RDBMS Contracts in the North of England

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 145 160 185
Rank change year-on-year +15 +25 +38
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 21 25 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.64% 0.52% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.61% 3.58% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 29
10th Percentile £393 £512 £436
25th Percentile £404 - £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £534 £495
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +7.88% +0.25%
75th Percentile £448 £661 £650
90th Percentile £482 £740 £684
England median daily rate £460 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -12.38% -12.50% +4.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 581 698 843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.63% 14.64% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 521 612
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £571 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £645 £688
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 19
10th Percentile £22.72 £11.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £23.30 £14.00 £39.80
Median hourly rate £26.47 £40.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.25% -17.86% +78.18%
75th Percentile £33.11 £44.74 £65.00
90th Percentile £59.34 £50.69 £65.20
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in the North of England

RDBMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for RDBMS in the North of England

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RDBMS in the North of England

RDBMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for RDBMS in the North of England

RDBMS
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the North of England 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
North West +15 20 £445 -16.67% 2
Yorkshire +6 1 £575 -21.45% 8
RDBMS
England

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (23.81%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) Serverless
2 5 (23.81%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) OpenShift
3 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 15 (71.43%) NoSQL
3 12 (57.14%) MongoDB
3 12 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (47.62%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (28.57%) MySQL
6 5 (23.81%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (14.29%) Data Lake
8 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Bitbucket Server
1 5 (23.81%) CA Release Automation
1 5 (23.81%) Git
1 5 (23.81%) Jenkins
1 5 (23.81%) JIRA
1 5 (23.81%) SonarQube
1 5 (23.81%) Sonatype Nexus
1 5 (23.81%) TeamCity
2 3 (14.29%) ERwin
General
1 4 (19.05%) Banking
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Back Office
4 1 (4.76%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) DBA
2 8 (38.10%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 6 (28.57%) Administrator
4 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) Data Modeller
4 3 (14.29%) MongoDB DBA
5 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.76%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (57.14%) JSON
1 12 (57.14%) XML
2 10 (47.62%) Kafka
3 5 (23.81%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (23.81%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Linux
2 5 (23.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (23.81%) Windows
3 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) DevOps
2 12 (57.14%) Database Security
3 10 (47.62%) Agile
3 10 (47.62%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (47.62%) Mentoring
4 5 (23.81%) Build Automation
4 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
4 5 (23.81%) Code Quality
4 5 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (23.81%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (23.81%) Microservices
4 5 (23.81%) Migration
5 3 (14.29%) Analytics
5 3 (14.29%) Change Management
5 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 3 (14.29%) Inmon Methodology
5 3 (14.29%) Kimball Methodology
5 3 (14.29%) Observability
5 3 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
5 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Perl
1 5 (23.81%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Kibana
1 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
1 5 (23.81%) Progress Chef
2 1 (4.76%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) Oracle
2 5 (23.81%) AppDynamics
2 5 (23.81%) Red Hat
2 5 (23.81%) Splunk
3 3 (14.29%) Cloudera
3 3 (14.29%) Databricks
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft