RDBMS Contracts in England

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for RDBMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RDBMS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 404 408 470
Rank change year-on-year +4 +62 -46
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 131 265 330
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.52% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.13% 2.91% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 174 192
10th Percentile £379 £430 £450
25th Percentile £431 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £594 £570
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +4.17% +14.00%
75th Percentile £602 £700 £700
90th Percentile £724 £775 £816
UK median daily rate £533 £575 £566
% change year-on-year -7.30% +1.59% +13.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £25.79
25th Percentile - - £34.48
Median hourly rate £40.50 - £50.20
75th Percentile - - £53.35
90th Percentile - - £54.49
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £66.56 £50.20
% change year-on-year -39.15% +32.59% +2.59%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

RDBMS is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,162 9,092 14,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.67% 17.99% 20.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,417 6,531 10,384
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £656
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 168 170
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £34.35 £22.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.09% +36.58% +70.00%
75th Percentile £56.74 £70.56 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing RDBMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in England

RDBMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in England.

Daily rate trend for RDBMS in England

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RDBMS in England

RDBMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in England.

Hourly rate trend for RDBMS in England

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 27 April 2024. 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 78 £520 -13.33% 26
North of England +24 26 £534 +7.88% 8
North West +6 23 £534 +9.01% 4
Midlands +17 16 £500 -9.09% 7
East Midlands +28 11 £533 +52.36% 2
South East +25 10 £481 -12.50% 4
West Midlands +13 4 £460 -16.36% 5
Yorkshire +20 3 £732 +8.44% 4
East of England +14 1 £675 +22.73% 4
RDBMS
UK

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (9.16%) JBoss
2 9 (6.87%) Apache
3 8 (6.11%) Oracle Workflow
4 6 (4.58%) Apache Spark
4 6 (4.58%) nginx
4 6 (4.58%) Tomcat
5 3 (2.29%) SAS
6 2 (1.53%) GemFire
7 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.76%) CMS
7 1 (0.76%) Confluence
7 1 (0.76%) CoreMedia CMS
7 1 (0.76%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.76%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.58%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.76%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.76%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 56 (42.75%) AWS
2 28 (21.37%) Azure
3 24 (18.32%) Serverless
4 16 (12.21%) GCP
5 12 (9.16%) GitHub
6 11 (8.40%) Amazon S3
7 9 (6.87%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (6.11%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (6.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (5.34%) Cloud Functions
9 7 (5.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 6 (4.58%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (4.58%) SaaS
11 5 (3.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (3.82%) IaaS
11 5 (3.82%) OpenShift
11 5 (3.82%) Snowflake
12 4 (3.05%) Amazon EventBridge
12 4 (3.05%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (2.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.11%) DNS
1 8 (6.11%) Firewall
2 3 (2.29%) SSL
2 3 (2.29%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.53%) VPN
4 1 (0.76%) HTTP
4 1 (0.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 48 (36.64%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (25.95%) NoSQL
4 32 (24.43%) SQL Server
5 23 (17.56%) MongoDB
6 18 (13.74%) MySQL
7 14 (10.69%) Data Lake
8 13 (9.92%) Oracle Reports
9 10 (7.63%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (6.87%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (6.87%) Metadata
11 8 (6.11%) DB2
12 7 (5.34%) BigQuery
13 6 (4.58%) Big Data
14 5 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (3.82%) Oracle Database
15 4 (3.05%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (3.05%) Apache Cassandra
15 4 (3.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (12.98%) Git
2 15 (11.45%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.11%) GitLab
4 6 (4.58%) JIRA
4 6 (4.58%) SonarQube
4 6 (4.58%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (3.82%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (3.82%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (3.82%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.29%) ERwin
6 3 (2.29%) JUnit
6 3 (2.29%) Subversion
7 2 (1.53%) Ant
7 2 (1.53%) ER Studio
7 2 (1.53%) Gradle
7 2 (1.53%) Maven
7 2 (1.53%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.76%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.76%) Mockito
8 1 (0.76%) Vagrant
General
1 32 (24.43%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.85%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (16.79%) Finance
4 14 (10.69%) Public Sector
5 12 (9.16%) Banking
6 7 (5.34%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.05%) Back Office
8 3 (2.29%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.53%) Games
9 2 (1.53%) Legal
9 2 (1.53%) Marketing
10 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.76%) Local Government
10 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (26.72%) Architect
2 24 (18.32%) DBA
3 17 (12.98%) Developer
4 13 (9.92%) Data Architect
4 13 (9.92%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 12 (9.16%) Data Modeller
6 11 (8.40%) Technical Architect
7 10 (7.63%) Data Engineer
8 9 (6.87%) Senior
9 8 (6.11%) ServiceNow Architect
9 8 (6.11%) Support Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) AWS Architect
10 7 (5.34%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.58%) Java Architect
11 6 (4.58%) Linux Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) GCP Architect
12 5 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) SQL Developer
13 4 (3.05%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (16.03%) JSON
2 19 (14.50%) XML
3 15 (11.45%) Spring Boot
4 14 (10.69%) Kafka
5 10 (7.63%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (5.34%) OAuth
7 6 (4.58%) .NET
7 6 (4.58%) IBM Integration Bus
7 6 (4.58%) Middleware
8 5 (3.82%) HTML
8 5 (3.82%) RESTful
8 5 (3.82%) Spring
9 4 (3.05%) .NET Framework
9 4 (3.05%) ASP.NET
9 4 (3.05%) REST
10 2 (1.53%) CSS
10 2 (1.53%) Node.js
10 2 (1.53%) ODBC
10 2 (1.53%) PySpark
10 2 (1.53%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.87%) Linux Command Line
1 9 (6.87%) Replication
2 8 (6.11%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (5.34%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.58%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.58%) CMDB
4 6 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.82%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.82%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (2.29%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.29%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.29%) Smart Meter
8 2 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.53%) Clustering
8 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.53%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.53%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.53%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 36 (27.48%) Linux
2 24 (18.32%) Unix
2 24 (18.32%) Windows
3 18 (13.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (7.63%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.82%) VMS
6 1 (0.76%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (25.19%) Agile
2 29 (22.14%) Data Modelling
3 28 (21.37%) DevOps
4 23 (17.56%) Migration
5 22 (16.79%) Microservices
5 22 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (13.74%) Design Patterns
7 16 (12.21%) CI/CD
7 16 (12.21%) Database Security
8 14 (10.69%) Architectural Patterns
8 14 (10.69%) ETL
9 13 (9.92%) Containerisation
9 13 (9.92%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (9.92%) Mentoring
9 13 (9.92%) Scrum
10 11 (8.40%) Architectural Design
10 11 (8.40%) Computer Science
10 11 (8.40%) Incident Management
10 11 (8.40%) Open Source
10 11 (8.40%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 46 (35.11%) SQL
2 36 (27.48%) Python
3 22 (16.79%) Java
4 15 (11.45%) T-SQL
5 12 (9.16%) Bash
5 12 (9.16%) PowerShell
5 12 (9.16%) Shell Script
6 11 (8.40%) JavaScript
7 10 (7.63%) Perl
8 6 (4.58%) C#
8 6 (4.58%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.82%) C++
10 4 (3.05%) C
10 4 (3.05%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.29%) Scala
12 2 (1.53%) Groovy
12 2 (1.53%) PHP
13 1 (0.76%) Korn
13 1 (0.76%) Ruby
13 1 (0.76%) XPath
Qualifications
1 19 (14.50%) Degree
2 17 (12.98%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.92%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.82%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.05%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.53%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.76%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.16%) QA
2 4 (3.05%) ISO 15022
3 2 (1.53%) GDPR
4 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.76%) COPPA
4 1 (0.76%) COREP
4 1 (0.76%) EMIR
4 1 (0.76%) FATCA
4 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.76%) IFRS
4 1 (0.76%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.76%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.76%) MiFID
4 1 (0.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (11.45%) Docker
2 7 (5.34%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.82%) vSphere
4 4 (3.05%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.76%) KVM
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (23.66%) Kubernetes
2 17 (12.98%) Terraform
3 14 (10.69%) Ansible
4 9 (6.87%) Progress Chef
5 6 (4.58%) Kibana
5 6 (4.58%) Packer
6 5 (3.82%) Grafana
6 5 (3.82%) Graylog
6 5 (3.82%) Nagios
6 5 (3.82%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.82%) vRealize
7 4 (3.05%) Puppet
8 1 (0.76%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.76%) Ganglia
8 1 (0.76%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.76%) Nessus
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.76%) Podman
8 1 (0.76%) VxRail
Vendors
1 53 (40.46%) Oracle
2 14 (10.69%) ServiceNow
3 13 (9.92%) Red Hat
4 11 (8.40%) IBM
4 11 (8.40%) Microsoft
4 11 (8.40%) Splunk
5 9 (6.87%) Google
5 9 (6.87%) Veritas
6 6 (4.58%) AppDynamics
6 6 (4.58%) Sybase
6 6 (4.58%) Temenos
6 6 (4.58%) VMware
7 5 (3.82%) Arqiva
7 5 (3.82%) Talend
8 4 (3.05%) SAP
8 4 (3.05%) Sparx
8 4 (3.05%) Sun
9 3 (2.29%) Ab Initio
9 3 (2.29%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (2.29%) Teradata