RDBMS Contracts in England

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 391 412 402
Rank change year-on-year +21 -10 +73
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 94 130 264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.35% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.03% 2.09% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 91 173
10th Percentile £364 £377 £428
25th Percentile £406 £431 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £550 £603 £700
90th Percentile £675 £725 £775
UK median daily rate £470 £531 £575
% change year-on-year -11.49% -7.65% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £27.21 - -
25th Percentile £36.23 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £40.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £40.50 £66.56
% change year-on-year +29.63% -39.15% +32.59%

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 4,625 6,230 9,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.99% 16.75% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,253 4,477 6,506
10th Percentile £360 £352 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £659 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 130 166
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.61 £70.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in England

RDBMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for RDBMS in England

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RDBMS in England

RDBMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for RDBMS in England

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing RDBMS in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for RDBMS in England

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 May 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 +1 41 £550 +5.77% 37
North of England +15 21 £445 -16.67% 15
North West +15 20 £445 -16.67% 2
Midlands +21 15 £493 -1.40% 6
West Midlands +23 13 £493 +7.17% 5
South East +43 7 £575 +19.48% 14
South West - 7 £650 - 3
East of England +31 2 - - 3
Yorkshire +6 1 £575 -21.45% 8
East Midlands 0 1 £537 +0.70%
RDBMS
UK

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (8.51%) JBoss
2 6 (6.38%) SAS
3 5 (5.32%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.19%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.13%) Camunda
5 2 (2.13%) MQSeries
6 1 (1.06%) Apache
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (5.32%) InfoPath
2 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.13%) Endur
3 1 (1.06%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.06%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 34 (36.17%) AWS
2 18 (19.15%) Serverless
3 12 (12.77%) Amazon S3
4 11 (11.70%) Azure
5 10 (10.64%) Power Platform
6 9 (9.57%) OpenShift
7 8 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (5.32%) Azure Functions
8 5 (5.32%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (5.32%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (5.32%) Power Automate
8 5 (5.32%) PowerApps
9 4 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.19%) AWS KMS
10 3 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (3.19%) GCP
10 3 (3.19%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.19%) HTTP
1 3 (3.19%) HTTPS
1 3 (3.19%) SSH
1 3 (3.19%) SSL
2 2 (2.13%) MQTT
2 2 (2.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.06%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 33 (35.11%) NoSQL
3 23 (24.47%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (21.28%) MongoDB
5 14 (14.89%) Oracle Database
6 11 (11.70%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (10.64%) MySQL
7 10 (10.64%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (10.64%) Power BI
7 10 (10.64%) SQL Server
8 9 (9.57%) Data Lake
8 9 (9.57%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (5.32%) Big Data
9 5 (5.32%) Data Vault
9 5 (5.32%) Tableau
10 4 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (4.26%) Data Mart
10 4 (4.26%) DynamoDB
11 3 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (3.19%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 17 (18.09%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.64%) Git
3 9 (9.57%) Bitbucket Server
3 9 (9.57%) JIRA
3 9 (9.57%) SonarQube
4 8 (8.51%) CA Release Automation
4 8 (8.51%) ERwin
4 8 (8.51%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (8.51%) TeamCity
5 6 (6.38%) JUnit
6 5 (5.32%) ER Studio
6 5 (5.32%) Mockito
7 3 (3.19%) JMeter
8 2 (2.13%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.13%) GitLab
8 2 (2.13%) IntelliJ
8 2 (2.13%) Toad
9 1 (1.06%) Gradle
9 1 (1.06%) JProfiler
9 1 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (15.96%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.70%) Finance
4 6 (6.38%) Banking
5 4 (4.26%) Front Office
5 4 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.13%) Automotive
7 2 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Back Office
8 1 (1.06%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.06%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.06%) Retail
8 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (25.53%) Developer
2 15 (15.96%) DBA
3 12 (12.77%) Data Modeller
4 11 (11.70%) Java Developer
5 10 (10.64%) Architect
6 9 (9.57%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 8 (8.51%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (7.45%) Administrator
8 7 (7.45%) Senior
9 6 (6.38%) Software Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Senior Developer
11 4 (4.26%) Automation Architect
11 4 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (4.26%) Data Engineer
11 4 (4.26%) Lead
11 4 (4.26%) MongoDB DBA
11 4 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
12 3 (3.19%) Analyst
12 3 (3.19%) Integration Engineer
12 3 (3.19%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.28%) XML
2 16 (17.02%) Spring Boot
3 15 (15.96%) JSON
4 12 (12.77%) Kafka
5 10 (10.64%) HTML
5 10 (10.64%) Spring
6 8 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (8.51%) REST
7 6 (6.38%) .NET
7 6 (6.38%) Web Services
7 6 (6.38%) WireMock
8 5 (5.32%) .NET Framework
8 5 (5.32%) ASP.NET
8 5 (5.32%) ASP.NET MVC
8 5 (5.32%) CSS
8 5 (5.32%) Entity Framework
8 5 (5.32%) Hibernate
8 5 (5.32%) HTML5 Canvas
8 5 (5.32%) jQuery
9 3 (3.19%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (5.32%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (3.19%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (3.19%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (3.19%) Fixed Income
3 3 (3.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.19%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.13%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.13%) Data Fabric
4 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.13%) Infotainment
4 2 (2.13%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.13%) Swaptions
5 1 (1.06%) Clustering
5 1 (1.06%) CMDB
5 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.06%) Video on Demand
5 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.02%) Linux
2 13 (13.83%) Windows
3 11 (11.70%) Unix
4 8 (8.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (32.98%) DevOps
2 28 (29.79%) Agile
3 27 (28.72%) CI/CD
4 20 (21.28%) Data Modelling
5 18 (19.15%) Microservices
6 15 (15.96%) Migration
7 14 (14.89%) Database Security
8 13 (13.83%) Disaster Recovery
8 13 (13.83%) Mentoring
8 13 (13.83%) Workflow
9 12 (12.77%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (11.70%) ETL
10 11 (11.70%) Visualisation
11 10 (10.64%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (10.64%) Performance Tuning
11 10 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (9.57%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (9.57%) Data Visualisation
12 9 (9.57%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 34 (36.17%) SQL
2 22 (23.40%) Java
2 22 (23.40%) Python
3 12 (12.77%) JavaScript
4 10 (10.64%) Perl
5 6 (6.38%) C#
6 5 (5.32%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.19%) ActionScript
7 3 (3.19%) ActionScript 2.0
7 3 (3.19%) C
7 3 (3.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (3.19%) Scala
8 2 (2.13%) Ruby
8 2 (2.13%) VB
9 1 (1.06%) Bash
9 1 (1.06%) C++
9 1 (1.06%) Groovy
9 1 (1.06%) PHP
9 1 (1.06%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.06%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (18.09%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.77%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.45%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.38%) Degree
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.19%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.06%) GDPR
2 1 (1.06%) QA
2 1 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (15.96%) Docker
2 8 (8.51%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 17 (18.09%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.64%) Kibana
3 8 (8.51%) Progress Chef
3 8 (8.51%) Terraform
4 2 (2.13%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.06%) Ansible
5 1 (1.06%) Argo
5 1 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (1.06%) Grafana
5 1 (1.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (1.06%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 35 (37.23%) Oracle
2 15 (15.96%) Microsoft
3 12 (12.77%) Splunk
4 8 (8.51%) AppDynamics
4 8 (8.51%) Red Hat
5 6 (6.38%) IBM
6 5 (5.32%) Databricks
6 5 (5.32%) Sybase
7 4 (4.26%) MuleSoft
7 4 (4.26%) SnapLogic
7 4 (4.26%) TIBCO
8 3 (3.19%) Cloudera
8 3 (3.19%) Dynatrace
8 3 (3.19%) Genesys
8 3 (3.19%) IBM Sterling
8 3 (3.19%) Talend
9 2 (2.13%) Dataiku
9 2 (2.13%) OpenLink
10 1 (1.06%) Ariba
10 1 (1.06%) Remedy