RDBMS Contracts in the South East

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 215 226
Rank change year-on-year +25 +11 -32
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 10 11 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.18% 0.19% 0.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.64% 1.26% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 21
10th Percentile £383 £490 £363
25th Percentile £414 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +10.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £538 £700 £600
90th Percentile - £750 £621
England median daily rate £525 £594 £570
% change year-on-year -11.58% +4.17% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.75
Median hourly rate - - £53.50
75th Percentile - - £55.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.50 - £50.20
% change year-on-year - - +2.59%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 608 872 1,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.00% 14.96% 18.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 610 976
10th Percentile £317 £318 £338
25th Percentile £400 £425 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £681 £680
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 39 30
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £20.18
25th Percentile £22.08 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £58.95 £57.50 £39.21
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +46.66% +1.84%
75th Percentile £69.38 £75.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.44 £62.49
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.09% +36.58% +70.00%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing RDBMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in the South East

RDBMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for RDBMS in the South East

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RDBMS in the South East

RDBMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for RDBMS in the South East

RDBMS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Thames Valley +9 5 £481 -12.50% 2
Hampshire +1 5 - - 2
Berkshire -5 4 £525 -4.55% 2
Buckinghamshire - 1 £438 -
RDBMS
England

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) IaaS
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) Nutanix
5 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 8 (80.00%) MySQL
3 7 (70.00%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (50.00%) MongoDB
5 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
7 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
1 5 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JMeter
2 1 (10.00%) JUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Mockito
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) DBA
4 2 (20.00%) Consultant
4 2 (20.00%) Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Linux Support
5 1 (10.00%) Linux Support Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL Developer
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
1 2 (20.00%) jQuery
2 1 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (10.00%) Ajax
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Camel
2 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) WireMock
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (30.00%) Smart Meter
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) Clustering
4 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 6 (60.00%) Unix
3 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (50.00%) VMS
4 3 (30.00%) Windows
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) Scrum
2 5 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 5 (50.00%) Runbook
3 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Re-Platforming
4 3 (30.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Change Control
5 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (20.00%) Project Management
6 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
6 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (10.00%) Kanban
6 1 (10.00%) Process Management
6 1 (10.00%) TDD
6 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) Bash
3 4 (40.00%) SQL
4 3 (30.00%) Shell Script
5 2 (20.00%) Java
5 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Ansible
2 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (50.00%) Packer
3 5 (50.00%) vRealize
4 3 (30.00%) Terraform
5 2 (20.00%) Grafana
5 2 (20.00%) Graylog
5 2 (20.00%) Nagios
5 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (10.00%) Kibana
6 1 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (10.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle
2 5 (50.00%) Arqiva
2 5 (50.00%) Veritas
2 5 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (30.00%) Splunk
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (10.00%) Dell
5 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds