RDBMS Contracts in England

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring RDBMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RDBMS over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 422 411
Rank change year-on-year +44 -11 +45
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 96 119 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.32% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.11% 1.90% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 87 164
10th Percentile £363 £360 £430
25th Percentile £400 £411 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -13.33% +6.19%
75th Percentile £586 £575 £700
90th Percentile £738 £650 £800
UK median daily rate £450 £520 £600
% change year-on-year -13.46% -13.33% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £27.21 - -
25th Percentile £36.23 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £40.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £40.50 £66.56
% change year-on-year +29.63% -39.15% +32.59%

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 4,544 6,267 8,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.98% 17.07% 17.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,156 4,535 6,056
10th Percentile £363 £350 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -0.95% -3.85% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 138 155
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £22.99 £20.77 £32.00
Median hourly rate £31.85 £40.00 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -20.39% -31.73% +33.31%
75th Percentile £61.19 £56.88 £73.75
90th Percentile £70.63 £73.25 £84.20
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -17.60% -31.73% +30.20%

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 29 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing RDBMS in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 29 May 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 +12 38 £500 - 34
North of England +18 25 £428 -19.83% 32
North West +9 20 £419 -21.58% 10
Midlands +14 10 £450 +26.40% 22
West Midlands +21 8 £450 +7.14% 11
South West - 8 £650 - 16
South East +39 7 £575 +41.54% 49
East of England +37 7 £600 -11.11% 18
Yorkshire - 5 £575 - 18
East Midlands +2 1 £537 +50.84% 9
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 9 (9.38%) JBoss
2 5 (5.21%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.13%) SAS
4 3 (3.13%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.08%) Confluence
5 2 (2.08%) MQSeries
6 1 (1.04%) Apache
6 1 (1.04%) Camunda
6 1 (1.04%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.13%) InfoPath
3 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (3.13%) Endur
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.04%) Remedy AR System
2 1 (1.04%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (38.54%) AWS
2 16 (16.67%) Serverless
3 14 (14.58%) Amazon S3
4 12 (12.50%) Azure
5 10 (10.42%) OpenShift
6 8 (8.33%) Power Platform
7 6 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (5.21%) GCP
8 5 (5.21%) PaaS
8 5 (5.21%) SaaS
9 4 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (4.17%) dbt
9 4 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) HTTP
1 3 (3.13%) HTTPS
1 3 (3.13%) SSH
1 3 (3.13%) SSL
2 2 (2.08%) MQTT
2 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 29 (30.21%) NoSQL
3 24 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (18.75%) MongoDB
5 15 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (13.54%) Oracle Database
7 11 (11.46%) Data Lake
7 11 (11.46%) SQL Server
8 10 (10.42%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (8.33%) MySQL
9 8 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (8.33%) Power BI
10 6 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (5.21%) BigQuery
11 5 (5.21%) Data Vault
12 4 (4.17%) Big Data
12 4 (4.17%) Data Mart
12 4 (4.17%) DynamoDB
12 4 (4.17%) Tableau
13 3 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 17 (17.71%) Jenkins
2 14 (14.58%) Git
2 14 (14.58%) JIRA
3 10 (10.42%) Bitbucket Server
3 10 (10.42%) SonarQube
4 9 (9.38%) CA Release Automation
4 9 (9.38%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (9.38%) TeamCity
5 7 (7.29%) ERwin
6 6 (6.25%) JUnit
7 5 (5.21%) Mockito
8 4 (4.17%) ER Studio
9 3 (3.13%) Bitbucket
9 3 (3.13%) JMeter
10 2 (2.08%) IntelliJ
10 2 (2.08%) Toad
11 1 (1.04%) JProfiler
11 1 (1.04%) LoadRunner
11 1 (1.04%) Maven
11 1 (1.04%) Subversion
General
1 19 (19.79%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (13.54%) Finance
4 9 (9.38%) Banking
5 4 (4.17%) Front Office
6 3 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.08%) Automotive
7 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.04%) Back Office
8 1 (1.04%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.04%) Retail
8 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (28.13%) Developer
2 14 (14.58%) DBA
3 12 (12.50%) Architect
4 11 (11.46%) Data Modeller
4 11 (11.46%) Java Developer
5 9 (9.38%) Senior
6 8 (8.33%) Administrator
7 7 (7.29%) Lead
7 7 (7.29%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 6 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (5.21%) MongoDB DBA
9 5 (5.21%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (4.17%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
11 3 (3.13%) Automation Architect
11 3 (3.13%) Integration Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) Java Swing Developer
11 3 (3.13%) Oracle DBA
11 3 (3.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.75%) XML
2 17 (17.71%) Spring Boot
3 13 (13.54%) JSON
3 13 (13.54%) REST
4 11 (11.46%) Kafka
5 10 (10.42%) Spring
6 9 (9.38%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (9.38%) HTML
7 7 (7.29%) .NET
7 7 (7.29%) Web Services
8 6 (6.25%) WireMock
9 5 (5.21%) Hibernate
9 5 (5.21%) jQuery
10 4 (4.17%) CSS
11 3 (3.13%) .NET Framework
11 3 (3.13%) ASP.NET
11 3 (3.13%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (3.13%) Middleware
11 3 (3.13%) SOAP
11 3 (3.13%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.21%) Fixed Income
1 5 (5.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.13%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.13%) Swaptions
4 2 (2.08%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.08%) Data Fabric
4 2 (2.08%) Derivative
4 2 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.08%) Equities
4 2 (2.08%) Infotainment
4 2 (2.08%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.04%) Clustering
5 1 (1.04%) CMDB
5 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.04%) Replication
5 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.79%) Linux
2 14 (14.58%) Unix
2 14 (14.58%) Windows
3 9 (9.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (30.21%) DevOps
2 26 (27.08%) Agile
2 26 (27.08%) CI/CD
3 23 (23.96%) Data Modelling
4 19 (19.79%) Microservices
5 16 (16.67%) Migration
6 15 (15.63%) ETL
7 14 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (13.54%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (12.50%) Database Security
10 11 (11.46%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (11.46%) Mentoring
10 11 (11.46%) Performance Tuning
10 11 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (11.46%) Workflow
11 10 (10.42%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (10.42%) Visualisation
12 9 (9.38%) Build Automation
12 9 (9.38%) Code Quality
12 9 (9.38%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 39 (40.63%) SQL
2 27 (28.13%) Python
3 26 (27.08%) Java
4 12 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 11 (11.46%) Perl
6 7 (7.29%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.21%) C#
7 5 (5.21%) Scala
8 4 (4.17%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.13%) ActionScript
9 3 (3.13%) ActionScript 2.0
9 3 (3.13%) C
9 3 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (3.13%) VB
10 2 (2.08%) ANSI SQL
10 2 (2.08%) C++
10 2 (2.08%) Ruby
11 1 (1.04%) Bash
11 1 (1.04%) Groovy
11 1 (1.04%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (13.54%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.38%) Degree
3 8 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.17%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.08%) SLA
3 1 (1.04%) GDPR
3 1 (1.04%) QA
3 1 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (17.71%) Docker
2 9 (9.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 17 (17.71%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.46%) Kibana
3 9 (9.38%) Progress Chef
4 8 (8.33%) Terraform
5 3 (3.13%) Data Guard
6 2 (2.08%) Control-M
7 1 (1.04%) Ansible
7 1 (1.04%) Argo
7 1 (1.04%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (1.04%) Grafana
7 1 (1.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (1.04%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 33 (34.38%) Oracle
2 13 (13.54%) Splunk
3 12 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 9 (9.38%) AppDynamics
4 9 (9.38%) Red Hat
5 6 (6.25%) IBM
5 6 (6.25%) Sybase
6 5 (5.21%) TIBCO
7 4 (4.17%) Cloudera
7 4 (4.17%) MuleSoft
7 4 (4.17%) SnapLogic
8 3 (3.13%) Databricks
8 3 (3.13%) Dynatrace
8 3 (3.13%) Genesys
8 3 (3.13%) IBM Sterling
8 3 (3.13%) Informatica
8 3 (3.13%) OpenLink
9 2 (2.08%) StreamSets
10 1 (1.04%) Ariba
10 1 (1.04%) Delphix