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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 430 433 495
Rank change year-on-year +3 +62 -49
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 89 93 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.28% 0.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.77% 1.55% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 61 75
10th Percentile £325 £360 £400
25th Percentile £405 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £520 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% -11.49% +2.17%
75th Percentile £738 £550 £675
90th Percentile £813 £588 £783
UK median daily rate £470 £475 £511
% change year-on-year -1.05% -7.09% -9.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £27.21 - -
25th Percentile £36.23 - £76.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £77.50
75th Percentile £53.75 - £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £73.13
% change year-on-year - - +41.03%

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 5,032 6,005 7,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.09% 18.23% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,464 4,155 4,991
10th Percentile £338 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £666
90th Percentile £750 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £543
% change year-on-year -6.19% -1.84% -1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 84 140
10th Percentile £21.11 £17.50 £21.00
25th Percentile £29.21 £21.25 £32.32
Median hourly rate £44.25 £36.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.07% -34.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.60 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.08 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +24.29% -36.36% +22.66%

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
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 19 September 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing RDBMS in England over the 6 months to 19 September 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 19 September 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 -23 42 £688 +32.21% 25
North of England -8 21 £428 +9.64% 4
North West +4 14 £410 +4.99% 2
East of England +9 10 £525 - 2
South East +18 7 £445 +4.71% 13
Yorkshire -10 7 £575 - 1
South West +15 5 £550 - 1
West Midlands -7 2 - - 4
Midlands -14 2 - - 4
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 9 (10.11%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.74%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.62%) JBoss
4 2 (2.25%) Apache
4 2 (2.25%) Confluence
5 1 (1.12%) Camunda
5 1 (1.12%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (6.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Endur
2 1 (1.12%) Remedy AR System
2 1 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 47 (52.81%) AWS
2 19 (21.35%) Amazon S3
2 19 (21.35%) Serverless
3 16 (17.98%) AWS Lambda
3 16 (17.98%) Azure
4 14 (15.73%) GCP
5 10 (11.24%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (10.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (10.11%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (10.11%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (8.99%) Amazon EventBridge
7 8 (8.99%) AWS Fargate
7 8 (8.99%) dbt
7 8 (8.99%) GitHub
7 8 (8.99%) OpenShift
8 7 (7.87%) Amazon EMR
8 7 (7.87%) PaaS
8 7 (7.87%) SaaS
9 6 (6.74%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (6.74%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.37%) AMQP
2 1 (1.12%) HTTP
2 1 (1.12%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.12%) SSH
2 1 (1.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 29 (32.58%) NoSQL
3 27 (30.34%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (24.72%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (16.85%) MySQL
6 12 (13.48%) Oracle Database
6 12 (13.48%) SQL Server
7 10 (11.24%) BigQuery
7 10 (11.24%) MongoDB
8 9 (10.11%) Data Lake
8 9 (10.11%) DynamoDB
9 8 (8.99%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (8.99%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (6.74%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (5.62%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (5.62%) Big Data
11 5 (5.62%) Data Vault
11 5 (5.62%) Power BI
11 5 (5.62%) Redis
12 4 (4.49%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 21 (23.60%) Git
2 13 (14.61%) Jenkins
3 11 (12.36%) Maven
4 10 (11.24%) SonarQube
5 9 (10.11%) JIRA
6 7 (7.87%) Gradle
6 7 (7.87%) JUnit
7 6 (6.74%) Bitbucket
8 5 (5.62%) ERwin
8 5 (5.62%) SonarLint
8 5 (5.62%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (5.62%) TeamCity
9 4 (4.49%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (4.49%) CA Release Automation
9 4 (4.49%) ER Studio
9 4 (4.49%) Mockito
10 3 (3.37%) Subversion
11 2 (2.25%) JMeter
11 2 (2.25%) Log4j
12 1 (1.12%) Cucumber
General
1 29 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 23 (25.84%) Finance
3 12 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.74%) Front Office
5 5 (5.62%) Banking
5 5 (5.62%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Back Office
7 1 (1.12%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.12%) Legal
7 1 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.12%) Retail
7 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (33.71%) Developer
2 18 (20.22%) Architect
3 14 (15.73%) Senior
4 9 (10.11%) DBA
4 9 (10.11%) Java Developer
4 9 (10.11%) Senior Developer
5 7 (7.87%) Data Modeller
5 7 (7.87%) React Developer
6 6 (6.74%) Data Architect
6 6 (6.74%) Snowflake Architect
7 5 (5.62%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Energy Trading Developer
7 5 (5.62%) Java Architect
7 5 (5.62%) Java Technical Architect
7 5 (5.62%) Lead
7 5 (5.62%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (5.62%) Technical Architect
8 4 (4.49%) AWS Developer
8 4 (4.49%) Oracle DBA
8 4 (4.49%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.35%) Spring Boot
2 12 (13.48%) REST
3 10 (11.24%) React
3 10 (11.24%) RESTful
3 10 (11.24%) Spring
4 9 (10.11%) GraphQL
4 9 (10.11%) Kafka
5 6 (6.74%) Web Services
6 5 (5.62%) .NET
6 5 (5.62%) Dropwizard
6 5 (5.62%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (5.62%) J2EE
6 5 (5.62%) JSON
6 5 (5.62%) JWT
6 5 (5.62%) Micronaut
6 5 (5.62%) Svelte
6 5 (5.62%) XML
7 4 (4.49%) Apache Avro
7 4 (4.49%) Celery
8 3 (3.37%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.74%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.62%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.62%) N-Tier
2 5 (5.62%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.49%) Clustering
4 3 (3.37%) Replication
4 3 (3.37%) Swaptions
4 3 (3.37%) Video on Demand
5 2 (2.25%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.25%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.25%) Derivative
5 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.25%) Equities
5 2 (2.25%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.25%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.25%) Pricing Data
5 2 (2.25%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.12%) CMDB
6 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.98%) Linux
2 10 (11.24%) Unix
2 10 (11.24%) Windows
3 9 (10.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.37%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (31.46%) CI/CD
2 26 (29.21%) Data Modelling
3 24 (26.97%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (23.60%) Agile
5 20 (22.47%) Microservices
6 19 (21.35%) ETL
7 18 (20.22%) DevOps
8 15 (16.85%) Migration
9 14 (15.73%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (14.61%) TDD
11 12 (13.48%) Design Patterns
11 12 (13.48%) SDLC
12 11 (12.36%) Analytics
13 10 (11.24%) Data Engineering
13 10 (11.24%) High Availability
14 9 (10.11%) BDD
14 9 (10.11%) Computer Science
14 9 (10.11%) Containerisation
14 9 (10.11%) Data Pipeline
14 9 (10.11%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 43 (48.31%) SQL
2 42 (47.19%) Python
3 33 (37.08%) Java
4 13 (14.61%) TypeScript
5 10 (11.24%) JavaScript
6 8 (8.99%) Perl
7 6 (6.74%) Scala
8 5 (5.62%) Shell Script
9 4 (4.49%) PowerShell
10 3 (3.37%) C
10 3 (3.37%) C#
10 3 (3.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (3.37%) VB
11 2 (2.25%) ANSI SQL
11 2 (2.25%) Bash
11 2 (2.25%) C++
11 2 (2.25%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.12%) ActionScript
12 1 (1.12%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 12 (13.48%) Degree
2 8 (8.99%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.74%) AWS Certification
4 5 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.49%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.37%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.25%) OCP
7 2 (2.25%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.12%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.48%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.25%) GDPR
2 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.25%) QA
2 2 (2.25%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (20.22%) Docker
2 5 (5.62%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.37%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 15 (16.85%) Kubernetes
2 12 (13.48%) Terraform
3 7 (7.87%) Kibana
4 5 (5.62%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.37%) Ansible
5 3 (3.37%) Data Guard
5 3 (3.37%) Grafana
6 2 (2.25%) Control-M
Vendors
1 29 (32.58%) Oracle
2 11 (12.36%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.87%) Splunk
4 6 (6.74%) Red Hat
4 6 (6.74%) StreamSets
5 5 (5.62%) AppDynamics
5 5 (5.62%) Gigya
5 5 (5.62%) Sybase
6 4 (4.49%) Cloudera
7 3 (3.37%) Informatica
7 3 (3.37%) OpenLink
7 3 (3.37%) TIBCO
8 2 (2.25%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (2.25%) Databricks
8 2 (2.25%) Delphix
8 2 (2.25%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.25%) IBM
8 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.12%) BMC
9 1 (1.12%) SAP