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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 191 174 157
Rank change year-on-year -17 -17 0
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 507 854 1,581
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.19% 1.50% 1.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.98% 8.36% 9.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 583 1,094
10th Percentile £363 £412 £410
25th Percentile £418 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £495
% change year-on-year -4.55% +11.11% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 28 20
10th Percentile £24.25 - £19.63
25th Percentile £26.50 £21.24 £38.44
Median hourly rate £35.50 £69.38 £51.85
Median % change year-on-year -48.83% +33.80% -5.73%
75th Percentile £43.81 £75.00 £64.95
90th Percentile £49.78 £78.45 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.50 £74.00 £50.10
% change year-on-year -52.03% +47.70% -8.91%

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 7,263 10,212 17,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.07% 17.88% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,202 7,271 12,451
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 180 194
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.37
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £22.43
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £61.60 £73.75 £64.94
90th Percentile £74.00 £82.55 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £56.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year -29.76% +62.71% +43.44%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -40 424 £550 -8.33% 292
London -6 270 £575 -11.54% 127
UK excluding London -11 194 £525 -4.55% 185
Work from Home -3 174 £538 -10.42% 165
North of England +29 62 £534 +12.42% 52
South East -28 34 £525 -6.67% 39
Scotland +20 33 £450 -28.00% 26
North West +6 33 £531 +11.79% 31
Yorkshire +39 27 £550 -4.35% 18
Midlands +19 23 £400 -27.27% 27
South West +14 23 £538 -14.00% 22
Wales +32 14 £551 +12.97% 4
West Midlands +2 12 £400 -27.27% 20
East Midlands +23 11 £369 -10.61% 7
East of England -2 3 £442 -23.22% 19
North East +11 2 £650 - 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £400 - 2

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 23 (4.54%) Apache Spark
2 22 (4.34%) Apache
3 19 (3.75%) Confluence
4 17 (3.35%) JBoss
5 11 (2.17%) nginx
5 11 (2.17%) SAS
6 10 (1.97%) Tomcat
7 9 (1.78%) Oracle Workflow
7 9 (1.78%) SharePoint
8 6 (1.18%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.79%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.79%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.59%) IIS
10 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.39%) CMS
11 2 (0.39%) ThingWorx
12 1 (0.20%) Appian
12 1 (0.20%) GemFire
12 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 11 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.59%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.78%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.59%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (0.59%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.39%) Endur
4 2 (0.39%) OPENHousing
4 2 (0.39%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.20%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.20%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 147 (28.99%) AWS
2 143 (28.21%) Azure
3 54 (10.65%) Power Platform
4 51 (10.06%) GCP
5 46 (9.07%) Serverless
6 32 (6.31%) Amazon S3
6 32 (6.31%) GitHub
7 30 (5.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 23 (4.54%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (4.34%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 13 (2.56%) SaaS
12 11 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (1.97%) OpenShift
14 9 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.76%) DNS
1 14 (2.76%) Firewall
2 7 (1.38%) AMQP
2 7 (1.38%) Network Security
3 5 (0.99%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.59%) BGP
4 3 (0.59%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (0.59%) HTTP
4 3 (0.59%) IOS XR
4 3 (0.59%) SSL
4 3 (0.59%) VPN
5 1 (0.20%) DHCP
5 1 (0.20%) FTP
5 1 (0.20%) Internet
5 1 (0.20%) Intranet
5 1 (0.20%) SAN
5 1 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (27.22%) SQL Server
2 136 (26.82%) RDBMS
3 106 (20.91%) PostgreSQL
4 71 (14.00%) MySQL
5 67 (13.21%) NoSQL
6 59 (11.64%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (9.66%) Power BI
8 39 (7.69%) Tableau
9 36 (7.10%) MongoDB
10 25 (4.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 22 (4.34%) Data Lake
12 19 (3.75%) Big Data
13 18 (3.55%) Oracle Reports
14 15 (2.96%) BigQuery
15 14 (2.76%) DB2
16 13 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
16 13 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (2.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 12 (2.37%) Metadata
17 12 (2.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 82 (16.17%) Git
2 47 (9.27%) JIRA
3 39 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 31 (6.11%) JUnit
5 24 (4.73%) GitLab
6 21 (4.14%) Cypress.io
6 21 (4.14%) TeamCity
7 12 (2.37%) SonarQube
8 11 (2.17%) Postman
9 10 (1.97%) Visual Studio
10 7 (1.38%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.38%) Burp Suite
10 7 (1.38%) Selenium
11 6 (1.18%) AppScan
11 6 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.99%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (0.99%) CA Release Automation
12 5 (0.99%) Gradle
13 4 (0.79%) Maven
13 4 (0.79%) Subversion
General
1 144 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 101 (19.92%) Analytical Skills
3 93 (18.34%) Finance
4 63 (12.43%) Banking
5 56 (11.05%) Public Sector
6 36 (7.10%) Investment Banking
7 33 (6.51%) Front Office
8 11 (2.17%) Marketing
9 8 (1.58%) Back Office
9 8 (1.58%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (1.18%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.99%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.99%) Retail
12 4 (0.79%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.59%) Law
13 3 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.39%) Games
Job Titles
1 173 (34.12%) Developer
2 57 (11.24%) Java Developer
3 48 (9.47%) Senior
4 46 (9.07%) Architect
5 45 (8.88%) Analyst
6 42 (8.28%) Data Engineer
7 36 (7.10%) Lead
8 31 (6.11%) DBA
9 25 (4.93%) Full Stack Developer
10 21 (4.14%) C# Developer
11 18 (3.55%) DevOps Engineer
11 18 (3.55%) Senior Developer
12 17 (3.35%) Applications Support
12 17 (3.35%) Business Analyst
13 16 (3.16%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 16 (3.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 14 (2.76%) .NET Developer
14 14 (2.76%) Consultant
14 14 (2.76%) Data Modeller
15 13 (2.56%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (14.79%) React
2 68 (13.41%) Spring
3 60 (11.83%) Spring Boot
4 58 (11.44%) REST
5 50 (9.86%) .NET
6 43 (8.48%) Kafka
7 38 (7.50%) AngularJS
8 37 (7.30%) HTML
9 36 (7.10%) CSS
9 36 (7.10%) JSON
10 35 (6.90%) RESTful
11 30 (5.92%) Elastic Stack
11 30 (5.92%) XML
12 25 (4.93%) Hibernate
12 25 (4.93%) Middleware
12 25 (4.93%) Web Services
13 22 (4.34%) JPA
14 20 (3.94%) Node.js
15 19 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
15 19 (3.75%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.28%) Data Structures
2 35 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.72%) Algorithms
4 24 (4.73%) Fixed Income
5 23 (4.54%) Derivative
5 23 (4.54%) Product Ownership
6 22 (4.34%) Public Cloud
7 20 (3.94%) Linux Command Line
8 15 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (2.96%) Equities
8 15 (2.96%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.97%) Cloud Native
11 10 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.58%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.58%) NHS
13 7 (1.38%) Replication
14 6 (1.18%) IoT
14 6 (1.18%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 103 (20.32%) Linux
2 61 (12.03%) Windows
3 51 (10.06%) Unix
4 29 (5.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (3.35%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.99%) VMS
7 2 (0.39%) CentOS
8 1 (0.20%) Android
8 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (38.66%) Agile
2 136 (26.82%) DevOps
3 96 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
4 95 (18.74%) CI/CD
5 94 (18.54%) Data Modelling
6 80 (15.78%) Microservices
7 72 (14.20%) Scrum
8 70 (13.81%) Test Automation
9 67 (13.21%) ETL
10 64 (12.62%) Continuous Integration
11 63 (12.43%) Business Intelligence
12 59 (11.64%) SDLC
13 56 (11.05%) Computer Science
14 54 (10.65%) Analytics
15 50 (9.86%) Migration
16 48 (9.47%) Mentoring
17 45 (8.88%) Software Engineering
18 43 (8.48%) Design Patterns
18 43 (8.48%) Full Stack Development
18 43 (8.48%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 264 (52.07%) SQL
2 156 (30.77%) Java
3 122 (24.06%) Python
4 81 (15.98%) C#
5 68 (13.41%) JavaScript
6 53 (10.45%) TypeScript
7 45 (8.88%) PowerShell
8 42 (8.28%) T-SQL
9 25 (4.93%) Bash
9 25 (4.93%) Shell Script
10 20 (3.94%) Perl
11 19 (3.75%) Scala
12 16 (3.16%) Go
13 15 (2.96%) C++
14 14 (2.76%) PHP
15 12 (2.37%) C
15 12 (2.37%) Kotlin
16 8 (1.58%) PL/SQL
17 6 (1.18%) R
18 5 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 91 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 75 (14.79%) SC Cleared
3 67 (13.21%) Degree
4 38 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (5.92%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.16%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.18%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.79%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.79%) SANS
11 3 (0.59%) ISEB
11 3 (0.59%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.59%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.59%) PMP
12 2 (0.39%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (12.82%) QA
2 20 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.99%) MiFID
5 4 (0.79%) ISO 15022
6 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.39%) GDPR
6 2 (0.39%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.20%) COPPA
7 1 (0.20%) EMIR
7 1 (0.20%) FATCA
7 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.20%) HL7
7 1 (0.20%) NCSC
7 1 (0.20%) NIST
7 1 (0.20%) SLA
7 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 76 (14.99%) Docker
2 25 (4.93%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.99%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 5 (0.99%) vSphere
4 4 (0.79%) HDFS
4 4 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.20%) KVM
6 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 93 (18.34%) Kubernetes
2 45 (8.88%) Terraform
3 36 (7.10%) Ansible
4 32 (6.31%) Grafana
5 27 (5.33%) Prometheus
6 21 (4.14%) Progress Chef
7 11 (2.17%) Graylog
8 10 (1.97%) Puppet
9 9 (1.78%) ITRS Geneos
10 8 (1.58%) Nagios
10 8 (1.58%) Packer
11 7 (1.38%) Kibana
11 7 (1.38%) Zipkin
12 6 (1.18%) HP Fortify
12 6 (1.18%) Nessus
12 6 (1.18%) WebInspect
13 5 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.99%) vRealize
14 3 (0.59%) Istio
15 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 122 (24.06%) Oracle
2 78 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 31 (6.11%) Google
4 26 (5.13%) IBM
5 22 (4.34%) Splunk
6 18 (3.55%) Databricks
7 17 (3.35%) Red Hat
8 14 (2.76%) ServiceNow
9 13 (2.56%) AVEVA
9 13 (2.56%) SAP
10 12 (2.37%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.97%) Sybase
11 10 (1.97%) Veritas
12 9 (1.78%) Temenos
13 8 (1.58%) CyberArk
14 7 (1.38%) Checkmarx
14 7 (1.38%) ION Trading
15 6 (1.18%) AppDynamics
15 6 (1.18%) Veracode
15 6 (1.18%) VMware