RDBMS Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring RDBMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RDBMS over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 114 126
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 +19
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 3 12 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.55% 1.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.77% 2.46% 5.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 12
10th Percentile £447 £400 £488
25th Percentile £505 £450 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £611 £600 £690
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% -13.04% +6.15%
75th Percentile £717 £650 £800
90th Percentile £775 - £980
Central London median daily rate £611 £600 £680
% change year-on-year +1.75% -11.76% +4.62%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 391 488 770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.25% 22.21% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 328 487
10th Percentile £405 £403 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £702 £730
90th Percentile £763 £791 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £41.16 - £43.13
25th Percentile £50.97 £46.75 £58.41
Median hourly rate £67.33 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +38.81% -42.32% +38.99%
75th Percentile £83.67 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £93.47 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
% change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +38.99%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing RDBMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in the City of London

RDBMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for RDBMS in the City of London

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 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RDBMS in the City of London

RDBMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for RDBMS in the City of London

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
2 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Flink
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) Parquet
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB DBA
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Avro
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Beam
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Co-Creation
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (33.33%) Database Security
1 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Process Management
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
1 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle