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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 367 428
Rank change year-on-year -91 +61 -18
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 92 121 138
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.46% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.69% 2.48% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 74 98
10th Percentile £400 £384 £404
25th Percentile £471 £444 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £533
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -0.09% -4.18%
75th Percentile £681 £550 £663
90th Percentile £781 £593 £727
UK median daily rate £531 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.19% - -4.55%

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 5,436 4,879 6,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.27% 18.57% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,785 3,242 4,410
10th Percentile £331 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% +1.35% -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 81 169
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.48
25th Percentile £27.69 £25.26 £21.00
Median hourly rate £47.61 £40.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.56% -4.71% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.00 £61.50
90th Percentile £85.90 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £38.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +39.73% -10.33% -25.26%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 49 £575 +4.55% 15
North of England -44 19 £434 -2.47% 8
South East -30 12 £474 -17.65% 10
North West -26 11 £402 -9.66% 5
Yorkshire - 8 £550 - 2
Midlands -65 5 £470 -4.67% 4
South West -30 4 £550 - 1
West Midlands -53 4 £485 -5.09% 3
East of England -23 3 - -
East Midlands -26 1 £402 +12.92% 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 5 (5.43%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.26%) Apache
3 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.09%) Appian
4 1 (1.09%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (5.43%) Chatbot
2 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 2 (2.17%) Summit
2 1 (1.09%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 34 (36.96%) AWS
2 16 (17.39%) Azure
3 12 (13.04%) Snowflake
4 11 (11.96%) Serverless
5 9 (9.78%) Amazon S3
5 9 (9.78%) GitHub
6 7 (7.61%) GCP
7 6 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (5.43%) OpenShift
9 4 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (4.35%) npm
10 3 (3.26%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (3.26%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (3.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.35%) AMQP
1 4 (4.35%) Internet
2 2 (2.17%) SMS
3 1 (1.09%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (1.09%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 31 (33.70%) NoSQL
3 29 (31.52%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (26.09%) SQL Server
5 19 (20.65%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (18.48%) MongoDB
7 14 (15.22%) Big Data
7 14 (15.22%) MySQL
8 10 (10.87%) Oracle Database
9 9 (9.78%) Metadata
10 7 (7.61%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (6.52%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (5.43%) Data Lake
13 4 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (4.35%) Data Vault
13 4 (4.35%) DynamoDB
13 4 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (4.35%) SQLPlus
14 3 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (3.26%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 19 (20.65%) Git
2 9 (9.78%) Jenkins
2 9 (9.78%) Maven
3 7 (7.61%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (6.52%) ER Studio
4 6 (6.52%) ERwin
4 6 (6.52%) PyCharm
5 5 (5.43%) Gradle
5 5 (5.43%) JUnit
6 4 (4.35%) JIRA
6 4 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (4.35%) TeamCity
6 4 (4.35%) Toad
7 2 (2.17%) Log4j
7 2 (2.17%) Mockito
7 2 (2.17%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (2.17%) Subversion
8 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.09%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.09%) Selenium
General
1 28 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 20 (21.74%) Finance
3 17 (18.48%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.61%) Banking
6 4 (4.35%) Front Office
7 3 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.26%) Legal
8 2 (2.17%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.17%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.09%) Law
9 1 (1.09%) Marketing
9 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (38.04%) Developer
2 11 (11.96%) Senior
3 10 (10.87%) Java Developer
4 9 (9.78%) DBA
5 8 (8.70%) Architect
6 7 (7.61%) Data Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) Lead
7 6 (6.52%) AWS Developer
7 6 (6.52%) Data Modeller
8 5 (5.43%) Administrator
8 5 (5.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Data Architect
8 5 (5.43%) Oracle Developer
8 5 (5.43%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 5 (5.43%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.43%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Applications Support
9 4 (4.35%) IAM Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (19.57%) JSON
2 16 (17.39%) Kafka
3 15 (16.30%) Spring
4 14 (15.22%) Spring Boot
4 14 (15.22%) XML
5 13 (14.13%) REST
6 7 (7.61%) CSS
6 7 (7.61%) HTML
6 7 (7.61%) RESTful
7 6 (6.52%) NumPy
7 6 (6.52%) Pandas
7 6 (6.52%) React
7 6 (6.52%) TensorFlow
8 4 (4.35%) GraphQL
9 2 (2.17%) .NET
9 2 (2.17%) J2EE
9 2 (2.17%) Node.js
9 2 (2.17%) PowerMock
9 2 (2.17%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (2.17%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.70%) Data Structures
2 7 (7.61%) Algorithms
2 7 (7.61%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.52%) Clustering
4 4 (4.35%) Online Banking
4 4 (4.35%) Replication
5 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.17%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.17%) Derivative
5 2 (2.17%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.17%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.17%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.09%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.09%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.78%) Linux
2 7 (7.61%) Unix
3 5 (5.43%) CentOS
4 4 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (33.70%) Data Modelling
2 27 (29.35%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (28.26%) Agile
4 23 (25.00%) ETL
5 20 (21.74%) DevOps
5 20 (21.74%) Microservices
5 20 (21.74%) Migration
6 18 (19.57%) CI/CD
6 18 (19.57%) Data Engineering
7 16 (17.39%) Data Governance
7 16 (17.39%) Data Migration
8 15 (16.30%) Containerisation
9 14 (15.22%) Data Security
10 12 (13.04%) Analytics
11 11 (11.96%) Database Security
11 11 (11.96%) SDLC
12 9 (9.78%) Data Architecture
12 9 (9.78%) Data Integration
12 9 (9.78%) Test Automation
13 8 (8.70%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 56 (60.87%) SQL
2 28 (30.43%) Python
3 25 (27.17%) Java
4 10 (10.87%) PL/SQL
5 8 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.43%) Perl
7 4 (4.35%) Delphi
7 4 (4.35%) PHP
7 4 (4.35%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.17%) Bash
8 2 (2.17%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.17%) Scala
8 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.17%) VB
8 2 (2.17%) VB6
9 1 (1.09%) C#
9 1 (1.09%) R
9 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.78%) Degree
3 4 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.26%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.26%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.26%) OCP
4 3 (3.26%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (3.26%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.22%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.61%) QA
3 5 (5.43%) GDPR
4 2 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (19.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (11.96%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.52%) Terraform
3 4 (4.35%) Ansible
3 4 (4.35%) Grafana
4 2 (2.17%) Consul
Vendors
1 40 (43.48%) Oracle
2 12 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.52%) Adobe
4 4 (4.35%) DevExpress
4 4 (4.35%) Informatica
5 3 (3.26%) Sybase
6 2 (2.17%) Actian
6 2 (2.17%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.17%) Databricks
6 2 (2.17%) SAP
6 2 (2.17%) Sparx
7 1 (1.09%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.09%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.09%) Gigya
7 1 (1.09%) RedGate
7 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.09%) StreamSets
7 1 (1.09%) Teradata