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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 172 173
Rank change year-on-year -63 +1 +14
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 612 534 539
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.64% 1.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.48% 9.01% 7.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 331 394
10th Percentile £350 £251 £283
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £575 £585
90th Percentile £712 £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £446 £475
% change year-on-year +10.31% -6.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 3
10th Percentile - £30.22 £37.65
25th Percentile £14.00 £43.74 £39.00
Median hourly rate £43.75 £71.25 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.60% +71.69% -43.92%
75th Percentile £77.00 £92.50 £57.75
90th Percentile - - £67.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.25 £21.40 £72.50
% change year-on-year +55.37% -70.48% -

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 8,185 5,929 6,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.00% 18.26% 17.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,470 3,963 4,661
10th Percentile £356 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -1.30%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £710 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 86 89
10th Percentile £16.63 £21.23 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.35 £29.02 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% +14.99% -36.36%
75th Percentile £59.88 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £75.10 £83.75 £71.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.25 £36.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.81% +20.00% -45.45%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -69 496 £517 +5.68% 721
UK excluding London -90 279 £492 +10.31% 403
London -39 260 £550 +3.77% 389
Work from Home -76 157 £513 +2.50% 314
North of England -80 68 £500 +21.21% 91
South East -58 58 £525 +153.01% 92
Midlands -23 56 £474 -3.76% 66
Scotland -49 46 £460 -0.54% 36
North West -53 44 £465 +24.28% 55
West Midlands -27 42 £474 -4.72% 42
East of England -14 30 £518 +0.98% 28
Yorkshire -53 22 £507 +1.30% 29
South West -43 17 £521 +18.13% 59
East Midlands -8 14 £493 +3.41% 24
Wales -7 6 £475 - 13
North East -31 6 £363 - 8
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 20

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 31 (5.07%) 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%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.65%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.49%) CICS
9 3 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.33%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
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
11 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.65%) Acrobat
3 4 (0.65%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.33%) CPLEX
4 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (1.96%) Finacle
2 7 (1.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.82%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.65%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.49%) Findur
6 2 (0.33%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.33%) Cerner Millennium
6 2 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.33%) FLEXCUBE
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
6 2 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.33%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.16%) Endur
7 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 215 (35.13%) AWS
2 139 (22.71%) Azure
3 95 (15.52%) GCP
4 68 (11.11%) GitHub
4 68 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 37 (6.05%) Snowflake
6 28 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (3.92%) Amazon S3
8 24 (3.92%) Serverless
9 21 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (3.27%) GitHub Copilot
11 16 (2.61%) OCI
12 15 (2.45%) SaaS
13 14 (2.29%) Anthropic Claude
13 14 (2.29%) ChatGPT
13 14 (2.29%) dbt
14 13 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (2.12%) OpenShift
15 11 (1.80%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.29%) HTTP
2 13 (2.12%) Firewall
3 12 (1.96%) VPN
4 4 (0.65%) Internet
5 3 (0.49%) WinSCP
6 2 (0.33%) Intranet
6 2 (0.33%) SSL
7 1 (0.16%) AMQP
7 1 (0.16%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (28.27%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (19.12%) SQL Server
3 113 (18.46%) RDBMS
4 75 (12.25%) Data Warehouse
5 66 (10.78%) MySQL
6 64 (10.46%) Power BI
7 55 (8.99%) MongoDB
8 50 (8.17%) Oracle Database
9 44 (7.19%) NoSQL
10 35 (5.72%) Metadata
11 26 (4.25%) Data Lake
12 25 (4.08%) Db2
13 24 (3.92%) Tableau
14 17 (2.78%) Oracle Exadata
15 16 (2.61%) BigQuery
15 16 (2.61%) Oracle Reports
16 15 (2.45%) Power Query
16 15 (2.45%) Redis
17 12 (1.96%) Big Data
18 11 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 157 (25.65%) Git
2 74 (12.09%) Jenkins
3 55 (8.99%) GitLab
4 47 (7.68%) JIRA
5 40 (6.54%) Maven
6 31 (5.07%) Gradle
6 31 (5.07%) JUnit
7 26 (4.25%) Selenium
8 24 (3.92%) Mockito
9 15 (2.45%) SonarQube
10 13 (2.12%) Eclipse
10 13 (2.12%) Oracle Forms
11 10 (1.63%) Visual Studio
12 9 (1.47%) Claude Code
13 8 (1.31%) ER Studio
13 8 (1.31%) REST Assured
14 7 (1.14%) Bitbucket
14 7 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
15 6 (0.98%) Ant
15 6 (0.98%) Liquibase
General
1 216 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 177 (28.92%) Finance
3 159 (25.98%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (15.69%) Public Sector
5 94 (15.36%) Banking
6 27 (4.41%) Front Office
7 24 (3.92%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.45%) Military
9 14 (2.29%) Back Office
9 14 (2.29%) Retail
10 12 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.96%) Publishing
11 9 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.31%) Law
12 8 (1.31%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.98%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.82%) Automotive
14 5 (0.82%) Legal
14 5 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 258 (42.16%) Developer
2 125 (20.42%) Senior
3 91 (14.87%) Java Developer
4 60 (9.80%) Data Engineer
5 58 (9.48%) Senior Developer
6 49 (8.01%) Software Engineer
7 47 (7.68%) Analyst
8 41 (6.70%) Lead
9 40 (6.54%) Full-Stack Developer
10 36 (5.88%) Python Developer
11 30 (4.90%) Data Analyst
12 27 (4.41%) Architect
12 27 (4.41%) Software Developer
13 26 (4.25%) Java Engineer
14 21 (3.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 20 (3.27%) Backend Developer
16 19 (3.10%) .NET Developer
17 18 (2.94%) Senior Data Engineer
17 18 (2.94%) Senior Java Developer
18 17 (2.78%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (24.02%) REST
2 111 (18.14%) RESTful
3 108 (17.65%) Spring
4 107 (17.48%) Spring Boot
5 93 (15.20%) Kafka
6 79 (12.91%) React
7 65 (10.62%) .NET
8 60 (9.80%) Terraform
9 52 (8.50%) AngularJS
10 50 (8.17%) Web Services
11 42 (6.86%) SOAP
12 41 (6.70%) CSS
12 41 (6.70%) HTML
13 40 (6.54%) OAuth
14 36 (5.88%) XML
15 30 (4.90%) JSON
16 29 (4.74%) Middleware
17 26 (4.25%) OAuth2
18 23 (3.76%) .NET Framework
18 23 (3.76%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 84 (13.73%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (6.70%) Data Structures
4 37 (6.05%) Product Ownership
5 22 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (3.59%) Management Information System
6 18 (2.94%) Derivative
7 16 (2.61%) Low-Code
8 14 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (2.12%) Equity Derivative
9 13 (2.12%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.12%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.96%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.96%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 11 (1.80%) Equities
11 11 (1.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 73 (11.93%) Linux
2 49 (8.01%) Unix
3 38 (6.21%) Windows
4 23 (3.76%) AIX
5 20 (3.27%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.98%) zOS
7 5 (0.82%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.49%) Android
8 3 (0.49%) MVS
9 2 (0.33%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (45.42%) CI/CD
2 250 (40.85%) Agile
3 196 (32.03%) Problem-Solving
4 172 (28.10%) DevOps
5 152 (24.84%) Data Modelling
6 129 (21.08%) Microservices
7 122 (19.93%) Software Engineering
8 118 (19.28%) Validation
9 115 (18.79%) Test Automation
10 111 (18.14%) ETL
11 108 (17.65%) Containerisation
12 105 (17.16%) Data Pipeline
13 100 (16.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 99 (16.18%) Analytics
15 98 (16.01%) AI
16 85 (13.89%) SDLC
17 83 (13.56%) Migration
18 76 (12.42%) Infrastructure as Code
19 74 (12.09%) Full-Stack Development
20 73 (11.93%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 350 (57.19%) SQL
2 211 (34.48%) Java
3 205 (33.50%) Python
4 80 (13.07%) JavaScript
5 75 (12.25%) C#
6 50 (8.17%) TypeScript
7 24 (3.92%) PL/SQL
8 18 (2.94%) PowerShell
9 17 (2.78%) Shell Script
10 14 (2.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 11 (1.80%) Scala
12 10 (1.63%) Bash
12 10 (1.63%) C++
12 10 (1.63%) R
12 10 (1.63%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.47%) Perl
14 8 (1.31%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.14%) Apex Code
15 7 (1.14%) VB
16 6 (0.98%) Go
Qualifications
1 146 (23.86%) Security Cleared
2 111 (18.14%) SC Cleared
3 58 (9.48%) Degree
4 34 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.76%) DV Cleared
6 20 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.63%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.98%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.65%) MBA
10 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.16%) CISSP
11 1 (0.16%) ISEB
11 1 (0.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (16.01%) Data Quality
2 79 (12.91%) QA
3 31 (5.07%) Accessibility
4 20 (3.27%) GDPR
5 7 (1.14%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 7 (1.14%) GMP
5 7 (1.14%) GxP
5 7 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 7 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.65%) SEPA
6 4 (0.65%) WCAG
7 3 (0.49%) SLA
8 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.33%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.33%) PSD2
9 1 (0.16%) COREP
9 1 (0.16%) FINREP
9 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 143 (23.37%) Docker
2 19 (3.10%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (0.98%) RACF
4 5 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.49%) ACF2
5 3 (0.49%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 116 (18.95%) Kubernetes
2 39 (6.37%) Ansible
3 28 (4.58%) Prometheus
4 26 (4.25%) Grafana
5 17 (2.78%) Data Guard
6 16 (2.61%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (0.98%) Argo
8 3 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.33%) systemd
10 1 (0.16%) Istio
10 1 (0.16%) Kibana
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.16%) Podman
10 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 173 (28.27%) Oracle
2 77 (12.58%) Microsoft
3 35 (5.72%) Google
4 34 (5.56%) IBM
5 23 (3.76%) Databricks
6 15 (2.45%) Sybase
7 13 (2.12%) Splunk
8 12 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.80%) Informatica
10 10 (1.63%) SAP
11 8 (1.31%) OutSystems
11 8 (1.31%) Teradata
12 7 (1.14%) Adobe
12 7 (1.14%) Alteryx
12 7 (1.14%) Sparx
13 6 (0.98%) Broadcom
13 6 (0.98%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.98%) Talend
14 5 (0.82%) Actian
14 5 (0.82%) BeyondTrust