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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 152 204
Rank change year-on-year -70 +52 -26
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 525 531 505
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.82% 1.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.24% 9.60% 6.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 356 373
10th Percentile £313 £400 £375
25th Percentile £400 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £650
90th Percentile £660 £688 £785
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £492 £534
% change year-on-year -8.44% -7.96% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 4
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.05 £24.25
25th Percentile £18.52 £21.20 £26.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +47.89% -46.92%
75th Percentile £50.00 £53.75 £43.81
90th Percentile £67.16 £92.50 £49.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £21.40 £35.50
% change year-on-year +98.60% -39.72% -51.37%

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 7,256 5,534 7,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.41% 18.97% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,942 3,821 5,147
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £595 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £483
% change year-on-year -3.06% +1.45% -3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 105 144
10th Percentile £16.71 £20.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.35 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.01% -17.23% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.00 £58.55
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +62.40% -25.00% -31.09%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -56 429 £450 -14.29% 179
UK excluding London -62 253 £450 -8.44% 150
London -53 225 £521 -1.70% 66
Work from Home -80 138 £450 -14.29% 157
South East -37 66 £315 -38.63% 52
North of England -60 66 £415 -10.22% 32
Scotland -14 50 £490 +4.26% 8
Midlands -48 46 £468 -5.17% 16
North West -40 41 £402 -13.08% 16
West Midlands -49 33 £469 -4.92% 8
Yorkshire -43 20 £518 +26.22% 11
South West -37 16 £388 -38.00% 16
East Midlands -31 13 £410 -17.17% 8
North East -10 7 £450 - 5
Northern Ireland +1 4 - - 5
East of England -35 4 £600 +14.29% 22
Wales -14 3 £475 -9.52% 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 29 (5.52%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.48%) Apache
2 13 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 11 (2.10%) WebLogic
4 8 (1.52%) Confluence
5 7 (1.33%) IIS
5 7 (1.33%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.14%) Appian
6 6 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.14%) Tomcat
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%) Drupal
9 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.38%) WordPress
10 1 (0.19%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 24 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.95%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.38%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (1.33%) BusinessWorks
2 6 (1.14%) Findur
2 6 (1.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (1.14%) Summit
3 5 (0.95%) Advent Geneva
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%) Finacle
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%) 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
1 176 (33.52%) AWS
2 117 (22.29%) Azure
3 68 (12.95%) GitHub
4 52 (9.90%) GCP
5 51 (9.71%) Serverless
6 49 (9.33%) Power Platform
7 41 (7.81%) Amazon S3
8 36 (6.86%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
10 27 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (4.19%) Snowflake
12 20 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
12 20 (3.81%) OpenShift
13 17 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (2.86%) SaaS
15 13 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (2.48%) GitHub Copilot
16 11 (2.10%) dbt
17 10 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.71%) HTTP
2 5 (0.95%) Firewall
2 5 (0.95%) Network Security
3 4 (0.76%) AMQP
3 4 (0.76%) DNS
4 2 (0.38%) Internet
4 2 (0.38%) SMS
5 1 (0.19%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.19%) Multicast
5 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.19%) RTMP
5 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (27.62%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (21.14%) SQL Server
3 94 (17.90%) MySQL
4 86 (16.38%) RDBMS
5 70 (13.33%) MongoDB
6 68 (12.95%) NoSQL
7 47 (8.95%) Power BI
8 46 (8.76%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (6.48%) Metadata
10 28 (5.33%) DB2
11 22 (4.19%) Oracle Database
12 21 (4.00%) Big Data
12 21 (4.00%) DynamoDB
13 19 (3.62%) Data Lake
14 18 (3.43%) Oracle Reports
15 16 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
15 16 (3.05%) Redis
15 16 (3.05%) Tableau
16 13 (2.48%) Power Query
17 11 (2.10%) Flink
Development Applications
1 80 (15.24%) Git
2 53 (10.10%) Jenkins
3 39 (7.43%) GitLab
4 25 (4.76%) JIRA
5 21 (4.00%) JUnit
6 16 (3.05%) Mockito
7 11 (2.10%) Maven
8 10 (1.90%) Gradle
9 8 (1.52%) Selenium
10 7 (1.33%) Browser DevTools
10 7 (1.33%) REST Assured
11 6 (1.14%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.14%) Gatling
11 6 (1.14%) NUnit
11 6 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.95%) Android Studio
12 5 (0.95%) Eclipse
12 5 (0.95%) ERwin
12 5 (0.95%) Serenity BDD
12 5 (0.95%) Xcode
General
1 161 (30.67%) Social Skills
2 135 (25.71%) Finance
3 97 (18.48%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (9.71%) Public Sector
5 47 (8.95%) Banking
6 23 (4.38%) Front Office
6 23 (4.38%) Investment Banking
7 12 (2.29%) Publishing
8 9 (1.71%) Military
9 7 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.33%) Retail
9 7 (1.33%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.14%) Back Office
10 6 (1.14%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.14%) Marketing
10 6 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.76%) Legal
12 3 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 217 (41.33%) Developer
2 76 (14.48%) Senior
3 61 (11.62%) Java Developer
4 48 (9.14%) Data Engineer
5 35 (6.67%) Analyst
5 35 (6.67%) Python Developer
6 33 (6.29%) Software Engineer
7 31 (5.90%) Senior Developer
8 30 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (5.14%) Lead
10 26 (4.95%) Architect
11 20 (3.81%) .NET Developer
12 19 (3.62%) DBA
13 18 (3.43%) Business Analyst
13 18 (3.43%) Site Engineer
13 18 (3.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 17 (3.24%) Technical Support
15 16 (3.05%) C# Developer
16 15 (2.86%) Senior Data Engineer
17 14 (2.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (20.38%) REST
2 89 (16.95%) React
3 86 (16.38%) RESTful
4 80 (15.24%) Spring
5 77 (14.67%) Spring Boot
6 73 (13.90%) Kafka
7 63 (12.00%) .NET
8 44 (8.38%) XML
9 40 (7.62%) CSS
9 40 (7.62%) JSON
10 34 (6.48%) AngularJS
11 30 (5.71%) HTML
12 27 (5.14%) GraphQL
13 25 (4.76%) Web Services
14 22 (4.19%) Django
14 22 (4.19%) FastAPI
14 22 (4.19%) OAuth
14 22 (4.19%) SOAP
15 19 (3.62%) Flask
15 19 (3.62%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.81%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 33 (6.29%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (5.14%) Data Structures
5 24 (4.57%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.24%) Derivative
7 14 (2.67%) Fixed Income
8 11 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.90%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.71%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.71%) Equities
10 9 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.52%) Client/Server
11 8 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (1.52%) Equity Derivative
11 8 (1.52%) Hedge funds
11 8 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.33%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 65 (12.38%) Linux
2 46 (8.76%) Unix
3 32 (6.10%) Windows
4 5 (0.95%) Android
5 4 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.38%) CentOS
7 2 (0.38%) MVS
7 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.38%) zOS
8 1 (0.19%) AIX
8 1 (0.19%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (37.71%) CI/CD
2 176 (33.52%) Agile
3 151 (28.76%) DevOps
4 133 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
5 127 (24.19%) Microservices
6 112 (21.33%) Data Modelling
7 101 (19.24%) Containerisation
8 87 (16.57%) Analytics
9 76 (14.48%) Data Pipeline
9 76 (14.48%) ETL
10 75 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 72 (13.71%) AI
11 72 (13.71%) Observability
12 70 (13.33%) Test Automation
13 62 (11.81%) Business Intelligence
14 61 (11.62%) SDLC
15 59 (11.24%) Data Engineering
16 57 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 57 (10.86%) Performance Tuning
17 50 (9.52%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 285 (54.29%) SQL
2 184 (35.05%) Java
3 177 (33.71%) Python
4 84 (16.00%) JavaScript
5 67 (12.76%) C#
6 41 (7.81%) TypeScript
7 23 (4.38%) Perl
7 23 (4.38%) Shell Script
8 17 (3.24%) PL/SQL
9 16 (3.05%) Scala
10 15 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (2.29%) PHP
12 11 (2.10%) Bash
12 11 (2.10%) PowerShell
13 9 (1.71%) C++
13 9 (1.71%) Go
13 9 (1.71%) R
14 7 (1.33%) Ruby
14 7 (1.33%) XPath
15 5 (0.95%) VB
Qualifications
1 102 (19.43%) Security Cleared
2 72 (13.71%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.71%) Degree
4 33 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.71%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.71%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.14%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.76%) MBA
10 3 (0.57%) CISSP
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%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.19%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (11.24%) Data Quality
2 50 (9.52%) QA
3 20 (3.81%) GDPR
4 18 (3.43%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.95%) SLA
6 5 (0.95%) WCAG
7 3 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.57%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.57%) NCSC
8 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.38%) FATCA
8 2 (0.38%) IFRS
8 2 (0.38%) NIST
8 2 (0.38%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) EMIR
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 139 (26.48%) Docker
2 5 (0.95%) Varnish
3 2 (0.38%) ACF2
3 2 (0.38%) GridGain
3 2 (0.38%) RACF
4 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 122 (23.24%) Kubernetes
2 47 (8.95%) Terraform
3 26 (4.95%) Grafana
4 24 (4.57%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.86%) 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%) Argo
9 3 (0.57%) Kibana
9 3 (0.57%) Packer
10 2 (0.38%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 144 (27.43%) Oracle
2 70 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.81%) Databricks
4 19 (3.62%) IBM
5 17 (3.24%) Adobe
6 15 (2.86%) Splunk
7 11 (2.10%) Google
7 11 (2.10%) Informatica
8 10 (1.90%) Sybase
9 8 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.52%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.52%) Teradata
9 8 (1.52%) TIBCO
10 7 (1.33%) BEA
11 6 (1.14%) Ab Initio
11 6 (1.14%) Sparx
12 5 (0.95%) Advent
12 5 (0.95%) SAP
13 4 (0.76%) OpenLink
13 4 (0.76%) Talend