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

 6 months to
1 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 169 180
Rank change year-on-year -56 +11 +4
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 612 561 544
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.14% 1.71% 1.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.49% 9.51% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 344 407
10th Percentile £360 £313 £310
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £491 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% -6.48% -7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £599
90th Percentile £712 £700 £661
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +9.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 0
10th Percentile £14.00 £36.23 -
25th Percentile £15.69 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £76.75 £82.81 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £36.95 -
% change year-on-year +28.55% - -

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 8,175 5,898 6,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.24% 18.01% 18.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,437 3,953 4,879
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 94 100
10th Percentile £15.90 £21.22 £14.93
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.02 £19.77
Median hourly rate £38.50 £38.85 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +19.52% -40.91%
75th Percentile £61.13 £64.94 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £79.63 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £34.19 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.87% +13.97% -42.86%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -56 500 £517 +3.30% 742
UK excluding London -83 280 £491 +9.11% 332
London -46 265 £548 -0.45% 502
Work from Home -75 148 £522 +2.35% 261
North of England -75 72 £500 +19.98% 80
South East -58 58 £525 +135.96% 68
Midlands -29 51 £473 -3.96% 51
North West -63 47 £500 +21.95% 49
Scotland -48 46 £460 -0.54% 40
West Midlands -33 34 £473 -4.92% 24
East of England -3 30 £518 +0.98% 17
Yorkshire -40 22 £507 +4.00% 23
East Midlands -5 17 £410 -13.91% 26
South West -45 16 £538 +43.33% 46
Wales -11 7 £475 -6.40% 4
North East -40 7 £406 - 8
Northern Ireland -6 3 - - 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 23 (3.76%) Confluence
2 19 (3.10%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.94%) Apache
4 13 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.47%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.98%) Tuxedo
7 5 (0.82%) IIS
8 4 (0.65%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.65%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.49%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.33%) 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 18 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.65%) Acrobat
3 4 (0.65%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.65%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.49%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.80%) Finacle
2 7 (1.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.82%) Findur
4 4 (0.65%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.65%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.65%) Summit
5 3 (0.49%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.49%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.33%) Cerner Millennium
6 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.16%) Endur
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.16%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 212 (34.64%) AWS
2 142 (23.20%) Azure
3 90 (14.71%) GCP
4 70 (11.44%) GitHub
5 67 (10.95%) Power Platform
6 38 (6.21%) Snowflake
7 31 (5.07%) Amazon S3
8 28 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (4.58%) Serverless
9 27 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (3.43%) GitHub Copilot
11 16 (2.61%) Anthropic Claude
11 16 (2.61%) OCI
12 15 (2.45%) ChatGPT
12 15 (2.45%) SaaS
13 14 (2.29%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (2.29%) dbt
14 13 (2.12%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.29%) HTTP
2 12 (1.96%) Firewall
2 12 (1.96%) VPN
3 3 (0.49%) WinSCP
4 2 (0.33%) Internet
4 2 (0.33%) Intranet
4 2 (0.33%) SSL
5 1 (0.16%) AMQP
5 1 (0.16%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.16%) Multicast
5 1 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (26.96%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (20.59%) SQL Server
3 114 (18.63%) RDBMS
4 78 (12.75%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (10.46%) Power BI
6 63 (10.29%) MySQL
7 57 (9.31%) MongoDB
8 50 (8.17%) Oracle Database
9 46 (7.52%) NoSQL
10 39 (6.37%) Metadata
11 27 (4.41%) Db2
12 26 (4.25%) Tableau
13 25 (4.08%) Data Lake
14 18 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
15 17 (2.78%) Oracle Exadata
15 17 (2.78%) Redis
16 15 (2.45%) Power Query
17 14 (2.29%) Big Data
17 14 (2.29%) BigQuery
18 13 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 131 (21.41%) Git
2 69 (11.27%) Jenkins
3 60 (9.80%) GitLab
4 38 (6.21%) JIRA
5 29 (4.74%) Maven
6 26 (4.25%) Gradle
7 23 (3.76%) JUnit
8 18 (2.94%) Selenium
9 16 (2.61%) Mockito
10 14 (2.29%) Oracle Forms
11 13 (2.12%) Eclipse
12 10 (1.63%) Visual Studio
13 9 (1.47%) Claude Code
14 8 (1.31%) ER Studio
14 8 (1.31%) Liquibase
14 8 (1.31%) REST Assured
15 7 (1.14%) SonarQube
15 7 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
16 6 (0.98%) Ant
16 6 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 205 (33.50%) Social Skills
2 180 (29.41%) Finance
3 162 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (15.20%) Public Sector
5 90 (14.71%) Banking
6 31 (5.07%) Front Office
7 25 (4.08%) Investment Banking
8 16 (2.61%) Military
8 16 (2.61%) Publishing
9 12 (1.96%) Back Office
9 12 (1.96%) Retail
10 9 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.31%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.31%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.14%) Law
12 7 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.82%) Automotive
13 5 (0.82%) Marketing
14 4 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 255 (41.67%) Developer
2 122 (19.93%) Senior
3 85 (13.89%) Java Developer
4 65 (10.62%) Data Engineer
5 55 (8.99%) Senior Developer
6 54 (8.82%) Software Engineer
7 49 (8.01%) Analyst
8 39 (6.37%) Lead
8 39 (6.37%) Python Developer
9 36 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
10 30 (4.90%) Software Developer
11 27 (4.41%) Data Analyst
12 25 (4.08%) Architect
13 23 (3.76%) Java Engineer
14 20 (3.27%) Backend Developer
15 19 (3.10%) .NET Developer
15 19 (3.10%) Python Engineer
15 19 (3.10%) Senior Data Engineer
16 17 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 17 (2.78%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (23.53%) REST
2 105 (17.16%) RESTful
3 98 (16.01%) Spring
3 98 (16.01%) Spring Boot
4 97 (15.85%) Kafka
5 82 (13.40%) React
6 71 (11.60%) .NET
7 57 (9.31%) Terraform
8 44 (7.19%) Web Services
9 40 (6.54%) CSS
9 40 (6.54%) XML
10 39 (6.37%) OAuth
11 38 (6.21%) HTML
12 37 (6.05%) AngularJS
13 34 (5.56%) SOAP
14 32 (5.23%) JSON
15 26 (4.25%) Middleware
16 25 (4.08%) OAuth2
17 22 (3.59%) .NET Framework
18 21 (3.43%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 81 (13.24%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (7.03%) Data Structures
4 32 (5.23%) Product Ownership
5 24 (3.92%) Management Information System
6 22 (3.59%) Derivative
7 21 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (2.61%) Low-Code
9 15 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (2.29%) Algorithms
10 14 (2.29%) Equity Derivative
10 14 (2.29%) Public Cloud
11 13 (2.12%) AI Agents
11 13 (2.12%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.96%) Replication
13 11 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.80%) Equities
13 11 (1.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 10 (1.63%) Hedge funds
15 9 (1.47%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 66 (10.78%) Linux
2 45 (7.35%) Unix
3 36 (5.88%) Windows
4 22 (3.59%) AIX
5 17 (2.78%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.49%) Android
7 3 (0.49%) MVS
7 3 (0.49%) zOS
8 1 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (43.30%) CI/CD
2 229 (37.42%) Agile
3 193 (31.54%) Problem-Solving
4 178 (29.08%) DevOps
5 148 (24.18%) Data Modelling
6 129 (21.08%) Microservices
7 124 (20.26%) Software Engineering
8 113 (18.46%) ETL
9 110 (17.97%) Data Pipeline
9 110 (17.97%) Validation
10 108 (17.65%) AI
11 104 (16.99%) Analytics
12 95 (15.52%) Containerisation
12 95 (15.52%) Test Automation
13 84 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 78 (12.75%) Migration
14 78 (12.75%) Performance Tuning
15 77 (12.58%) SDLC
16 71 (11.60%) Business Intelligence
16 71 (11.60%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 353 (57.68%) SQL
2 208 (33.99%) Java
3 204 (33.33%) Python
4 84 (13.73%) C#
5 79 (12.91%) JavaScript
6 42 (6.86%) TypeScript
7 23 (3.76%) PL/SQL
8 19 (3.10%) PowerShell
8 19 (3.10%) Shell Script
9 15 (2.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (1.96%) C++
10 12 (1.96%) Scala
11 10 (1.63%) R
12 9 (1.47%) Bash
12 9 (1.47%) Perl
12 9 (1.47%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.14%) Apex Code
13 7 (1.14%) VB
14 6 (0.98%) SOQL
14 6 (0.98%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 145 (23.69%) Security Cleared
2 114 (18.63%) SC Cleared
3 55 (8.99%) Degree
4 33 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.63%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.63%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.31%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.65%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.65%) MBA
9 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.33%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.16%) CFA
10 1 (0.16%) CISSP
10 1 (0.16%) ISEB
10 1 (0.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (16.34%) Data Quality
2 76 (12.42%) QA
3 29 (4.74%) Accessibility
4 20 (3.27%) GDPR
5 8 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (1.14%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 7 (1.14%) GMP
6 7 (1.14%) GxP
6 7 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 5 (0.82%) WCAG
8 3 (0.49%) SEPA
8 3 (0.49%) SLA
9 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) ITGC
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) NIST
10 1 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 138 (22.55%) Docker
2 19 (3.10%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.49%) ACF2
4 3 (0.49%) RACF
5 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.33%) GridGain
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 123 (20.10%) Kubernetes
2 34 (5.56%) Ansible
3 22 (3.59%) Prometheus
4 20 (3.27%) Grafana
5 17 (2.78%) Data Guard
5 17 (2.78%) Oracle RMAN
6 6 (0.98%) Argo
7 3 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.16%) Istio
9 1 (0.16%) Kibana
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 176 (28.76%) Oracle
2 75 (12.25%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.39%) Google
3 33 (5.39%) IBM
4 24 (3.92%) Databricks
5 18 (2.94%) Sybase
6 13 (2.12%) Splunk
7 12 (1.96%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.80%) Informatica
9 10 (1.63%) SAP
10 8 (1.31%) OutSystems
10 8 (1.31%) Teradata
11 7 (1.14%) Adobe
11 7 (1.14%) Sparx
12 6 (0.98%) Alteryx
12 6 (0.98%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.98%) Talend
13 5 (0.82%) Actian
13 5 (0.82%) BeyondTrust
13 5 (0.82%) Bomgar
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