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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 152 199
Rank change year-on-year -72 +47 -26
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 521 536 517
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.82% 1.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.20% 9.56% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 361 384
10th Percentile £313 £400 £375
25th Percentile £400 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £521 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.67% -5.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £650
90th Percentile £660 £688 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £493 £534
% change year-on-year -8.72% -7.68% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 4
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.05 £24.25
25th Percentile £18.52 £21.20 £26.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +47.89% -46.92%
75th Percentile £50.00 £53.75 £43.81
90th Percentile £67.16 £92.50 £49.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £21.40 £35.50
% change year-on-year +98.60% -39.72% -51.37%

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 7,239 5,604 7,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.53% 18.99% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,938 3,866 5,183
10th Percentile £349 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.67%
75th Percentile £595 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £480
% change year-on-year -3.06% +2.08% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 108 144
10th Percentile £16.81 £20.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.72 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £34.58 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.61% -13.56% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.62 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.63 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.03% -20.90% -31.73%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -68 431 £450 -14.29% 184
UK excluding London -67 247 £450 -8.72% 162
London -42 228 £521 -1.70% 59
Work from Home -70 139 £450 -14.29% 267
South East -42 67 £313 -38.93% 51
North of England -57 65 £415 -10.22% 36
Scotland -11 45 £485 +3.19% 9
Midlands -44 45 £464 -5.93% 21
North West -46 41 £402 -13.08% 23
West Midlands -48 33 £469 -4.92% 11
Yorkshire -43 19 £518 +26.22% 10
South West -47 16 £388 -34.04% 15
East Midlands -27 12 £406 -17.98% 10
North East -13 7 £450 - 3
Northern Ireland +1 4 - - 8
East of England -38 4 £600 +14.29% 22
Wales -10 3 £475 -9.52% 4

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 28 (5.37%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.69%) Apache
3 13 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 11 (2.11%) WebLogic
5 8 (1.54%) Confluence
6 7 (1.34%) IIS
6 7 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.34%) WebSphere
7 6 (1.15%) Appian
7 6 (1.15%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.77%) JBoss
8 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.58%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.58%) Camunda
10 2 (0.38%) CMS
10 2 (0.38%) Drupal
10 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.38%) WordPress
11 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 23 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.96%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.38%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (1.34%) BusinessWorks
2 6 (1.15%) Findur
2 6 (1.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (1.15%) Summit
3 5 (0.96%) Advent Geneva
3 5 (0.96%) Magento
4 4 (0.77%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.58%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.58%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.58%) Finacle
6 2 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.19%) Maximo
7 1 (0.19%) Shopify
7 1 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.19%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 177 (33.97%) AWS
2 114 (21.88%) Azure
3 65 (12.48%) GitHub
4 53 (10.17%) Serverless
5 50 (9.60%) GCP
6 46 (8.83%) Power Platform
7 44 (8.45%) Amazon S3
8 38 (7.29%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (5.18%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (4.03%) Amazon ECS
12 20 (3.84%) OpenShift
13 19 (3.65%) Snowflake
14 17 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
15 16 (3.07%) SaaS
16 15 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
17 14 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
18 13 (2.50%) GitHub Copilot
19 11 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 11 (2.11%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.73%) HTTP
2 5 (0.96%) Firewall
2 5 (0.96%) Network Security
3 4 (0.77%) AMQP
3 4 (0.77%) DNS
4 2 (0.38%) Internet
4 2 (0.38%) SMS
4 2 (0.38%) Wireless
5 1 (0.19%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.19%) Multicast
5 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.19%) RTMP
5 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (27.45%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (20.54%) SQL Server
3 96 (18.43%) MySQL
4 85 (16.31%) RDBMS
5 68 (13.05%) MongoDB
6 67 (12.86%) NoSQL
7 46 (8.83%) Data Warehouse
8 44 (8.45%) Power BI
9 35 (6.72%) Metadata
10 28 (5.37%) DB2
11 22 (4.22%) DynamoDB
11 22 (4.22%) Oracle Database
12 21 (4.03%) Big Data
13 19 (3.65%) Data Lake
14 18 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
15 16 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
16 14 (2.69%) Redis
16 14 (2.69%) Tableau
17 12 (2.30%) Power Query
18 11 (2.11%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 78 (14.97%) Git
2 53 (10.17%) Jenkins
3 37 (7.10%) GitLab
4 26 (4.99%) JIRA
5 21 (4.03%) JUnit
6 16 (3.07%) Mockito
7 10 (1.92%) Maven
8 9 (1.73%) Gradle
9 8 (1.54%) Browser DevTools
10 7 (1.34%) REST Assured
10 7 (1.34%) Selenium
11 6 (1.15%) Android Studio
11 6 (1.15%) Eclipse
11 6 (1.15%) ERwin
11 6 (1.15%) Gatling
11 6 (1.15%) NUnit
11 6 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (1.15%) Xcode
12 5 (0.96%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.96%) Serenity BDD
General
1 159 (30.52%) Social Skills
2 134 (25.72%) Finance
3 96 (18.43%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (9.40%) Public Sector
5 45 (8.64%) Banking
6 24 (4.61%) Front Office
7 21 (4.03%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.30%) Publishing
9 8 (1.54%) Military
10 7 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.34%) Retail
10 7 (1.34%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.15%) Back Office
11 6 (1.15%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.15%) Marketing
11 6 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.77%) Legal
13 3 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 218 (41.84%) Developer
2 71 (13.63%) Senior
3 62 (11.90%) Java Developer
4 46 (8.83%) Data Engineer
5 35 (6.72%) Analyst
5 35 (6.72%) Python Developer
6 33 (6.33%) Software Engineer
7 29 (5.57%) Full-Stack Developer
8 28 (5.37%) Senior Developer
9 26 (4.99%) Lead
10 25 (4.80%) Architect
11 19 (3.65%) .NET Developer
11 19 (3.65%) DBA
11 19 (3.65%) Technical Support
12 18 (3.45%) Business Analyst
13 15 (2.88%) C# Developer
13 15 (2.88%) Senior Data Engineer
13 15 (2.88%) Site Engineer
13 15 (2.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 14 (2.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (20.73%) REST
2 90 (17.27%) React
3 84 (16.12%) RESTful
4 80 (15.36%) Spring
5 77 (14.78%) Spring Boot
6 70 (13.44%) Kafka
7 62 (11.90%) .NET
8 44 (8.45%) XML
9 41 (7.87%) CSS
10 40 (7.68%) JSON
11 35 (6.72%) AngularJS
12 30 (5.76%) HTML
13 29 (5.57%) GraphQL
14 25 (4.80%) Web Services
15 22 (4.22%) SOAP
16 21 (4.03%) Django
16 21 (4.03%) FastAPI
17 20 (3.84%) OAuth
18 19 (3.65%) Flask
18 19 (3.65%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.49%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.72%) Product Ownership
3 31 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (5.37%) Data Structures
5 24 (4.61%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.26%) Derivative
7 14 (2.69%) Fixed Income
8 11 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.92%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.73%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.73%) Equities
10 9 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.54%) Client/Server
11 8 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (1.54%) Equity Derivative
11 8 (1.54%) Hedge funds
11 8 (1.54%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 65 (12.48%) Linux
2 46 (8.83%) Unix
3 34 (6.53%) Windows
4 6 (1.15%) Android
5 4 (0.77%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.38%) CentOS
7 2 (0.38%) MVS
7 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.38%) zOS
8 1 (0.19%) AIX
8 1 (0.19%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (36.47%) CI/CD
2 174 (33.40%) Agile
3 148 (28.41%) DevOps
4 133 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
5 126 (24.18%) Microservices
6 107 (20.54%) Data Modelling
7 101 (19.39%) Containerisation
8 85 (16.31%) Analytics
9 76 (14.59%) ETL
10 73 (14.01%) Data Pipeline
10 73 (14.01%) Software Engineering
11 68 (13.05%) AI
12 67 (12.86%) Observability
13 66 (12.67%) Test Automation
14 62 (11.90%) SDLC
15 58 (11.13%) Business Intelligence
16 57 (10.94%) Performance Tuning
17 56 (10.75%) Data Engineering
18 55 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
19 52 (9.98%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 283 (54.32%) SQL
2 184 (35.32%) Java
3 173 (33.21%) Python
4 84 (16.12%) JavaScript
5 66 (12.67%) C#
6 41 (7.87%) TypeScript
7 25 (4.80%) Perl
8 22 (4.22%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.26%) PL/SQL
10 15 (2.88%) Scala
11 14 (2.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (2.30%) PHP
13 11 (2.11%) Bash
13 11 (2.11%) PowerShell
14 10 (1.92%) Go
15 9 (1.73%) C++
15 9 (1.73%) R
16 7 (1.34%) Ruby
16 7 (1.34%) XPath
17 5 (0.96%) VB
Qualifications
1 99 (19.00%) Security Cleared
2 70 (13.44%) SC Cleared
3 53 (10.17%) Degree
4 34 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.73%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.77%) MBA
10 3 (0.58%) CISSP
10 3 (0.58%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.58%) OCP
10 3 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.58%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (11.52%) Data Quality
2 47 (9.02%) QA
3 21 (4.03%) GDPR
4 18 (3.45%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.96%) SLA
6 5 (0.96%) WCAG
7 3 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.58%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.58%) IFRS
7 3 (0.58%) NCSC
8 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.38%) FATCA
8 2 (0.38%) NIST
8 2 (0.38%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.19%) EMIR
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.19%) MiFID
9 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 137 (26.30%) Docker
2 5 (0.96%) Varnish
3 2 (0.38%) ACF2
3 2 (0.38%) GridGain
3 2 (0.38%) RACF
4 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 119 (22.84%) Kubernetes
2 47 (9.02%) Terraform
3 25 (4.80%) Grafana
4 23 (4.41%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.88%) Ansible
6 7 (1.34%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.34%) TIBCO Hawk
7 6 (1.15%) Puppet
8 4 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.58%) Kibana
9 3 (0.58%) Packer
10 2 (0.38%) Argo
10 2 (0.38%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 144 (27.64%) Oracle
2 72 (13.82%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.84%) Databricks
4 19 (3.65%) IBM
5 17 (3.26%) Adobe
6 16 (3.07%) Splunk
7 11 (2.11%) Google
7 11 (2.11%) Informatica
8 10 (1.92%) Sybase
9 9 (1.73%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.54%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.54%) Teradata
10 8 (1.54%) TIBCO
11 7 (1.34%) BEA
12 6 (1.15%) Ab Initio
12 6 (1.15%) Sparx
13 5 (0.96%) Advent
13 5 (0.96%) SAP
14 4 (0.77%) OpenLink
14 4 (0.77%) Talend