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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 310 390
Rank change year-on-year -9 +80 -33
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 42 70 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.32% 0.44% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.49% 1.90% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 52 55
10th Percentile £400 £360 £403
25th Percentile £444 £400 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £520 £588
Median % change year-on-year +32.21% -11.49% -6.00%
75th Percentile £813 £550 £659
90th Percentile £842 £575 £800
England median daily rate £508 £520 £588
% change year-on-year -2.40% -11.49% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 - - +49.47%

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 2,819 3,686 4,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.29% 22.92% 19.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,957 2,651 3,106
10th Percentile £375 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £690
90th Percentile £825 £850 £788
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 24 40
10th Percentile £28.26 £25.40 £19.18
25th Percentile £33.56 £36.25 £35.19
Median hourly rate £52.50 £49.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -14.78% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69.75 £57.51 £75.25
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.63 £90.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -34.09% +22.22%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS 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 September 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 September 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 +2 5 £613 +8.89% 4
West London -4 2 £400 -8.05%
South London - 2 - -
RDBMS
England

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.76%) Apache
2 2 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.38%) Camunda
3 1 (2.38%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Endur
2 1 (2.38%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 21 (50.00%) AWS
2 11 (26.19%) Amazon S3
3 5 (11.90%) GCP
3 5 (11.90%) Serverless
4 4 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (9.52%) Azure
5 3 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (7.14%) GitHub
5 3 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.76%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.38%) dbt
7 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 15 (35.71%) NoSQL
2 15 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 6 (14.29%) MongoDB
6 5 (11.90%) Data Vault
7 4 (9.52%) Big Data
7 4 (9.52%) Data Lake
7 4 (9.52%) Oracle Database
7 4 (9.52%) Parquet
8 3 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (7.14%) Apache Hive
8 3 (7.14%) BigQuery
8 3 (7.14%) DataStage
8 3 (7.14%) Flink
8 3 (7.14%) Metadata
8 3 (7.14%) Power BI
8 3 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (4.76%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) JUnit
2 3 (7.14%) ER Studio
2 3 (7.14%) ERwin
2 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.76%) Git
3 2 (4.76%) JMeter
3 2 (4.76%) Mockito
4 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.38%) Maven
4 1 (2.38%) Toad
General
1 17 (40.48%) Finance
2 9 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Front Office
5 2 (4.76%) Banking
5 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.38%) Legal
6 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (50.00%) Developer
2 9 (21.43%) Senior
3 7 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 7 (16.67%) React Developer
4 6 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Data Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Data Modeller
5 5 (11.90%) DBA
5 5 (11.90%) Energy Trading Developer
6 4 (9.52%) Architect
6 4 (9.52%) Python Developer
6 4 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Data Architect
7 3 (7.14%) Endur Developer
7 3 (7.14%) OpenLink Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Administrator
8 2 (4.76%) AWS Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior React Developer
8 2 (4.76%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.43%) React
1 9 (21.43%) REST
2 8 (19.05%) Spring
3 7 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 7 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 5 (11.90%) Svelte
5 4 (9.52%) Apache Avro
5 4 (9.52%) Kafka
5 4 (9.52%) Web Services
6 3 (7.14%) Apache Beam
6 3 (7.14%) Apache Camel
6 3 (7.14%) Hibernate
6 3 (7.14%) HTML
6 3 (7.14%) JSON
6 3 (7.14%) XML
7 2 (4.76%) .NET
7 2 (4.76%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (4.76%) jQuery
7 2 (4.76%) RESTful
7 2 (4.76%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 3 (7.14%) Swaptions
2 2 (4.76%) Clustering
2 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.76%) Pricing Data
2 2 (4.76%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Linux
2 4 (9.52%) Unix
3 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (35.71%) Data Modelling
2 9 (21.43%) CI/CD
2 9 (21.43%) Open Source
3 8 (19.05%) DevOps
3 8 (19.05%) ETL
3 8 (19.05%) SDLC
4 7 (16.67%) Agile
4 7 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 7 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 7 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 7 (16.67%) Microservices
4 7 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 6 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
5 6 (14.29%) TDD
6 5 (11.90%) Computer Science
6 5 (11.90%) Data Engineering
6 5 (11.90%) Front End Development
6 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (11.90%) Workflow
7 4 (9.52%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 21 (50.00%) SQL
2 20 (47.62%) Python
3 16 (38.10%) Java
4 10 (23.81%) TypeScript
5 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
6 4 (9.52%) Scala
7 3 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (7.14%) VB
8 2 (4.76%) C#
8 2 (4.76%) C++
8 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.76%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.38%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.38%) Perl
9 1 (2.38%) PHP
9 1 (2.38%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.38%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) Degree
2 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Kubernetes
1 4 (9.52%) Terraform
2 2 (4.76%) Data Guard
2 2 (4.76%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (26.19%) Oracle
2 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) Sybase
3 3 (7.14%) OpenLink
3 3 (7.14%) TIBCO
4 2 (4.76%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (4.76%) Delphix
4 2 (4.76%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.76%) Splunk
5 1 (2.38%) Databricks
5 1 (2.38%) Google
5 1 (2.38%) IBM
5 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.38%) SAP
5 1 (2.38%) StreamSets