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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 157 180
Rank change year-on-year -64 +23 +2
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 621 576 588
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.17% 1.77% 1.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.64% 9.75% 7.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 369 434
10th Percentile £350 £365 £350
25th Percentile £409 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% -5.12% -10.42%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +0.64% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 2
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.05 £41.58
25th Percentile £35.00 £21.20 £43.19
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +12.90% -38.00%
75th Percentile £69.44 £53.75 £50.44
90th Percentile £77.00 £92.50 £52.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £21.40 £46.50
% change year-on-year +133.64% -53.98% -37.16%

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 8,131 5,907 7,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.37% 18.20% 17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,384 4,010 5,415
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 103 141
10th Percentile £15.99 £19.82 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.38 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -9.09% -33.67%
75th Percentile £64.00 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.10 £76.50 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £32.75
% change year-on-year +20.89% -3.39% -40.45%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -54 503 £500 -3.38% 158
UK excluding London -87 290 £473 +0.64% 111
London -25 271 £500 -9.09% 79
Work from Home -89 159 £500 -6.28% 71
North of England -63 77 £450 +1.98% 29
Scotland -24 60 £460 -2.13% 4
South East -60 55 £425 -10.53% 31
Midlands -34 53 £472 -3.28% 16
North West -58 49 £420 -3.91% 13
West Midlands -46 38 £472 -3.78% 10
Yorkshire -34 23 £519 -5.64% 11
South West -42 22 £470 -12.56% 10
East of England -18 17 £597 +25.63% 10
East Midlands -15 15 £475 -0.26% 6
North East -23 11 £450 - 6
Wales -13 6 £475 -9.52% 3
Northern Ireland -1 4 - - 12

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 (5.15%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.38%) Confluence
3 16 (2.58%) Apache
4 15 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.45%) IIS
6 7 (1.13%) Appian
7 6 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.97%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.97%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.97%) Tuxedo
8 5 (0.81%) JBoss
9 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.64%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.64%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.48%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.48%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.48%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.32%) Drupal
11 2 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.64%) Acrobat
3 4 (0.64%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.64%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.61%) Finacle
2 9 (1.45%) Findur
3 8 (1.29%) Adobe Campaign
4 6 (0.97%) Summit
5 4 (0.64%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.48%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.48%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.32%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.16%) Magento
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.16%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 205 (33.01%) AWS
2 142 (22.87%) Azure
3 78 (12.56%) GCP
4 69 (11.11%) GitHub
5 60 (9.66%) Power Platform
6 37 (5.96%) Amazon S3
7 36 (5.80%) Serverless
7 36 (5.80%) Snowflake
8 33 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
10 23 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (2.90%) GitHub Copilot
12 15 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (2.25%) SaaS
14 13 (2.09%) Anthropic Claude
14 13 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (2.09%) ChatGPT
15 12 (1.93%) Datadog
15 12 (1.93%) dbt
15 12 (1.93%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.61%) HTTP
2 9 (1.45%) Firewall
2 9 (1.45%) VPN
3 3 (0.48%) WinSCP
4 2 (0.32%) AMQP
4 2 (0.32%) Internet
4 2 (0.32%) Intranet
5 1 (0.16%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.16%) Multicast
5 1 (0.16%) Network Security
5 1 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.16%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (26.41%) PostgreSQL
2 135 (21.74%) SQL Server
3 112 (18.04%) RDBMS
4 78 (12.56%) MySQL
5 75 (12.08%) MongoDB
6 66 (10.63%) NoSQL
7 63 (10.14%) Data Warehouse
8 58 (9.34%) Power BI
9 46 (7.41%) Oracle Database
10 36 (5.80%) Metadata
11 27 (4.35%) Tableau
12 25 (4.03%) Db2
13 23 (3.70%) Data Lake
13 23 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
14 22 (3.54%) Big Data
15 20 (3.22%) Redis
16 16 (2.58%) DynamoDB
17 15 (2.42%) Power Query
18 13 (2.09%) Oracle Exadata
19 12 (1.93%) Flink
Development Applications
1 110 (17.71%) Git
2 68 (10.95%) Jenkins
3 53 (8.53%) GitLab
4 35 (5.64%) JIRA
5 20 (3.22%) JUnit
6 18 (2.90%) Gradle
6 18 (2.90%) Maven
7 16 (2.58%) Selenium
8 14 (2.25%) REST Assured
9 13 (2.09%) Eclipse
9 13 (2.09%) Mockito
9 13 (2.09%) Oracle Forms
10 11 (1.77%) Gatling
11 10 (1.61%) Serenity BDD
11 10 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
12 9 (1.45%) Liquibase
13 7 (1.13%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.97%) Ant
14 6 (0.97%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 186 (29.95%) Finance
2 179 (28.82%) Social Skills
3 137 (22.06%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (13.85%) Banking
5 77 (12.40%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.15%) Front Office
6 32 (5.15%) Investment Banking
7 18 (2.90%) Military
8 16 (2.58%) Publishing
9 13 (2.09%) Back Office
10 12 (1.93%) Retail
11 10 (1.61%) Marketing
12 8 (1.29%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.13%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.97%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.81%) Automotive
16 4 (0.64%) Electronics
16 4 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 3 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 251 (40.42%) Developer
2 114 (18.36%) Senior
3 74 (11.92%) Java Developer
4 58 (9.34%) Data Engineer
5 53 (8.53%) Analyst
6 50 (8.05%) Software Engineer
7 49 (7.89%) Senior Developer
8 48 (7.73%) Lead
9 44 (7.09%) Python Developer
10 39 (6.28%) Full-Stack Developer
11 27 (4.35%) Architect
12 26 (4.19%) Software Developer
13 23 (3.70%) .NET Developer
13 23 (3.70%) C# Developer
14 21 (3.38%) Backend Developer
14 21 (3.38%) Business Analyst
15 20 (3.22%) Data Analyst
16 19 (3.06%) Java Engineer
17 18 (2.90%) Senior Data Engineer
17 18 (2.90%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (22.38%) REST
2 106 (17.07%) Kafka
3 104 (16.75%) RESTful
4 100 (16.10%) Spring
5 98 (15.78%) Spring Boot
6 97 (15.62%) React
7 74 (11.92%) .NET
8 40 (6.44%) XML
9 37 (5.96%) CSS
10 36 (5.80%) Web Services
11 34 (5.48%) JSON
12 33 (5.31%) HTML
13 32 (5.15%) OAuth
13 32 (5.15%) SOAP
14 28 (4.51%) .NET Framework
15 27 (4.35%) AngularJS
15 27 (4.35%) Django
16 26 (4.19%) FastAPI
17 23 (3.70%) Flask
18 22 (3.54%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 65 (10.47%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
2 43 (6.92%) Product Ownership
3 31 (4.99%) Data Structures
4 30 (4.83%) Management Information System
5 25 (4.03%) Derivative
6 17 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.74%) Low-Code
7 14 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (2.09%) AI Agents
8 13 (2.09%) Equity Derivative
8 13 (2.09%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.93%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.93%) Equities
10 11 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.77%) Fixed Income
10 11 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.61%) Hedge funds
11 10 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 9 (1.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 74 (11.92%) Linux
2 45 (7.25%) Unix
3 35 (5.64%) Windows
4 13 (2.09%) AIX
5 9 (1.45%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.64%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.48%) Android
8 2 (0.32%) MVS
8 2 (0.32%) zOS
9 1 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (41.22%) CI/CD
2 216 (34.78%) Agile
3 186 (29.95%) DevOps
4 170 (27.38%) Problem-Solving
5 134 (21.58%) Data Modelling
6 132 (21.26%) Microservices
7 111 (17.87%) Software Engineering
8 109 (17.55%) AI
9 103 (16.59%) Analytics
10 100 (16.10%) Data Pipeline
11 99 (15.94%) Containerisation
12 93 (14.98%) ETL
13 82 (13.20%) Observability
13 82 (13.20%) Test Automation
14 74 (11.92%) SDLC
14 74 (11.92%) Validation
15 73 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
16 70 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
17 69 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
18 64 (10.31%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 353 (56.84%) SQL
2 214 (34.46%) Java
3 197 (31.72%) Python
4 90 (14.49%) C#
5 82 (13.20%) JavaScript
6 51 (8.21%) TypeScript
7 23 (3.70%) Shell Script
8 21 (3.38%) PL/SQL
9 16 (2.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (2.58%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.42%) Scala
11 12 (1.93%) C++
11 12 (1.93%) Perl
12 11 (1.77%) VB
13 10 (1.61%) Apex Code
13 10 (1.61%) R
14 8 (1.29%) Bash
14 8 (1.29%) VB6
15 7 (1.13%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.97%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 134 (21.58%) Security Cleared
2 103 (16.59%) SC Cleared
3 53 (8.53%) Degree
4 30 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.29%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.29%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.97%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.64%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.64%) MBA
9 3 (0.48%) CISSP
9 3 (0.48%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.16%) CFA
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (12.40%) Data Quality
2 66 (10.63%) QA
3 28 (4.51%) Accessibility
4 14 (2.25%) GDPR
5 7 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.97%) SLA
6 6 (0.97%) WCAG
7 4 (0.64%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.64%) GMP
7 4 (0.64%) GxP
7 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 3 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.48%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.32%) FATCA
9 2 (0.32%) IFRS
9 2 (0.32%) NIST
9 2 (0.32%) PMO
10 1 (0.16%) EMIR
System Software
1 146 (23.51%) Docker
2 14 (2.25%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.32%) ACF2
3 2 (0.32%) GridGain
3 2 (0.32%) RACF
4 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.16%) Varnish
4 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 126 (20.29%) Kubernetes
2 56 (9.02%) Terraform
3 30 (4.83%) Prometheus
4 28 (4.51%) Ansible
5 24 (3.86%) Grafana
6 12 (1.93%) Data Guard
6 12 (1.93%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (0.81%) Argo
8 3 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.48%) Kibana
8 3 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.32%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.32%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.32%) Puppet
10 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 177 (28.50%) Oracle
2 75 (12.08%) Microsoft
3 28 (4.51%) IBM
4 27 (4.35%) Databricks
5 24 (3.86%) Google
6 19 (3.06%) Splunk
7 17 (2.74%) Sybase
8 16 (2.58%) Salesforce
9 15 (2.42%) Informatica
10 13 (2.09%) Adobe
11 11 (1.77%) SAP
12 9 (1.45%) Teradata
13 8 (1.29%) OutSystems
13 8 (1.29%) ServiceNow
14 7 (1.13%) Actian
14 7 (1.13%) Alteryx
15 5 (0.81%) Ab Initio
15 5 (0.81%) Dynatrace
15 5 (0.81%) OpenLink
15 5 (0.81%) Solace