Relational Database Contracts

Relational Database
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Relational Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Relational Database over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 202 174
Rank change year-on-year +43 -28 -12
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 531 513 880
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.82% 1.18% 1.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.58% 7.02% 8.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 377 603
10th Percentile £402 £373 £413
25th Percentile £450 £431 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -8.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £741
90th Percentile £688 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -7.68% -2.91% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 26
10th Percentile £18.05 £24.25 -
25th Percentile £21.20 £26.50 £21.24
Median hourly rate £52.50 £35.50 £66.88
Median % change year-on-year +47.89% -46.92% +28.98%
75th Percentile £53.75 £43.81 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £49.78 £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.40 £35.50 £73.00
% change year-on-year -39.72% -51.37% +45.42%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,544 7,303 10,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.75% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,832 5,193 7,664
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 144 183
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.55 £70.88
90th Percentile £74.75 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Relational Database.

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Relational Database.

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Relational Database over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Top 17 Contract 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 30 April 2025. 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 +29 393 £525 -4.55% 473
UK excluding London +66 226 £493 -7.68% 262
London +4 218 £530 -8.82% 244
Work from Home +65 214 £525 -2.78% 313
Scotland +51 67 £470 +10.59% 30
North of England +13 52 £463 -13.39% 59
North West +19 48 £463 -13.39% 27
South East +51 41 £513 -2.38% 66
Midlands +22 31 £493 +23.25% 44
West Midlands +25 24 £493 +23.25% 34
South West +42 21 £625 +16.28% 33
East Midlands 0 6 £495 +13.14% 10
Northern Ireland -4 6 £500 +25.00% 10
Wales -5 5 £525 -4.72% 2
East of England +30 3 £525 +10.53% 32
North East 0 2 - - 9
Yorkshire -9 2 £406 -26.14% 23

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (4.90%) Apache Spark
1 26 (4.90%) SharePoint
2 19 (3.58%) Apache
3 14 (2.64%) SAS
4 12 (2.26%) Confluence
4 12 (2.26%) JBoss
5 10 (1.88%) GemFire
6 8 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.51%) Oracle Coherence
7 6 (1.13%) Camunda
8 5 (0.94%) CMS
9 4 (0.75%) Drupal
9 4 (0.75%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.75%) WordPress
10 2 (0.38%) Alfresco
10 2 (0.38%) IIS
10 2 (0.38%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.38%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (3.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.07%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.94%) InfoPath
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.19%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 6 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.56%) Endur
4 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle TCA
5 1 (0.19%) Remedy AR System
5 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 140 (26.37%) AWS
2 105 (19.77%) Azure
3 67 (12.62%) Power Platform
4 48 (9.04%) Serverless
5 37 (6.97%) GCP
6 34 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (6.21%) Amazon S3
7 33 (6.21%) PowerApps
8 29 (5.46%) Power Automate
9 27 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
10 26 (4.90%) Azure Logic Apps
11 25 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (3.39%) OpenShift
13 17 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
15 12 (2.26%) GitHub
16 10 (1.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (1.88%) Amazon SQS
16 10 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.26%) HTTP
2 10 (1.88%) POP3
2 10 (1.88%) SMTP
3 4 (0.75%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.75%) Internet
3 4 (0.75%) SSH
3 4 (0.75%) SSL
4 2 (0.38%) MQTT
4 2 (0.38%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.19%) Firewall
5 1 (0.19%) Intranet
5 1 (0.19%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.19%) Multicast
5 1 (0.19%) VPN
5 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (25.42%) RDBMS
2 125 (23.54%) PostgreSQL
3 92 (17.33%) MongoDB
4 67 (12.62%) NoSQL
5 60 (11.30%) SQL Server
6 54 (10.17%) MySQL
7 48 (9.04%) Power BI
8 47 (8.85%) Data Warehouse
9 46 (8.66%) DB2
10 33 (6.21%) Big Data
11 32 (6.03%) Oracle Database
12 26 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
13 24 (4.52%) Data Lake
14 16 (3.01%) Hadoop
15 15 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
16 14 (2.64%) Metadata
17 12 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
17 12 (2.26%) Tableau
18 11 (2.07%) DynamoDB
19 10 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 102 (19.21%) JUnit
2 80 (15.07%) Git
3 66 (12.43%) Jenkins
4 55 (10.36%) JIRA
5 44 (8.29%) Gradle
6 40 (7.53%) Mockito
7 32 (6.03%) Liquibase
8 18 (3.39%) ERwin
9 17 (3.20%) GitLab
10 14 (2.64%) Bitbucket Server
11 13 (2.45%) SonarQube
12 12 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (2.07%) Cucumber
14 10 (1.88%) Bitbucket
14 10 (1.88%) TeamCity
15 9 (1.69%) CA Release Automation
15 9 (1.69%) Maven
16 7 (1.32%) ER Studio
16 7 (1.32%) Selenium
17 6 (1.13%) Oracle APEX
General
1 164 (30.89%) Finance
2 151 (28.44%) Social Skills
3 100 (18.83%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (12.24%) Public Sector
5 56 (10.55%) Banking
6 37 (6.97%) Front Office
7 34 (6.40%) Investment Banking
8 32 (6.03%) Marketing
9 26 (4.90%) Telecoms
10 21 (3.95%) Electronics
10 21 (3.95%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.88%) Financial Institution
13 9 (1.69%) Back Office
14 8 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.94%) Retail
16 4 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 247 (46.52%) Developer
2 124 (23.35%) Java Developer
3 84 (15.82%) Senior
4 57 (10.73%) Senior Developer
5 51 (9.60%) Data Engineer
6 41 (7.72%) Software Engineer
7 37 (6.97%) Senior Java Developer
8 34 (6.40%) Analyst
9 28 (5.27%) Lead
10 27 (5.08%) Data Modeller
11 25 (4.71%) Architect
12 24 (4.52%) Full-Stack Developer
13 22 (4.14%) SQL Developer
14 21 (3.95%) DBA
15 20 (3.77%) Investment Banking Java Developer
15 20 (3.77%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 18 (3.39%) AWS Engineer
16 18 (3.39%) Senior Data Engineer
17 17 (3.20%) Java Software Engineer
17 17 (3.20%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (23.16%) Spring
2 114 (21.47%) Kafka
3 86 (16.20%) Spring Boot
4 79 (14.88%) REST
5 61 (11.49%) .NET
6 58 (10.92%) React
7 53 (9.98%) AngularJS
8 41 (7.72%) Swagger
9 40 (7.53%) OpenAPI
10 39 (7.34%) Web Services
11 38 (7.16%) SOAP
12 37 (6.97%) HTML
13 35 (6.59%) JMS
13 35 (6.59%) JSON
14 34 (6.40%) XML
15 33 (6.21%) RESTful
16 26 (4.90%) ASP.NET
16 26 (4.90%) CSS
17 23 (4.33%) .NET Framework
18 21 (3.95%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.92%) Data Structures
2 30 (5.65%) Equities
3 20 (3.77%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (2.26%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.69%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.51%) Algorithms
7 8 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.51%) Fixed Income
7 8 (1.51%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.32%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.32%) Equity Derivative
8 7 (1.32%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.13%) Derivative
9 6 (1.13%) Distributed Applications
9 6 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.13%) PKI
10 5 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (0.94%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 100 (18.83%) Linux
2 37 (6.97%) Unix
3 32 (6.03%) Windows
4 15 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.13%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.19%) AIX
6 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (45.57%) Agile
2 152 (28.63%) CI/CD
2 152 (28.63%) DevOps
3 136 (25.61%) Microservices
4 132 (24.86%) Problem-Solving
5 117 (22.03%) Software Engineering
6 83 (15.63%) Data Modelling
7 82 (15.44%) Containerisation
8 79 (14.88%) Business Intelligence
9 78 (14.69%) Migration
10 76 (14.31%) TDD
11 66 (12.43%) SDLC
12 64 (12.05%) ETL
12 64 (12.05%) Multithreading
13 63 (11.86%) Analytics
14 59 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
15 51 (9.60%) Continuous Integration
16 46 (8.66%) Scrum
16 46 (8.66%) Test Automation
17 45 (8.47%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 312 (58.76%) SQL
2 200 (37.66%) Java
3 179 (33.71%) Python
4 74 (13.94%) C#
5 72 (13.56%) JavaScript
6 49 (9.23%) TypeScript
7 48 (9.04%) Shell Script
8 26 (4.90%) PL/SQL
9 16 (3.01%) Perl
10 15 (2.82%) R
11 11 (2.07%) PHP
11 11 (2.07%) Ruby
11 11 (2.07%) Scala
12 10 (1.88%) PowerShell
13 9 (1.69%) C++
14 8 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (1.51%) RPG
14 8 (1.51%) RPG IV
15 6 (1.13%) SPARQL
15 6 (1.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 128 (24.11%) Security Cleared
2 115 (21.66%) SC Cleared
3 68 (12.81%) Degree
4 14 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.26%) Numerate Degree
6 11 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.32%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (1.32%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.94%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.94%) MCPD
8 5 (0.94%) MCSD
9 4 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.38%) OCP
10 2 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.38%) Sun Certification
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.19%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.84%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.58%) QA
3 9 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (0.75%) GDPR
5 3 (0.56%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.19%) MiFID
7 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 121 (22.79%) Docker
2 26 (4.90%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.51%) GridGain
4 3 (0.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 3 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 93 (17.51%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.08%) Terraform
3 14 (2.64%) Ansible
4 12 (2.26%) Kibana
4 12 (2.26%) Progress Chef
5 10 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.13%) Grafana
7 4 (0.75%) Packer
7 4 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.75%) Puppet
8 2 (0.38%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 2 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.19%) Argo
9 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.19%) Graylog
9 1 (0.19%) Istio
9 1 (0.19%) Podman
9 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 104 (19.59%) Oracle
2 61 (11.49%) Microsoft
3 52 (9.79%) Sybase
4 39 (7.34%) SAP
5 19 (3.58%) Splunk
6 13 (2.45%) Google
6 13 (2.45%) Red Hat
6 13 (2.45%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.26%) IBM
8 11 (2.07%) Databricks
9 9 (1.69%) Adobe
9 9 (1.69%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.51%) Alteryx
10 8 (1.51%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.32%) Teradata
11 7 (1.32%) TIBCO
11 7 (1.32%) VMware
11 7 (1.32%) Zend
12 6 (1.13%) Virgin Media
13 5 (0.94%) Talend