Relational Database Contracts

Relational Database
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Relational Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Relational Database over the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 192 180 174
Rank change year-on-year -12 -6 -36
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 479 641 1,237
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.37% 1.43% 1.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.59% 8.50% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 456 817
10th Percentile £220 £342 £413
25th Percentile £400 £425 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £700
90th Percentile £650 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £452 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -9.70% -7.41% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 19 7
10th Percentile £25.79 £39.97 £17.40
25th Percentile £26.38 £48.39 £23.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £72.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.53% +161.82% -43.02%
75th Percentile £44.13 £76.53 £56.25
90th Percentile £57.40 £78.15 £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 £63.63 £26.25
% change year-on-year -58.35% +142.41% -50.00%

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 6,315 7,538 14,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.01% 16.80% 19.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,170 5,288 10,462
10th Percentile £340 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £438 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £775 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.40% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 141 150
10th Percentile £18.20 £16.61 £18.71
25th Percentile £22.72 £21.64 £27.56
Median hourly rate £32.50 £46.18 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.62% -7.64% +29.74%
75th Percentile £55.75 £64.53 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.60 £77.50 £72.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.43 £46.18 £44.84
% change year-on-year -40.61% +2.99% +14.75%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Relational Database.

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database over the 6 months to 8 December 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Relational Database.

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Relational Database over the 6 months to 8 December 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Top 16 Contract 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 8 December 2024. 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 -8 384 £515 -6.36% 275
London -23 218 £543 -1.45% 161
Work from Home +29 209 £500 -4.76% 287
UK excluding London 0 196 £452 -9.70% 132
South East +6 58 £205 -59.00% 22
Midlands +11 36 £500 -9.09% 28
North of England -1 30 £430 -19.63% 31
South West +34 24 £544 -9.38% 17
West Midlands 0 21 £529 +5.80% 19
Scotland -13 19 £448 +2.29% 18
North West -18 19 £413 -23.61% 17
East Midlands +13 14 £445 -40.63% 9
Wales -9 13 £479 +124.24% 1
East of England +31 12 £463 -2.63% 14
Yorkshire +24 11 £515 +3.00% 8
Northern Ireland +2 5 £475 -17.39% 4

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (5.22%) Apache
2 24 (5.01%) Apache Spark
3 21 (4.38%) Confluence
4 15 (3.13%) SAS
5 14 (2.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 13 (2.71%) CMS
7 12 (2.51%) SharePoint
8 11 (2.30%) Oracle Workflow
9 8 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (1.67%) Umbraco
9 8 (1.67%) WordPress
10 5 (1.04%) Drupal
11 4 (0.84%) GemFire
12 3 (0.63%) Camunda
12 3 (0.63%) CICS
12 3 (0.63%) JBoss
12 3 (0.63%) Mendix
12 3 (0.63%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.42%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.84%) InfoPath
2 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.42%) Adobe Captivate
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (3.34%) Oracle Payables
2 15 (3.13%) Oracle EBS
3 14 (2.92%) Oracle EBS R12
4 12 (2.51%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 12 (2.51%) Oracle iProcurement
4 12 (2.51%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.63%) Endur
6 3 (0.63%) Findur
6 3 (0.63%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.42%) Q-Pulse
7 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.21%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.21%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.21%) OPENHousing
8 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 119 (24.84%) AWS
2 114 (23.80%) Azure
3 53 (11.06%) Power Platform
4 40 (8.35%) GCP
5 30 (6.26%) Serverless
6 29 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (5.64%) Amazon S3
8 26 (5.43%) GitHub
9 16 (3.34%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
11 13 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (2.51%) AWS CodeBuild
12 12 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (2.09%) dbt
14 10 (2.09%) SaaS
15 9 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
17 7 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
17 7 (1.46%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.38%) Internet
2 16 (3.34%) HTTP
3 13 (2.71%) SMTP
4 11 (2.30%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.88%) POP3
6 6 (1.25%) IMAP
7 5 (1.04%) Firewall
7 5 (1.04%) VPN
8 4 (0.84%) FTP
8 4 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.84%) LAN
8 4 (0.84%) SSL
8 4 (0.84%) WAN
9 3 (0.63%) DNS
10 2 (0.42%) AMQP
10 2 (0.42%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.21%) Broadband
11 1 (0.21%) NaaS
11 1 (0.21%) Network Security
11 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (30.27%) RDBMS
2 104 (21.71%) SQL Server
3 95 (19.83%) MySQL
4 76 (15.87%) PostgreSQL
5 52 (10.86%) NoSQL
6 49 (10.23%) Power BI
7 48 (10.02%) Oracle Database
8 43 (8.98%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (7.10%) MongoDB
10 27 (5.64%) DB2
11 22 (4.59%) Data Lake
12 21 (4.38%) Tableau
13 19 (3.97%) Big Data
13 19 (3.97%) Redis
14 16 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (3.13%) Hadoop
16 14 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 12 (2.51%) DynamoDB
17 12 (2.51%) MariaDB
18 11 (2.30%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Development Applications
1 88 (18.37%) Git
2 44 (9.19%) JIRA
3 35 (7.31%) Jenkins
4 21 (4.38%) GitLab
5 19 (3.97%) JUnit
6 16 (3.34%) Maven
7 11 (2.30%) Browser DevTools
7 11 (2.30%) Firebug
7 11 (2.30%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (2.09%) Bitbucket
8 10 (2.09%) Cypress.io
8 10 (2.09%) Postman
9 7 (1.46%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.46%) Selenium
9 7 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.25%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.04%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (0.84%) LoadUI
12 4 (0.84%) Mockito
12 4 (0.84%) SoapUI
General
1 160 (33.40%) Social Skills
2 110 (22.96%) Finance
3 74 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (8.14%) Banking
5 23 (4.80%) Public Sector
6 17 (3.55%) Front Office
6 17 (3.55%) Telecoms
7 16 (3.34%) General Ledger
8 11 (2.30%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.46%) Marketing
10 7 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.04%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.84%) Back Office
13 3 (0.63%) Law
13 3 (0.63%) Legal
13 3 (0.63%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.42%) Advertising
14 2 (0.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 220 (45.93%) Developer
2 58 (12.11%) Analyst
3 55 (11.48%) Senior
4 42 (8.77%) Java Developer
5 35 (7.31%) Full-Stack Developer
6 34 (7.10%) Senior Developer
7 29 (6.05%) Data Engineer
8 28 (5.85%) Lead
9 26 (5.43%) Technical Support
10 23 (4.80%) Architect
10 23 (4.80%) Python Developer
11 22 (4.59%) .NET Developer
12 19 (3.97%) Software Developer
13 18 (3.76%) C# Developer
14 17 (3.55%) Analyst Developer
14 17 (3.55%) Software Engineer
15 16 (3.34%) Oracle Developer
16 15 (3.13%) DBA
17 14 (2.92%) Consultant
18 13 (2.71%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (14.41%) React
2 63 (13.15%) HTML
3 61 (12.73%) CSS
4 59 (12.32%) .NET
5 53 (11.06%) REST
6 52 (10.86%) Kafka
7 43 (8.98%) AngularJS
7 43 (8.98%) Spring
8 41 (8.56%) Web Services
9 39 (8.14%) XML
10 34 (7.10%) Middleware
11 32 (6.68%) Spring Boot
12 29 (6.05%) RESTful
13 28 (5.85%) ASP.NET
14 26 (5.43%) Node.js
15 20 (4.18%) SOAP
16 18 (3.76%) JSON
17 17 (3.55%) ASP.NET MVC
18 15 (3.13%) Django
18 15 (3.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.64%) Onboarding
2 23 (4.80%) Data Structures
3 17 (3.55%) Management Information System
3 17 (3.55%) Product Ownership
4 14 (2.92%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (1.88%) CMDB
6 9 (1.88%) Market Risk
7 7 (1.46%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.25%) Equities
8 6 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.25%) NHS
8 6 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.84%) Derivative
10 4 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (0.84%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.84%) Mainframe
10 4 (0.84%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 98 (20.46%) Linux
2 77 (16.08%) Unix
3 62 (12.94%) Windows
4 8 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.63%) zOS
6 2 (0.42%) AIX
6 2 (0.42%) CentOS
6 2 (0.42%) Solaris
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (35.91%) Agile
2 144 (30.06%) Problem-Solving
3 112 (23.38%) CI/CD
4 106 (22.13%) DevOps
5 77 (16.08%) Data Modelling
6 74 (15.45%) Business Intelligence
6 74 (15.45%) Software Engineering
7 72 (15.03%) ETL
7 72 (15.03%) OO
8 71 (14.82%) Full-Stack Development
9 59 (12.32%) Analytics
9 59 (12.32%) Scrum
10 57 (11.90%) Microservices
11 49 (10.23%) Unit Testing
12 46 (9.60%) Migration
12 46 (9.60%) Test Automation
13 41 (8.56%) OOP
14 40 (8.35%) SDLC
15 38 (7.93%) Workflow
16 36 (7.52%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 252 (52.61%) SQL
2 134 (27.97%) Python
3 132 (27.56%) Java
4 108 (22.55%) JavaScript
5 59 (12.32%) C#
6 30 (6.26%) Perl
7 29 (6.05%) TypeScript
8 23 (4.80%) PL/SQL
9 19 (3.97%) PHP
10 18 (3.76%) Go
11 17 (3.55%) Scala
12 11 (2.30%) Shell Script
13 10 (2.09%) R
13 10 (2.09%) Ruby
14 9 (1.88%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.67%) PowerShell
15 8 (1.67%) T-SQL
16 7 (1.46%) Bash
17 6 (1.25%) C++
18 5 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 88 (18.37%) Security Cleared
2 76 (15.87%) SC Cleared
3 70 (14.61%) Degree
4 20 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (4.18%) DV Cleared
5 8 (1.67%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.04%) ACCA
7 5 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.04%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.04%) PMP
8 3 (0.63%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.42%) NVQ Level 3
9 2 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.21%) CIMA
10 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.21%) OCP
10 1 (0.21%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.39%) QA
2 36 (7.52%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.09%) GDPR
4 5 (1.04%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.04%) MiFID
5 4 (0.84%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.21%) FINREP
7 1 (0.21%) GAAP
7 1 (0.21%) GRC
7 1 (0.21%) HL7
7 1 (0.21%) IFRS
7 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (9.60%) Docker
2 36 (7.52%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.63%) HDFS
4 1 (0.21%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.21%) LXC
Systems Management
1 38 (7.93%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.80%) Terraform
3 18 (3.76%) Ansible
4 10 (2.09%) Grafana
5 8 (1.67%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.46%) Puppet
7 4 (0.84%) Kibana
7 4 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.63%) logstash
8 3 (0.63%) Oozie
8 3 (0.63%) Packer
8 3 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.63%) QRadar
9 2 (0.42%) Salt
10 1 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 164 (34.24%) Oracle
2 94 (19.62%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.85%) CyberArk
4 25 (5.22%) SAP
5 22 (4.59%) Google
6 14 (2.92%) Databricks
7 13 (2.71%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.51%) Informatica
9 11 (2.30%) IBM
10 9 (1.88%) Sybase
10 9 (1.88%) Talend
10 9 (1.88%) TIBCO
11 7 (1.46%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.46%) Splunk
12 6 (1.25%) Okta
13 5 (1.04%) Solace
13 5 (1.04%) Zend
14 4 (0.84%) Adobe
14 4 (0.84%) Alteryx
14 4 (0.84%) Maconomy