RDBMS Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring RDBMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 105 121
Rank change year-on-year +9 +16 +3
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 4 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.31% 0.25% 0.056%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.92% 1.44% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £288 - -
25th Percentile £387 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £375 £600
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -37.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £505 £388 -
90th Percentile £513 - -
South East median daily rate £446 £425 £600
% change year-on-year +4.94% -29.17% +6.67%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Berkshire

RDBMS falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 208 278 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.95% 17.38% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 169 161
10th Percentile £410 £385 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +18.56%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £650 £663 £725
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £535
% change year-on-year -10.00% -6.54% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 8
10th Percentile - £24.85 £55.41
25th Percentile - £41.25 £60.50
Median hourly rate - £58.30 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year - -13.63% +9.76%
75th Percentile - £61.60 £79.78
90th Percentile - £64.73 £82.92
South East median hourly rate £18.75 £48.18 £49.00
% change year-on-year -61.08% -1.67% +130.05%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RDBMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

RDBMS job vacancy trend in Berkshire

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing RDBMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RDBMS in Berkshire

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing RDBMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 November 2025. 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
Windsor - 2 £368 - 1
Reading +16 1 £445 +18.67%
Bracknell -6 1 £500 -
RDBMS
South East

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (25.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Database Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Support
1 1 (25.00%) VoIP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) FreeSWITCH
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) API Design
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) Database Security
3 1 (25.00%) Database Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Master Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) OCP
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft