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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 387 423
Rank change year-on-year -126 +36 -7
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 78 97 116
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.40% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.23% 2.11% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 62 83
10th Percentile £402 £363 £357
25th Percentile £435 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £744 £587 £575
90th Percentile £818 £731 £650
UK median daily rate £589 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +30.78% -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 6,351 4,595 6,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.14% 19.08% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,319 3,181 4,506
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £421 £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 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 91 138
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.79 £22.99 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.71 £32.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.14% -19.88% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.88 £63.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.25 £73.25
UK median hourly rate £42.11 £34.19 £40.00
% change year-on-year +23.15% -14.53% -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 5 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 5 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 -61 45 £675 +28.57% 21
North of England -86 17 £416 -2.88% 7
North West -43 13 £416 -0.70% 3
South East -66 6 £433 -24.78% 3
South West -32 5 £575 -11.54% 3
Midlands -56 5 £475 +5.56% 8
Yorkshire -52 4 - - 3
West Midlands -59 4 £473 +5.00% 7
East Midlands -24 1 £540 +0.56% 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 (15.38%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.69%) Apache
2 6 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (6.41%) Confluence
4 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (2.56%) Appian
5 2 (2.56%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (1.28%) IIS
6 1 (1.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (7.69%) Finacle
1 6 (7.69%) Summit
2 2 (2.56%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.56%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (2.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.28%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.64%) AWS
2 15 (19.23%) GCP
3 14 (17.95%) Azure
4 8 (10.26%) GitHub
5 7 (8.97%) dbt
5 7 (8.97%) Power Platform
6 5 (6.41%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (5.13%) Apigee
7 4 (5.13%) Cloud Functions
7 4 (5.13%) Cloud Run
7 4 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (5.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (5.13%) IaaS
7 4 (5.13%) Kong
7 4 (5.13%) Serverless
8 3 (3.85%) OCI
8 3 (3.85%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.85%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.56%) SMS
2 1 (1.28%) AMQP
2 1 (1.28%) Internet
2 1 (1.28%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 25 (32.05%) NoSQL
3 24 (30.77%) MongoDB
3 24 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (26.92%) Oracle Database
4 21 (26.92%) SQL Server
5 7 (8.97%) Big Data
5 7 (8.97%) Metadata
5 7 (8.97%) MySQL
6 6 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (7.69%) Hadoop
6 6 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (7.69%) Power BI
7 5 (6.41%) BigQuery
7 5 (6.41%) Data Lake
7 5 (6.41%) Parquet
8 4 (5.13%) Flink
8 4 (5.13%) Power Query
8 4 (5.13%) PowerPivot
8 4 (5.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (19.23%) Git
2 9 (11.54%) GitLab
3 6 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.69%) JIRA
3 6 (7.69%) Maven
4 5 (6.41%) Gradle
5 4 (5.13%) Snyk
6 3 (3.85%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (3.85%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (2.56%) ER Studio
7 2 (2.56%) ERwin
7 2 (2.56%) JDeveloper
7 2 (2.56%) Liquibase
8 1 (1.28%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.28%) JMeter
8 1 (1.28%) JUnit
8 1 (1.28%) Postman
8 1 (1.28%) Selenium
8 1 (1.28%) TeamCity
General
1 33 (42.31%) Finance
2 24 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (29.49%) Social Skills
4 15 (19.23%) Banking
5 11 (14.10%) Front Office
6 8 (10.26%) Public Sector
7 6 (7.69%) Back Office
7 6 (7.69%) Investment Banking
8 4 (5.13%) Military
9 2 (2.56%) General Ledger
9 2 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.28%) Law
10 1 (1.28%) Legal
10 1 (1.28%) Marketing
10 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (28.21%) Developer
2 15 (19.23%) Senior
3 13 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 12 (15.38%) DBA
5 7 (8.97%) Applications Support
5 7 (8.97%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 6 (7.69%) Business Analyst
6 6 (7.69%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Summit Business Analyst
6 6 (7.69%) Systems Support
7 5 (6.41%) Database Specialist
7 5 (6.41%) Energy Trading Developer
7 5 (6.41%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.13%) Backend Developer
8 4 (5.13%) Big Data Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Hadoop Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Lead
8 4 (5.13%) Oracle Specialist
8 4 (5.13%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.64%) Kafka
2 19 (24.36%) XML
3 17 (21.79%) JSON
4 13 (16.67%) REST
5 11 (14.10%) Spring
6 10 (12.82%) Spring Boot
7 9 (11.54%) Apache Avro
8 8 (10.26%) CSS
8 8 (10.26%) HTML
8 8 (10.26%) React
9 5 (6.41%) GraphQL
9 5 (6.41%) OAuth
9 5 (6.41%) Web Services
10 4 (5.13%) .NET
10 4 (5.13%) JPA
10 4 (5.13%) OAuth2
10 4 (5.13%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 4 (5.13%) Protocol Buffers
10 4 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (5.13%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.26%) Derivative
2 6 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (7.69%) Credit Risk
2 6 (7.69%) Fixed Income
2 6 (7.69%) Market Risk
2 6 (7.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 5 (6.41%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.85%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.56%) Blockchain
5 2 (2.56%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.56%) OTC Derivatives
5 2 (2.56%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.56%) Replication
5 2 (2.56%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.28%) Clustering
6 1 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.38%) Linux
2 9 (11.54%) Windows
3 7 (8.97%) Unix
4 2 (2.56%) AIX
5 1 (1.28%) CentOS
5 1 (1.28%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (32.05%) Agile
2 24 (30.77%) DevOps
3 23 (29.49%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (28.21%) CI/CD
5 16 (20.51%) Performance Tuning
6 14 (17.95%) Analytics
7 13 (16.67%) Data Engineering
8 11 (14.10%) Data Modelling
8 11 (14.10%) Data Pipeline
8 11 (14.10%) User Acceptance Testing
8 11 (14.10%) Validation
9 10 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (12.82%) ETL
9 10 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (12.82%) SDLC
9 10 (12.82%) Visualisation
10 9 (11.54%) Cloud Security
10 9 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (11.54%) Scrum
11 8 (10.26%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (67.95%) SQL
2 19 (24.36%) Java
3 17 (21.79%) Python
4 10 (12.82%) JavaScript
5 8 (10.26%) PL/SQL
6 6 (7.69%) Scala
7 5 (6.41%) C#
7 5 (6.41%) TypeScript
8 4 (5.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (3.85%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.85%) R
10 2 (2.56%) Bash
10 2 (2.56%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.56%) VB
10 2 (2.56%) VB6
Qualifications
1 10 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.26%) Degree
2 8 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.56%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.56%) CISSP
4 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.97%) QA
2 6 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.13%) GDPR
4 2 (2.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.56%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.56%) NIST
5 1 (1.28%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (14.10%) Docker
2 3 (3.85%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 15 (19.23%) Terraform
2 11 (14.10%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.41%) Grafana
4 4 (5.13%) Ansible
4 4 (5.13%) Argo
4 4 (5.13%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.56%) Data Guard
5 2 (2.56%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (55.13%) Oracle
2 8 (10.26%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.69%) Adobe
3 6 (7.69%) Google
4 4 (5.13%) Informatica
5 2 (2.56%) Actian
5 2 (2.56%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.56%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.56%) Sparx
6 1 (1.28%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.28%) Databricks
6 1 (1.28%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.28%) NetApp
6 1 (1.28%) SAP
6 1 (1.28%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.28%) Solace
6 1 (1.28%) Varonis