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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 147 195
Rank change year-on-year -79 +48 -20
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 524 555 521
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.13% 1.89% 1.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.22% 9.87% 7.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 378 387
10th Percentile £314 £400 £369
25th Percentile £400 £450 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.14% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £650 £679 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £528
% change year-on-year -10.00% -5.30% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 6
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.05 £21.79
25th Percentile £23.03 £21.20 £24.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +26.76% -45.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £53.75 £46.94
90th Percentile £61.00 £92.50 £51.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £21.40 £30.50
% change year-on-year +133.64% -29.84% -58.08%

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 7,256 5,622 7,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.71% 19.11% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,968 3,882 5,162
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.50%
75th Percentile £594 £640 £650
90th Percentile £695 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £480
% change year-on-year -2.56% +1.56% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 108 146
10th Percentile £17.13 £20.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.10 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £51.00 £34.58 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.51% -13.56% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £54.03
90th Percentile £83.65 £73.63 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.03% -20.90% -31.73%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -77 434 £455 -13.33% 209
UK excluding London -85 246 £450 -10.00% 167
London -36 230 £500 -5.66% 64
Work from Home -83 142 £450 -14.61% 128
South East -23 67 £390 -23.90% 32
North of England -66 64 £430 -7.14% 50
Midlands -53 47 £460 -6.69% 30
Scotland -17 44 £473 +0.53% 13
North West -50 41 £402 -13.08% 25
West Midlands -55 33 £469 -5.59% 18
Yorkshire -42 18 £518 +7.81% 20
South West -40 15 £388 -29.55% 21
East Midlands -22 14 £410 -16.33% 12
North East -10 7 £450 - 5
Northern Ireland 0 4 - - 2
East of England -30 4 £600 +14.29% 16
Wales -10 3 £475 -9.52% 6

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 (5.53%) Apache Spark
2 15 (2.86%) Apache
3 14 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (2.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 11 (2.10%) WebLogic
6 8 (1.53%) Confluence
7 7 (1.34%) IIS
7 7 (1.34%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.34%) WebSphere
8 6 (1.15%) Appian
8 6 (1.15%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.76%) JBoss
9 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.57%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.57%) Camunda
11 2 (0.38%) CMS
11 2 (0.38%) Drupal
11 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.95%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.38%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (1.34%) Advent Geneva
1 7 (1.34%) BusinessWorks
2 6 (1.15%) Findur
2 6 (1.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (1.15%) Summit
3 5 (0.95%) Magento
4 4 (0.76%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.57%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.57%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.38%) Finacle
6 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.19%) Maximo
7 1 (0.19%) Shopify
7 1 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.19%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 189 (36.07%) AWS
2 116 (22.14%) Azure
3 66 (12.60%) GitHub
4 59 (11.26%) Serverless
5 52 (9.92%) Amazon S3
6 50 (9.54%) GCP
7 47 (8.97%) Power Platform
8 44 (8.40%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (5.34%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (3.82%) OpenShift
12 19 (3.63%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (3.63%) Snowflake
13 17 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (3.05%) SaaS
15 15 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
16 14 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 12 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
17 12 (2.29%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.53%) HTTP
2 5 (0.95%) Firewall
2 5 (0.95%) Network Security
3 4 (0.76%) AMQP
3 4 (0.76%) DNS
4 3 (0.57%) Wireless
5 2 (0.38%) Internet
5 2 (0.38%) SMS
6 1 (0.19%) Multicast
6 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.19%) RTMP
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (27.10%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (20.04%) SQL Server
3 97 (18.51%) MySQL
4 88 (16.79%) RDBMS
5 68 (12.98%) MongoDB
5 68 (12.98%) NoSQL
6 49 (9.35%) Data Warehouse
7 45 (8.59%) Power BI
8 35 (6.68%) Metadata
9 29 (5.53%) DB2
10 25 (4.77%) DynamoDB
11 23 (4.39%) Big Data
12 21 (4.01%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (4.01%) Oracle Database
13 19 (3.63%) Data Lake
14 18 (3.44%) Oracle Reports
15 14 (2.67%) Redis
16 13 (2.48%) Tableau
17 12 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
18 11 (2.10%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 80 (15.27%) Git
2 55 (10.50%) Jenkins
3 39 (7.44%) GitLab
4 26 (4.96%) JIRA
5 24 (4.58%) JUnit
6 16 (3.05%) Mockito
7 11 (2.10%) Maven
8 9 (1.72%) Gradle
9 8 (1.53%) REST Assured
9 8 (1.53%) Selenium
10 7 (1.34%) Browser DevTools
10 7 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (1.15%) Android Studio
11 6 (1.15%) Eclipse
11 6 (1.15%) ERwin
11 6 (1.15%) Gatling
11 6 (1.15%) NUnit
11 6 (1.15%) Xcode
12 5 (0.95%) Serenity BDD
12 5 (0.95%) TeamCity
General
1 159 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 127 (24.24%) Finance
3 95 (18.13%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 42 (8.02%) Banking
6 22 (4.20%) Investment Banking
7 21 (4.01%) Front Office
8 11 (2.10%) Publishing
9 9 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.34%) Military
10 7 (1.34%) Retail
10 7 (1.34%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.15%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.15%) Marketing
12 5 (0.95%) Back Office
12 5 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.76%) Legal
14 3 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.38%) Billing
15 2 (0.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 218 (41.60%) Developer
2 78 (14.89%) Senior
3 65 (12.40%) Java Developer
4 49 (9.35%) Data Engineer
5 35 (6.68%) Python Developer
6 34 (6.49%) Senior Developer
7 33 (6.30%) Analyst
8 32 (6.11%) Software Engineer
9 29 (5.53%) Full-Stack Developer
10 27 (5.15%) Architect
11 25 (4.77%) Lead
12 19 (3.63%) .NET Developer
12 19 (3.63%) DBA
13 18 (3.44%) Technical Support
14 17 (3.24%) Business Analyst
14 17 (3.24%) Senior Java Developer
15 15 (2.86%) C# Developer
15 15 (2.86%) Senior Data Engineer
15 15 (2.86%) Site Engineer
15 15 (2.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (20.04%) REST
2 90 (17.18%) React
3 86 (16.41%) RESTful
4 81 (15.46%) Spring
5 78 (14.89%) Spring Boot
6 72 (13.74%) Kafka
7 64 (12.21%) .NET
8 44 (8.40%) XML
9 39 (7.44%) JSON
10 37 (7.06%) CSS
11 35 (6.68%) AngularJS
12 29 (5.53%) GraphQL
12 29 (5.53%) HTML
13 27 (5.15%) Web Services
14 21 (4.01%) Django
15 20 (3.82%) FastAPI
16 19 (3.63%) Node.js
16 19 (3.63%) SOAP
17 18 (3.44%) Flask
18 16 (3.05%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.44%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.68%) Product Ownership
3 28 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (5.15%) Data Structures
5 23 (4.39%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.86%) Derivative
6 15 (2.86%) Virtual Team
7 14 (2.67%) Fixed Income
8 10 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.72%) Algorithms
9 9 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
9 9 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.53%) Client/Server
10 8 (1.53%) CMDB
10 8 (1.53%) Equities
10 8 (1.53%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.53%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.34%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.34%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 64 (12.21%) Linux
2 44 (8.40%) Unix
3 34 (6.49%) Windows
4 6 (1.15%) Android
5 4 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.38%) CentOS
7 2 (0.38%) MVS
7 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.38%) zOS
8 1 (0.19%) AIX
8 1 (0.19%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (36.45%) CI/CD
2 181 (34.54%) Agile
3 146 (27.86%) DevOps
4 136 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
5 128 (24.43%) Microservices
6 110 (20.99%) Data Modelling
7 101 (19.27%) Containerisation
8 88 (16.79%) Analytics
9 80 (15.27%) ETL
10 72 (13.74%) Data Pipeline
10 72 (13.74%) Software Engineering
11 69 (13.17%) AI
12 65 (12.40%) Observability
12 65 (12.40%) SDLC
12 65 (12.40%) Test Automation
13 59 (11.26%) Business Intelligence
14 57 (10.88%) Data Engineering
15 53 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
15 53 (10.11%) Performance Tuning
16 51 (9.73%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 287 (54.77%) SQL
2 190 (36.26%) Java
3 177 (33.78%) Python
4 80 (15.27%) JavaScript
5 64 (12.21%) C#
6 40 (7.63%) TypeScript
7 25 (4.77%) Perl
8 19 (3.63%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.24%) Scala
10 16 (3.05%) PL/SQL
11 14 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (2.29%) PHP
13 11 (2.10%) Bash
13 11 (2.10%) PowerShell
14 10 (1.91%) Go
15 8 (1.53%) C++
15 8 (1.53%) R
16 7 (1.34%) Ruby
16 7 (1.34%) XPath
17 4 (0.76%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 99 (18.89%) Security Cleared
2 69 (13.17%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.73%) Degree
4 33 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.10%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.53%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.53%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.34%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.76%) MBA
10 3 (0.57%) CISSP
10 3 (0.57%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.57%) OCP
10 3 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (11.07%) Data Quality
2 48 (9.16%) QA
3 20 (3.82%) GDPR
4 19 (3.63%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.95%) SLA
6 5 (0.95%) WCAG
7 3 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.57%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.57%) IFRS
7 3 (0.57%) NCSC
8 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.38%) FATCA
8 2 (0.38%) NIST
8 2 (0.38%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.19%) EMIR
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.19%) MiFID
9 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 139 (26.53%) Docker
2 5 (0.95%) Varnish
3 2 (0.38%) ACF2
3 2 (0.38%) GridGain
3 2 (0.38%) RACF
4 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 118 (22.52%) Kubernetes
2 51 (9.73%) Terraform
3 26 (4.96%) Grafana
4 23 (4.39%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.86%) Ansible
6 7 (1.34%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.34%) TIBCO Hawk
7 6 (1.15%) Puppet
8 4 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.57%) Kibana
9 3 (0.57%) Packer
10 2 (0.38%) Argo
10 2 (0.38%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 137 (26.15%) Oracle
2 74 (14.12%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.82%) Databricks
4 17 (3.24%) Adobe
5 16 (3.05%) IBM
5 16 (3.05%) Splunk
6 13 (2.48%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.29%) Sybase
8 11 (2.10%) Informatica
9 10 (1.91%) Google
10 8 (1.53%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.53%) TIBCO
11 7 (1.34%) Advent
11 7 (1.34%) BEA
12 6 (1.15%) Ab Initio
12 6 (1.15%) Sparx
12 6 (1.15%) Teradata
13 5 (0.95%) SAP
14 4 (0.76%) DevExpress
14 4 (0.76%) OpenLink