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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 377 422
Rank change year-on-year -75 +45 0
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 95 113 133
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.43% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.79% 2.32% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 70 96
10th Percentile £400 £400 £403
25th Percentile £468 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £534
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +0.28% -3.00%
75th Percentile £678 £550 £663
90th Percentile £781 £585 £728
UK median daily rate £533 £528 £525
% change year-on-year +0.85% +0.57% -4.55%

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 5,297 4,864 6,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.58% 18.37% 16.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,696 3,226 4,309
10th Percentile £329 £355 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £650
90th Percentile £708 £780 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 72 151
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £15.89
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £22.43
Median hourly rate £43.50 £39.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -13.33% -20.86%
75th Percentile £71.00 £64.73 £62.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £72.98 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +24.29% -22.22% -20.86%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 -40 51 £575 +4.55% 14
North of England -40 23 £450 +0.78% 8
North West -18 15 £425 -4.82% 7
South East -22 12 £474 -17.65% 11
Yorkshire - 8 £550 - 1
South West -14 4 £550 - 1
East of England -16 3 - -
Midlands -54 2 £451 -8.52% 6
East Midlands -27 1 £402 +12.92% 1
West Midlands -44 1 £500 -2.15% 5
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 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.16%) Apache
3 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.05%) Appian
4 1 (1.05%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Chatbot
2 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.05%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.05%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 41 (43.16%) AWS
2 21 (22.11%) Azure
3 16 (16.84%) Serverless
4 13 (13.68%) Snowflake
5 12 (12.63%) GCP
5 12 (12.63%) GitHub
6 11 (11.58%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (10.53%) Amazon S3
8 9 (9.47%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (8.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (8.42%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (8.42%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (8.42%) AWS Fargate
10 7 (7.37%) Amazon EMR
11 6 (6.32%) Datadog
12 5 (5.26%) Amazon EventBridge
12 5 (5.26%) Apigee
12 5 (5.26%) Loggly
12 5 (5.26%) OpenShift
12 5 (5.26%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.21%) AMQP
1 4 (4.21%) Internet
2 2 (2.11%) SMS
3 1 (1.05%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (1.05%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 37 (38.95%) NoSQL
3 34 (35.79%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (24.21%) SQL Server
5 20 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (20.00%) MongoDB
6 19 (20.00%) MySQL
7 14 (14.74%) Big Data
8 11 (11.58%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (11.58%) Oracle Database
9 8 (8.42%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (8.42%) DynamoDB
9 8 (8.42%) Metadata
10 6 (6.32%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (6.32%) Redis
11 5 (5.26%) BigQuery
11 5 (5.26%) Data Lake
12 4 (4.21%) Data Vault
12 4 (4.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (4.21%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 20 (21.05%) Git
2 13 (13.68%) Jenkins
2 13 (13.68%) Maven
3 9 (9.47%) Gradle
4 6 (6.32%) ER Studio
4 6 (6.32%) ERwin
4 6 (6.32%) JUnit
4 6 (6.32%) PyCharm
5 5 (5.26%) SonarLint
5 5 (5.26%) SonarQube
6 4 (4.21%) JIRA
6 4 (4.21%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (4.21%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (4.21%) TeamCity
6 4 (4.21%) Toad
7 2 (2.11%) Log4j
7 2 (2.11%) Mockito
7 2 (2.11%) Subversion
8 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (34.74%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.16%) Finance
3 16 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.32%) Banking
6 4 (4.21%) Front Office
7 3 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.16%) Legal
8 2 (2.11%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.05%) Law
9 1 (1.05%) Marketing
9 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (36.84%) Developer
2 13 (13.68%) Architect
3 12 (12.63%) Senior
4 10 (10.53%) DBA
4 10 (10.53%) Java Developer
5 7 (7.37%) Data Engineer
5 7 (7.37%) Lead
6 6 (6.32%) AWS Developer
6 6 (6.32%) Data Architect
6 6 (6.32%) Data Modeller
7 5 (5.26%) Administrator
7 5 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Java Architect
7 5 (5.26%) Java Technical Architect
7 5 (5.26%) Oracle Developer
7 5 (5.26%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 5 (5.26%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (5.26%) Technical Architect
8 4 (4.21%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 18 (18.95%) JSON
3 16 (16.84%) Kafka
4 15 (15.79%) Spring
5 13 (13.68%) REST
5 13 (13.68%) XML
6 11 (11.58%) RESTful
7 7 (7.37%) CSS
7 7 (7.37%) HTML
7 7 (7.37%) React
8 6 (6.32%) GraphQL
8 6 (6.32%) J2EE
8 6 (6.32%) NumPy
8 6 (6.32%) Pandas
8 6 (6.32%) TensorFlow
9 5 (5.26%) Dropwizard
9 5 (5.26%) JWT
9 5 (5.26%) Micronaut
10 4 (4.21%) Celery
11 2 (2.11%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.42%) Data Structures
2 7 (7.37%) Algorithms
2 7 (7.37%) Clustering
2 7 (7.37%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.32%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.26%) N-Tier
5 4 (4.21%) Online Banking
5 4 (4.21%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.21%) Replication
6 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.11%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.05%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.05%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.05%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.05%) Derivative
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.05%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.05%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.47%) Linux
2 7 (7.37%) Unix
3 5 (5.26%) CentOS
4 4 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (33.68%) Data Modelling
2 31 (32.63%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (28.42%) Agile
4 24 (25.26%) ETL
4 24 (25.26%) Microservices
5 23 (24.21%) CI/CD
6 20 (21.05%) DevOps
7 19 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 19 (20.00%) Data Engineering
8 18 (18.95%) Migration
9 16 (16.84%) Data Governance
10 14 (14.74%) Data Migration
10 14 (14.74%) Data Security
10 14 (14.74%) SDLC
11 12 (12.63%) AI
11 12 (12.63%) Analytics
11 12 (12.63%) Database Security
12 11 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (10.53%) Design Patterns
13 10 (10.53%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 55 (57.89%) SQL
2 34 (35.79%) Python
3 29 (30.53%) Java
4 10 (10.53%) PL/SQL
5 8 (8.42%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.26%) Perl
7 4 (4.21%) Delphi
7 4 (4.21%) PHP
7 4 (4.21%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.16%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.11%) Bash
9 2 (2.11%) Scala
9 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.11%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.05%) C#
10 1 (1.05%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (14.74%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.53%) Degree
3 4 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.21%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.16%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.16%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.16%) OCP
4 3 (3.16%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (3.16%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.74%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.26%) GDPR
3 4 (4.21%) QA
4 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (23.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.53%) Terraform
3 4 (4.21%) Ansible
3 4 (4.21%) Grafana
4 2 (2.11%) Consul
Vendors
1 38 (40.00%) Oracle
2 12 (12.63%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.32%) Adobe
4 5 (5.26%) Gigya
5 4 (4.21%) DevExpress
5 4 (4.21%) Informatica
6 3 (3.16%) Sybase
7 2 (2.11%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.11%) Databricks
7 2 (2.11%) SAP
7 2 (2.11%) Sparx
7 2 (2.11%) StreamSets
8 1 (1.05%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.05%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.05%) RedGate
8 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.05%) Teradata