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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 181 182
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -13
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 580 507 661
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.62% 1.39% 1.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.14% 7.93% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 352 455
10th Percentile £210 £222 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -3.67% -5.22%
75th Percentile £561 £585 £638
90th Percentile £675 £650 £759
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -9.57% -6.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 23
10th Percentile - £25.79 £44.93
25th Percentile - £26.38 £52.51
Median hourly rate - £38.50 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year - -46.53% +188.00%
75th Percentile - £44.13 £76.53
90th Percentile - £57.40 £78.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £26.50 £68.63
% change year-on-year - -61.39% +174.53%

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 6,346 6,391 7,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.69% 17.52% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,337 4,232 5,417
10th Percentile £330 £338 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £533
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -0.56% -3.09%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 85 150
10th Percentile £20.99 £17.70 £16.96
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £22.69
Median hourly rate £44.25 £30.00 £47.70
Median % change year-on-year +47.50% -37.10% +5.99%
75th Percentile £65.00 £48.18 £69.69
90th Percentile £83.43 £64.89 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.10 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +78.55% -40.45% +13.38%

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 21 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 21 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 +14 478 £475 -9.52% 411
UK excluding London +30 297 £425 -9.57% 241
London -4 237 £525 -4.55% 209
Work from Home -5 207 £478 -5.58% 255
North of England +4 89 £406 -10.33% 64
South East +20 75 £223 +8.54% 88
Scotland +43 65 £450 +5.88% 10
North West +19 51 £381 -7.58% 42
Yorkshire -26 37 £501 -4.57% 15
Midlands -33 31 £463 -7.50% 34
West Midlands -20 23 £500 -2.82% 26
South West -6 21 £550 - 22
East Midlands -20 8 £451 +12.48% 8
Northern Ireland -6 6 £425 -10.53% 4
East of England -17 6 £500 +8.11% 13
Wales -6 5 £485 +1.31% 7
North East - 1 £400 - 7

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 19 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (2.93%) Apache
3 14 (2.41%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.72%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.55%) WebLogic
6 8 (1.38%) JBoss
6 8 (1.38%) nginx
7 6 (1.03%) Jupyter
7 6 (1.03%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.69%) Confluence
9 4 (0.69%) SAS
10 3 (0.52%) Drupal
10 3 (0.52%) WordPress
11 2 (0.34%) Alfresco
11 2 (0.34%) Appian
11 2 (0.34%) CICS
11 2 (0.34%) CMS
11 2 (0.34%) Moodle
11 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.86%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (1.38%) Advent Geneva
2 5 (0.86%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.34%) Kondor
5 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.17%) Endur
5 1 (0.17%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.17%) Magento
5 1 (0.17%) Maximo
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.17%) Shopify
5 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.17%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 199 (34.31%) AWS
2 132 (22.76%) Azure
3 63 (10.86%) Serverless
4 58 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 56 (9.66%) GCP
6 54 (9.31%) GitHub
7 53 (9.14%) Power Platform
8 52 (8.97%) AWS Lambda
9 43 (7.41%) SaaS
10 29 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
11 26 (4.48%) OpenShift
12 24 (4.14%) Snowflake
13 23 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (3.79%) Amazon ECS
15 20 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
16 18 (3.10%) Sauce Labs
17 17 (2.93%) Amazon EventBridge
17 17 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
17 17 (2.93%) PaaS
18 16 (2.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.10%) Wireless
2 14 (2.41%) HTTP
3 11 (1.90%) Firewall
4 9 (1.55%) Internet
5 5 (0.86%) AMQP
6 3 (0.52%) DNS
6 3 (0.52%) MQTT
6 3 (0.52%) Network Security
6 3 (0.52%) SSL
6 3 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.34%) MPLS
7 2 (0.34%) WAN
8 1 (0.17%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.17%) LAN
8 1 (0.17%) NAS
8 1 (0.17%) POP3
8 1 (0.17%) SMS
8 1 (0.17%) SMTP
8 1 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (22.93%) PostgreSQL
2 121 (20.86%) MySQL
3 118 (20.34%) RDBMS
4 102 (17.59%) SQL Server
5 83 (14.31%) Data Warehouse
6 73 (12.59%) MongoDB
7 57 (9.83%) DB2
8 52 (8.97%) NoSQL
9 51 (8.79%) Power BI
10 31 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
11 24 (4.14%) Big Data
11 24 (4.14%) Data Lake
12 20 (3.45%) Oracle Database
13 18 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (3.10%) DynamoDB
13 18 (3.10%) Tableau
14 17 (2.93%) Metadata
15 14 (2.41%) Redis
16 13 (2.24%) DataStage
17 12 (2.07%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 117 (20.17%) Git
2 57 (9.83%) JUnit
3 45 (7.76%) Jenkins
4 44 (7.59%) JIRA
5 25 (4.31%) Browser DevTools
6 21 (3.62%) Eclipse
7 20 (3.45%) Maven
8 18 (3.10%) Android Studio
8 18 (3.10%) Xcode
9 16 (2.76%) Gradle
10 11 (1.90%) GitLab
10 11 (1.90%) SonarQube
11 10 (1.72%) Mockito
11 10 (1.72%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.55%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.38%) ERwin
13 8 (1.38%) webpack
14 6 (1.03%) Firebug
14 6 (1.03%) PyCharm
14 6 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 240 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 147 (25.34%) Finance
3 115 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (12.59%) Banking
5 48 (8.28%) Public Sector
6 44 (7.59%) Investment Banking
7 31 (5.34%) Front Office
8 15 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.03%) Digital Healthcare
11 6 (1.03%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.86%) Legal
12 5 (0.86%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.52%) Retail
14 2 (0.34%) Marketing
14 2 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 262 (45.17%) Developer
2 101 (17.41%) Java Developer
3 81 (13.97%) Senior
4 59 (10.17%) Senior Developer
5 45 (7.76%) Data Engineer
6 43 (7.41%) Analyst
7 40 (6.90%) Technical Support
8 35 (6.03%) Lead
8 35 (6.03%) Senior Java Developer
9 34 (5.86%) Support Engineer
10 31 (5.34%) SQL Developer
11 30 (5.17%) Investment Banking Java Developer
12 27 (4.66%) Full-Stack Developer
13 26 (4.48%) Architect
13 26 (4.48%) Data Analyst
14 25 (4.31%) Technical Engineer
14 25 (4.31%) Technical Support Engineer
15 23 (3.97%) Python Developer
16 19 (3.28%) Linux Developer
16 19 (3.28%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (17.76%) Spring
2 88 (15.17%) React
3 72 (12.41%) Spring Boot
4 71 (12.24%) Kafka
5 68 (11.72%) AngularJS
5 68 (11.72%) RESTful
6 64 (11.03%) CSS
7 58 (10.00%) REST
8 55 (9.48%) HTML
8 55 (9.48%) XML
9 46 (7.93%) .NET
10 44 (7.59%) JMS
11 38 (6.55%) GraphQL
12 36 (6.21%) SOAP
13 35 (6.03%) Node.js
14 28 (4.83%) JSON
15 24 (4.14%) Web Services
16 23 (3.97%) jQuery
17 21 (3.62%) NumPy
17 21 (3.62%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 51 (8.79%) Data Structures
2 34 (5.86%) Cloud Native
3 31 (5.34%) Equities
4 27 (4.66%) Management Information System
5 23 (3.97%) Virtual Team
6 19 (3.28%) Algorithms
6 19 (3.28%) Data Centre
6 19 (3.28%) Mobile App
6 19 (3.28%) Product Ownership
7 13 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (1.90%) CMDB
8 11 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.72%) Reinsurance
10 9 (1.55%) Clustering
11 8 (1.38%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.21%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.03%) N-Tier
13 6 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 131 (22.59%) Linux
2 65 (11.21%) Windows
3 55 (9.48%) Unix
4 18 (3.10%) Android
5 12 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.03%) CentOS
7 5 (0.86%) Solaris
8 3 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.17%) AIX
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (38.62%) Agile
2 200 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
3 148 (25.52%) CI/CD
4 115 (19.83%) Microservices
5 113 (19.48%) Data Modelling
6 102 (17.59%) DevOps
7 96 (16.55%) ETL
8 90 (15.52%) OO
9 80 (13.79%) Containerisation
10 76 (13.10%) SDLC
11 73 (12.59%) Analytics
12 72 (12.41%) Test Automation
13 66 (11.38%) Performance Tuning
14 64 (11.03%) Migration
15 60 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
15 60 (10.34%) Computer Science
15 60 (10.34%) Visualisation
16 59 (10.17%) OOP
17 57 (9.83%) Software Engineering
18 56 (9.66%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 331 (57.07%) SQL
2 255 (43.97%) Python
3 220 (37.93%) Java
4 103 (17.76%) JavaScript
5 46 (7.93%) Perl
6 41 (7.07%) Shell Script
7 35 (6.03%) C#
8 30 (5.17%) TypeScript
9 22 (3.79%) PL/SQL
10 21 (3.62%) PHP
11 17 (2.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 15 (2.59%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.72%) Ruby
13 10 (1.72%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.38%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.21%) Scala
16 6 (1.03%) Bash
16 6 (1.03%) VBA
17 5 (0.86%) XPath
18 4 (0.69%) Go
Qualifications
1 80 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 60 (10.34%) Degree
3 50 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 37 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.41%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.72%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.72%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.21%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.86%) OCP
9 5 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.83%) Data Quality
2 51 (8.79%) QA
3 16 (2.76%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.07%) GDPR
5 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.52%) MiFID
6 2 (0.34%) Basel III
7 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.17%) EMIR
7 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.17%) IFRS
7 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.17%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.17%) NIST
7 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.17%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 116 (20.00%) Docker
2 10 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.52%) NFS
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 84 (14.48%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.24%) Terraform
3 25 (4.31%) Grafana
4 13 (2.24%) Ansible
5 10 (1.72%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.03%) Kibana
7 5 (0.86%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.86%) TIBCO Hawk
8 3 (0.52%) Argo
8 3 (0.52%) Packer
9 2 (0.34%) Consul
9 2 (0.34%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.34%) Puppet
10 1 (0.17%) Control-M
10 1 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.17%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.17%) logstash
10 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 152 (26.21%) Oracle
2 83 (14.31%) Microsoft
3 48 (8.28%) ServiceNow
4 37 (6.38%) Sybase
5 27 (4.66%) Splunk
6 21 (3.62%) IBM
7 18 (3.10%) Databricks
8 15 (2.59%) AppDynamics
9 14 (2.41%) Google
10 9 (1.55%) Blue Prism
10 9 (1.55%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.38%) Advent
11 8 (1.38%) Cloudera
11 8 (1.38%) Dataiku
11 8 (1.38%) GoldenSource
12 7 (1.21%) SAP
12 7 (1.21%) TIBCO
13 6 (1.03%) Informatica
13 6 (1.03%) Pega
14 5 (0.86%) Salesforce