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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 177 178
Rank change year-on-year -64 +1 +10
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 605 540 541
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.11% 1.63% 1.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.48% 8.97% 7.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 342 387
10th Percentile £346 £222 £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 £587
90th Percentile £693 £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 11 1 3
10th Percentile £14.00 - £37.65
25th Percentile £31.63 £51.25 £39.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £52.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.76% +26.51% -43.92%
75th Percentile £77.00 £53.75 £57.75
90th Percentile £88.75 - £67.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 - £72.50

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 8,087 6,019 6,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.82% 18.18% 17.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,380 4,036 4,575
10th Percentile £356 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £621 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £737 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 82 90
10th Percentile £16.73 £20.78 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.18 £39.48 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +14.55% -34.35%
75th Percentile £57.81 £64.69 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.53% +18.30% -42.86%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -68 487 £517 +3.40% 752
UK excluding London -87 269 £494 +16.15% 370
London -50 258 £550 - 435
Work from Home -77 161 £500 +1.52% 313
North of England -73 72 £519 +29.75% 72
South East -72 55 £475 +128.92% 98
North West -38 49 £575 +57.53% 50
Midlands -26 48 £473 -3.96% 53
Scotland -45 46 £470 +4.44% 37
West Midlands -29 42 £473 -4.92% 33
East of England -5 31 £525 +2.44% 40
Yorkshire -39 22 £500 -0.20% 19
South West -35 15 £538 +2.38% 35
East Midlands -11 6 £455 -4.46% 20
North East -35 5 - - 4
Wales -13 4 £538 +10.82% 9
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 28

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 (5.29%) Confluence
2 15 (2.48%) Apache
3 14 (2.31%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.65%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (1.16%) IIS
7 6 (0.99%) Tuxedo
8 4 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.66%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.50%) CICS
10 2 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.17%) Appian
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) JBoss
11 1 (0.17%) Liferay
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.66%) Acrobat
3 4 (0.66%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.33%) CPLEX
4 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (1.82%) Finacle
2 7 (1.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.66%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.50%) Findur
4 3 (0.50%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.50%) Teamcenter
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 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.17%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 218 (36.03%) AWS
2 149 (24.63%) Azure
3 97 (16.03%) GCP
4 72 (11.90%) GitHub
5 66 (10.91%) Power Platform
6 31 (5.12%) Snowflake
7 30 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (3.80%) Serverless
10 22 (3.64%) Amazon S3
11 17 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (2.81%) GitHub Copilot
11 17 (2.81%) OCI
12 16 (2.64%) SaaS
13 14 (2.31%) Entra ID
14 13 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (1.98%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (1.98%) ChatGPT
15 12 (1.98%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.64%) Firewall
2 14 (2.31%) HTTP
3 13 (2.15%) VPN
4 4 (0.66%) Internet
4 4 (0.66%) SSL
5 3 (0.50%) 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 (0.17%) AMQP
7 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (29.09%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (20.17%) SQL Server
3 110 (18.18%) RDBMS
4 72 (11.90%) MySQL
5 70 (11.57%) Data Warehouse
6 60 (9.92%) Power BI
7 56 (9.26%) MongoDB
8 51 (8.43%) Oracle Database
9 39 (6.45%) NoSQL
10 34 (5.62%) Metadata
11 25 (4.13%) Data Lake
12 22 (3.64%) Tableau
13 21 (3.47%) Db2
14 18 (2.98%) Oracle Exadata
15 16 (2.64%) Redis
16 14 (2.31%) Oracle Reports
16 14 (2.31%) Power Query
17 11 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (1.82%) BigQuery
18 10 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 176 (29.09%) Git
2 78 (12.89%) Jenkins
3 52 (8.60%) GitLab
4 49 (8.10%) JIRA
5 46 (7.60%) Maven
6 36 (5.95%) Gradle
7 32 (5.29%) JUnit
8 27 (4.46%) Mockito
8 27 (4.46%) Selenium
9 17 (2.81%) SonarQube
10 13 (2.15%) Eclipse
10 13 (2.15%) Oracle Forms
11 10 (1.65%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (1.65%) Visual Studio
12 9 (1.49%) Bitbucket
12 9 (1.49%) Claude Code
13 8 (1.32%) REST Assured
14 7 (1.16%) ER Studio
15 6 (0.99%) Gatling
15 6 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 217 (35.87%) Social Skills
2 169 (27.93%) Finance
3 160 (26.45%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (16.20%) Banking
4 98 (16.20%) Public Sector
5 27 (4.46%) Investment Banking
6 24 (3.97%) Front Office
7 16 (2.64%) Back Office
8 15 (2.48%) Retail
9 13 (2.15%) Military
10 10 (1.65%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.32%) Law
13 7 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.16%) Publishing
14 6 (0.99%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.83%) Automotive
15 5 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 272 (44.96%) Developer
2 131 (21.65%) Senior
3 96 (15.87%) Java Developer
4 67 (11.07%) Senior Developer
5 55 (9.09%) Analyst
5 55 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 43 (7.11%) Software Engineer
7 42 (6.94%) Python Developer
8 41 (6.78%) Lead
9 40 (6.61%) Full-Stack Developer
10 37 (6.12%) Data Analyst
11 27 (4.46%) Java Engineer
12 24 (3.97%) Architect
13 23 (3.80%) Senior Java Developer
13 23 (3.80%) Software Developer
14 21 (3.47%) Backend Developer
15 18 (2.98%) .NET Developer
15 18 (2.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 18 (2.98%) Java Software Engineer
16 17 (2.81%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (22.98%) REST
2 119 (19.67%) RESTful
3 115 (19.01%) Spring
4 113 (18.68%) Spring Boot
5 95 (15.70%) Kafka
6 83 (13.72%) React
7 64 (10.58%) .NET
7 64 (10.58%) Terraform
8 57 (9.42%) AngularJS
9 51 (8.43%) Web Services
10 48 (7.93%) CSS
11 47 (7.77%) HTML
11 47 (7.77%) SOAP
12 41 (6.78%) OAuth
13 40 (6.61%) XML
14 32 (5.29%) JSON
15 31 (5.12%) Middleware
16 26 (4.30%) Django
17 25 (4.13%) OAuth2
18 24 (3.97%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 86 (14.21%) Cloud Native
2 54 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (7.77%) Data Structures
4 39 (6.45%) Product Ownership
5 28 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (3.14%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.64%) Derivative
7 16 (2.64%) Low-Code
8 15 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (2.15%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.98%) AI Agents
11 12 (1.98%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.98%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.98%) Replication
12 11 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.82%) Equity Derivative
12 11 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 10 (1.65%) Reference Data
14 9 (1.49%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 76 (12.56%) Linux
2 49 (8.10%) Unix
3 39 (6.45%) Windows
4 25 (4.13%) AIX
5 22 (3.64%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.83%) Android
7 5 (0.83%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.83%) zOS
8 4 (0.66%) macOS
9 2 (0.33%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (46.78%) CI/CD
2 261 (43.14%) Agile
3 194 (32.07%) Problem-Solving
4 167 (27.60%) DevOps
5 150 (24.79%) Data Modelling
6 128 (21.16%) Microservices
7 127 (20.99%) Validation
8 124 (20.50%) Test Automation
9 118 (19.50%) Software Engineering
10 109 (18.02%) Containerisation
11 107 (17.69%) ETL
12 104 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 102 (16.86%) Analytics
14 99 (16.36%) Data Pipeline
15 94 (15.54%) AI
16 91 (15.04%) Migration
17 86 (14.21%) SDLC
18 77 (12.73%) Scrum
19 73 (12.07%) Infrastructure as Code
20 72 (11.90%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 351 (58.02%) SQL
2 209 (34.55%) Java
3 198 (32.73%) Python
4 91 (15.04%) JavaScript
5 73 (12.07%) C#
6 55 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 24 (3.97%) PL/SQL
8 19 (3.14%) PowerShell
8 19 (3.14%) Shell Script
9 13 (2.15%) Bash
9 13 (2.15%) T-SQL
10 12 (1.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 11 (1.82%) Perl
12 10 (1.65%) C++
12 10 (1.65%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.32%) R
13 8 (1.32%) Scala
14 7 (1.16%) VB
15 6 (0.99%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.99%) C
Qualifications
1 147 (24.30%) Security Cleared
2 112 (18.51%) SC Cleared
3 48 (7.93%) Degree
4 28 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (4.46%) DV Cleared
6 19 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (0.99%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.83%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.50%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.17%) CISSP
11 1 (0.17%) ISEB
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (16.53%) Data Quality
2 83 (13.72%) QA
3 32 (5.29%) Accessibility
4 20 (3.31%) GDPR
5 7 (1.16%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 7 (1.16%) GMP
5 7 (1.16%) GxP
5 7 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 7 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.66%) SEPA
6 4 (0.66%) WCAG
7 3 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.50%) SLA
8 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.33%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.33%) PSD2
9 1 (0.17%) ITGC
9 1 (0.17%) NCSC
9 1 (0.17%) NIST
9 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 138 (22.81%) Docker
2 21 (3.47%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.83%) RACF
3 5 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.66%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.50%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.33%) ACF2
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 114 (18.84%) Kubernetes
2 40 (6.61%) Ansible
3 29 (4.79%) Prometheus
4 28 (4.63%) Grafana
5 18 (2.98%) Data Guard
6 16 (2.64%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (0.99%) Argo
8 3 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.33%) systemd
10 1 (0.17%) Istio
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.17%) Podman
Vendors
1 172 (28.43%) Oracle
2 82 (13.55%) Microsoft
3 35 (5.79%) Google
4 32 (5.29%) IBM
5 25 (4.13%) Databricks
6 14 (2.31%) Splunk
7 13 (2.15%) Sybase
8 11 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.65%) Informatica
10 9 (1.49%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.49%) SAP
11 8 (1.32%) OutSystems
12 7 (1.16%) Adobe
12 7 (1.16%) Alteryx
12 7 (1.16%) Sparx
13 6 (0.99%) Teradata
14 5 (0.83%) Bomgar
14 5 (0.83%) Broadcom
14 5 (0.83%) Talend
14 5 (0.83%) VMware