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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 168 174
Rank change year-on-year -72 +6 +14
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 607 563 544
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.13% 1.71% 1.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.39% 9.48% 7.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 346 407
10th Percentile £359 £313 £312
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £491 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.48% -7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £712 £700 £661
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £450 £483
% change year-on-year +8.89% -6.74% -3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 0
10th Percentile £14.00 £36.23 -
25th Percentile £15.69 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £76.75 £82.81 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £36.95 -
% change year-on-year +28.55% - -

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 8,215 5,940 6,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.24% 18.03% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,475 3,981 4,887
10th Percentile £359 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.23%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 94 99
10th Percentile £15.82 £21.22 £14.85
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.02 £19.71
Median hourly rate £38.50 £38.85 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +19.52% -40.91%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.63 £70.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £34.19 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.87% +13.97% -45.45%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -62 495 £510 +2.00% 726
UK excluding London -87 275 £490 +8.89% 315
London -35 266 £533 -3.18% 490
Work from Home -84 147 £514 +0.78% 240
North of England -77 72 £500 +19.47% 84
South East -66 55 £525 +135.96% 63
Midlands -25 48 £462 -6.29% 52
Scotland -47 47 £460 -0.54% 36
North West -67 47 £500 +21.21% 52
West Midlands -25 31 £473 -4.92% 23
East of England -4 30 £518 +0.98% 16
Yorkshire -47 22 £507 +4.00% 23
East Midlands -5 17 £410 -13.91% 28
South West -46 16 £538 +43.33% 42
Wales -12 7 £475 -6.40% 4
North East -32 7 £406 - 9
Northern Ireland -7 3 - - 20

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 (3.46%) Confluence
2 19 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.64%) Apache
4 13 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.99%) Tuxedo
7 5 (0.82%) IIS
8 4 (0.66%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.66%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.49%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.33%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.16%) Appian
11 1 (0.16%) Camunda
11 1 (0.16%) CMS
11 1 (0.16%) JBoss
11 1 (0.16%) Liferay
Applications
1 19 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.66%) Acrobat
3 4 (0.66%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.66%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.49%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.81%) Finacle
2 7 (1.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.82%) Findur
4 4 (0.66%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.66%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.66%) Summit
5 3 (0.49%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.49%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.33%) Cerner Millennium
6 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.16%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 206 (33.94%) AWS
2 143 (23.56%) Azure
3 90 (14.83%) GCP
4 70 (11.53%) GitHub
5 68 (11.20%) Power Platform
6 37 (6.10%) Snowflake
7 31 (5.11%) Amazon S3
8 28 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (4.61%) Serverless
9 27 (4.45%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (3.46%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (3.46%) GitHub Copilot
11 16 (2.64%) Anthropic Claude
11 16 (2.64%) OCI
12 15 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (2.47%) ChatGPT
12 15 (2.47%) SaaS
13 13 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (2.14%) dbt
14 12 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.98%) Firewall
1 12 (1.98%) HTTP
1 12 (1.98%) VPN
2 3 (0.49%) WinSCP
3 2 (0.33%) Internet
3 2 (0.33%) Intranet
3 2 (0.33%) SSL
4 1 (0.16%) AMQP
4 1 (0.16%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.16%) Multicast
4 1 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (26.69%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (21.09%) SQL Server
3 114 (18.78%) RDBMS
4 78 (12.85%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (10.71%) Power BI
6 62 (10.21%) MySQL
7 57 (9.39%) MongoDB
8 50 (8.24%) Oracle Database
9 46 (7.58%) NoSQL
10 39 (6.43%) Metadata
11 27 (4.45%) Db2
11 27 (4.45%) Tableau
12 25 (4.12%) Data Lake
13 17 (2.80%) Oracle Exadata
13 17 (2.80%) Redis
14 16 (2.64%) Oracle Reports
14 16 (2.64%) Power Query
15 14 (2.31%) BigQuery
16 13 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (2.14%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 126 (20.76%) Git
2 67 (11.04%) Jenkins
3 60 (9.88%) GitLab
4 36 (5.93%) JIRA
5 27 (4.45%) Maven
6 26 (4.28%) Gradle
7 21 (3.46%) JUnit
8 16 (2.64%) Selenium
9 14 (2.31%) Mockito
10 13 (2.14%) Eclipse
11 12 (1.98%) Oracle Forms
12 10 (1.65%) Visual Studio
13 9 (1.48%) Claude Code
14 8 (1.32%) ER Studio
14 8 (1.32%) Liquibase
14 8 (1.32%) REST Assured
15 7 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
16 6 (0.99%) Ant
16 6 (0.99%) Gatling
16 6 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 204 (33.61%) Social Skills
2 180 (29.65%) Finance
3 159 (26.19%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (15.49%) Public Sector
5 91 (14.99%) Banking
6 31 (5.11%) Front Office
7 26 (4.28%) Investment Banking
8 16 (2.64%) Military
8 16 (2.64%) Publishing
9 12 (1.98%) Back Office
9 12 (1.98%) Retail
10 9 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.32%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.32%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.15%) Law
12 7 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.82%) Automotive
13 5 (0.82%) Marketing
14 4 (0.66%) Legal
Job Titles
1 252 (41.52%) Developer
2 121 (19.93%) Senior
3 84 (13.84%) Java Developer
4 63 (10.38%) Data Engineer
5 55 (9.06%) Senior Developer
5 55 (9.06%) Software Engineer
6 50 (8.24%) Analyst
7 39 (6.43%) Python Developer
8 38 (6.26%) Lead
9 36 (5.93%) Full-Stack Developer
10 29 (4.78%) Software Developer
11 27 (4.45%) Data Analyst
12 25 (4.12%) Architect
13 23 (3.79%) Java Engineer
14 20 (3.29%) Backend Developer
15 19 (3.13%) .NET Developer
15 19 (3.13%) Python Engineer
16 18 (2.97%) Senior Data Engineer
17 17 (2.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 17 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (23.23%) REST
2 104 (17.13%) RESTful
3 96 (15.82%) Spring
3 96 (15.82%) Spring Boot
4 95 (15.65%) Kafka
5 82 (13.51%) React
6 70 (11.53%) .NET
7 56 (9.23%) Terraform
8 40 (6.59%) CSS
8 40 (6.59%) Web Services
9 39 (6.43%) OAuth
10 38 (6.26%) HTML
10 38 (6.26%) XML
11 35 (5.77%) AngularJS
12 32 (5.27%) JSON
13 30 (4.94%) SOAP
14 25 (4.12%) Middleware
14 25 (4.12%) OAuth2
15 21 (3.46%) .NET Framework
15 21 (3.46%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 78 (12.85%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (7.08%) Data Structures
4 32 (5.27%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.79%) Management Information System
6 22 (3.62%) Derivative
7 21 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (2.64%) Low-Code
9 15 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (2.31%) Algorithms
10 14 (2.31%) Equity Derivative
10 14 (2.31%) Public Cloud
11 13 (2.14%) AI Agents
11 13 (2.14%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.98%) Replication
13 11 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.81%) Equities
13 11 (1.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 10 (1.65%) Hedge funds
15 8 (1.32%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 67 (11.04%) Linux
2 45 (7.41%) Unix
3 35 (5.77%) Windows
4 22 (3.62%) AIX
5 15 (2.47%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.49%) Android
7 3 (0.49%) MVS
7 3 (0.49%) zOS
8 1 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (43.00%) CI/CD
2 226 (37.23%) Agile
3 189 (31.14%) Problem-Solving
4 178 (29.32%) DevOps
5 147 (24.22%) Data Modelling
6 127 (20.92%) Microservices
7 124 (20.43%) Software Engineering
8 112 (18.45%) ETL
9 109 (17.96%) AI
9 109 (17.96%) Data Pipeline
10 105 (17.30%) Validation
11 104 (17.13%) Analytics
12 91 (14.99%) Test Automation
13 90 (14.83%) Containerisation
14 80 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 78 (12.85%) Migration
16 77 (12.69%) Performance Tuning
17 72 (11.86%) Business Intelligence
18 71 (11.70%) Observability
18 71 (11.70%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 350 (57.66%) SQL
2 207 (34.10%) Java
3 202 (33.28%) Python
4 83 (13.67%) C#
5 79 (13.01%) JavaScript
6 40 (6.59%) TypeScript
7 23 (3.79%) PL/SQL
8 19 (3.13%) PowerShell
8 19 (3.13%) Shell Script
9 16 (2.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (1.98%) C++
10 12 (1.98%) Scala
11 11 (1.81%) R
12 9 (1.48%) Bash
12 9 (1.48%) Perl
12 9 (1.48%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.15%) Apex Code
13 7 (1.15%) VB
14 6 (0.99%) Ruby
14 6 (0.99%) VB6
Qualifications
1 141 (23.23%) Security Cleared
2 113 (18.62%) SC Cleared
3 56 (9.23%) Degree
4 34 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.32%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.15%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.66%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.66%) MBA
10 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.49%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.16%) CFA
12 1 (0.16%) CISSP
12 1 (0.16%) ISEB
12 1 (0.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (16.47%) Data Quality
2 75 (12.36%) QA
3 30 (4.94%) Accessibility
4 20 (3.29%) GDPR
5 8 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.99%) WCAG
7 5 (0.82%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 5 (0.82%) GMP
7 5 (0.82%) GxP
7 5 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 3 (0.49%) SEPA
8 3 (0.49%) SLA
9 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) ITGC
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) NIST
10 1 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 136 (22.41%) Docker
2 19 (3.13%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.49%) ACF2
4 3 (0.49%) RACF
5 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.33%) GridGain
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 123 (20.26%) Kubernetes
2 34 (5.60%) Ansible
3 20 (3.29%) Prometheus
4 18 (2.97%) Grafana
5 17 (2.80%) Data Guard
5 17 (2.80%) Oracle RMAN
6 6 (0.99%) Argo
7 3 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.16%) Istio
9 1 (0.16%) Kibana
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 173 (28.50%) Oracle
2 75 (12.36%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.44%) Google
3 33 (5.44%) IBM
4 23 (3.79%) Databricks
5 17 (2.80%) Sybase
6 13 (2.14%) Splunk
7 12 (1.98%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.81%) Informatica
9 10 (1.65%) SAP
10 8 (1.32%) OutSystems
10 8 (1.32%) Teradata
11 7 (1.15%) Adobe
11 7 (1.15%) Sparx
12 6 (0.99%) Alteryx
12 6 (0.99%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.82%) Actian
13 5 (0.82%) BeyondTrust
13 5 (0.82%) Bomgar
13 5 (0.82%) Talend