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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 400 459
Rank change year-on-year -36 +59 -12
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 101 116 123
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.37% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.88% 2.08% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 74 91
10th Percentile £363 £370 £400
25th Percentile £434 £446 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% - -4.89%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £670
90th Percentile £738 £582 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £528 £503
% change year-on-year -0.57% +5.07% -8.64%
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 5,361 5,582 6,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.45% 18.02% 16.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,738 3,726 4,621
10th Percentile £327 £350 £355
25th Percentile £411 £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 £533
% change year-on-year -5.57% -0.66% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 78 135
10th Percentile £21.15 £18.35 £18.84
25th Percentile £30.96 £24.88 £24.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% -20.00% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.55 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.30 £66.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +74.35% -31.69% -5.76%

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 29 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 29 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 +5 52 £550 +1.38% 15
North of England -26 25 £425 -4.49% 2
North West -16 17 £402 -9.66% 2
South East +3 9 £446 -6.11% 13
Yorkshire -21 8 £550 -
South West -5 5 £550 - 2
East of England -12 5 £450 - 2
Midlands -40 3 £451 -11.74% 4
West Midlands -32 2 £500 -5.48% 4
East Midlands -12 1 £402 +12.92%
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 5 (4.95%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.96%) JBoss
2 4 (3.96%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.99%) Apache
4 1 (0.99%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.95%) Chatbot
3 4 (3.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 53 (52.48%) AWS
2 22 (21.78%) Serverless
3 19 (18.81%) Amazon S3
4 17 (16.83%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (16.83%) Azure
5 13 (12.87%) GitHub
5 13 (12.87%) Snowflake
6 12 (11.88%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (10.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (10.89%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (10.89%) AWS Fargate
8 10 (9.90%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (9.90%) OpenShift
9 9 (8.91%) GCP
10 8 (7.92%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (6.93%) Amazon EventBridge
12 6 (5.94%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (5.94%) Datadog
13 5 (4.95%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (4.95%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.95%) AMQP
2 4 (3.96%) Internet
3 1 (0.99%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (0.99%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 39 (38.61%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (34.65%) NoSQL
4 23 (22.77%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (20.79%) MySQL
6 18 (17.82%) SQL Server
7 15 (14.85%) MongoDB
8 12 (11.88%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (11.88%) Big Data
8 12 (11.88%) Oracle Database
9 11 (10.89%) DynamoDB
10 8 (7.92%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (5.94%) Redis
12 5 (4.95%) BigQuery
12 5 (4.95%) DB2
12 5 (4.95%) Metadata
12 5 (4.95%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (3.96%) Data Vault
13 4 (3.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (3.96%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 26 (25.74%) Git
2 17 (16.83%) Jenkins
3 14 (13.86%) Maven
4 9 (8.91%) SonarQube
5 8 (7.92%) Gradle
5 8 (7.92%) JUnit
5 8 (7.92%) TeamCity
6 7 (6.93%) JIRA
7 6 (5.94%) PyCharm
8 5 (4.95%) SonarLint
9 4 (3.96%) Bitbucket
9 4 (3.96%) ER Studio
9 4 (3.96%) ERwin
9 4 (3.96%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (3.96%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (3.96%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (3.96%) Toad
10 3 (2.97%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (2.97%) CA Release Automation
11 2 (1.98%) Log4j
General
1 35 (34.65%) Social Skills
2 25 (24.75%) Finance
3 16 (15.84%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.92%) Front Office
6 5 (4.95%) Banking
7 3 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.98%) Legal
9 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (35.64%) Developer
2 17 (16.83%) Architect
3 13 (12.87%) Senior
4 12 (11.88%) DBA
4 12 (11.88%) Java Developer
5 10 (9.90%) Senior Developer
6 9 (8.91%) AWS Developer
7 7 (6.93%) Data Architect
7 7 (6.93%) Lead
7 7 (6.93%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (4.95%) Administrator
8 5 (4.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Java Architect
8 5 (4.95%) Java Technical Architect
8 5 (4.95%) Oracle Developer
8 5 (4.95%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 5 (4.95%) Python Developer
8 5 (4.95%) Snowflake Architect
8 5 (4.95%) Support Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (21.78%) Spring Boot
2 15 (14.85%) Kafka
3 14 (13.86%) Spring
4 12 (11.88%) RESTful
5 11 (10.89%) React
5 11 (10.89%) REST
6 10 (9.90%) GraphQL
7 9 (8.91%) JSON
7 9 (8.91%) XML
8 6 (5.94%) NumPy
8 6 (5.94%) Pandas
8 6 (5.94%) TensorFlow
9 5 (4.95%) Dropwizard
9 5 (4.95%) J2EE
9 5 (4.95%) JWT
9 5 (4.95%) Micronaut
10 4 (3.96%) Celery
10 4 (3.96%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (2.97%) Node.js
11 3 (2.97%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.92%) Clustering
1 8 (7.92%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.93%) Algorithms
2 7 (6.93%) Data Structures
3 6 (5.94%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.95%) N-Tier
4 5 (4.95%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.96%) Online Banking
5 4 (3.96%) Replication
6 2 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.98%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.98%) Pricing Data
6 2 (1.98%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.98%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.99%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.84%) Linux
2 10 (9.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (7.92%) Unix
4 7 (6.93%) Windows
5 6 (5.94%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (30.69%) Data Modelling
1 31 (30.69%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (27.72%) Microservices
3 27 (26.73%) CI/CD
4 26 (25.74%) Agile
5 23 (22.77%) Migration
6 22 (21.78%) DevOps
6 22 (21.78%) ETL
7 17 (16.83%) Containerisation
8 16 (15.84%) Data Engineering
8 16 (15.84%) Data Migration
9 15 (14.85%) SDLC
10 14 (13.86%) Data Governance
10 14 (13.86%) Data Security
11 13 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (11.88%) Computer Science
12 12 (11.88%) Database Security
13 11 (10.89%) AI
14 10 (9.90%) Data Architecture
14 10 (9.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 49 (48.51%) SQL
2 47 (46.53%) Python
3 32 (31.68%) Java
4 12 (11.88%) TypeScript
5 10 (9.90%) Perl
6 9 (8.91%) PL/SQL
7 6 (5.94%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.96%) Delphi
8 4 (3.96%) PHP
8 4 (3.96%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.97%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.98%) Bash
10 2 (1.98%) C
10 2 (1.98%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.99%) C#
11 1 (0.99%) C++
11 1 (0.99%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.99%) R
11 1 (0.99%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (13.86%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.88%) Degree
3 5 (4.95%) AWS Certification
3 5 (4.95%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.97%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.97%) OCP
5 3 (2.97%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.97%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.86%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.96%) GDPR
2 4 (3.96%) QA
3 2 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (25.74%) Docker
2 4 (3.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 18 (17.82%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.89%) Terraform
3 5 (4.95%) Ansible
3 5 (4.95%) Grafana
4 4 (3.96%) Kibana
4 4 (3.96%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.98%) Consul
6 1 (0.99%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 38 (37.62%) Oracle
2 12 (11.88%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.95%) Gigya
3 5 (4.95%) Red Hat
3 5 (4.95%) Sybase
4 4 (3.96%) AppDynamics
4 4 (3.96%) CA Agile Central
4 4 (3.96%) DevExpress
4 4 (3.96%) Splunk
4 4 (3.96%) StreamSets
5 3 (2.97%) Cloudera
5 3 (2.97%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.98%) SAP
7 1 (0.99%) Ab Initio
7 1 (0.99%) Databricks
7 1 (0.99%) Delphix
7 1 (0.99%) Informatica
7 1 (0.99%) RedGate
7 1 (0.99%) Teradata