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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 178 173
Rank change year-on-year -63 -5 +17
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 603 536 548
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.64% 1.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.40% 8.97% 8.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 336 397
10th Percentile £347 £244 £290
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £491 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.87% -6.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £588
90th Percentile £691 £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £445 £475
% change year-on-year +10.56% -6.32% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 3
10th Percentile - £27.21 £37.65
25th Percentile £14.00 £36.23 £39.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +26.51% -43.92%
75th Percentile £77.00 £73.13 £57.75
90th Percentile - £84.75 £67.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.25 £21.40 £72.50
% change year-on-year +55.37% -70.48% -

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 8,154 5,973 6,804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.93% 18.32% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,442 4,000 4,616
10th Percentile £353 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £712 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 85 88
10th Percentile £16.63 £21.09 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.87 £29.00 £21.13
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +14.29% -33.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.50 £72.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.53% +18.30% -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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -72 486 £511 +2.20% 675
UK excluding London -77 277 £492 +10.56% 368
London -56 251 £550 - 367
Work from Home -69 159 £506 +1.10% 299
North of England -80 68 £500 +24.38% 83
South East -64 58 £525 +153.01% 72
Midlands -17 54 £474 -3.76% 58
Scotland -47 45 £460 -0.54% 36
West Midlands -21 44 £475 -4.52% 37
North West -49 44 £500 +35.04% 53
East of England -8 31 £525 +2.44% 34
Yorkshire -48 22 £514 +2.80% 25
South West -42 17 £505 -0.49% 50
East Midlands -15 10 £410 -13.91% 21
Wales -12 6 £475 -2.06% 12
North East -36 6 £363 - 6
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 27

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 32 (5.31%) Confluence
2 18 (2.99%) Apache
2 18 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.49%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (1.00%) Tuxedo
6 5 (0.83%) IIS
7 4 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.66%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.50%) CICS
9 2 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.17%) Appian
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.17%) Liferay
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.66%) Acrobat
3 4 (0.66%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.33%) CPLEX
4 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (1.99%) Finacle
2 7 (1.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.66%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.66%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.50%) Findur
4 3 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.33%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.33%) Cerner Millennium
5 2 (0.33%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.33%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.17%) Endur
6 1 (0.17%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 212 (35.16%) AWS
2 141 (23.38%) Azure
3 96 (15.92%) GCP
4 71 (11.77%) GitHub
5 66 (10.95%) Power Platform
6 36 (5.97%) Snowflake
7 29 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (3.98%) Amazon S3
9 23 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (3.65%) Serverless
11 20 (3.32%) GitHub Copilot
12 18 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (2.65%) OCI
13 16 (2.65%) SaaS
14 14 (2.32%) ChatGPT
15 13 (2.16%) Anthropic Claude
15 13 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (2.16%) dbt
16 11 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (1.82%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.49%) Firewall
2 14 (2.32%) HTTP
3 13 (2.16%) VPN
4 4 (0.66%) Internet
5 3 (0.50%) WinSCP
6 2 (0.33%) Intranet
6 2 (0.33%) SSL
7 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (29.02%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (19.40%) SQL Server
3 116 (19.24%) RDBMS
4 76 (12.60%) Data Warehouse
5 66 (10.95%) MySQL
6 62 (10.28%) Power BI
7 55 (9.12%) MongoDB
8 50 (8.29%) Oracle Database
9 42 (6.97%) NoSQL
10 37 (6.14%) Metadata
11 26 (4.31%) Data Lake
12 25 (4.15%) Db2
13 23 (3.81%) Tableau
14 17 (2.82%) Oracle Exadata
15 15 (2.49%) Oracle Reports
16 14 (2.32%) BigQuery
16 14 (2.32%) Power Query
16 14 (2.32%) Redis
17 12 (1.99%) Big Data
18 11 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 160 (26.53%) Git
2 72 (11.94%) Jenkins
3 52 (8.62%) GitLab
4 47 (7.79%) JIRA
5 40 (6.63%) Maven
6 31 (5.14%) Gradle
7 30 (4.98%) JUnit
8 26 (4.31%) Selenium
9 25 (4.15%) Mockito
10 15 (2.49%) SonarQube
11 13 (2.16%) Eclipse
11 13 (2.16%) Oracle Forms
12 10 (1.66%) Visual Studio
13 9 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
14 8 (1.33%) Claude Code
14 8 (1.33%) ER Studio
14 8 (1.33%) REST Assured
15 7 (1.16%) Bitbucket
16 6 (1.00%) Gatling
16 6 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 210 (34.83%) Social Skills
2 173 (28.69%) Finance
3 160 (26.53%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (15.92%) Banking
4 96 (15.92%) Public Sector
5 27 (4.48%) Front Office
6 24 (3.98%) Investment Banking
7 15 (2.49%) Military
8 14 (2.32%) Retail
9 13 (2.16%) Back Office
10 12 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.49%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.49%) Publishing
12 8 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.33%) Law
13 6 (1.00%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.83%) Automotive
14 5 (0.83%) Legal
14 5 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 262 (43.45%) Developer
2 131 (21.72%) Senior
3 89 (14.76%) Java Developer
4 63 (10.45%) Senior Developer
5 59 (9.78%) Data Engineer
6 50 (8.29%) Analyst
7 46 (7.63%) Software Engineer
8 39 (6.47%) Full-Stack Developer
8 39 (6.47%) Lead
8 39 (6.47%) Python Developer
9 33 (5.47%) Data Analyst
10 25 (4.15%) Java Engineer
10 25 (4.15%) Software Developer
11 24 (3.98%) Architect
12 21 (3.48%) Backend Developer
13 20 (3.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 20 (3.32%) Senior Java Developer
14 19 (3.15%) Senior Data Engineer
15 18 (2.99%) .NET Developer
15 18 (2.99%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (22.39%) REST
2 109 (18.08%) RESTful
3 103 (17.08%) Spring
4 102 (16.92%) Spring Boot
5 93 (15.42%) Kafka
6 79 (13.10%) React
7 64 (10.61%) .NET
8 59 (9.78%) Terraform
9 50 (8.29%) AngularJS
10 48 (7.96%) Web Services
11 44 (7.30%) SOAP
12 42 (6.97%) CSS
13 41 (6.80%) HTML
14 39 (6.47%) OAuth
15 38 (6.30%) XML
16 31 (5.14%) JSON
17 29 (4.81%) Middleware
18 25 (4.15%) OAuth2
19 24 (3.98%) .NET Framework
20 23 (3.81%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 86 (14.26%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (6.80%) Data Structures
4 37 (6.14%) Product Ownership
5 22 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.99%) Derivative
6 18 (2.99%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.65%) Low-Code
8 14 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (2.16%) Equity Derivative
9 13 (2.16%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.99%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.99%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.99%) Replication
10 12 (1.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 11 (1.82%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.66%) Equities
13 9 (1.49%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 74 (12.27%) Linux
2 50 (8.29%) Unix
3 39 (6.47%) Windows
4 24 (3.98%) AIX
5 21 (3.48%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.00%) zOS
7 5 (0.83%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.66%) Android
9 3 (0.50%) MVS
10 2 (0.33%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (45.11%) CI/CD
2 246 (40.80%) Agile
3 193 (32.01%) Problem-Solving
4 161 (26.70%) DevOps
5 152 (25.21%) Data Modelling
6 121 (20.07%) Validation
7 120 (19.90%) Microservices
8 115 (19.07%) Software Engineering
9 113 (18.74%) Test Automation
10 111 (18.41%) ETL
11 106 (17.58%) Containerisation
12 100 (16.58%) Data Pipeline
13 98 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
14 97 (16.09%) Analytics
15 96 (15.92%) AI
16 87 (14.43%) SDLC
17 85 (14.10%) Migration
18 74 (12.27%) Business Intelligence
19 71 (11.77%) Full-Stack Development
19 71 (11.77%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 348 (57.71%) SQL
2 203 (33.67%) Java
3 202 (33.50%) Python
4 82 (13.60%) JavaScript
5 73 (12.11%) C#
6 53 (8.79%) TypeScript
7 25 (4.15%) PL/SQL
8 18 (2.99%) PowerShell
8 18 (2.99%) Shell Script
9 13 (2.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 11 (1.82%) Bash
12 10 (1.66%) C++
12 10 (1.66%) Perl
13 9 (1.49%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.49%) R
13 9 (1.49%) Scala
14 7 (1.16%) Apex Code
14 7 (1.16%) VB
15 6 (1.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 142 (23.55%) Security Cleared
2 109 (18.08%) SC Cleared
3 51 (8.46%) Degree
4 28 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.81%) DV Cleared
6 19 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.00%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.33%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.17%) CISSP
9 1 (0.17%) ISEB
9 1 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (16.42%) Data Quality
2 79 (13.10%) QA
3 32 (5.31%) Accessibility
4 21 (3.48%) GDPR
5 7 (1.16%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 7 (1.16%) GMP
5 7 (1.16%) GxP
5 7 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 7 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.66%) SEPA
6 4 (0.66%) WCAG
7 3 (0.50%) SLA
8 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.33%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.33%) PSD2
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) ITGC
9 1 (0.17%) NCSC
9 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 138 (22.89%) Docker
2 20 (3.32%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (1.00%) RACF
4 5 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.50%) ACF2
5 3 (0.50%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 109 (18.08%) Kubernetes
2 39 (6.47%) Ansible
3 28 (4.64%) Prometheus
4 25 (4.15%) Grafana
5 17 (2.82%) Data Guard
6 16 (2.65%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (1.00%) Argo
8 2 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.33%) systemd
9 1 (0.17%) Istio
9 1 (0.17%) Kibana
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Podman
9 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 168 (27.86%) Oracle
2 80 (13.27%) Microsoft
3 35 (5.80%) Google
3 35 (5.80%) IBM
4 24 (3.98%) Databricks
5 15 (2.49%) Sybase
6 14 (2.32%) Splunk
7 12 (1.99%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.82%) Informatica
9 10 (1.66%) SAP
10 8 (1.33%) OutSystems
10 8 (1.33%) Teradata
11 7 (1.16%) Adobe
11 7 (1.16%) Alteryx
11 7 (1.16%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.16%) Sparx
12 6 (1.00%) Broadcom
12 6 (1.00%) Talend
13 5 (0.83%) Actian
13 5 (0.83%) Bomgar