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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 158 184
Rank change year-on-year -64 +26 -3
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 603 581 582
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.16% 1.82% 1.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.56% 9.94% 7.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 371 433
10th Percentile £343 £367 £356
25th Percentile £404 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% -4.65% -10.42%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £473 £508
% change year-on-year +0.11% -6.94% +1.55%
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% -46.00%
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 7,972 5,847 7,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.28% 18.30% 17.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,261 3,958 5,409
10th Percentile £350 £355 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £629 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 103 151
10th Percentile £15.57 £19.82 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £25.38 £20.24
Median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.67% -35.39%
75th Percentile £63.88 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £76.50 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +18.52% +5.47% -45.45%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -66 491 £488 -6.02% 189
UK excluding London -90 282 £473 +0.11% 156
London -37 266 £500 -9.09% 77
Work from Home -86 150 £486 -8.90% 135
North of England -71 74 £450 +1.12% 39
Scotland -29 58 £473 +0.53% 13
South East -63 55 £423 -11.05% 42
Midlands -36 52 £472 -3.28% 26
North West -59 46 £416 -5.77% 21
West Midlands -39 38 £472 -3.78% 14
Yorkshire -25 23 £519 -5.64% 14
South West -42 22 £470 -10.48% 10
East of England -20 15 £593 +24.94% 17
East Midlands -9 14 £475 -0.26% 12
North East -28 11 £450 - 6
Wales -14 6 £475 -10.80% 3
Northern Ireland -1 4 - - 11

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 (5.31%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.48%) Confluence
3 16 (2.65%) Apache
4 15 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.49%) IIS
6 7 (1.16%) Appian
7 6 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (1.00%) Tomcat
7 6 (1.00%) Tuxedo
8 5 (0.83%) JBoss
8 5 (0.83%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.66%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.66%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.50%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.33%) Drupal
11 2 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.66%) Acrobat
3 4 (0.66%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.66%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.66%) Finacle
2 9 (1.49%) Findur
3 8 (1.33%) Adobe Campaign
4 6 (1.00%) Summit
5 4 (0.66%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.50%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.50%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.33%) Magento
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%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.17%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 194 (32.17%) AWS
2 134 (22.22%) Azure
3 71 (11.77%) GCP
4 67 (11.11%) GitHub
5 60 (9.95%) Power Platform
6 36 (5.97%) Amazon S3
6 36 (5.97%) Snowflake
7 35 (5.80%) Serverless
8 31 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
10 23 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (2.99%) GitHub Copilot
12 14 (2.32%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (2.16%) Anthropic Claude
13 13 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (2.16%) ChatGPT
14 12 (1.99%) dbt
14 12 (1.99%) OpenShift
14 12 (1.99%) SaaS
15 11 (1.82%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.49%) HTTP
2 8 (1.33%) Firewall
2 8 (1.33%) VPN
3 2 (0.33%) AMQP
3 2 (0.33%) Internet
3 2 (0.33%) Intranet
3 2 (0.33%) 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
1 153 (25.37%) PostgreSQL
2 131 (21.72%) SQL Server
3 109 (18.08%) RDBMS
4 75 (12.44%) MongoDB
5 73 (12.11%) MySQL
6 66 (10.95%) NoSQL
7 60 (9.95%) Data Warehouse
8 58 (9.62%) Power BI
9 44 (7.30%) Oracle Database
10 36 (5.97%) Metadata
11 27 (4.48%) Tableau
12 24 (3.98%) Db2
13 23 (3.81%) Data Lake
14 22 (3.65%) Big Data
14 22 (3.65%) Oracle Reports
15 21 (3.48%) Redis
16 16 (2.65%) DynamoDB
17 15 (2.49%) Power Query
18 12 (1.99%) Flink
19 11 (1.82%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 97 (16.09%) Git
2 65 (10.78%) Jenkins
3 49 (8.13%) GitLab
4 35 (5.80%) JIRA
5 19 (3.15%) JUnit
6 16 (2.65%) Selenium
7 14 (2.32%) REST Assured
8 13 (2.16%) Eclipse
9 12 (1.99%) Mockito
9 12 (1.99%) Oracle Forms
10 11 (1.82%) Gatling
10 11 (1.82%) Gradle
10 11 (1.82%) Maven
11 10 (1.66%) Serenity BDD
11 10 (1.66%) Team Foundation Server
12 9 (1.49%) Liquibase
13 6 (1.00%) Claude Code
13 6 (1.00%) ER Studio
13 6 (1.00%) Visual Studio
13 6 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 182 (30.18%) Finance
2 175 (29.02%) Social Skills
3 126 (20.90%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (13.76%) Banking
5 72 (11.94%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.31%) Front Office
6 32 (5.31%) Investment Banking
7 18 (2.99%) Military
8 16 (2.65%) Publishing
9 13 (2.16%) Back Office
10 12 (1.99%) Retail
11 10 (1.66%) Marketing
12 8 (1.33%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.16%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.83%) Automotive
14 5 (0.83%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.66%) Electronics
16 3 (0.50%) General Ledger
16 3 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 238 (39.47%) Developer
2 112 (18.57%) Senior
3 65 (10.78%) Java Developer
4 58 (9.62%) Data Engineer
5 51 (8.46%) Analyst
6 49 (8.13%) Senior Developer
6 49 (8.13%) Software Engineer
7 44 (7.30%) Lead
7 44 (7.30%) Python Developer
8 38 (6.30%) Full-Stack Developer
9 28 (4.64%) Architect
10 24 (3.98%) Software Developer
11 23 (3.81%) .NET Developer
11 23 (3.81%) C# Developer
12 20 (3.32%) Backend Developer
12 20 (3.32%) Business Analyst
12 20 (3.32%) Data Analyst
13 18 (2.99%) Java Engineer
13 18 (2.99%) Senior Data Engineer
13 18 (2.99%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (22.06%) REST
2 102 (16.92%) Kafka
3 95 (15.75%) RESTful
4 93 (15.42%) React
5 92 (15.26%) Spring
6 90 (14.93%) Spring Boot
7 72 (11.94%) .NET
8 39 (6.47%) XML
9 34 (5.64%) JSON
9 34 (5.64%) Web Services
10 32 (5.31%) CSS
11 31 (5.14%) OAuth
11 31 (5.14%) SOAP
12 28 (4.64%) HTML
13 27 (4.48%) AngularJS
14 26 (4.31%) .NET Framework
14 26 (4.31%) Django
14 26 (4.31%) FastAPI
15 22 (3.65%) Flask
15 22 (3.65%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 63 (10.45%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.80%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (6.63%) Product Ownership
4 31 (5.14%) Data Structures
5 29 (4.81%) Management Information System
6 25 (4.15%) Derivative
7 17 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (2.82%) Low-Code
8 14 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (2.16%) AI Agents
9 13 (2.16%) Equity Derivative
10 12 (1.99%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.99%) Equities
10 12 (1.99%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.82%) Fixed Income
11 11 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.66%) Hedge funds
12 10 (1.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 9 (1.49%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 71 (11.77%) Linux
2 45 (7.46%) Unix
3 34 (5.64%) Windows
4 11 (1.82%) AIX
5 7 (1.16%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.50%) Android
8 2 (0.33%) MVS
8 2 (0.33%) zOS
9 1 (0.17%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (40.30%) CI/CD
2 208 (34.49%) Agile
3 178 (29.52%) DevOps
4 157 (26.04%) Problem-Solving
5 129 (21.39%) Data Modelling
6 123 (20.40%) Microservices
7 109 (18.08%) AI
8 108 (17.91%) Software Engineering
9 101 (16.75%) Analytics
10 98 (16.25%) Data Pipeline
11 95 (15.75%) Containerisation
12 90 (14.93%) ETL
13 81 (13.43%) Observability
14 80 (13.27%) Test Automation
15 72 (11.94%) SDLC
16 71 (11.77%) Validation
17 68 (11.28%) Business Intelligence
17 68 (11.28%) Performance Tuning
18 63 (10.45%) Full-Stack Development
19 62 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 342 (56.72%) SQL
2 204 (33.83%) Java
3 193 (32.01%) Python
4 88 (14.59%) C#
5 77 (12.77%) JavaScript
6 50 (8.29%) TypeScript
7 21 (3.48%) Shell Script
8 20 (3.32%) PL/SQL
9 16 (2.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (2.32%) PowerShell
10 14 (2.32%) Scala
11 13 (2.16%) Perl
12 12 (1.99%) C++
13 11 (1.82%) VB
14 10 (1.66%) Apex Code
14 10 (1.66%) R
15 8 (1.33%) Bash
15 8 (1.33%) VB6
16 7 (1.16%) Ruby
17 6 (1.00%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 123 (20.40%) Security Cleared
2 92 (15.26%) SC Cleared
3 51 (8.46%) Degree
4 29 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.33%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.16%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.00%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.66%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.66%) MBA
10 3 (0.50%) CISSP
10 3 (0.50%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.33%) 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 75 (12.44%) Data Quality
2 63 (10.45%) QA
3 26 (4.31%) Accessibility
4 14 (2.32%) GDPR
5 7 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.00%) WCAG
7 5 (0.83%) SLA
8 3 (0.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 3 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.50%) GMP
8 3 (0.50%) GxP
8 3 (0.50%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.33%) FATCA
9 2 (0.33%) IFRS
9 2 (0.33%) NIST
9 2 (0.33%) PMO
10 1 (0.17%) EMIR
System Software
1 135 (22.39%) Docker
2 12 (1.99%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.33%) ACF2
3 2 (0.33%) GridGain
3 2 (0.33%) RACF
3 2 (0.33%) Varnish
4 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 117 (19.40%) Kubernetes
2 52 (8.62%) Terraform
3 29 (4.81%) Prometheus
4 26 (4.31%) Ansible
5 23 (3.81%) Grafana
6 10 (1.66%) Data Guard
6 10 (1.66%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (0.83%) Argo
8 3 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.50%) Kibana
8 3 (0.50%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.33%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.33%) Puppet
10 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 166 (27.53%) Oracle
2 73 (12.11%) Microsoft
3 27 (4.48%) Databricks
3 27 (4.48%) IBM
4 20 (3.32%) Google
5 19 (3.15%) Splunk
6 17 (2.82%) Sybase
7 16 (2.65%) Salesforce
8 15 (2.49%) Informatica
9 14 (2.32%) Adobe
10 11 (1.82%) SAP
11 8 (1.33%) OutSystems
11 8 (1.33%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.33%) Teradata
12 7 (1.16%) Actian
12 7 (1.16%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.83%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.83%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.83%) OpenLink
13 5 (0.83%) Solace