Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 453 432 473
Rank change year-on-year -21 +41 -55
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 145 304 435
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.51% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.00% 2.82% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 202 247
10th Percentile £377 £415 £425
25th Percentile £431 £464 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £566
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% +1.59% +13.20%
75th Percentile £606 £700 £700
90th Percentile £725 £775 £815
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £513 £495
% change year-on-year +4.20% +3.54% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £62.84 £25.79
25th Percentile - £63.83 £34.48
Median hourly rate £40.50 £66.56 £50.20
Median % change year-on-year -39.15% +32.59% +2.59%
75th Percentile - £68.20 £53.35
90th Percentile - £68.53 £54.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.50 £66.56 £51.85
% change year-on-year -39.15% +28.38% +20.95%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,245 10,781 17,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.73% 18.03% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,147 7,685 12,759
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 £658 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.40% +2.56% +9.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 185 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%
75th Percentile £58.55 £71.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +64.29% +45.83%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the UK 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
England +4 131 £525 -11.58% 48
London +5 78 £520 -13.33% 25
UK excluding London +28 56 £534 +4.20% 32
Work from Home +66 52 £534 -9.11% 34
North of England +24 26 £534 +7.88% 7
North West +6 23 £534 +9.01% 4
Midlands +17 16 £500 -9.09% 7
East Midlands +28 11 £533 +52.36% 2
South East +25 10 £481 -12.50% 4
Wales - 5 £600 - 2
West Midlands +13 4 £460 -16.36% 5
Yorkshire +20 3 £732 +8.44% 3
East of England +14 1 £675 +22.73% 3
Scotland +12 1 £700 +85.19% 8

RDBMS
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 16 (11.03%) JBoss
2 12 (8.28%) Apache
3 9 (6.21%) nginx
3 9 (6.21%) Oracle Workflow
3 9 (6.21%) Tomcat
4 6 (4.14%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.07%) SAS
6 2 (1.38%) Confluence
6 2 (1.38%) GemFire
6 2 (1.38%) ThingWorx
6 2 (1.38%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.69%) CMS
7 1 (0.69%) CoreMedia CMS
7 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.07%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (6.21%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.69%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.69%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 67 (46.21%) AWS
2 39 (26.90%) Azure
3 26 (17.93%) Serverless
4 17 (11.72%) GCP
5 13 (8.97%) GitHub
6 12 (8.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (7.59%) Amazon S3
8 10 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (4.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (4.83%) Cloud Functions
10 7 (4.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (4.14%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (4.14%) SaaS
12 5 (3.45%) IaaS
12 5 (3.45%) OpenShift
12 5 (3.45%) Snowflake
13 4 (2.76%) Amazon EventBridge
13 4 (2.76%) AWS Fargate
14 3 (2.07%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.97%) Firewall
2 11 (7.59%) DNS
3 5 (3.45%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.76%) VPN
5 3 (2.07%) SSL
6 1 (0.69%) HTTP
6 1 (0.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 51 (35.17%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (27.59%) SQL Server
4 37 (25.52%) NoSQL
5 24 (16.55%) MongoDB
6 23 (15.86%) MySQL
7 14 (9.66%) Data Lake
7 14 (9.66%) Oracle Reports
8 11 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (6.21%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (6.21%) Metadata
10 8 (5.52%) DB2
11 7 (4.83%) Big Data
11 7 (4.83%) BigQuery
11 7 (4.83%) Oracle Database
12 5 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (3.45%) Star Schema
13 4 (2.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (12.41%) Git
2 16 (11.03%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.21%) GitLab
4 8 (5.52%) SonarQube
5 7 (4.83%) JIRA
6 6 (4.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (3.45%) CA Release Automation
7 5 (3.45%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.76%) Subversion
9 3 (2.07%) Burp Suite
9 3 (2.07%) ERwin
9 3 (2.07%) JUnit
10 2 (1.38%) Ant
10 2 (1.38%) AppScan
10 2 (1.38%) ER Studio
10 2 (1.38%) Gradle
10 2 (1.38%) Maven
10 2 (1.38%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.69%) Selenium
General
1 37 (25.52%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (17.93%) Finance
4 15 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 13 (8.97%) Banking
6 7 (4.83%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.76%) Back Office
8 3 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.38%) Games
9 2 (1.38%) Legal
9 2 (1.38%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.38%) Marketing
10 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Local Government
10 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (25.52%) Architect
2 28 (19.31%) DBA
3 19 (13.10%) Developer
4 14 (9.66%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 13 (8.97%) Data Architect
6 12 (8.28%) Data Modeller
6 12 (8.28%) Technical Architect
7 11 (7.59%) Data Engineer
7 11 (7.59%) Senior
8 8 (5.52%) ServiceNow Architect
8 8 (5.52%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (5.52%) Support Engineer
9 7 (4.83%) Applications Support
9 7 (4.83%) AWS Architect
10 6 (4.14%) Java Architect
10 6 (4.14%) Linux Engineer
11 5 (3.45%) Consultant
11 5 (3.45%) Linux Support
11 5 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (3.45%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.86%) JSON
2 21 (14.48%) XML
3 15 (10.34%) Kafka
3 15 (10.34%) Spring Boot
4 12 (8.28%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (6.90%) IBM Integration Bus
6 9 (6.21%) Middleware
7 7 (4.83%) .NET
7 7 (4.83%) OAuth
8 6 (4.14%) REST
9 5 (3.45%) HTML
9 5 (3.45%) RESTful
9 5 (3.45%) Spring
10 4 (2.76%) .NET Framework
10 4 (2.76%) ASP.NET
11 3 (2.07%) React
12 2 (1.38%) CSS
12 2 (1.38%) jQuery
12 2 (1.38%) Node.js
12 2 (1.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.59%) Public Cloud
2 9 (6.21%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (6.21%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (6.21%) Replication
3 8 (5.52%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.14%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.14%) CMDB
4 6 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.76%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (2.07%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.07%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.07%) Smart Meter
8 2 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.38%) Clustering
8 2 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.38%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.38%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 43 (29.66%) Linux
2 31 (21.38%) Windows
3 27 (18.62%) Unix
4 21 (14.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (10.34%) Windows Server
6 5 (3.45%) VMS
7 1 (0.69%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (27.59%) Agile
2 36 (24.83%) DevOps
3 30 (20.69%) Data Modelling
4 25 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (15.86%) Microservices
5 23 (15.86%) Migration
6 18 (12.41%) Design Patterns
7 17 (11.72%) CI/CD
7 17 (11.72%) Database Security
8 15 (10.34%) Containerisation
8 15 (10.34%) ETL
8 15 (10.34%) Scrum
9 14 (9.66%) Architectural Patterns
9 14 (9.66%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (9.66%) Incident Management
9 14 (9.66%) Mentoring
9 14 (9.66%) Runbook
10 12 (8.28%) Architectural Design
11 11 (7.59%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (7.59%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 51 (35.17%) SQL
2 37 (25.52%) Python
3 24 (16.55%) Java
4 16 (11.03%) PowerShell
5 15 (10.34%) Shell Script
5 15 (10.34%) T-SQL
6 13 (8.97%) Bash
7 12 (8.28%) JavaScript
8 10 (6.90%) Perl
9 7 (4.83%) C#
9 7 (4.83%) TypeScript
10 5 (3.45%) C++
10 5 (3.45%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.76%) C
12 3 (2.07%) PHP
12 3 (2.07%) Scala
13 2 (1.38%) Groovy
14 1 (0.69%) Korn
14 1 (0.69%) Ruby
14 1 (0.69%) XPath
Qualifications
1 19 (13.10%) Degree
1 19 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.45%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.07%) SANS
6 2 (1.38%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.69%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.03%) QA
2 4 (2.76%) ISO 15022
3 2 (1.38%) GDPR
4 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.69%) COPPA
4 1 (0.69%) COREP
4 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.69%) EMIR
4 1 (0.69%) FATCA
4 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.69%) IFRS
4 1 (0.69%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.69%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.69%) MiFID
4 1 (0.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (11.72%) Docker
2 7 (4.83%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.45%) vSphere
4 4 (2.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.69%) KVM
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (22.76%) Kubernetes
2 21 (14.48%) Terraform
3 18 (12.41%) Ansible
4 10 (6.90%) Progress Chef
5 9 (6.21%) Grafana
5 9 (6.21%) Nagios
6 7 (4.83%) Graylog
6 7 (4.83%) Prometheus
7 6 (4.14%) Kibana
7 6 (4.14%) Packer
8 5 (3.45%) Puppet
8 5 (3.45%) vRealize
9 2 (1.38%) HP Fortify
9 2 (1.38%) Nessus
9 2 (1.38%) WebInspect
10 1 (0.69%) Control-M
10 1 (0.69%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.69%) Ganglia
10 1 (0.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 59 (40.69%) Oracle
2 16 (11.03%) Red Hat
3 15 (10.34%) IBM
3 15 (10.34%) Microsoft
4 14 (9.66%) ServiceNow
5 13 (8.97%) Splunk
6 9 (6.21%) Google
6 9 (6.21%) Temenos
6 9 (6.21%) Veritas
7 6 (4.14%) AppDynamics
7 6 (4.14%) Sybase
7 6 (4.14%) VMware
8 5 (3.45%) Arqiva
8 5 (3.45%) Talend
9 4 (2.76%) SAP
9 4 (2.76%) Sparx
9 4 (2.76%) Sun
10 3 (2.07%) Ab Initio
10 3 (2.07%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (2.07%) Checkmarx