RDBMS Contracts in the Midlands

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring RDBMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RDBMS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 117 146
Rank change year-on-year +21 +29 +39
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 15 16 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.78% 0.58% 0.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.30% 3.85% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 13
10th Percentile £420 £356 £424
25th Percentile £450 £356 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile - £750 £638
90th Percentile £519 £758 £650
England median daily rate £460 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -12.38% -12.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.50 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £40.50 -
% change year-on-year +29.63% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 283 416 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.79% 15.09% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 308 412
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £655 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 6
10th Percentile £16.31 - £21.53
25th Percentile £17.00 - £24.16
Median hourly rate £18.20 £14.00 £25.87
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -45.87% -26.10%
75th Percentile £19.25 £27.49 £32.93
90th Percentile £20.90 £40.50 £47.54
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in the Midlands

RDBMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for RDBMS in the Midlands

RDBMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for RDBMS in the Midlands

RDBMS
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands +23 13 £493 +7.17% 5
East Midlands 0 1 £537 +0.70%
RDBMS
England

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) InfoPath
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (33.33%) Azure
3 5 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 5 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (33.33%) Power Automate
3 5 (33.33%) PowerApps
3 5 (33.33%) Serverless
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (20.00%) AWS KMS
4 3 (20.00%) Route 53
5 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (40.00%) Power BI
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 3 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.67%) Data Mining
4 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (6.67%) MS Access
4 1 (6.67%) MySQL
4 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) JUnit
2 3 (20.00%) Mockito
3 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (6.67%) CA Release Automation
3 1 (6.67%) ER Studio
3 1 (6.67%) ERwin
3 1 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
1 5 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Automation Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Test Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Data Modeller
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Platform Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Power Platform Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) HTML
2 5 (33.33%) .NET
2 5 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 5 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 5 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 5 (33.33%) CSS
2 5 (33.33%) Entity Framework
2 5 (33.33%) HTML5 Canvas
3 4 (26.67%) Spring
3 4 (26.67%) Spring Boot
4 3 (20.00%) Hibernate
4 3 (20.00%) jQuery
4 3 (20.00%) REST
4 3 (20.00%) Web Services
4 3 (20.00%) WireMock
5 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Cloud
1 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 6 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (40.00%) Migration
4 5 (33.33%) CRM
4 5 (33.33%) MVC
4 5 (33.33%) Workflow
5 4 (26.67%) Microservices
6 3 (20.00%) Architectural Design
6 3 (20.00%) BDD
6 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (20.00%) ETL
6 3 (20.00%) Kanban
6 3 (20.00%) Scrum
6 3 (20.00%) SDLC
6 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
6 3 (20.00%) TDD
7 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
7 2 (13.33%) Dimensional Modelling
7 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (53.33%) SQL
3 5 (33.33%) C#
4 3 (20.00%) Java
5 2 (13.33%) Python
6 1 (6.67%) C++
6 1 (6.67%) Perl
6 1 (6.67%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Kibana
2 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Talend
3 1 (6.67%) AppDynamics
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk