RDBMS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 350 416
Rank change year-on-year +58 +66 -55
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 49 118 208
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.47% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.70% 2.47% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 94 143
10th Percentile £356 £409 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.13% +2.22% +6.53%
75th Percentile £575 £725 £700
90th Percentile £650 £871 £810
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £23.18
25th Percentile - - £27.94
Median hourly rate - - £36.75
75th Percentile - - £46.44
90th Percentile - - £51.73
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,887 4,781 9,514
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.15% 19.06% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,125 3,489 6,911
10th Percentile £356 £381 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £734
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 83 83
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.20 £19.20
25th Percentile £22.61 £41.75 £22.08
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £46.67
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +39.28% +50.55%
75th Percentile £63.00 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £68.20
UK median hourly rate £40.13 £60.00 £42.92
% change year-on-year -33.13% +39.80% +59.07%

RDBMS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing RDBMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

RDBMS trend for jobs with a WFH option

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing RDBMS.

RDBMS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing RDBMS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

RDBMS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing RDBMS.

RDBMS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (16.33%) JBoss
2 3 (6.12%) Apache
2 3 (6.12%) nginx
2 3 (6.12%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.04%) Confluence
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.04%) ThingWorx
3 1 (2.04%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 31 (63.27%) AWS
2 18 (36.73%) Azure
3 17 (34.69%) Serverless
4 6 (12.24%) Amazon S3
5 5 (10.20%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (8.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (6.12%) Amazon EventBridge
7 3 (6.12%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (6.12%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (6.12%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.08%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (4.08%) SaaS
8 2 (4.08%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.04%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (2.04%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.24%) Firewall
2 4 (8.16%) DNS
2 4 (8.16%) TCP/IP
3 3 (6.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 19 (38.78%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (36.73%) NoSQL
4 17 (34.69%) SQL Server
5 11 (22.45%) MongoDB
5 11 (22.45%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (14.29%) MySQL
7 5 (10.20%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (6.12%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (6.12%) Big Data
8 3 (6.12%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (6.12%) Oracle Database
9 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (4.08%) DocumentDB
9 2 (4.08%) Star Schema
10 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (2.04%) GIS
10 1 (2.04%) MariaDB
10 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Git
1 5 (10.20%) Jenkins
1 5 (10.20%) JIRA
2 4 (8.16%) SonarQube
3 3 (6.12%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (6.12%) CA Release Automation
3 3 (6.12%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (6.12%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.04%) Burp Suite
4 1 (2.04%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.04%) JMeter
4 1 (2.04%) JUnit
4 1 (2.04%) Mockito
General
1 12 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.33%) Public Sector
3 7 (14.29%) Finance
4 6 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Banking
6 2 (4.08%) Marketing
7 1 (2.04%) Dutch Language
7 1 (2.04%) Games
7 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Legal
7 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (32.65%) DBA
2 12 (24.49%) Architect
3 11 (22.45%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 8 (16.33%) Developer
5 7 (14.29%) Technical Architect
6 5 (10.20%) AWS Architect
7 4 (8.16%) Support Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Applications Support
8 3 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Linux Support
8 3 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.12%) SQL DBA
8 3 (6.12%) SQL Developer
9 2 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Consultant
9 2 (4.08%) Data Modeller
9 2 (4.08%) ETL Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Full Stack Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Java Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.49%) XML
2 11 (22.45%) JSON
2 11 (22.45%) Kafka
3 5 (10.20%) .NET
3 5 (10.20%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (10.20%) Middleware
3 5 (10.20%) Spring Boot
4 4 (8.16%) .NET Framework
4 4 (8.16%) ASP.NET
4 4 (8.16%) IBM Integration Bus
4 4 (8.16%) RESTful
5 3 (6.12%) HTML
5 3 (6.12%) REST
6 2 (4.08%) jQuery
6 2 (4.08%) React
6 2 (4.08%) Spring
7 1 (2.04%) Apache Camel
7 1 (2.04%) HTML5
7 1 (2.04%) Node.js
7 1 (2.04%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.20%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Hedge funds
3 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.08%) Video on Demand
4 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.04%) IoT
4 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Mashup
4 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.49%) Linux
2 11 (22.45%) Windows
3 7 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (10.20%) Unix
5 4 (8.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.86%) DevOps
2 19 (38.78%) Agile
3 12 (24.49%) Database Security
4 11 (22.45%) Microservices
5 10 (20.41%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (20.41%) Mentoring
6 6 (12.24%) CI/CD
7 5 (10.20%) Migration
7 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (8.16%) Architectural Patterns
8 4 (8.16%) Computer Science
8 4 (8.16%) Data Modelling
8 4 (8.16%) Design Patterns
8 4 (8.16%) ETL
8 4 (8.16%) Software Architecture
8 4 (8.16%) Technical Architecture
9 3 (6.12%) Code Quality
9 3 (6.12%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (6.12%) Runbook
9 3 (6.12%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.69%) SQL
2 11 (22.45%) Python
3 7 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.20%) C#
4 5 (10.20%) Java
4 5 (10.20%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.16%) Perl
5 4 (8.16%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.16%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.08%) Bash
6 2 (4.08%) PHP
6 2 (4.08%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.04%) C++
7 1 (2.04%) Go
7 1 (2.04%) Ruby
7 1 (2.04%) Tcl
7 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (18.37%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) AWS Certification
4 4 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (8.16%) Degree
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.04%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) COPPA
2 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) EMIR
2 1 (2.04%) FATCA
2 1 (2.04%) GDPR
2 1 (2.04%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.04%) MiFID
System Software
1 8 (16.33%) Docker
2 4 (8.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (22.45%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.29%) Terraform
3 5 (10.20%) Ansible
4 4 (8.16%) Grafana
4 4 (8.16%) Kibana
4 4 (8.16%) Nagios
4 4 (8.16%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.08%) Graylog
5 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.04%) Control-M
6 1 (2.04%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (40.82%) Oracle
2 7 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.24%) Splunk
4 4 (8.16%) IBM
5 3 (6.12%) AppDynamics
5 3 (6.12%) Temenos
6 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.04%) BMC
6 1 (2.04%) Checkmarx
6 1 (2.04%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.04%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.04%) Kepware
6 1 (2.04%) PTC
6 1 (2.04%) Sybase