RDBMS Contract Job Trends in Reading

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring RDBMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - 90
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.28% - 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.02% - 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £455 - £521
25th Percentile £473 - £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - £563
75th Percentile £553 - £584
90th Percentile £574 - £594
Berkshire median daily rate £506 £595 £525
% change year-on-year -14.92% +13.33% -19.23%

All Database & BI Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 99 169 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 13.94% 18.51% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 102 104
10th Percentile £413 £400 £402
25th Percentile £481 £478 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £625 £662 £663
90th Percentile £664 £675 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £508 £585 £563
% change year-on-year -13.25% +4.00% +15.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £63.15 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year - -6.44% +22.73%
Berkshire median hourly rate - £63.15 £63.00
% change year-on-year - +0.24% -16.56%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RDBMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

RDBMS job vacancy trend in Reading

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing RDBMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in Reading over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for RDBMS in Reading

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing RDBMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Database Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JSP
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Database Security
2 1 (50.00%) Database Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) OCP
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle