RDBMS Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring RDBMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 2 0 14
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.81% - 5.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.71% - 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - £190
25th Percentile £488 - £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 - £217
75th Percentile £503 - £550
90th Percentile - - £599
South Wales median daily rate £495 - £217
% change year-on-year - - -62.26%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 35 54 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 14.11% 23.08% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 41 59
10th Percentile £304 £196 £204
25th Percentile £363 £250 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £503 £550 £538
90th Percentile £693 £638 £683
South Wales median daily rate £450 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £17.85
25th Percentile - - £19.13
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile - - £24.88
90th Percentile - - £25.55
South Wales median hourly rate £31.25 £25.84 £22.50
% change year-on-year +20.94% +14.84% +25.00%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

RDBMS job vacancy trend in Cardiff

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle