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 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 163 178
Rank change year-on-year +35 +15 -28
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 211 192 331
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.16% 1.30% 1.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.31% 6.51% 7.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 144 234
10th Percentile £398 £356 £413
25th Percentile £450 £448 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -10.42% +9.09%
75th Percentile £572 £619 £750
90th Percentile £708 £675 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -4.65% -10.42% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile - - £62.50
25th Percentile £87.50 - £70.00
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £40.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +29.63% -42.14% +39.72%

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 2,046 2,950 4,428
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 20.92% 19.96% 18.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,420 2,152 3,227
10th Percentile £363 £358 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.59% -2.52% -2.33%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £650
90th Percentile £825 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.00% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 38 81
10th Percentile £21.02 £18.40 £22.50
25th Percentile £25.99 £22.34 £40.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.75 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -39.45% +34.74%
75th Percentile £70.63 £56.88 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.25 £72.50 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -12.50% -31.73% +36.39%

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 19 June 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 9 (4.27%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.79%) GemFire
2 8 (3.79%) Oracle Coherence
3 7 (3.32%) SAS
4 6 (2.84%) Apache
4 6 (2.84%) JBoss
5 4 (1.90%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.90%) CMS
5 4 (1.90%) Confluence
5 4 (1.90%) Drupal
5 4 (1.90%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.90%) WordPress
6 3 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.95%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.95%) Camunda
7 2 (0.95%) CICS
7 2 (0.95%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Endur
2 1 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (19.91%) AWS
2 34 (16.11%) Azure
3 21 (9.95%) Power Platform
4 19 (9.00%) GCP
5 14 (6.64%) Serverless
6 11 (5.21%) PowerApps
7 10 (4.74%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.32%) Adobe Analytics
10 6 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.84%) Power Automate
11 5 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.37%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.90%) GitHub
12 4 (1.90%) OpenShift
13 3 (1.42%) AWS CodeBuild
13 3 (1.42%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.37%) Internet
2 2 (0.95%) Firewall
3 1 (0.47%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.47%) POP3
3 1 (0.47%) SMTP
3 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.47%) VPN
3 1 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (23.22%) MongoDB
2 45 (21.33%) DB2
3 42 (19.91%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (18.01%) RDBMS
5 27 (12.80%) MySQL
5 27 (12.80%) SQL Server
6 18 (8.53%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (7.58%) NoSQL
8 15 (7.11%) Power BI
9 12 (5.69%) Oracle Database
10 10 (4.74%) Data Lake
11 9 (4.27%) Big Data
12 7 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (2.37%) Metadata
14 5 (2.37%) Oracle Reports
15 4 (1.90%) BusinessObjects
15 4 (1.90%) MS Access
16 3 (1.42%) Neo4j
16 3 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (28.44%) JUnit
2 30 (14.22%) Git
3 21 (9.95%) JIRA
4 20 (9.48%) Jenkins
5 14 (6.64%) Gradle
6 12 (5.69%) Liquibase
6 12 (5.69%) Mockito
7 7 (3.32%) Bitbucket Server
7 7 (3.32%) ERwin
8 6 (2.84%) ER Studio
8 6 (2.84%) Selenium
8 6 (2.84%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.42%) CA Release Automation
9 3 (1.42%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.42%) IntelliJ
9 3 (1.42%) Maven
9 3 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.42%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.95%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.95%) REST Assured
General
1 78 (36.97%) Social Skills
2 64 (30.33%) Finance
3 62 (29.38%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (22.75%) Banking
5 36 (17.06%) Investment Banking
6 23 (10.90%) Public Sector
7 21 (9.95%) Front Office
8 7 (3.32%) Marketing
9 6 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.90%) Back Office
11 4 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.95%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.95%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.95%) Legal
12 2 (0.95%) Retail
12 2 (0.95%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.47%) Billing
13 1 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 113 (53.55%) Developer
2 77 (36.49%) Java Developer
3 49 (23.22%) Senior
4 45 (21.33%) Senior Developer
5 34 (16.11%) Senior Java Developer
6 28 (13.27%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 26 (12.32%) SQL Developer
8 20 (9.48%) Software Engineer
9 18 (8.53%) Linux Developer
10 17 (8.06%) Lead
11 15 (7.11%) Data Engineer
11 15 (7.11%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
11 15 (7.11%) Senior SQL Developer
12 13 (6.16%) Lead Developer
13 12 (5.69%) Lead Java Developer
14 11 (5.21%) Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (5.21%) Sybase Developer
15 9 (4.27%) Analyst
15 9 (4.27%) Data Modeller
15 9 (4.27%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (29.38%) Kafka
2 61 (28.91%) Spring
3 32 (15.17%) JMS
4 30 (14.22%) Spring Boot
5 26 (12.32%) AngularJS
6 24 (11.37%) .NET
7 22 (10.43%) React
7 22 (10.43%) REST
8 16 (7.58%) OpenAPI
8 16 (7.58%) Swagger
9 13 (6.16%) SOAP
10 12 (5.69%) Node.js
11 11 (5.21%) HTML
11 11 (5.21%) RESTful
11 11 (5.21%) XML
12 10 (4.74%) ASP.NET
12 10 (4.74%) Web Services
13 9 (4.27%) CSS
14 8 (3.79%) .NET Core
14 8 (3.79%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 45 (21.33%) Data Structures
2 34 (16.11%) Equities
3 6 (2.84%) Data Fabric
3 6 (2.84%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.37%) Equity Derivative
4 5 (2.37%) Replication
5 4 (1.90%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.90%) Derivative
5 4 (1.90%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.42%) Clustering
6 3 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.42%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.42%) PKI
6 3 (1.42%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.42%) Swaptions
7 2 (0.95%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.95%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.95%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.95%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 59 (27.96%) Linux
2 14 (6.64%) Unix
3 9 (4.27%) Windows
4 4 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.90%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.47%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (49.76%) Agile
2 64 (30.33%) Problem-Solving
3 60 (28.44%) CI/CD
4 58 (27.49%) Software Engineering
5 57 (27.01%) DevOps
6 55 (26.07%) Microservices
7 54 (25.59%) Multithreading
8 52 (24.64%) Performance Tuning
9 45 (21.33%) SDLC
10 37 (17.54%) Database Tuning
11 34 (16.11%) Containerisation
11 34 (16.11%) Open Source
12 27 (12.80%) Migration
13 25 (11.85%) Data Modelling
13 25 (11.85%) TDD
14 24 (11.37%) OO
14 24 (11.37%) Test Automation
15 23 (10.90%) ETL
15 23 (10.90%) Mentoring
16 22 (10.43%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 129 (61.14%) SQL
2 98 (46.45%) Java
3 83 (39.34%) Python
4 38 (18.01%) Shell Script
5 31 (14.69%) JavaScript
6 22 (10.43%) C#
7 21 (9.95%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.69%) Ruby
9 9 (4.27%) PL/SQL
10 8 (3.79%) R
11 6 (2.84%) Perl
12 5 (2.37%) Bash
12 5 (2.37%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.90%) PHP
14 3 (1.42%) VB
15 2 (0.95%) COBOL
15 2 (0.95%) JCL
16 1 (0.47%) Groovy
16 1 (0.47%) RPG
16 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (22.75%) Security Cleared
2 46 (21.80%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.16%) Degree
4 8 (3.79%) Numerate Degree
5 6 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.95%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.47%) MCPD
9 1 (0.47%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.21%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.84%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.90%) GDPR
3 4 (1.90%) QA
4 3 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (21.33%) Docker
2 8 (3.79%) GridGain
3 7 (3.32%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (11.37%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.42%) Ansible
2 3 (1.42%) Kibana
2 3 (1.42%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.95%) Terraform
4 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 1 (0.47%) Grafana
4 1 (0.47%) Istio
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (21.33%) Sybase
2 41 (19.43%) Oracle
3 18 (8.53%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.32%) Adobe
4 7 (3.32%) Google
4 7 (3.32%) Teradata
5 6 (2.84%) SAP
5 6 (2.84%) Splunk
6 5 (2.37%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.90%) Virgin Media
7 4 (1.90%) Zend
8 3 (1.42%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.42%) Databricks
8 3 (1.42%) OpenLink
8 3 (1.42%) Talend
8 3 (1.42%) TIBCO
9 2 (0.95%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.95%) Informatica
9 2 (0.95%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.95%) VMware