RDBMS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring RDBMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 116 120
Rank change year-on-year -24 +4 +26
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 3 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.74% 1.02% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £508 £208
25th Percentile £725 £594 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £775 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +37.78% +5.63%
75th Percentile £775 £813 £644
90th Percentile - £814 £723
Central London median daily rate £750 £775 £563
% change year-on-year -3.23% +37.78% +5.14%

All Database & BI Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 404 391 452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.04% 22.38% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 264 319
10th Percentile £354 £400 £405
25th Percentile £456 £434 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £668 £675 £725
90th Percentile £763 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £20.43 £24.25 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £32.13 £36.75
Median hourly rate £25.78 £48.25 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.56% +25.32% -12.50%
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 £40.25
90th Percentile £31.76 £81.88 -
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £48.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -46.56% +20.63% -9.09%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

RDBMS job vacancy trend in the City of London

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing RDBMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing RDBMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (33.33%) Matillion
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Internet
1 2 (66.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) GIS
3 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (33.33%) Power BI
3 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Artifactory
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
2 1 (33.33%) ER Studio
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) C# Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Junior
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
1 2 (66.67%) ADO.NET
1 2 (66.67%) Ajax
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET Web Forms
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) XML
1 2 (66.67%) XSL
1 2 (66.67%) XSLT
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (33.33%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Refactoring
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) API Design
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Sitecore
3 1 (33.33%) Alteryx
3 1 (33.33%) Databricks
3 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (33.33%) SAP