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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 176 174
Rank change year-on-year -68 -2 +10
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 611 541 536
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.11% 1.63% 1.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.45% 8.97% 8.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 343 382
10th Percentile £341 £214 £275
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £575 £588
90th Percentile £700 £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £425 £451
% change year-on-year +16.15% -5.82% -9.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 3
10th Percentile £14.68 - £37.65
25th Percentile £37.06 £51.25 £39.00
Median hourly rate £75.50 £52.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.81% +26.51% -44.67%
75th Percentile £77.00 £53.75 £57.75
90th Percentile £87.58 - £67.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +0.69%

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 8,204 6,032 6,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.84% 18.18% 17.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,455 4,050 4,499
10th Percentile £356 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £737 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 82 89
10th Percentile £17.03 £20.78 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.63 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.00 £39.48 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +16.36% -33.54%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.69 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.53% +18.30% -40.63%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -74 489 £515 +7.01% 706
UK excluding London -100 269 £494 +16.15% 341
London -56 260 £550 - 400
Work from Home -82 165 £506 +4.77% 285
North of England -70 72 £519 +29.75% 63
South East -71 55 £475 +128.92% 86
North West -39 49 £575 +57.53% 40
Midlands -32 48 £473 -3.96% 54
Scotland -45 46 £470 +4.44% 34
West Midlands -25 42 £473 -4.92% 34
East of England -7 31 £525 +2.44% 37
Yorkshire -44 22 £500 -0.20% 16
South West -41 15 £538 +2.38% 41
East Midlands -19 6 £455 -4.46% 20
North East -37 5 - - 8
Wales -14 4 £538 +10.82% 7
Northern Ireland 0 1 - - 21

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 33 (5.40%) Confluence
2 14 (2.29%) Apache
3 13 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (1.15%) IIS
7 6 (0.98%) Tuxedo
8 4 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.65%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.49%) CICS
10 2 (0.33%) CMS
10 2 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.16%) Appian
11 1 (0.16%) JBoss
11 1 (0.16%) Liferay
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.16%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.65%) Acrobat
3 4 (0.65%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.33%) CPLEX
4 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (1.64%) Finacle
2 7 (1.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.65%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.65%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.49%) Findur
4 3 (0.49%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.33%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.33%) Cerner Millennium
5 2 (0.33%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.33%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.16%) Endur
6 1 (0.16%) ENOVIA
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 217 (35.52%) AWS
2 152 (24.88%) Azure
3 97 (15.88%) GCP
4 72 (11.78%) GitHub
5 67 (10.97%) Power Platform
6 31 (5.07%) Snowflake
7 30 (4.91%) GitHub Actions
8 29 (4.75%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (3.60%) Serverless
10 21 (3.44%) Amazon S3
11 17 (2.78%) GitHub Copilot
11 17 (2.78%) OCI
12 16 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (2.62%) SaaS
13 14 (2.29%) Entra ID
14 13 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (1.96%) ChatGPT
15 12 (1.96%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.62%) Firewall
2 14 (2.29%) HTTP
3 13 (2.13%) VPN
4 4 (0.65%) Internet
4 4 (0.65%) SSL
5 3 (0.49%) WinSCP
6 2 (0.33%) DNS
6 2 (0.33%) Intranet
6 2 (0.33%) Network Security
6 2 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.16%) AMQP
7 1 (0.16%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (29.13%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (21.11%) SQL Server
3 111 (18.17%) RDBMS
4 73 (11.95%) MySQL
5 71 (11.62%) Data Warehouse
6 61 (9.98%) Power BI
7 56 (9.17%) MongoDB
8 51 (8.35%) Oracle Database
9 39 (6.38%) NoSQL
10 35 (5.73%) Metadata
11 26 (4.26%) Data Lake
12 22 (3.60%) Tableau
13 21 (3.44%) Db2
14 18 (2.95%) Oracle Exadata
15 16 (2.62%) Redis
16 15 (2.45%) Oracle Reports
17 14 (2.29%) Power Query
18 11 (1.80%) BigQuery
19 10 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
19 10 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 177 (28.97%) Git
2 79 (12.93%) Jenkins
3 53 (8.67%) GitLab
4 50 (8.18%) JIRA
5 46 (7.53%) Maven
6 36 (5.89%) Gradle
7 32 (5.24%) JUnit
8 27 (4.42%) Mockito
8 27 (4.42%) Selenium
9 17 (2.78%) SonarQube
10 13 (2.13%) Eclipse
10 13 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
11 10 (1.64%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (1.64%) Visual Studio
12 9 (1.47%) Claude Code
13 8 (1.31%) REST Assured
14 7 (1.15%) ER Studio
15 6 (0.98%) Gatling
15 6 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 219 (35.84%) Social Skills
2 170 (27.82%) Finance
3 162 (26.51%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (16.20%) Public Sector
5 98 (16.04%) Banking
6 28 (4.58%) Investment Banking
7 23 (3.76%) Front Office
8 16 (2.62%) Back Office
9 15 (2.45%) Retail
10 13 (2.13%) Military
11 12 (1.96%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.31%) Law
14 8 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (1.15%) Publishing
16 6 (0.98%) Automotive
16 6 (0.98%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.82%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 275 (45.01%) Developer
2 133 (21.77%) Senior
3 96 (15.71%) Java Developer
4 69 (11.29%) Senior Developer
5 57 (9.33%) Analyst
6 54 (8.84%) Data Engineer
7 43 (7.04%) Software Engineer
8 42 (6.87%) Python Developer
9 41 (6.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 41 (6.71%) Lead
10 39 (6.38%) Data Analyst
11 27 (4.42%) Java Engineer
12 24 (3.93%) Architect
13 23 (3.76%) Senior Java Developer
13 23 (3.76%) Software Developer
14 21 (3.44%) Backend Developer
15 18 (2.95%) .NET Developer
15 18 (2.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 18 (2.95%) Java Software Engineer
16 17 (2.78%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (22.75%) REST
2 119 (19.48%) RESTful
3 115 (18.82%) Spring
4 113 (18.49%) Spring Boot
5 95 (15.55%) Kafka
6 84 (13.75%) React
7 66 (10.80%) .NET
8 63 (10.31%) Terraform
9 58 (9.49%) AngularJS
10 52 (8.51%) Web Services
11 48 (7.86%) CSS
12 47 (7.69%) HTML
12 47 (7.69%) SOAP
13 41 (6.71%) OAuth
14 40 (6.55%) XML
15 35 (5.73%) Middleware
16 32 (5.24%) JSON
17 26 (4.26%) Django
18 25 (4.09%) OAuth2
19 24 (3.93%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 85 (13.91%) Cloud Native
2 54 (8.84%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (7.86%) Data Structures
4 39 (6.38%) Product Ownership
5 30 (4.91%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (3.27%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.62%) Derivative
8 16 (2.62%) Low-Code
9 15 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (2.13%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.96%) AI Agents
11 12 (1.96%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.96%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.96%) Replication
12 11 (1.80%) Equity Derivative
13 10 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (1.64%) Reference Data
13 10 (1.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 9 (1.47%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 77 (12.60%) Linux
2 50 (8.18%) Unix
3 39 (6.38%) Windows
4 26 (4.26%) AIX
5 23 (3.76%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.82%) Android
7 5 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.82%) zOS
8 4 (0.65%) macOS
9 2 (0.33%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (46.64%) CI/CD
2 264 (43.21%) Agile
3 193 (31.59%) Problem-Solving
4 168 (27.50%) DevOps
5 152 (24.88%) Data Modelling
6 129 (21.11%) Microservices
7 128 (20.95%) Validation
8 126 (20.62%) Test Automation
9 119 (19.48%) Software Engineering
10 109 (17.84%) Containerisation
11 106 (17.35%) Analytics
11 106 (17.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 106 (17.35%) ETL
12 100 (16.37%) Data Pipeline
13 96 (15.71%) AI
14 93 (15.22%) Migration
15 87 (14.24%) SDLC
16 77 (12.60%) Scrum
17 75 (12.27%) Business Intelligence
18 73 (11.95%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 355 (58.10%) SQL
2 210 (34.37%) Java
3 199 (32.57%) Python
4 91 (14.89%) JavaScript
5 75 (12.27%) C#
6 56 (9.17%) TypeScript
7 24 (3.93%) PL/SQL
8 19 (3.11%) PowerShell
8 19 (3.11%) Shell Script
9 13 (2.13%) Bash
9 13 (2.13%) T-SQL
10 12 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 11 (1.80%) C++
11 11 (1.80%) Perl
12 10 (1.64%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.31%) R
14 7 (1.15%) Scala
14 7 (1.15%) VB
15 6 (0.98%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.98%) VB6
Qualifications
1 147 (24.06%) Security Cleared
2 112 (18.33%) SC Cleared
3 49 (8.02%) Degree
4 28 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (4.42%) DV Cleared
6 20 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (0.98%) Azure Certification
7 6 (0.98%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.49%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.16%) CISSP
10 1 (0.16%) ISEB
10 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (16.53%) Data Quality
2 83 (13.58%) QA
3 32 (5.24%) Accessibility
4 20 (3.27%) GDPR
5 7 (1.15%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 7 (1.15%) GMP
5 7 (1.15%) GxP
5 7 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 7 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.65%) SEPA
6 4 (0.65%) WCAG
7 3 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.49%) SLA
8 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.33%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.33%) PSD2
9 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.16%) COREP
9 1 (0.16%) FINREP
9 1 (0.16%) ITGC
System Software
1 138 (22.59%) Docker
2 21 (3.44%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.82%) RACF
3 5 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.65%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.49%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.33%) ACF2
7 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 115 (18.82%) Kubernetes
2 41 (6.71%) Ansible
3 29 (4.75%) Grafana
3 29 (4.75%) Prometheus
4 18 (2.95%) Data Guard
5 16 (2.62%) Oracle RMAN
6 6 (0.98%) Argo
7 3 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.33%) systemd
9 1 (0.16%) Istio
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.16%) Podman
Vendors
1 176 (28.81%) Oracle
2 84 (13.75%) Microsoft
3 35 (5.73%) Google
4 32 (5.24%) IBM
5 26 (4.26%) Databricks
6 14 (2.29%) Splunk
6 14 (2.29%) Sybase
7 11 (1.80%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.64%) Informatica
8 10 (1.64%) SAP
9 9 (1.47%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.31%) OutSystems
11 7 (1.15%) Adobe
11 7 (1.15%) Alteryx
11 7 (1.15%) Sparx
12 6 (0.98%) Teradata
13 5 (0.82%) Actian
13 5 (0.82%) Bomgar
13 5 (0.82%) Broadcom
13 5 (0.82%) VMware