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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 366 412
Rank change year-on-year -140 +46 -14
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 81 106 135
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.43% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.30% 2.26% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 75 96
10th Percentile £371 £373 £400
25th Percentile £422 £409 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £493 £533
Median % change year-on-year +8.01% -7.50% -9.28%
75th Percentile £675 £550 £646
90th Percentile £785 £675 £719
UK median daily rate £528 £475 £533
% change year-on-year +11.05% -10.88% -7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £24.21 -
25th Percentile £41.25 £28.71 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £36.95 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.02% -8.77% -
75th Percentile £43.75 £45.71 -
90th Percentile - £50.54 -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £36.95 £40.50
% change year-on-year +15.02% -8.77% -39.15%

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 6,232 4,695 6,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.72% 19.14% 16.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,311 3,294 4,394
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 94 133
10th Percentile £16.85 £19.73 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.67 £23.69 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.50 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.22% -17.60% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.37 £65.46 £54.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £34.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +47.83% -13.75% -34.69%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -47 43 £663 +20.45% 8
North of England -68 20 £402 -9.66% 2
North West -45 17 £402 -9.66% 2
South East -50 9 £513 -10.87% 3
Midlands -76 7 £475 -3.65% 4
West Midlands -68 5 £475 -3.65% 3
Yorkshire - 3 - -
East Midlands -34 2 £471 -12.29% 1
South West -50 2 £550 -
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 8 (9.88%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.94%) Apache
2 4 (4.94%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.94%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.70%) Confluence
4 2 (2.47%) Appian
5 1 (1.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (8.64%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (4.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Summit
2 3 (3.70%) Finacle
3 2 (2.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.99%) AWS
2 12 (14.81%) Azure
3 9 (11.11%) Serverless
4 8 (9.88%) GCP
5 6 (7.41%) Amazon S3
6 5 (6.17%) dbt
6 5 (6.17%) OpenShift
7 4 (4.94%) GitHub
7 4 (4.94%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.70%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.47%) Cloud Functions
9 2 (2.47%) IaaS
9 2 (2.47%) npm
9 2 (2.47%) OCI
10 1 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.23%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.23%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) AMQP
1 2 (2.47%) Internet
1 2 (2.47%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 32 (39.51%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (32.10%) NoSQL
4 24 (29.63%) MongoDB
5 19 (23.46%) SQL Server
6 16 (19.75%) Oracle Database
7 10 (12.35%) Oracle Reports
8 8 (9.88%) Metadata
9 6 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (7.41%) MySQL
10 5 (6.17%) Hadoop
11 4 (4.94%) Big Data
11 4 (4.94%) SQLPlus
12 3 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (3.70%) BigQuery
12 3 (3.70%) Data Lake
12 3 (3.70%) Ingres
12 3 (3.70%) Parquet
12 3 (3.70%) Power BI
13 2 (2.47%) Flink
Development Applications
1 12 (14.81%) Git
2 7 (8.64%) JIRA
2 7 (8.64%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (6.17%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.17%) Maven
4 4 (4.94%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (4.94%) TeamCity
4 4 (4.94%) Toad
5 3 (3.70%) Gradle
5 3 (3.70%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (2.47%) ER Studio
6 2 (2.47%) ERwin
6 2 (2.47%) GitLab
6 2 (2.47%) PyCharm
7 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.23%) Gatling
7 1 (1.23%) JMeter
7 1 (1.23%) Postman
7 1 (1.23%) Snyk
General
1 24 (29.63%) Finance
2 23 (28.40%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (28.40%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.81%) Banking
4 9 (11.11%) Front Office
5 6 (7.41%) Investment Banking
6 5 (6.17%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.70%) Back Office
8 2 (2.47%) Legal
8 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.23%) Law
9 1 (1.23%) Marketing
9 1 (1.23%) Military
9 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (34.57%) Developer
2 16 (19.75%) DBA
3 10 (12.35%) Senior
4 9 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 9 (11.11%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 7 (8.64%) Administrator
6 6 (7.41%) Business Analyst
6 6 (7.41%) Summit Business Analyst
7 5 (6.17%) Applications Support
7 5 (6.17%) Oracle Developer
7 5 (6.17%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Analyst
8 4 (4.94%) Architect
8 4 (4.94%) Data Architect
8 4 (4.94%) IAM Developer
8 4 (4.94%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.94%) Python Developer
9 3 (3.70%) Delphi Developer
9 3 (3.70%) Oracle Database Developer
9 3 (3.70%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (27.16%) JSON
1 22 (27.16%) XML
2 16 (19.75%) Kafka
3 15 (18.52%) REST
4 9 (11.11%) Spring
5 8 (9.88%) CSS
5 8 (9.88%) HTML
6 7 (8.64%) React
6 7 (8.64%) Spring Boot
7 6 (7.41%) GraphQL
8 4 (4.94%) Apache Avro
9 3 (3.70%) .NET
10 2 (2.47%) ActiveX
10 2 (2.47%) ADO
10 2 (2.47%) COM
10 2 (2.47%) J2EE
10 2 (2.47%) JPA
10 2 (2.47%) JSP
10 2 (2.47%) ODBC
10 2 (2.47%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.64%) Data Structures
2 6 (7.41%) Credit Risk
2 6 (7.41%) Derivative
2 6 (7.41%) Fixed Income
2 6 (7.41%) Market Risk
3 4 (4.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (2.47%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.47%) Clustering
5 2 (2.47%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.47%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.47%) Online Banking
5 2 (2.47%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.47%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.47%) Replication
5 2 (2.47%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.23%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.35%) Unix
2 9 (11.11%) Linux
3 6 (7.41%) Windows
4 2 (2.47%) CentOS
4 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.23%) AIX
5 1 (1.23%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.10%) Agile
2 21 (25.93%) DevOps
2 21 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (19.75%) CI/CD
4 15 (18.52%) Database Security
5 14 (17.28%) Data Modelling
6 13 (16.05%) ETL
6 13 (16.05%) SDLC
7 12 (14.81%) Analytics
7 12 (14.81%) Data Engineering
8 11 (13.58%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (12.35%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (11.11%) Cloud Security
10 9 (11.11%) Mentoring
10 9 (11.11%) Migration
10 9 (11.11%) Visualisation
11 8 (9.88%) Data Migration
11 8 (9.88%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (9.88%) Risk Management
11 8 (9.88%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (55.56%) SQL
2 15 (18.52%) Java
3 14 (17.28%) Python
4 11 (13.58%) PL/SQL
5 7 (8.64%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.41%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.94%) Delphi
7 4 (4.94%) Perl
7 4 (4.94%) PHP
7 4 (4.94%) Scala
7 4 (4.94%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.70%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.47%) Bash
9 2 (2.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.47%) VB
9 2 (2.47%) VB6
10 1 (1.23%) C#
10 1 (1.23%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (9.88%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.64%) Degree
3 3 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.47%) CISSP
4 2 (2.47%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.23%) OCP
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) GDPR
2 4 (4.94%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.94%) QA
3 2 (2.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (2.47%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.47%) NIST
4 1 (1.23%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (8.64%) Kubernetes
1 7 (8.64%) Terraform
2 4 (4.94%) Ansible
3 3 (3.70%) Grafana
4 1 (1.23%) Argo
4 1 (1.23%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 50 (61.73%) Oracle
2 13 (16.05%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.41%) Adobe
4 5 (6.17%) Informatica
5 4 (4.94%) DevExpress
6 3 (3.70%) Google
7 2 (2.47%) Actian
7 2 (2.47%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.47%) Sparx
8 1 (1.23%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.23%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.23%) Databricks
8 1 (1.23%) NetApp
8 1 (1.23%) Solace
8 1 (1.23%) Teradata
8 1 (1.23%) Varonis