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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 150 195
Rank change year-on-year -83 +45 -16
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 522 542 506
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.90% 1.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.10% 10.04% 6.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 346 385
10th Percentile £306 £402 £363
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £521 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% -3.07% -10.42%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -8.16% -6.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 3
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.05 £26.30
25th Percentile £20.77 £21.20 £31.63
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +29.63% -42.14%
75th Percentile £53.44 £53.75 £47.13
90th Percentile £72.72 £92.50 £51.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £21.40 £40.50
% change year-on-year +133.64% -47.16% -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 7,352 5,397 7,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.09% 18.89% 17.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,944 3,705 5,228
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 94 148
10th Percentile £14.51 £19.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.02 £23.69 £20.77
Median hourly rate £43.00 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.46% -17.60% -31.73%
75th Percentile £70.47 £65.62 £61.53
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.13 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £31.64 £38.50
% change year-on-year +29.58% -17.82% -32.40%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -89 425 £455 -13.33% 175
UK excluding London -92 243 £450 -8.16% 114
London -48 234 £500 -7.41% 81
Work from Home -90 132 £450 -15.65% 95
South East -40 59 £290 -43.41% 26
North of England -74 57 £443 -4.32% 38
Scotland -19 52 £473 +0.53% 6
Midlands -57 44 £468 -4.59% 18
North West -56 35 £416 -10.10% 18
West Midlands -51 32 £468 -5.56% 11
South West -32 20 £448 -31.15% 11
Yorkshire -42 18 £519 -5.64% 18
East Midlands -27 12 £475 -3.06% 7
East of England -29 8 £505 -6.05% 9
North East -19 7 £450 - 2
Wales -15 4 £475 -12.04% 1
Northern Ireland -2 3 - - 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 30 (5.75%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.49%) Apache
2 13 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.92%) Confluence
4 8 (1.53%) IIS
4 8 (1.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (1.34%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.15%) Appian
6 6 (1.15%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.96%) JBoss
8 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.77%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.57%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.57%) Camunda
10 2 (0.38%) Drupal
10 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.38%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.38%) WordPress
11 1 (0.19%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 19 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.38%) CPLEX
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.15%) Findur
1 6 (1.15%) Summit
2 5 (0.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.77%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.77%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.77%) Finacle
3 4 (0.77%) Magento
3 4 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.57%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.57%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.57%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.38%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 167 (31.99%) AWS
2 113 (21.65%) Azure
3 60 (11.49%) GitHub
4 59 (11.30%) GCP
4 59 (11.30%) Power Platform
5 37 (7.09%) Serverless
6 32 (6.13%) Amazon S3
7 31 (5.94%) Snowflake
8 27 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (2.87%) OpenShift
11 14 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (2.68%) SaaS
12 12 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (2.11%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (2.11%) ChatGPT
13 11 (2.11%) dbt
13 11 (2.11%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.53%) HTTP
2 6 (1.15%) Firewall
3 4 (0.77%) VPN
4 3 (0.57%) AMQP
5 2 (0.38%) Network Security
5 2 (0.38%) SMS
6 1 (0.19%) DNS
6 1 (0.19%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.19%) Multicast
6 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.19%) RTMP
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (25.86%) PostgreSQL
2 106 (20.31%) SQL Server
3 82 (15.71%) RDBMS
4 78 (14.94%) MySQL
5 75 (14.37%) MongoDB
6 65 (12.45%) NoSQL
7 57 (10.92%) Power BI
8 50 (9.58%) Data Warehouse
9 36 (6.90%) Metadata
10 25 (4.79%) Oracle Database
10 25 (4.79%) Tableau
11 23 (4.41%) Big Data
12 22 (4.21%) Data Lake
13 21 (4.02%) DB2
14 18 (3.45%) Redis
15 17 (3.26%) DynamoDB
15 17 (3.26%) Oracle Reports
16 14 (2.68%) Power Query
17 12 (2.30%) Flink
18 10 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 75 (14.37%) Git
2 54 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 43 (8.24%) GitLab
4 26 (4.98%) JIRA
5 20 (3.83%) JUnit
6 15 (2.87%) Mockito
6 15 (2.87%) Selenium
7 14 (2.68%) REST Assured
8 13 (2.49%) Maven
9 12 (2.30%) Gradle
10 11 (2.11%) Eclipse
11 10 (1.92%) Gatling
11 10 (1.92%) Serenity BDD
12 9 (1.72%) Browser DevTools
13 6 (1.15%) Android Studio
13 6 (1.15%) Liquibase
13 6 (1.15%) Xcode
14 5 (0.96%) Ant
14 5 (0.96%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.96%) ERwin
General
1 158 (30.27%) Finance
2 151 (28.93%) Social Skills
3 99 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (11.49%) Banking
5 49 (9.39%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.94%) Investment Banking
7 24 (4.60%) Front Office
8 14 (2.68%) Publishing
9 12 (2.30%) Military
10 7 (1.34%) Back Office
10 7 (1.34%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.34%) Marketing
10 7 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.34%) Retail
10 7 (1.34%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.77%) Automotive
12 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.57%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.57%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.38%) Billing
Job Titles
1 198 (37.93%) Developer
2 84 (16.09%) Senior
3 56 (10.73%) Java Developer
4 53 (10.15%) Data Engineer
5 42 (8.05%) Analyst
5 42 (8.05%) Software Engineer
6 39 (7.47%) Python Developer
7 38 (7.28%) Senior Developer
8 37 (7.09%) Lead
9 24 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
10 22 (4.21%) Architect
11 20 (3.83%) Data Analyst
12 19 (3.64%) .NET Developer
12 19 (3.64%) Senior Data Engineer
12 19 (3.64%) Technical Support
13 18 (3.45%) Business Analyst
13 18 (3.45%) Site Engineer
13 18 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 18 (3.45%) Software Developer
14 17 (3.26%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (22.61%) REST
2 87 (16.67%) Kafka
3 85 (16.28%) React
4 83 (15.90%) Spring
5 81 (15.52%) RESTful
5 81 (15.52%) Spring Boot
6 52 (9.96%) .NET
7 43 (8.24%) CSS
8 39 (7.47%) JSON
9 38 (7.28%) XML
10 34 (6.51%) HTML
11 31 (5.94%) AngularJS
12 27 (5.17%) Web Services
13 26 (4.98%) GraphQL
14 24 (4.60%) FastAPI
14 24 (4.60%) SOAP
15 22 (4.21%) OAuth
16 21 (4.02%) Django
16 21 (4.02%) Flask
17 20 (3.83%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.24%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 32 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (5.17%) Management Information System
5 24 (4.60%) Data Structures
6 23 (4.41%) Derivative
7 12 (2.30%) Fixed Income
8 11 (2.11%) Equities
8 11 (2.11%) Equity Derivative
8 11 (2.11%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.92%) Hedge funds
10 9 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.53%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.34%) Client/Server
12 7 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.34%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 62 (11.88%) Linux
2 45 (8.62%) Unix
3 34 (6.51%) Windows
4 6 (1.15%) Android
5 5 (0.96%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.38%) MVS
6 2 (0.38%) zOS
7 1 (0.19%) AIX
7 1 (0.19%) CentOS
7 1 (0.19%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (39.46%) CI/CD
2 176 (33.72%) Agile
3 156 (29.89%) DevOps
4 131 (25.10%) Problem-Solving
5 116 (22.22%) Data Modelling
5 116 (22.22%) Microservices
6 95 (18.20%) Analytics
7 92 (17.62%) Containerisation
8 91 (17.43%) Data Pipeline
9 86 (16.48%) AI
9 86 (16.48%) Software Engineering
10 83 (15.90%) Observability
11 78 (14.94%) ETL
12 73 (13.98%) Test Automation
13 67 (12.84%) Business Intelligence
14 62 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
15 59 (11.30%) Performance Tuning
16 57 (10.92%) Data Engineering
16 57 (10.92%) SDLC
17 49 (9.39%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 297 (56.90%) SQL
2 189 (36.21%) Java
3 186 (35.63%) Python
4 92 (17.62%) JavaScript
5 68 (13.03%) C#
6 41 (7.85%) TypeScript
7 21 (4.02%) Perl
8 19 (3.64%) Shell Script
9 15 (2.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 15 (2.87%) Scala
10 14 (2.68%) PL/SQL
11 11 (2.11%) Bash
11 11 (2.11%) C++
11 11 (2.11%) PowerShell
12 8 (1.53%) R
13 7 (1.34%) Apex Code
13 7 (1.34%) Ruby
14 6 (1.15%) Go
14 6 (1.15%) PHP
15 5 (0.96%) VB
Qualifications
1 98 (18.77%) Security Cleared
2 74 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.39%) Degree
4 30 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.53%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.34%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.77%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.77%) MBA
10 3 (0.57%) CISSP
10 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.38%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.19%) OCP
12 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (12.45%) Data Quality
2 45 (8.62%) QA
3 20 (3.83%) Accessibility
4 16 (3.07%) GDPR
5 10 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.96%) SLA
7 3 (0.57%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.57%) NCSC
7 3 (0.57%) WCAG
8 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.38%) FATCA
8 2 (0.38%) IFRS
8 2 (0.38%) NIST
8 2 (0.38%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) EMIR
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 130 (24.90%) Docker
2 4 (0.77%) Varnish
3 2 (0.38%) ACF2
3 2 (0.38%) GridGain
3 2 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.38%) RACF
4 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 114 (21.84%) Kubernetes
2 39 (7.47%) Terraform
3 28 (5.36%) Prometheus
4 26 (4.98%) Grafana
5 9 (1.72%) Ansible
6 5 (0.96%) Argo
7 4 (0.77%) Puppet
8 3 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.57%) Kibana
8 3 (0.57%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.38%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.38%) TIBCO Hawk
10 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 140 (26.82%) Oracle
2 65 (12.45%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.60%) Databricks
4 20 (3.83%) Splunk
5 17 (3.26%) IBM
6 16 (3.07%) Adobe
7 14 (2.68%) Google
8 13 (2.49%) Informatica
8 13 (2.49%) Sybase
9 11 (2.11%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.53%) OutSystems
10 8 (1.53%) SAP
11 7 (1.34%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.34%) Teradata
12 5 (0.96%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.96%) Sparx
13 4 (0.77%) Alteryx
13 4 (0.77%) OpenLink
13 4 (0.77%) SimCorp
13 4 (0.77%) Talend