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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 151 198
Rank change year-on-year -71 +47 -23
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 530 540 510
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.16% 1.85% 1.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.31% 9.75% 7.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 365 373
10th Percentile £313 £393 £363
25th Percentile £400 £447 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £521 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.67% -5.27% -6.38%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £688 £683 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £497 £525
% change year-on-year -9.37% -5.43% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 8
10th Percentile £23.03 £18.99 £22.17
25th Percentile £38.13 £24.12 £26.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.50 £43.28
Median % change year-on-year +88.68% -38.77% -13.45%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £52.12
90th Percentile £63.75 £88.63 £59.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.18 £35.50
% change year-on-year +98.57% -29.07% -50.18%

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 7,251 5,538 7,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.85% 18.95% 16.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,994 3,842 5,140
10th Percentile £350 £352 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £598 £645 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -2.56% - -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 108 154
10th Percentile £18.18 £21.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.47 £24.25 £20.78
Median hourly rate £51.00 £32.43 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.26% -18.93% -30.43%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £53.44
90th Percentile £83.83 £76.63 £71.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £30.82 £35.00
% change year-on-year +62.23% -11.94% -36.36%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -56 445 £455 -13.33% 184
UK excluding London -76 251 £450 -9.37% 136
London -36 233 £500 -5.66% 70
Work from Home -68 147 £450 -14.29% 145
South East -15 72 £413 -19.51% 44
North of England -48 67 £425 -8.11% 33
Midlands -48 46 £464 -5.93% 24
North West -34 43 £402 -12.61% 13
Scotland -19 41 £453 -3.72% 9
West Midlands -59 31 £473 -4.83% 15
Yorkshire -38 19 £518 -5.91% 18
South West -43 16 £510 -7.27% 14
East Midlands -20 15 £421 -14.03% 9
North East -12 7 £450 - 4
Northern Ireland -5 4 - - 2
East of England -30 4 - - 7
Wales -14 3 £475 -9.52% 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 28 (5.28%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.64%) WebLogic
3 13 (2.45%) Apache
3 13 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (1.32%) IIS
4 7 (1.32%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.32%) WebSphere
5 6 (1.13%) Appian
5 6 (1.13%) Confluence
5 6 (1.13%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.94%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.75%) JBoss
7 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.57%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.57%) Camunda
9 2 (0.38%) CMS
9 2 (0.38%) Drupal
9 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.51%) Chatbot
3 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.38%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (1.32%) Advent Geneva
1 7 (1.32%) BusinessWorks
2 6 (1.13%) Findur
2 6 (1.13%) Summit
3 5 (0.94%) Magento
4 4 (0.75%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.57%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.57%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.38%) Aladdin
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%) Finacle
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 (35.66%) AWS
2 116 (21.89%) Azure
3 67 (12.64%) GitHub
4 59 (11.13%) Serverless
5 52 (9.81%) Amazon S3
6 49 (9.25%) Power Platform
7 47 (8.87%) GCP
8 44 (8.30%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (5.28%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (4.53%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (3.77%) OpenShift
12 19 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (3.58%) SaaS
13 17 (3.21%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (3.21%) Snowflake
14 15 (2.83%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (2.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
17 10 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.94%) Firewall
1 5 (0.94%) HTTP
1 5 (0.94%) Network Security
2 4 (0.75%) AMQP
2 4 (0.75%) DNS
2 4 (0.75%) Internet
2 4 (0.75%) Wireless
3 2 (0.38%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (0.19%) Multicast
4 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.19%) RTMP
4 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (27.92%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (19.62%) SQL Server
3 103 (19.43%) MySQL
4 89 (16.79%) RDBMS
5 72 (13.58%) NoSQL
6 66 (12.45%) MongoDB
7 52 (9.81%) Data Warehouse
8 47 (8.87%) Power BI
9 26 (4.91%) Metadata
10 25 (4.72%) DB2
10 25 (4.72%) DynamoDB
11 23 (4.34%) Amazon RDS
11 23 (4.34%) Big Data
12 21 (3.96%) Data Lake
12 21 (3.96%) Oracle Database
13 18 (3.40%) Oracle Reports
14 14 (2.64%) Redis
15 12 (2.26%) Power Query
16 11 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (2.08%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 85 (16.04%) Git
2 58 (10.94%) Jenkins
3 38 (7.17%) GitLab
4 26 (4.91%) JUnit
5 24 (4.53%) JIRA
6 16 (3.02%) Mockito
7 10 (1.89%) Maven
8 9 (1.70%) ERwin
9 8 (1.51%) Browser DevTools
9 8 (1.51%) Gradle
9 8 (1.51%) REST Assured
9 8 (1.51%) Selenium
10 7 (1.32%) Android Studio
10 7 (1.32%) Eclipse
10 7 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (1.32%) Xcode
11 6 (1.13%) Gatling
11 6 (1.13%) PyCharm
12 5 (0.94%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.94%) Cypress.io
General
1 164 (30.94%) Social Skills
2 122 (23.02%) Finance
3 103 (19.43%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (9.25%) Public Sector
5 43 (8.11%) Banking
6 21 (3.96%) Investment Banking
7 18 (3.40%) Front Office
8 11 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.70%) Publishing
10 8 (1.51%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.13%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.13%) Marketing
12 5 (0.94%) Military
12 5 (0.94%) Retail
13 4 (0.75%) Back Office
13 4 (0.75%) Legal
14 3 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.38%) Billing
15 2 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 227 (42.83%) Developer
2 79 (14.91%) Senior
3 66 (12.45%) Java Developer
4 47 (8.87%) Data Engineer
5 36 (6.79%) Senior Developer
6 34 (6.42%) Software Engineer
7 33 (6.23%) Analyst
8 32 (6.04%) Python Developer
9 30 (5.66%) Full-Stack Developer
10 25 (4.72%) Lead
11 23 (4.34%) Architect
12 20 (3.77%) Technical Support
13 19 (3.58%) .NET Developer
13 19 (3.58%) DBA
14 17 (3.21%) Business Analyst
14 17 (3.21%) Senior Java Developer
15 16 (3.02%) Software Developer
16 15 (2.83%) C# Developer
16 15 (2.83%) Senior Data Engineer
17 13 (2.45%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (20.57%) REST
2 92 (17.36%) React
3 88 (16.60%) RESTful
4 84 (15.85%) Spring
5 79 (14.91%) Spring Boot
6 70 (13.21%) Kafka
7 63 (11.89%) .NET
8 46 (8.68%) XML
9 39 (7.36%) CSS
9 39 (7.36%) JSON
10 36 (6.79%) AngularJS
11 31 (5.85%) HTML
12 30 (5.66%) Web Services
13 29 (5.47%) GraphQL
14 22 (4.15%) SOAP
15 21 (3.96%) Django
15 21 (3.96%) Node.js
16 19 (3.58%) Pandas
17 18 (3.40%) FastAPI
17 18 (3.40%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.17%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.79%) Product Ownership
3 29 (5.47%) Data Structures
4 28 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (3.77%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.83%) Virtual Team
7 14 (2.64%) Algorithms
7 14 (2.64%) Fixed Income
8 11 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.89%) Derivative
9 10 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.70%) Client/Server
10 9 (1.70%) CMDB
10 9 (1.70%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (1.51%) Equities
11 8 (1.51%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.32%) Clustering
12 7 (1.32%) Hedge funds
12 7 (1.32%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 66 (12.45%) Linux
2 44 (8.30%) Unix
3 35 (6.60%) Windows
4 7 (1.32%) Android
5 4 (0.75%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.57%) CentOS
7 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.19%) AIX
8 1 (0.19%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (36.79%) Agile
2 187 (35.28%) CI/CD
3 151 (28.49%) Problem-Solving
4 149 (28.11%) DevOps
5 132 (24.91%) Microservices
6 114 (21.51%) Data Modelling
7 105 (19.81%) Containerisation
8 91 (17.17%) Analytics
9 83 (15.66%) ETL
10 77 (14.53%) Software Engineering
11 66 (12.45%) AI
12 65 (12.26%) Data Pipeline
12 65 (12.26%) SDLC
13 62 (11.70%) Business Intelligence
13 62 (11.70%) Test Automation
14 58 (10.94%) Data Engineering
14 58 (10.94%) Observability
15 56 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 56 (10.57%) Performance Tuning
16 54 (10.19%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 298 (56.23%) SQL
2 200 (37.74%) Java
3 183 (34.53%) Python
4 83 (15.66%) JavaScript
5 63 (11.89%) C#
6 40 (7.55%) TypeScript
7 25 (4.72%) Perl
8 19 (3.58%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.21%) PL/SQL
10 16 (3.02%) Scala
11 15 (2.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (2.26%) PHP
13 11 (2.08%) PowerShell
14 10 (1.89%) Bash
14 10 (1.89%) Go
15 8 (1.51%) R
16 7 (1.32%) Ruby
16 7 (1.32%) XPath
17 5 (0.94%) C++
18 4 (0.75%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 100 (18.87%) Security Cleared
2 66 (12.45%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.43%) Degree
4 34 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.08%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.70%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.51%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.32%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.75%) MBA
11 3 (0.57%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.57%) OCP
11 3 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
12 2 (0.38%) CISSP
12 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (10.19%) Data Quality
2 49 (9.25%) 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%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.19%) EMIR
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.19%) MiFID
9 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 142 (26.79%) Docker
2 5 (0.94%) Varnish
3 2 (0.38%) GridGain
4 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 123 (23.21%) Kubernetes
2 48 (9.06%) Terraform
3 24 (4.53%) Grafana
4 21 (3.96%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.64%) Ansible
6 7 (1.32%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.32%) TIBCO Hawk
7 6 (1.13%) Puppet
8 4 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.57%) Packer
10 2 (0.38%) Argo
10 2 (0.38%) Consul
10 2 (0.38%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.38%) Kibana
11 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 139 (26.23%) Oracle
2 71 (13.40%) Microsoft
3 21 (3.96%) Databricks
4 17 (3.21%) Adobe
4 17 (3.21%) Splunk
5 15 (2.83%) IBM
5 15 (2.83%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.08%) Informatica
7 10 (1.89%) Google
7 10 (1.89%) Sybase
8 8 (1.51%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.51%) TIBCO
9 7 (1.32%) Advent
9 7 (1.32%) BEA
10 6 (1.13%) Ab Initio
10 6 (1.13%) Teradata
11 5 (0.94%) SAP
12 4 (0.75%) DevExpress
12 4 (0.75%) OpenLink
12 4 (0.75%) Talend