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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 173 177
Rank change year-on-year -55 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 621 552 543
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.14% 1.68% 1.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.58% 9.25% 7.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 342 400
10th Percentile £352 £284 £298
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £584
90th Percentile £712 £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +9.33% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 1
10th Percentile - £36.23 -
25th Percentile £14.00 £51.25 £36.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +36.36% -47.97%
75th Percentile £77.00 £82.81 £40.25
90th Percentile - £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £36.95 -
% change year-on-year +21.79% - -

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 8,189 5,967 6,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.09% 18.12% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,468 3,995 4,734
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% -1.47%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £705 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 93 86
10th Percentile £16.35 £22.85 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.88 £29.33 £20.88
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +14.29% -36.36%
75th Percentile £59.88 £65.00 £61.19
90th Percentile £75.50 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.30% +18.30% -45.21%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -67 503 £514 +5.17% 1,067
UK excluding London -78 287 £492 +9.33% 502
London -50 261 £550 +3.77% 649
Work from Home -74 155 £519 +3.80% 418
North of England -89 68 £500 +20.48% 117
South East -59 62 £525 +153.01% 125
Midlands -11 58 £473 -3.96% 75
Scotland -48 46 £460 -0.54% 50
North West -50 45 £465 +18.19% 64
West Midlands -28 41 £473 -4.92% 46
East of England -4 30 £518 +0.98% 36
Yorkshire -54 21 £507 +1.30% 39
East Midlands -1 17 £410 -13.91% 29
South West -52 17 £521 +39.00% 67
Wales -8 6 £475 - 6
North East -35 6 £363 - 15
Northern Ireland -6 2 - - 28

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 30 (4.83%) Confluence
2 19 (3.06%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.90%) Apache
4 13 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.45%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.97%) Tuxedo
7 5 (0.81%) IIS
8 4 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.64%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.48%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.32%) CICS
10 2 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.32%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.32%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.16%) Appian
11 1 (0.16%) Camunda
11 1 (0.16%) CMS
11 1 (0.16%) JBoss
11 1 (0.16%) Liferay
Applications
1 17 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.64%) Acrobat
3 4 (0.64%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.48%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (1.93%) Finacle
2 7 (1.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.81%) Findur
3 5 (0.81%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.64%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.48%) Summit
6 2 (0.32%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.32%) Cerner Millennium
6 2 (0.32%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.32%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 219 (35.27%) AWS
2 141 (22.71%) Azure
3 91 (14.65%) GCP
4 69 (11.11%) GitHub
5 67 (10.79%) Power Platform
6 38 (6.12%) Snowflake
7 28 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (4.03%) Amazon S3
10 24 (3.86%) Serverless
11 21 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (3.38%) GitHub Copilot
12 16 (2.58%) OCI
13 15 (2.42%) Anthropic Claude
13 15 (2.42%) ChatGPT
13 15 (2.42%) SaaS
14 14 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (2.25%) dbt
15 12 (1.93%) OpenShift
16 11 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.25%) HTTP
2 13 (2.09%) Firewall
3 12 (1.93%) VPN
4 3 (0.48%) Internet
4 3 (0.48%) WinSCP
5 2 (0.32%) Intranet
5 2 (0.32%) SSL
6 1 (0.16%) AMQP
6 1 (0.16%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.16%) Multicast
6 1 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (27.86%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (19.81%) SQL Server
3 113 (18.20%) RDBMS
4 77 (12.40%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (10.31%) Power BI
6 63 (10.14%) MySQL
7 56 (9.02%) MongoDB
8 49 (7.89%) Oracle Database
9 43 (6.92%) NoSQL
10 37 (5.96%) Metadata
11 27 (4.35%) Db2
12 26 (4.19%) Data Lake
13 23 (3.70%) Tableau
14 18 (2.90%) Oracle Reports
15 17 (2.74%) Oracle Exadata
16 16 (2.58%) Redis
17 15 (2.42%) BigQuery
17 15 (2.42%) Power Query
18 12 (1.93%) Big Data
18 12 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 151 (24.32%) Git
2 74 (11.92%) Jenkins
3 56 (9.02%) GitLab
4 47 (7.57%) JIRA
5 41 (6.60%) Maven
6 31 (4.99%) JUnit
7 30 (4.83%) Gradle
8 26 (4.19%) Selenium
9 24 (3.86%) Mockito
10 14 (2.25%) Oracle Forms
10 14 (2.25%) SonarQube
11 13 (2.09%) Eclipse
12 10 (1.61%) Visual Studio
13 9 (1.45%) Claude Code
14 8 (1.29%) ER Studio
14 8 (1.29%) REST Assured
15 7 (1.13%) Team Foundation Server
16 6 (0.97%) Bitbucket
16 6 (0.97%) Gatling
16 6 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 222 (35.75%) Social Skills
2 181 (29.15%) Finance
3 165 (26.57%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (15.46%) Public Sector
5 95 (15.30%) Banking
6 30 (4.83%) Front Office
7 26 (4.19%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.42%) Military
9 14 (2.25%) Publishing
10 13 (2.09%) Retail
11 12 (1.93%) Back Office
11 12 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.29%) Law
13 8 (1.29%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.97%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.81%) Automotive
15 5 (0.81%) Legal
15 5 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 264 (42.51%) Developer
2 125 (20.13%) Senior
3 95 (15.30%) Java Developer
4 60 (9.66%) Data Engineer
4 60 (9.66%) Senior Developer
5 51 (8.21%) Software Engineer
6 47 (7.57%) Analyst
7 43 (6.92%) Lead
8 38 (6.12%) Full-Stack Developer
9 36 (5.80%) Python Developer
10 30 (4.83%) Software Developer
11 29 (4.67%) Data Analyst
12 26 (4.19%) Architect
12 26 (4.19%) Java Engineer
13 21 (3.38%) .NET Developer
14 20 (3.22%) Backend Developer
14 20 (3.22%) Senior Java Developer
15 19 (3.06%) Python Engineer
16 18 (2.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 18 (2.90%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (23.83%) REST
2 113 (18.20%) RESTful
3 109 (17.55%) Spring
4 108 (17.39%) Spring Boot
5 94 (15.14%) Kafka
6 78 (12.56%) React
7 72 (11.59%) .NET
8 59 (9.50%) Terraform
9 49 (7.89%) Web Services
10 45 (7.25%) AngularJS
11 41 (6.60%) SOAP
12 40 (6.44%) CSS
13 39 (6.28%) HTML
13 39 (6.28%) OAuth
13 39 (6.28%) XML
14 33 (5.31%) JSON
15 28 (4.51%) Middleware
16 25 (4.03%) OAuth2
17 23 (3.70%) .NET Framework
17 23 (3.70%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 87 (14.01%) Cloud Native
2 49 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (6.76%) Data Structures
4 37 (5.96%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 21 (3.38%) Derivative
6 21 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (2.58%) Low-Code
8 15 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (2.25%) Algorithms
9 14 (2.25%) Equity Derivative
9 14 (2.25%) Onboarding
10 13 (2.09%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.93%) AI Agents
11 12 (1.93%) Equities
11 12 (1.93%) Replication
11 12 (1.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 11 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 74 (11.92%) Linux
2 52 (8.37%) Unix
3 39 (6.28%) Windows
4 23 (3.70%) AIX
5 20 (3.22%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.81%) zOS
8 3 (0.48%) Android
8 3 (0.48%) MVS
9 1 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (45.57%) CI/CD
2 249 (40.10%) Agile
3 198 (31.88%) Problem-Solving
4 177 (28.50%) DevOps
5 152 (24.48%) Data Modelling
6 133 (21.42%) Microservices
7 123 (19.81%) Software Engineering
8 119 (19.16%) Validation
9 117 (18.84%) Test Automation
10 111 (17.87%) Containerisation
11 110 (17.71%) ETL
12 108 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
13 102 (16.43%) Analytics
14 100 (16.10%) AI
15 98 (15.78%) Continuous Improvement
16 88 (14.17%) SDLC
17 82 (13.20%) Migration
18 77 (12.40%) Performance Tuning
19 76 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
20 72 (11.59%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 359 (57.81%) SQL
2 217 (34.94%) Java
3 207 (33.33%) Python
4 83 (13.37%) C#
5 79 (12.72%) JavaScript
6 47 (7.57%) TypeScript
7 22 (3.54%) PL/SQL
8 19 (3.06%) Shell Script
9 18 (2.90%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 13 (2.09%) C++
12 11 (1.77%) Scala
13 10 (1.61%) R
14 9 (1.45%) Bash
14 9 (1.45%) Perl
14 9 (1.45%) T-SQL
15 7 (1.13%) Apex Code
15 7 (1.13%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.13%) VB
16 6 (0.97%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 151 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 115 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 57 (9.18%) Degree
4 33 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.38%) DV Cleared
6 20 (3.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.61%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.13%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.64%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.64%) MBA
10 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.16%) CISSP
11 1 (0.16%) ISEB
11 1 (0.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (15.94%) Data Quality
2 80 (12.88%) QA
3 31 (4.99%) Accessibility
4 20 (3.22%) GDPR
5 8 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (1.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 7 (1.13%) GMP
6 7 (1.13%) GxP
6 7 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 4 (0.64%) SEPA
7 4 (0.64%) WCAG
8 3 (0.48%) SLA
9 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.32%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.32%) PSD2
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) ITGC
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 147 (23.67%) Docker
2 19 (3.06%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.81%) RACF
3 5 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.48%) ACF2
5 2 (0.32%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.32%) GridGain
5 2 (0.32%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 121 (19.48%) Kubernetes
2 37 (5.96%) Ansible
3 28 (4.51%) Prometheus
4 26 (4.19%) Grafana
5 17 (2.74%) Data Guard
6 16 (2.58%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (0.97%) Argo
8 3 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.32%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.16%) Istio
10 1 (0.16%) Kibana
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.16%) Podman
10 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.16%) systemd
Vendors
1 178 (28.66%) Oracle
2 76 (12.24%) Microsoft
3 34 (5.48%) IBM
4 32 (5.15%) Google
5 22 (3.54%) Databricks
6 18 (2.90%) Sybase
7 13 (2.09%) Splunk
8 12 (1.93%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.77%) Informatica
10 10 (1.61%) SAP
11 8 (1.29%) OutSystems
11 8 (1.29%) Teradata
12 7 (1.13%) Adobe
12 7 (1.13%) Sparx
13 6 (0.97%) Alteryx
13 6 (0.97%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.97%) Talend
14 5 (0.81%) Actian
14 5 (0.81%) Broadcom
14 5 (0.81%) Solace