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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 435 435
Rank change year-on-year +35 0 +30
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 96 118 204
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.32% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.05% 1.82% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 85 141
10th Percentile £364 £356 £425
25th Percentile £401 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £590 £564 £700
90th Percentile £719 £650 £800
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -10.00% -16.67% +6.19%
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 4,694 6,499 8,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.40% 17.50% 17.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,251 4,681 5,796
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £418 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 139 152
10th Percentile £19.05 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.01 £20.76 £32.30
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -29.76% +41.84%
75th Percentile £62.88 £51.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £71.70 £82.95
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £56.40
% change year-on-year -12.50% -29.08% +40.47%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +10 42 £510 +7.37% 173
North of England +23 25 £419 -21.16% 37
North West +24 20 £419 -21.19% 20
South West +46 9 £650 +18.18% 13
East of England +34 9 £525 -22.22% 29
South East +50 5 £537 +43.20% 39
Midlands +8 5 £494 +38.62% 31
Yorkshire +6 5 £575 - 15
West Midlands +9 4 £450 +7.14% 19
East Midlands -2 1 £537 +50.84% 12
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 10 (10.42%) JBoss
2 6 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (5.21%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.08%) Confluence
4 2 (2.08%) MQSeries
4 2 (2.08%) SAS
5 1 (1.04%) Apache
5 1 (1.04%) Camunda
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.04%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Endur
2 1 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.04%) Remedy AR System
2 1 (1.04%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 40 (41.67%) AWS
2 18 (18.75%) Serverless
3 16 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 12 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 8 (8.33%) Azure
6 7 (7.29%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (6.25%) dbt
7 6 (6.25%) Power Platform
8 5 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (5.21%) GCP
9 4 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (4.17%) GitHub
9 4 (4.17%) Snowflake
10 3 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.13%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.13%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) HTTPS
1 3 (3.13%) SSH
1 3 (3.13%) SSL
2 1 (1.04%) AMQP
2 1 (1.04%) HTTP
2 1 (1.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 29 (30.21%) NoSQL
3 25 (26.04%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (19.79%) MongoDB
5 15 (15.63%) Oracle Database
6 14 (14.58%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (11.46%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (11.46%) SQL Server
8 10 (10.42%) Data Lake
9 8 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (6.25%) MySQL
10 6 (6.25%) Power BI
11 5 (5.21%) BigQuery
12 4 (4.17%) Big Data
12 4 (4.17%) DynamoDB
13 3 (3.13%) Apache Hive
13 3 (3.13%) Data Vault
13 3 (3.13%) Flink
13 3 (3.13%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 17 (17.71%) Git
2 16 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 15 (15.63%) JIRA
4 11 (11.46%) Bitbucket Server
4 11 (11.46%) SonarQube
5 10 (10.42%) CA Release Automation
5 10 (10.42%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (10.42%) TeamCity
6 6 (6.25%) ERwin
6 6 (6.25%) JUnit
7 4 (4.17%) Bitbucket
7 4 (4.17%) ER Studio
8 3 (3.13%) JMeter
8 3 (3.13%) Maven
8 3 (3.13%) Mockito
9 2 (2.08%) IntelliJ
9 2 (2.08%) Toad
10 1 (1.04%) LoadRunner
10 1 (1.04%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (1.04%) Subversion
General
1 20 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.75%) Finance
3 14 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.38%) Banking
5 7 (7.29%) Front Office
6 3 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Back Office
8 1 (1.04%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.04%) Retail
8 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (31.25%) Developer
2 16 (16.67%) DBA
3 11 (11.46%) Java Developer
3 11 (11.46%) Senior
4 10 (10.42%) Architect
5 8 (8.33%) Administrator
5 8 (8.33%) Data Modeller
6 7 (7.29%) Lead
6 7 (7.29%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 7 (7.29%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (5.21%) MongoDB DBA
8 5 (5.21%) React Developer
9 4 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (4.17%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Oracle DBA
9 4 (4.17%) Python Developer
9 4 (4.17%) Snowflake Architect
10 3 (3.13%) Data Architect
10 3 (3.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.75%) Spring Boot
2 16 (16.67%) XML
3 13 (13.54%) JSON
3 13 (13.54%) Kafka
4 12 (12.50%) REST
5 10 (10.42%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (10.42%) Spring
6 6 (6.25%) React
7 5 (5.21%) .NET
7 5 (5.21%) GraphQL
7 5 (5.21%) HTML
7 5 (5.21%) Web Services
8 4 (4.17%) WireMock
9 3 (3.13%) Apache Avro
9 3 (3.13%) Apache Beam
9 3 (3.13%) Apache Camel
9 3 (3.13%) Middleware
9 3 (3.13%) SOAP
9 3 (3.13%) Svelte
9 3 (3.13%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.21%) Fixed Income
1 5 (5.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (3.13%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.13%) Swaptions
3 2 (2.08%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.08%) Clustering
3 2 (2.08%) Data Fabric
3 2 (2.08%) Derivative
3 2 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.08%) Equities
4 1 (1.04%) CMDB
4 1 (1.04%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.04%) Replication
4 1 (1.04%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 22 (22.92%) Linux
2 15 (15.63%) Windows
3 14 (14.58%) Unix
4 12 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.04%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (30.21%) DevOps
2 27 (28.13%) CI/CD
3 24 (25.00%) Agile
4 21 (21.88%) Data Modelling
5 20 (20.83%) Microservices
6 17 (17.71%) Migration
7 16 (16.67%) ETL
8 13 (13.54%) Database Security
8 13 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (11.46%) Code Quality
10 11 (11.46%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (11.46%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (11.46%) Mentoring
10 11 (11.46%) Performance Tuning
11 10 (10.42%) Build Automation
11 10 (10.42%) Deployment Automation
12 9 (9.38%) Analytics
12 9 (9.38%) High Availability
12 9 (9.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 41 (42.71%) SQL
2 34 (35.42%) Python
3 28 (29.17%) Java
4 12 (12.50%) Perl
5 9 (9.38%) JavaScript
5 9 (9.38%) TypeScript
6 7 (7.29%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.21%) Scala
8 4 (4.17%) C
9 3 (3.13%) ActionScript
9 3 (3.13%) ActionScript 2.0
9 3 (3.13%) C#
9 3 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (3.13%) VB
10 2 (2.08%) ANSI SQL
10 2 (2.08%) C++
10 2 (2.08%) Ruby
11 1 (1.04%) PHP
11 1 (1.04%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (10.42%) Degree
1 10 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.21%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.08%) QA
2 2 (2.08%) SLA
3 1 (1.04%) GDPR
3 1 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (19.79%) Docker
2 10 (10.42%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 17 (17.71%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.50%) Kibana
3 10 (10.42%) Progress Chef
4 9 (9.38%) Terraform
5 4 (4.17%) Data Guard
6 2 (2.08%) Ansible
6 2 (2.08%) Control-M
6 2 (2.08%) Grafana
7 1 (1.04%) Argo
7 1 (1.04%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (1.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (1.04%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 35 (36.46%) Oracle
2 14 (14.58%) Splunk
3 11 (11.46%) Microsoft
3 11 (11.46%) Red Hat
4 10 (10.42%) AppDynamics
5 8 (8.33%) Sybase
6 6 (6.25%) IBM
7 5 (5.21%) Cloudera
7 5 (5.21%) TIBCO
8 4 (4.17%) MuleSoft
8 4 (4.17%) SnapLogic
8 4 (4.17%) StreamSets
9 3 (3.13%) Dynatrace
9 3 (3.13%) IBM Sterling
9 3 (3.13%) Informatica
9 3 (3.13%) OpenLink
10 2 (2.08%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (2.08%) Databricks
10 2 (2.08%) Genesys
10 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow