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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 146 191
Rank change year-on-year -97 +45 -12
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 520 552 522
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.91% 1.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.03% 10.08% 7.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 351 393
10th Percentile £314 £402 £363
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £521 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.83% -3.52% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £578 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £458 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -6.63% -6.67% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 3
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.05 £26.30
25th Percentile £24.50 £21.20 £31.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +29.63% -42.14%
75th Percentile £66.60 £53.75 £47.13
90th Percentile £76.60 £92.50 £51.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £21.40 £40.50
% change year-on-year +133.64% -47.16% -46.00%

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 7,398 5,478 7,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.06% 18.93% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,948 3,730 5,218
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.28%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £650
90th Percentile £700 £760 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 102 150
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.72 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.56 £23.50 £20.77
Median hourly rate £42.11 £34.19 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -14.53% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £65.34 £56.88
90th Percentile £81.64 £77.38 £72.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +23.26% -9.60% -40.26%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -80 424 £470 -10.48% 246
UK excluding London -102 238 £458 -6.63% 143
London -46 237 £500 -5.66% 132
Work from Home -96 132 £450 -15.65% 197
South East -55 56 £405 -19.00% 29
North of England -80 56 £450 -2.70% 43
Scotland -22 52 £473 +0.53% 6
Midlands -42 44 £468 -3.61% 27
North West -52 34 £416 -8.90% 23
West Midlands -47 32 £468 -4.59% 21
South West -33 20 £470 -21.67% 13
Yorkshire -40 18 £519 -5.64% 18
East Midlands -22 12 £475 -0.26% 6
North East -23 7 £450 - 2
East of England -29 7 £505 -6.05% 12
Wales -17 4 £475 -12.04% 4
Northern Ireland 0 3 - - 13

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 (5.58%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.50%) Apache
2 13 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.92%) Confluence
4 9 (1.73%) IIS
5 8 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 7 (1.35%) Tomcat
7 6 (1.15%) Appian
7 6 (1.15%) WebLogic
8 5 (0.96%) JBoss
9 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.77%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.58%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.58%) Camunda
11 2 (0.38%) Drupal
11 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.38%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.38%) WordPress
12 1 (0.19%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 17 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.38%) CPLEX
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.54%) Findur
2 6 (1.15%) Finacle
2 6 (1.15%) Summit
3 5 (0.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.77%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.77%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.77%) Magento
4 4 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.58%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.58%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.58%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.38%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.19%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 170 (32.69%) AWS
2 115 (22.12%) Azure
3 61 (11.73%) GitHub
4 59 (11.35%) GCP
4 59 (11.35%) Power Platform
5 35 (6.73%) Serverless
6 32 (6.15%) Amazon S3
7 31 (5.96%) Snowflake
8 28 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (3.08%) OpenShift
11 13 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (2.50%) SaaS
12 12 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (2.12%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (2.12%) ChatGPT
13 11 (2.12%) dbt
14 10 (1.92%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.54%) HTTP
2 6 (1.15%) Firewall
3 4 (0.77%) VPN
4 3 (0.58%) AMQP
5 2 (0.38%) Network Security
5 2 (0.38%) SMS
6 1 (0.19%) DNS
6 1 (0.19%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.19%) Internet
6 1 (0.19%) Intranet
6 1 (0.19%) Multicast
6 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.19%) RTMP
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (24.42%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (21.15%) SQL Server
3 83 (15.96%) RDBMS
4 72 (13.85%) MySQL
5 71 (13.65%) MongoDB
6 61 (11.73%) NoSQL
7 57 (10.96%) Power BI
8 52 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (6.54%) Metadata
10 28 (5.38%) Oracle Database
11 27 (5.19%) Tableau
12 22 (4.23%) Big Data
13 21 (4.04%) Data Lake
13 21 (4.04%) Db2
14 18 (3.46%) Redis
15 17 (3.27%) DynamoDB
16 16 (3.08%) Oracle Reports
17 14 (2.69%) Power Query
18 12 (2.31%) Flink
19 11 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 77 (14.81%) Git
2 57 (10.96%) Jenkins
3 43 (8.27%) GitLab
4 28 (5.38%) JIRA
5 19 (3.65%) JUnit
6 15 (2.88%) Mockito
6 15 (2.88%) Selenium
7 14 (2.69%) REST Assured
8 13 (2.50%) Maven
9 12 (2.31%) Gradle
10 11 (2.12%) Eclipse
11 10 (1.92%) Gatling
11 10 (1.92%) Serenity BDD
12 7 (1.35%) Browser DevTools
13 6 (1.15%) Ant
13 6 (1.15%) Liquibase
14 5 (0.96%) Android Studio
14 5 (0.96%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.96%) ERwin
14 5 (0.96%) Xcode
General
1 162 (31.15%) Finance
2 155 (29.81%) Social Skills
3 103 (19.81%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (12.31%) Banking
5 49 (9.42%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.96%) Investment Banking
7 26 (5.00%) Front Office
8 14 (2.69%) Publishing
9 13 (2.50%) Military
10 9 (1.73%) Back Office
11 8 (1.54%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.35%) Marketing
12 7 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.35%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.15%) Retail
14 4 (0.77%) Automotive
15 3 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.58%) General Ledger
16 2 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 202 (38.85%) Developer
2 86 (16.54%) Senior
3 55 (10.58%) Java Developer
4 52 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 42 (8.08%) Software Engineer
6 41 (7.88%) Analyst
6 41 (7.88%) Senior Developer
7 38 (7.31%) Lead
8 36 (6.92%) Python Developer
9 27 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
10 21 (4.04%) Architect
11 20 (3.85%) .NET Developer
12 19 (3.65%) C# Developer
13 18 (3.46%) Business Analyst
13 18 (3.46%) Data Analyst
13 18 (3.46%) Senior Data Engineer
13 18 (3.46%) Site Engineer
13 18 (3.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 17 (3.27%) Senior Java Developer
14 17 (3.27%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (23.08%) REST
2 85 (16.35%) Kafka
3 84 (16.15%) React
4 81 (15.58%) Spring
5 80 (15.38%) RESTful
6 79 (15.19%) Spring Boot
7 58 (11.15%) .NET
8 42 (8.08%) CSS
9 35 (6.73%) HTML
10 33 (6.35%) JSON
10 33 (6.35%) XML
11 29 (5.58%) Web Services
12 28 (5.38%) AngularJS
13 26 (5.00%) SOAP
14 25 (4.81%) GraphQL
15 23 (4.42%) FastAPI
15 23 (4.42%) OAuth
16 20 (3.85%) Apache Avro
16 20 (3.85%) Flask
17 19 (3.65%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 46 (8.85%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.73%) Product Ownership
3 34 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (5.19%) Management Information System
5 23 (4.42%) Derivative
6 18 (3.46%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.12%) Equities
7 11 (2.12%) Equity Derivative
7 11 (2.12%) Fixed Income
7 11 (2.12%) Low-Code
8 10 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (1.92%) Hedge funds
9 9 (1.73%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.35%) Client/Server
11 7 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (1.15%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 62 (11.92%) Linux
2 43 (8.27%) Unix
3 33 (6.35%) Windows
4 5 (0.96%) Android
4 5 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.38%) AIX
5 2 (0.38%) MVS
5 2 (0.38%) zOS
6 1 (0.19%) CentOS
6 1 (0.19%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (40.96%) CI/CD
2 179 (34.42%) Agile
3 155 (29.81%) DevOps
4 135 (25.96%) Problem-Solving
5 120 (23.08%) Data Modelling
6 114 (21.92%) Microservices
7 97 (18.65%) Analytics
8 92 (17.69%) Containerisation
9 90 (17.31%) Data Pipeline
10 86 (16.54%) AI
10 86 (16.54%) Observability
10 86 (16.54%) Software Engineering
11 79 (15.19%) ETL
12 72 (13.85%) Test Automation
13 67 (12.88%) Business Intelligence
14 63 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
15 62 (11.92%) Performance Tuning
16 59 (11.35%) SDLC
17 54 (10.38%) Data Engineering
18 50 (9.62%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 299 (57.50%) SQL
2 185 (35.58%) Java
3 181 (34.81%) Python
4 87 (16.73%) JavaScript
5 74 (14.23%) C#
6 41 (7.88%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.85%) Shell Script
8 18 (3.46%) Perl
9 15 (2.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 15 (2.88%) PL/SQL
10 14 (2.69%) Scala
11 11 (2.12%) Bash
11 11 (2.12%) C++
11 11 (2.12%) PowerShell
12 8 (1.54%) Apex Code
12 8 (1.54%) R
13 7 (1.35%) Ruby
14 6 (1.15%) Go
14 6 (1.15%) PHP
15 5 (0.96%) VB
Qualifications
1 98 (18.85%) Security Cleared
2 74 (14.23%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.42%) Degree
4 29 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.54%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.35%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.15%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.96%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.77%) MBA
11 3 (0.58%) CISSP
11 3 (0.58%) Tableau Certification
12 2 (0.38%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.19%) CFA
13 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 48 (9.23%) QA
3 21 (4.04%) Accessibility
4 14 (2.69%) GDPR
5 10 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.96%) SLA
7 3 (0.58%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.58%) NCSC
7 3 (0.58%) WCAG
8 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
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
1 131 (25.19%) Docker
2 4 (0.77%) Varnish
3 3 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.38%) ACF2
4 2 (0.38%) GridGain
4 2 (0.38%) RACF
5 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 116 (22.31%) Kubernetes
2 40 (7.69%) Terraform
3 29 (5.58%) Prometheus
4 27 (5.19%) Grafana
5 11 (2.12%) Ansible
6 5 (0.96%) Argo
7 4 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (0.77%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.77%) Puppet
8 3 (0.58%) Kibana
9 2 (0.38%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.38%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.38%) TIBCO Hawk
10 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 135 (25.96%) Oracle
2 66 (12.69%) Microsoft
3 22 (4.23%) Databricks
4 19 (3.65%) Splunk
5 17 (3.27%) IBM
6 16 (3.08%) Adobe
7 14 (2.69%) Google
8 13 (2.50%) Informatica
8 13 (2.50%) Sybase
9 12 (2.31%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.54%) OutSystems
10 8 (1.54%) SAP
11 7 (1.35%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.35%) Teradata
12 5 (0.96%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.96%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.96%) OpenLink
12 5 (0.96%) Sparx
13 4 (0.77%) SimCorp
13 4 (0.77%) Talend