybase
3 27 (11.69%) Microsoft
4 17 (7.36%) SAP
5 15 (6.49%) Splunk
6 8 (3.46%) AppDynamics
6 8 (3.46%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.03%) Adobe
7 7 (3.03%) Teradata
7 7 (3.03%) Zend
8 6 (2.60%) Google
8 6 (2.60%) Virgin Media
9 5 (2.16%) Databricks
10 4 (1.73%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.73%) SnapLogic
11 3 (1.30%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.30%) IBM
11 3 (1.30%) Talend
11 3 (1.30%) Veritas
11 3 (1.30%) VMware