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

 6 months to
30 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 146 193
Rank change year-on-year -96 +47 -19
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 520 546 521
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.89% 1.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.00% 9.99% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 347 397
10th Percentile £312 £402 £363
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £521 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% -3.52% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £578 £638
90th Percentile £688 £693 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -8.16% -6.67% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 3
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.05 £26.30
25th Percentile £18.52 £21.20 £31.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +29.63% -43.16%
75th Percentile £56.88 £53.75 £47.13
90th Percentile £73.38 £92.50 £51.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £21.40 £40.50
% change year-on-year +133.64% -47.16% -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 7,427 5,465 7,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.11% 18.93% 17.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,981 3,741 5,240
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £756 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 101 149
10th Percentile £14.26 £19.59 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.01 £23.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £42.11 £32.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.33% -17.98% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.99 £64.50 £61.50
90th Percentile £81.64 £76.25 £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £30.82 £36.75
% change year-on-year +28.16% -16.14% -37.28%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -77 424 £464 -11.67% 155
UK excluding London -93 241 £450 -8.16% 100
London -39 234 £500 -5.66% 80
Work from Home -108 131 £450 -15.65% 77
South East -51 59 £300 -40.00% 20
North of England -82 55 £450 -2.70% 26
Scotland -19 52 £473 +0.53% 5
Midlands -48 44 £468 -4.59% 18
North West -63 33 £416 -10.13% 14
West Midlands -58 32 £468 -5.56% 11
South West -38 20 £470 -27.69% 11
Yorkshire -53 18 £519 -5.64% 10
East Midlands -20 12 £475 -3.06% 7
East of England -31 8 £505 -6.05% 11
North East -19 7 £450 - 2
Wales -11 4 £475 -12.04% 2
Northern Ireland 0 3 - - 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 29 (5.58%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.50%) Apache
2 13 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.92%) Confluence
4 8 (1.54%) IIS
4 8 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (1.35%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.15%) Appian
6 6 (1.15%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.96%) JBoss
8 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.77%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.58%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.58%) Camunda
10 2 (0.38%) Drupal
10 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.38%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.38%) WordPress
11 1 (0.19%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 19 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.38%) CPLEX
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.35%) Findur
2 6 (1.15%) Summit
3 5 (0.96%) Finacle
3 5 (0.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.77%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.77%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.77%) Magento
4 4 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.58%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.58%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.58%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.38%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.19%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 169 (32.50%) AWS
2 115 (22.12%) Azure
3 60 (11.54%) GCP
3 60 (11.54%) Power Platform
4 59 (11.35%) GitHub
5 35 (6.73%) Serverless
6 32 (6.15%) Amazon S3
7 31 (5.96%) Snowflake
8 27 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (3.08%) OpenShift
11 14 (2.69%) SaaS
12 13 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (2.12%) Anthropic Claude
14 11 (2.12%) ChatGPT
14 11 (2.12%) dbt
15 10 (1.92%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.54%) HTTP
2 6 (1.15%) Firewall
3 4 (0.77%) VPN
4 3 (0.58%) AMQP
5 2 (0.38%) Network Security
5 2 (0.38%) SMS
6 1 (0.19%) DNS
6 1 (0.19%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.19%) Multicast
6 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.19%) RTMP
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (24.81%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (20.58%) SQL Server
3 81 (15.58%) RDBMS
4 75 (14.42%) MySQL
5 72 (13.85%) MongoDB
6 62 (11.92%) NoSQL
7 58 (11.15%) Power BI
8 52 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (6.54%) Metadata
10 27 (5.19%) Oracle Database
11 26 (5.00%) Tableau
12 22 (4.23%) Big Data
12 22 (4.23%) Data Lake
13 21 (4.04%) DB2
14 18 (3.46%) Redis
15 17 (3.27%) DynamoDB
16 16 (3.08%) Oracle Reports
17 14 (2.69%) Power Query
18 12 (2.31%) Flink
19 10 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 77 (14.81%) Git
2 55 (10.58%) Jenkins
3 43 (8.27%) GitLab
4 27 (5.19%) JIRA
5 19 (3.65%) JUnit
6 15 (2.88%) Mockito
6 15 (2.88%) Selenium
7 14 (2.69%) REST Assured
8 13 (2.50%) Maven
9 12 (2.31%) Gradle
10 11 (2.12%) Eclipse
11 10 (1.92%) Gatling
11 10 (1.92%) Serenity BDD
12 9 (1.73%) Browser DevTools
13 6 (1.15%) Android Studio
13 6 (1.15%) Liquibase
13 6 (1.15%) Xcode
14 5 (0.96%) Ant
14 5 (0.96%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.96%) ERwin
General
1 158 (30.38%) Finance
2 155 (29.81%) Social Skills
3 101 (19.42%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (11.92%) Banking
5 50 (9.62%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.96%) Investment Banking
7 25 (4.81%) Front Office
8 14 (2.69%) Publishing
9 13 (2.50%) Military
10 8 (1.54%) Back Office
10 8 (1.54%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.35%) Marketing
11 7 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.35%) Retail
11 7 (1.35%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.77%) Automotive
13 3 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.58%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 199 (38.27%) Developer
2 84 (16.15%) Senior
3 56 (10.77%) Java Developer
4 52 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 43 (8.27%) Analyst
6 41 (7.88%) Software Engineer
7 39 (7.50%) Senior Developer
8 38 (7.31%) Lead
9 37 (7.12%) Python Developer
10 25 (4.81%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (4.04%) Architect
12 20 (3.85%) Data Analyst
13 19 (3.65%) .NET Developer
14 18 (3.46%) Business Analyst
14 18 (3.46%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (3.46%) Site Engineer
14 18 (3.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 18 (3.46%) Software Developer
14 18 (3.46%) Technical Support
15 17 (3.27%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (22.31%) REST
2 85 (16.35%) React
3 83 (15.96%) Kafka
4 81 (15.58%) Spring
5 79 (15.19%) RESTful
5 79 (15.19%) Spring Boot
6 54 (10.38%) .NET
7 44 (8.46%) CSS
8 35 (6.73%) HTML
8 35 (6.73%) JSON
8 35 (6.73%) XML
9 30 (5.77%) AngularJS
10 27 (5.19%) Web Services
11 26 (5.00%) GraphQL
12 24 (4.62%) SOAP
13 23 (4.42%) FastAPI
13 23 (4.42%) OAuth
14 20 (3.85%) Apache Avro
14 20 (3.85%) Django
14 20 (3.85%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.46%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.73%) Product Ownership
3 32 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (5.19%) Management Information System
5 23 (4.42%) Derivative
6 19 (3.65%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.12%) Equities
7 11 (2.12%) Equity Derivative
7 11 (2.12%) Fixed Income
7 11 (2.12%) Low-Code
8 10 (1.92%) Hedge funds
9 9 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.54%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.35%) Client/Server
11 7 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 63 (12.12%) Linux
2 44 (8.46%) Unix
3 34 (6.54%) Windows
4 6 (1.15%) Android
5 5 (0.96%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.38%) AIX
6 2 (0.38%) MVS
6 2 (0.38%) zOS
7 1 (0.19%) CentOS
7 1 (0.19%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (40.38%) CI/CD
2 178 (34.23%) Agile
3 153 (29.42%) DevOps
4 134 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
5 118 (22.69%) Data Modelling
6 114 (21.92%) Microservices
7 97 (18.65%) Analytics
8 91 (17.50%) Containerisation
9 90 (17.31%) Data Pipeline
10 85 (16.35%) Observability
10 85 (16.35%) Software Engineering
11 84 (16.15%) AI
12 79 (15.19%) ETL
13 72 (13.85%) Test Automation
14 68 (13.08%) Business Intelligence
15 63 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
16 62 (11.92%) Performance Tuning
17 58 (11.15%) SDLC
18 55 (10.58%) Data Engineering
19 49 (9.42%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 298 (57.31%) SQL
2 188 (36.15%) Java
3 184 (35.38%) Python
4 90 (17.31%) JavaScript
5 70 (13.46%) C#
6 40 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.85%) Perl
7 20 (3.85%) Shell Script
8 16 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (2.69%) PL/SQL
9 14 (2.69%) Scala
10 11 (2.12%) Bash
10 11 (2.12%) C++
10 11 (2.12%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.35%) Apex Code
11 7 (1.35%) R
11 7 (1.35%) Ruby
12 6 (1.15%) Go
12 6 (1.15%) PHP
13 5 (0.96%) VB
Qualifications
1 99 (19.04%) Security Cleared
2 75 (14.42%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.42%) Degree
4 30 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.54%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.35%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.15%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.96%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.77%) MBA
11 3 (0.58%) CISSP
11 3 (0.58%) Tableau Certification
12 2 (0.38%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.19%) CFA
13 1 (0.19%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 46 (8.85%) QA
3 21 (4.04%) Accessibility
4 16 (3.08%) GDPR
5 10 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.96%) SLA
7 3 (0.58%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.58%) NCSC
7 3 (0.58%) WCAG
8 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.38%) FATCA
8 2 (0.38%) IFRS
8 2 (0.38%) NIST
8 2 (0.38%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) EMIR
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.19%) ITGC
System Software
1 130 (25.00%) Docker
2 4 (0.77%) Varnish
3 3 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.38%) ACF2
4 2 (0.38%) GridGain
4 2 (0.38%) RACF
5 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 115 (22.12%) Kubernetes
2 40 (7.69%) Terraform
3 29 (5.58%) Prometheus
4 27 (5.19%) Grafana
5 11 (2.12%) Ansible
6 5 (0.96%) Argo
7 4 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (0.77%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.77%) Puppet
8 3 (0.58%) Kibana
9 2 (0.38%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.38%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.38%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 137 (26.35%) Oracle
2 66 (12.69%) Microsoft
3 22 (4.23%) Databricks
4 20 (3.85%) Splunk
5 17 (3.27%) IBM
6 16 (3.08%) Adobe
7 14 (2.69%) Google
8 13 (2.50%) Informatica
8 13 (2.50%) Sybase
9 11 (2.12%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.54%) OutSystems
10 8 (1.54%) SAP
11 7 (1.35%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.35%) Teradata
12 5 (0.96%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.96%) OpenLink
12 5 (0.96%) Sparx
13 4 (0.77%) Alteryx
13 4 (0.77%) SimCorp
13 4 (0.77%) Talend
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