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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 415 436
Rank change year-on-year -110 +21 +52
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 97 93 94
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.34% 0.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.39% 1.87% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 65 68
10th Percentile £380 £331 £362
25th Percentile £445 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £450 £523
Median % change year-on-year +25.56% -13.88% -12.92%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £564
90th Percentile £730 £813 £654
UK median daily rate £570 £450 £520
% change year-on-year +26.67% -13.46% -2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £27.21 -
25th Percentile £41.25 £36.23 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% - -
75th Percentile £43.75 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year -19.05% - -

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 6,991 4,984 6,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.23% 17.96% 18.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,668 3,433 4,288
10th Percentile £360 £335 £350
25th Percentile £423 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £619 £638 £675
90th Percentile £709 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 80 90
10th Percentile £14.85 £21.02 £14.19
25th Percentile £23.75 £29.05 £19.87
Median hourly rate £38.50 £38.23 £33.22
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +15.10% -39.61%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.00 £56.88
90th Percentile £75.20 £78.88 £69.93
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £38.85 £32.50
% change year-on-year -0.89% +19.52% -40.91%

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 29 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 29 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 -72 46 £600 -12.73% 55
North of England -65 30 £625 +50.60% 9
North West -57 23 £625 +51.52% 5
Midlands -37 12 £480 - 8
West Midlands -31 9 £480 - 2
South West -38 6 £565 +2.73% 3
Yorkshire -42 6 £528 -8.17% 4
North East - 4 - -
South East -69 3 £294 -6.00% 2
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 6
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 10 (10.31%) Confluence
2 8 (8.25%) Apache Spark
3 6 (6.19%) Tuxedo
4 5 (5.15%) Apache
4 5 (5.15%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (3.09%) IIS
6 2 (2.06%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (1.03%) Appian
7 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (10.31%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (10.31%) Finacle
2 4 (4.12%) Summit
3 2 (2.06%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (2.06%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.06%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (2.06%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (2.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (1.03%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 43 (44.33%) AWS
2 16 (16.49%) OCI
3 15 (15.46%) GitHub
4 14 (14.43%) GCP
5 11 (11.34%) Azure
6 7 (7.22%) dbt
6 7 (7.22%) GitHub Copilot
6 7 (7.22%) Power Platform
7 5 (5.15%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (5.15%) Apigee
7 5 (5.15%) Cloud Run
7 5 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (5.15%) Kong
7 5 (5.15%) Snowflake
8 4 (4.12%) Amazon S3
8 4 (4.12%) Cloud Functions
8 4 (4.12%) IaaS
9 3 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) Internet
1 2 (2.06%) Intranet
2 1 (1.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 40 (41.24%) Oracle Database
3 21 (21.65%) MongoDB
3 21 (21.65%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (21.65%) SQL Server
4 19 (19.59%) NoSQL
5 17 (17.53%) Oracle Exadata
6 9 (9.28%) MySQL
7 7 (7.22%) Power BI
8 6 (6.19%) Ingres
8 6 (6.19%) Metadata
9 5 (5.15%) BigQuery
9 5 (5.15%) Hazelcast
9 5 (5.15%) Parquet
9 5 (5.15%) Redis
10 4 (4.12%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (4.12%) Big Data
10 4 (4.12%) Flink
10 4 (4.12%) Power Query
10 4 (4.12%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 32 (32.99%) Git
2 27 (27.84%) GitLab
3 12 (12.37%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.25%) JIRA
5 6 (6.19%) Gradle
5 6 (6.19%) Maven
5 6 (6.19%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (6.19%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (5.15%) Claude Code
6 5 (5.15%) Liquibase
7 4 (4.12%) ER Studio
7 4 (4.12%) Snyk
8 2 (2.06%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.06%) ERwin
8 2 (2.06%) JDeveloper
8 2 (2.06%) JMeter
8 2 (2.06%) Postman
8 2 (2.06%) Selenium
8 2 (2.06%) TeamCity
General
1 33 (34.02%) Finance
2 26 (26.80%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (24.74%) Social Skills
4 20 (20.62%) Banking
5 19 (19.59%) Public Sector
6 14 (14.43%) Front Office
7 10 (10.31%) Back Office
8 6 (6.19%) Military
9 4 (4.12%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.06%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.06%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (29.90%) Senior
2 26 (26.80%) Developer
3 14 (14.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (10.31%) Applications Support
4 10 (10.31%) Data Engineer
4 10 (10.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (10.31%) Systems Support
5 9 (9.28%) DBA
5 9 (9.28%) Java Developer
6 7 (7.22%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.15%) Database Specialist
7 5 (5.15%) Lead
7 5 (5.15%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (5.15%) SQL Developer
8 4 (4.12%) Backend Developer
8 4 (4.12%) GCP Data Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) React Developer
8 4 (4.12%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (30.93%) Terraform
2 20 (20.62%) Kafka
3 18 (18.56%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 15 (15.46%) XML
5 14 (14.43%) Spring
5 14 (14.43%) Spring Boot
6 12 (12.37%) JSON
7 11 (11.34%) React
8 10 (10.31%) Apache Avro
8 10 (10.31%) REST
9 9 (9.28%) Web Services
10 7 (7.22%) JWT
10 7 (7.22%) OAuth
11 6 (6.19%) JPA
11 6 (6.19%) OAuth2
11 6 (6.19%) RESTful
12 5 (5.15%) ADO
12 5 (5.15%) COM
12 5 (5.15%) ODBC
12 5 (5.15%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.43%) Public Cloud
2 10 (10.31%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (10.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 7 (7.22%) Data Structures
3 7 (7.22%) Replication
4 6 (6.19%) Algorithms
4 6 (6.19%) Derivative
4 6 (6.19%) Low-Code
4 6 (6.19%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.15%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.12%) Credit Risk
6 4 (4.12%) Fixed Income
6 4 (4.12%) Market Risk
7 2 (2.06%) Blockchain
7 2 (2.06%) Clustering
7 2 (2.06%) OTC Derivatives
7 2 (2.06%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.03%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (27.84%) Linux
2 16 (16.49%) AIX
3 11 (11.34%) Windows
4 7 (7.22%) Unix
5 1 (1.03%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.96%) DevOps
2 29 (29.90%) Agile
3 28 (28.87%) CI/CD
4 24 (24.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (24.74%) Migration
5 22 (22.68%) Performance Tuning
5 22 (22.68%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (20.62%) Data Migration
7 17 (17.53%) User Acceptance Testing
8 14 (14.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (13.40%) Validation
10 12 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (11.34%) Data Modelling
11 11 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (10.31%) Anti-Money Laundering
12 10 (10.31%) Microservices
12 10 (10.31%) SDLC
12 10 (10.31%) Software Engineering
13 9 (9.28%) AI
13 9 (9.28%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 58 (59.79%) SQL
2 22 (22.68%) Java
2 22 (22.68%) Python
3 11 (11.34%) PL/SQL
4 8 (8.25%) C#
5 7 (7.22%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.19%) VB
6 6 (6.19%) VB6
7 5 (5.15%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.15%) Scala
7 5 (5.15%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.12%) C
8 4 (4.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (3.09%) R
10 1 (1.03%) Bash
10 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (23.71%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.53%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.22%) Degree
4 2 (2.06%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.03%) CISSP
5 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.46%) QA
2 6 (6.19%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.12%) GDPR
4 3 (3.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.03%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.03%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.03%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (18.56%) Oracle RAC
2 9 (9.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (22.68%) Ansible
2 16 (16.49%) Data Guard
2 16 (16.49%) Oracle RMAN
3 7 (7.22%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.19%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.15%) Argo
5 5 (5.15%) Grafana
6 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (63.92%) Oracle
2 8 (8.25%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.19%) Google
4 5 (5.15%) Actian
5 3 (3.09%) Alteryx
5 3 (3.09%) SAP
6 2 (2.06%) Databricks
6 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.06%) Sitecore
6 2 (2.06%) Solace
6 2 (2.06%) Sparx
7 1 (1.03%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.03%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.03%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.03%) IBM
7 1 (1.03%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.03%) NetApp
7 1 (1.03%) Splunk
7 1 (1.03%) Varonis