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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 213 202 208
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 -34
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 195 282 380
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.95% 1.21% 1.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.60% 7.84% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 185 249
10th Percentile £363 £378 £363
25th Percentile £400 £445 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +11.11% +8.20%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £569
90th Percentile £660 £750 £631
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £577
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.08% +9.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 11
10th Percentile £24.25 £56.09 £23.70
25th Percentile £26.50 £67.19 £45.63
Median hourly rate £35.50 £74.00 £50.20
Median % change year-on-year -52.03% +47.41% -8.73%
75th Percentile £43.81 £75.13 £60.38
90th Percentile £49.78 £78.00 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £69.38 £53.50
% change year-on-year -48.83% +29.67% -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 2,566 3,597 5,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.53% 15.37% 17.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,819 2,581 3,795
10th Percentile £316 £338 £328
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +11.24%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 115 142
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.53 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.68 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +64.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £61.61
90th Percentile £76.50 £75.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +66.79%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +39 61 £534 +12.42% 45
South East -29 34 £525 -4.55% 35
Scotland +10 32 £450 -28.00% 27
North West +8 32 £534 +12.42% 25
Yorkshire +38 27 £550 -4.35% 18
Midlands +16 24 £400 -27.27% 22
South West +11 22 £538 -8.51% 19
Wales +27 15 £551 +13.03% 4
East Midlands +32 12 £375 -9.09% 7
West Midlands +2 12 £400 -27.27% 15
East of England +2 5 £442 -23.22% 18
North East +15 2 £650 - 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £400 - 3
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 13 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.59%) JBoss
3 5 (2.56%) Apache
4 4 (2.05%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.54%) Confluence
6 2 (1.03%) IIS
7 1 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.51%) nginx
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.03%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.51%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 65 (33.33%) Azure
2 59 (30.26%) AWS
3 32 (16.41%) Power Platform
4 30 (15.38%) Serverless
5 19 (9.74%) GCP
6 18 (9.23%) Amazon S3
6 18 (9.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (8.21%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (6.67%) GitHub
9 11 (5.64%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (5.13%) OpenShift
11 9 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (2.56%) IaaS
13 4 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.59%) Network Security
2 5 (2.56%) AMQP
2 5 (2.56%) Firewall
3 4 (2.05%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.05%) VPN
4 3 (1.54%) BGP
4 3 (1.54%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (1.54%) DNS
4 3 (1.54%) IOS XR
5 1 (0.51%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (28.21%) SQL Server
2 45 (23.08%) RDBMS
3 44 (22.56%) PostgreSQL
4 35 (17.95%) MySQL
5 32 (16.41%) Power BI
6 30 (15.38%) Tableau
7 28 (14.36%) NoSQL
8 21 (10.77%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (10.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 18 (9.23%) MongoDB
11 14 (7.18%) Oracle Reports
12 12 (6.15%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 12 (6.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 11 (5.64%) Big Data
14 8 (4.10%) Data Lake
15 7 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (3.08%) InfluxDB
17 5 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
17 5 (2.56%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 43 (22.05%) Git
2 25 (12.82%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.23%) GitLab
4 17 (8.72%) JUnit
5 14 (7.18%) JIRA
6 11 (5.64%) SonarQube
7 9 (4.62%) Postman
7 9 (4.62%) Visual Studio
8 7 (3.59%) Cypress.io
9 6 (3.08%) Burp Suite
10 5 (2.56%) AppScan
10 5 (2.56%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (2.56%) CA Release Automation
10 5 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (2.56%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (1.03%) CircleCI
12 2 (1.03%) Maven
12 2 (1.03%) Mockito
13 1 (0.51%) Subversion
General
1 35 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.36%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (11.79%) Public Sector
4 18 (9.23%) Finance
5 7 (3.59%) Banking
6 4 (2.05%) Health Technology
6 4 (2.05%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.03%) Law
7 2 (1.03%) Marketing
7 2 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.51%) Games
8 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.51%) Local Government
8 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 70 (35.90%) Developer
2 32 (16.41%) Java Developer
3 20 (10.26%) Data Engineer
3 20 (10.26%) DBA
4 15 (7.69%) Full Stack Developer
5 14 (7.18%) Architect
6 13 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 11 (5.64%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 9 (4.62%) Analyst
9 8 (4.10%) Lead
9 8 (4.10%) Senior
9 8 (4.10%) Site Engineer
10 7 (3.59%) Support Engineer
11 6 (3.08%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 6 (3.08%) Data Architect
11 6 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.08%) Lead Developer
11 6 (3.08%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (3.08%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (16.41%) Spring
2 31 (15.90%) Spring Boot
3 29 (14.87%) REST
4 28 (14.36%) React
5 25 (12.82%) Elastic Stack
6 24 (12.31%) Kafka
7 16 (8.21%) RESTful
8 15 (7.69%) JSON
9 14 (7.18%) HTML
9 14 (7.18%) XML
10 13 (6.67%) .NET
10 13 (6.67%) Hibernate
11 12 (6.15%) CSS
11 12 (6.15%) JPA
12 10 (5.13%) AngularJS
13 7 (3.59%) Laravel
13 7 (3.59%) Node.js
13 7 (3.59%) OpenTracing
13 7 (3.59%) Vue
14 6 (3.08%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.31%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (9.74%) Data Structures
3 15 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
3 15 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 11 (5.64%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.10%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (3.59%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.59%) NHS
7 6 (3.08%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.54%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.54%) Smart Meter
11 2 (1.03%) Clustering
11 2 (1.03%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.03%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.51%) Replication
12 1 (0.51%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 48 (24.62%) Linux
2 19 (9.74%) Windows
3 18 (9.23%) Unix
4 11 (5.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.56%) VMS
6 4 (2.05%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.51%) Android
7 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.51%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (43.59%) Agile
2 62 (31.79%) DevOps
3 50 (25.64%) CI/CD
4 39 (20.00%) Microservices
5 38 (19.49%) Scrum
6 36 (18.46%) Data Modelling
7 34 (17.44%) Business Intelligence
8 31 (15.90%) Continuous Integration
9 29 (14.87%) ETL
10 28 (14.36%) Mentoring
10 28 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (14.36%) Test Automation
11 23 (11.79%) Analytics
12 22 (11.28%) Full Stack Development
13 19 (9.74%) Migration
13 19 (9.74%) SDLC
13 19 (9.74%) Unit Testing
14 17 (8.72%) Project Management
14 17 (8.72%) Software Engineering
14 17 (8.72%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 99 (50.77%) SQL
2 72 (36.92%) Java
3 50 (25.64%) Python
4 26 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 19 (9.74%) T-SQL
6 18 (9.23%) C#
7 16 (8.21%) TypeScript
8 14 (7.18%) Bash
8 14 (7.18%) Shell Script
9 13 (6.67%) Scala
10 10 (5.13%) PowerShell
11 9 (4.62%) Kotlin
11 9 (4.62%) Perl
11 9 (4.62%) PHP
12 6 (3.08%) C
12 6 (3.08%) Go
13 4 (2.05%) VB
13 4 (2.05%) VB6
14 2 (1.03%) Groovy
14 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (23.59%) Security Cleared
2 34 (17.44%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.28%) DV Cleared
4 20 (10.26%) Degree
5 11 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.62%) Master's Degree
7 6 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.54%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.54%) ISEB
8 3 (1.54%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.54%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.54%) PMP
9 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.03%) SANS
9 2 (1.03%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (20.51%) QA
2 6 (3.08%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.05%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.51%) HL7
4 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (23.08%) Docker
2 6 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.56%) vSphere
4 3 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.51%) HDFS
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 51 (26.15%) Kubernetes
2 27 (13.85%) Ansible
3 22 (11.28%) Terraform
4 21 (10.77%) Prometheus
5 17 (8.72%) Grafana
5 17 (8.72%) Progress Chef
6 8 (4.10%) Graylog
7 7 (3.59%) Zipkin
8 6 (3.08%) Kibana
8 6 (3.08%) Nagios
8 6 (3.08%) Puppet
9 5 (2.56%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (2.56%) HP Fortify
9 5 (2.56%) Nessus
9 5 (2.56%) Packer
9 5 (2.56%) vRealize
9 5 (2.56%) WebInspect
10 1 (0.51%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.51%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.51%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 36 (18.46%) Oracle
2 34 (17.44%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.69%) Splunk
4 10 (5.13%) Google
5 7 (3.59%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.08%) AVEVA
6 6 (3.08%) Checkmarx
7 5 (2.56%) AppDynamics
7 5 (2.56%) Arqiva
7 5 (2.56%) Veracode
7 5 (2.56%) Veritas
7 5 (2.56%) VMware
8 4 (2.05%) Brio
8 4 (2.05%) Infragistics
8 4 (2.05%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.54%) Cisco
9 3 (1.54%) Databricks
9 3 (1.54%) TOWER Software
10 2 (1.03%) Ab Initio
10 2 (1.03%) Teradata