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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 161 191
Rank change year-on-year -52 +30 -15
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 530 515 527
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.22% 1.76% 1.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.64% 9.27% 7.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 353 387
10th Percentile £313 £393 £356
25th Percentile £400 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £675 £675 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £443 £497 £527
% change year-on-year -10.88% -5.70% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 10
10th Percentile £32.61 £17.70 £22.56
25th Percentile £41.25 £23.50 £30.94
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.50 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year +88.68% -45.42% +94.28%
75th Percentile - £32.06 £67.44
90th Percentile £64.89 £48.68 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.84 £45.78
% change year-on-year +93.50% -43.55% -34.60%

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 6,941 5,558 7,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.01% 18.98% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,770 3,834 5,169
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £488
% change year-on-year -3.60% +1.08% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 97 172
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.35 £14.36
25th Percentile £28.79 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £51.00 £31.64 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +61.19% -21.39% -29.32%
75th Percentile £74.92 £64.50 £58.81
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.25 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £29.90 £40.00
% change year-on-year +67.22% -25.25% -27.27%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -48 441 £470 -10.48% 202
UK excluding London -57 243 £443 -10.88% 148
London -14 239 £525 -1.87% 79
Work from Home -58 168 £450 -14.29% 120
South East -24 74 £390 -22.96% 52
North of England -48 67 £430 -5.14% 37
Scotland -4 44 £450 -8.16% 7
North West -29 43 £413 -8.89% 20
Midlands -69 36 £460 -6.69% 24
West Midlands -55 29 £469 -4.92% 15
Yorkshire -42 19 £518 +2.48% 12
South West -33 14 £550 - 17
East Midlands -39 7 £417 -14.85% 9
North East - 7 £450 - 7
Northern Ireland -2 4 - - 2
Wales -13 3 £485 -7.62% 4
East of England -19 3 - - 9

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 26 (4.91%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.64%) WebLogic
3 13 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (2.26%) Apache
5 11 (2.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 8 (1.51%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.32%) IIS
7 7 (1.32%) WebSphere
8 6 (1.13%) Appian
8 6 (1.13%) Confluence
8 6 (1.13%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.94%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.75%) JBoss
10 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.38%) Camunda
11 2 (0.38%) CMS
11 2 (0.38%) Drupal
11 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.38%) WordPress
12 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 21 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.51%) Chatbot
3 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.38%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.32%) Advent Geneva
1 7 (1.32%) BusinessWorks
2 5 (0.94%) Findur
2 5 (0.94%) Magento
2 5 (0.94%) Summit
3 4 (0.75%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.57%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.19%) Maximo
6 1 (0.19%) Shopify
6 1 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.19%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 202 (38.11%) AWS
2 122 (23.02%) Azure
3 66 (12.45%) GitHub
4 58 (10.94%) Serverless
5 54 (10.19%) Amazon S3
6 47 (8.87%) Power Platform
7 43 (8.11%) GCP
8 42 (7.92%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (5.09%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
11 24 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (4.53%) Snowflake
12 22 (4.15%) SaaS
13 20 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (3.21%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
14 17 (3.21%) OpenShift
15 13 (2.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
17 10 (1.89%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.32%) Wireless
2 5 (0.94%) Firewall
2 5 (0.94%) HTTP
3 4 (0.75%) AMQP
3 4 (0.75%) DNS
3 4 (0.75%) Internet
3 4 (0.75%) Network Security
4 2 (0.38%) SMS
5 1 (0.19%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (0.19%) Multicast
5 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.19%) RTMP
5 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (26.60%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (20.57%) SQL Server
3 106 (20.00%) MySQL
4 99 (18.68%) RDBMS
5 71 (13.40%) MongoDB
6 67 (12.64%) NoSQL
7 60 (11.32%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (8.49%) Power BI
9 29 (5.47%) Big Data
10 25 (4.72%) DB2
10 25 (4.72%) Metadata
11 24 (4.53%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (4.15%) Data Lake
12 22 (4.15%) Oracle Database
13 20 (3.77%) DynamoDB
14 15 (2.83%) Oracle Reports
15 12 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
16 11 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (2.08%) Redis
16 11 (2.08%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 93 (17.55%) Git
2 58 (10.94%) Jenkins
3 35 (6.60%) GitLab
4 29 (5.47%) JUnit
5 23 (4.34%) JIRA
6 16 (3.02%) Mockito
7 12 (2.26%) Maven
8 11 (2.08%) Browser DevTools
9 10 (1.89%) Android Studio
9 10 (1.89%) Eclipse
9 10 (1.89%) Xcode
10 9 (1.70%) Gradle
10 9 (1.70%) Selenium
11 8 (1.51%) ERwin
11 8 (1.51%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.32%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
13 6 (1.13%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.13%) Gatling
13 6 (1.13%) PyCharm
General
1 167 (31.51%) Social Skills
2 119 (22.45%) Finance
3 102 (19.25%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (10.75%) Public Sector
5 46 (8.68%) Banking
6 24 (4.53%) Investment Banking
7 17 (3.21%) Front Office
8 12 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.13%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.13%) Marketing
11 5 (0.94%) Military
12 4 (0.75%) Publishing
12 4 (0.75%) Retail
13 3 (0.57%) Legal
13 3 (0.57%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.38%) Back Office
14 2 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 223 (42.08%) Developer
2 76 (14.34%) Senior
3 66 (12.45%) Java Developer
4 49 (9.25%) Data Engineer
5 39 (7.36%) Senior Developer
6 37 (6.98%) Analyst
7 32 (6.04%) Lead
8 30 (5.66%) Python Developer
9 28 (5.28%) Software Engineer
10 26 (4.91%) Full-Stack Developer
11 24 (4.53%) Technical Support
12 23 (4.34%) Architect
13 19 (3.58%) DBA
13 19 (3.58%) Senior Java Developer
14 17 (3.21%) C# Developer
15 16 (3.02%) Business Analyst
15 16 (3.02%) Support Engineer
16 14 (2.64%) .NET Developer
16 14 (2.64%) Data Analyst
16 14 (2.64%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (17.36%) React
2 88 (16.60%) REST
3 85 (16.04%) RESTful
4 80 (15.09%) Spring
5 70 (13.21%) Spring Boot
6 69 (13.02%) Kafka
7 54 (10.19%) .NET
8 46 (8.68%) XML
9 41 (7.74%) CSS
10 39 (7.36%) JSON
11 35 (6.60%) AngularJS
12 29 (5.47%) HTML
13 27 (5.09%) GraphQL
14 26 (4.91%) Web Services
15 23 (4.34%) SOAP
16 22 (4.15%) Django
16 22 (4.15%) PySpark
17 20 (3.77%) Pandas
18 19 (3.58%) NumPy
19 18 (3.40%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.42%) Cloud Native
2 32 (6.04%) Product Ownership
3 31 (5.85%) Data Structures
4 25 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (3.40%) Virtual Team
6 15 (2.83%) Algorithms
6 15 (2.83%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.45%) Fixed Income
8 12 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
10 10 (1.89%) CMDB
10 10 (1.89%) Equities
10 10 (1.89%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.70%) Client/Server
11 9 (1.70%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.32%) Clustering
12 7 (1.32%) Derivative
12 7 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.94%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 74 (13.96%) Linux
2 45 (8.49%) Unix
3 39 (7.36%) Windows
4 10 (1.89%) Android
5 4 (0.75%) CentOS
5 4 (0.75%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.38%) Solaris
8 1 (0.19%) AIX
8 1 (0.19%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (36.79%) Agile
2 179 (33.77%) CI/CD
3 160 (30.19%) Problem-Solving
4 141 (26.60%) DevOps
5 121 (22.83%) Microservices
6 118 (22.26%) Data Modelling
7 108 (20.38%) Containerisation
8 90 (16.98%) Analytics
9 87 (16.42%) ETL
10 68 (12.83%) SDLC
10 68 (12.83%) Software Engineering
11 65 (12.26%) Data Engineering
12 64 (12.08%) Data Pipeline
13 61 (11.51%) Test Automation
14 59 (11.13%) AI
15 58 (10.94%) Business Intelligence
16 57 (10.75%) Performance Tuning
17 54 (10.19%) Migration
18 51 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
19 49 (9.25%) OO
Programming Languages
1 304 (57.36%) SQL
2 195 (36.79%) Java
2 195 (36.79%) Python
3 91 (17.17%) JavaScript
4 54 (10.19%) C#
5 35 (6.60%) TypeScript
6 29 (5.47%) Perl
7 22 (4.15%) Shell Script
8 20 (3.77%) PL/SQL
9 14 (2.64%) PHP
9 14 (2.64%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.64%) Scala
10 13 (2.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (1.70%) Bash
11 9 (1.70%) Go
12 7 (1.32%) XPath
13 6 (1.13%) R
13 6 (1.13%) Ruby
14 5 (0.94%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.94%) VB
Qualifications
1 101 (19.06%) Security Cleared
2 67 (12.64%) SC Cleared
3 46 (8.68%) Degree
4 27 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.89%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.32%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.32%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.94%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.75%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
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%) CISSP
11 2 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.19%) ISEB
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (11.51%) Data Quality
2 50 (9.43%) QA
3 19 (3.58%) GDPR
4 17 (3.21%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.94%) SLA
6 5 (0.94%) WCAG
7 3 (0.57%) IFRS
8 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.38%) FATCA
8 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.38%) NCSC
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%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.19%) MiFID
9 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 145 (27.36%) Docker
2 5 (0.94%) Varnish
3 2 (0.38%) GridGain
3 2 (0.38%) NFS
4 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 121 (22.83%) Kubernetes
2 47 (8.87%) Terraform
3 25 (4.72%) Grafana
4 21 (3.96%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.64%) Ansible
6 7 (1.32%) TIBCO Hawk
7 6 (1.13%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.13%) Puppet
8 4 (0.75%) Argo
9 3 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.57%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.57%) HP Quality Center
9 3 (0.57%) Packer
10 2 (0.38%) Consul
10 2 (0.38%) Kibana
11 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 142 (26.79%) Oracle
2 71 (13.40%) Microsoft
3 25 (4.72%) Databricks
4 20 (3.77%) ServiceNow
4 20 (3.77%) Splunk
5 17 (3.21%) Adobe
6 13 (2.45%) IBM
7 12 (2.26%) Sybase
8 10 (1.89%) Informatica
9 9 (1.70%) Google
10 8 (1.51%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.51%) TIBCO
11 7 (1.32%) Advent
11 7 (1.32%) BEA
12 6 (1.13%) SAP
13 4 (0.75%) Ab Initio
13 4 (0.75%) DevExpress
13 4 (0.75%) OpenLink
13 4 (0.75%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.75%) Teradata