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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 145 202
Rank change year-on-year -81 +57 -25
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 524 543 512
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.13% 1.84% 1.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.23% 9.66% 7.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 366 378
10th Percentile £313 £400 £375
25th Percentile £400 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £521 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.67% -5.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £650
90th Percentile £660 £688 £779
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £493 £533
% change year-on-year -8.72% -7.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 4
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.05 £24.25
25th Percentile £26.02 £21.20 £26.50
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +47.89% -46.92%
75th Percentile £50.00 £53.75 £43.81
90th Percentile £67.73 £92.50 £49.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £21.40 £35.50
% change year-on-year +133.64% -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 7,249 5,619 7,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.60% 19.02% 16.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,944 3,876 5,169
10th Percentile £349 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.02%
75th Percentile £598 £639 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £483
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.24% -3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 108 145
10th Percentile £17.13 £20.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.10 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £34.58 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.61% -13.56% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.62 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.63 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.03% -20.90% -31.73%

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 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 24 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 24 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 -63 434 £450 -14.29% 187
UK excluding London -65 246 £450 -8.72% 168
London -45 232 £508 -4.25% 57
Work from Home -82 140 £450 -14.29% 176
South East -33 68 £315 -38.63% 50
North of England -58 63 £416 -10.16% 38
Midlands -46 46 £464 -5.93% 22
Scotland -8 45 £485 +3.19% 10
North West -46 40 £402 -13.08% 23
West Midlands -51 33 £469 -5.59% 12
Yorkshire -36 18 £518 +26.22% 12
South West -39 15 £388 -34.04% 15
East Midlands -28 13 £406 -17.14% 10
North East -10 7 £450 - 3
Northern Ireland 0 4 - - 8
East of England -32 4 £600 +14.29% 25
Wales -14 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 29 (5.53%) Apache Spark
2 15 (2.86%) Apache
3 14 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (2.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 11 (2.10%) WebLogic
6 7 (1.34%) Confluence
6 7 (1.34%) IIS
6 7 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.34%) WebSphere
7 6 (1.15%) Appian
7 6 (1.15%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.76%) JBoss
8 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.57%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.57%) Camunda
10 2 (0.38%) CMS
10 2 (0.38%) Drupal
10 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.38%) WordPress
11 1 (0.19%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 22 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.95%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.38%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (1.34%) BusinessWorks
2 6 (1.15%) Findur
2 6 (1.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (1.15%) 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%) Dynamics CRM
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
1 180 (34.35%) AWS
2 115 (21.95%) Azure
3 66 (12.60%) GitHub
4 54 (10.31%) Serverless
5 49 (9.35%) GCP
6 47 (8.97%) Amazon S3
6 47 (8.97%) Power Platform
7 39 (7.44%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (3.82%) OpenShift
12 19 (3.63%) Snowflake
13 17 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (3.05%) SaaS
15 15 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
16 14 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (2.48%) GitHub Copilot
18 11 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 11 (2.10%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.72%) 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
4 2 (0.38%) Wireless
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (27.29%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (20.61%) SQL Server
3 96 (18.32%) MySQL
4 86 (16.41%) RDBMS
5 69 (13.17%) MongoDB
6 67 (12.79%) NoSQL
7 49 (9.35%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (8.59%) Power BI
9 35 (6.68%) Metadata
10 27 (5.15%) DB2
11 22 (4.20%) DynamoDB
11 22 (4.20%) Oracle Database
12 21 (4.01%) Big Data
13 19 (3.63%) Data Lake
14 18 (3.44%) Oracle Reports
15 16 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
16 14 (2.67%) Redis
16 14 (2.67%) Tableau
17 13 (2.48%) Power Query
18 11 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 79 (15.08%) Git
2 53 (10.11%) Jenkins
3 37 (7.06%) GitLab
4 26 (4.96%) JIRA
5 21 (4.01%) JUnit
6 16 (3.05%) Mockito
7 10 (1.91%) Maven
8 9 (1.72%) Gradle
9 8 (1.53%) Browser DevTools
10 7 (1.34%) REST Assured
10 7 (1.34%) Selenium
10 7 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (1.15%) Android Studio
11 6 (1.15%) Eclipse
11 6 (1.15%) ERwin
11 6 (1.15%) Gatling
11 6 (1.15%) NUnit
11 6 (1.15%) Xcode
12 5 (0.95%) Serenity BDD
12 5 (0.95%) TeamCity
General
1 157 (29.96%) Social Skills
2 132 (25.19%) Finance
3 94 (17.94%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (9.16%) Public Sector
5 43 (8.21%) Banking
6 24 (4.58%) Front Office
7 21 (4.01%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.29%) Publishing
9 7 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.34%) Military
9 7 (1.34%) Retail
9 7 (1.34%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.15%) Back Office
10 6 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.15%) Marketing
11 5 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.76%) Legal
13 3 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.38%) Billing
14 2 (0.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 216 (41.22%) Developer
2 71 (13.55%) Senior
3 61 (11.64%) Java Developer
4 48 (9.16%) Data Engineer
5 35 (6.68%) Analyst
5 35 (6.68%) Python Developer
6 33 (6.30%) Software Engineer
7 29 (5.53%) Full-Stack Developer
8 28 (5.34%) Senior Developer
9 26 (4.96%) Architect
9 26 (4.96%) Lead
10 19 (3.63%) .NET Developer
10 19 (3.63%) DBA
10 19 (3.63%) Technical Support
11 18 (3.44%) Business Analyst
12 15 (2.86%) C# Developer
12 15 (2.86%) Senior Data Engineer
12 15 (2.86%) Site Engineer
12 15 (2.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 14 (2.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (20.61%) REST
2 90 (17.18%) React
3 84 (16.03%) RESTful
4 79 (15.08%) Spring
5 76 (14.50%) Spring Boot
6 70 (13.36%) Kafka
7 63 (12.02%) .NET
8 46 (8.78%) XML
9 41 (7.82%) CSS
10 40 (7.63%) JSON
11 35 (6.68%) AngularJS
12 29 (5.53%) GraphQL
12 29 (5.53%) HTML
13 25 (4.77%) Web Services
14 22 (4.20%) SOAP
15 21 (4.01%) Django
15 21 (4.01%) FastAPI
16 20 (3.82%) OAuth
17 19 (3.63%) Flask
17 19 (3.63%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.44%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.68%) Product Ownership
3 30 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (5.34%) Data Structures
5 24 (4.58%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.24%) Derivative
7 14 (2.67%) Fixed Income
8 10 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.91%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.72%) Algorithms
9 9 (1.72%) Equities
9 9 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.53%) Client/Server
10 8 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (1.53%) Equity Derivative
10 8 (1.53%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.53%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 65 (12.40%) Linux
2 45 (8.59%) Unix
3 34 (6.49%) Windows
4 6 (1.15%) 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
1 190 (36.26%) CI/CD
2 174 (33.21%) Agile
3 148 (28.24%) DevOps
4 132 (25.19%) Problem-Solving
5 125 (23.85%) Microservices
6 109 (20.80%) Data Modelling
7 102 (19.47%) Containerisation
8 85 (16.22%) Analytics
9 78 (14.89%) ETL
10 73 (13.93%) Data Pipeline
10 73 (13.93%) Software Engineering
11 69 (13.17%) AI
12 67 (12.79%) Observability
13 65 (12.40%) Test Automation
14 62 (11.83%) SDLC
15 59 (11.26%) Business Intelligence
16 56 (10.69%) Data Engineering
16 56 (10.69%) Performance Tuning
17 54 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
18 52 (9.92%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 286 (54.58%) SQL
2 185 (35.31%) Java
3 174 (33.21%) Python
4 83 (15.84%) JavaScript
5 66 (12.60%) C#
6 41 (7.82%) TypeScript
7 25 (4.77%) Perl
8 21 (4.01%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.24%) PL/SQL
10 16 (3.05%) Scala
11 15 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (2.29%) PHP
13 11 (2.10%) Bash
13 11 (2.10%) PowerShell
14 10 (1.91%) Go
15 9 (1.72%) C++
15 9 (1.72%) R
16 7 (1.34%) Ruby
16 7 (1.34%) XPath
17 5 (0.95%) VB
Qualifications
1 99 (18.89%) Security Cleared
2 70 (13.36%) SC Cleared
3 52 (9.92%) Degree
4 34 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.10%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.53%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.53%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.15%) 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%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (11.45%) Data Quality
2 47 (8.97%) QA
3 21 (4.01%) GDPR
4 17 (3.24%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.72%) 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%) IFRS
7 3 (0.57%) NCSC
8 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.38%) FATCA
8 2 (0.38%) NIST
8 2 (0.38%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
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
1 138 (26.34%) 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
1 118 (22.52%) Kubernetes
2 48 (9.16%) Terraform
3 25 (4.77%) Grafana
4 23 (4.39%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.86%) Ansible
6 7 (1.34%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.34%) TIBCO Hawk
7 6 (1.15%) Puppet
8 4 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.57%) Kibana
9 3 (0.57%) Packer
10 2 (0.38%) Argo
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 (27.48%) Oracle
2 72 (13.74%) Microsoft
3 20 (3.82%) Databricks
4 18 (3.44%) IBM
5 17 (3.24%) Adobe
6 16 (3.05%) Splunk
7 11 (2.10%) Informatica
8 10 (1.91%) Google
8 10 (1.91%) Sybase
9 9 (1.72%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.53%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.53%) TIBCO
11 7 (1.34%) BEA
11 7 (1.34%) Teradata
12 6 (1.15%) Ab Initio
12 6 (1.15%) Sparx
13 5 (0.95%) Advent
13 5 (0.95%) SAP
14 4 (0.76%) DevExpress
14 4 (0.76%) OpenLink