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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 376 400
Rank change year-on-year -123 +24 +9
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 82 106 141
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.43% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.31% 2.26% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 75 101
10th Percentile £371 £373 £400
25th Percentile £422 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £493 £533
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -7.50% -7.30%
75th Percentile £659 £550 £645
90th Percentile £783 £675 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £533
% change year-on-year +10.53% -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 6,249 4,688 6,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.83% 19.14% 16.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,338 3,290 4,417
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 £659 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 95 133
10th Percentile £17.01 £19.89 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.04 £23.88 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.50 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.52% -17.23% -31.73%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.31 £53.75
90th Percentile £83.40 £70.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +47.51% -13.56% -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 19 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 19 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 -45 44 £650 +18.18% 10
North of England -75 20 £402 -9.66% 2
North West -46 17 £402 -9.66% 2
South East -46 9 £513 -10.87% 3
Midlands -78 7 £475 -3.65% 5
West Midlands -72 5 £475 -3.65% 4
Yorkshire - 3 - -
East Midlands -30 2 £471 -12.29% 1
South West -39 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 7 (8.54%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.88%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.66%) Apache
3 3 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.66%) Confluence
4 2 (2.44%) Appian
5 1 (1.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.44%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Summit
2 2 (2.44%) Finacle
2 2 (2.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 20 (24.39%) AWS
2 12 (14.63%) Azure
2 12 (14.63%) Serverless
3 9 (10.98%) Amazon S3
4 8 (9.76%) GCP
5 5 (6.10%) OpenShift
6 4 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (4.88%) dbt
6 4 (4.88%) GitHub
6 4 (4.88%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.66%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.66%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.66%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.44%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (2.44%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) AMQP
1 2 (2.44%) Internet
1 2 (2.44%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 31 (37.80%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (30.49%) NoSQL
4 23 (28.05%) MongoDB
5 18 (21.95%) SQL Server
6 15 (18.29%) Oracle Database
7 10 (12.20%) Oracle Reports
8 8 (9.76%) Metadata
9 6 (7.32%) MySQL
10 5 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (4.88%) DB2
11 4 (4.88%) Hadoop
11 4 (4.88%) SQLPlus
12 3 (3.66%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (3.66%) Big Data
12 3 (3.66%) BigQuery
12 3 (3.66%) DynamoDB
12 3 (3.66%) Ingres
12 3 (3.66%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 12 (14.63%) Git
2 7 (8.54%) JIRA
2 7 (8.54%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (6.10%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.10%) Maven
4 4 (4.88%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (4.88%) TeamCity
4 4 (4.88%) Toad
5 3 (3.66%) Gradle
5 3 (3.66%) JUnit
5 3 (3.66%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (2.44%) ER Studio
6 2 (2.44%) ERwin
6 2 (2.44%) GitLab
6 2 (2.44%) PyCharm
7 1 (1.22%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.22%) Gatling
7 1 (1.22%) JMeter
7 1 (1.22%) Postman
7 1 (1.22%) Snyk
General
1 25 (30.49%) Social Skills
2 24 (29.27%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (26.83%) Finance
4 11 (13.41%) Banking
5 8 (9.76%) Front Office
6 6 (7.32%) Investment Banking
6 6 (7.32%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.44%) Back Office
7 2 (2.44%) Legal
7 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.22%) Law
8 1 (1.22%) Marketing
8 1 (1.22%) Military
8 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (37.80%) Developer
2 16 (19.51%) DBA
3 13 (15.85%) Senior
4 9 (10.98%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 8 (9.76%) Data Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) Administrator
6 7 (8.54%) Java Developer
7 6 (7.32%) AWS Developer
7 6 (7.32%) Business Analyst
7 6 (7.32%) Summit Business Analyst
8 5 (6.10%) Oracle Developer
8 5 (6.10%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Senior Developer
8 5 (6.10%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (4.88%) Analyst
9 4 (4.88%) Applications Support
9 4 (4.88%) Architect
9 4 (4.88%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.88%) IAM Developer
9 4 (4.88%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (26.83%) JSON
1 22 (26.83%) XML
2 18 (21.95%) Kafka
3 15 (18.29%) REST
4 12 (14.63%) Spring
5 10 (12.20%) Spring Boot
6 8 (9.76%) CSS
6 8 (9.76%) HTML
7 7 (8.54%) React
8 6 (7.32%) GraphQL
9 4 (4.88%) Apache Avro
10 3 (3.66%) .NET
11 2 (2.44%) ActiveX
11 2 (2.44%) ADO
11 2 (2.44%) COM
11 2 (2.44%) J2EE
11 2 (2.44%) JPA
11 2 (2.44%) JSP
11 2 (2.44%) ODBC
11 2 (2.44%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.54%) Data Structures
2 6 (7.32%) Credit Risk
2 6 (7.32%) Derivative
2 6 (7.32%) Fixed Income
2 6 (7.32%) Market Risk
3 3 (3.66%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.66%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.44%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (2.44%) Clustering
4 2 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.44%) Online Banking
4 2 (2.44%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.44%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.44%) Replication
4 2 (2.44%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.20%) Unix
2 9 (10.98%) Linux
3 5 (6.10%) Windows
4 2 (2.44%) CentOS
4 2 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.22%) AIX
5 1 (1.22%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (34.15%) Agile
2 23 (28.05%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (25.61%) DevOps
4 17 (20.73%) CI/CD
5 16 (19.51%) SDLC
6 15 (18.29%) Database Security
7 14 (17.07%) Data Modelling
8 13 (15.85%) ETL
9 12 (14.63%) Analytics
10 11 (13.41%) Data Engineering
10 11 (13.41%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (12.20%) Microservices
12 9 (10.98%) Cloud Security
12 9 (10.98%) Mentoring
12 9 (10.98%) Migration
12 9 (10.98%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (10.98%) Visualisation
13 8 (9.76%) Data Migration
13 8 (9.76%) Data Pipeline
13 8 (9.76%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (57.32%) SQL
2 18 (21.95%) Java
3 14 (17.07%) Python
4 11 (13.41%) PL/SQL
5 7 (8.54%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.32%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.88%) Delphi
7 4 (4.88%) Perl
7 4 (4.88%) PHP
7 4 (4.88%) Scala
7 4 (4.88%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.66%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.44%) Bash
9 2 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.44%) VB
9 2 (2.44%) VB6
10 1 (1.22%) C#
10 1 (1.22%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (10.98%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.54%) Degree
3 3 (3.66%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.44%) CISSP
4 2 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.22%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.22%) OCP
5 1 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.32%) GDPR
2 4 (4.88%) QA
3 3 (3.66%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.44%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.44%) NIST
5 1 (1.22%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (10.98%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (8.54%) Kubernetes
1 7 (8.54%) Terraform
2 4 (4.88%) Ansible
3 3 (3.66%) Grafana
4 1 (1.22%) Argo
4 1 (1.22%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 49 (59.76%) Oracle
2 13 (15.85%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.32%) Adobe
4 5 (6.10%) Informatica
5 4 (4.88%) DevExpress
6 3 (3.66%) Google
6 3 (3.66%) Sybase
7 2 (2.44%) Actian
7 2 (2.44%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.44%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.44%) Sparx
8 1 (1.22%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.22%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.22%) Databricks
8 1 (1.22%) NetApp
8 1 (1.22%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.22%) Solace
8 1 (1.22%) Teradata
8 1 (1.22%) Varonis