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 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 64 57
Rank change year-on-year -9 -7 +12
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 13 4 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.60% 0.53% 2.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.02% 2.84% 14.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 19
10th Percentile £408 - £376
25th Percentile £409 £333 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £338 £400
Median % change year-on-year +33.14% -15.50% -23.81%
75th Percentile £480 £437 £488
90th Percentile £500 £610 £542
Scotland median daily rate £450 £338 £400
% change year-on-year +33.14% -15.50% -15.79%
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 216 141 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 26.50% 18.73% 18.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 109 131
10th Percentile £287 £324 £378
25th Percentile £375 £378 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £440 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -9.74% +1.14%
75th Percentile £574 £500 £569
90th Percentile £611 £575 £638
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +4.44% -7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £26.17 £17.45 -
25th Percentile £36.05 £18.26 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £49.69
Median % change year-on-year +180.76% -60.57% +54.07%
75th Percentile £57.50 £36.67 £67.11
90th Percentile - £46.92 £68.09
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year +180.76% -44.03% +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 22 July 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 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (46.15%) DB2
3 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) JUnit
2 3 (23.08%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) Maven
3 1 (7.69%) Mercurial
3 1 (7.69%) Selenium
3 1 (7.69%) Subversion
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Front Office
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Back Office
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
2 11 (84.62%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Junior
3 1 (7.69%) Junior Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Junior Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (84.62%) Spring
2 10 (76.92%) Kafka
3 7 (53.85%) Spring Boot
4 3 (23.08%) JMS
5 2 (15.38%) JSON
5 2 (15.38%) REST
6 1 (7.69%) CSS
6 1 (7.69%) DOM
6 1 (7.69%) EJB
6 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
6 1 (7.69%) HTML
6 1 (7.69%) J2EE
6 1 (7.69%) Java EE
6 1 (7.69%) JAX-RS
6 1 (7.69%) JDBC
6 1 (7.69%) JPA
6 1 (7.69%) pytest
6 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (7.69%) RESTful
6 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Data Structures
1 3 (23.08%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
2 6 (46.15%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
3 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) Concurrent Programming
2 6 (46.15%) Event-Driven
2 6 (46.15%) Multithreading
2 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
5 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 3 (23.08%) Open Source
5 3 (23.08%) SDLC
5 3 (23.08%) Software Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (15.38%) Microservices
6 2 (15.38%) OO
7 1 (7.69%) Data Modelling
7 1 (7.69%) OOD
7 1 (7.69%) Scrum
7 1 (7.69%) TDD
7 1 (7.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) SQL
2 11 (84.62%) Java
3 10 (76.92%) Python
4 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
5 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
6 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Podman
1 1 (7.69%) RSA Archer
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Sybase
2 4 (30.77%) IBM
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) Netskope
4 1 (7.69%) Proofpoint
4 1 (7.69%) Splunk
4 1 (7.69%) Symantec