RDBMS Contracts

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 450 460
Rank change year-on-year +42 +10 +4
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 132 140 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.32% 0.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.30% 1.84% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 98 158
10th Percentile £363 £339 £411
25th Percentile £402 £400 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -16.67% +6.19%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £700
90th Percentile £675 £679 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £447 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -14.86% -6.67% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £27.21 - £62.84
25th Percentile £36.23 - £63.83
Median hourly rate £52.50 £40.50 £66.56
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% -39.15% +32.59%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.40 £40.50 £66.56
% change year-on-year -47.16% -39.15% +28.38%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,737 7,601 9,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.31% 17.48% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,885 5,428 6,756
10th Percentile £356 £350 £371
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £751 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 150 170
10th Percentile £19.71 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.20 £20.77 £32.32
Median hourly rate £34.99 £39.25 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% -31.08% +50.66%
75th Percentile £63.31 £51.87 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £82.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £31.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.44% -42.73% +57.14%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDBMS over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing RDBMS over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 July 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
England +37 99 £450 -10.00% 329
UK excluding London +70 77 £447 -14.86% 191
London +5 43 £530 +11.58% 168
Work from Home +31 41 £450 -14.29% 100
North of England +24 27 £417 -21.52% 38
North West +20 22 £415 -21.85% 20
Scotland +17 21 £450 +33.14% 24
South West +38 9 £650 +18.18% 17
East of England +32 9 £525 -22.22% 28
South East +38 5 £537 +43.20% 39
Yorkshire +9 5 £575 - 13
Midlands +9 5 £494 +37.37% 32
West Midlands +8 4 £450 -19.64% 20
East Midlands -2 1 £537 +50.84% 12
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 11

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (9.85%) JBoss
2 8 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.79%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.52%) Confluence
4 2 (1.52%) MQSeries
4 2 (1.52%) OpenEdge
4 2 (1.52%) SAS
5 1 (0.76%) Apache
5 1 (0.76%) Camunda
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.76%) InfoPath
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Endur
2 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.76%) Remedy AR System
2 1 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 46 (34.85%) AWS
2 19 (14.39%) Azure
3 18 (13.64%) Serverless
4 16 (12.12%) Amazon S3
5 15 (11.36%) OpenShift
6 7 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (5.30%) Snowflake
7 6 (4.55%) dbt
7 6 (4.55%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (3.79%) GCP
9 4 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (3.03%) GitHub
10 3 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.27%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.27%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.03%) HTTPS
1 4 (3.03%) SSH
1 4 (3.03%) SSL
2 2 (1.52%) Firewall
2 2 (1.52%) HTTP
2 2 (1.52%) MPLS
2 2 (1.52%) WAN
3 1 (0.76%) AMQP
3 1 (0.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 32 (24.24%) NoSQL
3 25 (18.94%) Oracle Database
3 25 (18.94%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (16.67%) MongoDB
5 17 (12.88%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (12.88%) SQL Server
6 13 (9.85%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (9.09%) Data Lake
8 8 (6.06%) DB2
8 8 (6.06%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (4.55%) Big Data
9 6 (4.55%) MySQL
9 6 (4.55%) Power BI
10 5 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (3.79%) BigQuery
11 4 (3.03%) DynamoDB
11 4 (3.03%) Metadata
12 3 (2.27%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 28 (21.21%) Git
2 20 (15.15%) Jenkins
3 17 (12.88%) JIRA
4 16 (12.12%) JUnit
5 14 (10.61%) SonarQube
6 13 (9.85%) Bitbucket Server
6 13 (9.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (9.85%) TeamCity
7 12 (9.09%) CA Release Automation
8 8 (6.06%) ERwin
9 6 (4.55%) ER Studio
10 5 (3.79%) Bitbucket
11 4 (3.03%) Maven
11 4 (3.03%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (2.27%) JMeter
12 3 (2.27%) Mockito
13 2 (1.52%) Cucumber
13 2 (1.52%) IntelliJ
13 2 (1.52%) Subversion
13 2 (1.52%) Toad
General
1 27 (20.45%) Finance
1 27 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.58%) Banking
3 10 (7.58%) Front Office
4 9 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.30%) Back Office
6 4 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.76%) Retail
9 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (32.58%) Developer
2 23 (17.42%) Java Developer
3 22 (16.67%) DBA
4 12 (9.09%) Architect
4 12 (9.09%) Senior
5 10 (7.58%) Analyst
5 10 (7.58%) Data Modeller
6 9 (6.82%) Administrator
7 8 (6.06%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.30%) Lead
8 7 (5.30%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 7 (5.30%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (4.55%) Systems Analyst
10 5 (3.79%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (3.79%) Data Architect
10 5 (3.79%) MongoDB DBA
10 5 (3.79%) Oracle DBA
10 5 (3.79%) Python Developer
10 5 (3.79%) React Developer
11 4 (3.03%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (21.21%) Spring Boot
2 23 (17.42%) Kafka
3 21 (15.91%) Spring
4 17 (12.88%) REST
4 17 (12.88%) XML
5 15 (11.36%) JSON
6 13 (9.85%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (4.55%) HTML
7 6 (4.55%) React
7 6 (4.55%) Web Services
8 5 (3.79%) .NET
8 5 (3.79%) GraphQL
9 4 (3.03%) JMS
9 4 (3.03%) Middleware
9 4 (3.03%) Swing
9 4 (3.03%) WireMock
10 3 (2.27%) CSS
10 3 (2.27%) Hibernate
10 3 (2.27%) jQuery
10 3 (2.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.55%) Fixed Income
1 6 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (3.03%) Clustering
2 4 (3.03%) Data Fabric
2 4 (3.03%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.03%) Distributed Applications
2 4 (3.03%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.27%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.27%) Equity Derivative
3 3 (2.27%) Replication
3 3 (2.27%) Swaptions
4 2 (1.52%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.52%) Derivative
4 2 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.52%) Equities
5 1 (0.76%) Pricing Data
5 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (25.00%) Linux
2 23 (17.42%) Unix
3 20 (15.15%) Windows
4 15 (11.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.76%) AIX
5 1 (0.76%) CentOS
5 1 (0.76%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (31.82%) DevOps
2 39 (29.55%) Agile
3 38 (28.79%) CI/CD
4 28 (21.21%) Data Modelling
5 25 (18.94%) Microservices
6 23 (17.42%) Migration
7 19 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (13.64%) ETL
9 17 (12.88%) Performance Tuning
9 17 (12.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (12.12%) Database Security
10 16 (12.12%) High Availability
11 14 (10.61%) Code Quality
11 14 (10.61%) Disaster Recovery
12 13 (9.85%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (9.09%) Analytics
13 12 (9.09%) Build Automation
13 12 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
13 12 (9.09%) Mentoring
14 11 (8.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 63 (47.73%) SQL
2 50 (37.88%) Python
3 41 (31.06%) Java
4 16 (12.12%) Perl
5 11 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 10 (7.58%) PL/SQL
6 10 (7.58%) Shell Script
7 9 (6.82%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.79%) C
8 5 (3.79%) Scala
9 4 (3.03%) ActionScript
9 4 (3.03%) ActionScript 2.0
9 4 (3.03%) Ruby
10 3 (2.27%) Bash
10 3 (2.27%) C#
10 3 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (2.27%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.27%) VB
11 2 (1.52%) ANSI SQL
11 2 (1.52%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (8.33%) Degree
2 10 (7.58%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.79%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.52%) QA
2 2 (1.52%) SLA
3 1 (0.76%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (17.42%) Docker
2 15 (11.36%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.03%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (15.91%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.36%) Kibana
3 13 (9.85%) Progress Chef
4 10 (7.58%) Terraform
5 4 (3.03%) Data Guard
6 2 (1.52%) Ansible
6 2 (1.52%) Control-M
6 2 (1.52%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 2 (1.52%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (1.52%) Grafana
6 2 (1.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (1.52%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.76%) Argo
7 1 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.76%) Podman
7 1 (0.76%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 48 (36.36%) Oracle
2 18 (13.64%) Splunk
3 17 (12.88%) Microsoft
4 14 (10.61%) Red Hat
4 14 (10.61%) Sybase
5 13 (9.85%) AppDynamics
6 11 (8.33%) IBM
7 7 (5.30%) Cloudera
8 5 (3.79%) TIBCO
9 4 (3.03%) IBM Sterling
9 4 (3.03%) MuleSoft
9 4 (3.03%) SnapLogic
9 4 (3.03%) StreamSets
10 3 (2.27%) Dynatrace
10 3 (2.27%) Genesys
10 3 (2.27%) Informatica
10 3 (2.27%) OpenLink
11 2 (1.52%) Citrix
11 2 (1.52%) Veeam
11 2 (1.52%) VMware