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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 305 321
Rank change year-on-year -61 +16 +12
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 50 45 83
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.26% 0.35% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.47% 1.63% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 29 64
10th Percentile £440 £346 £361
25th Percentile £541 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.76% +1.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £777 £675 £575
90th Percentile £804 £813 £650
England median daily rate £530 £450 £520
% change year-on-year +17.78% -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 £40.50
% change year-on-year -19.05% +29.63% -

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 3,411 2,755 4,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.84% 21.70% 22.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,310 1,935 3,013
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £719
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 33
10th Percentile £18.19 £25.01 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £27.50
Median hourly rate £44.50 £40.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% -16.49% -15.65%
75th Percentile £60.88 £60.38 £54.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.00 £71.40
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.19 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.87% -14.53% -31.09%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -14 10 - - 1
Central London -16 5 £750 +22.85% 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 11 (22.00%) Apache Spark
2 6 (12.00%) Apache
2 6 (12.00%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (4.00%) Confluence
4 2 (4.00%) IIS
5 1 (2.00%) Appian
Applications
1 10 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (20.00%) Finacle
2 6 (12.00%) Summit
3 1 (2.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.00%) AWS
2 10 (20.00%) GCP
3 9 (18.00%) Azure
4 7 (14.00%) Power Platform
5 6 (12.00%) dbt
6 5 (10.00%) Amazon S3
7 4 (8.00%) Cloud Functions
8 3 (6.00%) Snowflake
9 2 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (4.00%) IaaS
9 2 (4.00%) Matillion
10 1 (2.00%) GitHub
10 1 (2.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) Internet
1 2 (4.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 16 (32.00%) Oracle Database
2 16 (32.00%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (30.00%) NoSQL
4 10 (20.00%) MongoDB
4 10 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 7 (14.00%) Power BI
6 6 (12.00%) Big Data
6 6 (12.00%) Hadoop
6 6 (12.00%) Metadata
7 5 (10.00%) BigQuery
7 5 (10.00%) Data Lake
7 5 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (10.00%) Parquet
8 4 (8.00%) Apache Hive
8 4 (8.00%) Flink
8 4 (8.00%) MySQL
8 4 (8.00%) Power Query
8 4 (8.00%) PowerPivot
9 2 (4.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Git
2 3 (6.00%) ER Studio
3 2 (4.00%) Artifactory
3 2 (4.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.00%) JIRA
3 2 (4.00%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.00%) ERwin
4 1 (2.00%) GitLab
4 1 (2.00%) Liquibase
General
1 29 (58.00%) Finance
2 24 (48.00%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (48.00%) Social Skills
3 19 (38.00%) Banking
4 15 (30.00%) Front Office
5 10 (20.00%) Back Office
6 6 (12.00%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Data Engineer
1 12 (24.00%) Developer
2 10 (20.00%) Applications Support
2 10 (20.00%) Systems Support
3 7 (14.00%) Senior
4 6 (12.00%) Business Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Summit Business Analyst
5 5 (10.00%) Energy Trading Developer
5 5 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Big Data Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) GCP Data Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) GCP Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Hadoop Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Python Developer
7 3 (6.00%) React Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Lead
8 2 (4.00%) Lead Software Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.00%) XML
2 9 (18.00%) REST
3 8 (16.00%) Kafka
4 7 (14.00%) React
5 5 (10.00%) Apache Avro
5 5 (10.00%) GraphQL
5 5 (10.00%) Spring
5 5 (10.00%) Spring Boot
6 4 (8.00%) Apache Beam
7 3 (6.00%) JSON
7 3 (6.00%) SOAP
7 3 (6.00%) Svelte
8 2 (4.00%) .NET
8 2 (4.00%) .NET Framework
8 2 (4.00%) ADO.NET
8 2 (4.00%) Ajax
8 2 (4.00%) AngularJS
8 2 (4.00%) ASP.NET
8 2 (4.00%) RESTful
8 2 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 10 (20.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 8 (16.00%) Derivative
3 6 (12.00%) Credit Risk
3 6 (12.00%) Fixed Income
3 6 (12.00%) Market Risk
4 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.00%) Blockchain
5 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.00%) OTC Derivatives
5 2 (4.00%) Replication
6 1 (2.00%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.00%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.00%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.00%) Windows
2 8 (16.00%) Unix
3 4 (8.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (28.00%) DevOps
3 13 (26.00%) Performance Tuning
4 12 (24.00%) CI/CD
5 11 (22.00%) Agile
5 11 (22.00%) Analytics
5 11 (22.00%) Data Engineering
5 11 (22.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (20.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 10 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (20.00%) ETL
6 10 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 9 (18.00%) SDLC
8 8 (16.00%) Data Modelling
8 8 (16.00%) Visualisation
9 7 (14.00%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (14.00%) Risk Management
10 6 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (12.00%) Requirements Gathering
10 6 (12.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 34 (68.00%) SQL
2 18 (36.00%) Python
3 12 (24.00%) Java
4 6 (12.00%) Scala
5 5 (10.00%) PL/SQL
5 5 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.00%) C#
6 4 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (6.00%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) Degree
2 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) QA
2 5 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (6.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (4.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (12.00%) Terraform
2 4 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (52.00%) Oracle
2 5 (10.00%) Google
3 4 (8.00%) Informatica
3 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.00%) Alteryx
5 2 (4.00%) Databricks
5 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.00%) SAP
5 2 (4.00%) Sitecore
6 1 (2.00%) Adobe
6 1 (2.00%) Sparx