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 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 441 403 464
Rank change year-on-year -38 +61 -41
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 99 119 113
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.38% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.86% 2.15% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 78 83
10th Percentile £346 £363 £401
25th Percentile £425 £436 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £533
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -0.09% -5.66%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £664
90th Percentile £750 £590 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £526 £500
% change year-on-year -0.19% +5.20% -9.09%
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 and Business Intelligence 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 5,327 5,546 6,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.90% 17.80% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,676 3,735 4,732
10th Percentile £325 £350 £360
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £732 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 79 142
10th Percentile £19.94 £17.90 £19.27
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.45 £25.28
Median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £48.45
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -27.76% -3.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £54.75 £68.31
90th Percentile £85.30 £65.20 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.40 £47.50
% change year-on-year +43.09% -36.00% -4.90%

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 8 November 2025.

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 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
London -11 48 £550 +2.09% 40
North of England -17 23 £450 +1.12% 9
North West -13 12 £402 -9.66% 3
Yorkshire -22 11 £550 - 1
South East 0 9 £446 +4.94% 30
East of England -3 9 £525 -
South West -12 6 £550 - 3
Midlands -36 2 £402 -21.33% 9
East Midlands -15 1 £402 +12.92% 6
West Midlands -37 1 - - 2
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 8 (8.08%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.05%) JBoss
3 4 (4.04%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.01%) Apache
4 1 (1.01%) Confluence
4 1 (1.01%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (5.05%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Endur
1 1 (1.01%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 58 (58.59%) AWS
2 21 (21.21%) Azure
3 20 (20.20%) Amazon S3
4 19 (19.19%) Serverless
5 18 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (15.15%) GitHub
7 14 (14.14%) Snowflake
8 12 (12.12%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
9 11 (11.11%) GCP
9 11 (11.11%) OpenShift
10 10 (10.10%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (8.08%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (7.07%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (7.07%) dbt
12 7 (7.07%) PaaS
12 7 (7.07%) SaaS
13 6 (6.06%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.05%) AMQP
2 4 (4.04%) Internet
3 1 (1.01%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (1.01%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 33 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (28.28%) NoSQL
4 26 (26.26%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (21.21%) MySQL
6 20 (20.20%) SQL Server
7 12 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (12.12%) Big Data
8 11 (11.11%) DynamoDB
9 10 (10.10%) Oracle Database
10 8 (8.08%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (8.08%) MongoDB
11 7 (7.07%) BigQuery
11 7 (7.07%) Data Lake
12 6 (6.06%) Redis
13 5 (5.05%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (5.05%) DB2
13 5 (5.05%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (5.05%) Metadata
14 4 (4.04%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 28 (28.28%) Git
2 19 (19.19%) Jenkins
3 14 (14.14%) Maven
4 10 (10.10%) SonarQube
5 9 (9.09%) JIRA
6 8 (8.08%) Gradle
6 8 (8.08%) JUnit
7 7 (7.07%) TeamCity
8 6 (6.06%) PyCharm
9 5 (5.05%) Bitbucket
9 5 (5.05%) SonarLint
9 5 (5.05%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (4.04%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (4.04%) CA Release Automation
10 4 (4.04%) ER Studio
10 4 (4.04%) ERwin
11 2 (2.02%) Log4j
11 2 (2.02%) Mockito
11 2 (2.02%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (2.02%) Subversion
General
1 36 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 26 (26.26%) Finance
3 15 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.07%) Banking
4 7 (7.07%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.06%) Front Office
6 3 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Legal
7 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (32.32%) Developer
2 20 (20.20%) Architect
3 15 (15.15%) Senior
4 12 (12.12%) Java Developer
5 10 (10.10%) Lead
5 10 (10.10%) Senior Developer
6 9 (9.09%) Data Architect
7 7 (7.07%) AWS Developer
7 7 (7.07%) React Developer
7 7 (7.07%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (6.06%) Snowflake Architect
9 5 (5.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) DBA
9 5 (5.05%) Energy Trading Developer
9 5 (5.05%) Java Architect
9 5 (5.05%) Java Technical Architect
9 5 (5.05%) Python Developer
9 5 (5.05%) Support Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Technical Architect
10 4 (4.04%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (23.23%) Spring Boot
2 14 (14.14%) REST
2 14 (14.14%) Spring
3 13 (13.13%) Kafka
3 13 (13.13%) RESTful
4 11 (11.11%) React
5 10 (10.10%) GraphQL
6 6 (6.06%) NumPy
6 6 (6.06%) Pandas
6 6 (6.06%) TensorFlow
7 5 (5.05%) .NET
7 5 (5.05%) Dropwizard
7 5 (5.05%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (5.05%) J2EE
7 5 (5.05%) JWT
7 5 (5.05%) Micronaut
7 5 (5.05%) Svelte
8 4 (4.04%) Celery
9 3 (3.03%) SOAP
9 3 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.08%) Clustering
1 8 (8.08%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.07%) Algorithms
3 6 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.05%) N-Tier
4 5 (5.05%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.04%) Online Banking
5 4 (4.04%) Replication
6 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.02%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.02%) Pricing Data
6 2 (2.02%) Reinsurance
6 2 (2.02%) Video on Demand
7 1 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.01%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.18%) Linux
2 11 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (8.08%) Windows
4 7 (7.07%) Unix
5 6 (6.06%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (35.35%) Data Modelling
2 33 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (31.31%) CI/CD
4 30 (30.30%) Microservices
5 24 (24.24%) ETL
6 23 (23.23%) Agile
7 22 (22.22%) DevOps
7 22 (22.22%) Migration
8 18 (18.18%) Containerisation
9 17 (17.17%) Data Engineering
10 15 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (14.14%) Data Governance
11 14 (14.14%) Data Security
11 14 (14.14%) SDLC
12 13 (13.13%) Computer Science
12 13 (13.13%) Data Migration
13 12 (12.12%) Analytics
14 11 (11.11%) AI
14 11 (11.11%) Code Quality
14 11 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 52 (52.53%) Python
1 52 (52.53%) SQL
2 36 (36.36%) Java
3 13 (13.13%) TypeScript
4 8 (8.08%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.07%) Perl
6 4 (4.04%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.03%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.03%) Scala
7 3 (3.03%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.02%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (2.02%) Bash
8 2 (2.02%) C
8 2 (2.02%) C#
8 2 (2.02%) C++
8 2 (2.02%) Delphi
8 2 (2.02%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.01%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.01%) R
9 1 (1.01%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (14.14%) Degree
2 13 (13.13%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.05%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.05%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.04%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.04%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.03%) OCP
5 3 (3.03%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.04%) GDPR
2 4 (4.04%) QA
3 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (28.28%) Docker
2 5 (5.05%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 20 (20.20%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.11%) Terraform
3 5 (5.05%) Ansible
3 5 (5.05%) Grafana
3 5 (5.05%) Kibana
3 5 (5.05%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.02%) Consul
4 2 (2.02%) Control-M
5 1 (1.01%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 28 (28.28%) Oracle
2 7 (7.07%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.06%) Red Hat
3 6 (6.06%) Sybase
4 5 (5.05%) AppDynamics
4 5 (5.05%) Gigya
4 5 (5.05%) Splunk
4 5 (5.05%) StreamSets
5 4 (4.04%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (4.04%) Cloudera
5 4 (4.04%) Informatica
6 3 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.02%) DevExpress
7 2 (2.02%) SAP
8 1 (1.01%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.01%) Databricks
8 1 (1.01%) OpenLink
8 1 (1.01%) RedGate
8 1 (1.01%) Teradata
8 1 (1.01%) TIBCO