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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 167 178
Rank change year-on-year -63 +11 +4
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 612 552 537
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.14% 1.71% 1.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.47% 9.49% 7.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 336 403
10th Percentile £359 £310 £310
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -9.52% -7.89%
75th Percentile £603 £575 £599
90th Percentile £712 £700 £659
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +9.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 0
10th Percentile - £36.23 -
25th Percentile £14.00 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £77.00 £82.81 -
90th Percentile - £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £36.95 -
% change year-on-year +21.79% - -

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 8,192 5,815 6,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.00% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,469 3,886 4,789
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.67%
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 261 94 92
10th Percentile £15.93 £21.73 £16.07
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.50 £19.77
Median hourly rate £39.50 £38.90 £33.22
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% +17.12% -39.06%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £58.11
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.38 £34.74 £30.00
% change year-on-year +10.46% +15.80% -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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -51 497 £519 +4.85% 793
UK excluding London -83 281 £491 +9.11% 358
London -46 262 £550 +3.77% 533
Work from Home -84 147 £517 +3.20% 278
North of England -86 69 £500 +21.21% 81
South East -64 59 £525 +153.01% 78
Midlands -21 54 £473 -3.96% 52
Scotland -48 46 £450 -2.70% 43
North West -53 46 £500 +24.38% 49
West Midlands -28 37 £473 -4.92% 26
East of England +1 30 £518 +0.98% 17
Yorkshire -46 21 £507 +4.00% 22
East Midlands -12 17 £410 -13.91% 25
South West -53 16 £538 +43.33% 56
Wales -11 6 £475 - 3
North East -33 6 £363 - 10
Northern Ireland -6 3 - - 30

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 26 (4.25%) Confluence
2 19 (3.10%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.94%) Apache
4 12 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.47%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.98%) Tuxedo
7 5 (0.82%) IIS
8 4 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.65%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.49%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.33%) OpenStack
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 17 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.65%) Acrobat
3 4 (0.65%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.65%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.96%) Finacle
2 7 (1.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.82%) Findur
4 4 (0.65%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.65%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.65%) Summit
5 3 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.33%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.33%) Cerner Millennium
6 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.33%) FLEXCUBE
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
6 2 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.33%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.16%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 212 (34.64%) AWS
2 143 (23.37%) Azure
3 90 (14.71%) GCP
4 68 (11.11%) GitHub
5 67 (10.95%) Power Platform
6 37 (6.05%) Snowflake
7 28 (4.58%) Amazon S3
7 28 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (4.25%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (3.92%) Serverless
10 21 (3.43%) GitHub Copilot
11 20 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (2.61%) Anthropic Claude
13 15 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (2.45%) ChatGPT
13 15 (2.45%) OCI
13 15 (2.45%) SaaS
14 14 (2.29%) dbt
15 11 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.29%) HTTP
2 12 (1.96%) Firewall
2 12 (1.96%) VPN
3 3 (0.49%) WinSCP
4 2 (0.33%) Internet
4 2 (0.33%) Intranet
4 2 (0.33%) SSL
5 1 (0.16%) AMQP
5 1 (0.16%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.16%) Multicast
5 1 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (27.29%) PostgreSQL
2 124 (20.26%) SQL Server
3 114 (18.63%) RDBMS
4 77 (12.58%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (10.46%) Power BI
6 63 (10.29%) MySQL
7 56 (9.15%) MongoDB
8 49 (8.01%) Oracle Database
9 44 (7.19%) NoSQL
10 39 (6.37%) Metadata
11 27 (4.41%) Db2
12 26 (4.25%) Tableau
13 25 (4.08%) Data Lake
14 18 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
15 16 (2.61%) Oracle Exadata
15 16 (2.61%) Redis
16 15 (2.45%) Power Query
17 14 (2.29%) BigQuery
18 13 (2.12%) Big Data
19 12 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 136 (22.22%) Git
2 69 (11.27%) Jenkins
3 58 (9.48%) GitLab
4 42 (6.86%) JIRA
5 33 (5.39%) Maven
6 28 (4.58%) JUnit
7 26 (4.25%) Gradle
8 21 (3.43%) Mockito
8 21 (3.43%) Selenium
9 14 (2.29%) Oracle Forms
10 13 (2.12%) Eclipse
11 11 (1.80%) SonarQube
12 10 (1.63%) Visual Studio
13 9 (1.47%) Claude Code
14 8 (1.31%) ER Studio
14 8 (1.31%) Liquibase
14 8 (1.31%) REST Assured
15 7 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
16 6 (0.98%) Ant
16 6 (0.98%) Gatling
General
1 212 (34.64%) Social Skills
2 176 (28.76%) Finance
3 163 (26.63%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (15.52%) Public Sector
5 91 (14.87%) Banking
6 31 (5.07%) Front Office
7 25 (4.08%) Investment Banking
8 16 (2.61%) Publishing
9 15 (2.45%) Military
10 12 (1.96%) Back Office
10 12 (1.96%) Retail
11 10 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.31%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.14%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.14%) Law
15 5 (0.82%) Automotive
15 5 (0.82%) Marketing
15 5 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 258 (42.16%) Developer
2 124 (20.26%) Senior
3 88 (14.38%) Java Developer
4 63 (10.29%) Data Engineer
5 59 (9.64%) Senior Developer
6 53 (8.66%) Software Engineer
7 47 (7.68%) Analyst
8 42 (6.86%) Lead
9 38 (6.21%) Python Developer
10 35 (5.72%) Full-Stack Developer
11 30 (4.90%) Software Developer
12 28 (4.58%) Data Analyst
13 25 (4.08%) Architect
14 23 (3.76%) Java Engineer
15 20 (3.27%) .NET Developer
15 20 (3.27%) Backend Developer
15 20 (3.27%) Senior Java Developer
16 19 (3.10%) Python Engineer
17 18 (2.94%) Senior Data Engineer
18 17 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (23.69%) REST
2 108 (17.65%) RESTful
3 100 (16.34%) Spring
3 100 (16.34%) Spring Boot
4 95 (15.52%) Kafka
5 78 (12.75%) React
6 73 (11.93%) .NET
7 56 (9.15%) Terraform
8 46 (7.52%) Web Services
9 41 (6.70%) AngularJS
10 40 (6.54%) XML
11 39 (6.37%) CSS
11 39 (6.37%) OAuth
12 38 (6.21%) HTML
12 38 (6.21%) SOAP
13 32 (5.23%) JSON
14 27 (4.41%) Middleware
15 25 (4.08%) OAuth2
16 23 (3.76%) .NET Framework
17 21 (3.43%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 84 (13.73%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (6.86%) Data Structures
4 32 (5.23%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.76%) Management Information System
6 22 (3.59%) Derivative
7 21 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (2.61%) Low-Code
9 15 (2.45%) Algorithms
9 15 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (2.29%) Equity Derivative
11 13 (2.12%) Onboarding
11 13 (2.12%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.96%) AI Agents
12 12 (1.96%) Replication
12 12 (1.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 11 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.80%) Equities
13 11 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.47%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 66 (10.78%) Linux
2 47 (7.68%) Unix
3 37 (6.05%) Windows
4 22 (3.59%) AIX
5 18 (2.94%) 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
1 269 (43.95%) CI/CD
2 232 (37.91%) Agile
3 195 (31.86%) Problem-Solving
4 177 (28.92%) DevOps
5 148 (24.18%) Data Modelling
6 129 (21.08%) Microservices
7 123 (20.10%) Software Engineering
8 113 (18.46%) Validation
9 110 (17.97%) ETL
10 109 (17.81%) Data Pipeline
11 104 (16.99%) AI
11 104 (16.99%) Test Automation
12 103 (16.83%) Analytics
13 100 (16.34%) Containerisation
14 89 (14.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 82 (13.40%) SDLC
16 79 (12.91%) Migration
17 75 (12.25%) Performance Tuning
18 71 (11.60%) Business Intelligence
18 71 (11.60%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 353 (57.68%) SQL
2 209 (34.15%) Java
3 205 (33.50%) Python
4 86 (14.05%) C#
5 78 (12.75%) JavaScript
6 44 (7.19%) TypeScript
7 23 (3.76%) PL/SQL
8 19 (3.10%) Shell Script
9 18 (2.94%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 13 (2.12%) C++
12 12 (1.96%) Scala
13 11 (1.80%) R
14 9 (1.47%) Perl
14 9 (1.47%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.31%) Bash
16 7 (1.14%) Apex Code
16 7 (1.14%) VB
17 6 (0.98%) C
17 6 (0.98%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 145 (23.69%) Security Cleared
2 113 (18.46%) SC Cleared
3 53 (8.66%) Degree
4 31 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.12%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.63%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.31%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.65%) MBA
10 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.33%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.16%) CISSP
11 1 (0.16%) ISEB
11 1 (0.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (16.01%) Data Quality
2 76 (12.42%) QA
3 28 (4.58%) Accessibility
4 21 (3.43%) GDPR
5 8 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (1.14%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 7 (1.14%) GMP
6 7 (1.14%) GxP
6 7 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 4 (0.65%) SEPA
7 4 (0.65%) WCAG
8 3 (0.49%) SLA
9 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.33%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.33%) PSD2
10 1 (0.16%) COREP
10 1 (0.16%) FINREP
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 141 (23.04%) Docker
2 18 (2.94%) 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
1 120 (19.61%) Kubernetes
2 33 (5.39%) Ansible
3 26 (4.25%) Prometheus
4 24 (3.92%) Grafana
5 16 (2.61%) Data Guard
5 16 (2.61%) Oracle RMAN
6 6 (0.98%) 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%) Podman
9 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 176 (28.76%) Oracle
2 76 (12.42%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.39%) IBM
4 32 (5.23%) Google
5 23 (3.76%) Databricks
6 18 (2.94%) Sybase
7 13 (2.12%) Splunk
8 12 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.80%) Informatica
10 10 (1.63%) SAP
11 8 (1.31%) OutSystems
11 8 (1.31%) Teradata
12 7 (1.14%) Adobe
12 7 (1.14%) Sparx
13 6 (0.98%) Alteryx
13 6 (0.98%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.98%) Talend
14 5 (0.82%) Actian
14 5 (0.82%) Bomgar
14 5 (0.82%) Solace
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