RDBMS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for RDBMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RDBMS over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 359 397
Rank change year-on-year +25 +38 -80
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 61 93 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.38% 0.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.35% 2.49% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 63 63
10th Percentile £363 £378 £345
25th Percentile £488 £440 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% +7.14% +15.29%
75th Percentile £657 £650 £575
90th Percentile £743 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £527 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -8.43% +0.88% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £62.84 £49.23
25th Percentile - £63.83 £49.65
Median hourly rate £40.50 £66.56 £51.85
Median % change year-on-year -39.15% +28.38% +20.95%
75th Percentile - £68.20 £54.30
90th Percentile - £68.53 £54.87
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £66.56 £50.20
% change year-on-year -39.15% +32.59% +2.59%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

RDBMS is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,601 3,731 5,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.52% 15.41% 17.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,835 2,688 3,892
10th Percentile £319 £350 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.44%
75th Percentile £588 £599 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £657
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £540
% change year-on-year -3.67% +0.93% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 115 137
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.96 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.20 £33.70 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +67.40% +45.83%
75th Percentile £53.29 £66.00 £55.75
90th Percentile £79.84 £75.50 £66.82
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.64%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing RDBMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in the UK excluding London

RDBMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for RDBMS in the UK excluding London

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RDBMS in the UK excluding London

RDBMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RDBMS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for RDBMS in the UK excluding London

RDBMS
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 RDBMS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
North of England +30 27 £534 +7.61% 9
North West +11 24 £534 +7.88% 4
Midlands +33 16 £500 -9.09% 6
East Midlands +23 11 £533 +52.36% 2
South East +12 10 £481 -12.50% 7
Wales - 6 £588 - 2
West Midlands +16 4 £460 -16.36% 4
Scotland +14 4 £463 +22.35% 5
Yorkshire +23 3 £732 +8.44% 5
East of England +13 1 £675 +3.85% 3
RDBMS
UK

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 6 (9.84%) JBoss
2 1 (1.64%) Apache
2 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.64%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) nginx
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.64%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (3.28%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Hyperion Planning
1 1 (1.64%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.64%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 23 (37.70%) AWS
2 15 (24.59%) Serverless
3 10 (16.39%) Azure
4 8 (13.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (11.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (11.48%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (8.20%) IaaS
6 5 (8.20%) OpenShift
7 4 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.92%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.92%) GitHub
9 2 (3.28%) GCP
9 2 (3.28%) SaaS
10 1 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.64%) dbt
10 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.64%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.84%) Firewall
2 5 (8.20%) TCP/IP
2 5 (8.20%) VPN
3 2 (3.28%) DNS
4 1 (1.64%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 24 (39.34%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (31.15%) MongoDB
3 19 (31.15%) NoSQL
4 16 (26.23%) MySQL
5 14 (22.95%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (16.39%) SQL Server
7 5 (8.20%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (8.20%) Metadata
8 4 (6.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (6.56%) Data Lake
8 4 (6.56%) Oracle Database
9 3 (4.92%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (3.28%) Big Data
11 1 (1.64%) Essbase
11 1 (1.64%) MariaDB
11 1 (1.64%) OLTP
11 1 (1.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (19.67%) Git
2 9 (14.75%) Jenkins
3 7 (11.48%) SonarQube
4 6 (9.84%) GitLab
4 6 (9.84%) JIRA
5 5 (8.20%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (8.20%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (8.20%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (8.20%) TeamCity
6 3 (4.92%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.92%) Selenium
7 2 (3.28%) Burp Suite
7 2 (3.28%) JUnit
8 1 (1.64%) Ant
8 1 (1.64%) AppScan
8 1 (1.64%) Gradle
8 1 (1.64%) JMeter
8 1 (1.64%) Maven
8 1 (1.64%) Mockito
8 1 (1.64%) Subversion
General
1 11 (18.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.48%) Influencing Skills
3 7 (11.48%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.20%) Finance
5 4 (6.56%) Banking
6 2 (3.28%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.64%) Games
7 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.64%) Marketing
7 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (36.07%) DBA
2 15 (24.59%) Architect
3 13 (21.31%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 9 (14.75%) Data Architect
5 8 (13.11%) ServiceNow Architect
6 6 (9.84%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (9.84%) Support Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Consultant
7 5 (8.20%) Developer
8 4 (6.56%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.92%) Administrator
9 3 (4.92%) Java Developer
9 3 (4.92%) MySQL DBA
9 3 (4.92%) Senior
10 2 (3.28%) AWS Architect
10 2 (3.28%) AWS Developer
10 2 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (3.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (26.23%) JSON
1 16 (26.23%) Kafka
2 14 (22.95%) XML
3 10 (16.39%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (9.84%) Spring Boot
5 4 (6.56%) Hibernate
5 4 (6.56%) Spring
5 4 (6.56%) Web Services
6 3 (4.92%) DOM
6 3 (4.92%) EJB
6 3 (4.92%) Java EE
6 3 (4.92%) JAX-RS
6 3 (4.92%) JDBC
6 3 (4.92%) JPA
6 3 (4.92%) REST
6 3 (4.92%) RESTful
7 2 (3.28%) HTML
7 2 (3.28%) jQuery
8 1 (1.64%) IBM Integration Bus
8 1 (1.64%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.75%) Public Cloud
2 7 (11.48%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (9.84%) CMDB
3 6 (9.84%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (8.20%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (6.56%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (6.56%) Data Structures
6 3 (4.92%) Smart Meter
7 2 (3.28%) Algorithms
7 2 (3.28%) Clustering
7 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
7 2 (3.28%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.64%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (34.43%) Linux
2 15 (24.59%) Windows
3 11 (18.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (13.11%) Unix
5 5 (8.20%) VMS
6 4 (6.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (44.26%) Agile
2 24 (39.34%) DevOps
3 15 (24.59%) Database Security
4 14 (22.95%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (22.95%) Migration
5 13 (21.31%) Mentoring
6 12 (19.67%) Architectural Design
6 12 (19.67%) Architectural Patterns
7 11 (18.03%) CI/CD
8 10 (16.39%) Build Automation
8 10 (16.39%) CRM
8 10 (16.39%) Design Patterns
8 10 (16.39%) Open Source
8 10 (16.39%) SOA
9 9 (14.75%) Content Management
9 9 (14.75%) Microservices
9 9 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (14.75%) Scrum
10 8 (13.11%) Data Design
11 7 (11.48%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (27.87%) SQL
2 16 (26.23%) Python
3 9 (14.75%) Java
4 7 (11.48%) Bash
5 6 (9.84%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.20%) Perl
6 5 (8.20%) Shell Script
7 4 (6.56%) PL/SQL
7 4 (6.56%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.28%) C
8 2 (3.28%) C++
8 2 (3.28%) PHP
9 1 (1.64%) Groovy
9 1 (1.64%) Scala
9 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (11.48%) Degree
1 7 (11.48%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.84%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.28%) SANS
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.64%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.11%) QA
2 1 (1.64%) GDPR
2 1 (1.64%) HIPAA
System Software
1 9 (14.75%) Docker
2 6 (9.84%) Active Directory
3 5 (8.20%) vSphere
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (24.59%) Kubernetes
2 14 (22.95%) Ansible
3 11 (18.03%) Terraform
4 7 (11.48%) Grafana
4 7 (11.48%) Nagios
4 7 (11.48%) Progress Chef
5 6 (9.84%) Kibana
6 5 (8.20%) Graylog
6 5 (8.20%) Packer
6 5 (8.20%) Prometheus
6 5 (8.20%) vRealize
7 2 (3.28%) Puppet
8 1 (1.64%) Data Guard
8 1 (1.64%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.64%) Nessus
8 1 (1.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (1.64%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (1.64%) VxRail
8 1 (1.64%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 27 (44.26%) Oracle
2 11 (18.03%) Splunk
3 10 (16.39%) ServiceNow
4 9 (14.75%) Microsoft
5 7 (11.48%) Red Hat
6 5 (8.20%) AppDynamics
6 5 (8.20%) Arqiva
6 5 (8.20%) Veritas
6 5 (8.20%) VMware
7 2 (3.28%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.64%) Dell
8 1 (1.64%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.64%) EMC
8 1 (1.64%) Hyperion
8 1 (1.64%) IBM
8 1 (1.64%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.64%) Temenos
8 1 (1.64%) Veracode