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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 161 177
Rank change year-on-year -71 +16 +5
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 590 601 554
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.83% 1.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.23% 10.04% 7.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 382 412
10th Percentile £361 £335 £319
25th Percentile £413 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £710 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.50% -5.21% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 1
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.70 -
25th Percentile £19.06 £20.59 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +29.63% -46.00%
75th Percentile £66.81 £63.44 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £20.07 £40.50
% change year-on-year +149.13% -50.44% -46.00%

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 8,158 5,984 7,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.17% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,435 4,045 4,978
10th Percentile £356 £344 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £651
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 91 102
10th Percentile £15.95 £20.75 £15.10
25th Percentile £23.05 £24.76 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% +1.55% -34.35%
75th Percentile £61.31 £62.88 £56.88
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.70 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -38.77%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -78 479 £500 -1.96% 340
UK excluding London -95 275 £475 +5.50% 165
London -60 253 £525 -4.55% 209
Work from Home -107 149 £514 -3.66% 134
North of England -82 76 £500 +13.31% 42
South East -77 52 £475 +16.64% 45
Scotland -36 51 £460 -0.54% 13
North West -51 49 £465 +10.10% 25
Midlands -36 47 £450 -8.63% 29
West Midlands -42 32 £450 -9.55% 19
East of England -7 24 £508 -0.98% 10
Yorkshire -44 22 £517 +4.50% 13
South West -42 19 £521 +39.00% 19
East Midlands -5 15 £475 -3.06% 10
North East -35 9 £450 - 6
Wales -9 6 £475 -5.00% 3
Northern Ireland -3 3 - - 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 23 (3.90%) Apache Spark
2 20 (3.39%) Confluence
3 18 (3.05%) Apache
4 15 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.02%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (1.02%) Tuxedo
6 5 (0.85%) IIS
7 4 (0.68%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.68%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.51%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.17%) Appian
10 1 (0.17%) Camunda
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.17%) Liferay
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.68%) Acrobat
3 4 (0.68%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.68%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.69%) Finacle
2 9 (1.53%) Findur
3 8 (1.36%) Adobe Campaign
4 7 (1.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.68%) Summit
6 3 (0.51%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.51%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.51%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.34%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.17%) Endur
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.17%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 195 (33.05%) AWS
2 140 (23.73%) Azure
3 86 (14.58%) GCP
4 69 (11.69%) GitHub
5 64 (10.85%) Power Platform
6 35 (5.93%) Snowflake
7 33 (5.59%) Serverless
8 31 (5.25%) Amazon S3
9 29 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (4.75%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (3.56%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (3.22%) GitHub Copilot
13 17 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (2.54%) Anthropic Claude
14 15 (2.54%) ChatGPT
14 15 (2.54%) OCI
15 14 (2.37%) dbt
15 14 (2.37%) SaaS
16 13 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
16 13 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.86%) HTTP
2 10 (1.69%) Firewall
2 10 (1.69%) VPN
3 3 (0.51%) WinSCP
4 2 (0.34%) Internet
4 2 (0.34%) Intranet
5 1 (0.17%) AMQP
5 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.17%) Multicast
5 1 (0.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (27.80%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (20.68%) SQL Server
3 114 (19.32%) RDBMS
4 75 (12.71%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (10.85%) MongoDB
6 62 (10.51%) Power BI
7 60 (10.17%) MySQL
8 51 (8.64%) NoSQL
9 45 (7.63%) Oracle Database
10 37 (6.27%) Metadata
11 26 (4.41%) Data Lake
11 26 (4.41%) Db2
11 26 (4.41%) Tableau
12 23 (3.90%) Oracle Reports
13 18 (3.05%) Redis
14 17 (2.88%) Power Query
15 16 (2.71%) Big Data
15 16 (2.71%) Oracle Exadata
16 15 (2.54%) BigQuery
17 11 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 123 (20.85%) Git
2 67 (11.36%) Jenkins
3 53 (8.98%) GitLab
4 35 (5.93%) JIRA
5 25 (4.24%) Maven
6 24 (4.07%) Gradle
7 17 (2.88%) JUnit
8 13 (2.20%) Eclipse
8 13 (2.20%) Mockito
8 13 (2.20%) Selenium
9 11 (1.86%) Oracle Forms
10 9 (1.53%) Liquibase
10 9 (1.53%) REST Assured
11 8 (1.36%) Claude Code
11 8 (1.36%) ER Studio
11 8 (1.36%) Visual Studio
12 7 (1.19%) Gatling
12 7 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
13 6 (1.02%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 184 (31.19%) Social Skills
2 176 (29.83%) Finance
3 149 (25.25%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (14.92%) Public Sector
5 82 (13.90%) Banking
6 30 (5.08%) Front Office
7 24 (4.07%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.88%) Military
9 16 (2.71%) Publishing
10 12 (2.03%) Back Office
10 12 (2.03%) Retail
11 10 (1.69%) Marketing
12 8 (1.36%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.02%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.85%) Automotive
16 4 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.68%) Electronics
16 4 (0.68%) Law
Job Titles
1 242 (41.02%) Developer
2 117 (19.83%) Senior
3 77 (13.05%) Java Developer
4 61 (10.34%) Data Engineer
5 52 (8.81%) Analyst
6 51 (8.64%) Senior Developer
6 51 (8.64%) Software Engineer
7 39 (6.61%) Python Developer
8 38 (6.44%) Lead
9 34 (5.76%) Full-Stack Developer
10 27 (4.58%) Software Developer
11 26 (4.41%) Data Analyst
12 22 (3.73%) Architect
13 19 (3.22%) Backend Developer
14 18 (3.05%) DBA
14 18 (3.05%) Java Engineer
15 17 (2.88%) .NET Developer
15 17 (2.88%) Business Analyst
15 17 (2.88%) Python Engineer
16 16 (2.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (23.05%) REST
2 101 (17.12%) Kafka
3 98 (16.61%) RESTful
4 89 (15.08%) Spring
4 89 (15.08%) Spring Boot
5 79 (13.39%) React
6 67 (11.36%) .NET
7 37 (6.27%) XML
8 35 (5.93%) JSON
8 35 (5.93%) Web Services
9 34 (5.76%) CSS
10 33 (5.59%) OAuth
11 32 (5.42%) HTML
12 30 (5.08%) AngularJS
13 24 (4.07%) SOAP
14 22 (3.73%) .NET Framework
14 22 (3.73%) Middleware
15 21 (3.56%) Apache Avro
15 21 (3.56%) FastAPI
16 19 (3.22%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 71 (12.03%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (6.44%) Data Structures
4 28 (4.75%) Product Ownership
5 26 (4.41%) Management Information System
6 21 (3.56%) Derivative
7 17 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (2.71%) Low-Code
9 15 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (2.37%) Algorithms
10 14 (2.37%) Equity Derivative
11 13 (2.20%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.86%) Equities
12 11 (1.86%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.69%) AI Agents
13 10 (1.69%) Hedge funds
13 10 (1.69%) Replication
13 10 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 8 (1.36%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 64 (10.85%) Linux
2 42 (7.12%) Unix
3 33 (5.59%) Windows
4 20 (3.39%) AIX
5 12 (2.03%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.68%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.51%) Android
7 3 (0.51%) MVS
7 3 (0.51%) zOS
8 1 (0.17%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (42.20%) CI/CD
2 218 (36.95%) Agile
3 180 (30.51%) DevOps
4 172 (29.15%) Problem-Solving
5 144 (24.41%) Data Modelling
6 119 (20.17%) Microservices
7 118 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 109 (18.47%) Data Pipeline
9 107 (18.14%) AI
10 106 (17.97%) Analytics
11 103 (17.46%) ETL
12 88 (14.92%) Containerisation
12 88 (14.92%) Validation
13 82 (13.90%) Test Automation
14 73 (12.37%) Business Intelligence
14 73 (12.37%) Performance Tuning
15 72 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
16 71 (12.03%) Migration
17 70 (11.86%) Observability
18 63 (10.68%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 334 (56.61%) SQL
2 199 (33.73%) Python
3 197 (33.39%) Java
4 80 (13.56%) C#
5 70 (11.86%) JavaScript
6 38 (6.44%) TypeScript
7 22 (3.73%) PL/SQL
8 19 (3.22%) Shell Script
9 18 (3.05%) PowerShell
10 16 (2.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (2.03%) C++
11 12 (2.03%) Scala
12 11 (1.86%) R
13 10 (1.69%) Bash
14 9 (1.53%) Perl
15 8 (1.36%) T-SQL
16 7 (1.19%) Apex Code
16 7 (1.19%) VB
17 6 (1.02%) Ruby
17 6 (1.02%) VB6
Qualifications
1 132 (22.37%) Security Cleared
2 103 (17.46%) SC Cleared
3 54 (9.15%) Degree
4 31 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.36%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.19%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.68%) MBA
9 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (0.34%) CISSP
10 2 (0.34%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.17%) CFA
11 1 (0.17%) ISEB
11 1 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (15.76%) Data Quality
2 65 (11.02%) QA
3 29 (4.92%) Accessibility
4 20 (3.39%) GDPR
5 8 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.02%) WCAG
7 4 (0.68%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.68%) GMP
7 4 (0.68%) GxP
7 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 3 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.51%) SLA
9 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.34%) NIST
10 1 (0.17%) COREP
10 1 (0.17%) FINREP
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 133 (22.54%) Docker
2 18 (3.05%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.51%) ACF2
4 3 (0.51%) RACF
5 2 (0.34%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.34%) GridGain
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 121 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 56 (9.49%) Terraform
3 32 (5.42%) Ansible
4 22 (3.73%) Prometheus
5 18 (3.05%) Grafana
6 16 (2.71%) Data Guard
6 16 (2.71%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (1.02%) Argo
8 3 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.17%) Istio
10 1 (0.17%) Kibana
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 172 (29.15%) Oracle
2 71 (12.03%) Microsoft
3 32 (5.42%) Google
4 30 (5.08%) IBM
5 25 (4.24%) Databricks
6 17 (2.88%) Sybase
7 14 (2.37%) Splunk
8 13 (2.20%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.86%) Adobe
9 11 (1.86%) Informatica
10 10 (1.69%) SAP
11 8 (1.36%) OutSystems
12 7 (1.19%) Sparx
12 7 (1.19%) Teradata
13 6 (1.02%) Alteryx
13 6 (1.02%) Dynatrace
13 6 (1.02%) OpenLink
14 5 (0.85%) Actian
14 5 (0.85%) BeyondTrust
14 5 (0.85%) Bomgar