RDBMS Contracts in Glasgow

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 81 70
Rank change year-on-year +17 -11 +5
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 15 1 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.88% 0.11% 1.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.43% 0.56% 7.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 9
10th Percentile £408 - £373
25th Percentile £410 £675 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £700 £378
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% +85.19% -11.06%
75th Percentile £480 £725 £488
90th Percentile - - £716
Scotland median daily rate £463 £700 £378
% change year-on-year -33.93% +85.19% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £62.84
25th Percentile - - £63.83
Median hourly rate - - £66.56
75th Percentile - - £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
Scotland median hourly rate - - £66.56

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 178 177 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 22.31% 20.18% 21.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 137 146
10th Percentile £288 £303 £376
25th Percentile £372 £381 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -7.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £533 £638
90th Percentile £589 £645 £750
Scotland median daily rate £471 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.04% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £20.16 - £24.95
25th Percentile £21.01 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £23.05 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.10% +50.00% -25.53%
75th Percentile £25.71 £53.75 £66.56
90th Percentile £26.93 - £67.88
Scotland median hourly rate £26.50 £37.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.51% +5.91% +34.62%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for RDBMS in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RDBMS in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for RDBMS in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (40.00%) DB2
3 5 (33.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (73.33%) JUnit
2 3 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) Mercurial
3 1 (6.67%) Selenium
3 1 (6.67%) Subversion
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Front Office
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Back Office
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Developer
2 11 (73.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Junior
3 1 (6.67%) Junior Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Junior Java Developer
3 1 (6.67%) MongoDB Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (80.00%) Spring
2 11 (73.33%) Kafka
3 6 (40.00%) Spring Boot
4 5 (33.33%) JMS
5 1 (6.67%) DOM
5 1 (6.67%) EJB
5 1 (6.67%) FastAPI
5 1 (6.67%) Java EE
5 1 (6.67%) JAX-RS
5 1 (6.67%) JDBC
5 1 (6.67%) JPA
5 1 (6.67%) JSON
5 1 (6.67%) Middleware
5 1 (6.67%) pytest
5 1 (6.67%) REST
5 1 (6.67%) RESTful
5 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 3 (20.00%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Unix
3 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (46.67%) Concurrent Programming
3 7 (46.67%) Multithreading
3 7 (46.67%) Software Engineering
4 6 (40.00%) Event-Driven
5 5 (33.33%) DevOps
5 5 (33.33%) SDLC
6 4 (26.67%) Open Source
6 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
7 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
8 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
8 2 (13.33%) Continuous Deployment
8 2 (13.33%) OO
9 1 (6.67%) Data Modelling
9 1 (6.67%) Data Protection
9 1 (6.67%) OOA/OOD
9 1 (6.67%) OOD
9 1 (6.67%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Java
1 13 (86.67%) Python
1 13 (86.67%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Shell Script
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) C++
4 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Podman
2 1 (6.67%) RSA Archer
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Sybase
2 3 (20.00%) IBM
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) Netskope
4 1 (6.67%) Proofpoint
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk
4 1 (6.67%) Symantec