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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 162 172
Rank change year-on-year -76 +10 +9
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 593 577 548
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.11% 1.76% 1.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.26% 9.69% 7.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 362 408
10th Percentile £361 £320 £319
25th Percentile £413 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £712 £700 £666
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +6.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 1
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.70 -
25th Percentile £15.69 £20.59 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +29.63% -46.00%
75th Percentile £72.94 £63.44 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £20.07 £40.50
% change year-on-year +136.67% -50.44% -46.00%

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 8,170 5,955 7,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.14% 18.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,460 4,003 4,949
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 96 100
10th Percentile £15.75 £21.02 £14.93
25th Percentile £22.91 £29.00 £19.90
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.99 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +9.32% +1.52% -37.34%
75th Percentile £58.13 £62.44 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.73 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £30.00
% change year-on-year +19.34% +6.83% -40.00%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -73 484 £500 -0.20% 292
UK excluding London -102 272 £478 +6.11% 175
London -40 258 £528 -4.09% 149
Work from Home -97 145 £522 -2.16% 103
North of England -65 76 £488 +16.42% 45
South East -64 51 £525 +51.08% 46
North West -45 49 £465 +10.99% 27
Scotland -40 48 £460 -0.54% 13
Midlands -36 46 £450 -8.63% 24
West Midlands -40 31 £450 -9.55% 11
East of England -2 28 £508 -0.98% 17
Yorkshire -42 22 £507 +5.35% 14
South West -44 17 £521 +39.00% 27
East Midlands -12 15 £475 -3.06% 12
North East -31 9 £450 - 5
Wales -12 6 £475 - 2
Northern Ireland -3 3 - - 4

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 21 (3.54%) Confluence
2 20 (3.37%) Apache Spark
3 18 (3.04%) Apache
4 14 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (1.01%) Tuxedo
7 5 (0.84%) IIS
8 4 (0.67%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.67%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.51%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.17%) Appian
11 1 (0.17%) Camunda
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) JBoss
11 1 (0.17%) Liferay
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.67%) Acrobat
3 4 (0.67%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.67%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.67%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.69%) Finacle
2 7 (1.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.84%) Findur
4 4 (0.67%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.67%) Summit
5 3 (0.51%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.51%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.51%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.17%) Endur
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.17%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 198 (33.39%) AWS
2 143 (24.11%) Azure
3 87 (14.67%) GCP
4 69 (11.64%) GitHub
5 66 (11.13%) Power Platform
6 34 (5.73%) Snowflake
7 29 (4.89%) Serverless
8 28 (4.72%) Amazon S3
8 28 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (4.72%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (3.37%) GitHub Copilot
10 18 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (2.53%) Anthropic Claude
12 15 (2.53%) ChatGPT
12 15 (2.53%) OCI
13 14 (2.36%) SaaS
14 13 (2.19%) Amazon SQS
14 13 (2.19%) dbt
15 11 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.02%) HTTP
2 10 (1.69%) Firewall
2 10 (1.69%) VPN
3 3 (0.51%) WinSCP
4 2 (0.34%) Internet
4 2 (0.34%) Intranet
5 1 (0.17%) AMQP
5 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.17%) Multicast
5 1 (0.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (28.33%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (21.75%) SQL Server
3 115 (19.39%) RDBMS
4 72 (12.14%) Data Warehouse
5 63 (10.62%) MongoDB
5 63 (10.62%) Power BI
6 61 (10.29%) MySQL
7 50 (8.43%) NoSQL
8 46 (7.76%) Oracle Database
9 38 (6.41%) Metadata
10 27 (4.55%) Tableau
11 26 (4.38%) Db2
12 25 (4.22%) Data Lake
13 20 (3.37%) Oracle Reports
14 17 (2.87%) Power Query
14 17 (2.87%) Redis
15 16 (2.70%) Oracle Exadata
16 15 (2.53%) Big Data
16 15 (2.53%) BigQuery
17 11 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 123 (20.74%) Git
2 67 (11.30%) Jenkins
3 53 (8.94%) GitLab
4 34 (5.73%) JIRA
5 26 (4.38%) Maven
6 24 (4.05%) Gradle
7 19 (3.20%) JUnit
8 13 (2.19%) Eclipse
8 13 (2.19%) Mockito
9 12 (2.02%) Oracle Forms
9 12 (2.02%) Selenium
10 10 (1.69%) Visual Studio
11 8 (1.35%) Claude Code
11 8 (1.35%) Liquibase
11 8 (1.35%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.18%) ER Studio
12 7 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
13 6 (1.01%) Ant
13 6 (1.01%) Gatling
13 6 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 190 (32.04%) Social Skills
2 176 (29.68%) Finance
3 154 (25.97%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (15.85%) Public Sector
5 85 (14.33%) Banking
6 31 (5.23%) Front Office
7 25 (4.22%) Investment Banking
8 16 (2.70%) Military
8 16 (2.70%) Publishing
9 12 (2.02%) Back Office
9 12 (2.02%) Retail
10 9 (1.52%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.18%) Law
11 7 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.01%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.01%) Marketing
13 5 (0.84%) Automotive
13 5 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 247 (41.65%) Developer
2 122 (20.57%) Senior
3 78 (13.15%) Java Developer
4 63 (10.62%) Data Engineer
5 55 (9.27%) Senior Developer
6 51 (8.60%) Software Engineer
7 49 (8.26%) Analyst
8 39 (6.58%) Python Developer
9 38 (6.41%) Lead
10 35 (5.90%) Full-Stack Developer
11 28 (4.72%) Software Developer
12 25 (4.22%) Data Analyst
13 22 (3.71%) Architect
14 19 (3.20%) .NET Developer
14 19 (3.20%) Java Engineer
14 19 (3.20%) Python Engineer
15 18 (3.04%) DBA
15 18 (3.04%) Senior Data Engineer
16 17 (2.87%) Backend Developer
16 17 (2.87%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (23.78%) REST
2 104 (17.54%) RESTful
3 97 (16.36%) Kafka
4 89 (15.01%) Spring
4 89 (15.01%) Spring Boot
5 81 (13.66%) React
6 69 (11.64%) .NET
7 55 (9.27%) Terraform
8 39 (6.58%) XML
9 37 (6.24%) CSS
9 37 (6.24%) OAuth
9 37 (6.24%) Web Services
10 35 (5.90%) HTML
10 35 (5.90%) JSON
11 32 (5.40%) AngularJS
12 26 (4.38%) SOAP
13 24 (4.05%) Middleware
14 23 (3.88%) OAuth2
15 21 (3.54%) .NET Framework
15 21 (3.54%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 76 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (6.24%) Data Structures
4 30 (5.06%) Product Ownership
5 25 (4.22%) Management Information System
6 22 (3.71%) Derivative
7 20 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (2.70%) Low-Code
9 15 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (2.36%) Algorithms
10 14 (2.36%) Equity Derivative
11 13 (2.19%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.85%) Equities
12 11 (1.85%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.69%) AI Agents
13 10 (1.69%) Hedge funds
13 10 (1.69%) Replication
13 10 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 8 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 65 (10.96%) Linux
2 43 (7.25%) Unix
3 35 (5.90%) Windows
4 21 (3.54%) AIX
5 14 (2.36%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.51%) Android
7 3 (0.51%) MVS
7 3 (0.51%) zOS
8 1 (0.17%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (41.99%) CI/CD
2 219 (36.93%) Agile
3 179 (30.19%) DevOps
3 179 (30.19%) Problem-Solving
4 138 (23.27%) Data Modelling
5 122 (20.57%) Microservices
6 119 (20.07%) Software Engineering
7 108 (18.21%) Data Pipeline
7 108 (18.21%) ETL
8 107 (18.04%) AI
9 102 (17.20%) Analytics
10 95 (16.02%) Validation
11 87 (14.67%) Containerisation
12 86 (14.50%) Test Automation
13 76 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
14 72 (12.14%) Migration
14 72 (12.14%) Performance Tuning
15 70 (11.80%) Business Intelligence
16 67 (11.30%) Observability
17 66 (11.13%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 338 (57.00%) SQL
2 202 (34.06%) Python
3 197 (33.22%) Java
4 82 (13.83%) C#
5 74 (12.48%) JavaScript
6 39 (6.58%) TypeScript
7 22 (3.71%) PL/SQL
8 19 (3.20%) Shell Script
9 17 (2.87%) PowerShell
10 16 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (2.02%) C++
11 12 (2.02%) Scala
12 11 (1.85%) R
13 9 (1.52%) Bash
13 9 (1.52%) Perl
13 9 (1.52%) T-SQL
14 7 (1.18%) Apex Code
14 7 (1.18%) VB
15 6 (1.01%) SOQL
15 6 (1.01%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 134 (22.60%) Security Cleared
2 108 (18.21%) SC Cleared
3 57 (9.61%) Degree
4 34 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.69%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.18%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.67%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.67%) MBA
9 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (0.34%) CISSP
10 2 (0.34%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.17%) CFA
11 1 (0.17%) ISEB
11 1 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (15.51%) Data Quality
2 72 (12.14%) QA
3 30 (5.06%) Accessibility
4 20 (3.37%) GDPR
5 8 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.01%) WCAG
7 5 (0.84%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 5 (0.84%) GMP
7 5 (0.84%) GxP
7 5 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 3 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.51%) SLA
9 2 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.34%) NIST
10 1 (0.17%) GRC
10 1 (0.17%) ITGC
10 1 (0.17%) NCSC
10 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 132 (22.26%) Docker
2 18 (3.04%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.51%) ACF2
4 3 (0.51%) RACF
5 2 (0.34%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.34%) GridGain
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 123 (20.74%) Kubernetes
2 32 (5.40%) Ansible
3 19 (3.20%) Prometheus
4 17 (2.87%) Grafana
5 16 (2.70%) Data Guard
5 16 (2.70%) Oracle RMAN
6 6 (1.01%) Argo
7 3 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.17%) Istio
9 1 (0.17%) Kibana
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 170 (28.67%) Oracle
2 75 (12.65%) Microsoft
3 32 (5.40%) Google
4 30 (5.06%) IBM
5 23 (3.88%) Databricks
6 17 (2.87%) Sybase
7 13 (2.19%) Splunk
8 12 (2.02%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.85%) Informatica
10 10 (1.69%) SAP
11 8 (1.35%) OutSystems
12 7 (1.18%) Adobe
12 7 (1.18%) Sparx
13 6 (1.01%) Alteryx
13 6 (1.01%) Dynatrace
13 6 (1.01%) Teradata
14 5 (0.84%) Actian
14 5 (0.84%) BeyondTrust
14 5 (0.84%) Bomgar
14 5 (0.84%) Solace
316 Relational Database jobs Nationwide