RDBMS Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring RDBMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 100 104
Rank change year-on-year -36 +4 +59
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 2 10 11
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.093% 0.53% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.47% 3.25% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £493 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £529 £418
Median % change year-on-year -5.48% +26.71% -22.69%
75th Percentile - £530 £500
90th Percentile - £647 £788
England median daily rate £525 £535 £535
% change year-on-year -1.87% - -4.89%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 428 308 288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.95% 16.30% 15.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 193 206
10th Percentile £380 £351 £322
25th Percentile £450 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -7.32%
75th Percentile £580 £624 £600
90th Percentile £653 £713 £693
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £30.70 - -
25th Percentile £32.74 £17.00 -
Median hourly rate £34.43 £25.97 £31.04
Median % change year-on-year +32.60% -16.35% +158.67%
75th Percentile £35.24 £34.20 -
90th Percentile £35.69 £34.68 -
England median hourly rate £46.50 £37.50 £47.70
% change year-on-year +24.00% -21.38% -4.61%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

RDBMS job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing RDBMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing RDBMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Shropshire -41 1 - - 2
RDBMS
England

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (50.00%) CA Release Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk