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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 318 306
Rank change year-on-year -85 -12 +78
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 46 41 77
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.23% 0.31% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.26% 1.45% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 31 57
10th Percentile £431 £400 £362
25th Percentile £463 £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £520
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +25.00% -13.33%
75th Percentile £725 £813 £563
90th Percentile £795 £844 £633
England median daily rate £565 £450 £520
% change year-on-year +25.56% -13.46% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 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 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year -19.05% - -

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 3,651 2,824 3,796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.12% 21.13% 23.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,473 1,978 2,783
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £690 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £512 £545
% change year-on-year -2.34% -6.06% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 36 26
10th Percentile £18.23 £25.67 £26.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.38 £37.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £55.63 £64.00 £54.69
90th Percentile £60.75 £83.75 £76.88
England median hourly rate £38.25 £36.75 £33.93
% change year-on-year +4.08% +8.31% -38.31%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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
West London -12 10 - -
Central London -22 4 £650 +6.12% 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 (15.22%) Apache Spark
2 5 (10.87%) Apache
2 5 (10.87%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.35%) Confluence
3 2 (4.35%) IIS
4 1 (2.17%) Appian
Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Finacle
2 4 (8.70%) Summit
3 2 (4.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.91%) AWS
2 7 (15.22%) GCP
2 7 (15.22%) Power Platform
3 6 (13.04%) Azure
3 6 (13.04%) dbt
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon S3
4 4 (8.70%) Cloud Functions
4 4 (8.70%) Snowflake
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (4.35%) Dagster
5 2 (4.35%) GitHub
5 2 (4.35%) IaaS
5 2 (4.35%) Matillion
5 2 (4.35%) Prefect
5 2 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) Internet
1 2 (4.35%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 16 (34.78%) Oracle Database
3 13 (28.26%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (23.91%) NoSQL
5 7 (15.22%) Power BI
5 7 (15.22%) SQL Server
6 6 (13.04%) Metadata
6 6 (13.04%) MongoDB
7 5 (10.87%) BigQuery
7 5 (10.87%) Parquet
8 4 (8.70%) Apache Hive
8 4 (8.70%) Flink
8 4 (8.70%) MySQL
8 4 (8.70%) Power Query
8 4 (8.70%) PowerPivot
9 3 (6.52%) Big Data
9 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
9 3 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (6.52%) Hadoop
10 2 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) ER Studio
1 4 (8.70%) Git
2 2 (4.35%) Artifactory
2 2 (4.35%) Bitbucket
2 2 (4.35%) ERwin
2 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.35%) JIRA
2 2 (4.35%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.17%) Claude Code
3 1 (2.17%) GitLab
3 1 (2.17%) Liquibase
General
1 27 (58.70%) Finance
2 23 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (47.83%) Social Skills
4 18 (39.13%) Banking
5 14 (30.43%) Front Office
6 10 (21.74%) Back Office
7 4 (8.70%) Investment Banking
8 2 (4.35%) Financial Institution
8 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Developer
2 10 (21.74%) Applications Support
2 10 (21.74%) Data Engineer
2 10 (21.74%) Systems Support
3 5 (10.87%) Senior
4 4 (8.70%) Business Analyst
4 4 (8.70%) Energy Trading Developer
4 4 (8.70%) GCP Data Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) GCP Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Summit Business Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Big Data Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Hadoop Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) React Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Finance Modeller
6 2 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Junior
6 2 (4.35%) Oracle Specialist
6 2 (4.35%) Principal Data Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.57%) XML
2 7 (15.22%) REST
3 6 (13.04%) React
3 6 (13.04%) Terraform
4 5 (10.87%) Apache Avro
4 5 (10.87%) Kafka
5 4 (8.70%) Apache Beam
5 4 (8.70%) GraphQL
6 3 (6.52%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.52%) JSON
6 3 (6.52%) SOAP
6 3 (6.52%) Spring
6 3 (6.52%) Spring Boot
6 3 (6.52%) Svelte
7 2 (4.35%) .NET Framework
7 2 (4.35%) ADO.NET
7 2 (4.35%) Ajax
7 2 (4.35%) ASP.NET
7 2 (4.35%) RESTful
7 2 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) Analytical Mindset
1 10 (21.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 6 (13.04%) Derivative
3 4 (8.70%) Credit Risk
3 4 (8.70%) Fixed Income
3 4 (8.70%) Market Risk
3 4 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.35%) Blockchain
4 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.35%) OTC Derivatives
4 2 (4.35%) Reference Data
4 2 (4.35%) Replication
5 1 (2.17%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.17%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Windows
2 6 (13.04%) Unix
3 4 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (28.26%) DevOps
2 13 (28.26%) Performance Tuning
3 12 (26.09%) Agile
4 11 (23.91%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (21.74%) Anti-Money Laundering
5 10 (21.74%) Data Modelling
5 10 (21.74%) User Acceptance Testing
6 9 (19.57%) CI/CD
7 8 (17.39%) Analytics
7 8 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
7 8 (17.39%) SDLC
8 7 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (15.22%) Data Engineering
9 6 (13.04%) ETL
9 6 (13.04%) Front End Development
9 6 (13.04%) Workflow
10 5 (10.87%) Continuous Delivery
10 5 (10.87%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 30 (65.22%) SQL
2 18 (39.13%) Python
3 11 (23.91%) Java
4 5 (10.87%) PL/SQL
4 5 (10.87%) Scala
4 5 (10.87%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.70%) C#
5 4 (8.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.52%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) Degree
2 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) QA
2 5 (10.87%) Data Quality
3 3 (6.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (54.35%) Oracle
2 5 (10.87%) Google
2 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.52%) Alteryx
4 2 (4.35%) Databricks
4 2 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.35%) SAP
4 2 (4.35%) Sitecore
4 2 (4.35%) Sparx
5 1 (2.17%) IBM