Relational Database Contracts in the UK excluding London

Relational Database
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 209 206 190
Rank change year-on-year -3 -16 -10
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 205 248 424
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.96% 1.09% 1.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.70% 7.43% 8.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 145 284
10th Percentile £357 £378 £357
25th Percentile £400 £440 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £575
90th Percentile £650 £711 £650
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 18 13
10th Percentile £26.30 £60.03 £17.63
25th Percentile £31.63 £69.06 £23.70
Median hourly rate £40.50 £74.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.27% +48.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £47.13 £75.38 £55.25
90th Percentile £51.10 £78.00 £65.48
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £70.00 £50.20
% change year-on-year -42.14% +39.44% -8.73%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,661 3,340 5,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.48% 14.72% 17.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,857 2,374 3,802
10th Percentile £314 £325 £337
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £663 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 106 125
10th Percentile £13.72 £21.15 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £31.84 £20.75
Median hourly rate £34.47 £56.95 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.48% +62.71% +41.02%
75th Percentile £49.54 £73.74 £56.25
90th Percentile £71.50 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £43.95
% change year-on-year -31.73% +33.31% +62.78%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in the UK excluding London

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Relational Database in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in the UK excluding London

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in the UK excluding London

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Relational Database in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in the UK excluding London

Relational Database
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Relational Database in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Relational Database in the UK excluding London

Relational Database
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +46 74 £534 +6.80% 66
Yorkshire +50 43 £550 -4.89% 23
South East -23 33 £500 -16.67% 42
Scotland +31 30 £450 -10.00% 16
North West +6 29 £527 +6.10% 38
South West +1 27 £538 -14.00% 29
Midlands +4 24 £400 -27.27% 31
West Midlands 0 13 £400 -27.27% 22
Wales +27 12 £550 +12.87% 1
East Midlands +15 11 £375 -9.09% 9
East of England -10 3 £442 -24.21% 24
North East +8 2 £650 - 6
Northern Ireland - 2 £400 -
Relational Database
UK

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (4.88%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.41%) JBoss
3 4 (1.95%) Confluence
4 3 (1.46%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.98%) Apache
5 2 (0.98%) IIS
6 1 (0.49%) nginx
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (2.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.46%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.49%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.49%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 66 (32.20%) Azure
2 54 (26.34%) AWS
3 48 (23.41%) Power Platform
4 23 (11.22%) Serverless
5 20 (9.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 20 (9.76%) GCP
6 16 (7.80%) Amazon S3
7 14 (6.83%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (6.83%) GitHub
8 12 (5.85%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (5.37%) OpenShift
10 10 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (2.44%) dbt
13 5 (2.44%) IaaS
14 4 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (1.46%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.90%) Network Security
2 6 (2.93%) AMQP
3 3 (1.46%) BGP
3 3 (1.46%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (1.46%) DNS
3 3 (1.46%) Firewall
3 3 (1.46%) IOS XR
4 2 (0.98%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.98%) VPN
5 1 (0.49%) Internet
5 1 (0.49%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (26.34%) SQL Server
2 48 (23.41%) Power BI
3 46 (22.44%) MySQL
4 38 (18.54%) RDBMS
5 36 (17.56%) PostgreSQL
6 31 (15.12%) Tableau
7 24 (11.71%) NoSQL
8 21 (10.24%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (10.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 19 (9.27%) Qlik Sense
10 13 (6.34%) MongoDB
11 12 (5.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 12 (5.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 10 (4.88%) Oracle Reports
13 7 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (3.41%) Big Data
13 7 (3.41%) Data Lake
13 7 (3.41%) InfluxDB
14 5 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (2.44%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 40 (19.51%) Git
2 23 (11.22%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.80%) GitLab
3 16 (7.80%) JUnit
4 13 (6.34%) JIRA
5 11 (5.37%) SonarQube
6 9 (4.39%) Visual Studio
7 8 (3.90%) Postman
8 7 (3.41%) Cypress.io
9 6 (2.93%) Burp Suite
10 5 (2.44%) AppScan
10 5 (2.44%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (2.44%) CA Release Automation
10 5 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (2.44%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.98%) Mockito
13 1 (0.49%) Ant
13 1 (0.49%) Gradle
13 1 (0.49%) Maven
General
1 38 (18.54%) Social Skills
2 30 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (11.71%) Public Sector
4 18 (8.78%) Finance
5 8 (3.90%) Banking
6 5 (2.44%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.95%) Health Technology
8 3 (1.46%) Marketing
8 3 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.98%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.49%) Games
10 1 (0.49%) Local Government
10 1 (0.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (32.20%) Developer
2 30 (14.63%) Java Developer
3 24 (11.71%) Data Engineer
4 14 (6.83%) Data Scientist
5 13 (6.34%) Analyst
5 13 (6.34%) Architect
5 13 (6.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 12 (5.85%) DBA
7 11 (5.37%) Full Stack Developer
8 9 (4.39%) Business Analyst
9 8 (3.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (3.90%) Senior
9 8 (3.90%) Site Engineer
10 7 (3.41%) Consultant
10 7 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.41%) Support Engineer
11 6 (2.93%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (2.93%) Data Architect
11 6 (2.93%) PHP Developer
11 6 (2.93%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.63%) Spring Boot
2 29 (14.15%) Spring
3 27 (13.17%) React
4 26 (12.68%) HTML
4 26 (12.68%) REST
5 23 (11.22%) CSS
6 22 (10.73%) AngularJS
6 22 (10.73%) Elastic Stack
7 18 (8.78%) Kafka
8 14 (6.83%) RESTful
9 13 (6.34%) Hibernate
10 12 (5.85%) JPA
10 12 (5.85%) XML
11 11 (5.37%) .NET
11 11 (5.37%) JSON
12 7 (3.41%) Django
12 7 (3.41%) Laravel
12 7 (3.41%) Node.js
12 7 (3.41%) OpenTracing
12 7 (3.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.73%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (8.78%) Data Structures
3 14 (6.83%) Linux Command Line
4 12 (5.85%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.90%) NHS
5 8 (3.90%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.41%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.93%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.93%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.46%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.46%) Smart Meter
11 2 (0.98%) Clustering
11 2 (0.98%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.98%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.49%) Legacy Code
12 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (21.95%) Linux
2 18 (8.78%) Windows
3 14 (6.83%) Unix
4 10 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.95%) VMS
5 4 (1.95%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.49%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (37.56%) Agile
2 59 (28.78%) DevOps
3 50 (24.39%) Business Intelligence
3 50 (24.39%) Data Modelling
4 47 (22.93%) Scrum
5 46 (22.44%) CI/CD
6 36 (17.56%) Microservices
7 30 (14.63%) Continuous Integration
8 29 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (13.66%) ETL
10 25 (12.20%) Computer Science
10 25 (12.20%) Test Automation
11 22 (10.73%) Analytics
11 22 (10.73%) Mentoring
12 21 (10.24%) Service Management
13 19 (9.27%) Data Security
14 18 (8.78%) ITIL
14 18 (8.78%) ITSM
14 18 (8.78%) SDLC
14 18 (8.78%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 113 (55.12%) SQL
2 67 (32.68%) Java
3 50 (24.39%) Python
4 41 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 20 (9.76%) T-SQL
6 16 (7.80%) C#
6 16 (7.80%) TypeScript
7 13 (6.34%) Bash
8 12 (5.85%) Shell Script
9 11 (5.37%) Scala
10 10 (4.88%) Perl
11 9 (4.39%) Kotlin
11 9 (4.39%) PHP
11 9 (4.39%) PowerShell
12 7 (3.41%) Go
13 6 (2.93%) C
14 4 (1.95%) VB
14 4 (1.95%) VB6
15 3 (1.46%) C++
15 3 (1.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (22.93%) Security Cleared
2 35 (17.07%) Degree
3 33 (16.10%) SC Cleared
4 25 (12.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (11.22%) DV Cleared
6 21 (10.24%) Master's Degree
7 17 (8.29%) PMI Certification
7 17 (8.29%) PMP
8 6 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.46%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.46%) ISEB
9 3 (1.46%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.98%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.98%) SANS
10 2 (0.98%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.49%) HND
11 1 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (17.07%) QA
2 6 (2.93%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.95%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.49%) GDPR
4 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.49%) HL7
4 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (22.93%) Docker
2 6 (2.93%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.95%) vSphere
4 3 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 48 (23.41%) Kubernetes
2 26 (12.68%) Ansible
3 25 (12.20%) Terraform
4 21 (10.24%) Prometheus
5 19 (9.27%) Progress Chef
6 16 (7.80%) Grafana
7 7 (3.41%) Graylog
7 7 (3.41%) Puppet
7 7 (3.41%) Zipkin
8 6 (2.93%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (2.93%) Kibana
9 5 (2.44%) HP Fortify
9 5 (2.44%) Nessus
9 5 (2.44%) WebInspect
10 4 (1.95%) Nagios
10 4 (1.95%) Packer
10 4 (1.95%) vRealize
11 1 (0.49%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.49%) VxRail
Vendors
1 35 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 31 (15.12%) Oracle
3 18 (8.78%) ServiceNow
4 13 (6.34%) Splunk
5 11 (5.37%) Google
6 7 (3.41%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.93%) AVEVA
7 6 (2.93%) Checkmarx
7 6 (2.93%) Databricks
8 5 (2.44%) AppDynamics
8 5 (2.44%) Veracode
9 4 (1.95%) Arqiva
9 4 (1.95%) Brio
9 4 (1.95%) Infragistics
9 4 (1.95%) Veritas
9 4 (1.95%) VMware
10 3 (1.46%) Cisco
10 3 (1.46%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.46%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.98%) Ab Initio