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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 160 169
Rank change year-on-year -71 +9 +10
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 600 589 569
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.78% 1.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.31% 9.80% 8.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 378 424
10th Percentile £355 £340 £319
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -10.87%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £693 £700 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +1.95% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 2
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.70 £41.58
25th Percentile £24.31 £20.59 £43.19
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +12.90% -38.00%
75th Percentile £68.02 £63.44 £50.44
90th Percentile £77.00 £92.50 £52.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £20.07 £46.50
% change year-on-year +149.13% -56.84% -38.00%

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 8,206 6,013 7,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.38% 18.16% 18.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,446 4,064 5,035
10th Percentile £355 £344 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 91 102
10th Percentile £16.49 £19.25 £15.10
25th Percentile £24.45 £23.50 £20.88
Median hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -4.11% -33.64%
75th Percentile £60.63 £64.38 £61.19
90th Percentile £76.15 £78.70 £72.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -42.86%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -75 485 £500 -1.96% 274
UK excluding London -94 278 £472 +1.95% 149
London -38 260 £525 -4.55% 162
Work from Home -105 150 £513 -3.94% 125
North of England -69 74 £488 +10.48% 38
Scotland -30 55 £425 -8.11% 10
South East -72 51 £450 +7.78% 38
Midlands -33 48 £468 -4.59% 29
North West -61 47 £427 +0.47% 20
West Midlands -45 33 £468 -6.03% 21
East of England -2 23 £505 -1.46% 9
Yorkshire -41 21 £517 +5.95% 14
South West -43 21 £488 +8.33% 12
East Midlands -9 15 £475 -3.06% 8
North East -31 10 £450 - 6
Wales -11 6 £475 -5.00% 6
Northern Ireland -4 3 - - 9

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 27 (4.50%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.50%) Confluence
3 18 (3.00%) Apache
4 15 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.00%) IIS
5 6 (1.00%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (1.00%) Tuxedo
6 4 (0.67%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.67%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.50%) Apache Superset
7 3 (0.50%) Appian
7 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.50%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.33%) JBoss
8 2 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.17%) Camunda
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Liferay
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.67%) Acrobat
3 4 (0.67%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.67%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.67%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.67%) Finacle
2 9 (1.50%) Findur
3 8 (1.33%) Adobe Campaign
4 6 (1.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.67%) Summit
6 3 (0.50%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.50%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.50%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.33%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.17%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 199 (33.17%) AWS
2 140 (23.33%) Azure
3 84 (14.00%) GCP
4 72 (12.00%) GitHub
5 63 (10.50%) Power Platform
6 34 (5.67%) Serverless
7 33 (5.50%) Amazon S3
7 33 (5.50%) Snowflake
8 31 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
9 30 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
12 16 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
13 15 (2.50%) Anthropic Claude
13 15 (2.50%) ChatGPT
14 14 (2.33%) OCI
14 14 (2.33%) SaaS
15 13 (2.17%) dbt
16 12 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.67%) HTTP
2 9 (1.50%) Firewall
2 9 (1.50%) VPN
3 3 (0.50%) WinSCP
4 2 (0.33%) Internet
4 2 (0.33%) Intranet
5 1 (0.17%) AMQP
5 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.17%) Multicast
5 1 (0.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (21.00%) SQL Server
3 112 (18.67%) RDBMS
4 74 (12.33%) Data Warehouse
5 69 (11.50%) MySQL
6 68 (11.33%) MongoDB
7 61 (10.17%) Power BI
8 56 (9.33%) NoSQL
9 46 (7.67%) Oracle Database
10 34 (5.67%) Metadata
11 27 (4.50%) Db2
12 26 (4.33%) Data Lake
12 26 (4.33%) Tableau
13 23 (3.83%) Oracle Reports
14 18 (3.00%) Big Data
14 18 (3.00%) Redis
15 16 (2.67%) Power Query
16 15 (2.50%) BigQuery
16 15 (2.50%) Oracle Exadata
17 14 (2.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 117 (19.50%) Git
2 68 (11.33%) Jenkins
3 51 (8.50%) GitLab
4 35 (5.83%) JIRA
5 24 (4.00%) Gradle
5 24 (4.00%) Maven
6 17 (2.83%) JUnit
7 13 (2.17%) Eclipse
7 13 (2.17%) Mockito
7 13 (2.17%) Selenium
8 12 (2.00%) Oracle Forms
9 11 (1.83%) REST Assured
10 9 (1.50%) Liquibase
11 8 (1.33%) Claude Code
11 8 (1.33%) ER Studio
11 8 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (1.33%) Visual Studio
12 7 (1.17%) Gatling
13 6 (1.00%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 180 (30.00%) Finance
2 172 (28.67%) Social Skills
3 143 (23.83%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (14.17%) Public Sector
5 84 (14.00%) Banking
6 30 (5.00%) Front Office
7 26 (4.33%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.83%) Military
9 16 (2.67%) Publishing
10 13 (2.17%) Back Office
11 12 (2.00%) Retail
12 10 (1.67%) Marketing
13 8 (1.33%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (1.00%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.83%) Automotive
17 4 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.67%) Law
17 4 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 244 (40.67%) Developer
2 117 (19.50%) Senior
3 79 (13.17%) Java Developer
4 60 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 53 (8.83%) Analyst
5 53 (8.83%) Software Engineer
6 50 (8.33%) Senior Developer
7 40 (6.67%) Lead
7 40 (6.67%) Python Developer
8 34 (5.67%) Full-Stack Developer
9 26 (4.33%) Software Developer
10 24 (4.00%) Architect
10 24 (4.00%) Data Analyst
11 20 (3.33%) Backend Developer
11 20 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 18 (3.00%) .NET Developer
12 18 (3.00%) Business Analyst
12 18 (3.00%) DBA
12 18 (3.00%) Java Engineer
12 18 (3.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (23.17%) REST
2 106 (17.67%) Kafka
3 101 (16.83%) RESTful
4 91 (15.17%) Spring
5 90 (15.00%) Spring Boot
6 84 (14.00%) React
7 69 (11.50%) .NET
8 38 (6.33%) XML
9 36 (6.00%) JSON
10 35 (5.83%) Web Services
11 34 (5.67%) CSS
12 32 (5.33%) OAuth
13 31 (5.17%) AngularJS
13 31 (5.17%) HTML
14 26 (4.33%) FastAPI
15 25 (4.17%) SOAP
16 23 (3.83%) .NET Framework
16 23 (3.83%) Django
17 22 (3.67%) Flask
18 21 (3.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 71 (11.83%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (6.00%) Data Structures
4 32 (5.33%) Product Ownership
5 28 (4.67%) Management Information System
6 21 (3.50%) Derivative
7 17 (2.83%) Low-Code
8 15 (2.50%) Algorithms
8 15 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
8 15 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (2.33%) Equity Derivative
10 13 (2.17%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.83%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.83%) Equities
11 11 (1.83%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.67%) Hedge funds
12 10 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 9 (1.50%) Replication
14 8 (1.33%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 66 (11.00%) Linux
2 44 (7.33%) Unix
3 33 (5.50%) Windows
4 18 (3.00%) AIX
5 11 (1.83%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.50%) Android
7 3 (0.50%) MVS
7 3 (0.50%) zOS
8 1 (0.17%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 218 (36.33%) Agile
3 182 (30.33%) DevOps
4 166 (27.67%) Problem-Solving
5 143 (23.83%) Data Modelling
6 125 (20.83%) Microservices
7 117 (19.50%) Software Engineering
8 109 (18.17%) Data Pipeline
9 108 (18.00%) AI
10 106 (17.67%) Analytics
11 101 (16.83%) ETL
12 91 (15.17%) Containerisation
13 82 (13.67%) Validation
14 81 (13.50%) Test Automation
15 75 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
16 74 (12.33%) Observability
17 70 (11.67%) Business Intelligence
18 69 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
19 68 (11.33%) Full-Stack Development
19 68 (11.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 337 (56.17%) SQL
2 204 (34.00%) Java
3 200 (33.33%) Python
4 81 (13.50%) C#
5 73 (12.17%) JavaScript
6 44 (7.33%) TypeScript
7 23 (3.83%) PL/SQL
8 21 (3.50%) Shell Script
9 18 (3.00%) PowerShell
10 16 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 13 (2.17%) Scala
12 12 (2.00%) C++
13 11 (1.83%) R
14 10 (1.67%) Bash
14 10 (1.67%) Perl
15 9 (1.50%) VB
16 8 (1.33%) T-SQL
17 7 (1.17%) Apex Code
17 7 (1.17%) VB6
18 6 (1.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 127 (21.17%) Security Cleared
2 99 (16.50%) SC Cleared
3 53 (8.83%) Degree
4 28 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.33%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.17%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.67%) MBA
9 3 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.50%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (0.33%) CISSP
10 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.17%) CFA
11 1 (0.17%) ISEB
11 1 (0.17%) PhD
11 1 (0.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (14.67%) Data Quality
2 61 (10.17%) QA
3 30 (5.00%) Accessibility
4 18 (3.00%) GDPR
5 7 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.00%) WCAG
7 4 (0.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.67%) GMP
7 4 (0.67%) GxP
7 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 4 (0.67%) SLA
8 3 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.33%) FATCA
9 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.33%) NIST
9 2 (0.33%) PMO
10 1 (0.17%) COREP
10 1 (0.17%) EMIR
System Software
1 138 (23.00%) Docker
2 17 (2.83%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.50%) ACF2
4 3 (0.50%) RACF
5 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.33%) GridGain
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 126 (21.00%) Kubernetes
2 55 (9.17%) Terraform
3 31 (5.17%) Ansible
4 26 (4.33%) Prometheus
5 20 (3.33%) Grafana
6 15 (2.50%) Data Guard
6 15 (2.50%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (1.00%) Argo
8 3 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.50%) Kibana
9 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.17%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.17%) Istio
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 177 (29.50%) Oracle
2 73 (12.17%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.00%) IBM
4 28 (4.67%) Google
5 25 (4.17%) Databricks
6 18 (3.00%) Sybase
7 15 (2.50%) Splunk
8 13 (2.17%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.83%) Adobe
9 11 (1.83%) Informatica
9 11 (1.83%) SAP
10 8 (1.33%) OutSystems
11 7 (1.17%) Teradata
12 6 (1.00%) Actian
12 6 (1.00%) Alteryx
12 6 (1.00%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.00%) OpenLink
12 6 (1.00%) Sparx
13 5 (0.83%) Solace
13 5 (0.83%) Talend