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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 65 61
Rank change year-on-year -15 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 3 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.24% 0.13% 0.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.73% 1.03% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £351 - -
25th Percentile £383 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £537 £356
Median % change year-on-year -18.53% +50.84% +1.71%
75th Percentile £490 - £359
90th Percentile £520 - £365
England median daily rate £545 £450 £520
% change year-on-year +21.11% -13.46% -13.33%

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 173 97 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.93% 12.80% 17.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 73 92
10th Percentile £300 £288 £313
25th Percentile £375 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £420 £400
Median % change year-on-year +8.63% +5.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £478
90th Percentile £600 £537 £573
England median daily rate £500 £513 £545
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.96% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 3 3
10th Percentile - £19.40 £20.25
25th Percentile £13.51 £20.75 £20.63
Median hourly rate £19.29 £23.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +2.22% +93.59%
75th Percentile £74.00 £30.98 £37.83
90th Percentile - £35.77 £46.27
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.99 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.32% -0.03% -36.36%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 22 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for RDBMS in the East Midlands

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 22 August 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 +16 2 £335 -37.62% 3
Leicestershire - 1 £540 - 3
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 (33.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) git-flow
2 1 (33.33%) Gradle
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Database Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) JWT
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) JPA
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) Swagger
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) API Development
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Database Security
2 1 (33.33%) Database Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp