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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 371 425
Rank change year-on-year -131 +54 -28
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 76 96 117
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.40% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.22% 2.11% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 60 86
10th Percentile £397 £367 £359
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -13.46% -13.33%
75th Percentile £738 £586 £572
90th Percentile £814 £739 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £450 £520
% change year-on-year +22.22% -13.46% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £27.21 -
25th Percentile £41.25 £36.23 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +29.63% -
75th Percentile £43.75 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -19.05% +29.63% -39.15%

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 6,253 4,555 6,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.14% 18.99% 17.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,283 3,174 4,497
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £653 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 86 134
10th Percentile £14.77 £21.03 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.45 £23.69 £20.82
Median hourly rate £43.75 £32.43 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.91% -18.93% -28.19%
75th Percentile £73.94 £65.46 £58.44
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.88 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £45.90 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +32.75% -13.56% -30.43%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -59 39 £725 +41.46% 11
North of England -71 21 £420 -4.73% 5
North West -44 17 £420 -3.91% 3
South East -57 6 £433 -24.78% 4
South West -30 5 £575 -11.54%
Midlands -73 5 £475 +5.56% 3
Yorkshire -52 4 - - 1
West Midlands -60 4 £473 +5.00% 1
East Midlands -24 1 £540 +0.56% 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 12 (15.79%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.89%) Apache
2 6 (7.89%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (6.58%) Confluence
4 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (2.63%) Appian
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (1.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Summit
2 4 (5.26%) Finacle
3 2 (2.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (1.32%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.68%) AWS
2 14 (18.42%) GCP
3 13 (17.11%) Azure
4 8 (10.53%) GitHub
4 8 (10.53%) Serverless
5 7 (9.21%) dbt
6 6 (7.89%) Power Platform
7 5 (6.58%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (5.26%) Apigee
8 4 (5.26%) Cloud Functions
8 4 (5.26%) Cloud Run
8 4 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (5.26%) IaaS
8 4 (5.26%) Kong
9 3 (3.95%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.95%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) SMS
2 1 (1.32%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 30 (39.47%) NoSQL
3 29 (38.16%) MongoDB
3 29 (38.16%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (25.00%) SQL Server
5 16 (21.05%) Oracle Database
6 10 (13.16%) Oracle Reports
7 8 (10.53%) Metadata
8 7 (9.21%) Big Data
9 6 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (7.89%) Hadoop
9 6 (7.89%) MySQL
10 5 (6.58%) BigQuery
10 5 (6.58%) Data Lake
10 5 (6.58%) Parquet
10 5 (6.58%) Power BI
11 4 (5.26%) Flink
11 4 (5.26%) Hazelcast
11 4 (5.26%) Power Query
11 4 (5.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (18.42%) Git
2 8 (10.53%) GitLab
3 6 (7.89%) JIRA
3 6 (7.89%) Maven
4 5 (6.58%) Gradle
4 5 (6.58%) Jenkins
5 4 (5.26%) Snyk
6 3 (3.95%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (3.95%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (2.63%) ER Studio
7 2 (2.63%) ERwin
7 2 (2.63%) Liquibase
8 1 (1.32%) JDeveloper
8 1 (1.32%) JMeter
8 1 (1.32%) JUnit
8 1 (1.32%) Postman
8 1 (1.32%) Selenium
General
1 27 (35.53%) Finance
2 21 (27.63%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 12 (15.79%) Banking
5 9 (11.84%) Front Office
6 7 (9.21%) Public Sector
7 6 (7.89%) Investment Banking
8 4 (5.26%) Back Office
9 2 (2.63%) Military
9 2 (2.63%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.32%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.32%) Law
10 1 (1.32%) Legal
10 1 (1.32%) Marketing
10 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (27.63%) Developer
2 15 (19.74%) DBA
3 14 (18.42%) Senior
4 13 (17.11%) Data Engineer
5 11 (14.47%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 6 (7.89%) Business Analyst
6 6 (7.89%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.89%) Senior Data Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Summit Business Analyst
7 5 (6.58%) Administrator
7 5 (6.58%) Applications Support
7 5 (6.58%) Database Specialist
7 5 (6.58%) Energy Trading Developer
8 4 (5.26%) Backend Developer
8 4 (5.26%) Big Data Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Hadoop Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Oracle Specialist
8 4 (5.26%) Senior Backend Developer
8 4 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (31.58%) Kafka
2 23 (30.26%) JSON
2 23 (30.26%) XML
3 12 (15.79%) REST
4 11 (14.47%) Spring
5 10 (13.16%) Spring Boot
6 9 (11.84%) Apache Avro
7 8 (10.53%) CSS
7 8 (10.53%) HTML
8 7 (9.21%) React
9 5 (6.58%) GraphQL
9 5 (6.58%) OAuth
10 4 (5.26%) Apache Beam
10 4 (5.26%) JPA
10 4 (5.26%) JWT
10 4 (5.26%) OAuth2
10 4 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (5.26%) Spring WebFlux
10 4 (5.26%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.21%) Data Structures
1 7 (9.21%) Derivative
2 6 (7.89%) Credit Risk
2 6 (7.89%) Fixed Income
2 6 (7.89%) Market Risk
3 4 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.63%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.63%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.63%) Replication
4 2 (2.63%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.32%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.32%) Clustering
5 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.32%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.16%) Linux
2 7 (9.21%) Windows
3 6 (7.89%) Unix
4 1 (1.32%) AIX
4 1 (1.32%) CentOS
4 1 (1.32%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (35.53%) DevOps
2 26 (34.21%) Agile
3 21 (27.63%) CI/CD
3 21 (27.63%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (18.42%) Analytics
5 13 (17.11%) Data Engineering
5 13 (17.11%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (15.79%) Database Security
6 12 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (14.47%) Data Modelling
7 11 (14.47%) Validation
8 10 (13.16%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (13.16%) ETL
8 10 (13.16%) Visualisation
9 9 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (11.84%) SDLC
9 9 (11.84%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (10.53%) Mentoring
10 8 (10.53%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 48 (63.16%) SQL
2 18 (23.68%) Java
3 14 (18.42%) Python
4 9 (11.84%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.89%) PL/SQL
5 6 (7.89%) Scala
6 5 (6.58%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (3.95%) C#
8 3 (3.95%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.63%) Bash
9 2 (2.63%) R
9 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.63%) VB
9 2 (2.63%) VB6
Qualifications
1 9 (11.84%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.89%) Degree
2 6 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.63%) CISSP
4 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.89%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.58%) QA
3 4 (5.26%) GDPR
4 2 (2.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.63%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.63%) NIST
5 1 (1.32%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (14.47%) Docker
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 14 (18.42%) Terraform
2 11 (14.47%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.58%) Grafana
4 4 (5.26%) Argo
4 4 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.95%) Ansible
6 1 (1.32%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 43 (56.58%) Oracle
2 7 (9.21%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.89%) Adobe
4 5 (6.58%) Google
5 4 (5.26%) Informatica
6 2 (2.63%) Actian
6 2 (2.63%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.63%) Sparx
7 1 (1.32%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.32%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.32%) Databricks
7 1 (1.32%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.32%) NetApp
7 1 (1.32%) SAP
7 1 (1.32%) Solace
7 1 (1.32%) Varonis