Relational Database Contracts in the West Midlands

Relational Database
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 96 109
Rank change year-on-year +23 +13 +18
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 24 15 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.78% 0.77% 1.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.37% 4.97% 7.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 17
10th Percentile £448 £301 £363
25th Percentile £468 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +23.25% -27.27% +11.11%
75th Percentile £524 £447 £606
90th Percentile £530 £508 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £15.63 - -
25th Percentile £16.15 - -
Median hourly rate £17.59 £40.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -56.57% - -
75th Percentile £18.45 - -
90th Percentile £18.62 - -
England median hourly rate £26.50 £30.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.11% -53.08% +33.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 211 302 414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.69% 15.51% 17.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 232 283
10th Percentile £295 £301 £350
25th Percentile £410 £358 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +13.51%
75th Percentile £600 £577 £588
90th Percentile £690 £700 £698
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £15.80 - £24.13
25th Percentile £16.57 - £24.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £40.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% +60.40% -
75th Percentile £19.00 - £30.48
90th Percentile - - £33.24
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in the West Midlands

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in the West Midlands

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in the West Midlands

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in the West Midlands

Relational Database
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Warwickshire +9 7 £500 - 5
Birmingham +15 5 £465 +10.71% 15
Staffordshire +4 3 £550 - 10
Shropshire -1 3 £493 - 7
Coventry +7 1 £450 -10.00% 5
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) InfoPath
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (8.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 7 (29.17%) Power Platform
3 6 (25.00%) Serverless
4 5 (20.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (20.83%) Amazon S3
4 5 (20.83%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (16.67%) Azure Functions
5 4 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (16.67%) Power Automate
5 4 (16.67%) PowerApps
6 3 (12.50%) AWS KMS
6 3 (12.50%) Route 53
7 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (8.33%) GCP
7 2 (8.33%) PaaS
7 2 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (54.17%) RDBMS
2 7 (29.17%) Power BI
3 5 (20.83%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (12.50%) DynamoDB
5 3 (12.50%) MongoDB
5 3 (12.50%) Oracle Database
6 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
6 2 (8.33%) MySQL
6 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
6 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
7 1 (4.17%) Data Mining
7 1 (4.17%) MS Access
7 1 (4.17%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) JUnit
1 6 (25.00%) Mockito
2 3 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 3 (12.50%) Git
2 3 (12.50%) Gradle
2 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.50%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) Maven
3 2 (8.33%) ERwin
4 1 (4.17%) Ant
4 1 (4.17%) ER Studio
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Local Government
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Automation Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Test Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Data Modeller
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Python Developer
5 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Python Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Support Officer
5 2 (8.33%) Systems Support
6 1 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Platform Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) .NET
1 7 (29.17%) HTML
2 6 (25.00%) Spring
3 4 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 4 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 4 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (16.67%) CSS
3 4 (16.67%) Entity Framework
3 4 (16.67%) HTML5 Canvas
3 4 (16.67%) REST
4 3 (12.50%) Hibernate
4 3 (12.50%) jQuery
4 3 (12.50%) RESTful
4 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 3 (12.50%) Web Services
4 3 (12.50%) WireMock
5 2 (8.33%) Django
5 2 (8.33%) MACH
6 1 (4.17%) FHIR
6 1 (4.17%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
1 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Agile
1 11 (45.83%) CI/CD
2 8 (33.33%) Microservices
3 7 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (25.00%) CRM
4 6 (25.00%) ETL
4 6 (25.00%) TDD
4 6 (25.00%) Workflow
5 5 (20.83%) Dashboard Development
5 5 (20.83%) Data Modelling
5 5 (20.83%) Scrum
6 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (16.67%) Migration
6 4 (16.67%) MVC
6 4 (16.67%) Software Delivery
6 4 (16.67%) Task Automation
7 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 3 (12.50%) Kanban
7 3 (12.50%) Software Testing
7 3 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) SQL
2 10 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 8 (33.33%) Java
4 6 (25.00%) Python
5 5 (20.83%) C#
6 3 (12.50%) R
7 1 (4.17%) C++
7 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Oracle
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) Talend
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Sybase