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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 162 173
Rank change year-on-year -81 +11 +12
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 604 571 545
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.73% 1.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.35% 9.56% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 355 404
10th Percentile £356 £313 £314
25th Percentile £413 £401 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £712 £700 £662
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 1
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.70 -
25th Percentile £17.38 £20.59 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +29.63% -46.00%
75th Percentile £76.50 £63.44 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £20.07 £40.50
% change year-on-year +149.13% -50.44% -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 8,218 5,975 7,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.25% 18.12% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,485 4,011 4,930
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £605 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 96 99
10th Percentile £15.82 £21.02 £14.85
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.00 £19.80
Median hourly rate £38.25 £35.50 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +7.75% +4.63% -38.31%
75th Percentile £59.50 £62.44 £54.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.73 £70.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year +19.34% +6.83% -41.46%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 23 August 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 -71 494 £500 - 184
UK excluding London -97 278 £475 +5.56% 121
London -50 263 £530 -3.64% 80
Work from Home -87 145 £522 -0.57% 75
North of England -66 77 £450 +7.49% 32
South East -68 54 £525 +135.96% 39
North West -50 50 £427 +2.46% 20
Scotland -36 49 £460 -0.54% 2
Midlands -26 48 £450 -9.09% 23
West Midlands -39 31 £450 -9.55% 11
East of England -1 28 £508 -0.98% 11
Yorkshire -42 22 £507 +5.35% 9
East Midlands -7 17 £410 -16.33% 11
South West -47 16 £538 +43.33% 15
North East -36 9 £450 - 4
Wales -16 6 £475 -6.40% 1
Northern Ireland -7 3 - - 1

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 20 (3.31%) Apache Spark
1 20 (3.31%) Confluence
2 18 (2.98%) Apache
3 15 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.16%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (0.99%) Tuxedo
6 5 (0.83%) IIS
7 4 (0.66%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.66%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.50%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.33%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.17%) Appian
10 1 (0.17%) Camunda
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.17%) Liferay
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.66%) Acrobat
3 4 (0.66%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.66%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.66%) Finacle
2 7 (1.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.83%) Findur
4 4 (0.66%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.66%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.66%) Summit
5 3 (0.50%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.50%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.17%) Endur
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.17%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 204 (33.77%) AWS
2 143 (23.68%) Azure
3 88 (14.57%) GCP
4 69 (11.42%) GitHub
5 66 (10.93%) Power Platform
6 35 (5.79%) Snowflake
7 32 (5.30%) Serverless
8 28 (4.64%) Amazon S3
8 28 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (3.31%) GitHub Copilot
11 16 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (2.48%) Anthropic Claude
12 15 (2.48%) ChatGPT
12 15 (2.48%) OCI
13 14 (2.32%) dbt
13 14 (2.32%) SaaS
14 13 (2.15%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.99%) HTTP
2 10 (1.66%) Firewall
2 10 (1.66%) VPN
3 3 (0.50%) WinSCP
4 2 (0.33%) Internet
4 2 (0.33%) Intranet
4 2 (0.33%) SSL
5 1 (0.17%) AMQP
5 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.17%) Multicast
5 1 (0.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (27.98%) PostgreSQL
2 130 (21.52%) SQL Server
3 117 (19.37%) RDBMS
4 74 (12.25%) Data Warehouse
5 63 (10.43%) Power BI
6 62 (10.26%) MongoDB
6 62 (10.26%) MySQL
7 52 (8.61%) NoSQL
8 46 (7.62%) Oracle Database
9 39 (6.46%) Metadata
10 27 (4.47%) Db2
10 27 (4.47%) Tableau
11 26 (4.30%) Data Lake
12 20 (3.31%) Oracle Reports
13 17 (2.81%) Redis
14 16 (2.65%) Oracle Exadata
14 16 (2.65%) Power Query
15 15 (2.48%) Big Data
15 15 (2.48%) BigQuery
16 12 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 125 (20.70%) Git
2 68 (11.26%) Jenkins
3 56 (9.27%) GitLab
4 33 (5.46%) JIRA
5 27 (4.47%) Maven
6 25 (4.14%) Gradle
7 19 (3.15%) JUnit
8 14 (2.32%) Selenium
9 13 (2.15%) Eclipse
9 13 (2.15%) Mockito
10 12 (1.99%) Oracle Forms
11 10 (1.66%) Visual Studio
12 8 (1.32%) Claude Code
12 8 (1.32%) ER Studio
12 8 (1.32%) Liquibase
12 8 (1.32%) REST Assured
13 7 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
14 6 (0.99%) Ant
14 6 (0.99%) Gatling
14 6 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 195 (32.28%) Social Skills
2 180 (29.80%) Finance
3 157 (25.99%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (15.56%) Public Sector
5 88 (14.57%) Banking
6 31 (5.13%) Front Office
7 26 (4.30%) Investment Banking
8 16 (2.65%) Military
8 16 (2.65%) Publishing
9 12 (1.99%) Back Office
9 12 (1.99%) Retail
10 9 (1.49%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.16%) Law
11 7 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.99%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.99%) Marketing
13 5 (0.83%) Automotive
14 4 (0.66%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 250 (41.39%) Developer
2 121 (20.03%) Senior
3 80 (13.25%) Java Developer
4 63 (10.43%) Data Engineer
5 55 (9.11%) Senior Developer
6 53 (8.77%) Software Engineer
7 49 (8.11%) Analyst
8 39 (6.46%) Python Developer
9 38 (6.29%) Lead
10 35 (5.79%) Full-Stack Developer
11 28 (4.64%) Software Developer
12 26 (4.30%) Data Analyst
13 25 (4.14%) Architect
14 21 (3.48%) Java Engineer
15 19 (3.15%) .NET Developer
15 19 (3.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 19 (3.15%) Python Engineer
16 18 (2.98%) Backend Developer
16 18 (2.98%) DBA
16 18 (2.98%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (23.84%) REST
2 107 (17.72%) RESTful
3 99 (16.39%) Kafka
4 94 (15.56%) Spring
4 94 (15.56%) Spring Boot
5 83 (13.74%) React
6 70 (11.59%) .NET
7 55 (9.11%) Terraform
8 39 (6.46%) OAuth
8 39 (6.46%) Web Services
8 39 (6.46%) XML
9 38 (6.29%) CSS
10 36 (5.96%) HTML
11 35 (5.79%) JSON
12 33 (5.46%) AngularJS
13 29 (4.80%) SOAP
14 25 (4.14%) Middleware
14 25 (4.14%) OAuth2
15 21 (3.48%) .NET Framework
15 21 (3.48%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 79 (13.08%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (6.13%) Data Structures
4 32 (5.30%) Product Ownership
5 24 (3.97%) Management Information System
6 22 (3.64%) Derivative
7 20 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (2.65%) Low-Code
9 15 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (2.32%) Algorithms
10 14 (2.32%) Equity Derivative
11 13 (2.15%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.99%) Replication
13 11 (1.82%) AI Agents
13 11 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.82%) Equities
13 11 (1.82%) Onboarding
14 10 (1.66%) Hedge funds
14 10 (1.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 8 (1.32%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 64 (10.60%) Linux
2 44 (7.28%) Unix
3 35 (5.79%) Windows
4 21 (3.48%) AIX
5 14 (2.32%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.50%) Android
7 3 (0.50%) MVS
7 3 (0.50%) zOS
8 1 (0.17%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (42.22%) CI/CD
2 224 (37.09%) Agile
3 181 (29.97%) Problem-Solving
4 180 (29.80%) DevOps
5 143 (23.68%) Data Modelling
6 127 (21.03%) Microservices
7 122 (20.20%) Software Engineering
8 110 (18.21%) ETL
9 109 (18.05%) AI
10 108 (17.88%) Data Pipeline
11 102 (16.89%) Analytics
12 98 (16.23%) Validation
13 90 (14.90%) Containerisation
13 90 (14.90%) Test Automation
14 77 (12.75%) Continuous Improvement
15 75 (12.42%) Performance Tuning
16 73 (12.09%) Migration
17 70 (11.59%) Business Intelligence
17 70 (11.59%) Observability
18 68 (11.26%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 343 (56.79%) SQL
2 204 (33.77%) Python
3 203 (33.61%) Java
4 83 (13.74%) C#
5 78 (12.91%) JavaScript
6 41 (6.79%) TypeScript
7 23 (3.81%) PL/SQL
8 19 (3.15%) Shell Script
9 16 (2.65%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (1.99%) C++
11 12 (1.99%) Scala
12 11 (1.82%) R
13 9 (1.49%) Perl
13 9 (1.49%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.32%) Bash
15 7 (1.16%) Apex Code
15 7 (1.16%) VB
16 6 (0.99%) C
16 6 (0.99%) VB6
Qualifications
1 136 (22.52%) Security Cleared
2 108 (17.88%) SC Cleared
3 56 (9.27%) Degree
4 34 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.66%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.66%) MBA
9 3 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.50%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.17%) CFA
11 1 (0.17%) CISSP
11 1 (0.17%) ISEB
11 1 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (15.73%) Data Quality
2 74 (12.25%) QA
3 30 (4.97%) Accessibility
4 19 (3.15%) GDPR
5 8 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.99%) WCAG
7 5 (0.83%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 5 (0.83%) GMP
7 5 (0.83%) GxP
7 5 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 3 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.50%) SLA
9 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.33%) SEPA
10 1 (0.17%) COREP
10 1 (0.17%) FINREP
10 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 136 (22.52%) Docker
2 18 (2.98%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.50%) ACF2
4 3 (0.50%) RACF
5 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.33%) GridGain
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 124 (20.53%) Kubernetes
2 32 (5.30%) Ansible
3 19 (3.15%) Prometheus
4 17 (2.81%) Grafana
5 16 (2.65%) Data Guard
5 16 (2.65%) Oracle RMAN
6 6 (0.99%) Argo
7 3 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.17%) Istio
9 1 (0.17%) Kibana
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 173 (28.64%) Oracle
2 76 (12.58%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.46%) Google
4 31 (5.13%) IBM
5 23 (3.81%) Databricks
6 17 (2.81%) Sybase
7 13 (2.15%) Splunk
8 12 (1.99%) Informatica
8 12 (1.99%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.66%) SAP
10 8 (1.32%) OutSystems
11 7 (1.16%) Adobe
11 7 (1.16%) Sparx
11 7 (1.16%) Teradata
12 6 (0.99%) Alteryx
12 6 (0.99%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.83%) Actian
13 5 (0.83%) BeyondTrust
13 5 (0.83%) Bomgar
13 5 (0.83%) Solace