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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 179 181
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -13
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 540 515 684
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.61% 1.39% 1.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.87% 7.84% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 357 470
10th Percentile £204 £270 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -5.45% -5.29%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £650
90th Percentile £675 £650 £776
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £438 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -12.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 24
10th Percentile - £25.67 £46.63
25th Percentile £51.25 £26.31 £54.88
Median hourly rate £52.50 £32.50 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.54% -54.86% +188.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £41.38 £78.00
90th Percentile - £57.75 £79.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £26.50 £71.00
% change year-on-year - -62.68% +207.56%

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 6,088 6,568 8,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.20% 17.73% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,103 4,416 5,618
10th Percentile £338 £350 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £732 £778 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 89 160
10th Percentile £20.80 £17.50 £16.96
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £25.13
Median hourly rate £40.49 £30.21 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.03% -39.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.60 £70.10 £78.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.48 £30.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +24.93% -38.78% +20.30%

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 21 October 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 21 October 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 +9 433 £475 -9.52% 449
UK excluding London +40 283 £425 -2.86% 351
London -12 213 £525 -4.55% 199
Work from Home +15 194 £475 -4.04% 331
North of England -1 74 £400 -20.04% 87
Scotland +50 70 £450 +5.88% 19
South East +12 64 £208 +1.22% 157
North West +3 39 £368 -10.79% 56
Yorkshire -24 34 £501 -4.57% 23
Midlands -18 31 £476 +6.96% 50
South West +14 22 £550 +2.33% 23
West Midlands -11 21 £498 -13.48% 23
East of England 0 12 £513 +28.13% 10
East Midlands -15 10 £461 +15.31% 27
Northern Ireland -5 7 £425 -10.53% 5
Wales -5 5 £485 -7.18% 8
North East - 1 £400 - 9

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 19 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.59%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.41%) Apache
4 8 (1.48%) JBoss
4 8 (1.48%) nginx
5 5 (0.93%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.93%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.74%) Confluence
6 4 (0.74%) SAS
6 4 (0.74%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.56%) CICS
7 3 (0.56%) Drupal
7 3 (0.56%) WordPress
8 2 (0.37%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.37%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.37%) Appian
8 2 (0.37%) Camunda
8 2 (0.37%) Moodle
8 2 (0.37%) OpenEdge
8 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.37%) Endur
2 2 (0.37%) Kondor
3 1 (0.19%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.19%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 180 (33.33%) AWS
2 125 (23.15%) Azure
3 61 (11.30%) Serverless
4 54 (10.00%) GCP
5 49 (9.07%) Amazon S3
6 48 (8.89%) Power Platform
7 44 (8.15%) AWS Lambda
8 43 (7.96%) SaaS
9 42 (7.78%) GitHub
10 27 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (4.81%) Snowflake
12 23 (4.26%) OpenShift
13 20 (3.70%) PaaS
14 18 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
15 17 (3.15%) Amazon EMR
15 17 (3.15%) dbt
16 16 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (2.96%) Sauce Labs
17 14 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
17 14 (2.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.96%) Wireless
2 14 (2.59%) HTTP
3 9 (1.67%) Firewall
3 9 (1.67%) Internet
4 4 (0.74%) AMQP
4 4 (0.74%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.56%) MQTT
5 3 (0.56%) SSL
6 2 (0.37%) LAN
6 2 (0.37%) MPLS
6 2 (0.37%) SMS
6 2 (0.37%) WAN
7 1 (0.19%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.19%) NAS
7 1 (0.19%) POP3
7 1 (0.19%) SMTP
7 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (20.93%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 96 (17.78%) MySQL
4 86 (15.93%) SQL Server
5 81 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
6 68 (12.59%) MongoDB
7 53 (9.81%) DB2
8 46 (8.52%) NoSQL
8 46 (8.52%) Power BI
9 24 (4.44%) Data Lake
10 21 (3.89%) Amazon RDS
10 21 (3.89%) Oracle Database
11 19 (3.52%) Big Data
12 17 (3.15%) Tableau
13 16 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (2.59%) Amazon Aurora
15 13 (2.41%) BigQuery
15 13 (2.41%) Metadata
15 13 (2.41%) Redis
16 10 (1.85%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 107 (19.81%) Git
2 60 (11.11%) JUnit
3 40 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 40 (7.41%) JIRA
4 23 (4.26%) Browser DevTools
5 20 (3.70%) Eclipse
6 19 (3.52%) Maven
7 18 (3.33%) Gradle
8 16 (2.96%) Android Studio
8 16 (2.96%) Xcode
9 12 (2.22%) Cucumber
10 11 (2.04%) SonarQube
11 10 (1.85%) Mockito
12 8 (1.48%) webpack
13 7 (1.30%) ERwin
14 6 (1.11%) Firebug
14 6 (1.11%) Liquibase
14 6 (1.11%) TeamCity
15 5 (0.93%) SonarLint
15 5 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 219 (40.56%) Social Skills
2 148 (27.41%) Finance
3 103 (19.07%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (15.00%) Banking
5 51 (9.44%) Investment Banking
6 40 (7.41%) Public Sector
7 31 (5.74%) Front Office
8 15 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.30%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.11%) Digital Healthcare
12 6 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.93%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.74%) Back Office
15 3 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.56%) Legal
15 3 (0.56%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.37%) Military
16 2 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 238 (44.07%) Developer
2 96 (17.78%) Java Developer
3 76 (14.07%) Senior
4 59 (10.93%) Senior Developer
5 48 (8.89%) Analyst
6 43 (7.96%) Data Engineer
7 38 (7.04%) Lead
8 37 (6.85%) SQL Developer
8 37 (6.85%) Technical Support
9 36 (6.67%) Investment Banking Java Developer
10 34 (6.30%) Senior Java Developer
11 32 (5.93%) Support Engineer
12 27 (5.00%) Data Analyst
13 26 (4.81%) Architect
14 24 (4.44%) Technical Engineer
14 24 (4.44%) Technical Support Engineer
15 21 (3.89%) Full-Stack Developer
15 21 (3.89%) Linux Developer
16 19 (3.52%) Python Developer
17 18 (3.33%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (18.52%) Spring
2 81 (15.00%) React
3 79 (14.63%) Kafka
4 65 (12.04%) CSS
5 62 (11.48%) RESTful
5 62 (11.48%) Spring Boot
6 60 (11.11%) AngularJS
7 57 (10.56%) HTML
8 55 (10.19%) REST
9 46 (8.52%) JMS
10 44 (8.15%) .NET
10 44 (8.15%) XML
11 34 (6.30%) GraphQL
12 33 (6.11%) Node.js
13 32 (5.93%) SOAP
14 25 (4.63%) Web Services
15 23 (4.26%) jQuery
15 23 (4.26%) JSON
16 19 (3.52%) NumPy
16 19 (3.52%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 56 (10.37%) Data Structures
2 40 (7.41%) Equities
3 34 (6.30%) Cloud Native
4 26 (4.81%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.33%) Data Centre
6 17 (3.15%) Mobile App
7 16 (2.96%) Algorithms
7 16 (2.96%) Product Ownership
8 14 (2.59%) Virtual Team
9 13 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.85%) Reinsurance
11 9 (1.67%) CMDB
11 9 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.48%) Clustering
12 8 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.30%) Derivative
13 7 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.30%) Mainframe
13 7 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 133 (24.63%) Linux
2 59 (10.93%) Windows
3 53 (9.81%) Unix
4 16 (2.96%) Android
5 12 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.93%) CentOS
6 5 (0.93%) Solaris
7 2 (0.37%) AIX
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (38.70%) Agile
2 186 (34.44%) Problem-Solving
3 138 (25.56%) CI/CD
4 104 (19.26%) Data Modelling
5 102 (18.89%) DevOps
6 100 (18.52%) Microservices
7 96 (17.78%) ETL
8 87 (16.11%) OO
9 75 (13.89%) Performance Tuning
10 73 (13.52%) Analytics
11 70 (12.96%) Containerisation
12 69 (12.78%) SDLC
13 65 (12.04%) Test Automation
14 60 (11.11%) Migration
15 57 (10.56%) Computer Science
15 57 (10.56%) OOP
16 55 (10.19%) Data Pipeline
17 54 (10.00%) Software Engineering
17 54 (10.00%) Visualisation
18 53 (9.81%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 318 (58.89%) SQL
2 252 (46.67%) Python
3 204 (37.78%) Java
4 102 (18.89%) JavaScript
5 47 (8.70%) Shell Script
6 42 (7.78%) C#
7 40 (7.41%) Perl
8 33 (6.11%) TypeScript
9 16 (2.96%) PHP
9 16 (2.96%) PL/SQL
10 15 (2.78%) PowerShell
11 14 (2.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (2.22%) Ruby
13 9 (1.67%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.11%) Bash
14 6 (1.11%) C++
14 6 (1.11%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.11%) Scala
14 6 (1.11%) VBA
15 4 (0.74%) C
Qualifications
1 69 (12.78%) Security Cleared
2 54 (10.00%) Degree
3 45 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 33 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.67%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.11%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.11%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.56%) OCP
9 3 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (10.37%) Data Quality
2 45 (8.33%) QA
3 12 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.30%) GDPR
5 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.56%) MiFID
5 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.37%) Basel III
6 2 (0.37%) SLA
7 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.19%) EMIR
7 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.19%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 101 (18.70%) Docker
2 10 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.56%) NFS
3 3 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (13.70%) Kubernetes
2 30 (5.56%) Terraform
3 19 (3.52%) Grafana
4 9 (1.67%) Ansible
5 6 (1.11%) Kibana
5 6 (1.11%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.74%) Data Guard
7 3 (0.56%) Argo
8 2 (0.37%) Consul
8 2 (0.37%) Control-M
8 2 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.19%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.19%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.19%) logstash
9 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 137 (25.37%) Oracle
2 64 (11.85%) Microsoft
3 43 (7.96%) ServiceNow
4 42 (7.78%) Sybase
5 23 (4.26%) Splunk
6 18 (3.33%) Databricks
7 16 (2.96%) IBM
8 15 (2.78%) AppDynamics
9 14 (2.59%) Google
10 10 (1.85%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.67%) Blue Prism
12 8 (1.48%) Cloudera
12 8 (1.48%) Dataiku
12 8 (1.48%) GoldenSource
12 8 (1.48%) Informatica
13 6 (1.11%) Pega
13 6 (1.11%) StreamSets
14 5 (0.93%) Gigya
14 5 (0.93%) SAP
14 5 (0.93%) Talend