KDB Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Kx Systems KDB
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring KDB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 334 -
Rank change year-on-year -82 - -
Contract jobs citing KDB 8 13 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.038% 0.097% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.28% 0.60% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 0
10th Percentile £569 £344 -
25th Percentile £584 £410 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £658 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.11% - -
75th Percentile £834 £490 -
90th Percentile £875 £519 -
UK median daily rate £775 £650 £850
% change year-on-year +19.23% -23.53% +21.43%

All Database & BI Skills
UK excluding London

KDB 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,876 2,150 2,753
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.50% 16.10% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,022 1,449 1,909
10th Percentile £319 £313 £305
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £599
90th Percentile £650 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 61 121
10th Percentile £18.00 £19.25 £14.36
25th Percentile £28.72 £23.50 £19.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% -31.25% -29.37%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £30.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.39% -29.16% -25.26%

KDB
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing KDB relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

KDB job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

KDB
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing KDB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing KDB

KDB
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing KDB in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for KDB in the UK excluding London

KDB
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing KDB within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 March 2026. 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
Northern Ireland - 6 £658 -
South West -24 2 - -
KDB
UK

KDB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Kdb+
2 4 (50.00%) Impala
2 4 (50.00%) Tableau
3 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
1 6 (75.00%) KDB Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Pandas
2 2 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Equities
2 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Analytics
1 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Data Cleansing
3 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
4 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (25.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
4 2 (25.00%) People Management
4 2 (25.00%) SDLC
5 1 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (12.50%) Data Munging
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) Data Quality