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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 150 186
Rank change year-on-year -74 +36 -8
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 550 545 548
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.84% 1.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.23% 9.87% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 347 413
10th Percentile £325 £400 £363
25th Percentile £403 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £518 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% -4.17% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £481 £525
% change year-on-year -2.34% -8.33% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 3
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.05 £26.30
25th Percentile £24.50 £21.20 £31.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +29.63% -42.14%
75th Percentile £66.60 £53.75 £47.13
90th Percentile £76.60 £92.50 £51.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £21.40 £40.50
% change year-on-year +133.64% -47.16% -45.27%

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 7,607 5,524 7,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.19% 18.68% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,082 3,751 5,338
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £756 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 102 155
10th Percentile £14.85 £19.72 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.00 £34.99 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.18% -12.53% -31.09%
75th Percentile £69.22 £65.90 £53.94
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.58 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £34.47
% change year-on-year +20.89% -8.20% -38.12%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -78 452 £475 -9.52% 153
UK excluding London -90 253 £470 -2.34% 112
London -39 252 £506 -4.62% 76
Work from Home -98 134 £466 -12.61% 79
North of England -65 60 £450 - 24
Scotland -30 54 £475 +1.06% 7
South East -56 54 £390 -22.00% 36
Midlands -37 51 £473 -2.97% 16
West Midlands -36 39 £473 -3.47% 13
North West -56 37 £416 -7.38% 15
South West -26 21 £488 -11.36% 13
Yorkshire -38 19 £522 -5.09% 8
East Midlands -21 12 £475 -0.26% 3
East of England -26 10 £505 -6.05% 14
North East -27 8 £450 - 1
Wales -14 4 £475 -12.04% 3
Northern Ireland -4 3 - - 4

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 29 (5.27%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.36%) Apache
2 13 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.36%) Confluence
3 8 (1.45%) IIS
3 8 (1.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (1.27%) Tomcat
5 6 (1.09%) Appian
5 6 (1.09%) Tuxedo
5 6 (1.09%) WebLogic
6 5 (0.91%) JBoss
6 5 (0.91%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.55%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.55%) Camunda
8 3 (0.55%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.36%) Drupal
9 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 18 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.73%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.55%) CPLEX
4 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.18%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.64%) Findur
2 6 (1.09%) Finacle
2 6 (1.09%) Summit
3 5 (0.91%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.73%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.73%) Magento
4 4 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.55%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.55%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.55%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.36%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.36%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.18%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 183 (33.27%) AWS
2 122 (22.18%) Azure
3 66 (12.00%) GitHub
4 65 (11.82%) Power Platform
5 64 (11.64%) GCP
6 34 (6.18%) Serverless
6 34 (6.18%) Snowflake
7 32 (5.82%) Amazon S3
8 27 (4.91%) GitHub Actions
9 26 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (2.91%) GitHub Copilot
12 14 (2.55%) OpenShift
13 12 (2.18%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (2.18%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (2.18%) SaaS
14 11 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (2.00%) Anthropic Claude
14 11 (2.00%) ChatGPT
14 11 (2.00%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.45%) HTTP
2 7 (1.27%) Firewall
3 5 (0.91%) VPN
4 2 (0.36%) AMQP
5 1 (0.18%) DNS
5 1 (0.18%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.18%) Internet
5 1 (0.18%) Intranet
5 1 (0.18%) Multicast
5 1 (0.18%) Network Security
5 1 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.18%) RTMP
5 1 (0.18%) SMS
5 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (25.64%) PostgreSQL
2 116 (21.09%) SQL Server
3 95 (17.27%) RDBMS
4 77 (14.00%) MySQL
5 71 (12.91%) MongoDB
6 63 (11.45%) NoSQL
7 62 (11.27%) Power BI
8 56 (10.18%) Data Warehouse
9 35 (6.36%) Metadata
10 32 (5.82%) Oracle Database
11 27 (4.91%) Tableau
12 25 (4.55%) Data Lake
13 22 (4.00%) Big Data
13 22 (4.00%) Db2
14 21 (3.82%) Redis
15 18 (3.27%) Oracle Reports
16 16 (2.91%) DynamoDB
17 15 (2.73%) Power Query
18 12 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
18 12 (2.18%) Flink
Development Applications
1 86 (15.64%) Git
2 58 (10.55%) Jenkins
3 43 (7.82%) GitLab
4 30 (5.45%) JIRA
5 19 (3.45%) JUnit
6 15 (2.73%) Selenium
7 14 (2.55%) Mockito
7 14 (2.55%) REST Assured
8 13 (2.36%) Eclipse
9 12 (2.18%) Gradle
9 12 (2.18%) Maven
10 11 (2.00%) Gatling
11 10 (1.82%) Serenity BDD
11 10 (1.82%) Team Foundation Server
12 9 (1.64%) Liquibase
13 8 (1.45%) Ant
13 8 (1.45%) Oracle Forms
14 6 (1.09%) Browser DevTools
14 6 (1.09%) ER Studio
14 6 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 166 (30.18%) Finance
2 159 (28.91%) Social Skills
3 108 (19.64%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (12.55%) Banking
5 62 (11.27%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.64%) Investment Banking
7 26 (4.73%) Front Office
8 16 (2.91%) Publishing
9 15 (2.73%) Military
10 9 (1.64%) Back Office
10 9 (1.64%) Retail
11 8 (1.45%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.27%) Marketing
12 7 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.27%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.73%) Automotive
14 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.55%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 214 (38.91%) Developer
2 99 (18.00%) Senior
3 59 (10.73%) Java Developer
4 53 (9.64%) Data Engineer
5 46 (8.36%) Analyst
5 46 (8.36%) Software Engineer
6 44 (8.00%) Senior Developer
7 40 (7.27%) Lead
8 38 (6.91%) Python Developer
9 31 (5.64%) Full-Stack Developer
10 24 (4.36%) Architect
11 20 (3.64%) .NET Developer
12 19 (3.45%) C# Developer
12 19 (3.45%) Software Developer
13 18 (3.27%) Business Analyst
13 18 (3.27%) Data Analyst
13 18 (3.27%) Senior Data Engineer
14 17 (3.09%) Backend Developer
14 17 (3.09%) DBA
14 17 (3.09%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (21.64%) REST
2 89 (16.18%) Kafka
3 86 (15.64%) Spring
4 84 (15.27%) Spring Boot
5 83 (15.09%) React
6 82 (14.91%) RESTful
7 60 (10.91%) .NET
8 38 (6.91%) CSS
9 34 (6.18%) HTML
10 32 (5.82%) XML
11 31 (5.64%) Web Services
12 28 (5.09%) JSON
12 28 (5.09%) SOAP
13 26 (4.73%) AngularJS
13 26 (4.73%) OAuth
14 24 (4.36%) FastAPI
15 23 (4.18%) GraphQL
16 22 (4.00%) Django
17 21 (3.82%) Flask
18 20 (3.64%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 50 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (6.91%) Product Ownership
4 27 (4.91%) Management Information System
5 23 (4.18%) Derivative
6 20 (3.64%) Data Structures
7 16 (2.91%) Low-Code
8 12 (2.18%) AI Agents
9 11 (2.00%) Equities
9 11 (2.00%) Equity Derivative
9 11 (2.00%) Fixed Income
10 10 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (1.82%) Hedge funds
10 10 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.27%) Client/Server
12 7 (1.27%) Replication
12 7 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 67 (12.18%) Linux
2 43 (7.82%) Unix
3 28 (5.09%) Windows
4 4 (0.73%) AIX
4 4 (0.73%) Android
5 2 (0.36%) MVS
5 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.36%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.36%) zOS
6 1 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (39.45%) CI/CD
2 194 (35.27%) Agile
3 161 (29.27%) DevOps
4 143 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
5 126 (22.91%) Data Modelling
6 115 (20.91%) Microservices
7 100 (18.18%) AI
7 100 (18.18%) Analytics
8 94 (17.09%) Data Pipeline
9 92 (16.73%) Software Engineering
10 89 (16.18%) Containerisation
11 86 (15.64%) ETL
12 84 (15.27%) Observability
13 72 (13.09%) Business Intelligence
13 72 (13.09%) Test Automation
14 69 (12.55%) Performance Tuning
15 66 (12.00%) SDLC
16 61 (11.09%) Validation
17 60 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
18 56 (10.18%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 315 (57.27%) SQL
2 186 (33.82%) Java
2 186 (33.82%) Python
3 79 (14.36%) JavaScript
4 72 (13.09%) C#
5 44 (8.00%) TypeScript
6 19 (3.45%) PL/SQL
6 19 (3.45%) Shell Script
7 16 (2.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 16 (2.91%) Perl
8 14 (2.55%) Scala
9 11 (2.00%) C++
9 11 (2.00%) VB
10 10 (1.82%) Apex Code
11 9 (1.64%) R
12 8 (1.45%) Bash
12 8 (1.45%) PowerShell
12 8 (1.45%) VB6
13 7 (1.27%) Ruby
14 6 (1.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 111 (20.18%) Security Cleared
2 84 (15.27%) SC Cleared
3 48 (8.73%) Degree
4 28 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.45%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.09%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.73%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.73%) MBA
10 3 (0.55%) CISSP
10 3 (0.55%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.18%) CFA
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (12.91%) Data Quality
2 55 (10.00%) QA
3 24 (4.36%) Accessibility
4 14 (2.55%) GDPR
5 11 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.09%) WCAG
7 4 (0.73%) SLA
8 3 (0.55%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.55%) NCSC
9 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.36%) FATCA
9 2 (0.36%) IFRS
9 2 (0.36%) NIST
9 2 (0.36%) PMO
10 1 (0.18%) EMIR
10 1 (0.18%) GRC
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.18%) ITGC
System Software
1 128 (23.27%) Docker
2 6 (1.09%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.73%) Varnish
4 2 (0.36%) ACF2
4 2 (0.36%) GridGain
4 2 (0.36%) RACF
5 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 112 (20.36%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.64%) Terraform
3 29 (5.27%) Prometheus
4 25 (4.55%) Grafana
5 14 (2.55%) Ansible
6 5 (0.91%) Argo
7 4 (0.73%) Data Guard
7 4 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.55%) Kibana
8 3 (0.55%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.36%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.36%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.36%) Puppet
9 2 (0.36%) TIBCO Hawk
10 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 151 (27.45%) Oracle
2 68 (12.36%) Microsoft
3 27 (4.91%) Databricks
4 20 (3.64%) IBM
4 20 (3.64%) Splunk
5 16 (2.91%) Adobe
5 16 (2.91%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.73%) Google
7 14 (2.55%) Sybase
8 13 (2.36%) Informatica
9 10 (1.82%) SAP
10 8 (1.45%) OutSystems
10 8 (1.45%) Teradata
11 7 (1.27%) Actian
11 7 (1.27%) Alteryx
11 7 (1.27%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.91%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.91%) OpenLink
13 4 (0.73%) SimCorp
13 4 (0.73%) TIBCO