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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 158 175
Rank change year-on-year -66 +17 +3
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 604 590 575
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.14% 1.80% 1.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.42% 9.88% 8.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 376 430
10th Percentile £355 £339 £325
25th Percentile £413 £412 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% -10.94%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £691 £700 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £464 £500
% change year-on-year +1.99% -7.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 2
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.70 £41.58
25th Percentile £24.31 £20.59 £43.19
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +12.90% -38.00%
75th Percentile £68.02 £63.44 £50.44
90th Percentile £77.00 £92.50 £52.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £20.07 £46.50
% change year-on-year +149.13% -56.84% -38.00%

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 8,139 5,969 7,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.37% 18.19% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,404 4,040 5,090
10th Percentile £356 £342 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
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 255 90 104
10th Percentile £16.28 £19.20 £14.48
25th Percentile £24.25 £23.50 £20.56
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -6.67% -31.82%
75th Percentile £60.75 £63.75 £60.36
90th Percentile £76.30 £78.83 £72.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -41.46%

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 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 30 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 30 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 -60 488 £500 -1.96% 216
UK excluding London -86 279 £473 +1.99% 123
London -43 263 £525 -4.55% 120
Work from Home -99 153 £511 -4.22% 92
North of England -69 75 £469 +5.34% 35
Scotland -32 56 £425 -8.85% 7
South East -70 50 £450 +9.09% 37
Midlands -38 48 £470 -4.08% 17
North West -57 48 £429 +0.20% 18
West Midlands -48 33 £470 -5.53% 12
East of England -2 23 £505 +6.32% 10
Yorkshire -45 21 £517 +5.95% 12
South West -45 21 £488 -7.14% 15
East Midlands -7 15 £475 -3.06% 5
North East -37 10 £450 - 7
Wales -13 6 £475 -5.00% 2
Northern Ireland -8 3 - - 2

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 (4.47%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.48%) Confluence
3 18 (2.98%) Apache
4 15 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.99%) IIS
5 6 (0.99%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (0.99%) Tuxedo
6 4 (0.66%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.66%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.50%) Apache Superset
7 3 (0.50%) Appian
7 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.50%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.33%) JBoss
8 2 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.17%) Camunda
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
Applications
1 19 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.66%) Acrobat
3 4 (0.66%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.66%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.66%) Finacle
2 9 (1.49%) Findur
3 8 (1.32%) Adobe Campaign
4 6 (0.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.66%) Summit
6 3 (0.50%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.50%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.50%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.33%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.17%) Endur
8 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.17%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 201 (33.28%) AWS
2 139 (23.01%) Azure
3 84 (13.91%) GCP
4 72 (11.92%) GitHub
5 62 (10.26%) Power Platform
6 34 (5.63%) Serverless
6 34 (5.63%) Snowflake
7 33 (5.46%) Amazon S3
8 31 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
9 30 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (3.31%) GitHub Copilot
12 15 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (2.48%) Anthropic Claude
12 15 (2.48%) ChatGPT
13 14 (2.32%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (2.32%) OCI
13 14 (2.32%) SaaS
14 13 (2.15%) dbt
15 12 (1.99%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.66%) HTTP
2 9 (1.49%) Firewall
2 9 (1.49%) VPN
3 3 (0.50%) WinSCP
4 2 (0.33%) Internet
4 2 (0.33%) Intranet
5 1 (0.17%) AMQP
5 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.17%) Multicast
5 1 (0.17%) Network Security
5 1 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (27.81%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (21.03%) SQL Server
3 112 (18.54%) RDBMS
4 72 (11.92%) Data Warehouse
5 70 (11.59%) MySQL
6 69 (11.42%) MongoDB
7 60 (9.93%) Power BI
8 57 (9.44%) NoSQL
9 46 (7.62%) Oracle Database
10 35 (5.79%) Metadata
11 27 (4.47%) Db2
11 27 (4.47%) Tableau
12 25 (4.14%) Data Lake
13 23 (3.81%) Oracle Reports
14 18 (2.98%) Big Data
14 18 (2.98%) Redis
15 15 (2.48%) BigQuery
15 15 (2.48%) Oracle Exadata
15 15 (2.48%) Power Query
16 14 (2.32%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 117 (19.37%) Git
2 68 (11.26%) Jenkins
3 52 (8.61%) GitLab
4 35 (5.79%) JIRA
5 24 (3.97%) Gradle
5 24 (3.97%) Maven
6 17 (2.81%) JUnit
7 13 (2.15%) Eclipse
7 13 (2.15%) Mockito
7 13 (2.15%) Selenium
8 12 (1.99%) Oracle Forms
9 11 (1.82%) REST Assured
10 9 (1.49%) Liquibase
11 8 (1.32%) Claude Code
11 8 (1.32%) ER Studio
11 8 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (1.32%) Visual Studio
12 7 (1.16%) Gatling
13 6 (0.99%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 183 (30.30%) Finance
2 174 (28.81%) Social Skills
3 144 (23.84%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (14.40%) Banking
5 83 (13.74%) Public Sector
6 30 (4.97%) Front Office
7 27 (4.47%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.81%) Military
9 16 (2.65%) Publishing
10 13 (2.15%) Back Office
11 12 (1.99%) Retail
12 10 (1.66%) Marketing
13 9 (1.49%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.99%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.83%) Automotive
16 5 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 4 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.66%) Electronics
17 4 (0.66%) Law
Job Titles
1 244 (40.40%) Developer
2 118 (19.54%) Senior
3 80 (13.25%) Java Developer
4 60 (9.93%) Data Engineer
5 54 (8.94%) Analyst
6 53 (8.77%) Software Engineer
7 51 (8.44%) Senior Developer
8 41 (6.79%) Lead
9 40 (6.62%) Python Developer
10 34 (5.63%) Full-Stack Developer
11 26 (4.30%) Software Developer
12 24 (3.97%) Architect
12 24 (3.97%) Data Analyst
13 20 (3.31%) Backend Developer
13 20 (3.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 18 (2.98%) .NET Developer
14 18 (2.98%) Business Analyst
14 18 (2.98%) DBA
14 18 (2.98%) Java Engineer
14 18 (2.98%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (23.01%) REST
2 107 (17.72%) Kafka
3 101 (16.72%) RESTful
4 91 (15.07%) Spring
5 90 (14.90%) Spring Boot
6 83 (13.74%) React
7 69 (11.42%) .NET
8 38 (6.29%) XML
9 36 (5.96%) JSON
10 35 (5.79%) Web Services
11 33 (5.46%) CSS
12 31 (5.13%) AngularJS
12 31 (5.13%) OAuth
13 30 (4.97%) HTML
14 26 (4.30%) FastAPI
15 25 (4.14%) SOAP
16 23 (3.81%) .NET Framework
17 22 (3.64%) Django
17 22 (3.64%) Flask
18 21 (3.48%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 72 (11.92%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.78%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.79%) Data Structures
4 33 (5.46%) Product Ownership
5 28 (4.64%) Management Information System
6 21 (3.48%) Derivative
7 17 (2.81%) Low-Code
8 15 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
8 15 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (2.32%) Algorithms
9 14 (2.32%) Equity Derivative
10 13 (2.15%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.99%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.82%) AI Agents
12 11 (1.82%) Equities
13 10 (1.66%) Hedge funds
13 10 (1.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 9 (1.49%) Replication
15 8 (1.32%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 68 (11.26%) Linux
2 44 (7.28%) Unix
3 34 (5.63%) Windows
4 18 (2.98%) AIX
5 11 (1.82%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.50%) Android
7 3 (0.50%) MVS
7 3 (0.50%) zOS
8 1 (0.17%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (41.39%) CI/CD
2 220 (36.42%) Agile
3 182 (30.13%) DevOps
4 168 (27.81%) Problem-Solving
5 142 (23.51%) Data Modelling
6 125 (20.70%) Microservices
7 117 (19.37%) Software Engineering
8 110 (18.21%) AI
9 108 (17.88%) Data Pipeline
10 104 (17.22%) Analytics
11 101 (16.72%) ETL
12 91 (15.07%) Containerisation
13 80 (13.25%) Test Automation
13 80 (13.25%) Validation
14 76 (12.58%) Performance Tuning
15 74 (12.25%) Observability
16 70 (11.59%) Business Intelligence
16 70 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
17 68 (11.26%) Full-Stack Development
17 68 (11.26%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 342 (56.62%) SQL
2 207 (34.27%) Java
3 199 (32.95%) Python
4 81 (13.41%) C#
5 72 (11.92%) JavaScript
6 44 (7.28%) TypeScript
7 23 (3.81%) PL/SQL
8 22 (3.64%) Shell Script
9 18 (2.98%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (1.99%) C++
11 12 (1.99%) Scala
12 11 (1.82%) Bash
13 10 (1.66%) Perl
13 10 (1.66%) R
14 9 (1.49%) VB
15 8 (1.32%) T-SQL
16 7 (1.16%) Apex Code
16 7 (1.16%) VB6
17 6 (0.99%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 128 (21.19%) Security Cleared
2 99 (16.39%) SC Cleared
3 53 (8.77%) Degree
4 29 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.66%) MBA
9 3 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.50%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (0.33%) CISSP
10 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.33%) 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 88 (14.57%) Data Quality
2 61 (10.10%) QA
3 28 (4.64%) Accessibility
4 19 (3.15%) GDPR
5 7 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.99%) WCAG
7 4 (0.66%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.66%) GMP
7 4 (0.66%) GxP
7 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 4 (0.66%) SLA
8 3 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.50%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.33%) FATCA
9 2 (0.33%) NIST
9 2 (0.33%) PMO
10 1 (0.17%) GRC
10 1 (0.17%) ITGC
System Software
1 138 (22.85%) Docker
2 17 (2.81%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.50%) ACF2
4 3 (0.50%) RACF
5 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.33%) GridGain
5 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 125 (20.70%) Kubernetes
2 56 (9.27%) Terraform
3 31 (5.13%) Ansible
4 26 (4.30%) Prometheus
5 20 (3.31%) Grafana
6 15 (2.48%) Data Guard
6 15 (2.48%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (0.99%) Argo
8 3 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.50%) Kibana
9 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.17%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.17%) Istio
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 178 (29.47%) Oracle
2 72 (11.92%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.97%) IBM
4 28 (4.64%) Google
5 26 (4.30%) Databricks
6 18 (2.98%) Sybase
7 15 (2.48%) Splunk
8 13 (2.15%) Informatica
8 13 (2.15%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.82%) Adobe
9 11 (1.82%) SAP
10 8 (1.32%) OutSystems
11 7 (1.16%) Teradata
12 6 (0.99%) Actian
12 6 (0.99%) Alteryx
12 6 (0.99%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.99%) OpenLink
12 6 (0.99%) Sparx
13 5 (0.83%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.83%) Talend