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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 153 203
Rank change year-on-year -75 +50 -26
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 521 549 513
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.86% 1.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.20% 9.75% 7.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 372 382
10th Percentile £313 £400 £375
25th Percentile £400 £450 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.05% -4.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £650
90th Percentile £660 £686 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £533
% change year-on-year -10.00% -6.19% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 5
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.70 £21.59
25th Percentile £23.03 £20.59 £22.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 £39.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.59% +29.51% -54.39%
75th Percentile £50.00 £63.44 £40.50
90th Percentile £61.00 £92.50 £48.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £21.40 £30.50
% change year-on-year +133.64% -29.84% -58.22%

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 7,234 5,629 7,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.58% 19.06% 16.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,929 3,888 5,179
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.07%
75th Percentile £598 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £483
% change year-on-year -2.56% +0.93% -3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 107 146
10th Percentile £17.05 £20.35 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.50 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £51.00 £34.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% -13.75% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.62 £54.78
90th Percentile £82.45 £74.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.03% -20.90% -31.73%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -73 433 £455 -13.33% 182
UK excluding London -74 244 £450 -10.00% 168
London -35 232 £508 -4.25% 57
Work from Home -82 140 £450 -14.61% 188
South East -28 68 £315 -38.63% 44
North of England -56 62 £420 -9.14% 40
Midlands -48 46 £464 -5.93% 22
Scotland -16 44 £485 +3.19% 13
North West -46 39 £402 -13.08% 26
West Midlands -54 33 £469 -5.59% 12
Yorkshire -38 18 £518 +7.81% 11
South West -43 15 £388 -29.55% 16
East Midlands -25 13 £406 -17.14% 10
North East -14 7 £450 - 3
Northern Ireland +1 4 - - 8
East of England -25 4 £600 +14.29% 23
Wales -11 3 £475 -9.52% 5

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 30 (5.76%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.07%) Apache
3 15 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 11 (2.11%) WebLogic
6 7 (1.34%) Confluence
6 7 (1.34%) IIS
6 7 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.34%) WebSphere
7 6 (1.15%) Appian
7 6 (1.15%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.77%) JBoss
8 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.58%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.58%) Camunda
10 2 (0.38%) CMS
10 2 (0.38%) Drupal
10 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.38%) WordPress
11 1 (0.19%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 20 (3.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.96%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.38%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (1.34%) BusinessWorks
2 6 (1.15%) Findur
2 6 (1.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (1.15%) Summit
3 5 (0.96%) Advent Geneva
3 5 (0.96%) Magento
4 4 (0.77%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.58%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.58%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.58%) Finacle
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
1 182 (34.93%) AWS
2 115 (22.07%) Azure
3 66 (12.67%) GitHub
4 54 (10.36%) Serverless
5 50 (9.60%) GCP
6 47 (9.02%) Amazon S3
7 44 (8.45%) Power Platform
8 39 (7.49%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (5.18%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (4.03%) Amazon ECS
12 20 (3.84%) OpenShift
13 19 (3.65%) Snowflake
14 17 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
15 16 (3.07%) SaaS
16 15 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (2.50%) GitHub Copilot
18 11 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 11 (2.11%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.73%) HTTP
2 5 (0.96%) Firewall
2 5 (0.96%) Network Security
3 4 (0.77%) AMQP
3 4 (0.77%) DNS
4 2 (0.38%) Internet
4 2 (0.38%) SMS
4 2 (0.38%) Wireless
5 1 (0.19%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.19%) Multicast
5 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.19%) RTMP
5 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (27.45%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (20.73%) SQL Server
3 96 (18.43%) MySQL
4 87 (16.70%) RDBMS
5 69 (13.24%) MongoDB
6 68 (13.05%) NoSQL
7 49 (9.40%) Data Warehouse
8 42 (8.06%) Power BI
9 36 (6.91%) Metadata
10 26 (4.99%) DB2
11 22 (4.22%) Big Data
11 22 (4.22%) DynamoDB
11 22 (4.22%) Oracle Database
12 20 (3.84%) Data Lake
13 18 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
14 17 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (2.69%) Redis
16 13 (2.50%) Tableau
17 11 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (2.11%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 79 (15.16%) Git
2 54 (10.36%) Jenkins
3 37 (7.10%) GitLab
4 25 (4.80%) JIRA
5 21 (4.03%) JUnit
6 16 (3.07%) Mockito
7 11 (2.11%) Maven
8 9 (1.73%) Gradle
9 8 (1.54%) Browser DevTools
10 7 (1.34%) REST Assured
10 7 (1.34%) Selenium
10 7 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (1.15%) Android Studio
11 6 (1.15%) Eclipse
11 6 (1.15%) ERwin
11 6 (1.15%) Gatling
11 6 (1.15%) NUnit
11 6 (1.15%) Xcode
12 5 (0.96%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.96%) TeamCity
General
1 156 (29.94%) Social Skills
2 129 (24.76%) Finance
3 93 (17.85%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 42 (8.06%) Banking
6 23 (4.41%) Front Office
7 21 (4.03%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.30%) Publishing
9 7 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.34%) Military
9 7 (1.34%) Retail
9 7 (1.34%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.15%) Back Office
10 6 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.15%) Marketing
11 5 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.77%) Legal
13 3 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 214 (41.07%) Developer
2 72 (13.82%) Senior
3 61 (11.71%) Java Developer
4 49 (9.40%) Data Engineer
5 35 (6.72%) Python Developer
6 32 (6.14%) Analyst
6 32 (6.14%) Software Engineer
7 29 (5.57%) Full-Stack Developer
8 28 (5.37%) Senior Developer
9 27 (5.18%) Architect
10 26 (4.99%) Lead
11 19 (3.65%) .NET Developer
11 19 (3.65%) DBA
11 19 (3.65%) Technical Support
12 17 (3.26%) Business Analyst
13 15 (2.88%) C# Developer
13 15 (2.88%) Senior Data Engineer
13 15 (2.88%) Site Engineer
13 15 (2.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 14 (2.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (20.92%) REST
2 89 (17.08%) React
3 85 (16.31%) RESTful
4 79 (15.16%) Spring
5 76 (14.59%) Spring Boot
6 70 (13.44%) Kafka
7 63 (12.09%) .NET
8 46 (8.83%) XML
9 41 (7.87%) CSS
10 40 (7.68%) JSON
11 35 (6.72%) AngularJS
12 29 (5.57%) GraphQL
12 29 (5.57%) HTML
13 25 (4.80%) Web Services
14 22 (4.22%) SOAP
15 21 (4.03%) Django
15 21 (4.03%) FastAPI
16 20 (3.84%) OAuth
17 19 (3.65%) Flask
17 19 (3.65%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.29%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.72%) Product Ownership
3 29 (5.57%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (5.18%) Data Structures
5 24 (4.61%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.07%) Derivative
7 14 (2.69%) Fixed Income
8 11 (2.11%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.73%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.73%) Distributed Computing
10 9 (1.73%) Equities
10 9 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.54%) Client/Server
11 8 (1.54%) Equity Derivative
11 8 (1.54%) Hedge funds
11 8 (1.54%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.34%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 64 (12.28%) Linux
2 44 (8.45%) Unix
3 34 (6.53%) Windows
4 6 (1.15%) Android
5 4 (0.77%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.38%) CentOS
7 2 (0.38%) MVS
7 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.38%) zOS
8 1 (0.19%) AIX
8 1 (0.19%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (36.85%) CI/CD
2 175 (33.59%) Agile
3 147 (28.21%) DevOps
4 130 (24.95%) Problem-Solving
5 126 (24.18%) Microservices
6 106 (20.35%) Data Modelling
7 101 (19.39%) Containerisation
8 85 (16.31%) Analytics
9 79 (15.16%) ETL
10 73 (14.01%) Data Pipeline
11 72 (13.82%) Software Engineering
12 70 (13.44%) AI
13 66 (12.67%) Observability
13 66 (12.67%) Test Automation
14 62 (11.90%) SDLC
15 57 (10.94%) Data Engineering
16 56 (10.75%) Business Intelligence
17 54 (10.36%) Performance Tuning
18 53 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
19 51 (9.79%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 283 (54.32%) SQL
2 186 (35.70%) Java
3 175 (33.59%) Python
4 83 (15.93%) JavaScript
5 65 (12.48%) C#
6 40 (7.68%) TypeScript
7 25 (4.80%) Perl
8 20 (3.84%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.26%) Scala
10 16 (3.07%) PL/SQL
11 14 (2.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (2.30%) PHP
13 11 (2.11%) Bash
13 11 (2.11%) PowerShell
14 10 (1.92%) Go
15 9 (1.73%) C++
16 8 (1.54%) R
17 7 (1.34%) Ruby
17 7 (1.34%) XPath
18 4 (0.77%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 99 (19.00%) Security Cleared
2 70 (13.44%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.79%) Degree
4 34 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.11%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.77%) MBA
10 3 (0.58%) CISSP
10 3 (0.58%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.58%) OCP
10 3 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.58%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (11.52%) Data Quality
2 47 (9.02%) QA
3 20 (3.84%) GDPR
4 18 (3.45%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.96%) SLA
6 5 (0.96%) WCAG
7 3 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.58%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.58%) IFRS
7 3 (0.58%) NCSC
8 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.38%) FATCA
8 2 (0.38%) NIST
8 2 (0.38%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.19%) EMIR
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.19%) MiFID
9 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 139 (26.68%) Docker
2 5 (0.96%) Varnish
3 2 (0.38%) ACF2
3 2 (0.38%) GridGain
3 2 (0.38%) RACF
4 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 118 (22.65%) Kubernetes
2 49 (9.40%) Terraform
3 25 (4.80%) Grafana
4 23 (4.41%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.88%) Ansible
6 7 (1.34%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.34%) TIBCO Hawk
7 6 (1.15%) Puppet
8 4 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.58%) Kibana
9 3 (0.58%) Packer
10 2 (0.38%) Argo
10 2 (0.38%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 143 (27.45%) Oracle
2 71 (13.63%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.84%) Databricks
4 17 (3.26%) Adobe
4 17 (3.26%) IBM
5 16 (3.07%) Splunk
6 11 (2.11%) Informatica
7 10 (1.92%) Google
7 10 (1.92%) Sybase
8 9 (1.73%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.54%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.54%) TIBCO
10 7 (1.34%) BEA
11 6 (1.15%) Ab Initio
11 6 (1.15%) Sparx
11 6 (1.15%) Teradata
12 5 (0.96%) Advent
12 5 (0.96%) SAP
13 4 (0.77%) DevExpress
13 4 (0.77%) Talend