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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 187 185
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 -13
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 571 508 656
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.61% 1.39% 1.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.10% 7.86% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 353 457
10th Percentile £206 £224 £350
25th Percentile £363 £405 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -3.67% -5.22%
75th Percentile £561 £586 £638
90th Percentile £675 £650 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -11.58% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 21
10th Percentile - £25.79 £44.60
25th Percentile - £26.38 £54.50
Median hourly rate - £38.50 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year - -46.53% +188.00%
75th Percentile - £44.13 £76.53
90th Percentile - £57.40 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £26.50 £68.63
% change year-on-year - -61.39% +174.53%

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 6,275 6,460 7,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.65% 17.66% 16.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,298 4,261 5,404
10th Percentile £331 £341 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £534
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -0.75% -2.91%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £715 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 89 146
10th Percentile £21.02 £18.00 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.40 £21.86
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.59 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year +42.20% -34.69% +4.09%
75th Percentile £67.13 £53.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £83.95 £65.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.70 £28.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +90.26% -37.74% +13.38%

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 24 November 2025.

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
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 24 November 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 +3 469 £475 -9.52% 217
UK excluding London +22 289 £420 -11.58% 170
London -5 236 £525 -4.55% 82
Work from Home +4 208 £475 -6.17% 135
North of England +8 85 £402 -10.27% 35
South East +14 75 £223 +8.54% 71
Scotland +50 65 £450 +5.88% 5
North West +12 49 £374 -9.39% 23
Yorkshire -21 35 £501 -4.57% 9
Midlands -34 29 £463 -7.50% 25
West Midlands -15 22 £500 - 21
South West -1 19 £550 - 19
East Midlands -18 7 £442 -0.84% 4
Northern Ireland -3 6 £425 -10.53% 1
East of England -18 6 £500 +8.11% 9
Wales -7 5 £485 +1.31% 6
North East - 1 £400 - 3

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 17 (2.98%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.80%) Apache
3 13 (2.28%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.93%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.58%) WebLogic
6 8 (1.40%) JBoss
6 8 (1.40%) nginx
7 6 (1.05%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.88%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.70%) SAS
10 3 (0.53%) Confluence
10 3 (0.53%) Drupal
10 3 (0.53%) WordPress
11 2 (0.35%) Alfresco
11 2 (0.35%) Camunda
11 2 (0.35%) CICS
11 2 (0.35%) CMS
11 2 (0.35%) Moodle
11 2 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 28 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.88%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (1.40%) Advent Geneva
2 5 (0.88%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.18%) Endur
4 1 (0.18%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (0.18%) Magento
4 1 (0.18%) Maximo
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.18%) Shopify
4 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.18%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 198 (34.68%) AWS
2 130 (22.77%) Azure
3 63 (11.03%) Serverless
4 58 (10.16%) Amazon S3
5 55 (9.63%) GCP
5 55 (9.63%) GitHub
6 52 (9.11%) AWS Lambda
6 52 (9.11%) Power Platform
7 43 (7.53%) SaaS
8 29 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
9 26 (4.55%) OpenShift
10 24 (4.20%) Snowflake
11 23 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
13 20 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
14 18 (3.15%) Sauce Labs
15 17 (2.98%) Amazon EventBridge
15 17 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (2.98%) PaaS
16 16 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.15%) Wireless
2 14 (2.45%) HTTP
3 11 (1.93%) Firewall
4 8 (1.40%) Internet
5 5 (0.88%) AMQP
6 3 (0.53%) DNS
6 3 (0.53%) MQTT
6 3 (0.53%) Network Security
6 3 (0.53%) SSL
6 3 (0.53%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.35%) MPLS
7 2 (0.35%) WAN
8 1 (0.18%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.18%) LAN
8 1 (0.18%) NAS
8 1 (0.18%) POP3
8 1 (0.18%) SMS
8 1 (0.18%) SMTP
8 1 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (23.47%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (21.37%) MySQL
3 116 (20.32%) RDBMS
4 98 (17.16%) SQL Server
5 83 (14.54%) Data Warehouse
6 73 (12.78%) MongoDB
7 57 (9.98%) DB2
8 52 (9.11%) NoSQL
9 50 (8.76%) Power BI
10 31 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
11 24 (4.20%) Data Lake
12 23 (4.03%) Big Data
13 21 (3.68%) Oracle Database
14 18 (3.15%) Amazon Redshift
14 18 (3.15%) DynamoDB
14 18 (3.15%) Metadata
14 18 (3.15%) Tableau
15 14 (2.45%) Redis
16 13 (2.28%) DataStage
17 12 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 117 (20.49%) Git
2 57 (9.98%) JUnit
3 46 (8.06%) Jenkins
4 42 (7.36%) JIRA
5 25 (4.38%) Browser DevTools
6 21 (3.68%) Eclipse
7 20 (3.50%) Maven
8 18 (3.15%) Android Studio
8 18 (3.15%) Xcode
9 16 (2.80%) Gradle
10 12 (2.10%) GitLab
11 11 (1.93%) SonarQube
12 10 (1.75%) Mockito
12 10 (1.75%) TeamCity
13 9 (1.58%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.40%) ERwin
14 8 (1.40%) webpack
15 6 (1.05%) Firebug
15 6 (1.05%) PyCharm
15 6 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 233 (40.81%) Social Skills
2 145 (25.39%) Finance
3 114 (19.96%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (12.61%) Banking
5 49 (8.58%) Public Sector
6 44 (7.71%) Investment Banking
7 31 (5.43%) Front Office
8 15 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.05%) Digital Healthcare
10 6 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.88%) Legal
11 5 (0.88%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.53%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.53%) Retail
13 2 (0.35%) Marketing
13 2 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 259 (45.36%) Developer
2 102 (17.86%) Java Developer
3 79 (13.84%) Senior
4 58 (10.16%) Senior Developer
5 45 (7.88%) Data Engineer
6 42 (7.36%) Analyst
7 40 (7.01%) Technical Support
8 35 (6.13%) Lead
8 35 (6.13%) Senior Java Developer
9 34 (5.95%) Support Engineer
10 31 (5.43%) SQL Developer
11 30 (5.25%) Investment Banking Java Developer
12 27 (4.73%) Full-Stack Developer
13 26 (4.55%) Data Analyst
14 25 (4.38%) Technical Engineer
14 25 (4.38%) Technical Support Engineer
15 24 (4.20%) Architect
16 20 (3.50%) Python Developer
17 19 (3.33%) Linux Developer
17 19 (3.33%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (18.21%) Spring
2 87 (15.24%) React
3 73 (12.78%) Spring Boot
4 70 (12.26%) Kafka
5 67 (11.73%) AngularJS
5 67 (11.73%) RESTful
6 62 (10.86%) CSS
7 55 (9.63%) REST
7 55 (9.63%) XML
8 53 (9.28%) HTML
9 45 (7.88%) .NET
10 44 (7.71%) JMS
11 37 (6.48%) GraphQL
12 35 (6.13%) Node.js
13 34 (5.95%) SOAP
14 28 (4.90%) JSON
15 23 (4.03%) jQuery
16 22 (3.85%) Web Services
17 21 (3.68%) Hibernate
18 20 (3.50%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 50 (8.76%) Data Structures
2 34 (5.95%) Cloud Native
3 30 (5.25%) Equities
4 27 (4.73%) Management Information System
5 23 (4.03%) Virtual Team
6 19 (3.33%) Data Centre
6 19 (3.33%) Mobile App
7 18 (3.15%) Algorithms
7 18 (3.15%) Product Ownership
8 13 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.93%) CMDB
9 11 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.75%) Reinsurance
11 9 (1.58%) Clustering
12 8 (1.40%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.23%) Onboarding
14 6 (1.05%) Mainframe
14 6 (1.05%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 128 (22.42%) Linux
2 65 (11.38%) Windows
3 52 (9.11%) Unix
4 18 (3.15%) Android
5 12 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.05%) CentOS
7 5 (0.88%) Solaris
8 3 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.18%) AIX
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (38.88%) Agile
2 193 (33.80%) Problem-Solving
3 148 (25.92%) CI/CD
4 115 (20.14%) Microservices
5 112 (19.61%) Data Modelling
6 100 (17.51%) DevOps
7 95 (16.64%) ETL
8 90 (15.76%) OO
9 81 (14.19%) Containerisation
10 75 (13.13%) SDLC
11 72 (12.61%) Analytics
11 72 (12.61%) Test Automation
12 67 (11.73%) Performance Tuning
13 64 (11.21%) Migration
14 60 (10.51%) Computer Science
15 59 (10.33%) Business Intelligence
15 59 (10.33%) Visualisation
16 58 (10.16%) OOP
17 57 (9.98%) Software Engineering
18 56 (9.81%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 322 (56.39%) SQL
2 249 (43.61%) Python
3 219 (38.35%) Java
4 102 (17.86%) JavaScript
5 47 (8.23%) Perl
6 40 (7.01%) Shell Script
7 35 (6.13%) C#
8 30 (5.25%) TypeScript
9 23 (4.03%) PL/SQL
10 22 (3.85%) PHP
11 16 (2.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 15 (2.63%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.75%) Ruby
13 10 (1.75%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.40%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.23%) Scala
16 6 (1.05%) Bash
16 6 (1.05%) VBA
17 5 (0.88%) XPath
18 4 (0.70%) R
Qualifications
1 81 (14.19%) Security Cleared
2 58 (10.16%) Degree
3 50 (8.76%) SC Cleared
4 37 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.45%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.75%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.58%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (1.23%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.88%) OCP
10 5 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (9.81%) Data Quality
2 51 (8.93%) QA
3 16 (2.80%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.10%) GDPR
5 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.18%) EMIR
6 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.18%) IFRS
6 1 (0.18%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.18%) MiFID
6 1 (0.18%) NIST
6 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.18%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 118 (20.67%) Docker
2 10 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.53%) NFS
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.18%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 86 (15.06%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.36%) Terraform
3 25 (4.38%) Grafana
4 13 (2.28%) Ansible
5 10 (1.75%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.05%) Kibana
7 5 (0.88%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.88%) TIBCO Hawk
8 3 (0.53%) Argo
8 3 (0.53%) Packer
9 2 (0.35%) Consul
9 2 (0.35%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.35%) Puppet
10 1 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.18%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.18%) logstash
10 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 151 (26.44%) Oracle
2 82 (14.36%) Microsoft
3 48 (8.41%) ServiceNow
4 35 (6.13%) Sybase
5 27 (4.73%) Splunk
6 20 (3.50%) IBM
7 19 (3.33%) Databricks
8 15 (2.63%) AppDynamics
9 14 (2.45%) Google
10 9 (1.58%) Blue Prism
10 9 (1.58%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.40%) Advent
11 8 (1.40%) Cloudera
11 8 (1.40%) Dataiku
11 8 (1.40%) GoldenSource
12 7 (1.23%) SAP
12 7 (1.23%) TIBCO
13 6 (1.05%) Informatica
13 6 (1.05%) Pega
14 5 (0.88%) Salesforce