RDBMS Contracts in Edinburgh

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 - 105
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 6 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.96% - 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.17% - 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - £240
25th Percentile £456 - £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £450
75th Percentile £469 - £479
90th Percentile - - £612
Scotland median daily rate £463 £700 £378
% change year-on-year -33.93% +85.19% -16.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 144 146 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.04% 17.91% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 106 256
10th Percentile £413 £381 £402
25th Percentile £450 £431 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £497 £489
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% +1.64% -2.20%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £544
90th Percentile £612 £669 £625
Scotland median daily rate £471 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.04% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.32 - -
Median hourly rate £27.35 - -
75th Percentile £28.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £26.50 £37.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.51% +5.91% +34.62%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing RDBMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in Edinburgh

RDBMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for RDBMS in Edinburgh

RDBMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for RDBMS in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 6 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 3 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle APEX
General
1 3 (50.00%) Back Office
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DBA
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) SQL DBA
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Database Security
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) API Development
2 2 (33.33%) Data Design
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Database Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft