Relational Database Contracts in London

Relational Database
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 154 141
Rank change year-on-year -12 -13 -3
Contract jobs citing Relational Database 217 300 465
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.75% 1.69% 1.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.96% 7.52% 9.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 223 331
10th Percentile £400 £375 £425
25th Percentile £449 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £551 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.72% -15.31% +2.36%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £775
90th Percentile £775 £800 £813
England median daily rate £523 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -5.00% -8.33% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £21.24
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £22.49
75th Percentile £53.75 - £30.92
90th Percentile - - £86.25
England median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -18.46% -53.57% +47.37%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,727 3,992 5,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.95% 22.49% 20.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,910 2,973 3,709
10th Percentile £385 £375 £400
25th Percentile £449 £455 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% -2.13%
75th Percentile £713 £713 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 34 50
10th Percentile £22.33 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £28.60 £25.63 £25.93
Median hourly rate £37.81 £46.25 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.26% -13.95% -2.27%
75th Percentile £59.56 £54.03 £81.88
90th Percentile £79.75 £70.85 £90.00
England median hourly rate £33.88 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -15.30% -31.73% +37.86%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in London

Relational Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Relational Database in London

Relational Database
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in London over the 6 months to 18 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Relational Database in London

Relational Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Relational Database in London

Relational Database
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 18 June 2025. 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
Central London -7 33 £480 -20.00% 99
South London +8 10 - - 4
West London +18 5 £500 +11.61% 25
East London +12 1 £550 -35.29% 25
Relational Database
England

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 19 (8.76%) Apache Spark
2 11 (5.07%) Apache
3 8 (3.69%) GemFire
3 8 (3.69%) Oracle Coherence
4 6 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.30%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.38%) Camunda
6 3 (1.38%) JBoss
6 3 (1.38%) SAS
6 3 (1.38%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.92%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.92%) Appian
7 2 (0.92%) IIS
7 2 (0.92%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.46%) Confluence
8 1 (0.46%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (5.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Endur
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle TCA
Cloud Services
1 60 (27.65%) AWS
2 32 (14.75%) Azure
3 24 (11.06%) Power Platform
4 20 (9.22%) Amazon S3
5 17 (7.83%) Serverless
6 12 (5.53%) GCP
7 11 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.15%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.69%) GitHub
10 7 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.76%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.30%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (2.30%) dbt
12 5 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (1.84%) OpenShift
13 4 (1.84%) PowerApps
14 3 (1.38%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.84%) HTTP
2 3 (1.38%) POP3
2 3 (1.38%) SMTP
3 2 (0.92%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.92%) Internet
3 2 (0.92%) LAN
3 2 (0.92%) SMS
3 2 (0.92%) SSH
3 2 (0.92%) SSL
4 1 (0.46%) Firewall
4 1 (0.46%) Intranet
4 1 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.46%) Multicast
4 1 (0.46%) VPN
4 1 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (25.81%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (18.89%) RDBMS
3 32 (14.75%) MongoDB
4 24 (11.06%) SQL Server
5 22 (10.14%) NoSQL
6 21 (9.68%) DB2
7 20 (9.22%) Power BI
8 16 (7.37%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (6.91%) Big Data
9 15 (6.91%) MySQL
10 13 (5.99%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (5.07%) Data Lake
11 11 (5.07%) Tableau
12 9 (4.15%) Hadoop
12 9 (4.15%) Oracle Database
13 8 (3.69%) Data Vault
14 7 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (2.30%) BigQuery
15 5 (2.30%) DynamoDB
15 5 (2.30%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 40 (18.43%) JUnit
2 24 (11.06%) Jenkins
3 19 (8.76%) Gradle
4 14 (6.45%) Git
5 13 (5.99%) Mockito
6 11 (5.07%) Liquibase
7 8 (3.69%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.69%) GitLab
8 7 (3.23%) JIRA
9 5 (2.30%) JMeter
10 4 (1.84%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.84%) ERwin
10 4 (1.84%) git-flow
10 4 (1.84%) Maven
10 4 (1.84%) Selenium
10 4 (1.84%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.38%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.38%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.92%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.92%) Toad
General
1 87 (40.09%) Finance
2 78 (35.94%) Social Skills
3 56 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (14.75%) Banking
5 22 (10.14%) Investment Banking
6 21 (9.68%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.99%) Marketing
8 12 (5.53%) Front Office
9 11 (5.07%) Electronics
9 11 (5.07%) Manufacturing
9 11 (5.07%) Telecoms
10 7 (3.23%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.84%) Retail
13 2 (0.92%) Billing
13 2 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.92%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.46%) Back Office
14 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 118 (54.38%) Developer
2 61 (28.11%) Senior
3 55 (25.35%) Java Developer
4 48 (22.12%) Senior Developer
5 31 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
6 29 (13.36%) Data Engineer
7 17 (7.83%) SQL Developer
8 16 (7.37%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 16 (7.37%) Linux Developer
9 15 (6.91%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
9 15 (6.91%) Senior SQL Developer
10 12 (5.53%) .NET Developer
10 12 (5.53%) Analyst
11 11 (5.07%) Python Developer
11 11 (5.07%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 11 (5.07%) Senior Data Engineer
12 10 (4.61%) React Developer
13 9 (4.15%) Data Modeller
13 9 (4.15%) Oracle Developer
13 9 (4.15%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (24.42%) Spring
2 42 (19.35%) Kafka
3 32 (14.75%) Spring Boot
4 31 (14.29%) .NET
5 28 (12.90%) AngularJS
6 26 (11.98%) React
6 26 (11.98%) REST
7 18 (8.29%) .NET Framework
7 18 (8.29%) HTML
7 18 (8.29%) Web Services
8 17 (7.83%) ASP.NET
9 16 (7.37%) Entity Framework
9 16 (7.37%) JMS
10 15 (6.91%) RESTful
11 14 (6.45%) OpenAPI
11 14 (6.45%) Swagger
12 11 (5.07%) XML
13 10 (4.61%) .NET Core
14 9 (4.15%) CSS
15 8 (3.69%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.60%) Data Structures
2 16 (7.37%) Equities
3 9 (4.15%) Fixed Income
4 8 (3.69%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.30%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.30%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (2.30%) N-Tier
6 5 (2.30%) PKI
7 4 (1.84%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.38%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.38%) Derivative
8 3 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.38%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.38%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.38%) Replication
8 3 (1.38%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 45 (20.74%) Linux
2 19 (8.76%) Unix
3 11 (5.07%) Windows
4 7 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.30%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.46%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (39.17%) Agile
2 61 (28.11%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (23.50%) DevOps
4 50 (23.04%) CI/CD
5 46 (21.20%) Microservices
6 38 (17.51%) TDD
7 35 (16.13%) Data Modelling
7 35 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
8 33 (15.21%) Business Intelligence
8 33 (15.21%) Software Engineering
9 30 (13.82%) SDLC
10 25 (11.52%) Computer Science
10 25 (11.52%) Containerisation
10 25 (11.52%) Visualisation
11 24 (11.06%) Multithreading
12 23 (10.60%) Open Source
13 22 (10.14%) Analytics
13 22 (10.14%) High Availability
13 22 (10.14%) Migration
14 21 (9.68%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 127 (58.53%) SQL
2 90 (41.47%) Java
3 89 (41.01%) Python
4 29 (13.36%) Shell Script
5 26 (11.98%) C#
6 22 (10.14%) TypeScript
7 17 (7.83%) JavaScript
8 13 (5.99%) PL/SQL
9 10 (4.61%) Scala
10 8 (3.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (3.69%) RPG
10 8 (3.69%) RPG IV
11 7 (3.23%) C++
11 7 (3.23%) Ruby
11 7 (3.23%) T-SQL
12 6 (2.76%) Perl
12 6 (2.76%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.84%) C
14 3 (1.38%) VB
15 2 (0.92%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 37 (17.05%) SC Cleared
1 37 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 35 (16.13%) Degree
3 10 (4.61%) Numerate Degree
4 9 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.30%) MCPD
5 5 (2.30%) MCSD
6 4 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.92%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.83%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.23%) QA
3 4 (1.84%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.92%) GDPR
5 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.46%) MiFID
5 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (19.82%) Docker
2 8 (3.69%) GridGain
3 7 (3.23%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 34 (15.67%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.99%) Terraform
3 6 (2.76%) Ansible
4 3 (1.38%) Kibana
4 3 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.92%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.46%) Argo
6 1 (0.46%) Grafana
Vendors
1 35 (16.13%) Oracle
2 25 (11.52%) Sybase
3 19 (8.76%) Microsoft
4 18 (8.29%) SAP
5 9 (4.15%) IBM
6 8 (3.69%) TIBCO
7 7 (3.23%) Splunk
8 6 (2.76%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.30%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.30%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.84%) Alteryx
10 4 (1.84%) Google
11 3 (1.38%) Databricks
11 3 (1.38%) Dataiku
11 3 (1.38%) Genesys
11 3 (1.38%) ION Trading
11 3 (1.38%) OpenLink
11 3 (1.38%) Solace
11 3 (1.38%) VMware
12 2 (0.92%) Adobe
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