RDBMS Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring RDBMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 49 56
Rank change year-on-year -32 +7 -
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 2 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.20% 0.20% 1.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.43% 1.28% 10.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £416 - -
25th Percentile £437 - £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £537 £533
Median % change year-on-year -12.29% +0.70% -
75th Percentile £506 - £750
90th Percentile £526 - £753
England median daily rate £530 £500 £534
% change year-on-year +6.00% -6.37% -7.13%

All Database & BI Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 140 78 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.71% 15.57% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 52 69
10th Percentile £333 £307 £285
25th Percentile £382 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £415 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.87% -2.35% -
75th Percentile £495 £500 £550
90th Percentile £588 £555 £735
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 11
10th Percentile £12.95 £18.68 -
25th Percentile £13.39 £19.40 -
Median hourly rate £23.71 £20.60 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.08% +47.14% -67.62%
75th Percentile £74.63 £21.80 £22.73
90th Percentile £82.58 £22.52 £33.25
England median hourly rate £50.00 £33.81 £40.25
% change year-on-year +47.91% -16.01% -28.63%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

RDBMS job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing RDBMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing RDBMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire -23 1 £402 -25.14%
Leicestershire - 1 £540 -
RDBMS
England

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Sqoop
2 1 (50.00%) VLDB
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Database Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Database Security
1 1 (50.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Ab Initio
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) NetApp
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Teradata