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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 204 168
Rank change year-on-year +56 -36 -11
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 539 517 967
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.85% 1.17% 1.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.79% 7.10% 8.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 378 669
10th Percentile £393 £356 £413
25th Percentile £445 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £548 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.84% -8.75% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £731
90th Percentile £688 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -6.38% -3.41% +14.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 23
10th Percentile £18.74 £22.17 -
25th Percentile £25.42 £26.50 £21.24
Median hourly rate £26.50 £43.28 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.77% -13.45% -9.09%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.12 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £59.23 £77.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.84 £35.50 £71.25
% change year-on-year -27.21% -50.18% +33.18%

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 5,503 7,278 11,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.93% 16.46% 18.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,816 5,152 8,312
10th Percentile £351 £350 £375
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £488 £500
% change year-on-year - -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 157 181
10th Percentile £20.85 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.82 £32.40
Median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% -33.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £54.13 £68.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.80 £39.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -24.08% -28.64% +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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2 April 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 +36 400 £525 -4.55% 751
UK excluding London +86 238 £492 -6.38% 315
Work from Home +42 228 £525 -1.87% 382
London -10 211 £530 -7.83% 513
Scotland +54 65 £470 +10.59% 27
North of England +21 55 £458 -14.33% 58
North West +15 48 £454 -14.95% 39
South East +60 43 £506 +1.25% 93
Midlands +24 32 £493 +17.73% 37
South West +44 29 £550 - 35
West Midlands +26 26 £497 +21.47% 29
Wales -9 7 £525 -2.33% 13
Northern Ireland +3 6 £500 +25.00% 14
East Midlands +6 5 £490 -10.91% 8
Yorkshire +3 5 £550 - 14
East of England +22 2 £525 +10.53% 41
North East -6 2 - - 5

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 27 (5.01%) SharePoint
2 26 (4.82%) Apache Spark
3 22 (4.08%) Apache
4 18 (3.34%) Confluence
5 17 (3.15%) SAS
6 12 (2.23%) JBoss
7 10 (1.86%) GemFire
8 8 (1.48%) CMS
8 8 (1.48%) Oracle Coherence
9 6 (1.11%) Camunda
9 6 (1.11%) Drupal
9 6 (1.11%) WordPress
10 5 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.74%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.37%) Alfresco
12 2 (0.37%) IIS
12 2 (0.37%) MQSeries
12 2 (0.37%) OpenEdge
12 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 18 (3.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.86%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.93%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.19%) CATIA
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.37%) Endur
3 2 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle TCA
4 1 (0.19%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 147 (27.27%) AWS
2 106 (19.67%) Azure
3 66 (12.24%) Power Platform
4 56 (10.39%) Serverless
5 41 (7.61%) Amazon S3
6 37 (6.86%) GCP
7 33 (6.12%) PowerApps
8 32 (5.94%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (5.57%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (5.38%) Power Automate
11 27 (5.01%) Azure Logic Apps
11 27 (5.01%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (3.34%) OpenShift
14 16 (2.97%) GitHub
15 13 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
16 11 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (1.86%) Amazon SQS
18 9 (1.67%) Adobe Analytics
18 9 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.41%) HTTP
2 8 (1.48%) Internet
2 8 (1.48%) SMTP
3 7 (1.30%) POP3
4 3 (0.56%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.37%) Firewall
5 2 (0.37%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.37%) MQTT
5 2 (0.37%) SSH
5 2 (0.37%) SSL
5 2 (0.37%) VPN
6 1 (0.19%) DNS
6 1 (0.19%) FTP
6 1 (0.19%) Intranet
6 1 (0.19%) LAN
6 1 (0.19%) Multicast
6 1 (0.19%) WAN
6 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (28.57%) RDBMS
2 114 (21.15%) PostgreSQL
3 95 (17.63%) MongoDB
4 71 (13.17%) NoSQL
4 71 (13.17%) SQL Server
5 63 (11.69%) MySQL
6 59 (10.95%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (8.72%) Power BI
8 45 (8.35%) DB2
9 39 (7.24%) Oracle Database
10 32 (5.94%) Big Data
11 31 (5.75%) Amazon RDS
12 30 (5.57%) Data Lake
13 15 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
14 14 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (2.60%) Hadoop
14 14 (2.60%) Metadata
15 13 (2.41%) Tableau
16 12 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
16 12 (2.23%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 94 (17.44%) JUnit
2 82 (15.21%) Git
3 62 (11.50%) Jenkins
4 61 (11.32%) JIRA
5 35 (6.49%) Gradle
6 29 (5.38%) Mockito
7 23 (4.27%) Liquibase
8 18 (3.34%) ERwin
9 17 (3.15%) GitLab
10 16 (2.97%) Bitbucket Server
11 13 (2.41%) Maven
11 13 (2.41%) SonarQube
11 13 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (2.04%) Bitbucket
13 10 (1.86%) TeamCity
14 9 (1.67%) CA Release Automation
14 9 (1.67%) Cucumber
15 7 (1.30%) ER Studio
15 7 (1.30%) Selenium
16 6 (1.11%) Oracle APEX
General
1 157 (29.13%) Finance
2 156 (28.94%) Social Skills
3 97 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (11.13%) Public Sector
5 57 (10.58%) Banking
6 34 (6.31%) Front Office
7 31 (5.75%) Investment Banking
8 27 (5.01%) Marketing
9 25 (4.64%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.60%) Electronics
10 14 (2.60%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.86%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.48%) Back Office
14 6 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 242 (44.90%) Developer
2 114 (21.15%) Java Developer
3 74 (13.73%) Senior
4 52 (9.65%) Senior Developer
5 50 (9.28%) Data Engineer
6 38 (7.05%) Software Engineer
7 35 (6.49%) Analyst
8 34 (6.31%) Senior Java Developer
9 30 (5.57%) Lead
10 27 (5.01%) Data Modeller
11 25 (4.64%) Full-Stack Developer
12 23 (4.27%) Architect
12 23 (4.27%) DBA
13 22 (4.08%) SQL Developer
14 20 (3.71%) AWS Engineer
15 18 (3.34%) Investment Banking Java Developer
16 17 (3.15%) Power Platform Developer
16 17 (3.15%) Python Developer
17 16 (2.97%) Java Engineer
17 16 (2.97%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (21.15%) Spring
2 109 (20.22%) Kafka
3 79 (14.66%) Spring Boot
4 72 (13.36%) REST
5 60 (11.13%) AngularJS
6 55 (10.20%) React
7 54 (10.02%) .NET
8 41 (7.61%) HTML
9 39 (7.24%) SOAP
10 37 (6.86%) JSON
10 37 (6.86%) XML
11 36 (6.68%) Swagger
12 34 (6.31%) RESTful
13 31 (5.75%) JMS
13 31 (5.75%) OpenAPI
13 31 (5.75%) Web Services
14 29 (5.38%) CSS
15 25 (4.64%) ASP.NET
15 25 (4.64%) Node.js
16 20 (3.71%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 55 (10.20%) Data Structures
2 27 (5.01%) Equities
3 17 (3.15%) Product Ownership
4 14 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (2.60%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.23%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.48%) Algorithms
6 8 (1.48%) Fixed Income
7 7 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.30%) Market Risk
8 6 (1.11%) Distributed Applications
8 6 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.11%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (1.11%) Legacy Code
8 6 (1.11%) PKI
8 6 (1.11%) Public Cloud
9 5 (0.93%) Data Centre
9 5 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 112 (20.78%) Linux
2 53 (9.83%) Unix
3 42 (7.79%) Windows
4 15 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.11%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.19%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (42.86%) Agile
2 153 (28.39%) DevOps
3 146 (27.09%) Problem-Solving
4 140 (25.97%) CI/CD
5 123 (22.82%) Microservices
6 114 (21.15%) Software Engineering
7 83 (15.40%) Data Modelling
8 78 (14.47%) ETL
9 76 (14.10%) Business Intelligence
10 74 (13.73%) Migration
11 68 (12.62%) Containerisation
12 67 (12.43%) TDD
13 66 (12.24%) Analytics
14 61 (11.32%) SDLC
15 60 (11.13%) Multithreading
16 55 (10.20%) Performance Tuning
17 52 (9.65%) Full-Stack Development
18 51 (9.46%) OO
19 48 (8.91%) Continuous Integration
19 48 (8.91%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 309 (57.33%) SQL
2 195 (36.18%) Java
3 188 (34.88%) Python
4 79 (14.66%) JavaScript
5 67 (12.43%) C#
6 44 (8.16%) TypeScript
7 43 (7.98%) Shell Script
8 23 (4.27%) PL/SQL
9 21 (3.90%) Perl
10 15 (2.78%) R
11 13 (2.41%) PHP
12 11 (2.04%) Ruby
12 11 (2.04%) Scala
13 9 (1.67%) C++
13 9 (1.67%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (1.11%) RPG
15 6 (1.11%) RPG IV
15 6 (1.11%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 138 (25.60%) Security Cleared
2 122 (22.63%) SC Cleared
3 66 (12.24%) Degree
4 14 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.41%) Numerate Degree
6 11 (2.04%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.74%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.37%) MCPD
10 2 (0.37%) MCSD
10 2 (0.37%) OCP
10 2 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.37%) Sun Certification
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.19%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.49%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.08%) QA
3 9 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (0.74%) GDPR
5 3 (0.56%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.19%) MiFID
7 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 106 (19.67%) Docker
2 33 (6.12%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.48%) GridGain
4 3 (0.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 3 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) HDFS
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 85 (15.77%) Kubernetes
2 24 (4.45%) Terraform
3 14 (2.60%) Ansible
4 13 (2.41%) Progress Chef
5 10 (1.86%) Grafana
5 10 (1.86%) Kibana
6 7 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.93%) Puppet
8 4 (0.74%) Packer
8 4 (0.74%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.37%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 2 (0.37%) Oozie
9 2 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.19%) Argo
10 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.19%) Graylog
10 1 (0.19%) Istio
10 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 121 (22.45%) Oracle
2 69 (12.80%) Microsoft
3 50 (9.28%) Sybase
4 32 (5.94%) SAP
5 17 (3.15%) Splunk
6 13 (2.41%) CyberArk
6 13 (2.41%) Google
6 13 (2.41%) Red Hat
7 12 (2.23%) Databricks
8 10 (1.86%) Alteryx
8 10 (1.86%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.67%) Adobe
9 9 (1.67%) AppDynamics
9 9 (1.67%) Talend
9 9 (1.67%) Zend
10 8 (1.48%) IBM
10 8 (1.48%) Informatica
10 8 (1.48%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.48%) Teradata
11 7 (1.30%) VMware