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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 151 200
Rank change year-on-year -72 +49 -25
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 526 535 514
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.18% 1.83% 1.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.45% 9.66% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 368 376
10th Percentile £313 £393 £356
25th Percentile £400 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £521 £545
Median % change year-on-year -12.67% -4.40% -9.17%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £686 £675 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £442 £493 £525
% change year-on-year -10.34% -6.10% -3.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 8
10th Percentile £33.80 £18.39 £22.17
25th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £26.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.50 £43.28
Median % change year-on-year +88.68% -38.77% -13.45%
75th Percentile - £51.94 £52.12
90th Percentile £64.32 £57.63 £59.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.84 £35.50
% change year-on-year +93.50% -27.21% -50.18%

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 7,063 5,540 7,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.91% 18.91% 16.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,856 3,852 5,165
10th Percentile £350 £351 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £760 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £488
% change year-on-year -2.81% +0.26% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 102 162
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.99 £14.04
25th Percentile £31.25 £24.38 £20.78
Median hourly rate £51.00 £32.23 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.26% -19.44% -33.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.67 £55.94
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £30.11 £39.25
% change year-on-year +66.09% -23.30% -28.64%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -66 439 £455 -13.33% 184
UK excluding London -66 244 £442 -10.34% 136
London -26 237 £523 -1.32% 70
Work from Home -71 157 £450 -14.29% 145
South East -23 73 £401 -20.74% 44
North of England -51 67 £425 -7.10% 33
Scotland -6 45 £450 -4.26% 9
North West -42 43 £402 -11.21% 13
Midlands -61 39 £460 -6.69% 24
West Midlands -54 28 £469 -4.92% 15
Yorkshire -48 19 £518 -5.91% 18
South West -41 14 £550 - 14
East Midlands -30 11 £433 -11.73% 9
North East - 7 £450 - 4
Northern Ireland -4 4 - - 2
East of England -27 3 - - 7
Wales -16 1 £475 -9.52% 4

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 26 (4.94%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.66%) WebLogic
3 13 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 11 (2.09%) Apache
5 7 (1.33%) IIS
5 7 (1.33%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.33%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.14%) Appian
6 6 (1.14%) Confluence
6 6 (1.14%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.95%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.76%) JBoss
8 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.57%) Camunda
10 2 (0.38%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.38%) CMS
10 2 (0.38%) Drupal
10 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.52%) Chatbot
3 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.38%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.33%) Advent Geneva
1 7 (1.33%) BusinessWorks
2 6 (1.14%) Findur
3 5 (0.95%) Magento
3 5 (0.95%) Summit
4 4 (0.76%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.57%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.57%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.38%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.19%) Maximo
7 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.19%) Shopify
7 1 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.19%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 198 (37.64%) AWS
2 113 (21.48%) Azure
3 65 (12.36%) GitHub
4 61 (11.60%) Serverless
5 54 (10.27%) Amazon S3
6 46 (8.75%) AWS Lambda
7 45 (8.56%) Power Platform
8 39 (7.41%) GCP
9 28 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (4.75%) Amazon ECS
11 23 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (3.99%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (3.42%) SaaS
13 18 (3.42%) Snowflake
14 17 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (3.23%) OpenShift
15 14 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 12 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
18 10 (1.90%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.95%) Firewall
1 5 (0.95%) HTTP
1 5 (0.95%) Network Security
1 5 (0.95%) Wireless
2 4 (0.76%) AMQP
2 4 (0.76%) DNS
2 4 (0.76%) Internet
3 2 (0.38%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (0.19%) Multicast
4 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.19%) RTMP
4 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (26.24%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (20.53%) SQL Server
3 105 (19.96%) MySQL
4 88 (16.73%) RDBMS
5 70 (13.31%) MongoDB
5 70 (13.31%) NoSQL
6 50 (9.51%) Data Warehouse
7 43 (8.17%) Power BI
8 25 (4.75%) DB2
9 23 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
9 23 (4.37%) Metadata
10 22 (4.18%) Big Data
10 22 (4.18%) DynamoDB
11 21 (3.99%) Data Lake
12 20 (3.80%) Oracle Database
13 17 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
14 13 (2.47%) Redis
15 12 (2.28%) Amazon Aurora
16 11 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (2.09%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 88 (16.73%) Git
2 57 (10.84%) Jenkins
3 37 (7.03%) GitLab
4 28 (5.32%) JUnit
5 22 (4.18%) JIRA
6 15 (2.85%) Mockito
7 11 (2.09%) Maven
8 9 (1.71%) Browser DevTools
9 8 (1.52%) Android Studio
9 8 (1.52%) Eclipse
9 8 (1.52%) Gradle
9 8 (1.52%) REST Assured
9 8 (1.52%) Selenium
9 8 (1.52%) Xcode
10 7 (1.33%) ERwin
10 7 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (1.14%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.14%) Gatling
11 6 (1.14%) PyCharm
12 5 (0.95%) Cypress.io
General
1 162 (30.80%) Social Skills
2 123 (23.38%) Finance
3 97 (18.44%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (9.32%) Public Sector
5 44 (8.37%) Banking
6 23 (4.37%) Investment Banking
7 16 (3.04%) Front Office
8 11 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.52%) Publishing
9 8 (1.52%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.14%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.14%) Marketing
11 5 (0.95%) Military
11 5 (0.95%) Retail
12 3 (0.57%) Back Office
12 3 (0.57%) Legal
13 2 (0.38%) Billing
13 2 (0.38%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 224 (42.59%) Developer
2 75 (14.26%) Senior
3 67 (12.74%) Java Developer
4 46 (8.75%) Data Engineer
5 37 (7.03%) Senior Developer
6 36 (6.84%) Analyst
7 33 (6.27%) Software Engineer
8 32 (6.08%) Python Developer
9 29 (5.51%) Full-Stack Developer
10 28 (5.32%) Lead
11 24 (4.56%) Architect
12 22 (4.18%) Technical Support
13 17 (3.23%) .NET Developer
13 17 (3.23%) DBA
13 17 (3.23%) Senior Java Developer
14 16 (3.04%) Business Analyst
15 15 (2.85%) C# Developer
16 14 (2.66%) Python Engineer
16 14 (2.66%) Software Developer
17 13 (2.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (19.77%) REST
2 92 (17.49%) React
3 90 (17.11%) RESTful
4 83 (15.78%) Spring
5 75 (14.26%) Spring Boot
6 68 (12.93%) Kafka
7 59 (11.22%) .NET
8 45 (8.56%) XML
9 41 (7.79%) CSS
10 39 (7.41%) JSON
11 38 (7.22%) AngularJS
12 32 (6.08%) HTML
13 31 (5.89%) Web Services
14 26 (4.94%) GraphQL
15 22 (4.18%) SOAP
16 21 (3.99%) Django
17 20 (3.80%) Node.js
17 20 (3.80%) Pandas
18 19 (3.61%) NumPy
19 17 (3.23%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.84%) Product Ownership
2 35 (6.65%) Cloud Native
3 30 (5.70%) Data Structures
4 27 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (3.80%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.23%) Virtual Team
7 15 (2.85%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.47%) Fixed Income
9 12 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.90%) CMDB
10 10 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
10 10 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.71%) Client/Server
11 9 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.71%) Equities
12 8 (1.52%) Derivative
12 8 (1.52%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.52%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.33%) Clustering
13 7 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 71 (13.50%) Linux
2 44 (8.37%) Unix
3 36 (6.84%) Windows
4 8 (1.52%) Android
5 4 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.57%) CentOS
7 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.19%) AIX
8 1 (0.19%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (36.88%) Agile
2 181 (34.41%) CI/CD
3 152 (28.90%) Problem-Solving
4 147 (27.95%) DevOps
5 131 (24.90%) Microservices
6 113 (21.48%) Data Modelling
7 106 (20.15%) Containerisation
8 93 (17.68%) Analytics
9 78 (14.83%) Software Engineering
10 76 (14.45%) ETL
11 67 (12.74%) Data Pipeline
11 67 (12.74%) SDLC
12 64 (12.17%) AI
13 63 (11.98%) Data Engineering
14 62 (11.79%) Test Automation
15 59 (11.22%) Performance Tuning
16 58 (11.03%) Business Intelligence
17 55 (10.46%) Observability
18 54 (10.27%) Computer Science
19 52 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 293 (55.70%) SQL
2 195 (37.07%) Java
3 191 (36.31%) Python
4 87 (16.54%) JavaScript
5 60 (11.41%) C#
6 35 (6.65%) TypeScript
7 27 (5.13%) Perl
8 21 (3.99%) Shell Script
9 18 (3.42%) PL/SQL
10 15 (2.85%) Scala
11 13 (2.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 13 (2.47%) PHP
12 12 (2.28%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.90%) Bash
14 9 (1.71%) Go
15 7 (1.33%) R
15 7 (1.33%) Ruby
15 7 (1.33%) XPath
16 4 (0.76%) C++
16 4 (0.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 97 (18.44%) Security Cleared
2 63 (11.98%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.51%) Degree
4 34 (6.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.28%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.52%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.76%) MBA
10 3 (0.57%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.57%) OCP
10 3 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.38%) CISSP
11 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (10.46%) Data Quality
2 50 (9.51%) QA
3 19 (3.61%) GDPR
4 17 (3.23%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.95%) SLA
6 5 (0.95%) WCAG
7 3 (0.57%) IFRS
8 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.38%) FATCA
8 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.38%) NCSC
8 2 (0.38%) NIST
8 2 (0.38%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.19%) EMIR
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.19%) MiFID
9 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 144 (27.38%) Docker
2 5 (0.95%) Varnish
3 2 (0.38%) GridGain
4 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 123 (23.38%) Kubernetes
2 49 (9.32%) Terraform
3 25 (4.75%) Grafana
4 22 (4.18%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.66%) Ansible
6 7 (1.33%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.33%) TIBCO Hawk
7 6 (1.14%) Puppet
8 4 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.57%) Argo
9 3 (0.57%) Packer
10 2 (0.38%) Consul
10 2 (0.38%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.38%) Kibana
11 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 140 (26.62%) Oracle
2 70 (13.31%) Microsoft
3 22 (4.18%) Databricks
4 18 (3.42%) ServiceNow
4 18 (3.42%) Splunk
5 17 (3.23%) Adobe
6 14 (2.66%) IBM
7 11 (2.09%) Sybase
8 10 (1.90%) Informatica
9 8 (1.52%) Google
9 8 (1.52%) TIBCO
10 7 (1.33%) Advent
10 7 (1.33%) BEA
10 7 (1.33%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.76%) Ab Initio
11 4 (0.76%) Dataiku
11 4 (0.76%) DevExpress
11 4 (0.76%) OpenLink
11 4 (0.76%) SAP
11 4 (0.76%) Teradata