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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 315 319
Rank change year-on-year -47 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 43 43 76
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.25% 0.34% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.31% 1.51% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 27 55
10th Percentile £505 £342 £400
25th Percentile £525 £405 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +20.45% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £773 £613 £603
90th Percentile £831 £813 £668
England median daily rate £533 £493 £533
% change year-on-year +8.01% -7.50% -9.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% - -
75th Percentile £43.75 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £36.95 £40.50
% change year-on-year +15.02% -8.77% -

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 3,280 2,842 3,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.77% 22.35% 21.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,251 2,002 2,755
10th Percentile £363 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £630 £713 £700
90th Percentile £749 £838 £825
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 32 36
10th Percentile £23.93 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £32.32 £28.03 £25.59
Median hourly rate £48.25 £39.31 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.76% -20.19% -1.50%
75th Percentile £65.31 £59.25 £54.34
90th Percentile £85.50 £76.50 £64.14
England median hourly rate £50.50 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +53.22% -17.60% -33.33%

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 22 April 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 6 months to 22 April 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
Central London -10 6 £645 +5.65% 2
West London - 3 - - 1
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 7 (16.28%) Apache Spark
2 4 (9.30%) Apache
2 4 (9.30%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (9.30%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (16.28%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (9.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Summit
2 3 (6.98%) Finacle
3 2 (4.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.91%) AWS
2 6 (13.95%) Amazon S3
2 6 (13.95%) GCP
3 4 (9.30%) Azure
3 4 (9.30%) dbt
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Functions
4 2 (4.65%) IaaS
4 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 12 (27.91%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (25.58%) Oracle Database
4 8 (18.60%) Metadata
4 8 (18.60%) NoSQL
5 6 (13.95%) SQL Server
6 5 (11.63%) MongoDB
7 4 (9.30%) Big Data
7 4 (9.30%) Hadoop
7 4 (9.30%) SQLPlus
8 3 (6.98%) BigQuery
8 3 (6.98%) Data Lake
8 3 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (6.98%) Parquet
9 2 (4.65%) Apache Hive
9 2 (4.65%) Flink
9 2 (4.65%) Power BI
9 2 (4.65%) Power Query
9 2 (4.65%) PowerPivot
10 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) JIRA
2 4 (9.30%) Git
2 4 (9.30%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (9.30%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (9.30%) TeamCity
2 4 (9.30%) Toad
3 2 (4.65%) ER Studio
3 2 (4.65%) ERwin
4 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.33%) Maven
General
1 16 (37.21%) Finance
2 13 (30.23%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.93%) Banking
3 9 (20.93%) Front Office
4 6 (13.95%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.98%) Back Office
6 1 (2.33%) Marketing
6 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (48.84%) Developer
2 8 (18.60%) Data Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Business Analyst
3 6 (13.95%) Summit Business Analyst
4 5 (11.63%) Oracle Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Senior
5 4 (9.30%) Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) IAM Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Python Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Applications Support
6 3 (6.98%) AWS Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Cloud Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Database Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Delphi Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Energy Trading Developer
6 3 (6.98%) GCP Data Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Oracle Database Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.23%) REST
2 8 (18.60%) JSON
2 8 (18.60%) XML
3 6 (13.95%) CSS
3 6 (13.95%) GraphQL
3 6 (13.95%) HTML
3 6 (13.95%) React
4 5 (11.63%) Kafka
5 4 (9.30%) Spring
5 4 (9.30%) Spring Boot
6 3 (6.98%) Apache Avro
7 2 (4.65%) Apache Beam
7 2 (4.65%) Svelte
8 1 (2.33%) .NET
8 1 (2.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Credit Risk
1 6 (13.95%) Derivative
1 6 (13.95%) Fixed Income
1 6 (13.95%) Market Risk
2 3 (6.98%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (6.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (4.65%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.26%) Unix
2 3 (6.98%) Windows
3 1 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.91%) Analytics
1 12 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (25.58%) SDLC
3 10 (23.26%) ETL
4 9 (20.93%) CI/CD
5 8 (18.60%) Data Engineering
5 8 (18.60%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (18.60%) Visualisation
6 6 (13.95%) Architectural Patterns
6 6 (13.95%) Cloud Security
6 6 (13.95%) Continuous Delivery
6 6 (13.95%) Data Integration
6 6 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (13.95%) DevOps
6 6 (13.95%) Open Source
6 6 (13.95%) Personalization
6 6 (13.95%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (11.63%) Credit Risk Management
7 5 (11.63%) Project Delivery
7 5 (11.63%) XML Parsing
Programming Languages
1 32 (74.42%) SQL
2 10 (23.26%) PL/SQL
2 10 (23.26%) Python
3 7 (16.28%) Java
4 6 (13.95%) JavaScript
4 6 (13.95%) TypeScript
5 4 (9.30%) Delphi
5 4 (9.30%) Perl
5 4 (9.30%) PHP
5 4 (9.30%) Scala
6 2 (4.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (4.65%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.33%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (9.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (46.51%) Oracle
2 6 (13.95%) Adobe
3 4 (9.30%) DevExpress
3 4 (9.30%) Informatica
3 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.65%) Google
4 2 (4.65%) Sparx