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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 153 177
Rank change year-on-year -69 +24 +3
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 587 556 576
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.15% 1.82% 1.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.51% 9.92% 7.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 352 430
10th Percentile £330 £375 £360
25th Percentile £403 £435 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £539
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -4.87% -10.21%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £689 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.05% -9.52% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 3
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.05 £26.30
25th Percentile £29.75 £21.20 £31.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +29.63% -44.14%
75th Percentile £71.08 £53.75 £47.13
90th Percentile £77.00 £92.50 £51.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £21.40 £40.50
% change year-on-year +133.64% -47.16% -45.27%

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 7,819 5,603 7,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.29% 18.34% 17.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,185 3,795 5,402
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £637 £650
90th Percentile £700 £760 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 99 152
10th Percentile £14.94 £19.52 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £26.00 £20.93
Median hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -12.50% -29.08%
75th Percentile £63.81 £64.13 £53.84
90th Percentile £76.95 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.31 £31.64 £33.93
% change year-on-year +17.92% -6.75% -38.31%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -59 481 £475 -9.52% 153
UK excluding London -89 269 £470 -1.05% 118
London -26 268 £506 -6.39% 74
Work from Home -97 145 £475 -10.97% 73
North of England -66 67 £450 +1.12% 27
Scotland -24 57 £473 +0.53% 6
South East -52 56 £420 -12.04% 40
Midlands -34 52 £473 -2.97% 17
North West -56 42 £415 -6.69% 15
West Midlands -39 39 £472 -3.78% 12
South West -39 21 £488 -11.36% 10
Yorkshire -35 20 £519 -5.64% 7
East Midlands -9 13 £540 +13.39% 5
East of England -25 11 £505 +6.32% 13
North East -28 10 £450 - 5
Wales -14 6 £475 -12.04% 2
Northern Ireland -6 3 - - 6

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 32 (5.45%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.58%) Confluence
3 16 (2.73%) Apache
3 16 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.53%) IIS
5 7 (1.19%) Appian
6 6 (1.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (1.02%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.02%) Tuxedo
7 5 (0.85%) JBoss
8 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.68%) WebLogic
8 4 (0.68%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.51%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.34%) Camunda
10 2 (0.34%) Drupal
10 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 18 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.68%) CPLEX
4 3 (0.51%) Acrobat
4 3 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.51%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.70%) Finacle
2 9 (1.53%) Findur
3 7 (1.19%) Adobe Campaign
4 6 (1.02%) Summit
5 4 (0.68%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.51%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.51%) Magento
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%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.17%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 191 (32.54%) AWS
2 134 (22.83%) Azure
3 68 (11.58%) GitHub
4 66 (11.24%) GCP
5 62 (10.56%) Power Platform
6 37 (6.30%) Snowflake
7 36 (6.13%) Amazon S3
8 35 (5.96%) Serverless
9 30 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (3.07%) GitHub Copilot
13 14 (2.39%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (2.21%) Anthropic Claude
14 13 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (2.21%) ChatGPT
14 13 (2.21%) dbt
14 13 (2.21%) OpenShift
15 11 (1.87%) Datadog
15 11 (1.87%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.19%) HTTP
2 5 (0.85%) Firewall
2 5 (0.85%) VPN
3 2 (0.34%) AMQP
3 2 (0.34%) Internet
3 2 (0.34%) Intranet
3 2 (0.34%) WinSCP
4 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.17%) Multicast
4 1 (0.17%) Network Security
4 1 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.17%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (25.21%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (21.81%) SQL Server
3 104 (17.72%) RDBMS
4 77 (13.12%) MongoDB
5 75 (12.78%) MySQL
6 67 (11.41%) NoSQL
7 61 (10.39%) Data Warehouse
8 60 (10.22%) Power BI
9 40 (6.81%) Oracle Database
10 36 (6.13%) Metadata
11 27 (4.60%) Tableau
12 26 (4.43%) Data Lake
13 23 (3.92%) Db2
14 22 (3.75%) Big Data
14 22 (3.75%) Redis
15 19 (3.24%) Oracle Reports
16 16 (2.73%) DynamoDB
17 15 (2.56%) Power Query
18 12 (2.04%) Flink
19 11 (1.87%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 95 (16.18%) Git
2 65 (11.07%) Jenkins
3 47 (8.01%) GitLab
4 35 (5.96%) JIRA
5 20 (3.41%) JUnit
6 16 (2.73%) Selenium
7 14 (2.39%) Mockito
7 14 (2.39%) REST Assured
8 13 (2.21%) Eclipse
9 12 (2.04%) Gradle
9 12 (2.04%) Maven
10 11 (1.87%) Gatling
11 10 (1.70%) Serenity BDD
11 10 (1.70%) Team Foundation Server
12 9 (1.53%) Liquibase
12 9 (1.53%) Oracle Forms
13 7 (1.19%) Ant
14 6 (1.02%) ER Studio
14 6 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.85%) Browser DevTools
General
1 179 (30.49%) Finance
2 174 (29.64%) Social Skills
3 121 (20.61%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (13.46%) Banking
5 70 (11.93%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.45%) Front Office
6 32 (5.45%) Investment Banking
7 17 (2.90%) Military
8 16 (2.73%) Publishing
9 13 (2.21%) Back Office
10 12 (2.04%) Retail
11 9 (1.53%) Marketing
12 8 (1.36%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.19%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.68%) Automotive
15 3 (0.51%) Electronics
15 3 (0.51%) General Ledger
15 3 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 229 (39.01%) Developer
2 105 (17.89%) Senior
3 62 (10.56%) Java Developer
4 58 (9.88%) Data Engineer
5 49 (8.35%) Analyst
6 47 (8.01%) Software Engineer
7 45 (7.67%) Senior Developer
8 42 (7.16%) Lead
8 42 (7.16%) Python Developer
9 37 (6.30%) Full-Stack Developer
10 27 (4.60%) Architect
11 23 (3.92%) .NET Developer
11 23 (3.92%) C# Developer
12 20 (3.41%) Software Developer
13 19 (3.24%) Business Analyst
14 18 (3.07%) Data Analyst
14 18 (3.07%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (3.07%) Senior Java Developer
15 17 (2.90%) Backend Developer
15 17 (2.90%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (21.64%) REST
2 101 (17.21%) Kafka
3 92 (15.67%) React
3 92 (15.67%) RESTful
3 92 (15.67%) Spring
4 90 (15.33%) Spring Boot
5 67 (11.41%) .NET
6 36 (6.13%) JSON
7 35 (5.96%) CSS
7 35 (5.96%) XML
8 31 (5.28%) HTML
9 29 (4.94%) OAuth
9 29 (4.94%) Web Services
10 28 (4.77%) AngularJS
10 28 (4.77%) SOAP
11 26 (4.43%) Django
12 25 (4.26%) FastAPI
13 22 (3.75%) .NET Framework
13 22 (3.75%) Flask
13 22 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 60 (10.22%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (6.81%) Product Ownership
4 30 (5.11%) Data Structures
5 27 (4.60%) Management Information System
6 25 (4.26%) Derivative
7 17 (2.90%) Low-Code
8 16 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (2.21%) Equity Derivative
11 12 (2.04%) AI Agents
11 12 (2.04%) Equities
12 11 (1.87%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.87%) Fixed Income
12 11 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.70%) Hedge funds
13 10 (1.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 8 (1.36%) Public Cloud
14 8 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 67 (11.41%) Linux
2 43 (7.33%) Unix
3 30 (5.11%) Windows
4 6 (1.02%) AIX
5 4 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.51%) Android
6 3 (0.51%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.34%) MVS
7 2 (0.34%) zOS
8 1 (0.17%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (39.86%) CI/CD
2 211 (35.95%) Agile
3 174 (29.64%) DevOps
4 150 (25.55%) Problem-Solving
5 125 (21.29%) Data Modelling
6 120 (20.44%) Microservices
7 108 (18.40%) AI
8 101 (17.21%) Analytics
9 99 (16.87%) Data Pipeline
9 99 (16.87%) Software Engineering
10 93 (15.84%) Containerisation
11 91 (15.50%) ETL
12 82 (13.97%) Observability
13 81 (13.80%) Test Automation
14 70 (11.93%) Business Intelligence
14 70 (11.93%) SDLC
15 68 (11.58%) Validation
16 67 (11.41%) Performance Tuning
17 62 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
18 61 (10.39%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 337 (57.41%) SQL
2 195 (33.22%) Java
2 195 (33.22%) Python
3 83 (14.14%) C#
4 79 (13.46%) JavaScript
5 49 (8.35%) TypeScript
6 21 (3.58%) Shell Script
7 20 (3.41%) PL/SQL
8 16 (2.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 15 (2.56%) Scala
10 14 (2.39%) Perl
10 14 (2.39%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.87%) C++
11 11 (1.87%) VB
12 10 (1.70%) Apex Code
13 9 (1.53%) R
14 8 (1.36%) Bash
14 8 (1.36%) VB6
15 6 (1.02%) Ruby
15 6 (1.02%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 119 (20.27%) Security Cleared
2 90 (15.33%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.52%) Degree
4 29 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.36%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.19%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.68%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.68%) MBA
10 3 (0.51%) CISSP
10 3 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.17%) CFA
12 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (12.95%) Data Quality
2 61 (10.39%) QA
3 26 (4.43%) Accessibility
4 14 (2.39%) GDPR
5 9 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.02%) WCAG
7 5 (0.85%) SLA
8 3 (0.51%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.34%) FATCA
9 2 (0.34%) IFRS
9 2 (0.34%) NCSC
9 2 (0.34%) NIST
9 2 (0.34%) PMO
10 1 (0.17%) COREP
10 1 (0.17%) EMIR
10 1 (0.17%) FINREP
10 1 (0.17%) GRC
System Software
1 135 (23.00%) Docker
2 8 (1.36%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (0.51%) Varnish
4 2 (0.34%) ACF2
4 2 (0.34%) GridGain
4 2 (0.34%) RACF
5 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 119 (20.27%) Kubernetes
2 48 (8.18%) Terraform
3 29 (4.94%) Prometheus
4 23 (3.92%) Grafana
5 22 (3.75%) Ansible
6 6 (1.02%) Data Guard
6 6 (1.02%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (0.85%) Argo
8 3 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.51%) Kibana
8 3 (0.51%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.34%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.34%) Puppet
10 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 157 (26.75%) Oracle
2 73 (12.44%) Microsoft
3 28 (4.77%) Databricks
4 25 (4.26%) IBM
5 19 (3.24%) Splunk
6 16 (2.73%) Google
6 16 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.73%) Sybase
7 15 (2.56%) Adobe
7 15 (2.56%) Informatica
8 11 (1.87%) SAP
9 8 (1.36%) OutSystems
9 8 (1.36%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.36%) Teradata
10 7 (1.19%) Actian
10 7 (1.19%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.85%) Ab Initio
11 5 (0.85%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.85%) OpenLink
11 5 (0.85%) Solace