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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 182 185
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 -15
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 581 512 665
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.63% 1.40% 1.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.13% 7.92% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 358 455
10th Percentile £206 £220 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -3.67% -5.22%
75th Percentile £561 £583 £638
90th Percentile £675 £650 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £456 £500
% change year-on-year -6.85% -8.75% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 23
10th Percentile - £25.79 £44.93
25th Percentile - £26.38 £52.51
Median hourly rate - £38.50 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year - -46.53% +211.89%
75th Percentile - £44.13 £76.53
90th Percentile - £57.40 £78.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £26.50 £68.63
% change year-on-year - -61.39% +197.30%

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 6,362 6,462 7,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.90% 17.61% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,345 4,300 5,453
10th Percentile £333 £340 £350
25th Percentile £412 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 89 152
10th Percentile £20.80 £17.50 £17.13
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £23.06
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -35.04% +2.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £48.75 £69.06
90th Percentile £82.90 £64.78 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.10 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +78.55% -40.45% +13.38%

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 14 November 2025.

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
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 14 November 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 +11 480 £473 -10.00% 355
UK excluding London +25 297 £425 -6.85% 221
London +7 239 £525 -4.55% 172
Work from Home 0 208 £471 -5.75% 225
North of England 0 84 £415 -9.40% 61
South East +15 75 £223 +8.54% 69
Scotland +41 64 £425 - 18
North West +8 45 £395 -4.30% 38
Yorkshire -22 38 £501 -4.57% 16
Midlands -32 30 £463 -6.85% 39
South West -6 23 £550 +2.33% 17
West Midlands -28 22 £500 -2.82% 29
East of England -18 10 £513 +10.81% 8
East Midlands -19 8 £451 +12.55% 10
Northern Ireland -4 7 £425 -10.53% 4
Wales -7 5 £485 +1.31% 7
North East - 1 £400 - 7

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 20 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.10%) Apache
3 16 (2.75%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.55%) WebLogic
5 8 (1.38%) JBoss
5 8 (1.38%) nginx
6 6 (1.03%) Jupyter
6 6 (1.03%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.03%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.69%) Confluence
8 4 (0.69%) SAS
9 3 (0.52%) Drupal
9 3 (0.52%) WordPress
10 2 (0.34%) Alfresco
10 2 (0.34%) Appian
10 2 (0.34%) Camunda
10 2 (0.34%) CICS
10 2 (0.34%) Moodle
10 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.86%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.20%) Advent Geneva
2 5 (0.86%) BusinessWorks
3 4 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.34%) Kondor
5 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.17%) Endur
5 1 (0.17%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.17%) Magento
5 1 (0.17%) Maximo
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.17%) Shopify
5 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.17%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 196 (33.73%) AWS
2 131 (22.55%) Azure
3 64 (11.02%) Serverless
4 57 (9.81%) Amazon S3
4 57 (9.81%) GCP
5 54 (9.29%) GitHub
6 52 (8.95%) Power Platform
7 51 (8.78%) AWS Lambda
8 45 (7.75%) SaaS
9 26 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
9 26 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (4.30%) OpenShift
11 24 (4.13%) Snowflake
12 22 (3.79%) Amazon ECS
13 21 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
14 20 (3.44%) PaaS
15 18 (3.10%) Sauce Labs
16 17 (2.93%) Amazon EventBridge
16 17 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
17 16 (2.75%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.10%) Wireless
2 15 (2.58%) HTTP
3 12 (2.07%) Firewall
4 10 (1.72%) Internet
5 5 (0.86%) AMQP
6 4 (0.69%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.52%) DNS
7 3 (0.52%) MQTT
7 3 (0.52%) SSL
8 2 (0.34%) MPLS
8 2 (0.34%) WAN
9 1 (0.17%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.17%) LAN
9 1 (0.17%) NAS
9 1 (0.17%) Network Security
9 1 (0.17%) POP3
9 1 (0.17%) SMS
9 1 (0.17%) SMTP
9 1 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (22.20%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (20.48%) MySQL
3 118 (20.31%) RDBMS
4 100 (17.21%) SQL Server
5 88 (15.15%) Data Warehouse
6 71 (12.22%) MongoDB
7 59 (10.15%) DB2
8 50 (8.61%) NoSQL
8 50 (8.61%) Power BI
9 27 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
10 26 (4.48%) Data Lake
11 24 (4.13%) Big Data
12 19 (3.27%) Tableau
13 18 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (3.10%) Metadata
13 18 (3.10%) Oracle Database
14 17 (2.93%) DynamoDB
15 14 (2.41%) Redis
16 13 (2.24%) BigQuery
16 13 (2.24%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 115 (19.79%) Git
2 58 (9.98%) JUnit
3 46 (7.92%) Jenkins
4 43 (7.40%) JIRA
5 25 (4.30%) Browser DevTools
6 21 (3.61%) Eclipse
7 20 (3.44%) Maven
8 18 (3.10%) Android Studio
8 18 (3.10%) Xcode
9 17 (2.93%) Gradle
10 11 (1.89%) SonarQube
11 10 (1.72%) Cucumber
12 9 (1.55%) Mockito
12 9 (1.55%) TeamCity
13 8 (1.38%) ERwin
13 8 (1.38%) GitLab
13 8 (1.38%) webpack
14 6 (1.03%) Firebug
14 6 (1.03%) PyCharm
15 5 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 243 (41.82%) Social Skills
2 150 (25.82%) Finance
3 116 (19.97%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (13.60%) Banking
5 47 (8.09%) Investment Banking
6 44 (7.57%) Public Sector
7 32 (5.51%) Front Office
8 15 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.03%) Digital Healthcare
12 6 (1.03%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.86%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.69%) Legal
15 3 (0.52%) Back Office
15 3 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.52%) Retail
16 2 (0.34%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.34%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 260 (44.75%) Developer
2 102 (17.56%) Java Developer
3 83 (14.29%) Senior
4 62 (10.67%) Senior Developer
5 48 (8.26%) Data Engineer
6 45 (7.75%) Analyst
7 41 (7.06%) Technical Support
8 37 (6.37%) Lead
9 36 (6.20%) Senior Java Developer
10 35 (6.02%) Support Engineer
11 33 (5.68%) SQL Developer
12 32 (5.51%) Investment Banking Java Developer
13 27 (4.65%) Architect
13 27 (4.65%) Data Analyst
14 26 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
14 26 (4.48%) Technical Engineer
14 26 (4.48%) Technical Support Engineer
15 23 (3.96%) Python Developer
16 19 (3.27%) Linux Developer
16 19 (3.27%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (18.07%) Spring
2 86 (14.80%) React
3 77 (13.25%) Kafka
4 71 (12.22%) Spring Boot
5 67 (11.53%) AngularJS
6 66 (11.36%) RESTful
7 63 (10.84%) CSS
8 62 (10.67%) REST
9 55 (9.47%) HTML
10 53 (9.12%) XML
11 46 (7.92%) .NET
11 46 (7.92%) JMS
12 39 (6.71%) SOAP
13 38 (6.54%) GraphQL
14 36 (6.20%) Node.js
15 26 (4.48%) JSON
15 26 (4.48%) Web Services
16 23 (3.96%) jQuery
17 22 (3.79%) NumPy
17 22 (3.79%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 50 (8.61%) Data Structures
2 34 (5.85%) Cloud Native
3 33 (5.68%) Equities
4 27 (4.65%) Management Information System
5 22 (3.79%) Virtual Team
6 19 (3.27%) Data Centre
6 19 (3.27%) Mobile App
7 18 (3.10%) Algorithms
7 18 (3.10%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.89%) CMDB
9 11 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.72%) Reinsurance
11 9 (1.55%) Clustering
12 8 (1.38%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (1.20%) Onboarding
14 6 (1.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 132 (22.72%) Linux
2 65 (11.19%) Windows
3 55 (9.47%) Unix
4 18 (3.10%) Android
5 12 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.03%) CentOS
7 5 (0.86%) Solaris
8 3 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.17%) AIX
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (38.55%) Agile
2 200 (34.42%) Problem-Solving
3 146 (25.13%) CI/CD
4 115 (19.79%) Data Modelling
5 113 (19.45%) Microservices
6 102 (17.56%) DevOps
7 100 (17.21%) ETL
8 91 (15.66%) OO
9 77 (13.25%) Analytics
10 76 (13.08%) SDLC
11 75 (12.91%) Containerisation
12 68 (11.70%) Performance Tuning
12 68 (11.70%) Test Automation
13 63 (10.84%) Business Intelligence
14 60 (10.33%) Computer Science
14 60 (10.33%) Visualisation
15 59 (10.15%) Migration
16 58 (9.98%) Data Pipeline
16 58 (9.98%) OOP
17 54 (9.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 332 (57.14%) SQL
2 262 (45.09%) Python
3 222 (38.21%) Java
4 103 (17.73%) JavaScript
5 44 (7.57%) Perl
6 41 (7.06%) Shell Script
7 36 (6.20%) C#
8 29 (4.99%) TypeScript
9 18 (3.10%) PL/SQL
10 17 (2.93%) PHP
11 16 (2.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 14 (2.41%) PowerShell
13 11 (1.89%) Ruby
14 9 (1.55%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.38%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.38%) Scala
16 6 (1.03%) VBA
17 5 (0.86%) Bash
17 5 (0.86%) C++
17 5 (0.86%) XPath
Qualifications
1 77 (13.25%) Security Cleared
2 59 (10.15%) Degree
3 49 (8.43%) SC Cleared
4 34 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.24%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.72%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (1.20%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.86%) OCP
10 5 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (10.84%) Data Quality
2 49 (8.43%) QA
3 14 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.72%) GDPR
5 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.52%) MiFID
6 2 (0.34%) Basel III
6 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.17%) EMIR
7 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.17%) IFRS
7 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.17%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.17%) NIST
7 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 113 (19.45%) Docker
2 10 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.52%) NFS
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 82 (14.11%) Kubernetes
2 39 (6.71%) Terraform
3 22 (3.79%) Grafana
4 11 (1.89%) Ansible
5 7 (1.20%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.03%) Kibana
7 5 (0.86%) TIBCO Hawk
8 3 (0.52%) Argo
8 3 (0.52%) Packer
8 3 (0.52%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.34%) Consul
9 2 (0.34%) Control-M
9 2 (0.34%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.17%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.17%) logstash
10 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 146 (25.13%) Oracle
2 76 (13.08%) Microsoft
3 48 (8.26%) ServiceNow
4 39 (6.71%) Sybase
5 27 (4.65%) Splunk
6 21 (3.61%) IBM
7 19 (3.27%) Databricks
8 15 (2.58%) AppDynamics
9 14 (2.41%) Google
10 10 (1.72%) Informatica
11 9 (1.55%) Blue Prism
11 9 (1.55%) Red Hat
12 8 (1.38%) Cloudera
12 8 (1.38%) Dataiku
12 8 (1.38%) GoldenSource
13 7 (1.20%) Advent
13 7 (1.20%) TIBCO
14 6 (1.03%) Pega
14 6 (1.03%) SAP
14 6 (1.03%) Talend