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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 155 182
Rank change year-on-year -67 +27 -6
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 557 545 548
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.11% 1.84% 1.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.27% 9.83% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 347 412
10th Percentile £326 £397 £363
25th Percentile £403 £444 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% -4.63% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £478 £525
% change year-on-year -1.57% -9.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 3
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.05 £26.30
25th Percentile £29.75 £21.20 £31.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +29.63% -42.14%
75th Percentile £71.08 £53.75 £47.13
90th Percentile £77.00 £92.50 £51.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £21.40 £40.50
% change year-on-year +133.64% -47.16% -45.27%

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 7,657 5,544 7,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.22% 18.68% 17.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,109 3,775 5,324
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 101 153
10th Percentile £14.85 £19.59 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £25.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.71 £34.98 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.24% -12.55% -31.73%
75th Percentile £69.72 £66.00 £54.13
90th Percentile £78.58 £78.70 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +21.68% -9.60% -38.54%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -69 458 £475 -9.09% 468
London -31 256 £500 -5.66% 125
UK excluding London -89 256 £470 -1.57% 480
Work from Home -98 134 £470 -11.90% 450
North of England -66 62 £450 - 94
Scotland -27 55 £473 +0.53% 51
South East -52 53 £405 -17.14% 110
Midlands -37 52 £473 -2.97% 55
West Midlands -37 39 £473 -3.47% 25
North West -51 39 £416 -7.41% 37
South West -29 21 £488 -11.36% 40
Yorkshire -44 19 £522 -5.09% 38
East Midlands -17 13 £540 +13.39% 30
East of England -25 10 £505 -6.05% 72
North East -26 8 £450 - 19
Wales -10 4 £475 -12.04% 29
Northern Ireland -3 3 - - 38

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 29 (5.21%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.51%) Confluence
3 13 (2.33%) Apache
3 13 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.44%) IIS
4 8 (1.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (1.26%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.08%) Appian
6 6 (1.08%) Tuxedo
6 6 (1.08%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.90%) JBoss
7 5 (0.90%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.54%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.54%) Camunda
9 3 (0.54%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.36%) Drupal
10 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.72%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.54%) CPLEX
4 3 (0.54%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.36%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.36%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.62%) Findur
2 7 (1.26%) Finacle
3 6 (1.08%) Adobe Campaign
3 6 (1.08%) Summit
4 4 (0.72%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.72%) Magento
4 4 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.54%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.54%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.54%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.36%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.36%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.18%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 184 (33.03%) AWS
2 123 (22.08%) Azure
3 66 (11.85%) GitHub
3 66 (11.85%) Power Platform
4 64 (11.49%) GCP
5 34 (6.10%) Serverless
5 34 (6.10%) Snowflake
6 32 (5.75%) Amazon S3
7 27 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (2.87%) GitHub Copilot
11 14 (2.51%) OpenShift
12 13 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (1.97%) Anthropic Claude
14 11 (1.97%) ChatGPT
14 11 (1.97%) dbt
14 11 (1.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.44%) HTTP
2 7 (1.26%) Firewall
3 5 (0.90%) VPN
4 2 (0.36%) AMQP
5 1 (0.18%) DNS
5 1 (0.18%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.18%) Internet
5 1 (0.18%) Intranet
5 1 (0.18%) Multicast
5 1 (0.18%) Network Security
5 1 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.18%) RTMP
5 1 (0.18%) SMS
5 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (25.49%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (21.01%) SQL Server
3 97 (17.41%) RDBMS
4 77 (13.82%) MySQL
5 72 (12.93%) MongoDB
6 63 (11.31%) NoSQL
6 63 (11.31%) Power BI
7 57 (10.23%) Data Warehouse
8 35 (6.28%) Metadata
9 34 (6.10%) Oracle Database
10 27 (4.85%) Tableau
11 25 (4.49%) Data Lake
12 22 (3.95%) Big Data
12 22 (3.95%) Db2
13 21 (3.77%) Redis
14 19 (3.41%) Oracle Reports
15 16 (2.87%) DynamoDB
16 15 (2.69%) Power Query
17 12 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
17 12 (2.15%) Flink
Development Applications
1 88 (15.80%) Git
2 59 (10.59%) Jenkins
3 44 (7.90%) GitLab
4 31 (5.57%) JIRA
5 19 (3.41%) JUnit
6 15 (2.69%) Selenium
7 14 (2.51%) Mockito
7 14 (2.51%) REST Assured
8 12 (2.15%) Eclipse
8 12 (2.15%) Gradle
8 12 (2.15%) Maven
9 11 (1.97%) Gatling
10 10 (1.80%) Serenity BDD
10 10 (1.80%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (1.62%) Liquibase
11 9 (1.62%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (1.44%) Ant
13 6 (1.08%) ER Studio
13 6 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
14 5 (0.90%) Cucumber
General
1 169 (30.34%) Finance
2 162 (29.08%) Social Skills
3 111 (19.93%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (12.57%) Banking
5 64 (11.49%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.57%) Investment Banking
7 29 (5.21%) Front Office
8 16 (2.87%) Publishing
9 15 (2.69%) Military
10 10 (1.80%) Back Office
11 9 (1.62%) Retail
12 8 (1.44%) Financial Institution
12 8 (1.44%) Marketing
13 7 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.26%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.72%) Automotive
15 3 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.54%) General Ledger
15 3 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 217 (38.96%) Developer
2 102 (18.31%) Senior
3 59 (10.59%) Java Developer
4 54 (9.69%) Data Engineer
5 47 (8.44%) Software Engineer
6 46 (8.26%) Analyst
7 45 (8.08%) Senior Developer
8 40 (7.18%) Lead
9 39 (7.00%) Python Developer
10 32 (5.75%) Full-Stack Developer
11 24 (4.31%) Architect
12 20 (3.59%) .NET Developer
12 20 (3.59%) C# Developer
13 19 (3.41%) Software Developer
14 18 (3.23%) Business Analyst
14 18 (3.23%) Data Analyst
14 18 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
15 17 (3.05%) Backend Developer
15 17 (3.05%) DBA
15 17 (3.05%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (21.36%) REST
2 91 (16.34%) Kafka
3 87 (15.62%) Spring
4 85 (15.26%) Spring Boot
5 83 (14.90%) React
5 83 (14.90%) RESTful
6 60 (10.77%) .NET
7 37 (6.64%) CSS
8 34 (6.10%) HTML
9 32 (5.75%) XML
10 31 (5.57%) Web Services
11 29 (5.21%) JSON
12 28 (5.03%) SOAP
13 26 (4.67%) OAuth
14 25 (4.49%) AngularJS
15 24 (4.31%) FastAPI
16 22 (3.95%) Django
16 22 (3.95%) GraphQL
17 21 (3.77%) Flask
18 20 (3.59%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 51 (9.16%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.36%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (7.00%) Product Ownership
4 27 (4.85%) Management Information System
5 24 (4.31%) Derivative
6 23 (4.13%) Data Structures
7 16 (2.87%) Low-Code
8 12 (2.15%) AI Agents
9 11 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (1.97%) Equities
9 11 (1.97%) Equity Derivative
9 11 (1.97%) Fixed Income
10 10 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.80%) Hedge funds
10 10 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 7 (1.26%) Client/Server
13 7 (1.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 67 (12.03%) Linux
2 43 (7.72%) Unix
3 28 (5.03%) Windows
4 4 (0.72%) AIX
5 3 (0.54%) Android
6 2 (0.36%) MVS
6 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.36%) zOS
7 1 (0.18%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (39.14%) CI/CD
2 197 (35.37%) Agile
3 162 (29.08%) DevOps
4 146 (26.21%) Problem-Solving
5 127 (22.80%) Data Modelling
6 115 (20.65%) Microservices
7 101 (18.13%) AI
7 101 (18.13%) Analytics
8 96 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
9 93 (16.70%) Software Engineering
10 89 (15.98%) Containerisation
10 89 (15.98%) ETL
11 85 (15.26%) Observability
12 73 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
12 73 (13.11%) Test Automation
13 70 (12.57%) Performance Tuning
14 67 (12.03%) SDLC
15 63 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
16 62 (11.13%) Validation
17 57 (10.23%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 321 (57.63%) SQL
2 187 (33.57%) Java
2 187 (33.57%) Python
3 78 (14.00%) JavaScript
4 74 (13.29%) C#
5 45 (8.08%) TypeScript
6 20 (3.59%) PL/SQL
7 19 (3.41%) Shell Script
8 16 (2.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 15 (2.69%) Perl
10 14 (2.51%) Scala
11 11 (1.97%) C++
11 11 (1.97%) VB
12 10 (1.80%) Apex Code
13 9 (1.62%) PowerShell
13 9 (1.62%) R
14 8 (1.44%) Bash
14 8 (1.44%) VB6
15 7 (1.26%) Ruby
16 6 (1.08%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 112 (20.11%) Security Cleared
2 84 (15.08%) SC Cleared
3 48 (8.62%) Degree
4 28 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.44%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.08%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.72%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.72%) MBA
10 3 (0.54%) CISSP
10 3 (0.54%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.18%) CFA
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (12.93%) Data Quality
2 55 (9.87%) QA
3 24 (4.31%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.69%) GDPR
5 11 (1.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.08%) WCAG
7 4 (0.72%) SLA
8 3 (0.54%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.54%) NCSC
9 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.36%) FATCA
9 2 (0.36%) IFRS
9 2 (0.36%) NIST
9 2 (0.36%) PMO
10 1 (0.18%) EMIR
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 129 (23.16%) Docker
2 6 (1.08%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.72%) Varnish
4 2 (0.36%) ACF2
4 2 (0.36%) GridGain
4 2 (0.36%) RACF
5 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 113 (20.29%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.54%) Terraform
3 29 (5.21%) Prometheus
4 25 (4.49%) Grafana
5 15 (2.69%) Ansible
6 5 (0.90%) Argo
7 4 (0.72%) Data Guard
7 4 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.54%) Kibana
8 3 (0.54%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.36%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.36%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.36%) Puppet
9 2 (0.36%) TIBCO Hawk
10 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 152 (27.29%) Oracle
2 67 (12.03%) Microsoft
3 27 (4.85%) Databricks
4 20 (3.59%) IBM
5 19 (3.41%) Splunk
6 17 (3.05%) Adobe
7 16 (2.87%) Salesforce
8 15 (2.69%) Google
9 14 (2.51%) Sybase
10 13 (2.33%) Informatica
11 10 (1.80%) SAP
12 8 (1.44%) OutSystems
12 8 (1.44%) Teradata
13 7 (1.26%) Actian
13 7 (1.26%) Alteryx
13 7 (1.26%) ServiceNow
14 5 (0.90%) Ab Initio
14 5 (0.90%) OpenLink
15 4 (0.72%) SimCorp
15 4 (0.72%) TIBCO