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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 - 113
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 5 0 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.25% - 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.37% - 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 11
10th Percentile - - £400
25th Percentile £565 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £540
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.86%
75th Percentile £738 - £650
90th Percentile £783 - £678
Central London median daily rate £725 £535 £570
% change year-on-year +35.51% -6.14% -18.57%

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 364 381 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.93% 20.88% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 250 336
10th Percentile £338 £405 £406
25th Percentile £413 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -3.36% -0.83%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £713
90th Percentile £744 £752 £813
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.81 £36.75 £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 £38.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.04% -20.62% -42.32%
75th Percentile £59.72 £40.25 £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £38.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +50.04% -20.62% -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 8 March 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%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (40.00%) Metadata
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (40.00%) SQLPlus
3 1 (20.00%) Big Data
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) ER Studio
1 2 (40.00%) ERwin
1 2 (40.00%) Toad
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Modeller
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Database Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IAM Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database Developer
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
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ETL
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Conceptual Models
2 2 (40.00%) Data Design
2 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) ERD
2 2 (40.00%) Logical Data Model
2 2 (40.00%) Metadata Management
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Physical Data Model
2 2 (40.00%) UML
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
2 2 (40.00%) PHP
2 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) Sparx
2 1 (20.00%) Informatica