RDBMS Contracts in the South East

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 183 208
Rank change year-on-year +25 +25 +33
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 6 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.17% 0.080% 0.053%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.26% 0.65% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £275 - -
25th Percentile £357 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.20% - -
75th Percentile £549 £388 -
90th Percentile £571 - -
England median daily rate £450 £520 £600
% change year-on-year -13.46% -13.33% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 478 619 749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.66% 12.41% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 402 531
10th Percentile £225 £291 £319
25th Percentile £350 £400 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £494 £543
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% -8.94% +8.50%
75th Percentile £550 £606 £613
90th Percentile £638 £660 £688
England median daily rate £515 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 21 38
10th Percentile £13.25 £22.40 £21.98
25th Percentile £22.18 £30.00 £32.30
Median hourly rate £24.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.36% - +144.44%
75th Percentile £32.05 £61.60 £70.00
90th Percentile £36.25 £62.96 £75.00
England median hourly rate £34.65 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.60% -31.82% +32.16%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in the South East

RDBMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for RDBMS in the South East

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in the South East over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RDBMS in the South East

RDBMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for RDBMS in the South East

RDBMS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Berkshire +15 4 £404 +7.80% 2
Thames Valley +11 4 £404 +7.80% 3
Hampshire +24 2 £470 - 3
RDBMS
England

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (33.33%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (16.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) MySQL
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (33.33%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Git
3 2 (33.33%) JMeter
3 2 (33.33%) JUnit
3 2 (33.33%) Mockito
3 2 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 2 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
4 1 (16.67%) Subversion
4 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support
3 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Remedy Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Ruby Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (33.33%) Apache Camel
2 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) jQuery
2 2 (33.33%) JSON
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) WireMock
2 2 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Microservices
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Workflow
3 2 (33.33%) BDD
3 2 (33.33%) Build Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Process Management
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (16.67%) OOP
4 1 (16.67%) Service Management
4 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
4 1 (16.67%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) Perl
2 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kibana
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) AppDynamics
2 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) BMC
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Remedy