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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 114 116
Rank change year-on-year -17 +2 +25
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 5 3 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.21% 0.17% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.26% 0.75% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 11
10th Percentile £585 £447 £400
25th Percentile £638 £505 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £611 £600
Median % change year-on-year +22.85% +1.75% -4.00%
75th Percentile £794 £717 £650
90th Percentile £805 £775 £690
Central London median daily rate £750 £611 £600
% change year-on-year +22.85% +1.75% -2.04%

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 397 402 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.39% 22.95% 22.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 269 346
10th Percentile £350 £404 £403
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £712
90th Percentile £749 £775 £794
Central London median daily rate £550 £555 £575
% change year-on-year -0.90% -3.48% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £21.94 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £30.09 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £48.58 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.99% +0.15% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £72.81 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £89.13 -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 £48.50
% change year-on-year -7.46% -28.56% -42.32%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for RDBMS in the City of London

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 (40.00%) IIS
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (20.00%) dbt
1 1 (20.00%) Matillion
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
1 2 (40.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (20.00%) Big Data
4 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (20.00%) GIS
4 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (20.00%) Metadata
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (20.00%) Power BI
4 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (20.00%) ER Studio
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) C# Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Junior
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Big Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Hadoop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Summit Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) XML
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (40.00%) ADO.NET
2 2 (40.00%) Ajax
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) SOAP
2 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 2 (40.00%) XSL
2 2 (40.00%) XSLT
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (20.00%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (20.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (20.00%) Derivative
1 1 (20.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (20.00%) Market Risk
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Refactoring
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
4 1 (20.00%) RBAC
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Sitecore
3 1 (20.00%) Alteryx
3 1 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (20.00%) Informatica
3 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (20.00%) SAP