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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 151 188
Rank change year-on-year -81 +37 -5
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 543 550 543
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.87% 1.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.19% 9.98% 7.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 351 406
10th Percentile £325 £400 £363
25th Percentile £402 £448 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -4.08% -6.67% -5.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 3
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.05 £26.30
25th Percentile £24.50 £21.20 £31.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +29.63% -42.14%
75th Percentile £66.60 £53.75 £47.13
90th Percentile £76.60 £92.50 £51.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £21.40 £40.50
% change year-on-year +133.64% -47.16% -45.27%

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 7,550 5,511 7,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.13% 18.76% 17.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,049 3,742 5,323
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £650
90th Percentile £700 £762 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 104 156
10th Percentile £14.60 £19.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.50 £20.77
Median hourly rate £42.11 £34.58 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.78% -13.56% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.99 £65.62 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.31 £78.34 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +23.26% -9.60% -40.26%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -79 447 £474 -9.71% 178
UK excluding London -88 250 £470 -4.08% 125
London -45 249 £500 -5.66% 93
Work from Home -103 134 £463 -13.31% 100
South East -48 57 £420 -16.00% 31
North of England -79 57 £450 -2.70% 29
Scotland -26 53 £473 +0.53% 10
Midlands -48 50 £473 -2.97% 20
West Midlands -44 38 £473 -3.47% 16
North West -58 35 £416 -8.93% 17
South West -26 21 £488 -18.75% 14
Yorkshire -41 18 £519 -5.64% 10
East Midlands -25 12 £475 -0.26% 4
East of England -23 9 £505 -6.05% 15
North East -23 7 £450 - 2
Wales -11 4 £475 -12.04% 6
Northern Ireland -2 3 - - 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 29 (5.34%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.39%) Apache
2 13 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.39%) Confluence
3 11 (2.03%) IIS
4 8 (1.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (1.29%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.10%) Appian
6 6 (1.10%) Tuxedo
6 6 (1.10%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.92%) JBoss
7 5 (0.92%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.55%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.55%) Camunda
10 2 (0.37%) Drupal
10 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.37%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.74%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.55%) CPLEX
4 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.18%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.66%) Findur
2 6 (1.10%) Finacle
2 6 (1.10%) Summit
3 5 (0.92%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.74%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.74%) Magento
4 4 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.55%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.55%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.55%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.37%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.18%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 180 (33.15%) AWS
2 113 (20.81%) Azure
3 66 (12.15%) GitHub
4 63 (11.60%) GCP
5 61 (11.23%) Power Platform
6 34 (6.26%) Serverless
7 33 (6.08%) Snowflake
8 32 (5.89%) Amazon S3
9 27 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (2.95%) GitHub Copilot
13 14 (2.58%) OpenShift
14 12 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
14 12 (2.21%) SaaS
15 11 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (2.03%) Anthropic Claude
15 11 (2.03%) ChatGPT
15 11 (2.03%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.29%) Firewall
1 7 (1.29%) HTTP
2 5 (0.92%) VPN
3 2 (0.37%) AMQP
3 2 (0.37%) SMS
4 1 (0.18%) DNS
4 1 (0.18%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
4 1 (0.18%) Intranet
4 1 (0.18%) Multicast
4 1 (0.18%) Network Security
4 1 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.18%) RTMP
4 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (25.23%) PostgreSQL
2 115 (21.18%) SQL Server
3 94 (17.31%) RDBMS
4 75 (13.81%) MySQL
5 71 (13.08%) MongoDB
6 63 (11.60%) NoSQL
7 60 (11.05%) Power BI
8 54 (9.94%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (6.26%) Metadata
10 30 (5.52%) Oracle Database
11 27 (4.97%) Tableau
12 24 (4.42%) Data Lake
13 22 (4.05%) Big Data
13 22 (4.05%) Db2
14 19 (3.50%) Redis
15 18 (3.31%) Oracle Reports
16 16 (2.95%) DynamoDB
17 14 (2.58%) Power Query
18 12 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
18 12 (2.21%) Flink
Development Applications
1 84 (15.47%) Git
2 57 (10.50%) Jenkins
3 42 (7.73%) GitLab
4 30 (5.52%) JIRA
5 19 (3.50%) JUnit
6 15 (2.76%) Selenium
7 14 (2.58%) Mockito
7 14 (2.58%) REST Assured
8 12 (2.21%) Eclipse
8 12 (2.21%) Gradle
8 12 (2.21%) Maven
9 11 (2.03%) Gatling
10 10 (1.84%) Serenity BDD
10 10 (1.84%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (1.66%) Liquibase
12 8 (1.47%) Oracle Forms
13 7 (1.29%) Ant
14 6 (1.10%) Browser DevTools
15 5 (0.92%) ER Studio
15 5 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 164 (30.20%) Finance
2 155 (28.55%) Social Skills
3 105 (19.34%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (12.15%) Banking
5 60 (11.05%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.71%) Investment Banking
7 26 (4.79%) Front Office
8 15 (2.76%) Military
9 14 (2.58%) Publishing
10 9 (1.66%) Back Office
11 8 (1.47%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.47%) Marketing
12 7 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.29%) Retail
12 7 (1.29%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.74%) Automotive
14 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.55%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 214 (39.41%) Developer
2 94 (17.31%) Senior
3 59 (10.87%) Java Developer
4 53 (9.76%) Data Engineer
5 46 (8.47%) Software Engineer
6 45 (8.29%) Analyst
7 43 (7.92%) Senior Developer
8 39 (7.18%) Lead
9 37 (6.81%) Python Developer
10 30 (5.52%) Full-Stack Developer
11 22 (4.05%) Architect
12 20 (3.68%) .NET Developer
13 19 (3.50%) C# Developer
14 18 (3.31%) Business Analyst
14 18 (3.31%) Data Analyst
14 18 (3.31%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (3.31%) Software Developer
15 17 (3.13%) Backend Developer
15 17 (3.13%) Senior Java Developer
16 16 (2.95%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (22.47%) REST
2 87 (16.02%) Kafka
3 85 (15.65%) React
3 85 (15.65%) Spring
4 83 (15.29%) Spring Boot
5 82 (15.10%) RESTful
6 58 (10.68%) .NET
7 42 (7.73%) CSS
8 37 (6.81%) HTML
9 32 (5.89%) XML
10 31 (5.71%) JSON
11 30 (5.52%) Web Services
12 29 (5.34%) AngularJS
13 27 (4.97%) SOAP
14 24 (4.42%) FastAPI
14 24 (4.42%) OAuth
15 23 (4.24%) GraphQL
16 21 (3.87%) Flask
17 20 (3.68%) Apache Avro
17 20 (3.68%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 46 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 37 (6.81%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (6.63%) Product Ownership
4 27 (4.97%) Management Information System
5 23 (4.24%) Derivative
6 19 (3.50%) Data Structures
7 16 (2.95%) Low-Code
8 11 (2.03%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.03%) Equities
8 11 (2.03%) Equity Derivative
8 11 (2.03%) Fixed Income
9 10 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (1.84%) Hedge funds
10 9 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.29%) Client/Server
11 7 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 63 (11.60%) Linux
2 42 (7.73%) Unix
3 32 (5.89%) Windows
4 5 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.74%) Android
6 3 (0.55%) AIX
7 2 (0.37%) MVS
7 2 (0.37%) zOS
8 1 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (39.04%) CI/CD
2 191 (35.17%) Agile
3 157 (28.91%) DevOps
4 139 (25.60%) Problem-Solving
5 123 (22.65%) Data Modelling
6 115 (21.18%) Microservices
7 101 (18.60%) Analytics
8 95 (17.50%) AI
9 93 (17.13%) Data Pipeline
10 91 (16.76%) Containerisation
11 90 (16.57%) Software Engineering
12 83 (15.29%) ETL
12 83 (15.29%) Observability
13 70 (12.89%) Business Intelligence
14 69 (12.71%) Test Automation
15 67 (12.34%) Performance Tuning
16 64 (11.79%) SDLC
17 61 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
18 58 (10.68%) Validation
19 55 (10.13%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 313 (57.64%) SQL
2 188 (34.62%) Java
3 185 (34.07%) Python
4 87 (16.02%) JavaScript
5 73 (13.44%) C#
6 44 (8.10%) TypeScript
7 19 (3.50%) Shell Script
8 18 (3.31%) PL/SQL
9 17 (3.13%) Perl
10 15 (2.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 14 (2.58%) Scala
12 11 (2.03%) Bash
12 11 (2.03%) C++
12 11 (2.03%) PowerShell
12 11 (2.03%) VB
13 9 (1.66%) Apex Code
14 8 (1.47%) R
14 8 (1.47%) VB6
15 7 (1.29%) Ruby
16 6 (1.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 109 (20.07%) Security Cleared
2 83 (15.29%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.02%) Degree
4 29 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.47%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.29%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.10%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.74%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.74%) MBA
10 3 (0.55%) CISSP
10 3 (0.55%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.37%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.18%) CFA
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (12.89%) Data Quality
2 55 (10.13%) QA
3 24 (4.42%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.39%) GDPR
5 10 (1.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.10%) WCAG
7 4 (0.74%) SLA
8 3 (0.55%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.55%) NCSC
9 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.37%) FATCA
9 2 (0.37%) IFRS
9 2 (0.37%) NIST
9 2 (0.37%) PMO
10 1 (0.18%) EMIR
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 129 (23.76%) Docker
2 4 (0.74%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (0.74%) Varnish
3 2 (0.37%) ACF2
3 2 (0.37%) GridGain
3 2 (0.37%) RACF
4 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 113 (20.81%) Kubernetes
2 38 (7.00%) Terraform
3 28 (5.16%) Prometheus
4 25 (4.60%) Grafana
5 10 (1.84%) Ansible
6 5 (0.92%) Argo
7 3 (0.55%) Data Guard
7 3 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.55%) Kibana
7 3 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.55%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.37%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.37%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.37%) Puppet
8 2 (0.37%) TIBCO Hawk
9 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 147 (27.07%) Oracle
2 64 (11.79%) Microsoft
3 26 (4.79%) Databricks
4 20 (3.68%) Adobe
5 19 (3.50%) IBM
5 19 (3.50%) Splunk
6 14 (2.58%) Google
6 14 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.39%) Informatica
7 13 (2.39%) Sybase
8 9 (1.66%) SAP
9 8 (1.47%) OutSystems
9 8 (1.47%) Teradata
10 7 (1.29%) Actian
10 7 (1.29%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.10%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.92%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.92%) OpenLink
13 4 (0.74%) SimCorp
13 4 (0.74%) Talend