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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 422 408
Rank change year-on-year -126 -14 +73
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 87 89 110
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.32% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.29% 1.75% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 66 72
10th Percentile £367 £352 £360
25th Percentile £443 £429 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £579 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year +5.27% +5.26% -7.11%
75th Percentile £663 £669 £553
90th Percentile £688 £813 £594
UK median daily rate £600 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +14.29% +10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £52.50 -

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 6,764 5,090 5,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.62% 18.15% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,491 3,480 3,992
10th Percentile £351 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £512 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% -6.86% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £663
90th Percentile £715 £750 £813
UK median daily rate £503 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.60% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 72 85
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.67 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £29.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £41.71 £42.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +19.99% -33.33%
75th Percentile £61.75 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £38.96 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.24% +11.31% -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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -96 36 £600 -2.04% 58
North of England -61 32 £623 +44.88% 4
North West -38 24 £625 +55.47% 2
Midlands -33 10 £480 - 2
West Midlands -38 8 £486 - 1
South West -26 7 £565 +2.73% 3
Yorkshire -29 7 £555 -3.57% 1
North East - 4 - - 1
South East -74 2 £297 -33.26% 6
East Midlands - 2 £335 - 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 9 (10.34%) Confluence
2 6 (6.90%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.90%) Tuxedo
3 5 (5.75%) Apache
3 5 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.45%) IIS
5 2 (2.30%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (1.15%) Appian
Applications
1 9 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (10.34%) Finacle
2 2 (2.30%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (2.30%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.30%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (2.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.15%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 40 (45.98%) AWS
2 15 (17.24%) GitHub
2 15 (17.24%) OCI
3 13 (14.94%) GCP
4 11 (12.64%) Azure
5 7 (8.05%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (5.75%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (5.75%) Apigee
6 5 (5.75%) Cloud Run
6 5 (5.75%) dbt
6 5 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (5.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 5 (5.75%) Kong
6 5 (5.75%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.60%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.45%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.45%) Serverless
9 2 (2.30%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.30%) Internet
1 2 (2.30%) Intranet
2 1 (1.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 35 (40.23%) Oracle Database
3 20 (22.99%) MongoDB
3 20 (22.99%) SQL Server
4 19 (21.84%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (19.54%) NoSQL
6 16 (18.39%) Oracle Exadata
7 10 (11.49%) MySQL
8 6 (6.90%) Ingres
9 5 (5.75%) Hazelcast
9 5 (5.75%) Power BI
9 5 (5.75%) Redis
10 4 (4.60%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (4.60%) Big Data
10 4 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (3.45%) Data Lake
11 3 (3.45%) Hadoop
11 3 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (2.30%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (2.30%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 33 (37.93%) Git
2 26 (29.89%) GitLab
3 12 (13.79%) Jenkins
4 7 (8.05%) JIRA
5 6 (6.90%) Gradle
5 6 (6.90%) Maven
5 6 (6.90%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (5.75%) Claude Code
6 5 (5.75%) Liquibase
6 5 (5.75%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (4.60%) ER Studio
7 4 (4.60%) Snyk
8 2 (2.30%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.30%) ERwin
8 2 (2.30%) JDeveloper
8 2 (2.30%) Selenium
8 2 (2.30%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.15%) JMeter
9 1 (1.15%) JUnit
General
1 33 (37.93%) Finance
2 18 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 17 (19.54%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (19.54%) Banking
3 17 (19.54%) Public Sector
4 11 (12.64%) Front Office
5 9 (10.34%) Back Office
6 5 (5.75%) Military
7 2 (2.30%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.30%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 30 (34.48%) Senior
2 26 (29.89%) Developer
3 14 (16.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (11.49%) Java Developer
4 10 (11.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) Applications Support
5 9 (10.34%) Data Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) Systems Support
6 8 (9.20%) Senior Developer
7 7 (8.05%) DBA
8 6 (6.90%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (5.75%) Lead
9 5 (5.75%) SQL Developer
10 4 (4.60%) Backend Developer
10 4 (4.60%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Python Developer
10 4 (4.60%) Senior Backend Developer
10 4 (4.60%) Senior DBA
11 3 (3.45%) Oracle Developer
11 3 (3.45%) PL/SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (32.18%) Terraform
2 19 (21.84%) Kafka
3 17 (19.54%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 13 (14.94%) Spring
4 13 (14.94%) Spring Boot
5 11 (12.64%) JSON
6 10 (11.49%) XML
7 8 (9.20%) React
7 8 (9.20%) Web Services
8 7 (8.05%) Apache Avro
8 7 (8.05%) JWT
8 7 (8.05%) OAuth
8 7 (8.05%) REST
9 6 (6.90%) JPA
9 6 (6.90%) OAuth2
9 6 (6.90%) RESTful
10 5 (5.75%) COM
10 5 (5.75%) Protocol Buffers
10 5 (5.75%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (5.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.79%) Public Cloud
2 9 (10.34%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (10.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 7 (8.05%) Replication
4 6 (6.90%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.90%) Data Structures
4 6 (6.90%) Low-Code
4 6 (6.90%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.75%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.45%) Clustering
7 2 (2.30%) Blockchain
7 2 (2.30%) Derivative
7 2 (2.30%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.30%) OTC Derivatives
7 2 (2.30%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.15%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (28.74%) Linux
2 15 (17.24%) AIX
3 9 (10.34%) Windows
4 4 (4.60%) Unix
5 2 (2.30%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (32.18%) DevOps
2 27 (31.03%) Agile
3 24 (27.59%) CI/CD
3 24 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (25.29%) Migration
5 20 (22.99%) Performance Tuning
6 19 (21.84%) Data Migration
7 16 (18.39%) User Acceptance Testing
8 14 (16.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (14.94%) Validation
10 10 (11.49%) Microservices
10 10 (11.49%) Software Engineering
10 10 (11.49%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (10.34%) AI
11 9 (10.34%) Anti-Money Laundering
11 9 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (9.20%) Knowledge Transfer
13 7 (8.05%) Data Pipeline
13 7 (8.05%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 48 (55.17%) SQL
2 20 (22.99%) Java
3 19 (21.84%) Python
4 10 (11.49%) PL/SQL
5 8 (9.20%) C#
6 6 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.90%) VB
6 6 (6.90%) VB6
7 4 (4.60%) C
7 4 (4.60%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.45%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.30%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.30%) Perl
9 2 (2.30%) R
9 2 (2.30%) Scala
10 1 (1.15%) Bash
10 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (22.99%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.09%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.05%) Degree
4 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.15%) CISSP
4 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.24%) QA
2 5 (5.75%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.45%) GDPR
3 3 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.15%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.15%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (20.69%) Oracle RAC
2 9 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (25.29%) Ansible
2 15 (17.24%) Data Guard
2 15 (17.24%) Oracle RMAN
3 7 (8.05%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.05%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.75%) Argo
4 5 (5.75%) Grafana
5 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (60.92%) Oracle
2 7 (8.05%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.75%) Actian
4 4 (4.60%) Google
5 3 (3.45%) Alteryx
5 3 (3.45%) SAP
6 2 (2.30%) Databricks
6 2 (2.30%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.30%) IBM
6 2 (2.30%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.30%) Sitecore
6 2 (2.30%) Sparx
6 2 (2.30%) Splunk
7 1 (1.15%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.15%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.15%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.15%) Solace
7 1 (1.15%) Varonis