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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 357 400
Rank change year-on-year -129 +43 -7
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 85 115 148
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.47% 0.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.42% 2.48% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 81 107
10th Percentile £377 £393 £400
25th Percentile £424 £435 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -6.37% -7.13%
75th Percentile £636 £550 £656
90th Percentile £775 £615 £718
UK median daily rate £525 £494 £534
% change year-on-year +6.28% -7.49% -5.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 £51.25 -
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% -

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 5,975 4,632 6,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.91% 19.09% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,145 3,253 4,427
10th Percentile £350 £356 £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 £663 £669
90th Percentile £700 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 91 150
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.85 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £50.00 £33.11 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +51.01% -17.48% -28.86%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.61 £54.78
90th Percentile £85.15 £70.00 £72.75
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +61.19% -20.90% -29.08%

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 March 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 March 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 -52 42 £575 +7.48% 7
North of England -64 22 £409 -8.15% 3
North West -44 16 £401 -9.89% 1
South East -47 11 £506 -11.96% 3
Midlands -74 6 £485 -1.62% 2
Yorkshire - 6 £516 - 2
West Midlands -74 4 £485 -1.62% 1
East Midlands -32 2 £471 -12.29% 1
South West -40 2 £550 -
East of England - 2 - -
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 (7.06%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.71%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.53%) Apache
3 3 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.35%) Appian
5 1 (1.18%) Confluence
5 1 (1.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (5.88%) Chatbot
1 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (5.88%) Summit
2 2 (2.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 22 (25.88%) AWS
2 13 (15.29%) Serverless
3 11 (12.94%) Azure
4 9 (10.59%) Amazon S3
5 7 (8.24%) GitHub
5 7 (8.24%) Snowflake
6 6 (7.06%) GCP
7 4 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (4.71%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.53%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.53%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (3.53%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.53%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (3.53%) dbt
8 3 (3.53%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.35%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (2.35%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.71%) Internet
2 2 (2.35%) AMQP
2 2 (2.35%) SMS
3 1 (1.18%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (1.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 33 (38.82%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (34.12%) NoSQL
4 22 (25.88%) MongoDB
4 22 (25.88%) SQL Server
5 12 (14.12%) MySQL
6 11 (12.94%) Oracle Database
7 10 (11.76%) Oracle Reports
8 9 (10.59%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (9.41%) Metadata
10 7 (8.24%) Big Data
11 5 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (4.71%) DB2
12 4 (4.71%) Hadoop
12 4 (4.71%) SQLPlus
13 3 (3.53%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (3.53%) DynamoDB
13 3 (3.53%) Ingres
14 2 (2.35%) BigQuery
14 2 (2.35%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 13 (15.29%) Git
2 8 (9.41%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.24%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (7.06%) PyCharm
5 5 (5.88%) JIRA
6 4 (4.71%) Maven
6 4 (4.71%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (4.71%) TeamCity
6 4 (4.71%) Toad
7 3 (3.53%) JUnit
7 3 (3.53%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (2.35%) ER Studio
8 2 (2.35%) ERwin
8 2 (2.35%) Gradle
9 1 (1.18%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.18%) Gatling
9 1 (1.18%) GitLab
9 1 (1.18%) JMeter
9 1 (1.18%) Postman
9 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 21 (24.71%) Finance
3 20 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.76%) Banking
5 6 (7.06%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.88%) Front Office
6 5 (5.88%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.53%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.35%) Legal
9 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Law
9 1 (1.18%) Marketing
9 1 (1.18%) Military
9 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (38.82%) Developer
2 15 (17.65%) DBA
3 12 (14.12%) Senior
4 9 (10.59%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 8 (9.41%) Data Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) Administrator
6 6 (7.06%) AWS Developer
6 6 (7.06%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.06%) Lead
7 5 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Business Analyst
7 5 (5.88%) Oracle Developer
7 5 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Summit Business Analyst
8 4 (4.71%) Analyst
8 4 (4.71%) Data Architect
8 4 (4.71%) IAM Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Python Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (25.88%) JSON
2 21 (24.71%) XML
3 17 (20.00%) Kafka
4 15 (17.65%) REST
5 12 (14.12%) Spring
6 10 (11.76%) Spring Boot
7 8 (9.41%) CSS
7 8 (9.41%) HTML
8 6 (7.06%) NumPy
8 6 (7.06%) Pandas
8 6 (7.06%) React
8 6 (7.06%) TensorFlow
9 5 (5.88%) GraphQL
10 3 (3.53%) .NET
11 2 (2.35%) ActiveX
11 2 (2.35%) ADO
11 2 (2.35%) COM
11 2 (2.35%) J2EE
11 2 (2.35%) JSP
11 2 (2.35%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.24%) Data Structures
2 6 (7.06%) Algorithms
3 5 (5.88%) Credit Risk
3 5 (5.88%) Derivative
3 5 (5.88%) Fixed Income
3 5 (5.88%) Market Risk
4 4 (4.71%) Clustering
4 4 (4.71%) Online Banking
5 3 (3.53%) Replication
6 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.35%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.35%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.18%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.76%) Linux
2 9 (10.59%) Unix
3 3 (3.53%) CentOS
3 3 (3.53%) Windows
4 2 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.18%) AIX
5 1 (1.18%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (34.12%) Agile
2 23 (27.06%) DevOps
3 21 (24.71%) Data Modelling
4 20 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (18.82%) CI/CD
5 16 (18.82%) ETL
6 15 (17.65%) Data Engineering
7 14 (16.47%) Database Security
7 14 (16.47%) Microservices
7 14 (16.47%) SDLC
8 12 (14.12%) Analytics
8 12 (14.12%) Data Migration
8 12 (14.12%) Migration
9 11 (12.94%) Containerisation
9 11 (12.94%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (11.76%) Data Governance
10 10 (11.76%) Data Security
10 10 (11.76%) Mentoring
11 8 (9.41%) Machine Learning
11 8 (9.41%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 46 (54.12%) SQL
2 21 (24.71%) Python
3 18 (21.18%) Java
4 9 (10.59%) PL/SQL
5 7 (8.24%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.71%) Delphi
7 4 (4.71%) Perl
7 4 (4.71%) PHP
8 3 (3.53%) Scala
8 3 (3.53%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.35%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.35%) VB
9 2 (2.35%) VB6
10 1 (1.18%) Bash
10 1 (1.18%) C#
10 1 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 9 (10.59%) Degree
1 9 (10.59%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.35%) DV Cleared
2 2 (2.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.18%) CISSP
3 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.18%) OCP
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.41%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.24%) QA
3 4 (4.71%) GDPR
4 1 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.18%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.18%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (15.29%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (10.59%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.88%) Terraform
3 4 (4.71%) Ansible
4 2 (2.35%) Consul
4 2 (2.35%) Grafana
5 1 (1.18%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 43 (50.59%) Oracle
2 13 (15.29%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.06%) Adobe
4 5 (5.88%) Informatica
5 4 (4.71%) DevExpress
6 3 (3.53%) Sybase
7 2 (2.35%) Actian
7 2 (2.35%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.35%) Google
7 2 (2.35%) Sparx
8 1 (1.18%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.18%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.18%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.18%) Databricks
8 1 (1.18%) NetApp
8 1 (1.18%) RedGate
8 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.18%) Solace
8 1 (1.18%) Teradata