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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 161 197
Rank change year-on-year -56 +36 -27
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 518 516 536
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.22% 1.75% 1.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.61% 9.15% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 357 382
10th Percentile £313 £380 £350
25th Percentile £400 £449 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £521 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% -5.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £675 £663 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £443 £493 £525
% change year-on-year -10.24% -6.10% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 13
10th Percentile £31.41 £18.39 £23.75
25th Percentile £39.69 £25.26 £40.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.68% -49.52% +133.49%
75th Percentile - £41.38 £76.53
90th Percentile £55.83 £49.23 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.84 £52.50
% change year-on-year +93.50% -50.78% -8.70%

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 6,805 5,640 7,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.04% 19.08% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,687 3,884 5,147
10th Percentile £344 £351 £340
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 95 178
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.59 £14.36
25th Percentile £28.72 £23.88 £20.78
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -25.93% -29.57%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.61 £62.31
90th Percentile £84.80 £69.50 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +81.82% -31.25% -29.08%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -49 430 £461 -12.14% 183
UK excluding London -56 243 £443 -10.24% 129
London -20 228 £525 -1.87% 55
Work from Home -57 172 £450 -14.29% 130
South East -23 71 £313 -35.96% 46
North of England -31 68 £425 -6.13% 33
Scotland +4 46 £453 -7.65% 4
North West -23 44 £402 -11.21% 17
Midlands -72 36 £463 -6.19% 17
West Midlands -55 32 £469 -5.59% 11
Yorkshire -41 19 £518 +2.48% 12
South West -33 16 £550 - 17
North East - 7 £450 - 6
East Midlands -41 4 £433 -11.73% 6
Wales -8 3 £485 -7.62% 4
East of England -33 3 - - 9
Northern Ireland -2 2 - - 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 26 (5.02%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.70%) WebLogic
3 12 (2.32%) Apache
4 11 (2.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 8 (1.54%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.35%) IIS
6 7 (1.35%) WebSphere
7 6 (1.16%) Appian
7 6 (1.16%) Confluence
8 5 (0.97%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.97%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.77%) JBoss
9 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.39%) Camunda
10 2 (0.39%) CMS
10 2 (0.39%) Drupal
10 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.39%) WordPress
11 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 24 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.54%) Chatbot
3 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.54%) Advent Geneva
2 7 (1.35%) BusinessWorks
3 5 (0.97%) Magento
4 4 (0.77%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.77%) Findur
5 3 (0.58%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.39%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.39%) Summit
7 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.19%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.19%) Maximo
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.19%) Shopify
7 1 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.19%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 194 (37.45%) AWS
2 119 (22.97%) Azure
3 66 (12.74%) GitHub
4 60 (11.58%) Serverless
5 53 (10.23%) Amazon S3
6 47 (9.07%) Power Platform
7 44 (8.49%) GCP
8 42 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (5.02%) Amazon ECS
11 25 (4.83%) SaaS
12 24 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (4.63%) Snowflake
13 20 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (3.67%) OpenShift
15 17 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
16 16 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 12 (2.32%) Sauce Labs
19 11 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.74%) Wireless
2 6 (1.16%) HTTP
3 5 (0.97%) AMQP
3 5 (0.97%) Firewall
4 4 (0.77%) DNS
4 4 (0.77%) Internet
4 4 (0.77%) Network Security
5 2 (0.39%) SMS
6 1 (0.19%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.19%) RTMP
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (26.64%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (21.62%) MySQL
3 106 (20.46%) SQL Server
4 97 (18.73%) RDBMS
5 74 (14.29%) MongoDB
6 67 (12.93%) NoSQL
7 61 (11.78%) Data Warehouse
8 45 (8.69%) Power BI
9 28 (5.41%) Big Data
9 28 (5.41%) DB2
10 25 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
11 23 (4.44%) Data Lake
12 22 (4.25%) Oracle Database
13 20 (3.86%) Metadata
14 19 (3.67%) DynamoDB
15 14 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
16 12 (2.32%) Amazon Aurora
17 11 (2.12%) Spark SQL
17 11 (2.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 10 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 96 (18.53%) Git
2 52 (10.04%) Jenkins
3 33 (6.37%) GitLab
4 28 (5.41%) JUnit
5 24 (4.63%) JIRA
6 13 (2.51%) Browser DevTools
6 13 (2.51%) Mockito
7 12 (2.32%) Android Studio
7 12 (2.32%) Eclipse
7 12 (2.32%) Maven
7 12 (2.32%) Xcode
8 9 (1.74%) Gradle
8 9 (1.74%) Selenium
9 8 (1.54%) ERwin
9 8 (1.54%) REST Assured
10 7 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (1.16%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.16%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.16%) Gatling
11 6 (1.16%) PyCharm
General
1 170 (32.82%) Social Skills
2 118 (22.78%) Finance
3 96 (18.53%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (10.23%) Public Sector
5 47 (9.07%) Banking
6 24 (4.63%) Investment Banking
7 15 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.90%) Front Office
8 6 (1.16%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.16%) Marketing
8 6 (1.16%) Telecoms
9 5 (0.97%) Military
10 4 (0.77%) Legal
10 4 (0.77%) Retail
11 3 (0.58%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 220 (42.47%) Developer
2 75 (14.48%) Senior
3 65 (12.55%) Java Developer
4 44 (8.49%) Data Engineer
5 38 (7.34%) Senior Developer
6 36 (6.95%) Analyst
7 31 (5.98%) Lead
8 27 (5.21%) Full-Stack Developer
9 26 (5.02%) Python Developer
9 26 (5.02%) Technical Support
10 23 (4.44%) Architect
11 22 (4.25%) Software Engineer
12 18 (3.47%) Senior Java Developer
12 18 (3.47%) Support Engineer
13 16 (3.09%) C# Developer
13 16 (3.09%) DBA
14 15 (2.90%) .NET Developer
14 15 (2.90%) Data Analyst
15 13 (2.51%) Technical Engineer
15 13 (2.51%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (16.99%) React
2 81 (15.64%) REST
2 81 (15.64%) RESTful
2 81 (15.64%) Spring
3 67 (12.93%) Kafka
3 67 (12.93%) Spring Boot
4 50 (9.65%) .NET
5 44 (8.49%) CSS
5 44 (8.49%) XML
6 38 (7.34%) AngularJS
7 37 (7.14%) JSON
8 30 (5.79%) HTML
9 28 (5.41%) GraphQL
10 27 (5.21%) Web Services
11 24 (4.63%) SOAP
12 22 (4.25%) Node.js
13 21 (4.05%) Django
13 21 (4.05%) PySpark
14 17 (3.28%) JMS
15 16 (3.09%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.56%) Cloud Native
2 33 (6.37%) Product Ownership
3 32 (6.18%) Data Structures
4 21 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (4.05%) Virtual Team
5 14 (2.70%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.51%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.32%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.12%) CMDB
8 11 (2.12%) Distributed Computing
9 10 (1.93%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.93%) Equities
10 9 (1.74%) Client/Server
10 9 (1.74%) Clustering
11 8 (1.54%) Fixed Income
12 7 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 78 (15.06%) Linux
2 43 (8.30%) Unix
2 43 (8.30%) Windows
3 12 (2.32%) Android
4 5 (0.97%) CentOS
5 4 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.77%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.39%) Solaris
8 1 (0.19%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (37.45%) Agile
2 169 (32.63%) CI/CD
3 160 (30.89%) Problem-Solving
4 130 (25.10%) DevOps
5 116 (22.39%) Data Modelling
6 115 (22.20%) Microservices
7 100 (19.31%) Containerisation
8 87 (16.80%) ETL
9 86 (16.60%) Analytics
10 63 (12.16%) SDLC
11 61 (11.78%) Test Automation
12 60 (11.58%) Data Pipeline
13 59 (11.39%) Business Intelligence
14 58 (11.20%) Data Engineering
14 58 (11.20%) Software Engineering
15 56 (10.81%) Migration
15 56 (10.81%) Performance Tuning
16 54 (10.42%) AI
16 54 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
17 52 (10.04%) OO
Programming Languages
1 292 (56.37%) SQL
2 194 (37.45%) Python
3 190 (36.68%) Java
4 90 (17.37%) JavaScript
5 46 (8.88%) C#
6 32 (6.18%) Perl
6 32 (6.18%) TypeScript
7 22 (4.25%) Shell Script
8 20 (3.86%) PL/SQL
9 15 (2.90%) PHP
9 15 (2.90%) PowerShell
10 13 (2.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (2.51%) Scala
11 10 (1.93%) Bash
12 9 (1.74%) Go
13 7 (1.35%) XPath
14 6 (1.16%) Ruby
14 6 (1.16%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.97%) R
15 5 (0.97%) VB
Qualifications
1 94 (18.15%) Security Cleared
2 62 (11.97%) SC Cleared
3 47 (9.07%) Degree
4 28 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.12%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.93%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.74%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.97%) OCP
9 5 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (0.77%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.39%) CISSP
12 2 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.19%) CFA
13 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (10.81%) Data Quality
2 48 (9.27%) QA
3 19 (3.67%) GDPR
4 17 (3.28%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.97%) SLA
6 5 (0.97%) WCAG
7 3 (0.58%) IFRS
7 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.39%) FATCA
8 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.39%) NCSC
8 2 (0.39%) NIST
8 2 (0.39%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.19%) EMIR
9 1 (0.19%) MiFID
9 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 138 (26.64%) Docker
2 5 (0.97%) Varnish
3 2 (0.39%) NFS
4 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 113 (21.81%) Kubernetes
2 48 (9.27%) Terraform
3 27 (5.21%) Grafana
4 21 (4.05%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.70%) Ansible
6 7 (1.35%) TIBCO Hawk
7 6 (1.16%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.16%) Puppet
8 4 (0.77%) Argo
9 3 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.58%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.58%) HP Quality Center
9 3 (0.58%) Packer
10 2 (0.39%) Consul
10 2 (0.39%) Kibana
11 1 (0.19%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 142 (27.41%) Oracle
2 74 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.63%) Databricks
3 24 (4.63%) ServiceNow
4 22 (4.25%) Splunk
5 17 (3.28%) Adobe
6 12 (2.32%) IBM
6 12 (2.32%) Sybase
7 10 (1.93%) Google
7 10 (1.93%) Informatica
8 8 (1.54%) Advent
8 8 (1.54%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.35%) BEA
9 7 (1.35%) TIBCO
10 6 (1.16%) SAP
11 4 (0.77%) Ab Initio
11 4 (0.77%) DevExpress
11 4 (0.77%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.77%) Talend
11 4 (0.77%) Teradata