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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 149 178
Rank change year-on-year -68 +29 +5
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 610 591 589
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.16% 1.82% 1.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.55% 9.94% 7.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 376 437
10th Percentile £351 £360 £346
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £510 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -4.67% -10.83%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £619
90th Percentile £688 £700 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +0.64% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 2
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.70 £41.58
25th Percentile £35.00 £20.59 £43.19
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +12.90% -38.00%
75th Percentile £69.44 £63.44 £50.44
90th Percentile £77.00 £92.50 £52.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £20.07 £46.50
% change year-on-year +149.13% -56.84% -37.16%

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 8,083 5,948 7,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.35% 18.29% 17.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,349 4,034 5,341
10th Percentile £352 £350 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% -2.43% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 100 133
10th Percentile £16.35 £19.56 £14.05
25th Percentile £24.85 £25.94 £20.75
Median hourly rate £41.71 £36.25 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.06% -5.84% -30.00%
75th Percentile £64.00 £64.63 £51.91
90th Percentile £77.25 £77.62 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £31.64 £32.75
% change year-on-year +24.84% -3.39% -37.62%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -69 490 £500 -2.44% 128
UK excluding London -82 289 £473 +0.64% 85
London -48 259 £506 -8.09% 59
Work from Home -96 158 £500 -6.28% 52
North of England -62 79 £450 +1.98% 24
Scotland -25 59 £450 -2.70% 3
Midlands -35 54 £469 -4.34% 14
South East -70 52 £450 -5.26% 24
North West -54 49 £420 -1.80% 9
West Midlands -41 39 £469 -4.34% 9
Yorkshire -27 25 £514 +0.29% 11
South West -49 22 £470 -12.56% 8
East of England -14 17 £597 +25.63% 12
East Midlands -10 15 £475 -3.06% 5
North East -28 11 £450 - 5
Wales -11 6 £475 -9.52% 3
Northern Ireland -5 4 - - 1

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 27 (4.43%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.44%) Confluence
3 15 (2.46%) Apache
4 14 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.15%) IIS
6 6 (0.98%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.98%) Tuxedo
7 4 (0.66%) Appian
7 4 (0.66%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.66%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.66%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.49%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.49%) JBoss
8 3 (0.49%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.33%) Drupal
9 2 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.33%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.33%) WordPress
10 1 (0.16%) Camunda
Applications
1 19 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.66%) Acrobat
3 4 (0.66%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.66%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.64%) Finacle
2 9 (1.48%) Findur
3 8 (1.31%) Adobe Campaign
4 6 (0.98%) Summit
5 4 (0.66%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.49%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.49%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.33%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.16%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 204 (33.44%) AWS
2 140 (22.95%) Azure
3 79 (12.95%) GCP
4 72 (11.80%) GitHub
5 60 (9.84%) Power Platform
6 37 (6.07%) Serverless
7 36 (5.90%) Amazon S3
8 35 (5.74%) Snowflake
9 31 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (4.75%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (3.11%) GitHub Copilot
13 16 (2.62%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (2.30%) Anthropic Claude
14 14 (2.30%) ChatGPT
14 14 (2.30%) SaaS
15 13 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
16 12 (1.97%) Amazon SQS
16 12 (1.97%) Datadog
16 12 (1.97%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.80%) HTTP
2 9 (1.48%) Firewall
2 9 (1.48%) VPN
3 3 (0.49%) WinSCP
4 2 (0.33%) AMQP
4 2 (0.33%) Internet
4 2 (0.33%) Intranet
5 1 (0.16%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.16%) Multicast
5 1 (0.16%) Network Security
5 1 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (26.39%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (20.98%) SQL Server
3 109 (17.87%) RDBMS
4 73 (11.97%) MySQL
5 71 (11.64%) MongoDB
6 65 (10.66%) Data Warehouse
7 61 (10.00%) NoSQL
8 58 (9.51%) Power BI
9 46 (7.54%) Oracle Database
10 35 (5.74%) Metadata
11 27 (4.43%) Db2
12 26 (4.26%) Tableau
13 23 (3.77%) Data Lake
13 23 (3.77%) Oracle Reports
14 19 (3.11%) Big Data
15 18 (2.95%) Redis
16 15 (2.46%) DynamoDB
16 15 (2.46%) Power Query
17 13 (2.13%) Oracle Exadata
18 12 (1.97%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 113 (18.52%) Git
2 69 (11.31%) Jenkins
3 54 (8.85%) GitLab
4 34 (5.57%) JIRA
5 23 (3.77%) Gradle
5 23 (3.77%) Maven
6 21 (3.44%) JUnit
7 17 (2.79%) Selenium
8 14 (2.30%) Mockito
8 14 (2.30%) REST Assured
9 13 (2.13%) Eclipse
9 13 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
10 11 (1.80%) Gatling
11 10 (1.64%) Serenity BDD
11 10 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
12 9 (1.48%) Liquibase
13 8 (1.31%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.98%) Ant
14 6 (0.98%) ER Studio
14 6 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 177 (29.02%) Finance
2 174 (28.52%) Social Skills
3 141 (23.11%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (13.93%) Banking
5 79 (12.95%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.08%) Front Office
7 30 (4.92%) Investment Banking
8 18 (2.95%) Military
9 16 (2.62%) Publishing
10 13 (2.13%) Back Office
11 12 (1.97%) Retail
12 10 (1.64%) Marketing
13 8 (1.31%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.98%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.82%) Automotive
16 5 (0.82%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.66%) Electronics
17 4 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 3 (0.49%) French Language
Job Titles
1 246 (40.33%) Developer
2 113 (18.52%) Senior
3 80 (13.11%) Java Developer
4 55 (9.02%) Data Engineer
5 54 (8.85%) Analyst
6 50 (8.20%) Software Engineer
7 49 (8.03%) Senior Developer
8 44 (7.21%) Lead
9 40 (6.56%) Python Developer
10 38 (6.23%) Full-Stack Developer
11 26 (4.26%) Software Developer
12 25 (4.10%) Architect
13 22 (3.61%) Business Analyst
14 21 (3.44%) Data Analyst
15 20 (3.28%) Backend Developer
15 20 (3.28%) C# Developer
15 20 (3.28%) Java Engineer
16 19 (3.11%) .NET Developer
16 19 (3.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 19 (3.11%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (22.62%) REST
2 104 (17.05%) Kafka
3 102 (16.72%) RESTful
4 100 (16.39%) Spring
5 98 (16.07%) Spring Boot
6 91 (14.92%) React
7 68 (11.15%) .NET
8 39 (6.39%) XML
9 35 (5.74%) CSS
10 34 (5.57%) JSON
10 34 (5.57%) Web Services
11 32 (5.25%) HTML
12 31 (5.08%) OAuth
13 29 (4.75%) AngularJS
13 29 (4.75%) SOAP
14 26 (4.26%) FastAPI
15 25 (4.10%) .NET Framework
16 23 (3.77%) Flask
17 22 (3.61%) Django
18 20 (3.28%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 67 (10.98%) Cloud Native
2 44 (7.21%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (6.89%) Product Ownership
4 33 (5.41%) Data Structures
5 27 (4.43%) Management Information System
6 24 (3.93%) Derivative
7 17 (2.79%) Low-Code
8 16 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (2.30%) Equity Derivative
10 13 (2.13%) AI Agents
11 12 (1.97%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.97%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.80%) Equities
12 11 (1.80%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.64%) Fixed Income
13 10 (1.64%) Hedge funds
13 10 (1.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 9 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 67 (10.98%) Linux
2 45 (7.38%) Unix
3 34 (5.57%) Windows
4 14 (2.30%) AIX
5 10 (1.64%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.49%) Android
7 3 (0.49%) MVS
7 3 (0.49%) zOS
8 1 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (40.98%) CI/CD
2 218 (35.74%) Agile
3 182 (29.84%) DevOps
4 171 (28.03%) Problem-Solving
5 137 (22.46%) Data Modelling
6 132 (21.64%) Microservices
7 112 (18.36%) Software Engineering
8 109 (17.87%) AI
9 100 (16.39%) Data Pipeline
10 98 (16.07%) Analytics
11 94 (15.41%) ETL
12 92 (15.08%) Containerisation
13 83 (13.61%) Observability
14 81 (13.28%) Test Automation
15 74 (12.13%) Performance Tuning
15 74 (12.13%) Validation
16 72 (11.80%) SDLC
17 69 (11.31%) Business Intelligence
17 69 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
18 68 (11.15%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 341 (55.90%) SQL
2 217 (35.57%) Java
3 190 (31.15%) Python
4 83 (13.61%) C#
5 78 (12.79%) JavaScript
6 49 (8.03%) TypeScript
7 23 (3.77%) Shell Script
8 22 (3.61%) PL/SQL
9 16 (2.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (2.62%) PowerShell
10 13 (2.13%) Scala
11 12 (1.97%) C++
11 12 (1.97%) Perl
12 11 (1.80%) VB
13 10 (1.64%) Apex Code
14 9 (1.48%) Bash
14 9 (1.48%) R
15 8 (1.31%) VB6
16 7 (1.15%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.98%) C
Qualifications
1 135 (22.13%) Security Cleared
2 104 (17.05%) SC Cleared
3 52 (8.52%) Degree
4 30 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.31%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.31%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.82%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.66%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.66%) MBA
9 3 (0.49%) CISSP
9 3 (0.49%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.49%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.16%) CFA
11 1 (0.16%) ISEB
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (12.62%) Data Quality
2 66 (10.82%) QA
3 27 (4.43%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.46%) GDPR
5 7 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.82%) SLA
6 5 (0.82%) WCAG
7 4 (0.66%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.66%) GMP
7 4 (0.66%) GxP
7 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 3 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.49%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.33%) FATCA
9 2 (0.33%) NIST
9 2 (0.33%) PMO
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) ITGC
System Software
1 138 (22.62%) Docker
2 15 (2.46%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (0.49%) ACF2
3 3 (0.49%) RACF
4 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.33%) GridGain
4 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 124 (20.33%) Kubernetes
2 54 (8.85%) Terraform
3 32 (5.25%) Prometheus
4 28 (4.59%) Ansible
5 25 (4.10%) Grafana
6 13 (2.13%) Data Guard
6 13 (2.13%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (0.82%) Argo
8 3 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.49%) Kibana
8 3 (0.49%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.33%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.16%) Puppet
10 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 180 (29.51%) Oracle
2 73 (11.97%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.92%) IBM
4 26 (4.26%) Databricks
5 25 (4.10%) Google
6 19 (3.11%) Splunk
7 18 (2.95%) Sybase
8 16 (2.62%) Salesforce
9 13 (2.13%) Informatica
10 12 (1.97%) SAP
11 11 (1.80%) Adobe
12 8 (1.31%) OutSystems
12 8 (1.31%) Teradata
13 7 (1.15%) Actian
13 7 (1.15%) Alteryx
13 7 (1.15%) ServiceNow
14 5 (0.82%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.82%) OpenLink
14 5 (0.82%) Solace
14 5 (0.82%) Talend