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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 161 197
Rank change year-on-year -61 +36 -20
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 536 527 514
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.79% 1.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.36% 9.46% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 348 388
10th Percentile £314 £401 £363
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £521 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.03% -5.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £650
90th Percentile £665 £688 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 4
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.05 £24.25
25th Percentile £20.77 £21.20 £26.50
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +47.89% -48.83%
75th Percentile £53.44 £53.75 £43.81
90th Percentile £72.72 £92.50 £49.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £21.40 £35.50
% change year-on-year +133.64% -39.72% -52.03%

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 7,286 5,573 7,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.25% 18.96% 16.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,925 3,838 5,212
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £475
% change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 99 144
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.60 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.54 £23.88 £20.98
Median hourly rate £49.36 £33.11 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +49.08% -17.48% -33.13%
75th Percentile £73.94 £65.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.50 £74.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +50.25% -20.90% -29.76%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -69 433 £455 -13.33% 181
UK excluding London -75 254 £450 -10.00% 133
London -24 234 £523 -1.32% 66
Work from Home -80 141 £450 -14.29% 107
North of England -49 63 £414 -10.54% 46
South East -45 62 £295 -42.44% 39
Scotland -14 55 £490 +4.26% 7
Midlands -50 47 £473 -4.55% 17
North West -42 43 £401 -13.30% 27
West Midlands -46 35 £473 -5.03% 9
South West -40 17 £429 -31.40% 15
Yorkshire -45 15 £520 -5.55% 13
East Midlands -30 12 £475 -4.04% 8
North East -13 7 £450 - 6
Northern Ireland 0 4 - -
Wales -9 4 £475 -12.04% 2
East of England -32 4 £600 +14.29% 12

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 30 (5.60%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.43%) Apache
2 13 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.87%) Confluence
4 8 (1.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (1.31%) IIS
5 7 (1.31%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.12%) Appian
6 6 (1.12%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.12%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.93%) JBoss
8 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.56%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.56%) Camunda
10 2 (0.37%) Drupal
10 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.37%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.37%) WordPress
11 1 (0.19%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 23 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.56%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.37%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 6 (1.12%) Findur
1 6 (1.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 6 (1.12%) Summit
2 5 (0.93%) Magento
3 4 (0.75%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.75%) Advent Geneva
3 4 (0.75%) Finacle
4 3 (0.56%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.56%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.56%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.37%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.37%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.37%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 177 (33.02%) AWS
2 116 (21.64%) Azure
3 62 (11.57%) GitHub
4 56 (10.45%) Power Platform
5 54 (10.07%) GCP
6 47 (8.77%) Serverless
7 40 (7.46%) Amazon S3
8 33 (6.16%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (5.78%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
11 27 (5.04%) Snowflake
12 18 (3.36%) OpenShift
13 17 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
14 16 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
14 16 (2.99%) SaaS
15 13 (2.43%) GitHub Copilot
16 11 (2.05%) dbt
17 10 (1.87%) Amazon SQS
18 9 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.68%) HTTP
2 5 (0.93%) Network Security
3 3 (0.56%) AMQP
4 2 (0.37%) Firewall
4 2 (0.37%) SMS
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.19%) Multicast
5 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.19%) RTMP
5 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (27.24%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (19.96%) SQL Server
3 94 (17.54%) MySQL
4 87 (16.23%) RDBMS
5 71 (13.25%) MongoDB
6 67 (12.50%) NoSQL
7 54 (10.07%) Power BI
8 50 (9.33%) Data Warehouse
9 36 (6.72%) Metadata
10 24 (4.48%) Oracle Database
11 23 (4.29%) DB2
11 23 (4.29%) Tableau
12 22 (4.10%) Big Data
12 22 (4.10%) Data Lake
13 19 (3.54%) Oracle Reports
14 18 (3.36%) DynamoDB
14 18 (3.36%) Redis
15 16 (2.99%) Power Query
16 13 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
17 12 (2.24%) Flink
Development Applications
1 76 (14.18%) Git
2 50 (9.33%) Jenkins
3 41 (7.65%) GitLab
4 27 (5.04%) JIRA
5 20 (3.73%) JUnit
6 16 (2.99%) Mockito
7 12 (2.24%) Maven
8 11 (2.05%) Gradle
9 9 (1.68%) Browser DevTools
9 9 (1.68%) Eclipse
10 8 (1.49%) REST Assured
10 8 (1.49%) Selenium
11 6 (1.12%) Android Studio
11 6 (1.12%) Gatling
11 6 (1.12%) Liquibase
11 6 (1.12%) NUnit
11 6 (1.12%) Serenity BDD
11 6 (1.12%) Xcode
12 5 (0.93%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.93%) ERwin
General
1 158 (29.48%) Social Skills
2 153 (28.54%) Finance
3 100 (18.66%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 48 (8.96%) Banking
6 26 (4.85%) Front Office
7 25 (4.66%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.61%) Publishing
9 10 (1.87%) Military
10 7 (1.31%) Back Office
10 7 (1.31%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.12%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.12%) Marketing
11 6 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.12%) Retail
12 4 (0.75%) Legal
13 3 (0.56%) Automotive
14 2 (0.37%) Law
14 2 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 213 (39.74%) Developer
2 80 (14.93%) Senior
3 56 (10.45%) Java Developer
4 52 (9.70%) Data Engineer
5 40 (7.46%) Python Developer
6 37 (6.90%) Analyst
6 37 (6.90%) Software Engineer
7 34 (6.34%) Senior Developer
8 32 (5.97%) Lead
9 28 (5.22%) Full-Stack Developer
10 23 (4.29%) Architect
11 22 (4.10%) Site Engineer
11 22 (4.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 21 (3.92%) .NET Developer
13 19 (3.54%) DBA
13 19 (3.54%) Technical Support
14 18 (3.36%) Business Analyst
14 18 (3.36%) Senior Data Engineer
15 16 (2.99%) C# Developer
16 15 (2.80%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (21.83%) REST
2 92 (17.16%) React
3 81 (15.11%) RESTful
4 78 (14.55%) Kafka
5 77 (14.37%) Spring
6 75 (13.99%) Spring Boot
7 62 (11.57%) .NET
8 43 (8.02%) CSS
9 39 (7.28%) XML
10 37 (6.90%) JSON
11 36 (6.72%) HTML
12 31 (5.78%) AngularJS
12 31 (5.78%) GraphQL
13 24 (4.48%) FastAPI
13 24 (4.48%) OAuth
13 24 (4.48%) Web Services
14 22 (4.10%) Django
15 21 (3.92%) Flask
15 21 (3.92%) SOAP
16 18 (3.36%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.02%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.72%) Product Ownership
3 35 (6.53%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (5.41%) Data Structures
5 27 (5.04%) Management Information System
6 20 (3.73%) Derivative
7 14 (2.61%) Fixed Income
8 11 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (2.05%) Equities
9 10 (1.87%) Hedge funds
10 9 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.68%) Equity Derivative
11 8 (1.49%) Client/Server
11 8 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.31%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 66 (12.31%) Linux
2 48 (8.96%) Unix
3 33 (6.16%) Windows
4 6 (1.12%) Android
5 4 (0.75%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.37%) MVS
6 2 (0.37%) zOS
7 1 (0.19%) AIX
7 1 (0.19%) CentOS
7 1 (0.19%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (38.62%) CI/CD
2 176 (32.84%) Agile
3 151 (28.17%) DevOps
4 136 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
5 122 (22.76%) Microservices
6 119 (22.20%) Data Modelling
7 104 (19.40%) Containerisation
8 96 (17.91%) Analytics
9 88 (16.42%) Data Pipeline
10 83 (15.49%) AI
11 82 (15.30%) Observability
12 80 (14.93%) ETL
12 80 (14.93%) Software Engineering
13 70 (13.06%) Test Automation
14 67 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
15 60 (11.19%) SDLC
16 59 (11.01%) Performance Tuning
17 58 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
17 58 (10.82%) Data Engineering
18 53 (9.89%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 303 (56.53%) SQL
2 189 (35.26%) Python
3 184 (34.33%) Java
4 89 (16.60%) JavaScript
5 71 (13.25%) C#
6 46 (8.58%) TypeScript
7 25 (4.66%) Perl
8 24 (4.48%) Shell Script
9 18 (3.36%) PL/SQL
10 17 (3.17%) Scala
11 16 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (2.24%) PHP
13 11 (2.05%) Bash
13 11 (2.05%) PowerShell
14 10 (1.87%) R
15 9 (1.68%) C++
15 9 (1.68%) Go
16 7 (1.31%) Apex Code
16 7 (1.31%) Ruby
17 5 (0.93%) VB
Qualifications
1 101 (18.84%) Security Cleared
2 73 (13.62%) SC Cleared
3 52 (9.70%) Degree
4 35 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.68%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.68%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.75%) MBA
10 3 (0.56%) CISSP
10 3 (0.56%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.56%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.19%) CFA
12 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (11.94%) Data Quality
2 52 (9.70%) QA
3 19 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.54%) GDPR
4 11 (2.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.93%) SLA
5 5 (0.93%) WCAG
6 3 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.56%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.56%) NCSC
7 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.37%) FATCA
7 2 (0.37%) IFRS
7 2 (0.37%) NIST
7 2 (0.37%) PMO
8 1 (0.19%) EMIR
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 136 (25.37%) Docker
2 5 (0.93%) Varnish
3 2 (0.37%) ACF2
3 2 (0.37%) GridGain
3 2 (0.37%) RACF
4 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 124 (23.13%) Kubernetes
2 43 (8.02%) Terraform
3 28 (5.22%) Grafana
4 26 (4.85%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.43%) Ansible
6 7 (1.31%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.12%) Puppet
8 4 (0.75%) Argo
8 4 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.56%) Kibana
10 2 (0.37%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.37%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.37%) TIBCO Hawk
11 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 145 (27.05%) Oracle
2 71 (13.25%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.48%) Databricks
4 17 (3.17%) Adobe
5 14 (2.61%) Splunk
6 13 (2.43%) Google
6 13 (2.43%) IBM
7 11 (2.05%) Informatica
7 11 (2.05%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.05%) Sybase
8 7 (1.31%) SAP
8 7 (1.31%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.31%) Teradata
9 6 (1.12%) Sparx
10 5 (0.93%) Ab Initio
10 5 (0.93%) OutSystems
11 4 (0.75%) Advent
11 4 (0.75%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.56%) SimCorp
12 3 (0.56%) TIBCO