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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 177 181
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 552 543 698
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.68% 1.42% 1.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.25% 7.91% 8.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 400 463
10th Percentile £284 £298 £370
25th Percentile £375 £400 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -4.60%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £688
90th Percentile £675 £650 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 26
10th Percentile £36.23 - £51.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £36.75 £62.30
Median hourly rate £52.50 £38.50 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -47.97% +48.00%
75th Percentile £82.81 £40.25 £78.00
90th Percentile £92.50 - £79.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.95 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +45.00%

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 5,967 6,865 8,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.12% 17.95% 16.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,995 4,734 5,804
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £543
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -1.43% -1.32%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 86 158
10th Percentile £22.85 £17.50 £20.76
25th Percentile £29.33 £20.88 £32.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -36.36% +22.66%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.19 £73.70
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.25 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.49 £30.00 £54.75
% change year-on-year +18.30% -45.21% +56.43%

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
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 17 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Relational Database over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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 +14 430 £489 -6.90% 294
UK excluding London +33 287 £450 -5.26% 203
London +1 215 £530 -3.64% 151
Work from Home -4 183 £500 -2.91% 155
North of England +12 83 £415 -19.42% 53
Scotland +39 77 £463 +8.82% 4
South East +20 53 £208 -2.35% 77
North West +15 51 £393 -4.73% 30
Yorkshire -16 30 £501 -9.00% 19
Midlands -7 26 £493 +12.51% 29
South West +14 23 £375 -30.23% 12
West Midlands -4 18 £498 -18.71% 24
East of England +9 12 £513 +36.67% 21
Northern Ireland +2 12 £470 +12.24% 6
East Midlands -7 8 £476 +19.06% 5
Wales -7 3 £475 -6.86% 5
North East - 2 - - 4

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 24 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (3.44%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.54%) Apache
4 9 (1.63%) JBoss
5 8 (1.45%) nginx
5 8 (1.45%) SAS
6 6 (1.09%) Confluence
6 6 (1.09%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.91%) GemFire
8 4 (0.72%) OpenEdge
9 3 (0.54%) Camunda
9 3 (0.54%) CICS
9 3 (0.54%) Drupal
9 3 (0.54%) Oracle Coherence
9 3 (0.54%) WordPress
10 2 (0.36%) Alfresco
10 2 (0.36%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.36%) Appian
10 2 (0.36%) Moodle
10 2 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.72%) Endur
2 3 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.36%) Kondor
4 1 (0.18%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.18%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.18%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 155 (28.08%) AWS
2 104 (18.84%) Azure
3 56 (10.14%) Serverless
4 48 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 44 (7.97%) GCP
6 42 (7.61%) Amazon S3
7 37 (6.70%) AWS Lambda
8 34 (6.16%) GitHub
8 34 (6.16%) SaaS
9 24 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (4.17%) OpenShift
10 23 (4.17%) PaaS
11 20 (3.62%) Amazon SQS
12 19 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (3.08%) dbt
14 16 (2.90%) Snowflake
15 15 (2.72%) Amazon EventBridge
16 14 (2.54%) Amazon ECS
16 14 (2.54%) IaaS
16 14 (2.54%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.90%) HTTP
2 11 (1.99%) Wireless
3 9 (1.63%) Firewall
4 7 (1.27%) Internet
5 5 (0.91%) SSL
6 4 (0.72%) POP3
6 4 (0.72%) SMTP
6 4 (0.72%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.54%) AMQP
7 3 (0.54%) MQTT
8 2 (0.36%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.36%) LAN
8 2 (0.36%) MPLS
8 2 (0.36%) SMS
8 2 (0.36%) SSH
8 2 (0.36%) WAN
9 1 (0.18%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (22.10%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (20.47%) RDBMS
3 81 (14.67%) SQL Server
4 80 (14.49%) MySQL
5 70 (12.68%) MongoDB
6 65 (11.78%) Data Warehouse
7 59 (10.69%) DB2
8 47 (8.51%) NoSQL
9 44 (7.97%) Power BI
10 22 (3.99%) Data Lake
11 20 (3.62%) Tableau
12 19 (3.44%) Oracle Database
13 16 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (2.72%) Big Data
15 13 (2.36%) Redis
16 12 (2.17%) BigQuery
17 11 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
18 10 (1.81%) DynamoDB
18 10 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 92 (16.67%) JUnit
2 89 (16.12%) Git
3 61 (11.05%) Jenkins
4 42 (7.61%) Gradle
5 41 (7.43%) JIRA
6 34 (6.16%) Mockito
7 29 (5.25%) Liquibase
8 18 (3.26%) Browser DevTools
9 17 (3.08%) Maven
10 15 (2.72%) Eclipse
11 12 (2.17%) GitLab
11 12 (2.17%) SonarQube
12 11 (1.99%) Android Studio
12 11 (1.99%) Cucumber
12 11 (1.99%) Xcode
13 8 (1.45%) webpack
14 7 (1.27%) TeamCity
15 6 (1.09%) Firebug
15 6 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (1.09%) Subversion
General
1 202 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 176 (31.88%) Finance
3 100 (18.12%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (14.13%) Banking
5 51 (9.24%) Investment Banking
5 51 (9.24%) Public Sector
6 36 (6.52%) Front Office
7 27 (4.89%) Marketing
8 24 (4.35%) Telecoms
9 21 (3.80%) Manufacturing
10 19 (3.44%) Electronics
11 14 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.63%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.09%) Digital Healthcare
14 5 (0.91%) Back Office
15 4 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 250 (45.29%) Developer
2 114 (20.65%) Java Developer
3 86 (15.58%) Senior
4 64 (11.59%) Senior Developer
5 50 (9.06%) Data Engineer
6 49 (8.88%) Analyst
7 39 (7.07%) Senior Java Developer
8 36 (6.52%) SQL Developer
9 34 (6.16%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 34 (6.16%) Lead
10 29 (5.25%) Technical Support
11 27 (4.89%) Support Engineer
12 25 (4.53%) Architect
12 25 (4.53%) Data Analyst
12 25 (4.53%) Software Engineer
13 22 (3.99%) Java Engineer
14 21 (3.80%) Full-Stack Developer
14 21 (3.80%) Linux Developer
14 21 (3.80%) React Developer
15 19 (3.44%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (24.09%) Spring
2 109 (19.75%) Kafka
3 95 (17.21%) React
4 92 (16.67%) Spring Boot
5 64 (11.59%) AngularJS
6 60 (10.87%) CSS
7 59 (10.69%) HTML
8 56 (10.14%) RESTful
9 54 (9.78%) .NET
10 49 (8.88%) REST
11 47 (8.51%) JMS
12 44 (7.97%) XML
13 31 (5.62%) Web Services
14 29 (5.25%) GraphQL
14 29 (5.25%) OpenAPI
14 29 (5.25%) Swagger
15 28 (5.07%) Node.js
15 28 (5.07%) SOAP
16 26 (4.71%) JSON
17 25 (4.53%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 66 (11.96%) Data Structures
2 40 (7.25%) Equities
3 25 (4.53%) Management Information System
4 24 (4.35%) Cloud Native
5 19 (3.44%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.08%) Data Centre
7 14 (2.54%) Mobile App
8 11 (1.99%) Algorithms
8 11 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.63%) Derivative
9 9 (1.63%) N-Tier
9 9 (1.63%) Reinsurance
9 9 (1.63%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.45%) CMDB
10 8 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.45%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.27%) Mainframe
11 7 (1.27%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.09%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 135 (24.46%) Linux
2 55 (9.96%) Windows
3 53 (9.60%) Unix
4 12 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.99%) Android
6 3 (0.54%) CentOS
6 3 (0.54%) Solaris
7 2 (0.36%) AIX
8 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (40.76%) Agile
2 155 (28.08%) Problem-Solving
3 150 (27.17%) CI/CD
4 125 (22.64%) DevOps
5 120 (21.74%) Microservices
6 85 (15.40%) Data Modelling
7 79 (14.31%) Software Engineering
8 77 (13.95%) ETL
9 75 (13.59%) Migration
10 74 (13.41%) Containerisation
10 74 (13.41%) OO
11 72 (13.04%) Analytics
11 72 (13.04%) SDLC
12 70 (12.68%) Performance Tuning
13 68 (12.32%) TDD
14 67 (12.14%) Business Intelligence
15 60 (10.87%) Test Automation
16 57 (10.33%) Computer Science
17 54 (9.78%) Visualisation
18 53 (9.60%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 322 (58.33%) SQL
2 227 (41.12%) Java
3 221 (40.04%) Python
4 94 (17.03%) JavaScript
5 59 (10.69%) TypeScript
6 53 (9.60%) Shell Script
7 48 (8.70%) C#
8 35 (6.34%) Perl
9 16 (2.90%) PL/SQL
10 15 (2.72%) PHP
11 13 (2.36%) Ruby
12 12 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (1.81%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.45%) C++
14 8 (1.45%) R
14 8 (1.45%) Scala
14 8 (1.45%) T-SQL
15 6 (1.09%) C
16 4 (0.72%) Bash
16 4 (0.72%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 74 (13.41%) Security Cleared
2 57 (10.33%) Degree
2 57 (10.33%) SC Cleared
3 31 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.45%) AWS Certification
5 8 (1.45%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.54%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.54%) MCPD
8 3 (0.54%) MCSD
8 3 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.36%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.18%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.18%) OCP
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.79%) QA
2 40 (7.25%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.09%) GDPR
5 3 (0.54%) MiFID
5 3 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.36%) Basel III
6 2 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.36%) SLA
7 1 (0.18%) EMIR
7 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 109 (19.75%) Docker
2 14 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.54%) GridGain
3 3 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.18%) NFS
Systems Management
1 64 (11.59%) Kubernetes
2 31 (5.62%) Terraform
3 17 (3.08%) Grafana
4 9 (1.63%) Kibana
5 8 (1.45%) Ansible
6 7 (1.27%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.72%) Data Guard
7 4 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.36%) Control-M
8 2 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.18%) logstash
9 1 (0.18%) Podman
9 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 125 (22.64%) Oracle
2 67 (12.14%) Microsoft
3 50 (9.06%) Sybase
4 37 (6.70%) ServiceNow
5 27 (4.89%) SAP
6 22 (3.99%) Splunk
7 19 (3.44%) IBM
8 16 (2.90%) AppDynamics
9 13 (2.36%) Databricks
10 10 (1.81%) Google
11 9 (1.63%) Red Hat
12 8 (1.45%) Blue Prism
12 8 (1.45%) Cloudera
12 8 (1.45%) GoldenSource
13 7 (1.27%) Adobe
13 7 (1.27%) Informatica
13 7 (1.27%) TIBCO
14 6 (1.09%) Pega
14 6 (1.09%) StreamSets
15 5 (0.91%) Gigya