Relational Database Contract Job Trends

Relational Database
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Relational Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 169 177
Rank change year-on-year -67 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 616 543 553
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.64% 1.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.52% 8.96% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 337 403
10th Percentile £350 £233 £280
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £492 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.57% -6.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £575 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £430 £475
% change year-on-year +15.12% -9.47% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 3
10th Percentile - £27.21 £37.65
25th Percentile £14.00 £36.23 £39.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +26.51% -44.67%
75th Percentile £77.00 £73.13 £57.75
90th Percentile - £84.75 £67.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.25 £21.40 £72.50
% change year-on-year +55.37% -70.48% -0.68%

All Database & BI Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8,193 6,058 6,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.92% 18.29% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,460 4,047 4,642
10th Percentile £352 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -5.57% -1.85%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 88 91
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.87 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.59 £39.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.81% +12.80% -33.33%
75th Percentile £58.44 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.13 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.53% +18.30% -42.86%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Relational Database job vacancy trend in the UK

Relational Database
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Relational Database over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 October 2026. 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
England -62 494 £525 +5.00% 892
UK excluding London -74 280 £495 +15.12% 480
London -57 259 £550 - 507
Work from Home -84 163 £511 +2.20% 366
North of England -72 69 £507 +26.75% 100
South East -62 58 £525 +153.01% 111
Midlands -30 52 £475 -3.55% 80
Scotland -49 48 £470 +1.62% 55
North West -45 45 £525 +43.25% 69
West Midlands -18 43 £475 -4.52% 48
East of England -6 31 £525 +2.44% 35
Yorkshire -40 23 £507 +1.40% 27
South West -37 18 £521 +2.71% 62
East Midlands -13 9 £410 -13.91% 32
Wales -11 6 £475 -2.06% 15
North East - 5 - - 6
Northern Ireland +1 1 - - 26

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 32 (5.19%) Confluence
2 19 (3.08%) Apache
3 17 (2.76%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.46%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (1.14%) IIS
7 6 (0.97%) Tuxedo
8 4 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.65%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.49%) CICS
10 2 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.32%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.16%) Appian
11 1 (0.16%) CMS
11 1 (0.16%) JBoss
11 1 (0.16%) Liferay
11 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.65%) Acrobat
3 4 (0.65%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.32%) CPLEX
4 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (1.95%) Finacle
2 7 (1.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.65%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.49%) Findur
4 3 (0.49%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.32%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.32%) Cerner Millennium
5 2 (0.32%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.32%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.32%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.16%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 217 (35.23%) AWS
2 148 (24.03%) Azure
3 99 (16.07%) GCP
4 70 (11.36%) GitHub
5 66 (10.71%) Power Platform
6 35 (5.68%) Snowflake
7 29 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (4.06%) Amazon S3
8 25 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (3.73%) Serverless
10 19 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
12 17 (2.76%) OCI
13 16 (2.60%) SaaS
14 14 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (2.11%) ChatGPT
15 13 (2.11%) dbt
16 12 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (1.95%) Anthropic Claude
16 12 (1.95%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.60%) Firewall
2 14 (2.27%) HTTP
3 13 (2.11%) VPN
4 4 (0.65%) Internet
4 4 (0.65%) SSL
5 3 (0.49%) WinSCP
6 2 (0.32%) DNS
6 2 (0.32%) Intranet
6 2 (0.32%) Network Security
6 2 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.16%) AMQP
7 1 (0.16%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 125 (20.29%) SQL Server
3 119 (19.32%) RDBMS
4 77 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
5 68 (11.04%) MySQL
6 61 (9.90%) Power BI
7 54 (8.77%) MongoDB
8 52 (8.44%) Oracle Database
9 40 (6.49%) NoSQL
10 35 (5.68%) Metadata
11 27 (4.38%) Data Lake
12 23 (3.73%) Db2
12 23 (3.73%) Tableau
13 18 (2.92%) Oracle Exadata
14 14 (2.27%) BigQuery
14 14 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
14 14 (2.27%) Power Query
14 14 (2.27%) Redis
15 11 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 169 (27.44%) Git
2 75 (12.18%) Jenkins
3 52 (8.44%) GitLab
4 48 (7.79%) JIRA
5 43 (6.98%) Maven
6 34 (5.52%) Gradle
7 30 (4.87%) JUnit
8 26 (4.22%) Selenium
9 25 (4.06%) Mockito
10 15 (2.44%) SonarQube
11 13 (2.11%) Eclipse
11 13 (2.11%) Oracle Forms
12 10 (1.62%) Team Foundation Server
12 10 (1.62%) Visual Studio
13 9 (1.46%) Bitbucket
14 8 (1.30%) Claude Code
14 8 (1.30%) REST Assured
15 7 (1.14%) ER Studio
16 6 (0.97%) Gatling
16 6 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 214 (34.74%) Social Skills
2 177 (28.73%) Finance
3 165 (26.79%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (16.56%) Banking
5 96 (15.58%) Public Sector
6 28 (4.55%) Investment Banking
7 27 (4.38%) Front Office
8 17 (2.76%) Back Office
9 15 (2.44%) Military
10 14 (2.27%) Retail
11 12 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.62%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.46%) Publishing
14 8 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.30%) Law
15 6 (0.97%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.81%) Automotive
16 5 (0.81%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 273 (44.32%) Developer
2 132 (21.43%) Senior
3 95 (15.42%) Java Developer
4 65 (10.55%) Senior Developer
5 60 (9.74%) Data Engineer
6 51 (8.28%) Analyst
7 44 (7.14%) Software Engineer
8 43 (6.98%) Python Developer
9 40 (6.49%) Lead
10 37 (6.01%) Full-Stack Developer
11 34 (5.52%) Data Analyst
12 25 (4.06%) Java Engineer
12 25 (4.06%) Software Developer
13 24 (3.90%) Architect
14 21 (3.41%) Backend Developer
14 21 (3.41%) Senior Java Developer
15 20 (3.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 18 (2.92%) .NET Developer
16 18 (2.92%) Java Software Engineer
16 18 (2.92%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (21.92%) REST
2 114 (18.51%) RESTful
3 109 (17.69%) Spring
4 107 (17.37%) Spring Boot
5 94 (15.26%) Kafka
6 80 (12.99%) React
7 65 (10.55%) .NET
8 63 (10.23%) Terraform
9 54 (8.77%) AngularJS
10 49 (7.95%) Web Services
11 45 (7.31%) CSS
11 45 (7.31%) SOAP
12 44 (7.14%) HTML
13 41 (6.66%) OAuth
14 39 (6.33%) XML
15 31 (5.03%) JSON
15 31 (5.03%) Middleware
16 26 (4.22%) Django
17 25 (4.06%) OAuth2
18 24 (3.90%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 85 (13.80%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.47%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (6.98%) Data Structures
4 37 (6.01%) Product Ownership
5 25 (4.06%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.92%) Derivative
6 18 (2.92%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.60%) Low-Code
8 14 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (2.11%) Algorithms
9 13 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (2.11%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.95%) Equity Derivative
10 12 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.95%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.95%) Replication
10 12 (1.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 11 (1.79%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.79%) Equities
12 10 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 78 (12.66%) Linux
2 51 (8.28%) Unix
3 40 (6.49%) Windows
4 25 (4.06%) AIX
5 22 (3.57%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.97%) zOS
7 5 (0.81%) Android
7 5 (0.81%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.49%) MVS
9 2 (0.32%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (45.62%) CI/CD
2 251 (40.75%) Agile
3 199 (32.31%) Problem-Solving
4 164 (26.62%) DevOps
5 152 (24.68%) Data Modelling
6 124 (20.13%) Validation
7 123 (19.97%) Microservices
8 117 (18.99%) Software Engineering
9 116 (18.83%) Test Automation
10 111 (18.02%) ETL
11 108 (17.53%) Containerisation
12 102 (16.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 102 (16.56%) Data Pipeline
13 101 (16.40%) Analytics
14 97 (15.75%) AI
15 89 (14.45%) Migration
15 89 (14.45%) SDLC
16 75 (12.18%) Business Intelligence
17 73 (11.85%) Infrastructure as Code
17 73 (11.85%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 360 (58.44%) SQL
2 210 (34.09%) Java
3 207 (33.60%) Python
4 86 (13.96%) JavaScript
5 74 (12.01%) C#
6 54 (8.77%) TypeScript
7 26 (4.22%) PL/SQL
8 20 (3.25%) Shell Script
9 18 (2.92%) PowerShell
10 13 (2.11%) Bash
10 13 (2.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (2.11%) T-SQL
11 11 (1.79%) C++
11 11 (1.79%) Perl
12 10 (1.62%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.46%) R
13 9 (1.46%) Scala
14 7 (1.14%) Apex Code
14 7 (1.14%) VB
15 6 (0.97%) C
Qualifications
1 142 (23.05%) Security Cleared
2 107 (17.37%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.12%) Degree
4 27 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (4.06%) DV Cleared
6 19 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (0.97%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.32%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.16%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.16%) CISSP
9 1 (0.16%) ISEB
9 1 (0.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (16.23%) Data Quality
2 80 (12.99%) QA
3 32 (5.19%) Accessibility
4 21 (3.41%) GDPR
5 7 (1.14%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 7 (1.14%) GMP
5 7 (1.14%) GxP
5 7 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 7 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.65%) SEPA
6 4 (0.65%) WCAG
7 3 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.49%) SLA
8 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.32%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.32%) PSD2
9 1 (0.16%) GRC
9 1 (0.16%) ITGC
9 1 (0.16%) NIST
9 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 142 (23.05%) Docker
2 21 (3.41%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (0.97%) RACF
4 5 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.65%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.49%) ACF2
6 3 (0.49%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 112 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 41 (6.66%) Ansible
3 30 (4.87%) Prometheus
4 27 (4.38%) Grafana
5 18 (2.92%) Data Guard
6 16 (2.60%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (0.97%) Argo
8 3 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.32%) systemd
10 1 (0.16%) Istio
10 1 (0.16%) Kibana
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.16%) Podman
Vendors
1 172 (27.92%) Oracle
2 84 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 34 (5.52%) Google
3 34 (5.52%) IBM
4 25 (4.06%) Databricks
5 14 (2.27%) Splunk
5 14 (2.27%) Sybase
6 12 (1.95%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.79%) Informatica
8 10 (1.62%) SAP
9 8 (1.30%) OutSystems
9 8 (1.30%) Teradata
10 7 (1.14%) Adobe
10 7 (1.14%) Alteryx
10 7 (1.14%) Dynatrace
10 7 (1.14%) Sparx
11 6 (0.97%) Broadcom
11 6 (0.97%) Talend
12 5 (0.81%) Actian
12 5 (0.81%) Bomgar