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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 171 179
Rank change year-on-year -53 +8 +3
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 626 555 538
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.15% 1.69% 1.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.62% 9.33% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 341 396
10th Percentile £353 £308 £310
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -9.52% -6.87%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £588
90th Percentile £710 £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +9.36% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 1
10th Percentile - £36.23 -
25th Percentile £14.00 £51.25 £36.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +36.36% -48.67%
75th Percentile £77.00 £82.81 £40.25
90th Percentile - £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £36.95 -
% change year-on-year +21.79% - -

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 8,212 5,947 6,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.11% 18.07% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,471 3,973 4,785
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -2.21%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £747 £795
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 92 86
10th Percentile £16.49 £22.85 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £30.55 £20.88
Median hourly rate £39.84 £39.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% +12.80% -36.36%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £59.34
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £34.98 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.49% +16.60% -43.93%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -58 510 £513 +4.59% 603
UK excluding London -83 287 £492 +9.36% 282
London -42 266 £540 +1.89% 373
Work from Home -80 154 £517 +4.34% 1,259
North of England -81 68 £500 +20.48% 57
South East -51 64 £525 +153.01% 86
Midlands -11 58 £473 -3.96% 37
Scotland -53 45 £460 -0.54% 25
North West -64 45 £465 +18.19% 31
West Midlands -23 41 £473 -4.92% 20
East of England -3 30 £518 +0.98% 21
Yorkshire -48 21 £507 +1.30% 20
East Midlands -7 17 £410 -13.91% 16
South West -50 16 £538 +43.33% 45
Wales -11 6 £475 - 1
North East -37 6 £363 - 6
Northern Ireland -7 2 - - 11

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 30 (4.79%) Confluence
2 19 (3.04%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.88%) Apache
4 13 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.44%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.96%) Tuxedo
7 5 (0.80%) IIS
8 4 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.64%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.48%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.32%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.32%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.16%) Appian
11 1 (0.16%) Camunda
11 1 (0.16%) CICS
11 1 (0.16%) CMS
11 1 (0.16%) JBoss
11 1 (0.16%) Liferay
Applications
1 18 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.64%) Acrobat
3 4 (0.64%) CPLEX
3 4 (0.64%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (1.92%) Finacle
2 7 (1.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.80%) Findur
4 4 (0.64%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.64%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.48%) Summit
6 2 (0.32%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.32%) Cerner Millennium
6 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.32%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.32%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.16%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 217 (34.66%) AWS
2 144 (23.00%) Azure
3 90 (14.38%) GCP
4 68 (10.86%) GitHub
4 68 (10.86%) Power Platform
5 37 (5.91%) Snowflake
6 28 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (3.99%) Amazon S3
7 25 (3.99%) Serverless
8 21 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (3.35%) GitHub Copilot
9 16 (2.56%) Anthropic Claude
9 16 (2.56%) OCI
10 15 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (2.40%) ChatGPT
10 15 (2.40%) SaaS
11 13 (2.08%) dbt
12 12 (1.92%) OpenShift
13 11 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.24%) HTTP
2 13 (2.08%) Firewall
3 12 (1.92%) VPN
4 3 (0.48%) Internet
4 3 (0.48%) WinSCP
5 2 (0.32%) Intranet
5 2 (0.32%) SSL
6 1 (0.16%) AMQP
6 1 (0.16%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.16%) Multicast
6 1 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (27.96%) PostgreSQL
2 124 (19.81%) SQL Server
3 113 (18.05%) RDBMS
4 76 (12.14%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (10.38%) Power BI
6 63 (10.06%) MySQL
7 57 (9.11%) MongoDB
8 49 (7.83%) Oracle Database
9 44 (7.03%) NoSQL
10 37 (5.91%) Metadata
11 27 (4.31%) Db2
12 26 (4.15%) Data Lake
13 24 (3.83%) Tableau
14 18 (2.88%) Oracle Reports
15 17 (2.72%) Oracle Exadata
16 16 (2.56%) Power Query
16 16 (2.56%) Redis
17 14 (2.24%) BigQuery
18 12 (1.92%) Big Data
18 12 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 151 (24.12%) Git
2 75 (11.98%) Jenkins
3 56 (8.95%) GitLab
4 46 (7.35%) JIRA
5 40 (6.39%) Maven
6 34 (5.43%) JUnit
7 30 (4.79%) Gradle
8 26 (4.15%) Mockito
8 26 (4.15%) Selenium
9 14 (2.24%) Oracle Forms
9 14 (2.24%) SonarQube
10 13 (2.08%) Eclipse
11 10 (1.60%) Visual Studio
12 9 (1.44%) Claude Code
13 8 (1.28%) ER Studio
13 8 (1.28%) Liquibase
13 8 (1.28%) REST Assured
14 7 (1.12%) Team Foundation Server
15 6 (0.96%) Gatling
15 6 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 223 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 179 (28.59%) Finance
3 166 (26.52%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (15.65%) Public Sector
5 93 (14.86%) Banking
6 30 (4.79%) Front Office
7 25 (3.99%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.40%) Military
9 14 (2.24%) Publishing
10 13 (2.08%) Back Office
11 12 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.92%) Retail
12 9 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.28%) Law
13 8 (1.28%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.12%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.80%) Automotive
15 5 (0.80%) Legal
15 5 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 266 (42.49%) Developer
2 125 (19.97%) Senior
3 94 (15.02%) Java Developer
4 60 (9.58%) Senior Developer
5 59 (9.42%) Data Engineer
6 55 (8.79%) Software Engineer
7 47 (7.51%) Analyst
8 43 (6.87%) Lead
9 38 (6.07%) Full-Stack Developer
10 37 (5.91%) Python Developer
11 30 (4.79%) Software Developer
12 29 (4.63%) Data Analyst
13 26 (4.15%) Architect
14 25 (3.99%) Java Engineer
15 21 (3.35%) .NET Developer
16 20 (3.19%) Backend Developer
16 20 (3.19%) Senior Java Developer
17 19 (3.04%) Python Engineer
18 18 (2.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 18 (2.88%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (23.96%) REST
2 114 (18.21%) RESTful
3 108 (17.25%) Spring
3 108 (17.25%) Spring Boot
4 95 (15.18%) Kafka
5 80 (12.78%) React
6 74 (11.82%) .NET
7 59 (9.42%) Terraform
8 49 (7.83%) Web Services
9 46 (7.35%) AngularJS
10 41 (6.55%) SOAP
11 40 (6.39%) CSS
12 39 (6.23%) HTML
12 39 (6.23%) OAuth
12 39 (6.23%) XML
13 32 (5.11%) JSON
14 28 (4.47%) Middleware
15 25 (3.99%) OAuth2
16 23 (3.67%) .NET Framework
16 23 (3.67%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 89 (14.22%) Cloud Native
2 49 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (6.87%) Data Structures
4 36 (5.75%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.67%) Management Information System
6 22 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (3.35%) Derivative
8 16 (2.56%) Low-Code
9 15 (2.40%) Algorithms
9 15 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (2.24%) Equity Derivative
10 14 (2.24%) Onboarding
11 13 (2.08%) Public Cloud
11 13 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.92%) AI Agents
12 12 (1.92%) Replication
12 12 (1.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 11 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.60%) Equities
14 10 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 72 (11.50%) Linux
2 51 (8.15%) Unix
3 39 (6.23%) Windows
4 23 (3.67%) AIX
5 20 (3.19%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.80%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.64%) zOS
9 3 (0.48%) Android
9 3 (0.48%) MVS
10 1 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (45.21%) CI/CD
2 250 (39.94%) Agile
3 198 (31.63%) Problem-Solving
4 181 (28.91%) DevOps
5 151 (24.12%) Data Modelling
6 135 (21.57%) Microservices
7 127 (20.29%) Software Engineering
8 119 (19.01%) Validation
9 117 (18.69%) Test Automation
10 112 (17.89%) Containerisation
11 110 (17.57%) ETL
12 108 (17.25%) Data Pipeline
13 103 (16.45%) AI
13 103 (16.45%) Analytics
14 98 (15.65%) Continuous Improvement
15 88 (14.06%) SDLC
16 82 (13.10%) Migration
17 76 (12.14%) Infrastructure as Code
17 76 (12.14%) Performance Tuning
18 74 (11.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 361 (57.67%) SQL
2 218 (34.82%) Java
3 210 (33.55%) Python
4 86 (13.74%) C#
5 79 (12.62%) JavaScript
6 49 (7.83%) TypeScript
7 23 (3.67%) PL/SQL
8 19 (3.04%) Shell Script
9 18 (2.88%) PowerShell
10 16 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 13 (2.08%) C++
12 11 (1.76%) R
12 11 (1.76%) Scala
13 9 (1.44%) Bash
13 9 (1.44%) Perl
13 9 (1.44%) T-SQL
14 7 (1.12%) Apex Code
14 7 (1.12%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.12%) VB
15 6 (0.96%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 154 (24.60%) Security Cleared
2 118 (18.85%) SC Cleared
3 56 (8.95%) Degree
4 33 (5.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.35%) DV Cleared
6 20 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.60%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.12%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.64%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.64%) MBA
10 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.16%) CISSP
12 1 (0.16%) ISEB
12 1 (0.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.16%) PhD
12 1 (0.16%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (15.50%) Data Quality
2 79 (12.62%) QA
3 31 (4.95%) Accessibility
4 20 (3.19%) GDPR
5 8 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (1.12%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 7 (1.12%) GMP
6 7 (1.12%) GxP
6 7 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 4 (0.64%) SEPA
7 4 (0.64%) WCAG
8 3 (0.48%) SLA
9 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.32%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.32%) PSD2
10 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.16%) ITGC
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 149 (23.80%) Docker
2 19 (3.04%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.64%) RACF
5 3 (0.48%) ACF2
6 2 (0.32%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.32%) GridGain
7 1 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 122 (19.49%) Kubernetes
2 36 (5.75%) Ansible
3 28 (4.47%) Prometheus
4 26 (4.15%) Grafana
5 17 (2.72%) Data Guard
6 16 (2.56%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (0.96%) Argo
8 3 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.32%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.16%) Istio
10 1 (0.16%) Kibana
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.16%) Podman
10 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.16%) systemd
Vendors
1 178 (28.43%) Oracle
2 77 (12.30%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.27%) IBM
4 32 (5.11%) Google
5 22 (3.51%) Databricks
6 18 (2.88%) Sybase
7 13 (2.08%) Splunk
8 12 (1.92%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.76%) Informatica
10 10 (1.60%) SAP
11 8 (1.28%) OutSystems
11 8 (1.28%) Teradata
12 7 (1.12%) Adobe
12 7 (1.12%) Sparx
13 6 (0.96%) Alteryx
13 6 (0.96%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.96%) Talend
14 5 (0.80%) Actian
14 5 (0.80%) Bomgar
14 5 (0.80%) Solace