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 3 months leading up to 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 209 237
Rank change year-on-year -35 +28 +17
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 27 20 26
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.35% 0.34% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.75% 1.49% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 20
10th Percentile £513 £376 £400
25th Percentile £514 £479 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -8.33% +2.13%
75th Percentile £766 - £666
90th Percentile £875 £693 £683
England median daily rate £529 £529 £535
% change year-on-year -0.05% -1.12% -2.73%

All Database & BI 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 1,544 1,338 1,598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.95% 22.93% 18.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,102 968 1,188
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £626 £713 £688
90th Percentile £726 £838 £788
England median daily rate £500 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -8.68% -0.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 20
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £24.88
25th Percentile £27.91 £22.89 £26.13
Median hourly rate £41.00 £44.00 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -3.36% +68.62%
75th Percentile £53.94 £59.50 £55.28
90th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £63.83
England median hourly rate £42.50 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -1.16% +1.18% -22.73%

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 3 months to 16 January 2026.

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 3 months to 16 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London - 4 £645 - 3
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 4 (8.16%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (8.16%) Apache Spark
1 4 (8.16%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.12%) Apache
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.04%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.04%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 28 (57.14%) AWS
2 10 (20.41%) Snowflake
3 8 (16.33%) Amazon S3
3 8 (16.33%) Azure
4 5 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (10.20%) GCP
4 5 (10.20%) Serverless
5 4 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (6.12%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (6.12%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.12%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (4.08%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (4.08%) dbt
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 15 (30.61%) SQL Server
3 14 (28.57%) Big Data
3 14 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (22.45%) NoSQL
5 10 (20.41%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (12.24%) Metadata
6 6 (12.24%) MongoDB
6 6 (12.24%) Oracle Database
7 5 (10.20%) Data Lake
8 4 (8.16%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (8.16%) Data Vault
8 4 (8.16%) SQLPlus
9 3 (6.12%) DataStage
9 3 (6.12%) DB2
9 3 (6.12%) DynamoDB
9 3 (6.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (4.08%) Hadoop
11 1 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 6 (12.24%) ER Studio
1 6 (12.24%) ERwin
2 5 (10.20%) Git
3 4 (8.16%) JIRA
3 4 (8.16%) JUnit
3 4 (8.16%) Octopus Deploy
3 4 (8.16%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (8.16%) TeamCity
3 4 (8.16%) Toad
4 1 (2.04%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.04%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (2.04%) Maven
4 1 (2.04%) Postman
4 1 (2.04%) Selenium
4 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (24.49%) Finance
2 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.12%) Front Office
6 1 (2.04%) Legal
6 1 (2.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (48.98%) Developer
2 8 (16.33%) Senior
3 6 (12.24%) AWS Developer
3 6 (12.24%) Data Modeller
3 6 (12.24%) Java Developer
3 6 (12.24%) Lead
4 5 (10.20%) Data Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Oracle Developer
5 4 (8.16%) IAM Developer
5 4 (8.16%) Senior Developer
5 4 (8.16%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Cloud Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Database Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Delphi Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Oracle Database Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Python Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.41%) REST
1 10 (20.41%) Spring
1 10 (20.41%) Spring Boot
2 9 (18.37%) JSON
2 9 (18.37%) Kafka
3 6 (12.24%) CSS
3 6 (12.24%) HTML
4 5 (10.20%) React
5 3 (6.12%) GraphQL
5 3 (6.12%) RESTful
5 3 (6.12%) XML
6 1 (2.04%) .NET
6 1 (2.04%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.04%) Apache Avro
6 1 (2.04%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.04%) JPA
6 1 (2.04%) pytest
6 1 (2.04%) Spring Batch
6 1 (2.04%) Swagger
6 1 (2.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.08%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.04%) Clustering
3 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.20%) Unix
2 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.82%) ETL
2 16 (32.65%) Data Modelling
3 15 (30.61%) Migration
4 14 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 13 (26.53%) Data Migration
6 10 (20.41%) Analytics
6 10 (20.41%) Containerisation
6 10 (20.41%) Data Governance
7 9 (18.37%) CI/CD
7 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (18.37%) SDLC
8 8 (16.33%) Data Integration
9 7 (14.29%) Agile
9 7 (14.29%) Data Security
9 7 (14.29%) Logical Data Model
9 7 (14.29%) Physical Data Model
9 7 (14.29%) Quality Management
9 7 (14.29%) Visualisation
10 6 (12.24%) DevOps
10 6 (12.24%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (83.67%) SQL
2 17 (34.69%) Python
3 12 (24.49%) Java
4 9 (18.37%) PL/SQL
5 7 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.16%) Delphi
6 4 (8.16%) Perl
6 4 (8.16%) PHP
7 3 (6.12%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.08%) Scala
8 2 (4.08%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.08%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.04%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (8.16%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (24.49%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 10 (20.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (20.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (26.53%) Oracle
2 6 (12.24%) Adobe
3 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.16%) DevExpress
5 3 (6.12%) Informatica
5 3 (6.12%) Sybase
6 2 (4.08%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (4.08%) SAP
6 2 (4.08%) Sparx
7 1 (2.04%) Databricks
7 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.04%) StreamSets