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

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 437 406 476
Rank change year-on-year -31 +70 -40
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 93 106 111
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.33% 0.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.80% 1.86% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 67 83
10th Percentile £354 £358 £407
25th Percentile £434 £400 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £650 £551 £664
90th Percentile £775 £591 £785
UK median daily rate £525 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +6.06% -1.00% -11.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £76.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £77.50
75th Percentile £53.75 - £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £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 5,174 5,686 6,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.20% 17.97% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,566 3,850 4,795
10th Percentile £338 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -
75th Percentile £626 £663 £663
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 82 145
10th Percentile £18.97 £17.50 £18.84
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.10 £25.38
Median hourly rate £42.00 £34.47 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.85% -31.75% +1.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.20 £69.28 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £30.40 £50.00
% change year-on-year +32.38% -39.20% +0.11%

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 23 October 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 23 October 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 -11 46 £550 +3.29% 42
North of England -12 23 £479 +11.34% 10
North West -10 12 £402 -6.51% 5
Yorkshire -16 11 £575 - 2
East of England +2 10 £525 - 4
South East +7 6 £445 +4.71% 28
South West +7 5 £550 +2.33% 8
West Midlands -16 1 - - 1
Midlands -30 1 - - 6
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 (9.68%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.38%) JBoss
3 4 (4.30%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.15%) Confluence
5 1 (1.08%) Apache
5 1 (1.08%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.23%) Chatbot
3 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Endur
1 1 (1.08%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 56 (60.22%) AWS
2 20 (21.51%) Amazon S3
2 20 (21.51%) Serverless
3 19 (20.43%) AWS Lambda
3 19 (20.43%) Azure
4 15 (16.13%) Snowflake
5 13 (13.98%) GitHub
6 12 (12.90%) Amazon SQS
6 12 (12.90%) GCP
7 11 (11.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (11.83%) AWS Fargate
8 10 (10.75%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (10.75%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (9.68%) OpenShift
10 8 (8.60%) Amazon EMR
10 8 (8.60%) dbt
11 7 (7.53%) Amazon EventBridge
11 7 (7.53%) PaaS
11 7 (7.53%) SaaS
12 6 (6.45%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.30%) AMQP
2 2 (2.15%) Internet
3 1 (1.08%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (1.08%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 28 (30.11%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (29.03%) NoSQL
4 26 (27.96%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (20.43%) MySQL
6 17 (18.28%) SQL Server
7 12 (12.90%) Big Data
8 11 (11.83%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (11.83%) DynamoDB
8 11 (11.83%) Oracle Database
9 8 (8.60%) BigQuery
9 8 (8.60%) MongoDB
10 7 (7.53%) Data Lake
11 6 (6.45%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (6.45%) Redis
12 5 (5.38%) DB2
12 5 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (5.38%) Metadata
13 4 (4.30%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 24 (25.81%) Git
2 15 (16.13%) Jenkins
3 12 (12.90%) Maven
4 10 (10.75%) SonarQube
5 8 (8.60%) JIRA
5 8 (8.60%) JUnit
6 7 (7.53%) Gradle
7 5 (5.38%) Bitbucket
7 5 (5.38%) SonarLint
7 5 (5.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (5.38%) TeamCity
8 4 (4.30%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (4.30%) CA Release Automation
8 4 (4.30%) ER Studio
8 4 (4.30%) ERwin
8 4 (4.30%) PyCharm
9 2 (2.15%) Log4j
9 2 (2.15%) Mockito
9 2 (2.15%) Subversion
10 1 (1.08%) Cucumber
General
1 35 (37.63%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.66%) Finance
3 13 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.53%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.45%) Banking
5 6 (6.45%) Front Office
6 3 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Back Office
8 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.08%) Legal
8 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Retail
8 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (30.11%) Developer
2 18 (19.35%) Architect
3 13 (13.98%) Senior
4 11 (11.83%) Lead
5 10 (10.75%) Java Developer
6 9 (9.68%) Senior Developer
7 7 (7.53%) DBA
7 7 (7.53%) React Developer
7 7 (7.53%) Snowflake Architect
8 6 (6.45%) AWS Developer
8 6 (6.45%) Data Architect
8 6 (6.45%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (5.38%) Energy Trading Developer
9 5 (5.38%) Java Architect
9 5 (5.38%) Java Technical Architect
9 5 (5.38%) Technical Architect
10 4 (4.30%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Data Modeller
10 4 (4.30%) Python Developer
10 4 (4.30%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.66%) Spring Boot
2 13 (13.98%) Kafka
2 13 (13.98%) RESTful
3 12 (12.90%) Spring
4 11 (11.83%) REST
5 10 (10.75%) React
6 9 (9.68%) GraphQL
7 5 (5.38%) Dropwizard
7 5 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (5.38%) J2EE
7 5 (5.38%) JWT
7 5 (5.38%) Micronaut
7 5 (5.38%) Svelte
8 4 (4.30%) .NET
8 4 (4.30%) Celery
8 4 (4.30%) NumPy
8 4 (4.30%) Pandas
8 4 (4.30%) TensorFlow
9 3 (3.23%) Node.js
9 3 (3.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.53%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.45%) Clustering
3 5 (5.38%) Algorithms
3 5 (5.38%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.38%) N-Tier
3 5 (5.38%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.30%) Replication
5 3 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.15%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.15%) Derivative
6 2 (2.15%) Equities
6 2 (2.15%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.15%) Online Banking
6 2 (2.15%) Pricing Data
6 2 (2.15%) Reinsurance
6 2 (2.15%) Video on Demand
7 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.43%) Linux
2 10 (10.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (8.60%) Windows
4 7 (7.53%) Unix
5 5 (5.38%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (34.41%) Data Modelling
3 29 (31.18%) CI/CD
4 27 (29.03%) Microservices
5 25 (26.88%) ETL
6 23 (24.73%) DevOps
6 23 (24.73%) Migration
7 20 (21.51%) Agile
8 18 (19.35%) Containerisation
9 16 (17.20%) Data Engineering
10 14 (15.05%) Data Migration
11 13 (13.98%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (12.90%) Analytics
12 12 (12.90%) Computer Science
12 12 (12.90%) Data Security
13 11 (11.83%) Data Governance
13 11 (11.83%) SDLC
13 11 (11.83%) TDD
14 10 (10.75%) Clean Code
14 10 (10.75%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 54 (58.06%) SQL
2 51 (54.84%) Python
3 33 (35.48%) Java
4 12 (12.90%) TypeScript
5 8 (8.60%) JavaScript
6 7 (7.53%) Perl
7 4 (4.30%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.30%) Scala
8 3 (3.23%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.15%) ANSI SQL
9 2 (2.15%) Bash
9 2 (2.15%) C
9 2 (2.15%) C#
9 2 (2.15%) C++
9 2 (2.15%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.08%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.08%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.08%) R
10 1 (1.08%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (13.98%) Degree
2 12 (12.90%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.38%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.30%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.30%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.30%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.15%) OCP
6 2 (2.15%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (20.43%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.30%) QA
3 2 (2.15%) GDPR
3 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.15%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (27.96%) Docker
2 5 (5.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.23%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 20 (21.51%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.83%) Terraform
3 5 (5.38%) Kibana
3 5 (5.38%) Progress Chef
4 4 (4.30%) Ansible
4 4 (4.30%) Grafana
5 3 (3.23%) Data Guard
6 2 (2.15%) Consul
6 2 (2.15%) Control-M
Vendors
1 26 (27.96%) Oracle
2 6 (6.45%) Red Hat
2 6 (6.45%) StreamSets
2 6 (6.45%) Sybase
3 5 (5.38%) AppDynamics
3 5 (5.38%) Gigya
3 5 (5.38%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.38%) Splunk
4 4 (4.30%) CA Agile Central
4 4 (4.30%) Cloudera
5 3 (3.23%) Informatica
5 3 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.15%) Delphix
6 2 (2.15%) SAP
7 1 (1.08%) Databricks
7 1 (1.08%) OpenLink
7 1 (1.08%) RedGate
7 1 (1.08%) TIBCO