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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 167 174
Rank change year-on-year -67 +7 +14
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 624 558 542
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.15% 1.69% 1.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.53% 9.38% 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 342 404
10th Percentile £360 £308 £310
25th Percentile £413 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -9.52% -6.87%
75th Percentile £606 £575 £598
90th Percentile £712 £699 £654
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +9.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 0
10th Percentile - £36.23 -
25th Percentile £14.00 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £77.00 £82.81 -
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 8,290 5,950 6,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.21% 18.04% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,519 3,980 4,756
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £421 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £748 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 94 86
10th Percentile £15.99 £22.86 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.24 £20.88
Median hourly rate £39.50 £39.48 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +14.55% -35.58%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £59.34
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +8.48% +18.30% -42.86%

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 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 10 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 10 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 -55 507 £522 +4.40% 402
UK excluding London -92 289 £491 +9.11% 227
London -39 264 £550 +3.77% 223
Work from Home -86 151 £514 +2.80% 177
North of England -84 68 £500 +19.40% 42
South East -53 64 £525 +153.01% 62
Midlands -22 58 £473 -3.96% 37
Scotland -63 46 £450 -2.70% 24
North West -62 45 £465 +15.55% 25
West Midlands -20 41 £473 -4.92% 21
East of England -10 30 £518 +0.98% 15
Yorkshire -53 21 £507 +1.30% 14
East Midlands -8 17 £410 -13.91% 15
South West -50 16 £538 +43.33% 43
Wales -8 6 £475 - 2
North East -42 6 £363 - 3
Northern Ireland -6 3 - - 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 30 (4.81%) Confluence
2 19 (3.04%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.88%) Apache
4 12 (1.92%) 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
5 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
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
4 4 (0.64%) Summit
5 3 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
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
1 220 (35.26%) AWS
2 143 (22.92%) Azure
3 90 (14.42%) GCP
4 70 (11.22%) GitHub
5 68 (10.90%) Power Platform
6 37 (5.93%) Snowflake
7 28 (4.49%) Amazon S3
7 28 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (3.85%) Serverless
9 21 (3.37%) GitHub Copilot
10 20 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (2.56%) Anthropic Claude
12 15 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (2.40%) ChatGPT
12 15 (2.40%) OCI
12 15 (2.40%) SaaS
13 13 (2.08%) dbt
14 11 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.24%) HTTP
2 12 (1.92%) Firewall
2 12 (1.92%) VPN
3 3 (0.48%) WinSCP
4 2 (0.32%) Internet
4 2 (0.32%) Intranet
4 2 (0.32%) SSL
5 1 (0.16%) AMQP
5 1 (0.16%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.16%) Multicast
5 1 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (27.56%) PostgreSQL
2 125 (20.03%) SQL Server
3 114 (18.27%) RDBMS
4 77 (12.34%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (10.42%) Power BI
6 63 (10.10%) MySQL
7 56 (8.97%) MongoDB
8 49 (7.85%) Oracle Database
9 44 (7.05%) NoSQL
10 39 (6.25%) Metadata
11 27 (4.33%) Db2
12 26 (4.17%) Tableau
13 25 (4.01%) Data Lake
14 18 (2.88%) Oracle Reports
15 16 (2.56%) Oracle Exadata
15 16 (2.56%) Redis
16 15 (2.40%) Power Query
17 14 (2.24%) BigQuery
18 13 (2.08%) Big Data
19 12 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 146 (23.40%) Git
2 75 (12.02%) Jenkins
3 58 (9.29%) GitLab
4 46 (7.37%) JIRA
5 36 (5.77%) Maven
6 33 (5.29%) JUnit
7 26 (4.17%) Gradle
8 25 (4.01%) Mockito
8 25 (4.01%) Selenium
9 14 (2.24%) Oracle Forms
10 13 (2.08%) Eclipse
10 13 (2.08%) SonarQube
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%) Ant
15 6 (0.96%) Gatling
General
1 221 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 179 (28.69%) Finance
3 167 (26.76%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (15.71%) Public Sector
5 93 (14.90%) Banking
6 31 (4.97%) Front Office
7 26 (4.17%) Investment Banking
8 16 (2.56%) Publishing
9 15 (2.40%) Military
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
1 265 (42.47%) Developer
2 125 (20.03%) Senior
3 93 (14.90%) Java Developer
4 62 (9.94%) Data Engineer
5 60 (9.62%) Senior Developer
6 53 (8.49%) Software Engineer
7 48 (7.69%) Analyst
8 42 (6.73%) Lead
9 38 (6.09%) Python Developer
10 37 (5.93%) Full-Stack Developer
11 30 (4.81%) Software Developer
12 29 (4.65%) Data Analyst
13 25 (4.01%) Architect
14 23 (3.69%) Java Engineer
15 21 (3.37%) .NET Developer
15 21 (3.37%) Senior Java Developer
16 20 (3.21%) Backend Developer
17 19 (3.04%) Python Engineer
18 18 (2.88%) Senior Data Engineer
19 17 (2.72%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (23.88%) REST
2 113 (18.11%) RESTful
3 105 (16.83%) Spring
3 105 (16.83%) Spring Boot
4 96 (15.38%) Kafka
5 80 (12.82%) React
6 73 (11.70%) .NET
7 57 (9.13%) Terraform
8 48 (7.69%) Web Services
9 45 (7.21%) AngularJS
10 40 (6.41%) SOAP
10 40 (6.41%) XML
11 39 (6.25%) CSS
11 39 (6.25%) OAuth
12 38 (6.09%) HTML
13 32 (5.13%) JSON
14 27 (4.33%) Middleware
15 25 (4.01%) OAuth2
16 23 (3.69%) .NET Framework
16 23 (3.69%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 88 (14.10%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (6.73%) Data Structures
4 33 (5.29%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.69%) Management Information System
6 22 (3.53%) Derivative
6 22 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (2.56%) Low-Code
8 15 (2.40%) Algorithms
8 15 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (2.24%) Equity Derivative
10 13 (2.08%) Onboarding
10 13 (2.08%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.92%) AI Agents
11 12 (1.92%) Replication
11 12 (1.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 11 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.76%) Equities
13 10 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 67 (10.74%) Linux
2 47 (7.53%) Unix
3 38 (6.09%) Windows
4 22 (3.53%) AIX
5 19 (3.04%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (44.71%) CI/CD
2 243 (38.94%) Agile
3 199 (31.89%) Problem-Solving
4 180 (28.85%) DevOps
5 151 (24.20%) Data Modelling
6 135 (21.63%) Microservices
7 124 (19.87%) Software Engineering
8 118 (18.91%) Validation
9 113 (18.11%) Test Automation
10 111 (17.79%) ETL
11 108 (17.31%) Containerisation
11 108 (17.31%) Data Pipeline
12 104 (16.67%) AI
13 102 (16.35%) Analytics
14 97 (15.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 90 (14.42%) SDLC
16 81 (12.98%) Migration
17 75 (12.02%) Performance Tuning
17 75 (12.02%) Scrum
18 73 (11.70%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 360 (57.69%) SQL
2 216 (34.62%) Java
3 210 (33.65%) Python
4 86 (13.78%) C#
5 78 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 49 (7.85%) TypeScript
7 23 (3.69%) PL/SQL
8 19 (3.04%) PowerShell
8 19 (3.04%) Shell Script
9 15 (2.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (2.08%) C++
11 12 (1.92%) Scala
12 11 (1.76%) R
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%) VB
15 6 (0.96%) Ruby
15 6 (0.96%) VB6
Qualifications
1 151 (24.20%) Security Cleared
2 115 (18.43%) SC Cleared
3 54 (8.65%) Degree
4 32 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.72%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.60%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.28%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.64%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.64%) MBA
10 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.32%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.16%) CISSP
11 1 (0.16%) ISEB
11 1 (0.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (15.87%) Data Quality
2 77 (12.34%) QA
3 30 (4.81%) Accessibility
4 21 (3.37%) 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%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) ITGC
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 146 (23.40%) Docker
2 18 (2.88%) 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
1 121 (19.39%) Kubernetes
2 34 (5.45%) Ansible
3 28 (4.49%) Prometheus
4 26 (4.17%) Grafana
5 16 (2.56%) Data Guard
5 16 (2.56%) Oracle RMAN
6 6 (0.96%) Argo
7 3 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.16%) Istio
9 1 (0.16%) Kibana
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.16%) Podman
9 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 178 (28.53%) Oracle
2 76 (12.18%) Microsoft
3 34 (5.45%) IBM
4 32 (5.13%) Google
5 23 (3.69%) 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