RDBMS Contracts in South London

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
London > South London

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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 41 51
Rank change year-on-year +11 +10 0
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 5 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 2.72% 0.83% 0.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.20% 3.39% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -21.74%
London median daily rate £538 £520 £600
% change year-on-year +3.37% -13.33% -5.88%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 49 59 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 26.63% 24.48% 20.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 47 56
10th Percentile £449 £391 £431
25th Percentile £463 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £649
90th Percentile £708 £612 £850
London median daily rate £557 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.17% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.50
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - £19.50
London median hourly rate £39.31 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -21.39% -4.76% -

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in South London

RDBMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for RDBMS in South London

RDBMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for RDBMS in South London

RDBMS
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Croydon +8 2 - -
Bromley - 2 - -
RDBMS
London

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 (40.00%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JMeter
1 2 (40.00%) JUnit
1 2 (40.00%) Mockito
General
1 3 (60.00%) Front Office
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 4 (80.00%) Senior Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 3 (60.00%) Java Swing Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) XML
2 3 (60.00%) Middleware
2 3 (60.00%) Swing
3 2 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (40.00%) Apache Camel
3 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (40.00%) HTML
3 2 (40.00%) jQuery
3 2 (40.00%) JSON
3 2 (40.00%) Rendezvous
3 2 (40.00%) REST
3 2 (40.00%) Spring
3 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Fixed Income
1 3 (60.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (40.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) BDD
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Process Management
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (20.00%) Perl
5 1 (20.00%) Ruby
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kibana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
1 2 (40.00%) Sybase
1 2 (40.00%) TIBCO