RDBMS Contract Job Trends in London

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring RDBMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 305 373
Rank change year-on-year -15 +68 -23
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 47 77 63
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.35% 0.48% 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.67% 2.15% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 58 49
10th Percentile £400 £362 £400
25th Percentile £504 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -2.78% -13.60%
75th Percentile £750 £553 £650
90th Percentile £827 £595 £800
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 - £77.50
% change year-on-year - - +54.38%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,821 3,586 3,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.09% 22.30% 19.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,961 2,561 2,840
10th Percentile £376 £363 £387
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £813 £850 £788
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 22 38
10th Percentile £22.63 £27.81 £19.05
25th Percentile £32.13 £36.25 £35.35
Median hourly rate £53.75 £43.75 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% -12.94% -11.06%
75th Percentile £70.19 £62.21 £66.50
90th Percentile £87.50 £78.75 £90.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £35.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +19.99% -33.33% +5.00%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

RDBMS job vacancy trend in London

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in London over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RDBMS in London

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the London region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Central London +1 3 £775 +44.86% 3
West London -2 2 £400 -6.98%
South London - 2 - -
RDBMS
England

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.26%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.13%) Apache
2 1 (2.13%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Endur
2 1 (2.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 31 (65.96%) AWS
2 10 (21.28%) Amazon S3
3 9 (19.15%) Snowflake
4 7 (14.89%) Azure
5 6 (12.77%) Serverless
6 4 (8.51%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (8.51%) GitHub
7 3 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (6.38%) GCP
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.26%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (4.26%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.13%) dbt
9 1 (2.13%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 16 (34.04%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (31.91%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (29.79%) SQL Server
5 12 (25.53%) Big Data
6 11 (23.40%) NoSQL
7 5 (10.64%) Data Lake
8 4 (8.51%) Data Vault
8 4 (8.51%) Metadata
8 4 (8.51%) MongoDB
9 3 (6.38%) DataStage
9 3 (6.38%) Oracle Database
9 3 (6.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (4.26%) DB2
10 2 (4.26%) DynamoDB
10 2 (4.26%) MySQL
10 2 (4.26%) Parquet
10 2 (4.26%) Power BI
11 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (2.13%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) JUnit
2 4 (8.51%) ER Studio
2 4 (8.51%) ERwin
3 3 (6.38%) Git
3 3 (6.38%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.26%) JMeter
4 2 (4.26%) Mockito
5 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.13%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.13%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (2.13%) Maven
5 1 (2.13%) Postman
5 1 (2.13%) Selenium
5 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (36.17%) Finance
2 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.64%) Front Office
4 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.26%) Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.13%) Legal
6 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (42.55%) Developer
2 8 (17.02%) Senior
3 7 (14.89%) Java Developer
3 7 (14.89%) Lead
3 7 (14.89%) React Developer
4 6 (12.77%) Architect
4 6 (12.77%) Senior Developer
5 5 (10.64%) Energy Trading Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Data Architect
6 4 (8.51%) Data Modeller
6 4 (8.51%) DBA
6 4 (8.51%) Python Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Data Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Endur Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 2 (4.26%) OpenLink Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Senior React Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.15%) React
1 9 (19.15%) REST
2 8 (17.02%) Spring
2 8 (17.02%) Spring Boot
3 7 (14.89%) GraphQL
4 5 (10.64%) Kafka
4 5 (10.64%) Svelte
5 4 (8.51%) RESTful
6 3 (6.38%) Hibernate
6 3 (6.38%) HTML
6 3 (6.38%) JSON
6 3 (6.38%) Web Services
6 3 (6.38%) XML
7 2 (4.26%) .NET
7 2 (4.26%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (4.26%) Apache Avro
7 2 (4.26%) Apache Camel
7 2 (4.26%) jQuery
7 2 (4.26%) WireMock
8 1 (2.13%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.38%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.26%) Clustering
2 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.26%) Pricing Data
2 2 (4.26%) Reinsurance
2 2 (4.26%) Replication
2 2 (4.26%) Swaptions
3 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Linux
2 3 (6.38%) Unix
3 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (40.43%) Data Modelling
2 14 (29.79%) ETL
3 11 (23.40%) Data Engineering
3 11 (23.40%) Migration
4 9 (19.15%) CI/CD
4 9 (19.15%) Containerisation
4 9 (19.15%) Data Governance
4 9 (19.15%) Data Migration
4 9 (19.15%) Open Source
5 8 (17.02%) Microservices
5 8 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.89%) Agile
6 7 (14.89%) Architectural Patterns
6 7 (14.89%) Cloud Security
6 7 (14.89%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (14.89%) Data Security
6 7 (14.89%) DevOps
6 7 (14.89%) Quality Management
6 7 (14.89%) SDLC
7 6 (12.77%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 29 (61.70%) SQL
2 27 (57.45%) Python
3 14 (29.79%) Java
4 10 (21.28%) TypeScript
5 6 (12.77%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.38%) T-SQL
7 2 (4.26%) C#
7 2 (4.26%) C++
7 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.26%) Scala
7 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.26%) VB
8 1 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.13%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.13%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (10.64%) Degree
2 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared
2 4 (8.51%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.40%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.26%) QA
3 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (25.53%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (23.40%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.26%) Data Guard
2 2 (4.26%) Kibana
2 2 (4.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) Oracle
2 4 (8.51%) Sybase
3 2 (4.26%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (4.26%) Delphix
3 2 (4.26%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.26%) OpenLink
3 2 (4.26%) SAP
3 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.26%) Splunk
3 2 (4.26%) TIBCO
4 1 (2.13%) Databricks
4 1 (2.13%) IBM
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.13%) StreamSets