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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 380 416
Rank change year-on-year -68 +36 +7
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 92 114 133
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.42% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.73% 2.30% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 71 98
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £452 £453 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £534
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +0.19% -2.91%
75th Percentile £678 £550 £664
90th Percentile £781 £588 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £529 £525
% change year-on-year -0.76% +0.76% -4.55%

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 5,324 4,957 5,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.72% 18.39% 16.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,722 3,293 4,253
10th Percentile £328 £350 £357
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -0.91% -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £656
90th Percentile £710 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 71 139
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £18.18
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £23.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £39.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +10.13% -14.47% -16.04%
75th Percentile £69.63 £64.73 £64.45
90th Percentile £84.00 £73.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +24.29% -24.21% -16.04%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -24 49 £570 +3.64% 14
North of England -33 23 £450 +0.78% 9
North West -11 15 £425 -4.82% 6
South East -21 11 £447 -22.26% 10
Yorkshire - 8 £550 - 3
South West -25 4 £550 - 2
East of England -16 3 - -
Midlands -57 2 £451 -8.52% 5
East Midlands -26 1 £402 +12.92% 2
West Midlands -49 1 £500 -2.15% 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 5 (5.43%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (5.43%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.26%) Apache
3 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.09%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (5.43%) Chatbot
2 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.09%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 40 (43.48%) AWS
2 21 (22.83%) Azure
3 16 (17.39%) Serverless
4 12 (13.04%) GCP
4 12 (13.04%) GitHub
4 12 (13.04%) Snowflake
5 11 (11.96%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (9.78%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (9.78%) Amazon S3
7 8 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (8.70%) AWS Fargate
8 7 (7.61%) Amazon EMR
9 6 (6.52%) Datadog
10 5 (5.43%) Amazon EventBridge
10 5 (5.43%) Apigee
10 5 (5.43%) Loggly
10 5 (5.43%) OpenShift
10 5 (5.43%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.35%) AMQP
1 4 (4.35%) Internet
2 2 (2.17%) SMS
3 1 (1.09%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (1.09%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 37 (40.22%) NoSQL
3 33 (35.87%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (23.91%) SQL Server
5 20 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (20.65%) MySQL
7 18 (19.57%) MongoDB
8 14 (15.22%) Big Data
9 11 (11.96%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (11.96%) Oracle Database
10 8 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (8.70%) DynamoDB
11 7 (7.61%) Metadata
12 6 (6.52%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (6.52%) Redis
13 5 (5.43%) BigQuery
13 5 (5.43%) Data Lake
14 4 (4.35%) Data Vault
14 4 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (4.35%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 20 (21.74%) Git
2 13 (14.13%) Jenkins
2 13 (14.13%) Maven
3 9 (9.78%) Gradle
4 6 (6.52%) ER Studio
4 6 (6.52%) ERwin
4 6 (6.52%) JUnit
4 6 (6.52%) PyCharm
5 5 (5.43%) SonarLint
5 5 (5.43%) SonarQube
6 4 (4.35%) JIRA
6 4 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (4.35%) TeamCity
6 4 (4.35%) Toad
7 2 (2.17%) Log4j
7 2 (2.17%) Mockito
7 2 (2.17%) Subversion
8 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (33.70%) Social Skills
2 21 (22.83%) Finance
3 14 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.78%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.43%) Banking
6 3 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Front Office
6 3 (3.26%) Legal
7 1 (1.09%) Law
7 1 (1.09%) Marketing
7 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (36.96%) Developer
2 13 (14.13%) Architect
3 11 (11.96%) Senior
4 10 (10.87%) DBA
4 10 (10.87%) Java Developer
5 6 (6.52%) AWS Developer
5 6 (6.52%) Data Architect
5 6 (6.52%) Data Engineer
5 6 (6.52%) Data Modeller
5 6 (6.52%) Lead
6 5 (5.43%) Administrator
6 5 (5.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (5.43%) Java Architect
6 5 (5.43%) Java Technical Architect
6 5 (5.43%) Oracle Developer
6 5 (5.43%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 5 (5.43%) Senior Developer
6 5 (5.43%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (5.43%) Technical Architect
7 4 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.65%) Spring Boot
2 18 (19.57%) JSON
3 16 (17.39%) Kafka
4 15 (16.30%) Spring
5 12 (13.04%) REST
5 12 (13.04%) XML
6 11 (11.96%) RESTful
7 7 (7.61%) CSS
7 7 (7.61%) HTML
8 6 (6.52%) NumPy
8 6 (6.52%) Pandas
8 6 (6.52%) React
8 6 (6.52%) TensorFlow
9 5 (5.43%) Dropwizard
9 5 (5.43%) GraphQL
9 5 (5.43%) J2EE
9 5 (5.43%) JWT
9 5 (5.43%) Micronaut
10 4 (4.35%) Celery
11 2 (2.17%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.70%) Data Structures
2 7 (7.61%) Algorithms
2 7 (7.61%) Clustering
2 7 (7.61%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.52%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.43%) N-Tier
5 4 (4.35%) Online Banking
5 4 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.26%) Replication
7 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.17%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.09%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.78%) Linux
2 7 (7.61%) Unix
3 5 (5.43%) CentOS
4 4 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (33.70%) Data Modelling
2 30 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (28.26%) Agile
4 24 (26.09%) Microservices
5 23 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 23 (25.00%) ETL
6 20 (21.74%) DevOps
7 19 (20.65%) Containerisation
7 19 (20.65%) Data Engineering
8 18 (19.57%) Migration
9 16 (17.39%) Data Governance
10 14 (15.22%) Data Migration
10 14 (15.22%) Data Security
11 13 (14.13%) Analytics
11 13 (14.13%) SDLC
12 12 (13.04%) Database Security
13 11 (11.96%) AI
13 11 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (10.87%) Design Patterns
14 10 (10.87%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 55 (59.78%) SQL
2 34 (36.96%) Python
3 30 (32.61%) Java
4 10 (10.87%) PL/SQL
5 9 (9.78%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.52%) Perl
7 4 (4.35%) Delphi
7 4 (4.35%) PHP
8 3 (3.26%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.26%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.17%) Bash
9 2 (2.17%) Scala
9 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.17%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.09%) C#
10 1 (1.09%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (14.13%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.87%) Degree
3 4 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.26%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.26%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.26%) OCP
4 3 (3.26%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (3.26%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.22%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.43%) GDPR
3 4 (4.35%) QA
4 2 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (23.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (16.30%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.87%) Terraform
3 4 (4.35%) Ansible
3 4 (4.35%) Grafana
4 2 (2.17%) Consul
Vendors
1 36 (39.13%) Oracle
2 12 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.52%) Adobe
4 5 (5.43%) Gigya
5 4 (4.35%) DevExpress
5 4 (4.35%) Informatica
6 3 (3.26%) Sybase
7 2 (2.17%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.17%) SAP
7 2 (2.17%) Sparx
7 2 (2.17%) StreamSets
8 1 (1.09%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.09%) Databricks
8 1 (1.09%) RedGate
8 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.09%) Teradata