RDBMS Contracts in the North West

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 100 115 124
Rank change year-on-year +15 +9 +42
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 20 22 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.02% 0.80% 1.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.92% 5.26% 6.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 28
10th Percentile £393 £512 £433
25th Percentile £400 £529 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £534 £490
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.01% -8.86%
75th Percentile £447 £541 £650
90th Percentile £462 £719 £686
England median daily rate £460 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -12.38% -12.50% +4.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 338 418 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.17% 15.17% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 318 374
10th Percentile £354 £346 £338
25th Percentile £402 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.20% -2.00%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £635 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 18
10th Percentile £22.72 £26.85 £35.00
25th Percentile £22.92 £39.44 £39.70
Median hourly rate £25.43 £42.50 £47.29
Median % change year-on-year -40.16% -10.12% +60.29%
75th Percentile £29.85 £46.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £69.50 £65.30
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in the North West

RDBMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for RDBMS in the North West

RDBMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for RDBMS in the North West

RDBMS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +14 14 £445 -16.67% 2
Cheshire +1 5 £393 -25.14%
RDBMS
England

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (25.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) Serverless
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (15.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 15 (75.00%) NoSQL
3 12 (60.00%) MongoDB
3 12 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (30.00%) MySQL
6 5 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (15.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (15.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 5 (25.00%) CA Release Automation
1 5 (25.00%) Git
1 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
1 5 (25.00%) SonarQube
1 5 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 5 (25.00%) TeamCity
2 3 (15.00%) ERwin
General
1 4 (20.00%) Banking
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) DBA
2 8 (40.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 5 (25.00%) Administrator
4 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Data Modeller
4 3 (15.00%) MongoDB DBA
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Applications Support
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (60.00%) JSON
1 12 (60.00%) XML
2 10 (50.00%) Kafka
3 5 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
1 5 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) DevOps
2 12 (60.00%) Database Security
3 10 (50.00%) Agile
3 10 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (25.00%) Build Automation
4 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 5 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (25.00%) Microservices
4 5 (25.00%) Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Analytics
5 3 (15.00%) Change Management
5 3 (15.00%) Inmon Methodology
5 3 (15.00%) Kimball Methodology
5 3 (15.00%) Observability
5 3 (15.00%) Runbook
5 3 (15.00%) Scenario Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Perl
1 5 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) Java
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Kibana
1 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (25.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) Oracle
2 5 (25.00%) AppDynamics
2 5 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (25.00%) Splunk
3 3 (15.00%) Cloudera
3 3 (15.00%) Databricks
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft