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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 443 389 462
Rank change year-on-year -54 +73 +3
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 95 116 125
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.38% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.77% 2.12% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 76 92
10th Percentile £346 £365 £401
25th Percentile £447 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -0.93% -6.09%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £671
90th Percentile £750 £586 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £527 £510
% change year-on-year -0.38% +3.33% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £76.25
Median hourly rate - - £77.50
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £77.50

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,355 5,468 6,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.62% 17.73% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,714 3,660 4,638
10th Percentile £328 £345 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £531
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.19% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 75 137
10th Percentile £20.75 £17.70 £18.98
25th Percentile £29.25 £22.20 £24.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.93 £47.90
Median % change year-on-year +32.63% -29.16% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.38 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £44.25 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +47.50% -36.84% +5.56%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -22 48 £550 +1.38% 22
North of England -25 22 £450 +1.12% 5
North West -19 12 £402 -9.66% 3
Yorkshire -32 10 £550 -
South East +3 9 £446 -6.11% 8
South West -8 6 £550 - 3
East of England -15 5 £450 - 1
Midlands -40 3 £451 -11.74% 3
West Midlands -32 2 £500 -5.48% 2
East Midlands -19 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 6 (6.32%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.26%) JBoss
3 3 (3.16%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.05%) Apache
4 1 (1.05%) Confluence
4 1 (1.05%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 55 (57.89%) AWS
2 20 (21.05%) Amazon S3
3 19 (20.00%) Azure
4 18 (18.95%) Serverless
5 17 (17.89%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (13.68%) GitHub
6 13 (13.68%) Snowflake
7 12 (12.63%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (11.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (11.58%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (11.58%) AWS Fargate
8 11 (11.58%) OpenShift
9 10 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (10.53%) GCP
10 8 (8.42%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (7.37%) Amazon EventBridge
12 6 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (6.32%) Datadog
13 5 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (5.26%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.26%) AMQP
2 4 (4.21%) Internet
3 1 (1.05%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (1.05%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 33 (34.74%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (29.47%) NoSQL
4 23 (24.21%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (22.11%) MySQL
6 19 (20.00%) SQL Server
7 12 (12.63%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (12.63%) Big Data
8 11 (11.58%) DynamoDB
9 9 (9.47%) Oracle Database
10 8 (8.42%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (8.42%) MongoDB
11 6 (6.32%) BigQuery
11 6 (6.32%) Redis
12 5 (5.26%) DB2
12 5 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (5.26%) Metadata
13 4 (4.21%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (4.21%) Data Vault
13 4 (4.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (29.47%) Git
2 18 (18.95%) Jenkins
3 14 (14.74%) Maven
4 10 (10.53%) JIRA
4 10 (10.53%) SonarQube
5 9 (9.47%) TeamCity
6 8 (8.42%) Gradle
6 8 (8.42%) JUnit
7 6 (6.32%) PyCharm
8 5 (5.26%) SonarLint
8 5 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (4.21%) Bitbucket
9 4 (4.21%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (4.21%) CA Release Automation
9 4 (4.21%) ER Studio
9 4 (4.21%) ERwin
9 4 (4.21%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (4.21%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (2.11%) Log4j
10 2 (2.11%) Subversion
General
1 35 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 26 (27.37%) Finance
3 16 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.42%) Front Office
5 7 (7.37%) Banking
5 7 (7.37%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Legal
7 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (34.74%) Developer
2 18 (18.95%) Architect
3 15 (15.79%) Senior
4 12 (12.63%) Java Developer
5 10 (10.53%) Senior Developer
6 9 (9.47%) AWS Developer
7 8 (8.42%) Data Architect
8 7 (7.37%) Lead
8 7 (7.37%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (6.32%) Python Developer
9 6 (6.32%) React Developer
10 5 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) DBA
10 5 (5.26%) Energy Trading Developer
10 5 (5.26%) Java Architect
10 5 (5.26%) Java Technical Architect
10 5 (5.26%) Snowflake Architect
10 5 (5.26%) Support Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Technical Architect
11 4 (4.21%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (24.21%) Spring Boot
2 14 (14.74%) Spring
3 12 (12.63%) Kafka
3 12 (12.63%) React
3 12 (12.63%) REST
3 12 (12.63%) RESTful
4 11 (11.58%) GraphQL
5 6 (6.32%) NumPy
5 6 (6.32%) Pandas
5 6 (6.32%) TensorFlow
6 5 (5.26%) Dropwizard
6 5 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (5.26%) J2EE
6 5 (5.26%) JWT
6 5 (5.26%) Micronaut
7 4 (4.21%) Celery
7 4 (4.21%) Svelte
8 3 (3.16%) .NET
8 3 (3.16%) Node.js
9 2 (2.11%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.42%) Clustering
1 8 (8.42%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.37%) Algorithms
3 6 (6.32%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.26%) N-Tier
4 5 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.21%) Online Banking
5 4 (4.21%) Replication
6 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.11%) Pricing Data
6 2 (2.11%) Reinsurance
6 2 (2.11%) Video on Demand
7 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.89%) Linux
2 11 (11.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (8.42%) Windows
4 6 (6.32%) CentOS
5 5 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (33.68%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (32.63%) Data Modelling
3 29 (30.53%) CI/CD
3 29 (30.53%) Microservices
4 24 (25.26%) Agile
5 21 (22.11%) Migration
6 20 (21.05%) DevOps
7 19 (20.00%) ETL
8 17 (17.89%) Containerisation
9 16 (16.84%) Data Engineering
10 15 (15.79%) SDLC
11 14 (14.74%) Data Governance
11 14 (14.74%) Data Security
11 14 (14.74%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (12.63%) Computer Science
12 12 (12.63%) Data Migration
13 11 (11.58%) AI
13 11 (11.58%) Code Quality
13 11 (11.58%) Open Source
14 10 (10.53%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 50 (52.63%) Python
2 47 (49.47%) SQL
3 34 (35.79%) Java
4 13 (13.68%) TypeScript
5 7 (7.37%) Perl
6 6 (6.32%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.26%) PL/SQL
8 4 (4.21%) Delphi
8 4 (4.21%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.16%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.11%) Bash
10 2 (2.11%) C
10 2 (2.11%) Scala
11 1 (1.05%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (1.05%) C#
11 1 (1.05%) C++
11 1 (1.05%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.05%) R
11 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (13.68%) Degree
2 12 (12.63%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.21%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.16%) OCP
5 3 (3.16%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (3.16%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.74%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.21%) GDPR
2 4 (4.21%) QA
3 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (28.42%) Docker
2 5 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 19 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.58%) Terraform
3 5 (5.26%) Ansible
3 5 (5.26%) Grafana
3 5 (5.26%) Kibana
3 5 (5.26%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.11%) Consul
5 1 (1.05%) Control-M
5 1 (1.05%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 27 (28.42%) Oracle
2 7 (7.37%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.32%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.26%) AppDynamics
4 5 (5.26%) Gigya
4 5 (5.26%) Splunk
4 5 (5.26%) Sybase
5 4 (4.21%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (4.21%) Cloudera
5 4 (4.21%) DevExpress
5 4 (4.21%) StreamSets
6 3 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.11%) SAP
8 1 (1.05%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.05%) Databricks
8 1 (1.05%) Delphix
8 1 (1.05%) Informatica
8 1 (1.05%) RedGate
8 1 (1.05%) Teradata