RDBMS Contracts in the City of London

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for RDBMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RDBMS over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 130 148
Rank change year-on-year +12 +18 -1
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 12 43 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.55% 1.20% 1.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.50% 5.68% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 32
10th Percentile £400 £488 £485
25th Percentile £450 £609 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £690 £671
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.87% +9.51%
75th Percentile £650 £800 £800
90th Percentile - £980 £816
Central London median daily rate £600 £680 £671
% change year-on-year -11.76% +1.38% +9.51%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of London

RDBMS 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 advertised in the City of London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 480 757 896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.02% 21.20% 21.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 477 691
10th Percentile £406 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £506 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +3.45% +5.45%
75th Percentile £710 £730 £703
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £578
% change year-on-year -4.17% +3.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £43.13 £40.65
25th Percentile £46.75 £58.41 £47.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% +38.99% +656.25%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - £71.20
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £60.50
% change year-on-year -42.32% +38.99% +255.88%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing RDBMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in the City of London

RDBMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for RDBMS in the City of London

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RDBMS in the City of London

RDBMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for RDBMS in the City of London

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (16.67%) Apache
1 2 (16.67%) JBoss
1 2 (16.67%) nginx
1 2 (16.67%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (25.00%) Serverless
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
1 2 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (33.33%) DB2
2 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (33.33%) Sybase ASE
3 2 (16.67%) MySQL
3 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (16.67%) Subversion
2 1 (8.33%) AppScan
2 1 (8.33%) Burp Suite
2 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Architect
1 3 (25.00%) DBA
1 3 (25.00%) Sybase DBA
2 2 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Database Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (16.67%) IBM Integration Bus
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (33.33%) Replication
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Video on Demand
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Unix
3 4 (33.33%) Windows
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (33.33%) Change Data Capture
2 4 (33.33%) ITIL
2 4 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 2 (16.67%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 2 (16.67%) Change Control
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) Runbook
3 2 (16.67%) Server Management
3 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) SQL
3 4 (33.33%) Perl
3 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (33.33%) T-SQL
4 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (16.67%) Bash
5 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
2 2 (16.67%) Graylog
2 2 (16.67%) Nagios
2 2 (16.67%) Progress Chef
2 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (16.67%) Puppet
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) HP Fortify
3 1 (8.33%) Nessus
3 1 (8.33%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) IBM
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (33.33%) SAP
2 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 4 (33.33%) Sun
2 4 (33.33%) Sybase
2 4 (33.33%) Veritas
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (16.67%) Splunk
3 2 (16.67%) Temenos
4 1 (8.33%) Checkmarx
4 1 (8.33%) Veracode