Relational Database Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Relational Database
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 120 177 177
Rank change year-on-year +57 0 -18
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 213 175 372
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.15% 1.14% 1.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.15% 6.01% 7.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 131 272
10th Percentile £421 £356 £413
25th Percentile £471 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £563 £625 £750
90th Percentile £688 £725 £775
UK median daily rate £521 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -5.27% -8.33% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile - - £69.25
25th Percentile £87.50 - £72.19
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile - - £77.75
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £35.50 £66.88
% change year-on-year +47.89% -46.92% +28.98%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,098 2,911 4,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 18.97% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,137 3,601
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 79
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.57
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Relational Database
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Relational Database trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Relational Database
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Relational Database.

Relational Database daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Relational Database over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Relational Database daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Relational Database.

Relational Database hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (7.51%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.76%) GemFire
2 8 (3.76%) Oracle Coherence
3 7 (3.29%) SAS
4 6 (2.82%) Confluence
4 6 (2.82%) JBoss
5 5 (2.35%) Apache
6 4 (1.88%) CMS
6 4 (1.88%) Drupal
6 4 (1.88%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.88%) WordPress
7 3 (1.41%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.47%) Camunda
8 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.47%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (1.41%) Endur
2 2 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 48 (22.54%) Azure
2 37 (17.37%) AWS
2 37 (17.37%) Power Platform
3 22 (10.33%) PowerApps
4 20 (9.39%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (8.45%) GCP
5 18 (8.45%) Power Automate
6 17 (7.98%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (7.51%) Azure Logic Apps
8 14 (6.57%) Serverless
9 7 (3.29%) Adobe Analytics
9 7 (3.29%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.88%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (0.94%) AWS CodeBuild
13 2 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (0.94%) Azure Functions
13 2 (0.94%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.88%) Internet
2 3 (1.41%) POP3
2 3 (1.41%) SMTP
3 2 (0.94%) HTTP
4 1 (0.47%) Firewall
4 1 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.47%) VPN
4 1 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (21.13%) RDBMS
2 39 (18.31%) MongoDB
3 34 (15.96%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (15.49%) DB2
5 25 (11.74%) Power BI
6 23 (10.80%) SQL Server
7 19 (8.92%) MySQL
7 19 (8.92%) NoSQL
8 18 (8.45%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (6.10%) Oracle Database
10 9 (4.23%) Big Data
10 9 (4.23%) Data Lake
11 7 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (3.29%) Metadata
12 6 (2.82%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (2.82%) MS Access
12 6 (2.82%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.88%) CockroachDB
14 4 (1.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (22.54%) JUnit
2 39 (18.31%) Git
3 33 (15.49%) JIRA
4 14 (6.57%) Jenkins
5 11 (5.16%) Gradle
6 9 (4.23%) Liquibase
6 9 (4.23%) Mockito
7 7 (3.29%) Bitbucket Server
7 7 (3.29%) ERwin
8 6 (2.82%) ER Studio
8 6 (2.82%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.88%) Selenium
10 3 (1.41%) CA Release Automation
10 3 (1.41%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.41%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.94%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.47%) JProfiler
12 1 (0.47%) MSTest
General
1 69 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 62 (29.11%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (27.23%) Finance
4 39 (18.31%) Banking
5 28 (13.15%) Investment Banking
6 27 (12.68%) Public Sector
7 17 (7.98%) Front Office
8 9 (4.23%) Marketing
9 7 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.35%) Back Office
12 4 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.41%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (1.41%) Retail
13 3 (1.41%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.94%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 107 (50.23%) Developer
2 63 (29.58%) Java Developer
3 35 (16.43%) Senior
4 31 (14.55%) Senior Developer
5 25 (11.74%) Senior Java Developer
6 20 (9.39%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 20 (9.39%) Software Engineer
7 18 (8.45%) SQL Developer
8 16 (7.51%) Lead
9 14 (6.57%) Data Modeller
9 14 (6.57%) Linux Developer
10 13 (6.10%) Analyst
10 13 (6.10%) Power Platform Developer
11 12 (5.63%) Data Engineer
12 11 (5.16%) Lead Developer
12 11 (5.16%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
12 11 (5.16%) Senior SQL Developer
13 9 (4.23%) Architect
13 9 (4.23%) DBA
13 9 (4.23%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (23.47%) Kafka
2 49 (23.00%) Spring
3 33 (15.49%) REST
4 26 (12.21%) AngularJS
5 25 (11.74%) .NET
5 25 (11.74%) Spring Boot
6 24 (11.27%) JMS
6 24 (11.27%) SOAP
7 17 (7.98%) React
8 13 (6.10%) HTML
8 13 (6.10%) OpenAPI
8 13 (6.10%) Swagger
9 12 (5.63%) CSS
10 11 (5.16%) ASP.NET
10 11 (5.16%) Web Services
11 10 (4.69%) JSON
11 10 (4.69%) Node.js
11 10 (4.69%) XML
12 7 (3.29%) .NET Core
13 6 (2.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 37 (17.37%) Data Structures
2 25 (11.74%) Equities
3 7 (3.29%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.82%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.88%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.88%) Data Fabric
5 4 (1.88%) Equity Derivative
5 4 (1.88%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.41%) Derivative
6 3 (1.41%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.41%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.41%) Replication
7 2 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.94%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.94%) Swaptions
8 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.47%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 52 (24.41%) Linux
2 14 (6.57%) Unix
3 11 (5.16%) Windows
4 4 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.41%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.47%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (51.17%) Agile
2 67 (31.46%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (30.05%) DevOps
4 60 (28.17%) Software Engineering
5 56 (26.29%) CI/CD
6 50 (23.47%) Microservices
7 46 (21.60%) Multithreading
8 40 (18.78%) Performance Tuning
9 39 (18.31%) SDLC
10 29 (13.62%) Data Modelling
10 29 (13.62%) Database Tuning
11 27 (12.68%) Containerisation
11 27 (12.68%) Open Source
12 26 (12.21%) Migration
13 24 (11.27%) ETL
14 23 (10.80%) Business Intelligence
14 23 (10.80%) Test Automation
15 21 (9.86%) Analytics
15 21 (9.86%) Concurrent Programming
15 21 (9.86%) OO
Programming Languages
1 137 (64.32%) SQL
2 81 (38.03%) Java
3 73 (34.27%) Python
4 34 (15.96%) C#
5 32 (15.02%) JavaScript
6 29 (13.62%) Shell Script
7 18 (8.45%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.69%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.76%) R
10 5 (2.35%) Perl
10 5 (2.35%) Ruby
11 4 (1.88%) PHP
12 3 (1.41%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.94%) Bash
13 2 (0.94%) C++
13 2 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.94%) VB
14 1 (0.47%) Groovy
14 1 (0.47%) RPG
14 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (24.88%) Security Cleared
2 51 (23.94%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.33%) Degree
4 10 (4.69%) Numerate Degree
5 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.47%) MCPD
8 1 (0.47%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.69%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.29%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.88%) GDPR
3 4 (1.88%) QA
4 3 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (17.37%) Docker
2 11 (5.16%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.76%) GridGain
4 1 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (9.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.41%) Ansible
2 3 (1.41%) Kibana
2 3 (1.41%) Progress Chef
2 3 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.94%) Grafana
3 2 (0.94%) Terraform
4 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 1 (0.47%) Istio
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 43 (20.19%) Oracle
2 36 (16.90%) Sybase
3 22 (10.33%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.76%) SAP
5 7 (3.29%) Adobe
5 7 (3.29%) Teradata
6 6 (2.82%) Google
6 6 (2.82%) Splunk
7 5 (2.35%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.88%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.88%) Virgin Media
8 4 (1.88%) Zend
9 3 (1.41%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.41%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.41%) OpenLink
9 3 (1.41%) VMware
10 2 (0.94%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.94%) Databricks
10 2 (0.94%) Talend
10 2 (0.94%) TIBCO