RDBMS Contracts in England

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 419 401 454
Rank change year-on-year -18 +53 -31
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 120 259 339
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.53% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.93% 2.96% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 172 200
10th Percentile £363 £425 £450
25th Percentile £413 £492 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +14.77%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £700
90th Percentile £665 £798 £815
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £25.79
25th Percentile - - £34.48
Median hourly rate £40.50 - £50.20
75th Percentile - - £53.35
90th Percentile - - £54.49
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £66.56 £50.20
% change year-on-year -39.15% +32.59% +2.59%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,220 8,741 14,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.92% 17.88% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,478 6,287 10,157
10th Percentile £355 £374 £369
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £660
90th Percentile £788 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.75% +9.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 169 179
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.40 £22.39
Median hourly rate £40.25 £58.59 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.30% +30.20% +80.00%
75th Percentile £60.13 £73.71 £65.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +66.79%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing RDBMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in England

RDBMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in England.

Daily rate trend for RDBMS in England

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RDBMS in England

RDBMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in England.

Hourly rate trend for RDBMS in England

RDBMS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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
London +9 80 £510 -15.00% 24
North of England +16 16 £534 +9.01% 10
North West +1 16 £534 +10.16% 5
South East +17 11 £438 -20.45% 7
Midlands +18 9 £359 -34.68% 6
East Midlands +26 7 £356 +1.71% 1
West Midlands -1 2 £420 -24.49% 5
East of England +9 1 £675 +3.85% 4
RDBMS
UK

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (10.00%) JBoss
2 9 (7.50%) Apache
3 8 (6.67%) Oracle Workflow
4 6 (5.00%) Apache Spark
4 6 (5.00%) nginx
4 6 (5.00%) Tomcat
5 3 (2.50%) SAS
6 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.83%) CMS
6 1 (0.83%) Confluence
6 1 (0.83%) CoreMedia CMS
6 1 (0.83%) GemFire
6 1 (0.83%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.83%) ThingWorx
6 1 (0.83%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (5.00%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.83%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.83%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 57 (47.50%) AWS
2 32 (26.67%) Azure
3 22 (18.33%) Serverless
4 18 (15.00%) GCP
5 12 (10.00%) GitHub
6 11 (9.17%) Amazon S3
7 8 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (5.83%) Cloud Functions
8 7 (5.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (4.17%) IaaS
9 5 (4.17%) OpenShift
9 5 (4.17%) SaaS
9 5 (4.17%) Snowflake
10 4 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.33%) Amazon EventBridge
10 4 (3.33%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.67%) DNS
1 8 (6.67%) Firewall
2 3 (2.50%) SSL
2 3 (2.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.67%) VPN
4 1 (0.83%) HTTP
4 1 (0.83%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 45 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (29.17%) SQL Server
4 34 (28.33%) NoSQL
5 21 (17.50%) MongoDB
6 18 (15.00%) MySQL
7 14 (11.67%) Data Lake
8 12 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
9 9 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (6.67%) DB2
11 7 (5.83%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (5.83%) BigQuery
11 7 (5.83%) Metadata
12 6 (5.00%) Big Data
13 5 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (3.33%) Oracle Database
14 4 (3.33%) Star Schema
14 4 (3.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 18 (15.00%) Git
2 15 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.67%) GitLab
4 6 (5.00%) JIRA
4 6 (5.00%) SonarQube
4 6 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (4.17%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (4.17%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (4.17%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.50%) ERwin
6 3 (2.50%) JUnit
6 3 (2.50%) Subversion
7 2 (1.67%) Ant
7 2 (1.67%) ER Studio
7 2 (1.67%) Gradle
7 2 (1.67%) Maven
8 1 (0.83%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.83%) FitNesse
8 1 (0.83%) Selenium
8 1 (0.83%) Vagrant
General
1 27 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.17%) Finance
3 22 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.83%) Public Sector
5 11 (9.17%) Banking
6 4 (3.33%) Back Office
7 3 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.67%) Games
8 2 (1.67%) Marketing
9 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.83%) Legal
9 1 (0.83%) Local Government
9 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (20.00%) Architect
2 22 (18.33%) DBA
3 18 (15.00%) Developer
4 13 (10.83%) Data Modeller
5 12 (10.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 10 (8.33%) Technical Architect
7 9 (7.50%) Data Engineer
8 8 (6.67%) Support Engineer
9 7 (5.83%) Senior
10 6 (5.00%) AWS Architect
10 6 (5.00%) Consultant
10 6 (5.00%) Java Architect
10 6 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) GCP Architect
11 5 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) SQL Developer
12 4 (3.33%) Data Architect
12 4 (3.33%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.83%) JSON
1 19 (15.83%) XML
2 15 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 13 (10.83%) Kafka
4 10 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (8.33%) Middleware
5 8 (6.67%) HTML
6 7 (5.83%) .NET
6 7 (5.83%) OAuth
7 6 (5.00%) IBM Integration Bus
8 5 (4.17%) REST
8 5 (4.17%) RESTful
8 5 (4.17%) Spring
9 4 (3.33%) .NET Framework
9 4 (3.33%) ASP.NET
9 4 (3.33%) HTML5
10 2 (1.67%) CSS
10 2 (1.67%) jQuery
10 2 (1.67%) Node.js
10 2 (1.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.50%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (5.83%) Replication
3 6 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.17%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (2.50%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.50%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.50%) Smart Meter
7 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.67%) Clustering
7 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.67%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.67%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.67%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.83%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 40 (33.33%) Linux
2 28 (23.33%) Unix
2 28 (23.33%) Windows
3 22 (18.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (8.33%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.17%) VMS
6 1 (0.83%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (28.33%) Agile
2 29 (24.17%) Data Modelling
3 28 (23.33%) DevOps
4 21 (17.50%) Microservices
5 18 (15.00%) Migration
6 17 (14.17%) CI/CD
6 17 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (12.50%) Database Security
8 14 (11.67%) Containerisation
8 14 (11.67%) ETL
8 14 (11.67%) Scrum
9 12 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (10.00%) Mentoring
10 11 (9.17%) Incident Management
10 11 (9.17%) Physical Data Model
10 11 (9.17%) Runbook
11 10 (8.33%) Build Automation
11 10 (8.33%) Computer Science
11 10 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (7.50%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 48 (40.00%) SQL
2 36 (30.00%) Python
3 23 (19.17%) Java
4 14 (11.67%) T-SQL
5 12 (10.00%) Bash
5 12 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 12 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 12 (10.00%) Shell Script
6 10 (8.33%) Perl
7 7 (5.83%) C#
8 6 (5.00%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.17%) C++
10 4 (3.33%) C
10 4 (3.33%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.50%) Scala
12 2 (1.67%) Groovy
12 2 (1.67%) PHP
13 1 (0.83%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.83%) R
13 1 (0.83%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.17%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.67%) Degree
4 6 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.17%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.33%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.83%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.67%) QA
2 4 (3.33%) ISO 15022
3 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.83%) COPPA
3 1 (0.83%) COREP
3 1 (0.83%) EMIR
3 1 (0.83%) FATCA
3 1 (0.83%) GDPR
3 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.83%) IFRS
3 1 (0.83%) IFRS 17
3 1 (0.83%) IFRS 9
3 1 (0.83%) MiFID
3 1 (0.83%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (12.50%) Docker
2 11 (9.17%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.17%) vSphere
4 4 (3.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.83%) KVM
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (13.33%) Terraform
3 13 (10.83%) Ansible
4 9 (7.50%) Progress Chef
5 6 (5.00%) Kibana
5 6 (5.00%) Packer
6 5 (4.17%) Grafana
6 5 (4.17%) Graylog
6 5 (4.17%) Nagios
6 5 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.17%) vRealize
7 4 (3.33%) Puppet
8 1 (0.83%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.83%) Ganglia
8 1 (0.83%) Nessus
8 1 (0.83%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.83%) Podman
8 1 (0.83%) VxRail
8 1 (0.83%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 56 (46.67%) Oracle
2 15 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 13 (10.83%) Red Hat
4 11 (9.17%) Google
4 11 (9.17%) IBM
4 11 (9.17%) Splunk
5 9 (7.50%) Veritas
6 6 (5.00%) AppDynamics
6 6 (5.00%) Sybase
6 6 (5.00%) Temenos
6 6 (5.00%) VMware
7 5 (4.17%) Arqiva
7 5 (4.17%) CyberArk
7 5 (4.17%) SAP
7 5 (4.17%) Sparx
7 5 (4.17%) Talend
8 4 (3.33%) ServiceNow
8 4 (3.33%) Sun
9 3 (2.50%) Ab Initio
9 3 (2.50%) Teradata