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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 424 427
Rank change year-on-year -111 +3 +63
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 93 90 100
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.32% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.34% 1.76% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 64 66
10th Percentile £370 £329 £358
25th Percentile £440 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +5.77% -7.56%
75th Percentile £663 £726 £550
90th Percentile £703 £813 £591
UK median daily rate £600 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +20.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £36.95 -
UK median hourly rate - £36.95 -

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 6,924 5,101 5,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.87% 18.26% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,623 3,514 4,071
10th Percentile £352 £339 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 74 83
10th Percentile £15.95 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.96 £29.06 £21.63
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +24.29% -36.07%
75th Percentile £57.81 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.32% +19.99% -33.33%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -87 42 £600 -7.69% 58
North of England -60 31 £625 +42.86% 7
North West -34 23 £625 +53.94% 5
Midlands -35 11 £478 - 4
West Midlands -37 9 £480 - 1
South West -37 7 £565 +2.73% 5
Yorkshire -41 7 £555 -3.57% 2
North East - 4 - -
South East -74 2 £297 -11.01% 5
East Midlands - 2 £335 - 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 10 (10.75%) Confluence
2 7 (7.53%) Apache Spark
3 6 (6.45%) Tuxedo
4 5 (5.38%) Apache
4 5 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (3.23%) IIS
6 2 (2.15%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (1.08%) Appian
Applications
1 10 (10.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (10.75%) Finacle
2 2 (2.15%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (2.15%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.15%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (2.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.08%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (1.08%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 42 (45.16%) AWS
2 15 (16.13%) GitHub
2 15 (16.13%) OCI
3 13 (13.98%) GCP
4 11 (11.83%) Azure
5 7 (7.53%) GitHub Copilot
6 6 (6.45%) dbt
6 6 (6.45%) Power Platform
7 5 (5.38%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (5.38%) Apigee
7 5 (5.38%) Cloud Run
7 5 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (5.38%) Kong
7 5 (5.38%) Snowflake
8 4 (4.30%) IaaS
9 3 (3.23%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.23%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.15%) Internet
1 2 (2.15%) Intranet
2 1 (1.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 38 (40.86%) Oracle Database
3 21 (22.58%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (22.58%) SQL Server
4 20 (21.51%) MongoDB
5 18 (19.35%) NoSQL
6 16 (17.20%) Oracle Exadata
7 9 (9.68%) MySQL
8 6 (6.45%) Ingres
8 6 (6.45%) Power BI
9 5 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (5.38%) Hazelcast
9 5 (5.38%) Redis
10 4 (4.30%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (4.30%) Big Data
11 3 (3.23%) Apache Hive
11 3 (3.23%) Data Lake
11 3 (3.23%) Hadoop
11 3 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (3.23%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 33 (35.48%) Git
2 26 (27.96%) GitLab
3 12 (12.90%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.60%) JIRA
5 6 (6.45%) Gradle
5 6 (6.45%) Maven
5 6 (6.45%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (5.38%) Claude Code
6 5 (5.38%) Liquibase
6 5 (5.38%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (4.30%) ER Studio
7 4 (4.30%) Snyk
8 2 (2.15%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.15%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.15%) ERwin
8 2 (2.15%) JDeveloper
8 2 (2.15%) Selenium
8 2 (2.15%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.08%) JMeter
9 1 (1.08%) JUnit
General
1 35 (37.63%) Finance
2 21 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (21.51%) Social Skills
4 19 (20.43%) Banking
5 18 (19.35%) Public Sector
6 13 (13.98%) Front Office
7 10 (10.75%) Back Office
8 5 (5.38%) Military
9 2 (2.15%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.15%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (32.26%) Senior
2 26 (27.96%) Developer
3 14 (15.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (10.75%) Applications Support
4 10 (10.75%) Data Engineer
4 10 (10.75%) Java Developer
4 10 (10.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (10.75%) Systems Support
5 8 (8.60%) DBA
5 8 (8.60%) Senior Developer
6 6 (6.45%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (5.38%) Lead
7 5 (5.38%) SQL Developer
8 4 (4.30%) Backend Developer
8 4 (4.30%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Oracle Specialist
8 4 (4.30%) Python Developer
8 4 (4.30%) React Developer
8 4 (4.30%) Senior Backend Developer
8 4 (4.30%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (31.18%) Terraform
2 19 (20.43%) Kafka
3 17 (18.28%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 13 (13.98%) Spring
4 13 (13.98%) Spring Boot
5 11 (11.83%) JSON
5 11 (11.83%) XML
6 9 (9.68%) React
7 8 (8.60%) Apache Avro
7 8 (8.60%) REST
7 8 (8.60%) Web Services
8 7 (7.53%) JWT
8 7 (7.53%) OAuth
9 6 (6.45%) JPA
9 6 (6.45%) OAuth2
9 6 (6.45%) RESTful
10 5 (5.38%) COM
10 5 (5.38%) Protocol Buffers
10 5 (5.38%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (5.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.98%) Public Cloud
2 10 (10.75%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (10.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 7 (7.53%) Replication
4 6 (6.45%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.45%) Data Structures
4 6 (6.45%) Low-Code
4 6 (6.45%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.38%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.23%) Clustering
6 3 (3.23%) Derivative
7 2 (2.15%) Blockchain
7 2 (2.15%) OTC Derivatives
7 2 (2.15%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.08%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.08%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.08%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (27.96%) Linux
2 15 (16.13%) AIX
3 10 (10.75%) Windows
4 5 (5.38%) Unix
5 1 (1.08%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (32.26%) DevOps
2 28 (30.11%) Agile
3 26 (27.96%) CI/CD
4 24 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (24.73%) Migration
6 22 (23.66%) Performance Tuning
7 19 (20.43%) Data Migration
7 19 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (18.28%) User Acceptance Testing
9 14 (15.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (13.98%) Validation
11 11 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (11.83%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (10.75%) Anti-Money Laundering
12 10 (10.75%) Microservices
12 10 (10.75%) Software Engineering
13 9 (9.68%) AI
13 9 (9.68%) Data Modelling
14 8 (8.60%) Data Pipeline
14 8 (8.60%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 54 (58.06%) SQL
2 21 (22.58%) Python
3 20 (21.51%) Java
4 12 (12.90%) PL/SQL
5 8 (8.60%) C#
6 6 (6.45%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.45%) VB
6 6 (6.45%) VB6
7 4 (4.30%) C
7 4 (4.30%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.30%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (3.23%) R
8 3 (3.23%) Scala
9 1 (1.08%) Bash
9 1 (1.08%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.08%) Perl
9 1 (1.08%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.53%) Degree
4 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.08%) CISSP
4 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.13%) QA
2 6 (6.45%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.30%) GDPR
4 3 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.08%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.08%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.08%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (19.35%) Oracle RAC
2 9 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (23.66%) Ansible
2 15 (16.13%) Data Guard
2 15 (16.13%) Oracle RMAN
3 7 (7.53%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.53%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.38%) Argo
4 5 (5.38%) Grafana
5 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (62.37%) Oracle
2 7 (7.53%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.38%) Actian
3 5 (5.38%) Google
4 3 (3.23%) Alteryx
4 3 (3.23%) SAP
5 2 (2.15%) Databricks
5 2 (2.15%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.15%) IBM
5 2 (2.15%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.15%) Sitecore
5 2 (2.15%) Sparx
5 2 (2.15%) Splunk
6 1 (1.08%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.08%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.08%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.08%) Solace
6 1 (1.08%) Varonis