Relational Database Contracts in Wales

Relational Database
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 33 50
Rank change year-on-year -5 +17 +12
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 4 15 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.21% 3.43% 1.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.50% 23.08% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 4
10th Percentile £478 £383 £398
25th Percentile £500 £438 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £495 £488
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% +1.54% -18.75%
75th Percentile £555 £551 £533
90th Percentile £582 £677 £603
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -4.65% -10.42% +4.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 32 65 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 9.67% 14.87% 10.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 54 45
10th Percentile £244 £324 £385
25th Percentile £300 £408 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.18% -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £483 £563 £613
90th Percentile £576 £661 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.73
25th Percentile - - £22.44
Median hourly rate - - £24.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +34.72%
75th Percentile - - £25.44
90th Percentile - - £25.78
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £38.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -7.89% -33.91% +52.12%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in Wales

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in Wales

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in Wales over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in Wales

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in Wales

Relational Database
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 5 July 2025. 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
South Wales 0 4 £533 +6.50% 27
Relational Database
UK

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Concurrent Programming
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Multithreading
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) API Design
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) SOA
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google