Relational Database Contracts

Relational Database
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Relational Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Relational Database over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 178 158
Rank change year-on-year +9 -20 -7
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 581 798 1,527
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.45% 1.47% 1.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.05% 8.54% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 532 1,006
10th Percentile £325 £400 £409
25th Percentile £401 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +2.61% +7.48%
75th Percentile £600 £730 £675
90th Percentile £690 £806 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 20 17
10th Percentile £41.58 £54.50 £19.40
25th Percentile £43.19 £69.69 £27.75
Median hourly rate £46.50 £75.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.00% +50.00% -10.51%
75th Percentile £50.44 £78.19 £57.50
90th Percentile £52.43 £80.55 £64.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.50 £75.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -38.00% +50.00% -20.63%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 7,217 9,341 17,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.97% 17.19% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,137 6,534 12,389
10th Percentile £350 £363 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £800 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 164 171
10th Percentile £14.63 £20.91 £14.88
25th Percentile £20.19 £32.37 £21.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £55.00 £37.80
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +45.50% +40.00%
75th Percentile £59.34 £73.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £78.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £51.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -41.46% +46.43% +40.00%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Relational Database.

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Relational Database.

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Top 16 Contract 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 26 July 2024. 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 -5 475 £538 -10.42% 139
London +5 291 £550 -8.71% 52
UK excluding London +23 229 £500 - 115
Work from Home +26 215 £521 -9.32% 107
North of England +42 65 £525 +0.24% 25
South East +16 50 £375 -25.00% 26
Yorkshire +58 44 £550 -4.35% 4
South West +5 33 £538 -19.48% 23
Scotland +17 31 £450 +2.86% 6
Midlands +9 28 £400 -27.27% 13
North West +13 21 £453 -21.30% 16
Wales +21 17 £513 +1.23%
West Midlands -1 16 £423 -23.18% 11
East Midlands +20 12 £381 +2.35% 2
Northern Ireland +4 4 £400 -30.43% 16
East of England -3 1 £675 +14.41% 9

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 32 (5.51%) Apache Spark
2 31 (5.34%) Apache
3 22 (3.79%) Confluence
4 18 (3.10%) JBoss
5 13 (2.24%) Tomcat
6 12 (2.07%) nginx
6 12 (2.07%) SAS
7 11 (1.89%) Oracle Workflow
8 10 (1.72%) SharePoint
9 7 (1.20%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.86%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.86%) WordPress
11 4 (0.69%) CMS
11 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.69%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.52%) GemFire
13 2 (0.34%) Drupal
13 2 (0.34%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 15 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.52%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.55%) Temenos T24
2 7 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.86%) Endur
3 5 (0.86%) MIS ActiveH
3 5 (0.86%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.86%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.69%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 4 (0.69%) OPENHousing
4 4 (0.69%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 4 (0.69%) Oracle iProcurement
4 4 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.52%) Findur
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 180 (30.98%) Azure
2 163 (28.06%) AWS
3 81 (13.94%) Power Platform
4 59 (10.15%) GCP
5 42 (7.23%) GitHub
6 39 (6.71%) Serverless
7 34 (5.85%) Azure Data Factory
8 33 (5.68%) Amazon S3
8 33 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (2.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (2.07%) OpenShift
12 11 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (1.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 9 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (1.55%) SaaS
14 8 (1.38%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.93%) DNS
2 11 (1.89%) Firewall
3 10 (1.72%) AMQP
3 10 (1.72%) HTTP
4 9 (1.55%) Internet
4 9 (1.55%) Network Security
5 8 (1.38%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.20%) POP3
6 7 (1.20%) SMTP
7 6 (1.03%) IMAP
8 5 (0.86%) SSL
9 3 (0.52%) BGP
9 3 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (0.52%) IOS XR
10 1 (0.17%) DHCP
10 1 (0.17%) NaaS
10 1 (0.17%) VLAN
10 1 (0.17%) VPN
10 1 (0.17%) Wireless
10 1 (0.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (27.19%) SQL Server
2 131 (22.55%) RDBMS
3 113 (19.45%) MySQL
4 107 (18.42%) PostgreSQL
5 75 (12.91%) Power BI
6 69 (11.88%) NoSQL
7 51 (8.78%) Data Warehouse
8 48 (8.26%) Tableau
9 31 (5.34%) MongoDB
10 26 (4.48%) Data Lake
11 25 (4.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 23 (3.96%) Qlik Sense
13 21 (3.61%) Big Data
14 15 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (2.58%) DB2
14 15 (2.58%) DynamoDB
15 14 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
16 13 (2.24%) Oracle Database
16 13 (2.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 12 (2.07%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 117 (20.14%) Git
2 50 (8.61%) Jenkins
3 43 (7.40%) JIRA
4 36 (6.20%) JUnit
5 31 (5.34%) GitLab
6 20 (3.44%) Cypress.io
7 16 (2.75%) Postman
8 15 (2.58%) TeamCity
9 12 (2.07%) Maven
9 12 (2.07%) SonarQube
10 10 (1.72%) Visual Studio
11 9 (1.55%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.38%) Browser DevTools
12 8 (1.38%) Firebug
13 7 (1.20%) Burp Suite
13 7 (1.20%) Selenium
13 7 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
14 6 (1.03%) AppScan
14 6 (1.03%) Gradle
14 6 (1.03%) Subversion
General
1 175 (30.12%) Social Skills
2 124 (21.34%) Finance
3 104 (17.90%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (10.50%) Public Sector
5 56 (9.64%) Banking
6 24 (4.13%) Investment Banking
7 23 (3.96%) Front Office
8 9 (1.55%) Marketing
9 8 (1.38%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.38%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.20%) Back Office
11 6 (1.03%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.69%) General Ledger
12 4 (0.69%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.69%) Law
12 4 (0.69%) Retail
13 3 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 220 (37.87%) Developer
2 71 (12.22%) Senior
3 70 (12.05%) Java Developer
4 59 (10.15%) Analyst
5 48 (8.26%) Data Engineer
6 44 (7.57%) Architect
7 33 (5.68%) Senior Developer
8 30 (5.16%) Lead
9 28 (4.82%) Full Stack Developer
10 21 (3.61%) Support Engineer
11 20 (3.44%) .NET Developer
11 20 (3.44%) Consultant
11 20 (3.44%) Python Developer
12 17 (2.93%) Software Engineer
13 16 (2.75%) Data Scientist
13 16 (2.75%) DevOps Engineer
13 16 (2.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 15 (2.58%) PHP Developer
14 15 (2.58%) Technical Support
15 14 (2.41%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (13.77%) React
1 80 (13.77%) REST
2 72 (12.39%) HTML
3 70 (12.05%) Spring
4 66 (11.36%) CSS
5 62 (10.67%) Spring Boot
6 59 (10.15%) AngularJS
7 57 (9.81%) .NET
8 45 (7.75%) RESTful
9 38 (6.54%) Web Services
10 37 (6.37%) Kafka
11 33 (5.68%) Middleware
12 31 (5.34%) Elastic Stack
12 31 (5.34%) XML
13 27 (4.65%) JSON
14 25 (4.30%) Hibernate
14 25 (4.30%) Node.js
15 24 (4.13%) SOAP
15 24 (4.13%) Vue
16 22 (3.79%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.88%) Data Structures
2 37 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (4.99%) Algorithms
3 29 (4.99%) Onboarding
4 27 (4.65%) Product Ownership
5 21 (3.61%) Derivative
6 20 (3.44%) Fixed Income
7 18 (3.10%) Public Cloud
8 15 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (2.58%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.24%) Cloud Native
9 13 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
10 11 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.72%) CMDB
12 9 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (1.55%) Equities
12 9 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (1.55%) NHS
12 9 (1.55%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 132 (22.72%) Linux
2 82 (14.11%) Windows
3 68 (11.70%) Unix
4 30 (5.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (3.10%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.52%) AIX
6 3 (0.52%) CentOS
6 3 (0.52%) Solaris
7 1 (0.17%) Android
7 1 (0.17%) VMS
7 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (37.01%) Agile
2 141 (24.27%) DevOps
3 131 (22.55%) CI/CD
4 125 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
5 115 (19.79%) Data Modelling
6 104 (17.90%) Scrum
7 95 (16.35%) Business Intelligence
8 88 (15.15%) Microservices
9 87 (14.97%) Computer Science
10 81 (13.94%) Test Automation
11 79 (13.60%) Analytics
12 75 (12.91%) Continuous Integration
13 73 (12.56%) ETL
14 68 (11.70%) Software Engineering
15 62 (10.67%) SDLC
16 53 (9.12%) OO
17 52 (8.95%) TDD
18 51 (8.78%) Unit Testing
19 47 (8.09%) Visualisation
20 45 (7.75%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 291 (50.09%) SQL
2 181 (31.15%) Java
3 140 (24.10%) Python
4 110 (18.93%) JavaScript
5 62 (10.67%) C#
6 47 (8.09%) TypeScript
7 37 (6.37%) PowerShell
8 36 (6.20%) T-SQL
9 29 (4.99%) Shell Script
10 27 (4.65%) Scala
11 26 (4.48%) Perl
12 25 (4.30%) PHP
13 20 (3.44%) Bash
14 17 (2.93%) Go
15 16 (2.75%) Kotlin
16 14 (2.41%) C++
17 12 (2.07%) C
17 12 (2.07%) PL/SQL
18 11 (1.89%) VB
19 10 (1.72%) R
Qualifications
1 109 (18.76%) Security Cleared
2 108 (18.59%) Degree
3 93 (16.01%) SC Cleared
4 62 (10.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (5.16%) DV Cleared
6 25 (4.30%) Master's Degree
7 20 (3.44%) PMI Certification
7 20 (3.44%) PMP
8 7 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.03%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.86%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.69%) SANS
12 2 (0.34%) CISA
12 2 (0.34%) CRISC
12 2 (0.34%) ISEB
12 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.34%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (12.56%) QA
2 31 (5.34%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.55%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.03%) GDPR
5 5 (0.86%) MiFID
6 4 (0.69%) ISO 15022
7 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.34%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.34%) WCAG
9 1 (0.17%) EMIR
9 1 (0.17%) FATCA
9 1 (0.17%) FINREP
9 1 (0.17%) GAAP
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) HL7
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS
9 1 (0.17%) NCSC
9 1 (0.17%) NIST
9 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 92 (15.83%) Docker
2 39 (6.71%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.69%) HDFS
4 3 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 95 (16.35%) Kubernetes
2 57 (9.81%) Terraform
3 40 (6.88%) Ansible
4 34 (5.85%) Grafana
5 30 (5.16%) Prometheus
6 26 (4.48%) Progress Chef
7 14 (2.41%) Puppet
8 10 (1.72%) Kibana
9 9 (1.55%) Graylog
10 7 (1.20%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (1.20%) Zipkin
11 6 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (1.03%) HP Fortify
11 6 (1.03%) Nessus
11 6 (1.03%) WebInspect
12 5 (0.86%) Nagios
12 5 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.69%) logstash
13 4 (0.69%) Packer
14 3 (0.52%) Istio
Vendors
1 142 (24.44%) Oracle
2 111 (19.10%) Microsoft
3 41 (7.06%) Google
4 33 (5.68%) ServiceNow
5 29 (4.99%) IBM
6 21 (3.61%) CyberArk
6 21 (3.61%) Databricks
6 21 (3.61%) SAP
6 21 (3.61%) Splunk
7 19 (3.27%) Red Hat
8 12 (2.07%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.89%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.55%) Temenos
11 8 (1.38%) Sybase
11 8 (1.38%) TIBCO
12 7 (1.20%) Checkmarx
12 7 (1.20%) ION Trading
13 6 (1.03%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.03%) Okta
13 6 (1.03%) Veracode