Relational Database Contracts

Relational Database
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Relational Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Relational Database over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 180 184
Rank change year-on-year +28 +4 -26
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 567 579 794
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.81% 1.33% 1.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.88% 7.62% 8.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 431 522
10th Percentile £375 £360 £413
25th Percentile £425 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -10.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £736
90th Percentile £688 £725 £806
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -9.52% +0.96% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 24
10th Percentile £18.05 £26.30 £21.24
25th Percentile £21.20 £31.63 £53.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £40.50 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% -44.33% +45.50%
75th Percentile £53.75 £47.13 £76.13
90th Percentile £92.50 £51.10 £79.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.40 £40.50 £74.00
% change year-on-year -47.16% -45.27% +48.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,737 7,601 9,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.31% 17.48% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,885 5,428 6,756
10th Percentile £356 £350 £371
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £751 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 150 170
10th Percentile £19.71 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.20 £20.77 £32.32
Median hourly rate £34.99 £39.25 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% -31.08% +50.66%
75th Percentile £63.31 £51.87 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £82.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £31.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.44% -42.73% +57.14%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Relational Database.

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Relational Database.

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Relational Database over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Top 17 Contract 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 3 July 2025. 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 +17 426 £520 -5.45% 2,121
UK excluding London +63 277 £475 -9.52% 1,209
London -14 220 £545 -1.04% 1,069
Work from Home +30 212 £534 -0.42% 1,075
Scotland +47 83 £470 +4.44% 101
North of England 0 67 £445 -15.24% 295
North West +37 58 £445 -15.24% 177
South East +52 51 £475 +4.40% 301
Midlands +18 30 £488 +21.88% 169
South West +25 25 £550 +2.33% 135
West Midlands +13 20 £490 +22.50% 99
East of England +32 10 £475 -29.63% 140
East Midlands +2 10 £476 +27.00% 70
Northern Ireland 0 10 £500 +25.00% 44
Yorkshire -34 7 £550 - 101
Wales -6 3 £540 +9.09% 34
North East +2 2 - - 17

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 29 (5.11%) Apache Spark
2 23 (4.06%) Apache
3 19 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (3.35%) JBoss
4 11 (1.94%) Confluence
4 11 (1.94%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.76%) GemFire
5 10 (1.76%) SAS
6 8 (1.41%) Oracle Coherence
7 5 (0.88%) Camunda
8 4 (0.71%) Alfresco
8 4 (0.71%) CMS
8 4 (0.71%) Drupal
8 4 (0.71%) OpenEdge
8 4 (0.71%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.71%) WordPress
9 2 (0.35%) CICS
9 2 (0.35%) IIS
9 2 (0.35%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.06%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.18%) CATIA
5 1 (0.18%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.53%) Endur
3 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.35%) Kondor
3 2 (0.35%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.18%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 161 (28.40%) AWS
2 91 (16.05%) Azure
3 57 (10.05%) Serverless
4 47 (8.29%) Power Platform
5 40 (7.05%) Amazon S3
6 39 (6.88%) GCP
7 34 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
8 29 (5.11%) OpenShift
9 26 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (3.35%) GitHub
11 16 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (2.82%) dbt
12 13 (2.29%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (2.29%) PaaS
12 13 (2.29%) PowerApps
12 13 (2.29%) Snowflake
13 12 (2.12%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (2.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.94%) Internet
2 10 (1.76%) Firewall
2 10 (1.76%) HTTP
3 7 (1.23%) SSL
4 5 (0.88%) POP3
4 5 (0.88%) SMTP
5 4 (0.71%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.71%) SSH
5 4 (0.71%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.53%) MQTT
7 2 (0.35%) LAN
7 2 (0.35%) MPLS
7 2 (0.35%) SMS
7 2 (0.35%) WAN
8 1 (0.18%) AMQP
8 1 (0.18%) Intranet
8 1 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.18%) VPN
8 1 (0.18%) Wireless
8 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (23.28%) PostgreSQL
1 132 (23.28%) RDBMS
2 94 (16.58%) MongoDB
3 72 (12.70%) SQL Server
4 65 (11.46%) DB2
5 62 (10.93%) MySQL
6 57 (10.05%) Data Warehouse
6 57 (10.05%) NoSQL
7 39 (6.88%) Power BI
8 32 (5.64%) Big Data
9 30 (5.29%) Oracle Database
10 24 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (4.23%) Data Lake
11 18 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (2.65%) Hadoop
13 13 (2.29%) Tableau
14 12 (2.12%) DynamoDB
15 11 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (1.94%) Metadata
16 10 (1.76%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 113 (19.93%) JUnit
2 80 (14.11%) Git
3 76 (13.40%) Jenkins
4 48 (8.47%) Gradle
5 45 (7.94%) JIRA
6 41 (7.23%) Mockito
7 35 (6.17%) Liquibase
8 17 (3.00%) Bitbucket Server
8 17 (3.00%) Cucumber
8 17 (3.00%) SonarQube
9 16 (2.82%) ERwin
9 16 (2.82%) GitLab
10 15 (2.65%) Maven
11 14 (2.47%) TeamCity
12 13 (2.29%) Sonatype Nexus
13 12 (2.12%) CA Release Automation
14 10 (1.76%) Bitbucket
14 10 (1.76%) Selenium
15 6 (1.06%) ER Studio
16 5 (0.88%) Artifactory
General
1 182 (32.10%) Social Skills
2 179 (31.57%) Finance
3 112 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (12.17%) Banking
5 59 (10.41%) Public Sector
6 46 (8.11%) Investment Banking
7 39 (6.88%) Front Office
8 30 (5.29%) Marketing
9 26 (4.59%) Telecoms
10 23 (4.06%) Manufacturing
11 21 (3.70%) Electronics
12 15 (2.65%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.94%) Back Office
14 10 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 4 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 264 (46.56%) Developer
2 142 (25.04%) Java Developer
3 97 (17.11%) Senior
4 73 (12.87%) Senior Developer
5 57 (10.05%) Data Engineer
6 46 (8.11%) Senior Java Developer
7 38 (6.70%) Software Engineer
8 36 (6.35%) Analyst
9 35 (6.17%) Lead
10 29 (5.11%) SQL Developer
11 28 (4.94%) Investment Banking Java Developer
12 25 (4.41%) Architect
12 25 (4.41%) DBA
13 24 (4.23%) Python Developer
14 23 (4.06%) Full-Stack Developer
15 21 (3.70%) React Developer
16 19 (3.35%) Data Modeller
17 18 (3.17%) .NET Developer
17 18 (3.17%) Linux Developer
17 18 (3.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (25.04%) Spring
2 127 (22.40%) Kafka
3 99 (17.46%) Spring Boot
4 72 (12.70%) React
5 68 (11.99%) REST
6 61 (10.76%) .NET
7 55 (9.70%) AngularJS
8 45 (7.94%) RESTful
9 42 (7.41%) OpenAPI
9 42 (7.41%) Swagger
10 40 (7.05%) JMS
11 39 (6.88%) HTML
12 37 (6.53%) Web Services
12 37 (6.53%) XML
13 32 (5.64%) JSON
14 29 (5.11%) CSS
15 28 (4.94%) SOAP
16 26 (4.59%) .NET Framework
17 25 (4.41%) Node.js
18 19 (3.35%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 72 (12.70%) Data Structures
2 41 (7.23%) Equities
3 15 (2.65%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.47%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.12%) Derivative
5 12 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (1.94%) Fixed Income
6 11 (1.94%) PKI
7 9 (1.59%) Algorithms
7 9 (1.59%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (1.59%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.41%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.23%) Data Fabric
9 7 (1.23%) Equity Derivative
9 7 (1.23%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.06%) Distributed Applications
10 6 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 138 (24.34%) Linux
2 50 (8.82%) Unix
3 40 (7.05%) Windows
4 21 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.35%) AIX
7 1 (0.18%) Android
7 1 (0.18%) CentOS
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (40.92%) Agile
2 167 (29.45%) CI/CD
3 154 (27.16%) Problem-Solving
4 150 (26.46%) DevOps
5 146 (25.75%) Microservices
6 116 (20.46%) Software Engineering
7 90 (15.87%) Containerisation
8 88 (15.52%) Data Modelling
9 87 (15.34%) Migration
10 84 (14.81%) TDD
11 77 (13.58%) ETL
12 74 (13.05%) Performance Tuning
12 74 (13.05%) SDLC
13 71 (12.52%) Multithreading
14 70 (12.35%) Business Intelligence
15 69 (12.17%) Analytics
16 54 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
17 53 (9.35%) Open Source
18 51 (8.99%) Computer Science
19 48 (8.47%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 341 (60.14%) SQL
2 227 (40.04%) Java
3 222 (39.15%) Python
4 73 (12.87%) JavaScript
5 63 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 62 (10.93%) Shell Script
7 59 (10.41%) C#
8 25 (4.41%) Perl
9 24 (4.23%) PL/SQL
10 18 (3.17%) Ruby
11 13 (2.29%) R
12 12 (2.12%) PowerShell
12 12 (2.12%) Scala
13 11 (1.94%) PHP
14 10 (1.76%) C++
15 9 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (1.41%) RPG
16 8 (1.41%) RPG IV
16 8 (1.41%) T-SQL
17 7 (1.23%) C
Qualifications
1 104 (18.34%) Security Cleared
2 92 (16.23%) SC Cleared
3 64 (11.29%) Degree
4 17 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (1.59%) Numerate Degree
7 8 (1.41%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.88%) MCPD
9 5 (0.88%) MCSD
10 4 (0.71%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.71%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.35%) OCP
11 2 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.35%) Sun Certification
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.23%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.23%) QA
3 8 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (0.88%) GDPR
4 5 (0.88%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.53%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.53%) SLA
6 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.35%) Basel III
6 2 (0.35%) MiFID
7 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 140 (24.69%) Docker
2 25 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.41%) GridGain
4 4 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (0.53%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 98 (17.28%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.76%) Terraform
3 17 (3.00%) Kibana
4 16 (2.82%) Ansible
5 14 (2.47%) Grafana
5 14 (2.47%) Progress Chef
6 5 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.71%) Data Guard
7 4 (0.71%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.35%) Control-M
8 2 (0.35%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 2 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.18%) Argo
9 1 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.18%) Istio
9 1 (0.18%) logstash
9 1 (0.18%) Podman
9 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 118 (20.81%) Oracle
2 63 (11.11%) Sybase
3 53 (9.35%) Microsoft
4 33 (5.82%) SAP
5 25 (4.41%) Splunk
6 22 (3.88%) IBM
7 19 (3.35%) Red Hat
8 18 (3.17%) AppDynamics
9 15 (2.65%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.94%) Google
11 10 (1.76%) Databricks
12 9 (1.59%) Adobe
13 8 (1.41%) Cloudera
13 8 (1.41%) MuleSoft
13 8 (1.41%) TIBCO
13 8 (1.41%) VMware
14 7 (1.23%) Teradata
15 6 (1.06%) Informatica
15 6 (1.06%) Salesforce
16 5 (0.88%) Zend