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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 214 204
Rank change year-on-year +80 -10 -12
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 255 195 260
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.96% 0.94% 1.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.21% 7.58% 7.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 156 158
10th Percentile £400 £363 £389
25th Percentile £444 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -7.69% +13.75%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £675
90th Percentile £588 £650 £747
UK median daily rate £521 £539 £600
% change year-on-year -3.29% -10.21% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 16
10th Percentile £16.67 £26.30 £62.34
25th Percentile £18.74 £31.63 £69.69
Median hourly rate £21.40 £40.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.16% -46.00% +49.70%
75th Percentile £27.25 £47.13 £76.13
90th Percentile £43.15 £51.10 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £40.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +29.63% -42.14% +35.00%

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 2,088 2,571 3,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.02% 12.41% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,821 2,411
10th Percentile £313 £313 £338
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £560 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.19% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 106 109
10th Percentile £18.72 £13.59 £21.80
25th Percentile £22.66 £17.50 £32.30
Median hourly rate £30.82 £36.75 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -16.14% -37.28% +67.40%
75th Percentile £65.62 £60.50 £73.71
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +33.33%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +44 73 £470 +4.44% 33
North of England +14 60 £463 -13.39% 98
North West +27 51 £463 -12.90% 51
South East +58 46 £500 -4.76% 78
Midlands +25 34 £488 +21.88% 52
South West +43 24 £600 +11.63% 49
West Midlands +26 24 £490 +22.50% 32
East Midlands +7 9 £490 +30.67% 17
East of England +29 8 £538 +21.74% 34
Northern Ireland -6 8 £500 +25.00% 12
Yorkshire -7 7 £550 - 37
Wales -7 3 £540 -1.91% 6
North East +1 2 - - 10
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 (3.53%) Apache Spark
1 9 (3.53%) JBoss
2 8 (3.14%) Confluence
3 7 (2.75%) Apache
3 7 (2.75%) SAS
4 6 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.35%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.57%) CMS
5 4 (1.57%) Drupal
5 4 (1.57%) WordPress
6 3 (1.18%) Camunda
7 2 (0.78%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.78%) GemFire
7 2 (0.78%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.39%) CICS
8 1 (0.39%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.57%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.18%) InfoPath
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.39%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.78%) Kondor
2 2 (0.78%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.39%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 83 (32.55%) AWS
2 51 (20.00%) Azure
3 34 (13.33%) Serverless
4 21 (8.24%) Amazon S3
5 18 (7.06%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (6.27%) Power Platform
7 15 (5.88%) OpenShift
8 14 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (5.49%) GCP
9 10 (3.92%) GitHub
10 9 (3.53%) Snowflake
11 8 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.14%) dbt
12 7 (2.75%) Adobe Analytics
12 7 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (2.75%) AWS CodeBuild
12 7 (2.75%) PaaS
12 7 (2.75%) SaaS
13 6 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.75%) Internet
2 4 (1.57%) HTTP
2 4 (1.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.78%) Firewall
3 2 (0.78%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (30.98%) RDBMS
2 62 (24.31%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (23.14%) MongoDB
4 39 (15.29%) DB2
5 38 (14.90%) MySQL
6 33 (12.94%) SQL Server
7 31 (12.16%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (10.59%) NoSQL
9 18 (7.06%) Oracle Database
10 14 (5.49%) Power BI
11 12 (4.71%) Big Data
12 10 (3.92%) Data Lake
12 10 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (3.14%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (2.75%) Amazon Aurora
16 6 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (2.35%) Hadoop
16 6 (2.35%) Metadata
17 4 (1.57%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 57 (22.35%) JUnit
2 45 (17.65%) Git
3 33 (12.94%) Jenkins
4 25 (9.80%) JIRA
5 18 (7.06%) Mockito
6 13 (5.10%) Bitbucket Server
6 13 (5.10%) Gradle
7 10 (3.92%) ERwin
7 10 (3.92%) Liquibase
8 9 (3.53%) CA Release Automation
8 9 (3.53%) SonarQube
8 9 (3.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (3.53%) TeamCity
9 7 (2.75%) GitLab
10 5 (1.96%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.96%) Maven
11 4 (1.57%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.57%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.57%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (1.57%) Subversion
General
1 81 (31.76%) Social Skills
2 77 (30.20%) Finance
3 46 (18.04%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (12.55%) Banking
5 29 (11.37%) Public Sector
6 24 (9.41%) Front Office
7 20 (7.84%) Investment Banking
8 17 (6.67%) Marketing
9 12 (4.71%) Manufacturing
9 12 (4.71%) Telecoms
10 10 (3.92%) Back Office
10 10 (3.92%) Electronics
11 8 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.75%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (1.18%) Automotive
16 2 (0.78%) Legal
16 2 (0.78%) Local Government
16 2 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 113 (44.31%) Developer
2 70 (27.45%) Java Developer
3 29 (11.37%) Senior
4 22 (8.63%) Software Engineer
5 18 (7.06%) Data Engineer
6 16 (6.27%) Analyst
6 16 (6.27%) Architect
6 16 (6.27%) DBA
7 15 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (5.88%) Senior Developer
8 11 (4.31%) Python Developer
9 10 (3.92%) Core Java Developer
9 10 (3.92%) Data Modeller
9 10 (3.92%) React Developer
9 10 (3.92%) SQL Developer
10 9 (3.53%) Investment Banking Java Developer
10 9 (3.53%) Java Engineer
10 9 (3.53%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (3.53%) Sybase Developer
10 9 (3.53%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (26.27%) Spring
2 64 (25.10%) Kafka
3 41 (16.08%) Spring Boot
4 38 (14.90%) REST
5 31 (12.16%) React
6 26 (10.20%) .NET
7 25 (9.80%) JMS
8 23 (9.02%) RESTful
9 21 (8.24%) HTML
10 20 (7.84%) JSON
10 20 (7.84%) Web Services
10 20 (7.84%) XML
11 16 (6.27%) AngularJS
11 16 (6.27%) CSS
12 15 (5.88%) Node.js
13 14 (5.49%) SOAP
14 11 (4.31%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (4.31%) jQuery
14 11 (4.31%) OpenAPI
14 11 (4.31%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.86%) Data Structures
2 24 (9.41%) Equities
3 9 (3.53%) Derivative
4 7 (2.75%) Equity Derivative
5 6 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.35%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.96%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.96%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.57%) Data Fabric
7 4 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.57%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.57%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.78%) Infotainment
9 2 (0.78%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.78%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.78%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 68 (26.67%) Linux
2 23 (9.02%) Unix
3 13 (5.10%) Windows
4 9 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.39%) AIX
5 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (41.18%) Agile
2 80 (31.37%) CI/CD
3 79 (30.98%) Problem-Solving
4 64 (25.10%) Microservices
5 57 (22.35%) DevOps
6 54 (21.18%) Software Engineering
7 42 (16.47%) ETL
8 40 (15.69%) Multithreading
9 38 (14.90%) Migration
9 38 (14.90%) SDLC
10 36 (14.12%) Data Modelling
11 35 (13.73%) Performance Tuning
12 34 (13.33%) Analytics
12 34 (13.33%) Containerisation
12 34 (13.33%) TDD
13 32 (12.55%) Business Intelligence
14 31 (12.16%) Open Source
15 25 (9.80%) Full-Stack Development
16 23 (9.02%) Database Tuning
17 22 (8.63%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 160 (62.75%) SQL
2 103 (40.39%) Java
3 95 (37.25%) Python
4 44 (17.25%) JavaScript
5 35 (13.73%) Shell Script
6 23 (9.02%) C#
7 21 (8.24%) TypeScript
8 11 (4.31%) Perl
8 11 (4.31%) PL/SQL
8 11 (4.31%) R
9 6 (2.35%) PHP
10 4 (1.57%) SPARQL
11 3 (1.18%) Ruby
12 2 (0.78%) ANSI SQL
12 2 (0.78%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.78%) C++
12 2 (0.78%) COBOL
12 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.78%) Scala
12 2 (0.78%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 40 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 29 (11.37%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.67%) Degree
4 10 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.39%) OCP
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.39%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.14%) Disclosure Scotland
2 8 (3.14%) QA
3 2 (0.78%) Basel III
3 2 (0.78%) MiFID
4 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (21.18%) Docker
2 9 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (0.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (19.22%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.31%) Kibana
2 11 (4.31%) Terraform
3 9 (3.53%) Progress Chef
4 5 (1.96%) Ansible
5 4 (1.57%) Grafana
5 4 (1.57%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.78%) Control-M
6 2 (0.78%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.39%) Graylog
7 1 (0.39%) Packer
7 1 (0.39%) Podman
7 1 (0.39%) Puppet
7 1 (0.39%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 56 (21.96%) Oracle
2 36 (14.12%) Sybase
3 26 (10.20%) Microsoft
4 16 (6.27%) SAP
5 15 (5.88%) Splunk
6 9 (3.53%) AppDynamics
6 9 (3.53%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.75%) Adobe
7 7 (2.75%) Teradata
8 6 (2.35%) Databricks
8 6 (2.35%) Google
8 6 (2.35%) IBM
8 6 (2.35%) Zend
9 5 (1.96%) Virgin Media
10 4 (1.57%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.57%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.57%) SnapLogic
11 3 (1.18%) Cognos
11 3 (1.18%) Informatica
11 3 (1.18%) VMware