Relational Database Contracts

Relational Database
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Relational Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Relational Database over the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 187 166
Rank change year-on-year +5 -21 -27
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 527 674 1,357
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.41% 1.40% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.91% 8.43% 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 462 892
10th Percentile £274 £350 £401
25th Percentile £391 £450 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -6.38% +6.82%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £700
90th Percentile £650 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £448 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.50% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 23 10
10th Percentile £28.59 £48.11 £16.28
25th Percentile £33.84 £56.25 £21.04
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £37.60
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +99.47% -40.32%
75th Percentile £49.75 £78.00 £56.88
90th Percentile £64.15 £79.35 £62.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.84 £72.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -32.17% +188.00% -61.83%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 6,662 7,994 16,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.78% 16.65% 19.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,481 5,593 11,252
10th Percentile £350 £363 £388
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £660
90th Percentile £788 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 157 152
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.40 £15.53
25th Percentile £21.25 £26.25 £21.45
Median hourly rate £33.22 £51.06 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.94% +2.11% +42.86%
75th Percentile £61.19 £72.50 £68.12
90th Percentile £71.50 £78.30 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £50.53 £40.73
% change year-on-year -40.63% +24.05% +25.32%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Relational Database.

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database over the 6 months to 16 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Relational Database.

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Relational Database over the 6 months to 16 October 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Top 16 Contract 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 16 October 2024. 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 +11 434 £525 -4.55% 250
London +10 254 £550 -1.79% 120
UK excluding London +18 210 £448 -10.50% 136
Work from Home +20 204 £500 -4.76% 588
South East -2 59 £205 -61.68% 38
North of England +44 56 £508 -6.83% 31
Yorkshire +42 36 £550 +10.00% 7
Midlands +7 28 £445 -15.19% 24
Scotland +1 23 £425 -9.57% 9
North West +1 20 £413 -27.63% 19
South West +11 18 £538 -20.37% 22
East Midlands +16 15 £400 +1.27% 6
West Midlands -8 13 £575 +4.55% 18
East of England +22 11 £400 -33.14% 16
Wales 0 10 £523 +148.81% 1
Northern Ireland +1 5 £475 -17.39% 1

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (5.12%) Apache
1 27 (5.12%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.98%) Confluence
3 13 (2.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 13 (2.47%) SAS
4 12 (2.28%) CMS
5 11 (2.09%) Oracle Workflow
6 8 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.52%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.52%) WordPress
7 6 (1.14%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.95%) Drupal
8 5 (0.95%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.76%) GemFire
9 4 (0.76%) JBoss
10 3 (0.57%) CICS
10 3 (0.57%) nginx
10 3 (0.57%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.57%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.57%) Adobe Captivate
2 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (3.04%) Oracle Payables
2 15 (2.85%) Oracle EBS
3 14 (2.66%) Oracle EBS R12
4 12 (2.28%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 12 (2.28%) Oracle iProcurement
4 12 (2.28%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.76%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 4 (0.76%) MIS ActiveH
5 4 (0.76%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.76%) OPENHousing
6 3 (0.57%) Endur
6 3 (0.57%) Findur
7 2 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.38%) Q-Pulse
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 136 (25.81%) Azure
2 135 (25.62%) AWS
3 62 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 44 (8.35%) GCP
5 34 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (6.26%) GitHub
7 32 (6.07%) Serverless
8 28 (5.31%) Amazon S3
9 23 (4.36%) Azure Data Factory
10 17 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 15 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (2.66%) AWS CodeBuild
12 14 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (2.09%) dbt
14 9 (1.71%) SaaS
15 8 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 8 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (1.52%) Sentry
16 7 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.36%) Internet
2 12 (2.28%) HTTP
3 10 (1.90%) SMTP
3 10 (1.90%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.33%) POP3
5 6 (1.14%) AMQP
5 6 (1.14%) IMAP
6 5 (0.95%) DNS
7 4 (0.76%) Firewall
7 4 (0.76%) SSL
7 4 (0.76%) VPN
8 3 (0.57%) FTP
8 3 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.57%) LAN
8 3 (0.57%) WAN
9 2 (0.38%) Network Security
9 2 (0.38%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.19%) BGP
10 1 (0.19%) Broadband
10 1 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (25.05%) RDBMS
2 117 (22.20%) SQL Server
3 115 (21.82%) MySQL
4 107 (20.30%) PostgreSQL
5 61 (11.57%) Power BI
6 56 (10.63%) NoSQL
7 37 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
8 30 (5.69%) MongoDB
8 30 (5.69%) Oracle Database
8 30 (5.69%) Tableau
9 26 (4.93%) DB2
10 25 (4.74%) Qlik Sense
11 19 (3.61%) Big Data
11 19 (3.61%) Redis
12 18 (3.42%) Data Lake
13 16 (3.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (2.85%) DynamoDB
15 13 (2.47%) MariaDB
16 12 (2.28%) BusinessObjects
16 12 (2.28%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 120 (22.77%) Git
2 48 (9.11%) JIRA
3 44 (8.35%) Jenkins
4 34 (6.45%) JUnit
5 25 (4.74%) GitLab
6 15 (2.85%) Maven
7 13 (2.47%) Cypress.io
8 11 (2.09%) Oracle Forms
9 10 (1.90%) Browser DevTools
9 10 (1.90%) Firebug
9 10 (1.90%) Postman
10 8 (1.52%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.52%) Selenium
10 8 (1.52%) TeamCity
11 7 (1.33%) Cucumber
12 6 (1.14%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.95%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (0.95%) Gatling
13 5 (0.95%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.95%) SonarQube
General
1 169 (32.07%) Social Skills
2 125 (23.72%) Finance
3 77 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (8.73%) Public Sector
5 42 (7.97%) Banking
6 17 (3.23%) Investment Banking
7 16 (3.04%) General Ledger
8 14 (2.66%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.47%) Front Office
10 7 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.14%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.14%) Marketing
12 5 (0.95%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.76%) Law
13 4 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.57%) Legal
14 3 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 247 (46.87%) Developer
2 69 (13.09%) Senior
3 68 (12.90%) Java Developer
4 58 (11.01%) Analyst
5 42 (7.97%) Senior Developer
6 36 (6.83%) Full-Stack Developer
7 30 (5.69%) Data Engineer
7 30 (5.69%) Lead
8 27 (5.12%) Python Developer
9 24 (4.55%) Technical Support
10 22 (4.17%) .NET Developer
11 19 (3.61%) Architect
12 18 (3.42%) Software Engineer
13 17 (3.23%) C# Developer
13 17 (3.23%) Consultant
13 17 (3.23%) Data Scientist
14 16 (3.04%) Analyst Developer
14 16 (3.04%) Lead Developer
15 15 (2.85%) Software Developer
16 14 (2.66%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (17.27%) React
2 79 (14.99%) HTML
3 77 (14.61%) REST
4 74 (14.04%) CSS
5 65 (12.33%) Spring
6 62 (11.76%) .NET
7 60 (11.39%) AngularJS
8 49 (9.30%) Spring Boot
9 44 (8.35%) Kafka
10 42 (7.97%) XML
11 38 (7.21%) Web Services
12 36 (6.83%) RESTful
13 30 (5.69%) Middleware
14 27 (5.12%) Node.js
15 25 (4.74%) Django
16 23 (4.36%) ASP.NET
16 23 (4.36%) SOAP
17 20 (3.80%) JSON
18 19 (3.61%) Hibernate
19 18 (3.42%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.50%) Data Structures
2 24 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 21 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.04%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.85%) Algorithms
7 10 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.71%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.71%) CMDB
8 9 (1.71%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.33%) Derivative
10 7 (1.33%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.33%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.14%) Equities
12 5 (0.95%) Market Risk
12 5 (0.95%) NHS
12 5 (0.95%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 108 (20.49%) Linux
2 77 (14.61%) Unix
3 62 (11.76%) Windows
4 16 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.57%) AIX
5 3 (0.57%) Solaris
5 3 (0.57%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.57%) zOS
6 2 (0.38%) CentOS
7 1 (0.19%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (40.80%) Agile
2 141 (26.76%) Problem-Solving
3 125 (23.72%) DevOps
4 116 (22.01%) CI/CD
5 100 (18.98%) Scrum
6 87 (16.51%) Data Modelling
7 85 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
8 82 (15.56%) Software Engineering
9 77 (14.61%) Microservices
10 71 (13.47%) Analytics
11 67 (12.71%) OO
11 67 (12.71%) Test Automation
12 64 (12.14%) Computer Science
12 64 (12.14%) Full-Stack Development
13 59 (11.20%) ETL
13 59 (11.20%) Unit Testing
14 52 (9.87%) SDLC
15 50 (9.49%) ITIL
16 49 (9.30%) Continuous Integration
17 44 (8.35%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 278 (52.75%) SQL
2 160 (30.36%) Java
3 138 (26.19%) Python
4 129 (24.48%) JavaScript
5 57 (10.82%) C#
6 47 (8.92%) TypeScript
7 31 (5.88%) Perl
8 24 (4.55%) Scala
9 21 (3.98%) PL/SQL
10 18 (3.42%) Go
11 17 (3.23%) PHP
11 17 (3.23%) Shell Script
12 15 (2.85%) PowerShell
13 14 (2.66%) Kotlin
13 14 (2.66%) T-SQL
14 13 (2.47%) Bash
15 12 (2.28%) R
16 11 (2.09%) VB
17 8 (1.52%) C++
17 8 (1.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 95 (18.03%) Degree
2 90 (17.08%) Security Cleared
3 78 (14.80%) SC Cleared
4 47 (8.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (5.69%) DV Cleared
6 20 (3.80%) Master's Degree
6 20 (3.80%) PMI Certification
6 20 (3.80%) PMP
7 7 (1.33%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.95%) ACCA
9 3 (0.57%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.38%) CISA
10 2 (0.38%) CRISC
10 2 (0.38%) NVQ Level 3
10 2 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.19%) HND
11 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.19%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (9.87%) QA
2 36 (6.83%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.90%) GDPR
4 5 (0.95%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.95%) MiFID
5 3 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.38%) HL7
7 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.19%) FINREP
7 1 (0.19%) GAAP
7 1 (0.19%) GRC
7 1 (0.19%) IFRS
7 1 (0.19%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.19%) SLA
7 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 75 (14.23%) Docker
2 31 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.38%) HDFS
4 1 (0.19%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.19%) LXC
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 64 (12.14%) Kubernetes
2 39 (7.40%) Terraform
3 28 (5.31%) Ansible
4 15 (2.85%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.66%) Grafana
6 12 (2.28%) Progress Chef
7 10 (1.90%) Puppet
8 4 (0.76%) Graylog
8 4 (0.76%) HP Fortify
8 4 (0.76%) Kibana
8 4 (0.76%) Nessus
8 4 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.76%) WebInspect
8 4 (0.76%) Zipkin
9 3 (0.57%) logstash
9 3 (0.57%) Oozie
10 2 (0.38%) QRadar
10 2 (0.38%) Salt
11 1 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 150 (28.46%) Oracle
2 96 (18.22%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.50%) ServiceNow
4 26 (4.93%) SAP
5 25 (4.74%) Google
6 23 (4.36%) CyberArk
7 20 (3.80%) Databricks
8 14 (2.66%) IBM
9 13 (2.47%) Salesforce
10 12 (2.28%) Splunk
11 11 (2.09%) Sybase
12 10 (1.90%) TIBCO
13 7 (1.33%) Informatica
14 6 (1.14%) Okta
15 5 (0.95%) Adobe
15 5 (0.95%) Infragistics
15 5 (0.95%) Solace
16 4 (0.76%) Maconomy
16 4 (0.76%) NEC
16 4 (0.76%) Red Hat