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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 411 435
Rank change year-on-year -110 +24 +24
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 98 93 102
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.34% 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.40% 1.86% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 68 75
10th Percentile £374 £335 £356
25th Percentile £440 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -13.46% -13.33%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £575
90th Percentile £725 £769 £665
UK median daily rate £545 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +21.11% -10.00% -14.89%
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% -47.74%
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% -44.62%

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 7,001 5,007 6,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.38% 18.14% 18.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,679 3,467 4,416
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 78 91
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.67 £13.69
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £34.82 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -7.16% -31.82%
75th Percentile £62.00 £64.69 £60.78
90th Percentile £76.80 £77.86 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £36.25 £36.50
% change year-on-year +8.97% -0.68% -33.64%

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 August 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 August 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 -66 45 £613 -5.77% 15
North of England -63 33 £575 +38.43% 4
North West -46 27 £621 +50.55% 3
Midlands -46 10 £478 -3.24% 6
West Midlands -56 9 £475 +5.56% 3
South West -39 6 £565 +2.73% 1
Yorkshire -38 5 £528 -8.17% 1
South East -66 4 £294 -37.49% 2
North East - 4 - -
East Midlands -15 1 £540 +0.56% 3
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 11 (11.22%) Confluence
2 9 (9.18%) Apache Spark
3 6 (6.12%) Tuxedo
4 5 (5.10%) Apache
4 5 (5.10%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (3.06%) IIS
6 2 (2.04%) Appian
6 2 (2.04%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (1.02%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (10.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (10.20%) Finacle
2 4 (4.08%) Summit
3 2 (2.04%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.04%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (2.04%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (2.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (1.02%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 39 (39.80%) AWS
2 14 (14.29%) GitHub
2 14 (14.29%) OCI
3 13 (13.27%) GCP
4 12 (12.24%) Azure
5 7 (7.14%) dbt
5 7 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
5 7 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.10%) Serverless
7 4 (4.08%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (4.08%) Apigee
7 4 (4.08%) Cloud Functions
7 4 (4.08%) Cloud Run
7 4 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (4.08%) IaaS
7 4 (4.08%) Kong
7 4 (4.08%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.04%) Internet
1 2 (2.04%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 38 (38.78%) Oracle Database
3 26 (26.53%) MongoDB
3 26 (26.53%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (24.49%) NoSQL
4 24 (24.49%) SQL Server
5 15 (15.31%) Oracle Exadata
6 10 (10.20%) MySQL
7 7 (7.14%) Ingres
7 7 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (7.14%) Power BI
8 5 (5.10%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (5.10%) Big Data
8 5 (5.10%) BigQuery
8 5 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (5.10%) Metadata
8 5 (5.10%) Parquet
9 4 (4.08%) Apache Hive
9 4 (4.08%) Hadoop
9 4 (4.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (31.63%) Git
2 23 (23.47%) GitLab
3 10 (10.20%) Jenkins
4 9 (9.18%) JIRA
5 7 (7.14%) Oracle Forms
5 7 (7.14%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (5.10%) Liquibase
7 4 (4.08%) Claude Code
7 4 (4.08%) ER Studio
7 4 (4.08%) Gradle
7 4 (4.08%) Maven
7 4 (4.08%) Snyk
8 2 (2.04%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.04%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.04%) ERwin
8 2 (2.04%) JDeveloper
8 2 (2.04%) JMeter
8 2 (2.04%) Postman
8 2 (2.04%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.02%) JUnit
General
1 37 (37.76%) Finance
2 26 (26.53%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (23.47%) Social Skills
4 20 (20.41%) Banking
5 18 (18.37%) Public Sector
6 14 (14.29%) Front Office
7 10 (10.20%) Back Office
8 5 (5.10%) Military
9 4 (4.08%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.04%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.04%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.02%) Retail
11 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (28.57%) Senior
2 23 (23.47%) Developer
3 13 (13.27%) DBA
4 12 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (10.20%) Applications Support
5 10 (10.20%) Data Engineer
5 10 (10.20%) Systems Support
6 9 (9.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 6 (6.12%) Java Developer
8 6 (6.12%) Senior Developer
9 5 (5.10%) Database Specialist
9 5 (5.10%) Lead
10 4 (4.08%) Backend Developer
10 4 (4.08%) Big Data Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Energy Trading Developer
10 4 (4.08%) GCP Data Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) GCP Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Hadoop Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.45%) Kafka
2 19 (19.39%) XML
3 16 (16.33%) JSON
3 16 (16.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 10 (10.20%) Spring
4 10 (10.20%) Spring Boot
5 9 (9.18%) Apache Avro
5 9 (9.18%) React
5 9 (9.18%) REST
6 7 (7.14%) Web Services
7 6 (6.12%) ADO
7 6 (6.12%) COM
7 6 (6.12%) ODBC
8 5 (5.10%) .NET
8 5 (5.10%) OAuth
9 4 (4.08%) JPA
9 4 (4.08%) OAuth2
9 4 (4.08%) Protocol Buffers
9 4 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (4.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.27%) Public Cloud
2 10 (10.20%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (10.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 7 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 7 (7.14%) Low-Code
4 6 (6.12%) Algorithms
4 6 (6.12%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.12%) Derivative
4 6 (6.12%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.12%) Replication
5 4 (4.08%) Credit Risk
5 4 (4.08%) Fixed Income
5 4 (4.08%) Market Risk
6 2 (2.04%) Blockchain
6 2 (2.04%) Clustering
6 2 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.04%) OTC Derivatives
6 2 (2.04%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (27.55%) Linux
2 14 (14.29%) AIX
3 12 (12.24%) Windows
4 7 (7.14%) Unix
5 1 (1.02%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (33.67%) Agile
1 33 (33.67%) DevOps
2 26 (26.53%) CI/CD
3 23 (23.47%) Migration
4 22 (22.45%) Performance Tuning
5 21 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (20.41%) Data Migration
7 19 (19.39%) User Acceptance Testing
8 14 (14.29%) Validation
9 12 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (10.20%) Anti-Money Laundering
11 10 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (10.20%) Data Modelling
11 10 (10.20%) Data Pipeline
11 10 (10.20%) SDLC
12 9 (9.18%) Disaster Recovery
12 9 (9.18%) ETL
12 9 (9.18%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (58.16%) SQL
2 22 (22.45%) Python
3 17 (17.35%) Java
4 11 (11.22%) PL/SQL
5 8 (8.16%) C#
6 7 (7.14%) VB
6 7 (7.14%) VB6
7 6 (6.12%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.10%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.10%) Scala
9 4 (4.08%) C
9 4 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (4.08%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.06%) R
11 2 (2.04%) Bash
11 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.31%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.14%) Degree
4 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.04%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.31%) QA
2 6 (6.12%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.10%) GDPR
4 3 (3.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (2.04%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.04%) NIST
6 1 (1.02%) ISO 22301
6 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (16.33%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (27.55%) Terraform
2 20 (20.41%) Ansible
3 14 (14.29%) Data Guard
3 14 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (8.16%) Kubernetes
5 5 (5.10%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.08%) Argo
6 4 (4.08%) Grafana
7 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (65.31%) Oracle
2 10 (10.20%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.12%) Actian
3 6 (6.12%) Google
4 3 (3.06%) Alteryx
4 3 (3.06%) SAP
5 2 (2.04%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.04%) Databricks
5 2 (2.04%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.04%) Sitecore
5 2 (2.04%) Solace
5 2 (2.04%) Sparx
6 1 (1.02%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.02%) Informatica
6 1 (1.02%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.02%) NetApp
6 1 (1.02%) Splunk
6 1 (1.02%) Varonis