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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 152 202
Rank change year-on-year -75 +50 -31
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 527 538 517
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.15% 1.84% 1.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.28% 9.70% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 363 380
10th Percentile £313 £400 £363
25th Percentile £400 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £660 £688 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £446 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.75% -4.76% -3.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 7
10th Percentile £14.90 £18.99 £21.98
25th Percentile £32.01 £24.12 £25.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £26.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.53% -34.57% -19.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £53.75 £51.42
90th Percentile £62.38 £88.63 £61.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.18 £30.50
% change year-on-year +98.57% -17.44% -57.19%

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 7,238 5,546 7,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.81% 18.98% 16.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,972 3,838 5,166
10th Percentile £350 £351 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.11%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £487 £488
% change year-on-year -2.41% -0.15% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 109 152
10th Percentile £18.10 £21.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.77 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -29.76%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £53.75
90th Percentile £83.55 £76.50 £71.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +58.03% -9.60% -36.36%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -56 442 £453 -13.81% 184
UK excluding London -73 246 £446 -10.75% 136
London -45 234 £500 -5.66% 70
Work from Home -77 146 £450 -14.61% 145
South East -24 71 £413 -19.51% 44
North of England -54 65 £425 -8.11% 33
Midlands -50 46 £464 -5.93% 24
North West -32 43 £402 -13.08% 13
Scotland -16 40 £465 -1.06% 9
West Midlands -57 31 £473 -4.83% 15
Yorkshire -38 17 £516 +7.45% 18
East Midlands -30 15 £421 -14.03% 9
South West -43 15 £429 -22.05% 14
North East -11 7 £450 - 4
Northern Ireland -4 4 - - 2
East of England -29 4 - - 7
Wales -12 3 £475 -9.52% 4

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 28 (5.31%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.66%) Apache
2 14 (2.66%) WebLogic
3 13 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (1.33%) Confluence
4 7 (1.33%) IIS
4 7 (1.33%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.33%) WebSphere
5 6 (1.14%) Appian
5 6 (1.14%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.95%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.76%) JBoss
7 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.57%) Apache Superset
8 3 (0.57%) Camunda
9 2 (0.38%) CMS
9 2 (0.38%) Drupal
9 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.95%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.38%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (1.33%) Advent Geneva
1 7 (1.33%) BusinessWorks
2 6 (1.14%) Findur
2 6 (1.14%) Summit
3 5 (0.95%) Magento
4 4 (0.76%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.57%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.57%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.19%) Finacle
7 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.19%) Maximo
7 1 (0.19%) Shopify
7 1 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.19%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 189 (35.86%) AWS
2 116 (22.01%) Azure
3 64 (12.14%) GitHub
4 59 (11.20%) Serverless
5 52 (9.87%) Amazon S3
6 50 (9.49%) Power Platform
7 47 (8.92%) GCP
8 44 (8.35%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (5.12%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
11 19 (3.61%) OpenShift
11 19 (3.61%) SaaS
12 18 (3.42%) Snowflake
13 17 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (2.85%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (2.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
17 10 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.95%) Firewall
1 5 (0.95%) HTTP
1 5 (0.95%) Network Security
2 4 (0.76%) AMQP
2 4 (0.76%) DNS
2 4 (0.76%) Wireless
3 2 (0.38%) Internet
3 2 (0.38%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) Multicast
4 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.19%) RTMP
4 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (26.76%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (19.54%) SQL Server
3 101 (19.17%) MySQL
4 87 (16.51%) RDBMS
5 69 (13.09%) NoSQL
6 67 (12.71%) MongoDB
7 52 (9.87%) Data Warehouse
8 48 (9.11%) Power BI
9 27 (5.12%) DB2
9 27 (5.12%) Metadata
10 25 (4.74%) DynamoDB
11 23 (4.36%) Big Data
11 23 (4.36%) Oracle Database
12 22 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (4.17%) Data Lake
13 18 (3.42%) Oracle Reports
14 14 (2.66%) Redis
15 12 (2.28%) Power Query
15 12 (2.28%) Tableau
16 11 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 84 (15.94%) Git
2 55 (10.44%) Jenkins
3 38 (7.21%) GitLab
4 26 (4.93%) JUnit
5 25 (4.74%) JIRA
6 16 (3.04%) Mockito
7 10 (1.90%) Maven
8 8 (1.52%) Browser DevTools
8 8 (1.52%) Gradle
8 8 (1.52%) REST Assured
8 8 (1.52%) Selenium
9 7 (1.33%) Android Studio
9 7 (1.33%) Eclipse
9 7 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (1.33%) Xcode
10 6 (1.14%) ERwin
10 6 (1.14%) Gatling
10 6 (1.14%) NUnit
11 5 (0.95%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.95%) TeamCity
General
1 161 (30.55%) Social Skills
2 124 (23.53%) Finance
3 102 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 43 (8.16%) Banking
6 22 (4.17%) Investment Banking
7 19 (3.61%) Front Office
8 11 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.90%) Publishing
10 8 (1.52%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.14%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.14%) Marketing
11 6 (1.14%) Military
12 5 (0.95%) Retail
13 4 (0.76%) Back Office
13 4 (0.76%) Legal
13 4 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.38%) Billing
15 2 (0.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 222 (42.13%) Developer
2 80 (15.18%) Senior
3 66 (12.52%) Java Developer
4 48 (9.11%) Data Engineer
5 36 (6.83%) Senior Developer
6 35 (6.64%) Software Engineer
7 34 (6.45%) Python Developer
8 33 (6.26%) Analyst
9 29 (5.50%) Full-Stack Developer
10 25 (4.74%) Lead
11 24 (4.55%) Architect
12 20 (3.80%) Technical Support
13 19 (3.61%) .NET Developer
13 19 (3.61%) DBA
14 17 (3.23%) Business Analyst
14 17 (3.23%) Senior Java Developer
15 15 (2.85%) C# Developer
15 15 (2.85%) Senior Data Engineer
16 14 (2.66%) Site Engineer
16 14 (2.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (20.68%) REST
2 91 (17.27%) React
3 88 (16.70%) RESTful
4 83 (15.75%) Spring
5 78 (14.80%) Spring Boot
6 72 (13.66%) Kafka
7 64 (12.14%) .NET
8 45 (8.54%) XML
9 38 (7.21%) CSS
9 38 (7.21%) JSON
10 36 (6.83%) AngularJS
11 30 (5.69%) HTML
11 30 (5.69%) Web Services
12 29 (5.50%) GraphQL
13 22 (4.17%) SOAP
14 21 (3.98%) Django
15 19 (3.61%) FastAPI
15 19 (3.61%) Node.js
16 17 (3.23%) Flask
16 17 (3.23%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.02%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.64%) Product Ownership
3 29 (5.50%) Data Structures
3 29 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.98%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.85%) Virtual Team
6 14 (2.66%) Fixed Income
7 11 (2.09%) Algorithms
7 11 (2.09%) Derivative
7 11 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.71%) CMDB
9 9 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
9 9 (1.71%) Equities
10 8 (1.52%) Client/Server
10 8 (1.52%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.52%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.33%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 68 (12.90%) Linux
2 45 (8.54%) Unix
3 35 (6.64%) Windows
4 7 (1.33%) Android
5 4 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.38%) CentOS
7 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.19%) AIX
8 1 (0.19%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.19%) MVS
8 1 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (35.86%) Agile
1 189 (35.86%) CI/CD
2 150 (28.46%) Problem-Solving
3 146 (27.70%) DevOps
4 130 (24.67%) Microservices
5 110 (20.87%) Data Modelling
6 104 (19.73%) Containerisation
7 93 (17.65%) Analytics
8 82 (15.56%) ETL
9 76 (14.42%) Software Engineering
10 68 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
11 66 (12.52%) SDLC
12 65 (12.33%) AI
13 64 (12.14%) Test Automation
14 63 (11.95%) Business Intelligence
15 61 (11.57%) Observability
16 58 (11.01%) Data Engineering
16 58 (11.01%) Performance Tuning
17 56 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
18 52 (9.87%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 294 (55.79%) SQL
2 197 (37.38%) Java
3 181 (34.35%) Python
4 82 (15.56%) JavaScript
5 64 (12.14%) C#
6 39 (7.40%) TypeScript
7 25 (4.74%) Perl
8 20 (3.80%) Shell Script
9 19 (3.61%) PL/SQL
10 16 (3.04%) Scala
11 15 (2.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (2.28%) PHP
13 11 (2.09%) PowerShell
14 10 (1.90%) Bash
14 10 (1.90%) Go
15 8 (1.52%) R
16 7 (1.33%) Ruby
16 7 (1.33%) XPath
17 6 (1.14%) C++
18 4 (0.76%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 97 (18.41%) Security Cleared
2 67 (12.71%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.49%) Degree
4 34 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.09%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.52%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.33%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.76%) MBA
10 3 (0.57%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.57%) OCP
10 3 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.38%) CISSP
11 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (10.25%) Data Quality
2 49 (9.30%) QA
3 19 (3.61%) GDPR
4 18 (3.42%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.95%) SLA
6 5 (0.95%) WCAG
7 3 (0.57%) IFRS
8 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.38%) FATCA
8 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.38%) NCSC
8 2 (0.38%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) EMIR
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.19%) MiFID
9 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 142 (26.94%) Docker
2 5 (0.95%) Varnish
3 2 (0.38%) GridGain
4 1 (0.19%) ACF2
4 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.19%) RACF
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 121 (22.96%) Kubernetes
2 49 (9.30%) Terraform
3 25 (4.74%) Grafana
4 22 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.85%) Ansible
6 7 (1.33%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.33%) TIBCO Hawk
7 6 (1.14%) Puppet
8 4 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.57%) Kibana
9 3 (0.57%) Packer
10 2 (0.38%) Consul
10 2 (0.38%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.19%) Argo
11 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 138 (26.19%) Oracle
2 73 (13.85%) Microsoft
3 21 (3.98%) Databricks
4 17 (3.23%) Adobe
4 17 (3.23%) Splunk
5 15 (2.85%) ServiceNow
6 14 (2.66%) IBM
7 11 (2.09%) Informatica
7 11 (2.09%) Sybase
8 10 (1.90%) Google
9 8 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.52%) TIBCO
10 7 (1.33%) Advent
10 7 (1.33%) BEA
11 6 (1.14%) Ab Initio
11 6 (1.14%) Teradata
12 5 (0.95%) SAP
13 4 (0.76%) DevExpress
13 4 (0.76%) OpenLink
13 4 (0.76%) Talend