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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 58 63
Rank change year-on-year -15 +5 +25
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.12% 0.14% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.00% 0.78% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £356 £750
Median % change year-on-year +12.92% -52.53% +66.67%
England median daily rate £525 £533 £533
% change year-on-year -1.41% -0.09% -5.66%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 100 128 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.55% 17.41% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 84 82
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £375 £356 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £423 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% -11.05% -
75th Percentile £473 £500 £550
90th Percentile £530 £586 £688
England median daily rate £507 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £11.33
25th Percentile - £21.25 £11.52
Median hourly rate £38.96 £22.50 £11.83
Median % change year-on-year +73.16% +90.19% -63.60%
75th Percentile - £23.75 £17.78
90th Percentile - - £21.35
England median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £48.45
% change year-on-year +24.29% -27.76% -3.11%

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 8 November 2025. 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 -14 1 £402 +12.92% 4
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 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Sqoop
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) ETL Development
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Teradata