RDBMS Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 344 371
Rank change year-on-year +86 +27 +23
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 78 55 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.61% 0.26% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.86% 2.12% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 38 64
10th Percentile £393 £361 £378
25th Percentile £408 £512 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £534 £513
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +4.20% +2.50%
75th Percentile £493 £698 £650
90th Percentile £587 £747 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £531 £575
% change year-on-year -11.49% -7.65% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £62.84
25th Percentile £21.20 - £63.83
Median hourly rate £21.40 £40.50 £66.56
Median % change year-on-year -47.16% -39.15% +28.38%
75th Percentile £21.60 - £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £40.50 £66.56
% change year-on-year +29.63% -39.15% +32.59%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,019 2,594 3,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 12.49% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,827 2,673
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £660 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 96 114
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £21.96
25th Percentile £22.98 £18.03 £32.32
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%
75th Percentile £65.62 £58.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
Scotland +37 25 £463 -33.93% 25
North of England +15 21 £445 -16.67% 65
North West +15 20 £445 -16.67% 24
Midlands +21 15 £493 -1.40% 53
West Midlands +23 13 £493 +7.17% 31
South East +43 7 £575 +19.48% 65
South West - 7 £650 - 30
East of England +31 2 - - 39
Yorkshire +6 1 £575 -21.45% 30
East Midlands 0 1 £537 +0.70% 18
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 7
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 8 (10.26%) JBoss
2 5 (6.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (6.41%) InfoPath
2 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.28%) Remedy AR System
2 1 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (35.90%) AWS
2 24 (30.77%) Azure
3 17 (21.79%) Serverless
4 9 (11.54%) OpenShift
4 9 (11.54%) Power Platform
5 7 (8.97%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (6.41%) Azure Functions
6 5 (6.41%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (6.41%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (6.41%) Power Automate
6 5 (6.41%) PowerApps
7 4 (5.13%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (3.85%) AWS KMS
8 3 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.85%) Route 53
8 3 (3.85%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.56%) HTTP
1 2 (2.56%) MQTT
1 2 (2.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 23 (29.49%) NoSQL
3 22 (28.21%) MongoDB
4 20 (25.64%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (21.79%) Oracle Database
6 10 (12.82%) Oracle Reports
7 9 (11.54%) MySQL
8 8 (10.26%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (10.26%) SQL Server
9 7 (8.97%) Power BI
10 6 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (7.69%) DB2
11 5 (6.41%) Data Lake
11 5 (6.41%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (3.85%) DynamoDB
13 2 (2.56%) Oracle Database 11g
13 2 (2.56%) Oracle Database 12c
14 1 (1.28%) Big Data
14 1 (1.28%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 19 (24.36%) Git
2 16 (20.51%) JUnit
3 15 (19.23%) Jenkins
4 9 (11.54%) JIRA
5 8 (10.26%) Bitbucket Server
5 8 (10.26%) CA Release Automation
5 8 (10.26%) SonarQube
5 8 (10.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (10.26%) TeamCity
6 6 (7.69%) Oracle APEX
7 5 (6.41%) ERwin
7 5 (6.41%) Mockito
8 2 (2.56%) ER Studio
8 2 (2.56%) JMeter
8 2 (2.56%) Subversion
9 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.28%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.28%) Mercurial
9 1 (1.28%) Selenium
9 1 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 10 (12.82%) Finance
1 10 (12.82%) Public Sector
2 9 (11.54%) Back Office
3 8 (10.26%) Social Skills
4 7 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.13%) Banking
6 3 (3.85%) Front Office
7 2 (2.56%) Automotive
7 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.28%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (28.21%) Developer
2 17 (21.79%) DBA
3 16 (20.51%) Java Developer
4 9 (11.54%) Analyst
4 9 (11.54%) Architect
5 8 (10.26%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 7 (8.97%) Administrator
6 7 (8.97%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (7.69%) Systems Analyst
8 5 (6.41%) Data Modeller
9 4 (5.13%) Automation Architect
9 4 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (5.13%) Senior
10 3 (3.85%) Integration Engineer
10 3 (3.85%) Lead
10 3 (3.85%) MongoDB DBA
10 3 (3.85%) Python Engineer
10 3 (3.85%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (3.85%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.92%) Kafka
2 20 (25.64%) Spring Boot
3 19 (24.36%) Spring
4 16 (20.51%) XML
5 15 (19.23%) JSON
6 14 (17.95%) REST
7 12 (15.38%) HTML
8 8 (10.26%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (8.97%) CSS
10 6 (7.69%) Web Services
11 5 (6.41%) .NET
11 5 (6.41%) .NET Framework
11 5 (6.41%) ASP.NET
11 5 (6.41%) ASP.NET MVC
11 5 (6.41%) Entity Framework
11 5 (6.41%) Hibernate
11 5 (6.41%) HTML5 Canvas
11 5 (6.41%) JMS
11 5 (6.41%) jQuery
11 5 (6.41%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 5 (6.41%) Enterprise Cloud
2 5 (6.41%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.85%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.56%) Infotainment
4 2 (2.56%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.28%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.28%) CMDB
5 1 (1.28%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (24.36%) Linux
2 10 (12.82%) Windows
3 9 (11.54%) Unix
4 8 (10.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.28%) AIX
5 1 (1.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (50.00%) Agile
2 32 (41.03%) DevOps
3 30 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 15 (19.23%) Database Security
4 15 (19.23%) Microservices
5 13 (16.67%) Migration
6 12 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (12.82%) Code Quality
7 10 (12.82%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (12.82%) Mentoring
7 10 (12.82%) SDLC
7 10 (12.82%) Workflow
8 9 (11.54%) Data Modelling
8 9 (11.54%) Software Engineering
9 8 (10.26%) Build Automation
9 8 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (10.26%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (8.97%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (8.97%) Concurrent Programming
10 7 (8.97%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 40 (51.28%) SQL
2 24 (30.77%) Python
3 22 (28.21%) Java
4 15 (19.23%) JavaScript
5 11 (14.10%) PL/SQL
6 8 (10.26%) Perl
7 7 (8.97%) Shell Script
8 6 (7.69%) C#
9 2 (2.56%) C++
10 1 (1.28%) R
10 1 (1.28%) Ruby
10 1 (1.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.13%) Degree
4 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.28%) QA
3 1 (1.28%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (19.23%) Docker
2 8 (10.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.56%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.82%) Kibana
3 8 (10.26%) Progress Chef
4 6 (7.69%) Terraform
5 2 (2.56%) Data Guard
5 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (2.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (2.56%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.28%) Ansible
6 1 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.28%) Podman
6 1 (1.28%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 32 (41.03%) Oracle
2 14 (17.95%) Microsoft
3 11 (14.10%) Splunk
4 8 (10.26%) AppDynamics
4 8 (10.26%) Red Hat
5 6 (7.69%) Sybase
6 4 (5.13%) MuleSoft
6 4 (5.13%) SnapLogic
7 3 (3.85%) Cloudera
7 3 (3.85%) Databricks
7 3 (3.85%) IBM
7 3 (3.85%) Talend
8 2 (2.56%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.28%) BMC
9 1 (1.28%) Netskope
9 1 (1.28%) Proofpoint
9 1 (1.28%) Remedy
9 1 (1.28%) Symantec