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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 156 201
Rank change year-on-year -74 +45 -26
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 526 537 517
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.16% 1.84% 1.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.29% 9.68% 7.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 364 378
10th Percentile £313 £393 £363
25th Percentile £400 £447 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £521 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.67% -5.27% -6.38%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £684 £688 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £497 £525
% change year-on-year -9.37% -5.43% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 8
10th Percentile £23.03 £18.74 £22.17
25th Percentile £38.13 £25.42 £26.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.50 £43.28
Median % change year-on-year +88.68% -38.77% -13.45%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £52.12
90th Percentile £63.75 £92.50 £59.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.84 £35.50
% change year-on-year +93.50% -27.21% -50.18%

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 7,219 5,548 7,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.99% 18.98% 16.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,971 3,852 5,159
10th Percentile £350 £352 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £488
% change year-on-year -2.81% +0.26% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 105 154
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.42 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.77 £24.25 £20.78
Median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -30.43%
75th Percentile £74.84 £65.62 £53.44
90th Percentile £83.95 £77.00 £71.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -14.29% -36.36%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -63 441 £453 -13.81% 184
UK excluding London -73 250 £450 -9.37% 136
London -33 230 £500 -5.66% 70
Work from Home -80 146 £450 -14.29% 145
South East -19 74 £413 -19.51% 44
North of England -59 68 £425 -8.11% 33
North West -47 43 £402 -12.61% 13
Midlands -60 43 £460 -6.69% 24
Scotland -15 41 £453 -3.72% 9
West Midlands -52 30 £470 -5.34% 15
Yorkshire -43 19 £518 -5.91% 18
South West -38 15 £550 - 14
East Midlands -23 13 £417 -14.85% 9
North East -7 8 £450 - 4
Northern Ireland -6 4 - - 2
East of England -30 4 - - 7
Wales -17 3 £475 -9.52% 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 27 (5.13%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.66%) WebLogic
3 13 (2.47%) Apache
3 13 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (1.33%) IIS
4 7 (1.33%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.33%) WebSphere
5 6 (1.14%) Appian
5 6 (1.14%) Confluence
5 6 (1.14%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.95%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.76%) JBoss
7 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.57%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.57%) Camunda
9 2 (0.38%) CMS
9 2 (0.38%) Drupal
9 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.52%) Chatbot
3 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.38%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (1.33%) Advent Geneva
1 7 (1.33%) BusinessWorks
2 6 (1.14%) Findur
3 5 (0.95%) Magento
3 5 (0.95%) Summit
4 4 (0.76%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.57%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.57%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.19%) Maximo
7 1 (0.19%) Shopify
7 1 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.19%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 189 (35.93%) AWS
2 115 (21.86%) Azure
3 67 (12.74%) GitHub
4 59 (11.22%) Serverless
5 51 (9.70%) Amazon S3
6 46 (8.75%) Power Platform
7 45 (8.56%) GCP
8 44 (8.37%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (4.56%) Amazon ECS
11 23 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (3.80%) OpenShift
13 19 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (3.42%) SaaS
15 17 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
16 16 (3.04%) Snowflake
17 14 (2.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 14 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
18 11 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
19 10 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.95%) Firewall
1 5 (0.95%) HTTP
1 5 (0.95%) Network Security
1 5 (0.95%) Wireless
2 4 (0.76%) AMQP
2 4 (0.76%) DNS
2 4 (0.76%) Internet
3 2 (0.38%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (0.19%) Multicast
4 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.19%) RTMP
4 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (27.19%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (19.96%) MySQL
2 105 (19.96%) SQL Server
3 85 (16.16%) RDBMS
4 72 (13.69%) NoSQL
5 68 (12.93%) MongoDB
6 51 (9.70%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (8.37%) Power BI
8 25 (4.75%) DB2
8 25 (4.75%) DynamoDB
8 25 (4.75%) Metadata
9 24 (4.56%) Big Data
10 23 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (3.80%) Data Lake
11 20 (3.80%) Oracle Database
12 18 (3.42%) Oracle Reports
13 14 (2.66%) Redis
14 11 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (2.09%) Power Query
14 11 (2.09%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 86 (16.35%) Git
2 58 (11.03%) Jenkins
3 38 (7.22%) GitLab
4 27 (5.13%) JUnit
5 24 (4.56%) JIRA
6 16 (3.04%) Mockito
7 11 (2.09%) Maven
8 9 (1.71%) Browser DevTools
8 9 (1.71%) ERwin
8 9 (1.71%) Gradle
9 8 (1.52%) Android Studio
9 8 (1.52%) Eclipse
9 8 (1.52%) REST Assured
9 8 (1.52%) Selenium
9 8 (1.52%) Xcode
10 7 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (1.14%) Gatling
11 6 (1.14%) PyCharm
12 5 (0.95%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.95%) TeamCity
General
1 163 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 121 (23.00%) Finance
3 100 (19.01%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (9.32%) Public Sector
5 42 (7.98%) Banking
6 20 (3.80%) Investment Banking
7 16 (3.04%) Front Office
8 11 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.71%) Publishing
10 8 (1.52%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.14%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.14%) Marketing
12 5 (0.95%) Military
12 5 (0.95%) Retail
13 4 (0.76%) Legal
13 4 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.57%) Back Office
14 3 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.38%) Billing
15 2 (0.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 225 (42.78%) Developer
2 78 (14.83%) Senior
3 66 (12.55%) Java Developer
4 45 (8.56%) Data Engineer
5 37 (7.03%) Senior Developer
6 35 (6.65%) Software Engineer
7 33 (6.27%) Analyst
8 32 (6.08%) Python Developer
9 30 (5.70%) Full-Stack Developer
10 25 (4.75%) Lead
11 24 (4.56%) Architect
12 22 (4.18%) Technical Support
13 18 (3.42%) .NET Developer
13 18 (3.42%) DBA
13 18 (3.42%) Senior Java Developer
14 16 (3.04%) Business Analyst
15 15 (2.85%) C# Developer
15 15 (2.85%) Software Developer
16 14 (2.66%) Senior Data Engineer
17 13 (2.47%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (20.15%) REST
2 93 (17.68%) React
3 89 (16.92%) RESTful
4 85 (16.16%) Spring
5 79 (15.02%) Spring Boot
6 71 (13.50%) Kafka
7 62 (11.79%) .NET
8 45 (8.56%) XML
9 40 (7.60%) CSS
10 39 (7.41%) JSON
11 38 (7.22%) AngularJS
12 31 (5.89%) HTML
13 30 (5.70%) Web Services
14 27 (5.13%) GraphQL
15 22 (4.18%) SOAP
16 21 (3.99%) Django
16 21 (3.99%) Node.js
17 19 (3.61%) Pandas
18 18 (3.42%) FastAPI
18 18 (3.42%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.22%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.84%) Product Ownership
3 28 (5.32%) Data Structures
3 28 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (3.80%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.04%) Virtual Team
6 14 (2.66%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.47%) Fixed Income
8 11 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.71%) Client/Server
10 9 (1.71%) CMDB
10 9 (1.71%) Derivative
10 9 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.52%) Equities
11 8 (1.52%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.52%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.33%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.33%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 67 (12.74%) Linux
2 45 (8.56%) Unix
3 36 (6.84%) Windows
4 8 (1.52%) Android
5 4 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.57%) CentOS
7 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.19%) AIX
8 1 (0.19%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (36.50%) Agile
2 187 (35.55%) CI/CD
3 148 (28.14%) Problem-Solving
4 147 (27.95%) DevOps
5 133 (25.29%) Microservices
6 110 (20.91%) Data Modelling
7 106 (20.15%) Containerisation
8 88 (16.73%) Analytics
9 80 (15.21%) ETL
10 78 (14.83%) Software Engineering
11 64 (12.17%) AI
11 64 (12.17%) SDLC
12 63 (11.98%) Data Pipeline
12 63 (11.98%) Test Automation
13 59 (11.22%) Business Intelligence
14 56 (10.65%) Data Engineering
14 56 (10.65%) Observability
14 56 (10.65%) Performance Tuning
15 54 (10.27%) Computer Science
15 54 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 293 (55.70%) SQL
2 201 (38.21%) Java
3 181 (34.41%) Python
4 85 (16.16%) JavaScript
5 62 (11.79%) C#
6 37 (7.03%) TypeScript
7 27 (5.13%) Perl
8 19 (3.61%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.23%) PL/SQL
10 15 (2.85%) Scala
11 13 (2.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (2.28%) PHP
12 12 (2.28%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.90%) Bash
13 10 (1.90%) Go
14 7 (1.33%) R
14 7 (1.33%) Ruby
14 7 (1.33%) XPath
15 5 (0.95%) C++
16 4 (0.76%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 99 (18.82%) Security Cleared
2 65 (12.36%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.70%) Degree
4 35 (6.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.09%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.52%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.33%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.76%) MBA
10 3 (0.57%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.57%) OCP
10 3 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.38%) CISSP
11 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (10.08%) Data Quality
2 49 (9.32%) QA
3 19 (3.61%) GDPR
4 17 (3.23%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.95%) SLA
6 5 (0.95%) WCAG
7 3 (0.57%) IFRS
8 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.38%) FATCA
8 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.38%) NCSC
8 2 (0.38%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.19%) EMIR
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.19%) MiFID
9 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 144 (27.38%) Docker
2 5 (0.95%) Varnish
3 2 (0.38%) GridGain
4 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 124 (23.57%) Kubernetes
2 47 (8.94%) Terraform
3 24 (4.56%) Grafana
4 21 (3.99%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.66%) Ansible
6 7 (1.33%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.33%) TIBCO Hawk
7 6 (1.14%) Puppet
8 4 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.57%) Packer
10 2 (0.38%) Argo
10 2 (0.38%) Consul
10 2 (0.38%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.38%) Kibana
11 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 140 (26.62%) Oracle
2 72 (13.69%) Microsoft
3 21 (3.99%) Databricks
4 18 (3.42%) Splunk
5 17 (3.23%) Adobe
6 16 (3.04%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.85%) IBM
8 10 (1.90%) Informatica
8 10 (1.90%) Sybase
9 9 (1.71%) Google
10 8 (1.52%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.52%) TIBCO
11 7 (1.33%) Advent
11 7 (1.33%) BEA
12 6 (1.14%) Ab Initio
12 6 (1.14%) Teradata
13 4 (0.76%) DevExpress
13 4 (0.76%) OpenLink
13 4 (0.76%) SAP
13 4 (0.76%) Talend