RDBMS Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring RDBMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 53 62
Rank change year-on-year -18 +9 +8
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.11% 0.19% 0.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.57% 1.19% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £420
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.51%
75th Percentile £488 - £430
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.50
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £40.50

All Database & BI Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 175 84 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.44% 16.06% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 62 98
10th Percentile £325 £122 £304
25th Percentile £413 £398 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £480 £445
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +7.87% -12.96%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £613 £700 £641
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.40%
West Midlands median hourly rate £48.75 £18.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +170.83% -55.56% +64.47%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

RDBMS job vacancy trend in Birmingham

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) SQL DBA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 22301
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle