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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 394 412
Rank change year-on-year -123 +18 +7
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 89 95 118
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.39% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.37% 2.05% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 61 85
10th Percentile £403 £363 £356
25th Percentile £452 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.56% -10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £688 £600 £575
90th Percentile £804 £738 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -16.67%
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% -
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% -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 6,498 4,631 6,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.24% 18.89% 17.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,418 3,206 4,613
10th Percentile £350 £359 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 90 143
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.69 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.00 £33.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.41% -16.26% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.75 £65.62 £53.94
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.62 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £34.99 £40.00
% change year-on-year +19.21% -12.53% -31.73%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -57 49 £650 +30.00% 9
North of England -77 18 £416 -0.70% 5
North West -36 14 £416 -0.67% 3
Midlands -59 12 £478 -3.24% 2
West Midlands -54 11 £475 +5.56% 1
South West -25 6 £565 -13.08% 2
Yorkshire -53 4 - - 1
South East -75 4 £290 -49.57% 4
East Midlands -22 1 £540 +0.56% 1
North East - 1 - - 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 12 (13.48%) Apache Spark
2 8 (8.99%) Confluence
3 6 (6.74%) Apache
3 6 (6.74%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (6.74%) Tuxedo
4 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (2.25%) Appian
5 2 (2.25%) IIS
5 2 (2.25%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (1.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (6.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (6.74%) Finacle
1 6 (6.74%) Summit
2 2 (2.25%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (2.25%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.25%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (1.12%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (1.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 31 (34.83%) AWS
2 15 (16.85%) GCP
3 14 (15.73%) Azure
3 14 (15.73%) GitHub
4 8 (8.99%) Power Platform
5 7 (7.87%) dbt
5 7 (7.87%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (5.62%) Amazon S3
6 5 (5.62%) Snowflake
7 4 (4.49%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (4.49%) Apigee
7 4 (4.49%) Cloud Functions
7 4 (4.49%) Cloud Run
7 4 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (4.49%) IaaS
7 4 (4.49%) Kong
7 4 (4.49%) OCI
7 4 (4.49%) Serverless
8 3 (3.37%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.25%) SMS
2 1 (1.12%) Internet
2 1 (1.12%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 27 (30.34%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (29.21%) NoSQL
4 25 (28.09%) MongoDB
4 25 (28.09%) SQL Server
5 24 (26.97%) Oracle Database
6 10 (11.24%) MySQL
7 9 (10.11%) Ingres
8 8 (8.99%) Power BI
9 7 (7.87%) Big Data
9 7 (7.87%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (6.74%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (6.74%) Hadoop
10 6 (6.74%) Metadata
11 5 (5.62%) BigQuery
11 5 (5.62%) Data Lake
11 5 (5.62%) Oracle Exadata
11 5 (5.62%) Parquet
12 4 (4.49%) PowerPivot
12 4 (4.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (24.72%) Git
2 11 (12.36%) GitLab
3 9 (10.11%) JIRA
3 9 (10.11%) Team Foundation Server
4 8 (8.99%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (6.74%) Jenkins
6 5 (5.62%) Liquibase
7 4 (4.49%) Gradle
7 4 (4.49%) Maven
7 4 (4.49%) Snyk
8 3 (3.37%) ER Studio
9 2 (2.25%) JDeveloper
10 1 (1.12%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.12%) ERwin
10 1 (1.12%) JMeter
10 1 (1.12%) JUnit
10 1 (1.12%) Postman
10 1 (1.12%) Selenium
10 1 (1.12%) TeamCity
General
1 33 (37.08%) Finance
2 22 (24.72%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (23.60%) Social Skills
4 17 (19.10%) Public Sector
5 15 (16.85%) Banking
6 11 (12.36%) Front Office
7 6 (6.74%) Back Office
7 6 (6.74%) Investment Banking
8 5 (5.62%) Military
9 2 (2.25%) General Ledger
9 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.12%) Marketing
10 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (29.21%) Developer
2 21 (23.60%) Senior
3 13 (14.61%) Data Engineer
4 12 (13.48%) DBA
5 7 (7.87%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 6 (6.74%) Applications Support
6 6 (6.74%) Business Analyst
6 6 (6.74%) Java Developer
6 6 (6.74%) Senior Data Engineer
6 6 (6.74%) Summit Business Analyst
6 6 (6.74%) Systems Support
7 5 (5.62%) Database Specialist
7 5 (5.62%) Energy Trading Developer
7 5 (5.62%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.49%) Analyst
8 4 (4.49%) Backend Developer
8 4 (4.49%) Big Data Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Hadoop Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (4.49%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (22.47%) Kafka
2 18 (20.22%) XML
3 16 (17.98%) JSON
4 13 (14.61%) REST
5 12 (13.48%) Spring
6 11 (12.36%) Spring Boot
7 9 (10.11%) Apache Avro
8 8 (8.99%) React
9 7 (7.87%) ADO
9 7 (7.87%) COM
9 7 (7.87%) CSS
9 7 (7.87%) HTML
9 7 (7.87%) ODBC
9 7 (7.87%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 5 (5.62%) GraphQL
10 5 (5.62%) OAuth
10 5 (5.62%) Web Services
11 4 (4.49%) Apache Beam
11 4 (4.49%) Spring WebFlux
11 4 (4.49%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.99%) Derivative
2 6 (6.74%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (6.74%) Credit Risk
2 6 (6.74%) Fixed Income
2 6 (6.74%) Low-Code
2 6 (6.74%) Market Risk
2 6 (6.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 5 (5.62%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.62%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.62%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.49%) Replication
5 2 (2.25%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.25%) Blockchain
5 2 (2.25%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.25%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.25%) OTC Derivatives
5 2 (2.25%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.98%) Linux
2 9 (10.11%) Windows
3 7 (7.87%) Unix
4 4 (4.49%) AIX
5 1 (1.12%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (34.83%) Agile
2 25 (28.09%) DevOps
3 21 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (22.47%) CI/CD
5 19 (21.35%) Performance Tuning
6 17 (19.10%) User Acceptance Testing
7 16 (17.98%) Analytics
7 16 (17.98%) Validation
8 15 (16.85%) Migration
9 14 (15.73%) Data Migration
10 13 (14.61%) ETL
11 12 (13.48%) Data Engineering
11 12 (13.48%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (12.36%) Infrastructure as Code
13 10 (11.24%) Data Modelling
13 10 (11.24%) SDLC
13 10 (11.24%) Visualisation
14 9 (10.11%) Data Protection
14 9 (10.11%) Disaster Recovery
14 9 (10.11%) Operational Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 59 (66.29%) SQL
2 19 (21.35%) Java
2 19 (21.35%) Python
3 10 (11.24%) JavaScript
3 10 (11.24%) PL/SQL
4 8 (8.99%) VB
4 8 (8.99%) VB6
5 6 (6.74%) Scala
6 5 (5.62%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.49%) C
7 4 (4.49%) C#
7 4 (4.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (3.37%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.37%) R
9 2 (2.25%) Bash
9 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.61%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.74%) Degree
4 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.61%) QA
2 6 (6.74%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.62%) GDPR
4 3 (3.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (2.25%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.25%) NIST
6 1 (1.12%) ISO 22301
6 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (11.24%) Docker
2 5 (5.62%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 16 (17.98%) Terraform
2 11 (12.36%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.62%) Ansible
4 4 (4.49%) Argo
4 4 (4.49%) Data Guard
4 4 (4.49%) Grafana
4 4 (4.49%) Oracle RMAN
4 4 (4.49%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (59.55%) Oracle
2 9 (10.11%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.87%) Actian
4 6 (6.74%) Adobe
4 6 (6.74%) Google
5 4 (4.49%) Alteryx
5 4 (4.49%) Informatica
6 3 (3.37%) Databricks
6 3 (3.37%) SAP
7 2 (2.25%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.25%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.12%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.12%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.12%) NetApp
8 1 (1.12%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.12%) Solace
8 1 (1.12%) Sparx
8 1 (1.12%) Varonis