RDBMS Contract Job Trends in Wales

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring RDBMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 2 0 12
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.47% - 2.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.57% - 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £178
25th Percentile £488 - £197
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 - £214
Median % change year-on-year - - -62.87%
75th Percentile £503 - £217
90th Percentile - - £552
UK median daily rate £525 £527 £500
% change year-on-year -0.38% +5.40% -11.11%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 56 66 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 13.15% 14.44% 18.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 51 69
10th Percentile £304 £213 £200
25th Percentile £372 £388 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +25.00% -23.81%
75th Percentile £576 £550 £538
90th Percentile £666 £638 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £529 £534
% change year-on-year -5.48% -0.94% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £24.27 £25.23 £17.85
25th Percentile £26.42 £25.44 £19.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.84 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.10% +14.84% +25.00%
75th Percentile £31.88 £26.19 £24.88
90th Percentile £33.00 £26.38 £25.55
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £48.45
% change year-on-year +37.90% -34.89% -3.11%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RDBMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

RDBMS job vacancy trend in Wales

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing RDBMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing RDBMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the Wales region over the 6 months to 2 November 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
South Wales - 2 £495 - 3
RDBMS
UK

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle