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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 149 190
Rank change year-on-year -85 +41 -8
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 517 549 524
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.90% 1.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.03% 10.02% 7.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 350 397
10th Percentile £313 £402 £363
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £521 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.83% -3.52% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £579 £638
90th Percentile £688 £689 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £458 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -6.63% -6.67% -7.69%
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% -42.14%
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 7,350 5,479 7,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.07% 18.93% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,915 3,752 5,235
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% -4.50%
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 229 101 150
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.59 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.82 £23.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.36% -17.23% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £65.62 £56.88
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.50 £72.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.84% -9.60% -40.26%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -91 421 £468 -10.95% 228
UK excluding London -93 238 £458 -6.63% 132
London -41 234 £500 -5.66% 124
Work from Home -94 130 £450 -15.65% 134
South East -48 57 £390 -22.00% 25
North of England -83 54 £450 -2.70% 38
Scotland -19 52 £473 +0.53% 7
Midlands -47 44 £468 -4.10% 21
West Midlands -52 32 £468 -4.59% 14
North West -59 32 £416 -10.10% 21
South West -33 20 £470 -21.67% 16
Yorkshire -50 18 £519 -5.64% 15
East Midlands -25 12 £475 -3.06% 7
East of England -34 8 £505 -6.05% 11
North East -21 7 £450 - 2
Wales -11 4 £475 -12.04% 4
Northern Ireland -1 3 - - 13

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 (5.61%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.51%) Apache
2 13 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.93%) Confluence
4 8 (1.55%) IIS
4 8 (1.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (1.35%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.16%) Appian
6 6 (1.16%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.97%) 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 (0.39%) Drupal
10 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.39%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.39%) WordPress
11 1 (0.19%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 18 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.39%) CPLEX
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.35%) Findur
2 6 (1.16%) Summit
3 5 (0.97%) Finacle
3 5 (0.97%) 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 (0.39%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.19%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 170 (32.88%) AWS
2 115 (22.24%) Azure
3 60 (11.61%) GCP
3 60 (11.61%) GitHub
4 59 (11.41%) Power Platform
5 35 (6.77%) Serverless
6 32 (6.19%) Amazon S3
7 31 (6.00%) Snowflake
8 27 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (3.09%) OpenShift
11 13 (2.51%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (2.51%) SaaS
12 12 (2.32%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (2.13%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (2.13%) ChatGPT
13 11 (2.13%) dbt
14 10 (1.93%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.55%) HTTP
2 6 (1.16%) Firewall
3 4 (0.77%) VPN
4 3 (0.58%) AMQP
5 2 (0.39%) Network Security
5 2 (0.39%) 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
1 128 (24.76%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (20.70%) SQL Server
3 80 (15.47%) RDBMS
4 73 (14.12%) MySQL
5 71 (13.73%) MongoDB
6 61 (11.80%) NoSQL
7 57 (11.03%) Power BI
8 52 (10.06%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (6.58%) Metadata
10 27 (5.22%) Oracle Database
11 26 (5.03%) Tableau
12 22 (4.26%) Big Data
12 22 (4.26%) Data Lake
13 21 (4.06%) DB2
14 18 (3.48%) Redis
15 17 (3.29%) DynamoDB
16 15 (2.90%) Oracle Reports
17 14 (2.71%) Power Query
18 12 (2.32%) Flink
19 10 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 77 (14.89%) Git
2 55 (10.64%) Jenkins
3 43 (8.32%) GitLab
4 27 (5.22%) JIRA
5 19 (3.68%) JUnit
6 15 (2.90%) Mockito
6 15 (2.90%) Selenium
7 14 (2.71%) REST Assured
8 13 (2.51%) Maven
9 12 (2.32%) Gradle
10 10 (1.93%) Eclipse
10 10 (1.93%) Gatling
10 10 (1.93%) Serenity BDD
11 7 (1.35%) Browser DevTools
12 6 (1.16%) Liquibase
13 5 (0.97%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.97%) Ant
13 5 (0.97%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.97%) ERwin
13 5 (0.97%) Xcode
General
1 158 (30.56%) Finance
2 153 (29.59%) Social Skills
3 101 (19.54%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (11.99%) Banking
5 50 (9.67%) Public Sector
6 31 (6.00%) Investment Banking
7 25 (4.84%) Front Office
8 14 (2.71%) Publishing
9 13 (2.51%) Military
10 8 (1.55%) Back Office
10 8 (1.55%) 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 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 199 (38.49%) Developer
2 84 (16.25%) Senior
3 56 (10.83%) Java Developer
4 52 (10.06%) Data Engineer
5 42 (8.12%) Analyst
6 41 (7.93%) Software Engineer
7 39 (7.54%) Senior Developer
8 38 (7.35%) Lead
9 37 (7.16%) Python Developer
10 26 (5.03%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (4.06%) Architect
12 19 (3.68%) .NET Developer
12 19 (3.68%) Data Analyst
13 18 (3.48%) Business Analyst
13 18 (3.48%) Senior Data Engineer
13 18 (3.48%) Site Engineer
13 18 (3.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 18 (3.48%) Software Developer
14 17 (3.29%) Senior Java Developer
15 16 (3.09%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (22.63%) REST
2 84 (16.25%) React
3 83 (16.05%) Kafka
4 81 (15.67%) Spring
5 79 (15.28%) RESTful
5 79 (15.28%) Spring Boot
6 55 (10.64%) .NET
7 42 (8.12%) CSS
8 34 (6.58%) HTML
8 34 (6.58%) JSON
9 33 (6.38%) XML
10 29 (5.61%) AngularJS
11 27 (5.22%) Web Services
12 25 (4.84%) GraphQL
13 24 (4.64%) SOAP
14 23 (4.45%) FastAPI
14 23 (4.45%) OAuth
15 20 (3.87%) Apache Avro
15 20 (3.87%) Django
15 20 (3.87%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.51%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.77%) Product Ownership
3 32 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (5.22%) Management Information System
5 23 (4.45%) Derivative
6 18 (3.48%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.13%) Equities
7 11 (2.13%) Equity Derivative
7 11 (2.13%) Fixed Income
7 11 (2.13%) Low-Code
8 10 (1.93%) Hedge funds
9 9 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.55%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.55%) 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
12 6 (1.16%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 62 (11.99%) Linux
2 43 (8.32%) Unix
3 33 (6.38%) Windows
4 5 (0.97%) Android
4 5 (0.97%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.39%) AIX
5 2 (0.39%) MVS
5 2 (0.39%) zOS
6 1 (0.19%) CentOS
6 1 (0.19%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (40.62%) CI/CD
2 178 (34.43%) Agile
3 153 (29.59%) DevOps
4 134 (25.92%) Problem-Solving
5 117 (22.63%) Data Modelling
6 114 (22.05%) Microservices
7 97 (18.76%) Analytics
8 91 (17.60%) Containerisation
9 90 (17.41%) Data Pipeline
10 85 (16.44%) AI
10 85 (16.44%) Observability
10 85 (16.44%) Software Engineering
11 79 (15.28%) ETL
12 72 (13.93%) Test Automation
13 67 (12.96%) Business Intelligence
14 63 (12.19%) Continuous Improvement
15 62 (11.99%) Performance Tuning
16 58 (11.22%) SDLC
17 55 (10.64%) Data Engineering
18 49 (9.48%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 297 (57.45%) SQL
2 187 (36.17%) Java
3 182 (35.20%) Python
4 88 (17.02%) JavaScript
5 70 (13.54%) C#
6 40 (7.74%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.87%) Shell Script
8 19 (3.68%) Perl
9 15 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (2.71%) PL/SQL
10 14 (2.71%) Scala
11 11 (2.13%) Bash
11 11 (2.13%) C++
11 11 (2.13%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.35%) Apex Code
12 7 (1.35%) R
12 7 (1.35%) Ruby
13 6 (1.16%) Go
13 6 (1.16%) PHP
14 5 (0.97%) VB
Qualifications
1 99 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 75 (14.51%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.48%) Degree
4 30 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.55%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.35%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.16%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.97%) 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 (0.39%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.19%) CFA
13 1 (0.19%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (12.38%) Data Quality
2 46 (8.90%) QA
3 21 (4.06%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.90%) GDPR
5 10 (1.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.97%) SLA
7 3 (0.58%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.58%) NCSC
7 3 (0.58%) WCAG
8 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.39%) FATCA
8 2 (0.39%) IFRS
8 2 (0.39%) NIST
8 2 (0.39%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) EMIR
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 130 (25.15%) Docker
2 4 (0.77%) Varnish
3 3 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.39%) ACF2
4 2 (0.39%) GridGain
4 2 (0.39%) RACF
5 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 115 (22.24%) Kubernetes
2 40 (7.74%) Terraform
3 29 (5.61%) Prometheus
4 27 (5.22%) Grafana
5 11 (2.13%) Ansible
6 5 (0.97%) 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 (0.39%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.39%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.39%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 134 (25.92%) Oracle
2 65 (12.57%) Microsoft
3 22 (4.26%) Databricks
4 19 (3.68%) Splunk
5 17 (3.29%) IBM
6 16 (3.09%) Adobe
7 14 (2.71%) Google
8 13 (2.51%) Informatica
8 13 (2.51%) Sybase
9 11 (2.13%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.55%) OutSystems
10 8 (1.55%) SAP
11 7 (1.35%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.35%) Teradata
12 5 (0.97%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.97%) OpenLink
12 5 (0.97%) Sparx
13 4 (0.77%) Alteryx
13 4 (0.77%) SimCorp
13 4 (0.77%) Talend