RDBMS Contract Job Trends in England

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring RDBMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 391 408
Rank change year-on-year -51 +17 +30
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 100 110 132
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.39% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.84% 2.14% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 69 97
10th Percentile £373 £400 £404
25th Percentile £445 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £534
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +0.19% -2.91%
75th Percentile £642 £550 £665
90th Percentile £815 £588 £747
UK median daily rate £525 £527 £523
% change year-on-year -0.38% +0.86% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £76.25
Median hourly rate - - £77.50
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £77.50

All Database & BI Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,431 5,136 6,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.13% 18.27% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 3,411 4,307
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £614 £663 £660
90th Percentile £716 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 74 131
10th Percentile £20.68 £18.74 £18.57
25th Percentile £29.25 £23.10 £25.32
Median hourly rate £54.70 £39.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.26% -17.89% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.73 £64.77
90th Percentile £84.80 £72.55 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £30.59 £46.84
% change year-on-year +69.99% -34.69% -14.84%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

RDBMS job vacancy trend in England

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RDBMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for RDBMS in England

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RDBMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the England region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
London -24 51 £570 +3.64% 18
North of England -37 25 £434 -2.47% 6
North West -17 17 £410 -7.87% 5
South East -10 11 £447 -22.26% 2
Yorkshire - 8 £550 - 1
South West -18 5 £550 - 2
East of England -15 3 - - 1
Midlands -47 3 £451 -8.52% 2
West Midlands -40 2 £500 -2.15% 1
East Midlands -18 1 £402 +12.92% 1
RDBMS
UK

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 4 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.00%) JBoss
4 1 (1.00%) Apache
4 1 (1.00%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Chatbot
1 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 43 (43.00%) AWS
2 18 (18.00%) Azure
2 18 (18.00%) Serverless
3 13 (13.00%) Amazon S3
3 13 (13.00%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (12.00%) GitHub
5 11 (11.00%) Snowflake
6 10 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (9.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (9.00%) AWS Fargate
7 9 (9.00%) GCP
8 8 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (8.00%) OpenShift
9 7 (7.00%) Amazon EMR
9 7 (7.00%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (6.00%) Datadog
11 5 (5.00%) Apigee
11 5 (5.00%) Loggly
11 5 (5.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.00%) AMQP
2 4 (4.00%) Internet
3 2 (2.00%) SMS
4 1 (1.00%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (1.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 35 (35.00%) NoSQL
2 35 (35.00%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (21.00%) MySQL
4 20 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (19.00%) SQL Server
6 15 (15.00%) MongoDB
7 12 (12.00%) Big Data
8 11 (11.00%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (11.00%) Oracle Database
9 9 (9.00%) DynamoDB
10 8 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (7.00%) Metadata
12 6 (6.00%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (6.00%) Redis
13 5 (5.00%) BigQuery
14 4 (4.00%) Data Lake
14 4 (4.00%) Data Vault
14 4 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (4.00%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 24 (24.00%) Git
2 15 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 14 (14.00%) Maven
4 9 (9.00%) Gradle
5 7 (7.00%) SonarQube
6 6 (6.00%) ER Studio
6 6 (6.00%) ERwin
6 6 (6.00%) JUnit
6 6 (6.00%) PyCharm
6 6 (6.00%) TeamCity
7 5 (5.00%) JIRA
7 5 (5.00%) SonarLint
8 4 (4.00%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (4.00%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (4.00%) Toad
9 3 (3.00%) Bitbucket
10 2 (2.00%) Log4j
10 2 (2.00%) Mockito
10 2 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (2.00%) Subversion
General
1 33 (33.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.00%) Finance
3 15 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.00%) Banking
5 5 (5.00%) Front Office
6 3 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.00%) Legal
7 1 (1.00%) Law
7 1 (1.00%) Marketing
7 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (39.00%) Developer
2 15 (15.00%) Architect
3 11 (11.00%) Java Developer
3 11 (11.00%) Senior
4 10 (10.00%) DBA
5 8 (8.00%) Senior Developer
6 7 (7.00%) AWS Developer
6 7 (7.00%) Data Architect
6 7 (7.00%) Lead
7 6 (6.00%) Data Modeller
8 5 (5.00%) Administrator
8 5 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Java Architect
8 5 (5.00%) Java Technical Architect
8 5 (5.00%) Oracle Developer
8 5 (5.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 5 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (5.00%) Support Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Technical Architect
9 4 (4.00%) IAM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.00%) Spring Boot
2 18 (18.00%) JSON
3 14 (14.00%) REST
4 13 (13.00%) Kafka
4 13 (13.00%) Spring
5 12 (12.00%) RESTful
5 12 (12.00%) XML
6 8 (8.00%) React
7 7 (7.00%) CSS
7 7 (7.00%) GraphQL
7 7 (7.00%) HTML
8 6 (6.00%) NumPy
8 6 (6.00%) Pandas
8 6 (6.00%) TensorFlow
9 5 (5.00%) Dropwizard
9 5 (5.00%) J2EE
9 5 (5.00%) JWT
9 5 (5.00%) Micronaut
10 4 (4.00%) Celery
11 3 (3.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.00%) Data Centre
1 8 (8.00%) Data Structures
2 7 (7.00%) Algorithms
2 7 (7.00%) Clustering
3 6 (6.00%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.00%) N-Tier
4 5 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.00%) Online Banking
5 4 (4.00%) Replication
6 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.00%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.00%) Video on Demand
7 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.00%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.00%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.00%) Linux
2 7 (7.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (7.00%) Unix
3 6 (6.00%) CentOS
4 5 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.00%) Data Modelling
2 31 (31.00%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (27.00%) Agile
4 26 (26.00%) Microservices
5 25 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 21 (21.00%) DevOps
7 20 (20.00%) ETL
8 19 (19.00%) Migration
9 16 (16.00%) Containerisation
9 16 (16.00%) Data Engineering
9 16 (16.00%) Data Governance
10 14 (14.00%) Data Migration
10 14 (14.00%) Data Security
11 13 (13.00%) SDLC
12 12 (12.00%) Analytics
12 12 (12.00%) Database Security
12 12 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (11.00%) AI
13 11 (11.00%) Design Patterns
14 10 (10.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 53 (53.00%) SQL
2 38 (38.00%) Python
3 29 (29.00%) Java
4 11 (11.00%) JavaScript
5 10 (10.00%) PL/SQL
6 8 (8.00%) Perl
7 7 (7.00%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.00%) Delphi
8 4 (4.00%) PHP
9 3 (3.00%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.00%) Bash
10 2 (2.00%) C#
10 2 (2.00%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.00%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.00%) C
11 1 (1.00%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.00%) R
11 1 (1.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.00%) Degree
3 5 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.00%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.00%) OCP
5 3 (3.00%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (3.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.00%) GDPR
3 4 (4.00%) QA
4 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (22.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.00%) Terraform
3 5 (5.00%) Ansible
3 5 (5.00%) Grafana
4 2 (2.00%) Consul
4 2 (2.00%) Kibana
4 2 (2.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 38 (38.00%) Oracle
2 12 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.00%) Adobe
4 5 (5.00%) Gigya
5 4 (4.00%) DevExpress
6 3 (3.00%) Sybase
7 2 (2.00%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.00%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.00%) SAP
7 2 (2.00%) Sparx
7 2 (2.00%) Splunk
7 2 (2.00%) StreamSets
8 1 (1.00%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.00%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.00%) Databricks
8 1 (1.00%) Informatica
8 1 (1.00%) RedGate
8 1 (1.00%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.00%) Teradata