RDBMS Contract Job Trends in the South West

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring RDBMS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 136 151
Rank change year-on-year +24 +15 +23
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 5 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.25% 0.31% 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.23% 2.40% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile - £466 £482
25th Percentile £525 £531 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £603
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £575 - £677
90th Percentile - £573 £721
England median daily rate £550 £520 £563
% change year-on-year +5.77% -7.56% -0.44%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 224 333 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 11.36% 12.87% 12.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 228 292
10th Percentile £310 £363 £400
25th Percentile £380 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +3.77%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £675
90th Percentile £650 £691 £729
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 25
10th Percentile £27.15 - £27.81
25th Percentile £63.25 £17.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.56 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +127.57% -61.92% +31.90%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £85.00 £87.86
England median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £54.75
% change year-on-year +24.29% -36.07% +10.17%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in the South West

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing RDBMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing RDBMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Gloucestershire +15 4 £550 +2.33% 1
RDBMS
England

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) npm
1 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (40.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Support
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) CentOS
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Grafana
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle