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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 366 404
Rank change year-on-year -109 +38 -13
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 91 113 152
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.46% 0.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.55% 2.40% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 78 108
10th Percentile £400 £388 £400
25th Percentile £445 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -1.69% -7.13%
75th Percentile £636 £550 £653
90th Percentile £750 £601 £716
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.19% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.50
UK median hourly rate - - £40.50

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 5,875 4,717 6,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.08% 19.12% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,078 3,292 4,413
10th Percentile £346 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £663
90th Percentile £700 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 87 157
10th Percentile £18.13 £20.21 £14.22
25th Percentile £26.12 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £49.36 £35.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.03% -13.04% -32.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £58.48
90th Percentile £85.13 £71.50 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +66.67% -25.47% -30.00%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -50 47 £570 +5.07% 9
North of England -58 22 £409 -8.15% 5
North West -34 16 £401 -9.89% 5
South East -51 12 £500 -10.07% 3
Yorkshire - 6 £516 -
Midlands -78 5 £470 -4.67% 3
West Midlands -72 4 £485 -1.62% 3
South West -37 3 £550 -
East of England - 2 - -
East Midlands -34 1 £402 -9.97%
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 5 (5.49%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.40%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.30%) Apache
3 3 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.20%) Appian
5 1 (1.10%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Chatbot
2 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Summit
2 2 (2.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 30 (32.97%) AWS
2 14 (15.38%) Azure
3 13 (14.29%) Serverless
4 11 (12.09%) Snowflake
5 9 (9.89%) Amazon S3
6 8 (8.79%) GitHub
7 5 (5.49%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.30%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.30%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (3.30%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.30%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.30%) GCP
9 3 (3.30%) npm
9 3 (3.30%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.20%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.40%) Internet
2 3 (3.30%) AMQP
3 2 (2.20%) SMS
4 1 (1.10%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (1.10%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 35 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (31.87%) NoSQL
4 26 (28.57%) SQL Server
5 22 (24.18%) MongoDB
6 15 (16.48%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (14.29%) MySQL
8 12 (13.19%) Big Data
9 11 (12.09%) Oracle Database
10 10 (10.99%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (7.69%) Metadata
12 6 (6.59%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (4.40%) Hadoop
13 4 (4.40%) SQLPlus
14 3 (3.30%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (3.30%) Data Lake
14 3 (3.30%) DB2
14 3 (3.30%) DynamoDB
14 3 (3.30%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 15 (16.48%) Git
2 8 (8.79%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (6.59%) PyCharm
5 5 (5.49%) JIRA
5 5 (5.49%) Maven
6 4 (4.40%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (4.40%) TeamCity
6 4 (4.40%) Toad
7 3 (3.30%) ER Studio
7 3 (3.30%) ERwin
7 3 (3.30%) JUnit
8 2 (2.20%) Gradle
8 2 (2.20%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (1.10%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.10%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.10%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (1.10%) Postman
9 1 (1.10%) Selenium
9 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (26.37%) Finance
1 24 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.68%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.89%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.79%) Banking
5 5 (5.49%) Front Office
6 3 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.30%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.30%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.20%) Legal
8 1 (1.10%) Law
8 1 (1.10%) Marketing
8 1 (1.10%) Military
8 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (37.36%) Developer
2 14 (15.38%) DBA
3 12 (13.19%) Senior
4 9 (9.89%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 8 (8.79%) Java Developer
5 8 (8.79%) Lead
6 6 (6.59%) Architect
6 6 (6.59%) AWS Developer
6 6 (6.59%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Administrator
7 5 (5.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Data Architect
7 5 (5.49%) Oracle Developer
7 5 (5.49%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) IAM Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Python Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Applications Support Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Summit Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (24.18%) JSON
2 19 (20.88%) XML
3 18 (19.78%) Kafka
4 14 (15.38%) REST
5 13 (14.29%) Spring
6 11 (12.09%) Spring Boot
7 7 (7.69%) CSS
7 7 (7.69%) HTML
8 6 (6.59%) NumPy
8 6 (6.59%) Pandas
8 6 (6.59%) React
8 6 (6.59%) TensorFlow
9 5 (5.49%) GraphQL
10 4 (4.40%) RESTful
11 3 (3.30%) .NET
12 2 (2.20%) ADO
12 2 (2.20%) COM
12 2 (2.20%) J2EE
12 2 (2.20%) JSP
12 2 (2.20%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.59%) Clustering
1 6 (6.59%) Data Structures
2 5 (5.49%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.40%) Online Banking
3 4 (4.40%) Replication
4 3 (3.30%) Credit Risk
4 3 (3.30%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.30%) Derivative
4 3 (3.30%) Fixed Income
4 3 (3.30%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.20%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.20%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.99%) Linux
2 7 (7.69%) Unix
3 4 (4.40%) CentOS
4 3 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.20%) Windows
6 1 (1.10%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (31.87%) Agile
2 26 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 23 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (24.18%) DevOps
5 20 (21.98%) ETL
6 19 (20.88%) Migration
7 17 (18.68%) Data Engineering
8 16 (17.58%) CI/CD
8 16 (17.58%) Data Migration
8 16 (17.58%) Microservices
9 15 (16.48%) Data Governance
9 15 (16.48%) Data Security
9 15 (16.48%) Database Security
10 14 (15.38%) Containerisation
11 12 (13.19%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (13.19%) SDLC
12 11 (12.09%) Analytics
13 10 (10.99%) Mentoring
14 8 (8.79%) Machine Learning
14 8 (8.79%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 51 (56.04%) SQL
2 25 (27.47%) Python
3 19 (20.88%) Java
4 10 (10.99%) PL/SQL
5 7 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.49%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.40%) Delphi
7 4 (4.40%) Perl
7 4 (4.40%) PHP
8 3 (3.30%) Bash
8 3 (3.30%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.30%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.20%) VB
9 2 (2.20%) VB6
10 1 (1.10%) C#
10 1 (1.10%) Scala
10 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (13.19%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.89%) Degree
3 4 (4.40%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.30%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.30%) OCP
4 3 (3.30%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.20%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.10%) CISSP
6 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.09%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.69%) QA
3 6 (6.59%) GDPR
4 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.10%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.10%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (18.68%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (13.19%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.40%) Ansible
2 4 (4.40%) Terraform
3 3 (3.30%) Grafana
4 2 (2.20%) Consul
5 1 (1.10%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 43 (47.25%) Oracle
2 14 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.59%) Adobe
4 5 (5.49%) Informatica
5 4 (4.40%) DevExpress
6 3 (3.30%) Sybase
7 2 (2.20%) Actian
7 2 (2.20%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.20%) Sparx
8 1 (1.10%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.10%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.10%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.10%) Databricks
8 1 (1.10%) RedGate
8 1 (1.10%) SAP
8 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.10%) Teradata