RDBMS Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring RDBMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 0.65% - 1.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.25% - 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +91.08%
East Midlands median daily rate £471 £447 £533
% change year-on-year +5.49% -16.27% +35.86%

All Database & BI Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 16 14 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 10.39% 14.58% 15.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 19
10th Percentile £298 £317 £285
25th Percentile £358 £343 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £388 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -22.50% +19.05%
75th Percentile £508 £463 £625
90th Percentile £564 £543 £700
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -0.03% +0.03% +1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £18.50 - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.00 - -
75th Percentile £24.56 - -
90th Percentile £25.20 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £20.60 £14.00
% change year-on-year -2.91% +47.14% -67.62%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RDBMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire.

RDBMS job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing RDBMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing RDBMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 19 March 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
Leicester - 1 £540 -
RDBMS
East Midlands

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) VLDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Database Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle