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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 189 183
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 -9
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 571 504 645
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.59% 1.39% 1.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.10% 7.77% 8.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 348 453
10th Percentile £204 £220 £337
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £638
90th Percentile £675 £650 £782
UK excluding London median daily rate £415 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -12.63% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 21
10th Percentile - £25.79 £43.03
25th Percentile £41.25 £26.38 £50.53
Median hourly rate £42.50 £38.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% -45.00% +180.00%
75th Percentile £43.75 £44.13 £76.53
90th Percentile - £57.40 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £26.50 £63.63
% change year-on-year - -58.35% +154.53%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 6,275 6,487 7,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.51% 17.89% 16.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,306 4,279 5,397
10th Percentile £331 £345 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £534
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -0.75% -2.91%
75th Percentile £607 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.25% -0.79% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 88 144
10th Percentile £23.43 £18.35 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.97 £23.81 £21.57
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.55 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +74.35% -31.69% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70.50 £54.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.10 £65.30 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.31 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +119.29% -40.45% +13.38%

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 30 November 2025.

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
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 30 November 2025. 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 +4 466 £463 -11.90% 185
UK excluding London +23 288 £415 -12.63% 175
London +13 234 £525 -3.23% 70
Work from Home +2 205 £475 -5.00% 100
North of England +4 91 £410 -9.44% 29
South East +4 70 £208 +1.22% 83
Scotland +51 64 £450 +0.56% 7
North West +17 54 £381 -7.58% 18
Yorkshire -19 35 £501 -4.57% 7
Midlands -36 28 £481 -3.75% 24
West Midlands -20 22 £500 -2.82% 20
South West +2 19 £550 +1.15% 18
Northern Ireland -3 6 £425 -10.53% 2
East of England -17 6 £500 +8.11% 10
East Midlands -25 6 £433 -2.86% 4
Wales -8 5 £485 +1.31% 3
North East - 2 £438 - 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 17 (2.98%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.80%) Apache
3 14 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.93%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.58%) WebLogic
6 8 (1.40%) nginx
7 7 (1.23%) JBoss
8 6 (1.05%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.88%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.70%) SAS
11 3 (0.53%) Confluence
11 3 (0.53%) Drupal
11 3 (0.53%) WordPress
12 2 (0.35%) CICS
12 2 (0.35%) CMS
12 2 (0.35%) Moodle
12 2 (0.35%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.18%) Alfresco
13 1 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 28 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.88%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (1.40%) Advent Geneva
2 5 (0.88%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.18%) Endur
5 1 (0.18%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.18%) Magento
5 1 (0.18%) Maximo
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.18%) Shopify
5 1 (0.18%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 195 (34.15%) AWS
2 125 (21.89%) Azure
3 68 (11.91%) Serverless
4 58 (10.16%) Amazon S3
4 58 (10.16%) GitHub
5 54 (9.46%) AWS Lambda
5 54 (9.46%) GCP
6 53 (9.28%) Power Platform
7 44 (7.71%) SaaS
8 28 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
9 25 (4.38%) Amazon ECS
9 25 (4.38%) OpenShift
10 24 (4.20%) Snowflake
11 23 (4.03%) Amazon SQS
12 20 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 18 (3.15%) PaaS
14 18 (3.15%) Sauce Labs
15 17 (2.98%) Amazon EventBridge
16 16 (2.80%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.15%) Wireless
2 13 (2.28%) HTTP
3 10 (1.75%) Firewall
4 6 (1.05%) Internet
5 5 (0.88%) AMQP
6 3 (0.53%) DNS
6 3 (0.53%) MQTT
6 3 (0.53%) Network Security
6 3 (0.53%) SSL
7 2 (0.35%) MPLS
7 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.35%) WAN
8 1 (0.18%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.18%) NAS
8 1 (0.18%) POP3
8 1 (0.18%) SMTP
8 1 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (24.34%) PostgreSQL
2 124 (21.72%) MySQL
3 120 (21.02%) RDBMS
4 100 (17.51%) SQL Server
5 81 (14.19%) Data Warehouse
6 75 (13.13%) MongoDB
7 58 (10.16%) NoSQL
8 53 (9.28%) DB2
9 51 (8.93%) Power BI
10 29 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
11 24 (4.20%) Big Data
11 24 (4.20%) Data Lake
12 21 (3.68%) Oracle Database
13 20 (3.50%) Metadata
14 18 (3.15%) DynamoDB
14 18 (3.15%) Tableau
15 17 (2.98%) Amazon Redshift
16 16 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
17 14 (2.45%) Redis
18 13 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 116 (20.32%) Git
2 54 (9.46%) JUnit
3 44 (7.71%) Jenkins
4 41 (7.18%) JIRA
5 25 (4.38%) Browser DevTools
6 21 (3.68%) Eclipse
7 20 (3.50%) Maven
8 18 (3.15%) Android Studio
8 18 (3.15%) Xcode
9 15 (2.63%) Gradle
10 14 (2.45%) GitLab
11 10 (1.75%) SonarQube
12 9 (1.58%) Cucumber
12 9 (1.58%) ERwin
12 9 (1.58%) Mockito
12 9 (1.58%) TeamCity
13 8 (1.40%) webpack
14 6 (1.05%) Firebug
14 6 (1.05%) PyCharm
14 6 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 230 (40.28%) Social Skills
2 145 (25.39%) Finance
3 110 (19.26%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (12.08%) Banking
5 51 (8.93%) Public Sector
6 42 (7.36%) Investment Banking
7 30 (5.25%) Front Office
8 15 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.05%) Digital Healthcare
10 6 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.88%) Legal
11 5 (0.88%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.53%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.53%) Retail
13 2 (0.35%) Marketing
13 2 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 250 (43.78%) Developer
2 98 (17.16%) Java Developer
3 75 (13.13%) Senior
4 50 (8.76%) Senior Developer
5 46 (8.06%) Data Engineer
6 41 (7.18%) Analyst
6 41 (7.18%) Technical Support
7 34 (5.95%) Lead
7 34 (5.95%) Support Engineer
8 32 (5.60%) Senior Java Developer
9 29 (5.08%) SQL Developer
10 28 (4.90%) Investment Banking Java Developer
11 27 (4.73%) Full-Stack Developer
12 25 (4.38%) Architect
12 25 (4.38%) Data Analyst
12 25 (4.38%) Technical Engineer
12 25 (4.38%) Technical Support Engineer
13 21 (3.68%) Python Developer
14 19 (3.33%) UX Engineer
15 18 (3.15%) Linux Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (17.86%) Spring
2 85 (14.89%) React
3 72 (12.61%) Kafka
3 72 (12.61%) Spring Boot
4 67 (11.73%) AngularJS
4 67 (11.73%) RESTful
5 59 (10.33%) CSS
6 57 (9.98%) REST
6 57 (9.98%) XML
7 47 (8.23%) .NET
7 47 (8.23%) HTML
8 42 (7.36%) JMS
9 36 (6.30%) GraphQL
10 33 (5.78%) Node.js
11 32 (5.60%) JSON
11 32 (5.60%) SOAP
12 22 (3.85%) Web Services
13 21 (3.68%) Hibernate
13 21 (3.68%) jQuery
14 20 (3.50%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 54 (9.46%) Data Structures
2 37 (6.48%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.90%) Equities
4 25 (4.38%) Management Information System
5 23 (4.03%) Virtual Team
6 20 (3.50%) Algorithms
7 19 (3.33%) Data Centre
7 19 (3.33%) Mobile App
8 18 (3.15%) Product Ownership
9 14 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.93%) CMDB
11 10 (1.75%) Reinsurance
12 9 (1.58%) Clustering
12 9 (1.58%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
14 6 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.05%) Onboarding
14 6 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 123 (21.54%) Linux
2 65 (11.38%) Windows
3 51 (8.93%) Unix
4 18 (3.15%) Android
5 11 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.05%) CentOS
7 5 (0.88%) Solaris
8 3 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.18%) AIX
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (38.88%) Agile
2 192 (33.63%) Problem-Solving
3 149 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 117 (20.49%) Microservices
5 115 (20.14%) Data Modelling
6 105 (18.39%) DevOps
7 95 (16.64%) ETL
8 84 (14.71%) Containerisation
8 84 (14.71%) OO
9 74 (12.96%) Test Automation
10 73 (12.78%) Analytics
11 72 (12.61%) SDLC
12 68 (11.91%) Performance Tuning
13 62 (10.86%) Migration
14 59 (10.33%) Business Intelligence
14 59 (10.33%) Computer Science
15 58 (10.16%) OOP
15 58 (10.16%) Visualisation
16 57 (9.98%) Data Pipeline
17 56 (9.81%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 321 (56.22%) SQL
2 247 (43.26%) Python
3 217 (38.00%) Java
4 101 (17.69%) JavaScript
5 46 (8.06%) Perl
6 38 (6.65%) C#
7 37 (6.48%) Shell Script
8 29 (5.08%) TypeScript
9 23 (4.03%) PL/SQL
10 22 (3.85%) PHP
11 15 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 15 (2.63%) PowerShell
12 11 (1.93%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.40%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.40%) Scala
14 6 (1.05%) Bash
14 6 (1.05%) VBA
15 5 (0.88%) R
15 5 (0.88%) Ruby
15 5 (0.88%) XPath
Qualifications
1 81 (14.19%) Security Cleared
2 59 (10.33%) Degree
3 49 (8.58%) SC Cleared
4 38 (6.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.45%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.75%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.58%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.40%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.88%) OCP
9 5 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.18%) PMP
12 1 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (9.81%) Data Quality
2 53 (9.28%) QA
3 17 (2.98%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.28%) GDPR
5 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.35%) WCAG
7 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.18%) EMIR
7 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.18%) IFRS
7 1 (0.18%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.18%) MiFID
7 1 (0.18%) NIST
7 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 118 (20.67%) Docker
2 9 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.53%) NFS
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.18%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 84 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 46 (8.06%) Terraform
3 28 (4.90%) Grafana
4 13 (2.28%) Ansible
5 9 (1.58%) Progress Chef
6 5 (0.88%) Kibana
6 5 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.88%) TIBCO Hawk
7 3 (0.53%) Argo
7 3 (0.53%) Packer
8 2 (0.35%) Consul
8 2 (0.35%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.35%) Puppet
9 1 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.18%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.18%) logstash
9 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 158 (27.67%) Oracle
2 84 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 48 (8.41%) ServiceNow
4 33 (5.78%) Sybase
5 25 (4.38%) Splunk
6 20 (3.50%) Databricks
7 19 (3.33%) IBM
8 14 (2.45%) AppDynamics
8 14 (2.45%) Google
9 9 (1.58%) Blue Prism
10 8 (1.40%) Advent
10 8 (1.40%) GoldenSource
10 8 (1.40%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.23%) Cloudera
11 7 (1.23%) Dataiku
11 7 (1.23%) SAP
11 7 (1.23%) TIBCO
12 6 (1.05%) Informatica
12 6 (1.05%) Pega
13 5 (0.88%) BEA