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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 390 430
Rank change year-on-year -127 +40 +4
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 97 99 119
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.39% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.46% 2.11% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 65 87
10th Percentile £374 £364 £356
25th Percentile £435 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -13.46% -13.33%
75th Percentile £663 £586 £569
90th Percentile £781 £713 £650
UK median daily rate £527 £450 £520
% change year-on-year +17.00% -13.46% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £27.21 -
25th Percentile £41.25 £36.23 -
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% -39.15%

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 6,635 4,697 6,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.29% 18.63% 17.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,490 3,264 4,696
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 86 141
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.05 £25.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.19 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.87% -14.53% -31.09%
75th Percentile £71.13 £63.31 £51.91
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.75 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.86% -12.50% -31.09%

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 June 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 June 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 -61 50 £625 +23.76% 8
North of England -67 23 £416 -0.74% 8
North West -45 17 £416 -0.75% 3
Midlands -57 12 £478 -3.24%
West Midlands -52 11 £475 +5.56%
South West -36 6 £565 -13.08% 1
South East -57 6 £294 -45.34% 2
Yorkshire -47 5 £528 -8.17% 4
North East - 3 - - 1
East Midlands -9 1 £540 +0.56%
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 12 (12.37%) Apache Spark
2 10 (10.31%) Confluence
3 6 (6.19%) Apache
3 6 (6.19%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (6.19%) Tuxedo
4 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (3.09%) Appian
5 3 (3.09%) IIS
6 2 (2.06%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (10.31%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (10.31%) Finacle
2 6 (6.19%) Summit
3 2 (2.06%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (2.06%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.06%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (2.06%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (1.03%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (1.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 34 (35.05%) AWS
2 16 (16.49%) GCP
3 15 (15.46%) Azure
4 14 (14.43%) GitHub
5 8 (8.25%) Power Platform
6 7 (7.22%) dbt
6 7 (7.22%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (6.19%) OCI
8 5 (5.15%) Amazon S3
8 5 (5.15%) Snowflake
9 4 (4.12%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (4.12%) Apigee
9 4 (4.12%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (4.12%) Cloud Run
9 4 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (4.12%) IaaS
9 4 (4.12%) Kong
9 4 (4.12%) Serverless
10 3 (3.09%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) Internet
1 2 (2.06%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 30 (30.93%) Oracle Database
3 29 (29.90%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (29.90%) SQL Server
4 28 (28.87%) MongoDB
5 27 (27.84%) NoSQL
6 11 (11.34%) MySQL
7 9 (9.28%) Ingres
8 8 (8.25%) Power BI
9 7 (7.22%) Big Data
9 7 (7.22%) Oracle Exadata
9 7 (7.22%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (6.19%) Hadoop
10 6 (6.19%) Metadata
11 5 (5.15%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (5.15%) BigQuery
11 5 (5.15%) Data Lake
11 5 (5.15%) Parquet
12 4 (4.12%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 26 (26.80%) Git
2 15 (15.46%) GitLab
3 9 (9.28%) Jenkins
3 9 (9.28%) JIRA
3 9 (9.28%) Team Foundation Server
4 8 (8.25%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (5.15%) Liquibase
6 4 (4.12%) Gradle
6 4 (4.12%) Maven
6 4 (4.12%) Snyk
7 3 (3.09%) ER Studio
8 2 (2.06%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.06%) Claude Code
8 2 (2.06%) JDeveloper
8 2 (2.06%) JMeter
8 2 (2.06%) Postman
8 2 (2.06%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.03%) ERwin
9 1 (1.03%) Selenium
General
1 39 (40.21%) Finance
2 28 (28.87%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (27.84%) Social Skills
4 21 (21.65%) Banking
5 17 (17.53%) Public Sector
6 15 (15.46%) Front Office
7 10 (10.31%) Back Office
8 6 (6.19%) Investment Banking
9 5 (5.15%) Military
10 2 (2.06%) General Ledger
10 2 (2.06%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (25.77%) Senior
2 24 (24.74%) Developer
3 13 (13.40%) Data Engineer
3 13 (13.40%) DBA
4 10 (10.31%) Applications Support
4 10 (10.31%) Systems Support
5 7 (7.22%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 6 (6.19%) Business Analyst
6 6 (6.19%) Java Developer
6 6 (6.19%) Senior Data Engineer
6 6 (6.19%) Senior Developer
6 6 (6.19%) Summit Business Analyst
7 5 (5.15%) Database Specialist
7 5 (5.15%) Energy Trading Developer
8 4 (4.12%) Big Data Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Hadoop Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Oracle Specialist
8 4 (4.12%) Python Developer
8 4 (4.12%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (4.12%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (23.71%) Kafka
2 20 (20.62%) XML
3 14 (14.43%) JSON
3 14 (14.43%) Spring
4 13 (13.40%) Spring Boot
5 11 (11.34%) REST
6 9 (9.28%) Apache Avro
6 9 (9.28%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 9 (9.28%) React
7 7 (7.22%) ADO
7 7 (7.22%) COM
7 7 (7.22%) ODBC
7 7 (7.22%) Web Services
8 5 (5.15%) .NET
8 5 (5.15%) GraphQL
8 5 (5.15%) OAuth
9 4 (4.12%) Apache Beam
9 4 (4.12%) JWT
9 4 (4.12%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (4.12%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.31%) Analytical Mindset
1 10 (10.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 8 (8.25%) Derivative
3 7 (7.22%) Low-Code
3 7 (7.22%) Public Cloud
4 6 (6.19%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.19%) Credit Risk
4 6 (6.19%) Fixed Income
4 6 (6.19%) Market Risk
4 6 (6.19%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.15%) Data Structures
5 5 (5.15%) Replication
6 4 (4.12%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.06%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.06%) Blockchain
7 2 (2.06%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.06%) Clustering
7 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.06%) OTC Derivatives
7 2 (2.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (20.62%) Linux
2 13 (13.40%) Windows
3 9 (9.28%) Unix
4 6 (6.19%) AIX
5 1 (1.03%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (35.05%) Agile
2 31 (31.96%) DevOps
3 25 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (23.71%) CI/CD
5 22 (22.68%) Performance Tuning
6 21 (21.65%) User Acceptance Testing
7 17 (17.53%) Migration
8 16 (16.49%) Data Migration
8 16 (16.49%) Validation
9 13 (13.40%) ETL
9 13 (13.40%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (12.37%) Data Pipeline
10 12 (12.37%) SDLC
11 11 (11.34%) Analytics
11 11 (11.34%) Data Engineering
11 11 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (10.31%) Anti-Money Laundering
12 10 (10.31%) Data Modelling
13 9 (9.28%) Operational Acceptance Testing
13 9 (9.28%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 63 (64.95%) SQL
2 22 (22.68%) Python
3 21 (21.65%) Java
4 11 (11.34%) PL/SQL
5 8 (8.25%) VB
5 8 (8.25%) VB6
6 7 (7.22%) C#
7 6 (6.19%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.19%) Scala
8 5 (5.15%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.15%) TypeScript
9 4 (4.12%) C
9 4 (4.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (3.09%) R
11 2 (2.06%) Bash
11 2 (2.06%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (18.56%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.40%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.22%) Degree
4 2 (2.06%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.06%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.49%) QA
2 6 (6.19%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.15%) GDPR
4 3 (3.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (2.06%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.06%) NIST
6 1 (1.03%) ISO 22301
6 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (10.31%) Docker
2 8 (8.25%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 19 (19.59%) Terraform
2 11 (11.34%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.31%) Ansible
4 6 (6.19%) Data Guard
4 6 (6.19%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (5.15%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.12%) Argo
6 4 (4.12%) Grafana
7 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (63.92%) Oracle
2 10 (10.31%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.22%) Actian
4 6 (6.19%) Google
5 4 (4.12%) Alteryx
5 4 (4.12%) Informatica
6 3 (3.09%) Databricks
6 3 (3.09%) SAP
7 2 (2.06%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.06%) Sitecore
7 2 (2.06%) Solace
8 1 (1.03%) Adobe
8 1 (1.03%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.03%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.03%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.03%) NetApp
8 1 (1.03%) Sparx
8 1 (1.03%) Splunk
8 1 (1.03%) Varonis