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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 160 197
Rank change year-on-year -64 +37 -25
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 520 521 509
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.80% 1.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.27% 9.48% 7.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 339 385
10th Percentile £307 £402 £363
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £521 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.03% -5.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £578 £646
90th Percentile £663 £688 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 4
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.05 £24.25
25th Percentile £20.77 £21.20 £26.50
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +47.89% -48.83%
75th Percentile £53.44 £53.75 £43.81
90th Percentile £72.72 £92.50 £49.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £21.40 £35.50
% change year-on-year +133.64% -39.72% -52.03%

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 7,156 5,497 7,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.16% 18.97% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,825 3,770 5,185
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.05%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £486 £475
% change year-on-year -2.31% +2.37% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 97 145
10th Percentile £16.56 £21.06 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.50 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £34.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.80% -13.75% -31.73%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +50.25% -20.90% -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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -76 417 £458 -12.86% 184
UK excluding London -72 242 £450 -10.00% 132
London -38 228 £521 -1.70% 71
Work from Home -85 136 £450 -15.65% 102
South East -38 58 £258 -49.76% 41
North of England -69 58 £409 -11.62% 43
Scotland -10 53 £475 +1.06% 5
Midlands -43 43 £469 -5.30% 19
North West -44 38 £400 -13.51% 27
West Midlands -49 31 £469 -5.78% 10
South West -32 18 £470 -27.69% 15
Yorkshire -41 15 £520 -5.55% 11
East Midlands -24 12 £475 -4.04% 9
North East -14 7 £450 - 5
East of England -26 7 £505 - 11
Northern Ireland +1 4 - - 1
Wales -10 4 £475 -12.04% 2

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 (5.58%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.50%) Apache
2 13 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.92%) Confluence
4 8 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (1.35%) IIS
5 7 (1.35%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.15%) Appian
6 6 (1.15%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.15%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.96%) JBoss
8 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.58%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.58%) Camunda
10 2 (0.38%) Drupal
10 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.38%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.38%) WordPress
11 1 (0.19%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 23 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.58%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.38%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 6 (1.15%) Findur
1 6 (1.15%) Summit
2 5 (0.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.77%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.77%) Finacle
3 4 (0.77%) Magento
4 3 (0.58%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.58%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.58%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.38%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.38%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.19%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 169 (32.50%) AWS
2 113 (21.73%) Azure
3 58 (11.15%) GitHub
4 56 (10.77%) GCP
5 55 (10.58%) Power Platform
6 45 (8.65%) Serverless
7 38 (7.31%) Amazon S3
8 30 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
9 29 (5.58%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (5.19%) Snowflake
11 17 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (3.27%) OpenShift
12 16 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (3.08%) SaaS
13 15 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
14 12 (2.31%) GitHub Copilot
15 11 (2.12%) dbt
16 10 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
17 9 (1.73%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.54%) HTTP
2 5 (0.96%) Firewall
3 4 (0.77%) Network Security
4 3 (0.58%) AMQP
4 3 (0.58%) VPN
5 2 (0.38%) SMS
6 1 (0.19%) DNS
6 1 (0.19%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.19%) Multicast
6 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.19%) RTMP
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (27.31%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (19.81%) SQL Server
3 85 (16.35%) RDBMS
4 84 (16.15%) MySQL
5 67 (12.88%) MongoDB
6 66 (12.69%) NoSQL
7 53 (10.19%) Power BI
8 48 (9.23%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (6.54%) Metadata
10 24 (4.62%) Oracle Database
11 22 (4.23%) Data Lake
12 21 (4.04%) Big Data
12 21 (4.04%) Tableau
13 20 (3.85%) DB2
14 19 (3.65%) Oracle Reports
15 18 (3.46%) DynamoDB
16 17 (3.27%) Redis
17 16 (3.08%) Power Query
18 12 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
18 12 (2.31%) Flink
Development Applications
1 75 (14.42%) Git
2 48 (9.23%) Jenkins
3 40 (7.69%) GitLab
4 25 (4.81%) JIRA
5 20 (3.85%) JUnit
6 16 (3.08%) Mockito
7 12 (2.31%) Maven
8 11 (2.12%) Gradle
9 9 (1.73%) Browser DevTools
9 9 (1.73%) Eclipse
10 8 (1.54%) REST Assured
10 8 (1.54%) Selenium
11 6 (1.15%) Android Studio
11 6 (1.15%) Gatling
11 6 (1.15%) Liquibase
11 6 (1.15%) NUnit
11 6 (1.15%) Serenity BDD
11 6 (1.15%) Xcode
12 5 (0.96%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.96%) ERwin
General
1 149 (28.65%) Finance
1 149 (28.65%) Social Skills
2 94 (18.08%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 48 (9.23%) Banking
5 25 (4.81%) Investment Banking
6 23 (4.42%) Front Office
7 14 (2.69%) Publishing
8 10 (1.92%) Military
9 7 (1.35%) Back Office
9 7 (1.35%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.15%) Marketing
10 6 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.96%) Retail
12 4 (0.77%) Automotive
12 4 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.58%) Legal
13 3 (0.58%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.38%) Law
Job Titles
1 203 (39.04%) Developer
2 80 (15.38%) Senior
3 57 (10.96%) Java Developer
4 51 (9.81%) Data Engineer
5 39 (7.50%) Python Developer
5 39 (7.50%) Software Engineer
6 37 (7.12%) Analyst
7 34 (6.54%) Senior Developer
8 32 (6.15%) Lead
9 26 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
10 22 (4.23%) Architect
11 20 (3.85%) .NET Developer
11 20 (3.85%) Site Engineer
11 20 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 19 (3.65%) DBA
12 19 (3.65%) Technical Support
13 18 (3.46%) Business Analyst
13 18 (3.46%) Senior Data Engineer
14 16 (3.08%) C# Developer
15 15 (2.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (21.73%) REST
2 88 (16.92%) React
3 82 (15.77%) RESTful
4 77 (14.81%) Kafka
4 77 (14.81%) Spring
5 75 (14.42%) Spring Boot
6 57 (10.96%) .NET
7 42 (8.08%) CSS
8 38 (7.31%) XML
9 37 (7.12%) JSON
10 36 (6.92%) HTML
11 31 (5.96%) AngularJS
12 27 (5.19%) GraphQL
13 25 (4.81%) Web Services
14 24 (4.62%) FastAPI
15 22 (4.23%) Django
16 21 (4.04%) Flask
16 21 (4.04%) OAuth
17 18 (3.46%) Apache Avro
17 18 (3.46%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.27%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (6.54%) Product Ownership
4 29 (5.58%) Data Structures
5 27 (5.19%) Management Information System
6 20 (3.85%) Derivative
7 13 (2.50%) Fixed Income
8 11 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (2.12%) Equities
9 10 (1.92%) Hedge funds
10 9 (1.73%) Equity Derivative
11 8 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.35%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.35%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.35%) Client/Server
12 7 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 65 (12.50%) Linux
2 48 (9.23%) Unix
3 32 (6.15%) Windows
4 6 (1.15%) Android
5 4 (0.77%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.38%) MVS
6 2 (0.38%) zOS
7 1 (0.19%) AIX
7 1 (0.19%) CentOS
7 1 (0.19%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (38.85%) CI/CD
2 172 (33.08%) Agile
3 152 (29.23%) DevOps
4 130 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 118 (22.69%) Data Modelling
6 117 (22.50%) Microservices
7 101 (19.42%) Containerisation
8 94 (18.08%) Analytics
9 87 (16.73%) Data Pipeline
10 82 (15.77%) Observability
10 82 (15.77%) Software Engineering
11 80 (15.38%) AI
12 79 (15.19%) ETL
13 69 (13.27%) Test Automation
14 64 (12.31%) Business Intelligence
15 59 (11.35%) Performance Tuning
16 57 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
16 57 (10.96%) Data Engineering
16 57 (10.96%) SDLC
17 51 (9.81%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 292 (56.15%) SQL
2 184 (35.38%) Python
3 180 (34.62%) Java
4 90 (17.31%) JavaScript
5 70 (13.46%) C#
6 45 (8.65%) TypeScript
7 25 (4.81%) Perl
8 23 (4.42%) Shell Script
9 18 (3.46%) PL/SQL
10 16 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (3.08%) Scala
11 11 (2.12%) Bash
11 11 (2.12%) PHP
11 11 (2.12%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.73%) C++
12 9 (1.73%) R
13 8 (1.54%) Go
14 7 (1.35%) Apex Code
14 7 (1.35%) Ruby
15 5 (0.96%) VB
Qualifications
1 98 (18.85%) Security Cleared
2 71 (13.65%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.62%) Degree
4 34 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.73%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.54%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.15%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.77%) MBA
10 3 (0.58%) CISSP
10 3 (0.58%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.58%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (11.73%) Data Quality
2 50 (9.62%) QA
3 19 (3.65%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.65%) GDPR
4 11 (2.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.96%) SLA
5 5 (0.96%) WCAG
6 3 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.58%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.58%) NCSC
7 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.38%) FATCA
7 2 (0.38%) IFRS
7 2 (0.38%) NIST
7 2 (0.38%) PMO
8 1 (0.19%) EMIR
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.19%) ITGC
8 1 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 133 (25.58%) Docker
2 4 (0.77%) Varnish
3 2 (0.38%) ACF2
3 2 (0.38%) GridGain
3 2 (0.38%) RACF
4 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 120 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 42 (8.08%) Terraform
3 27 (5.19%) Grafana
4 25 (4.81%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.31%) Ansible
6 6 (1.15%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.15%) Puppet
7 4 (0.77%) Argo
7 4 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.58%) Kibana
9 2 (0.38%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.38%) TIBCO Hawk
10 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 142 (27.31%) Oracle
2 69 (13.27%) Microsoft
3 22 (4.23%) Databricks
4 16 (3.08%) Adobe
5 14 (2.69%) Splunk
6 13 (2.50%) Google
6 13 (2.50%) IBM
7 11 (2.12%) Informatica
7 11 (2.12%) Sybase
8 10 (1.92%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.35%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.35%) Teradata
10 6 (1.15%) SAP
11 5 (0.96%) Ab Initio
11 5 (0.96%) OutSystems
11 5 (0.96%) Sparx
12 4 (0.77%) OpenLink
13 3 (0.58%) SimCorp
13 3 (0.58%) Talend
13 3 (0.58%) TIBCO