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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 118 135
Rank change year-on-year +10 +17 +37
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 19 12 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.95% 0.43% 0.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.59% 2.87% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 17
10th Percentile £384 £493 £463
25th Percentile £393 £514 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £534 £640
Median % change year-on-year -21.61% -16.56% +17.70%
75th Percentile £445 £540 £680
90th Percentile £448 £540 £700
England median daily rate £450 £520 £600
% change year-on-year -13.46% -13.33% +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 340 418 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 16.97% 14.81% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 309 355
10th Percentile £340 £348 £325
25th Percentile £400 £401 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £546 £542 £586
90th Percentile £624 £613 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 20 15
10th Percentile £21.02 £27.43 £28.26
25th Percentile £22.62 £37.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £28.65 £43.62 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.32% +9.05% -5.88%
75th Percentile £37.50 £46.18 £54.69
90th Percentile £71.88 £69.13 £64.80
England median hourly rate £34.19 £40.00 £56.95
% change year-on-year -14.53% -29.76% +34.00%

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 23 June 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 +20 12 £445 -16.67% 8
Cheshire -5 6 £393 -25.14% 4
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 6 (31.58%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Serverless
2 6 (31.58%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) OpenShift
3 3 (15.79%) Azure
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 12 (63.16%) NoSQL
3 10 (52.63%) MongoDB
3 10 (52.63%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (42.11%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (31.58%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (15.79%) MySQL
7 2 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
8 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
8 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Bitbucket Server
1 6 (31.58%) CA Release Automation
1 6 (31.58%) Git
1 6 (31.58%) Jenkins
1 6 (31.58%) JIRA
1 6 (31.58%) SonarQube
1 6 (31.58%) Sonatype Nexus
1 6 (31.58%) TeamCity
2 2 (10.53%) ERwin
General
1 4 (21.05%) Banking
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) DBA
2 6 (31.58%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 5 (26.32%) Administrator
4 4 (21.05%) MongoDB DBA
5 3 (15.79%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (10.53%) Data Modeller
6 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Applications Support
7 1 (5.26%) DevOps Specialist
7 1 (5.26%) Oracle DBA
7 1 (5.26%) Senior
7 1 (5.26%) Senior DBA
7 1 (5.26%) Senior SQL DBA
7 1 (5.26%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (52.63%) JSON
1 10 (52.63%) XML
2 8 (42.11%) Kafka
3 6 (31.58%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (31.58%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
1 6 (31.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (31.58%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) DevOps
2 10 (52.63%) Database Security
3 8 (42.11%) Agile
3 8 (42.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (42.11%) Mentoring
4 7 (36.84%) Migration
5 6 (31.58%) Build Automation
5 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
5 6 (31.58%) Code Quality
5 6 (31.58%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (31.58%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (31.58%) Microservices
6 4 (21.05%) Analytics
6 4 (21.05%) Change Management
6 4 (21.05%) Observability
6 4 (21.05%) Runbook
6 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (10.53%) Data Modelling
7 2 (10.53%) Kimball Methodology
7 2 (10.53%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Perl
1 6 (31.58%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) Java
3 3 (15.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
1 6 (31.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Kibana
1 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
1 6 (31.58%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Oracle
2 6 (31.58%) AppDynamics
2 6 (31.58%) Red Hat
2 6 (31.58%) Splunk
3 4 (21.05%) Cloudera
4 2 (10.53%) Databricks
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft