Relational Database Contracts

Relational Database
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Relational Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Relational Database over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 182 150
Rank change year-on-year -8 -32 +10
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 524 811 1,596
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.22% 1.45% 1.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.18% 8.19% 9.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 541 1,092
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £413 £481 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £688
90th Percentile £743 £806 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £569 £500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.75% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 29 22
10th Percentile £26.30 - £20.12
25th Percentile £31.63 £21.24 £31.31
Median hourly rate £40.50 £70.00 £51.85
Median % change year-on-year -42.14% +35.00% -9.63%
75th Percentile £47.13 £75.00 £65.13
90th Percentile £51.10 £78.30 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.50 £75.00 £50.10
% change year-on-year -46.00% +49.70% -17.19%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Relational Database is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,300 9,902 17,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 17.66% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,235 7,035 12,303
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% -0.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £754 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 179 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.45
25th Percentile £20.77 £33.70 £21.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £56.88 £73.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.75 £80.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.86%

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 1 June 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 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Top 17 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 1 June 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 -26 439 £550 -8.33% 308
London -4 283 £550 -15.38% 127
UK excluding London -3 195 £525 -7.69% 191
Work from Home 0 179 £538 -10.42% 167
North of England +42 64 £534 +6.80% 63
South East -32 33 £525 -12.50% 33
Yorkshire +42 32 £550 -4.35% 19
Scotland +18 32 £450 -23.40% 13
North West +14 30 £528 +6.40% 41
South West +5 26 £538 -14.00% 25
Midlands +7 22 £400 -27.27% 38
Wales +25 13 £551 +12.92% 4
East Midlands +20 11 £375 -9.09% 12
West Midlands -7 11 £400 -27.27% 26
East of England -9 3 £442 -24.21% 25
North East +11 2 £650 - 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £400 -

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 22 (4.20%) Apache Spark
2 21 (4.01%) Apache
3 19 (3.63%) Confluence
4 16 (3.05%) JBoss
5 12 (2.29%) nginx
6 11 (2.10%) SAS
6 11 (2.10%) SharePoint
7 10 (1.91%) Tomcat
8 9 (1.72%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (1.15%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.76%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.76%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.57%) IIS
13 2 (0.38%) CMS
13 2 (0.38%) ThingWorx
14 1 (0.19%) Appian
14 1 (0.19%) GemFire
14 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 15 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.76%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.72%) Temenos T24
2 5 (0.95%) MIS ActiveH
2 5 (0.95%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.76%) OPENHousing
4 3 (0.57%) Endur
5 1 (0.19%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.19%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 154 (29.39%) AWS
2 146 (27.86%) Azure
3 59 (11.26%) Power Platform
4 51 (9.73%) GCP
5 45 (8.59%) Serverless
6 40 (7.63%) GitHub
7 34 (6.49%) Amazon S3
8 30 (5.73%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (4.77%) Amazon EC2
10 23 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (2.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 13 (2.48%) SaaS
15 12 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 11 (2.10%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
16 11 (2.10%) OpenShift
17 8 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
17 8 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.24%) DNS
2 13 (2.48%) Firewall
3 9 (1.72%) AMQP
4 8 (1.53%) Network Security
5 4 (0.76%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.57%) BGP
6 3 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (0.57%) HTTP
6 3 (0.57%) Internet
6 3 (0.57%) IOS XR
6 3 (0.57%) SSL
7 2 (0.38%) VPN
8 1 (0.19%) DHCP
8 1 (0.19%) FTP
8 1 (0.19%) Intranet
8 1 (0.19%) SAN
8 1 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (27.48%) SQL Server
2 134 (25.57%) RDBMS
3 111 (21.18%) PostgreSQL
4 74 (14.12%) MySQL
5 68 (12.98%) NoSQL
6 56 (10.69%) Data Warehouse
7 54 (10.31%) Power BI
8 41 (7.82%) Tableau
9 33 (6.30%) MongoDB
10 28 (5.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 21 (4.01%) Data Lake
12 17 (3.24%) Big Data
13 15 (2.86%) Metadata
13 15 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
14 14 (2.67%) BigQuery
15 13 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
15 13 (2.48%) DB2
15 13 (2.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 12 (2.29%) Microsoft Analysis Services
17 11 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 96 (18.32%) Git
2 46 (8.78%) JIRA
3 44 (8.40%) Jenkins
4 32 (6.11%) JUnit
5 27 (5.15%) GitLab
6 23 (4.39%) Cypress.io
7 19 (3.63%) TeamCity
8 12 (2.29%) SonarQube
9 11 (2.10%) Postman
10 10 (1.91%) Visual Studio
11 7 (1.34%) Burp Suite
11 7 (1.34%) Selenium
12 6 (1.15%) AppScan
12 6 (1.15%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.95%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (0.95%) CA Release Automation
13 5 (0.95%) Gradle
14 4 (0.76%) Maven
14 4 (0.76%) Subversion
General
1 140 (26.72%) Social Skills
2 100 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
2 100 (19.08%) Finance
3 59 (11.26%) Banking
4 58 (11.07%) Public Sector
5 32 (6.11%) Investment Banking
6 27 (5.15%) Front Office
7 12 (2.29%) Marketing
8 10 (1.91%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.15%) Back Office
10 6 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (1.15%) Retail
11 5 (0.95%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.76%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.57%) Law
13 3 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.38%) Games
Job Titles
1 184 (35.11%) Developer
2 60 (11.45%) Java Developer
3 53 (10.11%) Senior
4 48 (9.16%) Analyst
5 45 (8.59%) Architect
6 42 (8.02%) Data Engineer
7 34 (6.49%) Lead
8 25 (4.77%) DBA
8 25 (4.77%) Full Stack Developer
9 23 (4.39%) Senior Developer
10 19 (3.63%) C# Developer
10 19 (3.63%) DevOps Engineer
11 16 (3.05%) Business Analyst
11 16 (3.05%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 16 (3.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 15 (2.86%) Consultant
12 15 (2.86%) Data Modeller
12 15 (2.86%) Python Developer
13 14 (2.67%) Applications Support
14 13 (2.48%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (14.89%) React
2 69 (13.17%) Spring
3 61 (11.64%) REST
4 59 (11.26%) Spring Boot
5 50 (9.54%) .NET
6 45 (8.59%) AngularJS
7 44 (8.40%) HTML
8 40 (7.63%) CSS
9 39 (7.44%) Kafka
10 37 (7.06%) RESTful
11 33 (6.30%) JSON
12 28 (5.34%) Elastic Stack
13 27 (5.15%) XML
14 25 (4.77%) Hibernate
14 25 (4.77%) Web Services
15 22 (4.20%) JPA
15 22 (4.20%) Middleware
15 22 (4.20%) Node.js
15 22 (4.20%) RabbitMQ
16 19 (3.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.21%) Data Structures
2 37 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (5.73%) Algorithms
4 24 (4.58%) Product Ownership
5 22 (4.20%) Fixed Income
6 21 (4.01%) Derivative
6 21 (4.01%) Linux Command Line
7 20 (3.82%) Public Cloud
8 16 (3.05%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.48%) Equities
10 11 (2.10%) Cloud Native
10 11 (2.10%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.53%) NHS
12 8 (1.53%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.34%) Replication
14 6 (1.15%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 108 (20.61%) Linux
2 60 (11.45%) Windows
3 53 (10.11%) Unix
4 30 (5.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (3.44%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.95%) VMS
7 2 (0.38%) CentOS
8 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (38.74%) Agile
2 135 (25.76%) DevOps
3 106 (20.23%) CI/CD
4 100 (19.08%) Data Modelling
5 99 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
6 82 (15.65%) Microservices
7 78 (14.89%) Scrum
8 72 (13.74%) Test Automation
9 70 (13.36%) Business Intelligence
10 65 (12.40%) Analytics
10 65 (12.40%) Computer Science
10 65 (12.40%) ETL
11 64 (12.21%) Continuous Integration
12 61 (11.64%) SDLC
13 51 (9.73%) Software Engineering
14 49 (9.35%) Migration
15 46 (8.78%) Mentoring
16 45 (8.59%) Unit Testing
17 44 (8.40%) TDD
18 42 (8.02%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 267 (50.95%) SQL
2 158 (30.15%) Java
3 129 (24.62%) Python
4 80 (15.27%) JavaScript
5 75 (14.31%) C#
6 53 (10.11%) TypeScript
7 41 (7.82%) PowerShell
7 41 (7.82%) T-SQL
8 29 (5.53%) Shell Script
9 25 (4.77%) Bash
10 20 (3.82%) Perl
11 18 (3.44%) Go
11 18 (3.44%) Scala
12 16 (3.05%) C++
12 16 (3.05%) PHP
13 13 (2.48%) C
13 13 (2.48%) Kotlin
14 10 (1.91%) VB
15 9 (1.72%) R
16 8 (1.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (17.94%) Security Cleared
2 78 (14.89%) Degree
3 77 (14.69%) SC Cleared
4 47 (8.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (5.92%) DV Cleared
6 19 (3.63%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.34%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.34%) PMP
9 6 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.76%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.76%) SANS
12 3 (0.57%) ISEB
12 3 (0.57%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.38%) CISA
13 2 (0.38%) CRISC
13 2 (0.38%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (12.21%) QA
2 24 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.34%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.95%) MiFID
5 4 (0.76%) ISO 15022
6 3 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.38%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.19%) COPPA
8 1 (0.19%) EMIR
8 1 (0.19%) FATCA
8 1 (0.19%) GDPR
8 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.19%) HL7
8 1 (0.19%) NCSC
8 1 (0.19%) NIST
8 1 (0.19%) SLA
8 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 84 (16.03%) Docker
2 27 (5.15%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.95%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 5 (0.95%) vSphere
4 4 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.57%) HDFS
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.19%) KVM
7 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 97 (18.51%) Kubernetes
2 52 (9.92%) Terraform
3 40 (7.63%) Ansible
4 32 (6.11%) Grafana
5 28 (5.34%) Prometheus
6 23 (4.39%) Progress Chef
7 11 (2.10%) Puppet
8 10 (1.91%) Graylog
9 8 (1.53%) Packer
10 7 (1.34%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (1.34%) Kibana
10 7 (1.34%) Nagios
10 7 (1.34%) Zipkin
11 6 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (1.15%) HP Fortify
11 6 (1.15%) Nessus
11 6 (1.15%) WebInspect
12 5 (0.95%) vRealize
13 4 (0.76%) Istio
14 3 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 116 (22.14%) Oracle
2 83 (15.84%) Microsoft
3 32 (6.11%) Google
4 26 (4.96%) IBM
5 22 (4.20%) Splunk
6 18 (3.44%) ServiceNow
7 17 (3.24%) Databricks
8 16 (3.05%) Red Hat
8 16 (3.05%) SAP
9 13 (2.48%) AVEVA
10 12 (2.29%) Sybase
11 11 (2.10%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.91%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.91%) Veritas
13 9 (1.72%) CyberArk
13 9 (1.72%) Temenos
14 7 (1.34%) Checkmarx
14 7 (1.34%) ION Trading
15 6 (1.15%) AppDynamics
15 6 (1.15%) VMware