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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 146 199
Rank change year-on-year -68 +53 -24
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 530 529 523
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.21% 1.79% 1.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.60% 9.49% 7.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 362 383
10th Percentile £313 £393 £351
25th Percentile £400 £449 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £521 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.67% -5.27% -6.38%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £660 £675 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £493 £525
% change year-on-year -10.85% -6.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 9
10th Percentile £32.61 £18.05 £22.36
25th Percentile £41.25 £25.09 £27.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.50 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year +88.68% -42.46% +67.47%
75th Percentile - £46.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £64.89 £53.75 £72.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.84 £40.50
% change year-on-year +93.50% -36.20% -43.16%

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 6,970 5,577 7,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.93% 18.87% 16.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,787 3,848 5,149
10th Percentile £350 £351 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -3.06% +0.51% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 100 172
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.72 £14.36
25th Percentile £28.93 £24.25 £20.70
Median hourly rate £50.50 £31.64 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +59.61% -21.15% -28.86%
75th Percentile £74.76 £64.56 £58.55
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -14.29% -36.36%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 23 March 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 -57 443 £460 -12.38% 188
London -13 242 £525 -1.41% 77
UK excluding London -69 241 £440 -10.85% 138
Work from Home -61 163 £450 -14.29% 144
South East -29 76 £390 -22.96% 46
North of England -46 65 £425 -5.13% 31
Scotland -4 45 £450 -6.25% 10
North West -25 42 £407 -9.10% 13
Midlands -62 36 £460 -6.69% 20
West Midlands -54 29 £469 -4.92% 12
Yorkshire -49 18 £518 +2.48% 16
South West -37 13 £469 -14.77% 19
East Midlands -37 7 £417 -14.85% 8
North East - 7 £450 - 4
Northern Ireland -3 4 - - 2
East of England -25 3 - - 9
Wales -12 1 £475 -9.52% 5

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 (4.91%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.64%) WebLogic
3 13 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (2.26%) Apache
5 11 (2.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 8 (1.51%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.32%) IIS
7 7 (1.32%) WebSphere
8 6 (1.13%) Appian
8 6 (1.13%) Confluence
8 6 (1.13%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.94%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.75%) JBoss
10 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.38%) Camunda
11 2 (0.38%) CMS
11 2 (0.38%) Drupal
11 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.38%) WordPress
12 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 20 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.51%) Chatbot
3 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.38%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.32%) Advent Geneva
1 7 (1.32%) BusinessWorks
2 6 (1.13%) Findur
3 5 (0.94%) Magento
3 5 (0.94%) Summit
4 4 (0.75%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.57%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.38%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
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
1 201 (37.92%) AWS
2 121 (22.83%) Azure
3 68 (12.83%) GitHub
4 58 (10.94%) Serverless
5 55 (10.38%) Amazon S3
6 46 (8.68%) Power Platform
7 42 (7.92%) AWS Lambda
8 41 (7.74%) GCP
9 27 (5.09%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
11 23 (4.34%) Snowflake
12 22 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (4.15%) SaaS
13 20 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (3.40%) Azure Data Factory
15 17 (3.21%) Amazon EKS
16 16 (3.02%) OpenShift
17 13 (2.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 12 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
19 10 (1.89%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.32%) Wireless
2 5 (0.94%) Firewall
2 5 (0.94%) HTTP
3 4 (0.75%) DNS
3 4 (0.75%) Internet
3 4 (0.75%) Network Security
4 3 (0.57%) AMQP
5 2 (0.38%) SMS
6 1 (0.19%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (0.19%) Multicast
6 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.19%) RTMP
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (26.42%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (20.38%) SQL Server
3 106 (20.00%) MySQL
4 95 (17.92%) RDBMS
5 73 (13.77%) MongoDB
6 68 (12.83%) NoSQL
7 58 (10.94%) Data Warehouse
8 44 (8.30%) Power BI
9 27 (5.09%) Big Data
9 27 (5.09%) DB2
10 26 (4.91%) Metadata
11 24 (4.53%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (4.15%) Data Lake
12 22 (4.15%) Oracle Database
13 20 (3.77%) DynamoDB
14 16 (3.02%) Oracle Reports
15 13 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
17 11 (2.08%) Power Query
17 11 (2.08%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 92 (17.36%) Git
2 55 (10.38%) Jenkins
3 34 (6.42%) GitLab
4 28 (5.28%) JUnit
5 21 (3.96%) JIRA
6 15 (2.83%) Mockito
7 11 (2.08%) Browser DevTools
7 11 (2.08%) Maven
8 10 (1.89%) Android Studio
8 10 (1.89%) Eclipse
8 10 (1.89%) Xcode
9 9 (1.70%) Selenium
10 8 (1.51%) ERwin
10 8 (1.51%) Gradle
10 8 (1.51%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (1.13%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.13%) Gatling
12 6 (1.13%) PyCharm
13 5 (0.94%) Serenity BDD
General
1 164 (30.94%) Social Skills
2 120 (22.64%) Finance
3 102 (19.25%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (10.57%) Public Sector
5 46 (8.68%) Banking
6 25 (4.72%) Investment Banking
7 18 (3.40%) Front Office
8 11 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.13%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.13%) Marketing
11 5 (0.94%) Military
11 5 (0.94%) Publishing
12 4 (0.75%) Retail
13 3 (0.57%) Legal
13 3 (0.57%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.38%) Back Office
14 2 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 225 (42.45%) Developer
2 76 (14.34%) Senior
3 67 (12.64%) Java Developer
4 48 (9.06%) Data Engineer
5 39 (7.36%) Senior Developer
6 36 (6.79%) Analyst
7 31 (5.85%) Lead
8 30 (5.66%) Python Developer
9 29 (5.47%) Software Engineer
10 26 (4.91%) Full-Stack Developer
11 24 (4.53%) Technical Support
12 22 (4.15%) Architect
13 19 (3.58%) DBA
13 19 (3.58%) Senior Java Developer
14 17 (3.21%) C# Developer
15 16 (3.02%) Business Analyst
16 15 (2.83%) Support Engineer
17 14 (2.64%) .NET Developer
17 14 (2.64%) Python Engineer
18 13 (2.45%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (17.36%) React
2 91 (17.17%) REST
3 85 (16.04%) RESTful
4 81 (15.28%) Spring
5 71 (13.40%) Spring Boot
6 70 (13.21%) Kafka
7 56 (10.57%) .NET
8 48 (9.06%) XML
9 42 (7.92%) CSS
10 40 (7.55%) JSON
11 36 (6.79%) AngularJS
12 30 (5.66%) HTML
13 27 (5.09%) GraphQL
13 27 (5.09%) Web Services
14 23 (4.34%) SOAP
15 22 (4.15%) Django
16 20 (3.77%) Pandas
16 20 (3.77%) PySpark
17 19 (3.58%) Node.js
17 19 (3.58%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.79%) Cloud Native
2 32 (6.04%) Data Structures
2 32 (6.04%) Product Ownership
3 26 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (3.40%) Virtual Team
5 16 (3.02%) Algorithms
6 15 (2.83%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.45%) Fixed Income
8 12 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
9 11 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.89%) CMDB
10 10 (1.89%) Equities
10 10 (1.89%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.70%) Client/Server
12 8 (1.51%) Derivative
13 7 (1.32%) Clustering
13 7 (1.32%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 73 (13.77%) Linux
2 45 (8.49%) Unix
3 39 (7.36%) Windows
4 10 (1.89%) Android
5 4 (0.75%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.57%) CentOS
7 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.38%) Solaris
8 1 (0.19%) AIX
8 1 (0.19%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (36.04%) Agile
2 178 (33.58%) CI/CD
3 158 (29.81%) Problem-Solving
4 139 (26.23%) DevOps
5 121 (22.83%) Microservices
6 118 (22.26%) Data Modelling
7 107 (20.19%) Containerisation
8 90 (16.98%) Analytics
9 85 (16.04%) ETL
10 69 (13.02%) SDLC
10 69 (13.02%) Software Engineering
11 65 (12.26%) Data Engineering
11 65 (12.26%) Data Pipeline
12 61 (11.51%) AI
13 60 (11.32%) Test Automation
14 59 (11.13%) Performance Tuning
15 58 (10.94%) Business Intelligence
16 52 (9.81%) Migration
17 50 (9.43%) OO
18 48 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 304 (57.36%) SQL
2 196 (36.98%) Java
3 192 (36.23%) Python
4 90 (16.98%) JavaScript
5 56 (10.57%) C#
6 34 (6.42%) TypeScript
7 29 (5.47%) Perl
8 22 (4.15%) Shell Script
9 20 (3.77%) PL/SQL
10 14 (2.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (2.64%) PHP
10 14 (2.64%) PowerShell
10 14 (2.64%) Scala
11 9 (1.70%) Bash
11 9 (1.70%) Go
12 7 (1.32%) XPath
13 6 (1.13%) R
13 6 (1.13%) Ruby
14 5 (0.94%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.94%) VB
Qualifications
1 101 (19.06%) Security Cleared
2 68 (12.83%) SC Cleared
3 46 (8.68%) Degree
4 28 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.70%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.51%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.32%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.94%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.75%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.57%) OCP
11 3 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
12 2 (0.38%) CISSP
12 2 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (11.32%) Data Quality
2 49 (9.25%) QA
3 19 (3.58%) GDPR
4 17 (3.21%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.94%) SLA
6 5 (0.94%) WCAG
7 3 (0.57%) IFRS
8 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.38%) FATCA
8 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.38%) NCSC
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/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.19%) MiFID
9 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 142 (26.79%) Docker
2 5 (0.94%) Varnish
3 2 (0.38%) GridGain
3 2 (0.38%) NFS
4 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 121 (22.83%) Kubernetes
2 46 (8.68%) Terraform
3 24 (4.53%) Grafana
4 21 (3.96%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.45%) Ansible
6 7 (1.32%) TIBCO Hawk
7 6 (1.13%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.13%) Puppet
8 4 (0.75%) Argo
9 3 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.57%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.57%) HP Quality Center
9 3 (0.57%) Packer
10 2 (0.38%) Consul
10 2 (0.38%) Kibana
11 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 141 (26.60%) Oracle
2 70 (13.21%) Microsoft
3 25 (4.72%) Databricks
4 20 (3.77%) ServiceNow
4 20 (3.77%) Splunk
5 17 (3.21%) Adobe
6 14 (2.64%) IBM
7 13 (2.45%) Sybase
8 11 (2.08%) Informatica
9 9 (1.70%) Google
10 8 (1.51%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.51%) TIBCO
11 7 (1.32%) Advent
11 7 (1.32%) BEA
12 6 (1.13%) SAP
13 4 (0.75%) Ab Initio
13 4 (0.75%) DevExpress
13 4 (0.75%) OpenLink
13 4 (0.75%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.75%) Teradata