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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 180 185
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 -19
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 563 523 672
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.61% 1.42% 1.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.97% 8.09% 8.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 365 461
10th Percentile £204 £227 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £523 £540
Median % change year-on-year -11.72% -3.24% -6.09%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £635
90th Percentile £675 £650 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £423 £455 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% -9.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 24
10th Percentile - £25.79 £45.09
25th Percentile - £26.38 £53.51
Median hourly rate - £38.50 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year - -46.53% +211.89%
75th Percentile - £44.13 £76.90
90th Percentile - £57.40 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £26.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -62.14% +203.23%

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 6,278 6,465 7,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.96% 17.60% 16.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,268 4,312 5,459
10th Percentile £330 £345 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 89 154
10th Percentile £20.73 £17.50 £17.38
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £23.62
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.59 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.20% -35.60% -4.90%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £69.69
90th Percentile £83.60 £66.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.75 £30.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year +39.17% -35.95% +4.83%

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 7 November 2025.

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
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 7 November 2025. 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 -6 463 £470 -10.48% 653
UK excluding London +13 284 £423 -7.14% 512
London -4 233 £525 -4.55% 290
Work from Home +8 203 £459 -9.28% 396
North of England +3 82 £412 -13.26% 104
South East +12 70 £208 +1.22% 249
Scotland +47 62 £425 -5.56% 29
North West 0 42 £374 -9.39% 63
Yorkshire -17 39 £501 -4.57% 28
Midlands -28 27 £460 -7.35% 58
South West 0 22 £550 - 30
West Midlands -32 18 £463 -10.11% 36
East of England -12 11 £513 +28.13% 12
East Midlands -23 9 £442 +10.31% 21
Northern Ireland -3 7 £425 -10.53% 14
Wales -2 5 £485 +1.31% 13
North East - 1 £400 - 14

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 21 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.20%) Apache
3 15 (2.66%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.42%) JBoss
4 8 (1.42%) nginx
5 7 (1.24%) WebLogic
6 6 (1.07%) Jupyter
6 6 (1.07%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.89%) Confluence
8 4 (0.71%) SAS
8 4 (0.71%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.53%) CICS
9 3 (0.53%) Drupal
9 3 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.53%) WordPress
10 2 (0.36%) Alfresco
10 2 (0.36%) Appian
10 2 (0.36%) Camunda
10 2 (0.36%) Moodle
10 2 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.89%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Advent Geneva
1 4 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.53%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.36%) Endur
3 2 (0.36%) Kondor
4 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.18%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (0.18%) Maximo
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 191 (33.93%) AWS
2 128 (22.74%) Azure
3 63 (11.19%) Serverless
4 56 (9.95%) Amazon S3
4 56 (9.95%) GCP
5 53 (9.41%) Power Platform
6 51 (9.06%) GitHub
7 48 (8.53%) AWS Lambda
8 45 (7.99%) SaaS
9 25 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
9 25 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (4.44%) Snowflake
10 23 (4.09%) OpenShift
11 22 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
12 21 (3.73%) Amazon SQS
13 20 (3.55%) PaaS
14 18 (3.20%) dbt
14 18 (3.20%) Sauce Labs
15 17 (3.02%) Amazon EventBridge
15 17 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.20%) Wireless
2 14 (2.49%) HTTP
3 12 (2.13%) Firewall
4 10 (1.78%) Internet
5 4 (0.71%) AMQP
5 4 (0.71%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.53%) DNS
6 3 (0.53%) MQTT
6 3 (0.53%) SSL
7 2 (0.36%) MPLS
7 2 (0.36%) WAN
8 1 (0.18%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.18%) LAN
8 1 (0.18%) NAS
8 1 (0.18%) POP3
8 1 (0.18%) SMS
8 1 (0.18%) SMTP
8 1 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (21.85%) PostgreSQL
2 116 (20.60%) RDBMS
3 107 (19.01%) MySQL
4 95 (16.87%) SQL Server
5 88 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
6 67 (11.90%) MongoDB
7 55 (9.77%) DB2
8 51 (9.06%) Power BI
9 49 (8.70%) NoSQL
10 26 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
10 26 (4.62%) Data Lake
11 23 (4.09%) Big Data
12 19 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (3.37%) Oracle Database
13 17 (3.02%) DynamoDB
13 17 (3.02%) Tableau
14 16 (2.84%) Metadata
15 13 (2.31%) BigQuery
15 13 (2.31%) DataStage
15 13 (2.31%) Redis
Development Applications
1 111 (19.72%) Git
2 58 (10.30%) JUnit
3 45 (7.99%) Jenkins
4 41 (7.28%) JIRA
5 25 (4.44%) Browser DevTools
6 22 (3.91%) Eclipse
7 20 (3.55%) Maven
8 18 (3.20%) Android Studio
8 18 (3.20%) Xcode
9 17 (3.02%) Gradle
10 11 (1.95%) Cucumber
10 11 (1.95%) SonarQube
11 9 (1.60%) Mockito
12 8 (1.42%) ERwin
12 8 (1.42%) TeamCity
12 8 (1.42%) webpack
13 7 (1.24%) GitLab
14 6 (1.07%) Firebug
14 6 (1.07%) PyCharm
14 6 (1.07%) Selenium
General
1 235 (41.74%) Social Skills
2 145 (25.75%) Finance
3 108 (19.18%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (14.21%) Banking
5 48 (8.53%) Investment Banking
6 41 (7.28%) Public Sector
7 29 (5.15%) Front Office
8 15 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.07%) Digital Healthcare
12 6 (1.07%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.89%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.53%) Back Office
14 3 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.53%) Legal
15 2 (0.36%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.36%) Military
15 2 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 245 (43.52%) Developer
2 100 (17.76%) Java Developer
3 84 (14.92%) Senior
4 63 (11.19%) Senior Developer
5 48 (8.53%) Data Engineer
6 47 (8.35%) Analyst
7 41 (7.28%) Technical Support
8 38 (6.75%) Lead
9 36 (6.39%) Senior Java Developer
10 34 (6.04%) Support Engineer
11 33 (5.86%) SQL Developer
12 32 (5.68%) Investment Banking Java Developer
13 28 (4.97%) Data Analyst
14 26 (4.62%) Architect
14 26 (4.62%) Technical Engineer
14 26 (4.62%) Technical Support Engineer
15 22 (3.91%) Full-Stack Developer
16 21 (3.73%) Python Developer
17 19 (3.37%) Linux Developer
17 19 (3.37%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (18.47%) Spring
2 80 (14.21%) React
3 76 (13.50%) Kafka
4 70 (12.43%) Spring Boot
5 67 (11.90%) AngularJS
6 65 (11.55%) RESTful
7 62 (11.01%) CSS
8 58 (10.30%) REST
9 55 (9.77%) HTML
10 50 (8.88%) XML
11 44 (7.82%) JMS
12 41 (7.28%) .NET
13 34 (6.04%) GraphQL
13 34 (6.04%) SOAP
14 33 (5.86%) Node.js
15 26 (4.62%) JSON
16 24 (4.26%) Web Services
17 23 (4.09%) jQuery
18 22 (3.91%) NumPy
18 22 (3.91%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 50 (8.88%) Data Structures
2 35 (6.22%) Equities
3 34 (6.04%) Cloud Native
4 27 (4.80%) Management Information System
5 20 (3.55%) Virtual Team
6 19 (3.37%) Mobile App
7 18 (3.20%) Algorithms
7 18 (3.20%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.84%) Product Ownership
9 12 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.95%) CMDB
10 11 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.78%) Reinsurance
12 9 (1.60%) Clustering
13 8 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.24%) Mainframe
14 7 (1.24%) Onboarding
15 6 (1.07%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 130 (23.09%) Linux
2 64 (11.37%) Windows
3 55 (9.77%) Unix
4 18 (3.20%) Android
5 11 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.89%) CentOS
6 5 (0.89%) Solaris
7 3 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.18%) AIX
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (39.08%) Agile
2 192 (34.10%) Problem-Solving
3 138 (24.51%) CI/CD
4 117 (20.78%) Data Modelling
5 107 (19.01%) Microservices
6 101 (17.94%) DevOps
7 100 (17.76%) ETL
8 92 (16.34%) OO
9 76 (13.50%) Analytics
10 73 (12.97%) SDLC
11 72 (12.79%) Containerisation
12 68 (12.08%) Performance Tuning
13 67 (11.90%) Test Automation
14 62 (11.01%) Business Intelligence
15 59 (10.48%) Computer Science
15 59 (10.48%) Data Pipeline
15 59 (10.48%) Visualisation
16 58 (10.30%) Migration
16 58 (10.30%) OOP
17 53 (9.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 327 (58.08%) SQL
2 259 (46.00%) Python
3 215 (38.19%) Java
4 102 (18.12%) JavaScript
5 44 (7.82%) Perl
6 40 (7.10%) Shell Script
7 35 (6.22%) C#
8 26 (4.62%) TypeScript
9 17 (3.02%) PL/SQL
10 16 (2.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (2.84%) PHP
11 14 (2.49%) PowerShell
12 12 (2.13%) Ruby
13 9 (1.60%) T-SQL
14 7 (1.24%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.24%) Scala
15 6 (1.07%) VBA
16 5 (0.89%) Bash
16 5 (0.89%) C++
17 3 (0.53%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 73 (12.97%) Security Cleared
2 58 (10.30%) Degree
3 47 (8.35%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.31%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.78%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (1.07%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.07%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.89%) OCP
9 5 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (11.01%) Data Quality
2 48 (8.53%) QA
3 14 (2.49%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.60%) GDPR
5 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.53%) MiFID
6 2 (0.36%) Basel III
6 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.18%) EMIR
7 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.18%) IFRS
7 1 (0.18%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.18%) NIST
7 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 109 (19.36%) Docker
2 10 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.53%) NFS
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 78 (13.85%) Kubernetes
2 38 (6.75%) Terraform
3 20 (3.55%) Grafana
4 9 (1.60%) Ansible
5 6 (1.07%) Kibana
5 6 (1.07%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.53%) Argo
6 3 (0.53%) Packer
6 3 (0.53%) TIBCO Hawk
7 2 (0.36%) Consul
7 2 (0.36%) Control-M
7 2 (0.36%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.18%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.18%) logstash
8 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 141 (25.04%) Oracle
2 73 (12.97%) Microsoft
3 48 (8.53%) ServiceNow
4 40 (7.10%) Sybase
5 27 (4.80%) Splunk
6 19 (3.37%) IBM
7 17 (3.02%) Databricks
8 15 (2.66%) AppDynamics
9 14 (2.49%) Google
10 10 (1.78%) Informatica
11 9 (1.60%) Blue Prism
11 9 (1.60%) Red Hat
12 8 (1.42%) Cloudera
12 8 (1.42%) Dataiku
12 8 (1.42%) GoldenSource
13 6 (1.07%) Pega
13 6 (1.07%) Talend
13 6 (1.07%) TIBCO
14 5 (0.89%) CA Agile Central
14 5 (0.89%) Gigya