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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 396 450
Rank change year-on-year -126 +54 +9
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 98 104 107
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.38% 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.42% 2.08% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 74 78
10th Percentile £374 £342 £356
25th Percentile £428 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +17.56% -7.69% -18.75%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £572
90th Percentile £728 £750 £679
UK median daily rate £527 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +17.00% -5.26% -20.83%
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 6,897 5,006 6,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.33% 18.39% 17.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,618 3,463 4,648
10th Percentile £354 £350 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £701 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 88 120
10th Percentile £16.00 £19.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.36 £34.58 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.61% -13.56% -29.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.94 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £69.93
UK median hourly rate £42.75 £36.25 £38.50
% change year-on-year +17.93% -5.84% -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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -56 45 £600 -7.69% 2
North of England -77 30 £479 +16.00% 3
North West -50 24 £429 +4.63% 2
Midlands -47 12 £478 -3.24% 2
West Midlands -52 11 £475 +5.56% 1
South West -42 6 £565 -5.83%
Yorkshire -42 5 £528 -8.17% 1
South East -57 5 £294 -37.49% 1
North East - 4 - -
East Midlands -12 1 £540 +0.56% 1
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 (10.20%) Confluence
2 9 (9.18%) Apache Spark
3 6 (6.12%) Tuxedo
4 4 (4.08%) Apache
4 4 (4.08%) 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 6 (6.12%) 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
4 1 (1.02%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (1.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 36 (36.73%) AWS
2 14 (14.29%) GitHub
3 13 (13.27%) GCP
4 12 (12.24%) Azure
4 12 (12.24%) OCI
5 8 (8.16%) Power Platform
6 7 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (6.12%) dbt
8 4 (4.08%) Amazon S3
8 4 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (4.08%) Apigee
8 4 (4.08%) Cloud Functions
8 4 (4.08%) Cloud Run
8 4 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (4.08%) IaaS
8 4 (4.08%) Kong
8 4 (4.08%) Serverless
8 4 (4.08%) Snowflake
9 3 (3.06%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.04%) Internet
1 2 (2.04%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 36 (36.73%) Oracle Database
3 26 (26.53%) MongoDB
4 25 (25.51%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (25.51%) SQL Server
5 24 (24.49%) NoSQL
6 13 (13.27%) Oracle Exadata
7 10 (10.20%) MySQL
8 9 (9.18%) Ingres
9 8 (8.16%) Power BI
10 7 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (6.12%) Metadata
12 5 (5.10%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (5.10%) Big Data
12 5 (5.10%) BigQuery
12 5 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (5.10%) Parquet
13 4 (4.08%) Apache Hive
13 4 (4.08%) Hadoop
13 4 (4.08%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 31 (31.63%) Git
2 21 (21.43%) GitLab
3 9 (9.18%) Jenkins
3 9 (9.18%) JIRA
3 9 (9.18%) Team Foundation Server
4 8 (8.16%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (5.10%) Liquibase
6 4 (4.08%) Gradle
6 4 (4.08%) Maven
6 4 (4.08%) Snyk
7 3 (3.06%) Claude Code
7 3 (3.06%) ER Studio
8 2 (2.04%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.04%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.04%) JDeveloper
8 2 (2.04%) JMeter
8 2 (2.04%) Postman
8 2 (2.04%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.02%) ERwin
9 1 (1.02%) Selenium
General
1 35 (35.71%) Finance
2 27 (27.55%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (26.53%) Social Skills
4 21 (21.43%) Banking
5 18 (18.37%) Public Sector
6 14 (14.29%) Front Office
7 10 (10.20%) Back Office
8 6 (6.12%) Investment Banking
9 5 (5.10%) Military
10 2 (2.04%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.02%) Retail
11 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (27.55%) Senior
2 23 (23.47%) Developer
3 13 (13.27%) DBA
4 10 (10.20%) Applications Support
4 10 (10.20%) Data Engineer
4 10 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (10.20%) Systems Support
5 8 (8.16%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 6 (6.12%) Business Analyst
7 6 (6.12%) Java Developer
7 6 (6.12%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.12%) Summit Business Analyst
8 5 (5.10%) Database Specialist
9 4 (4.08%) Administrator
9 4 (4.08%) Analyst
9 4 (4.08%) Python Developer
9 4 (4.08%) Senior DBA
9 4 (4.08%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (4.08%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.43%) Kafka
2 20 (20.41%) XML
3 15 (15.31%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 14 (14.29%) JSON
5 11 (11.22%) Spring
6 10 (10.20%) Spring Boot
7 9 (9.18%) Apache Avro
7 9 (9.18%) React
7 9 (9.18%) REST
8 7 (7.14%) ADO
8 7 (7.14%) COM
8 7 (7.14%) ODBC
8 7 (7.14%) Web Services
9 5 (5.10%) OAuth
10 4 (4.08%) .NET
10 4 (4.08%) JPA
10 4 (4.08%) OAuth2
10 4 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (4.08%) RESTful
10 4 (4.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.24%) Public Cloud
2 10 (10.20%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (10.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 8 (8.16%) Derivative
4 7 (7.14%) Low-Code
5 6 (6.12%) Cloud Native
5 6 (6.12%) Credit Risk
5 6 (6.12%) Data Structures
5 6 (6.12%) Fixed Income
5 6 (6.12%) Market Risk
5 6 (6.12%) Product Ownership
5 6 (6.12%) Replication
6 5 (5.10%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.04%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.04%) Blockchain
7 2 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.04%) OTC Derivatives
7 2 (2.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (25.51%) Linux
2 12 (12.24%) AIX
2 12 (12.24%) Windows
3 9 (9.18%) Unix
4 1 (1.02%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (34.69%) Agile
2 31 (31.63%) DevOps
3 25 (25.51%) CI/CD
3 25 (25.51%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (23.47%) Migration
5 22 (22.45%) Performance Tuning
6 21 (21.43%) Data Migration
6 21 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
7 19 (19.39%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (15.31%) Validation
9 12 (12.24%) SDLC
10 11 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (10.20%) Anti-Money Laundering
11 10 (10.20%) Data Modelling
11 10 (10.20%) ETL
11 10 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (10.20%) Risk Management
12 9 (9.18%) Data Pipeline
12 9 (9.18%) Knowledge Transfer
12 9 (9.18%) Operational Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 59 (60.20%) SQL
2 21 (21.43%) Python
3 18 (18.37%) Java
4 11 (11.22%) PL/SQL
5 8 (8.16%) VB
5 8 (8.16%) VB6
6 7 (7.14%) C#
7 5 (5.10%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.10%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.10%) Scala
8 4 (4.08%) C
8 4 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (4.08%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.06%) R
10 2 (2.04%) Bash
10 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.29%) 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 16 (16.33%) QA
2 5 (5.10%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.10%) GDPR
3 3 (3.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.04%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.04%) NIST
5 1 (1.02%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (25.51%) Terraform
2 17 (17.35%) Ansible
3 12 (12.24%) Data Guard
3 12 (12.24%) 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 67 (68.37%) Oracle
2 10 (10.20%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.14%) Actian
4 6 (6.12%) Google
5 4 (4.08%) Alteryx
6 3 (3.06%) Databricks
6 3 (3.06%) SAP
7 2 (2.04%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.04%) Sitecore
7 2 (2.04%) Solace
8 1 (1.02%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.02%) Informatica
8 1 (1.02%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.02%) NetApp
8 1 (1.02%) Sparx
8 1 (1.02%) Splunk
8 1 (1.02%) Varonis