RDBMS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 259 293 361
Rank change year-on-year +34 +68 +71
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 45 52 117
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.34% 0.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.14% 1.79% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 42 93
10th Percentile £400 £356 £408
25th Percentile £436 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £534 £588
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% -9.11% +6.82%
75th Percentile £521 £588 £725
90th Percentile £537 £724 £873
UK median daily rate £470 £531 £575
% change year-on-year -11.49% -7.65% +0.88%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,098 2,911 4,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 18.97% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,137 3,601
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 79
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.57
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

RDBMS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing RDBMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

RDBMS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing RDBMS.

RDBMS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing RDBMS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

RDBMS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing RDBMS.

RDBMS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (6.67%) JBoss
2 1 (2.22%) Camunda
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) InfoPath
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Endur
2 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.22%) AWS
1 10 (22.22%) Azure
2 8 (17.78%) Serverless
3 3 (6.67%) OpenShift
3 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.22%) Datadog
5 1 (2.22%) GitHub
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.22%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 15 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 11 (24.44%) Oracle Database
4 9 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 8 (17.78%) MongoDB
5 8 (17.78%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (15.56%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (15.56%) MySQL
7 6 (13.33%) Data Lake
7 6 (13.33%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (11.11%) Big Data
9 4 (8.89%) DB2
9 4 (8.89%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (8.89%) Metadata
10 2 (4.44%) Power BI
11 1 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
11 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (2.22%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Git
2 6 (13.33%) ER Studio
2 6 (13.33%) ERwin
3 5 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 4 (8.89%) JUnit
5 3 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (6.67%) CA Release Automation
5 3 (6.67%) JIRA
5 3 (6.67%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
5 3 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (6.67%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.22%) IntelliJ
6 1 (2.22%) JMeter
6 1 (2.22%) JProfiler
6 1 (2.22%) LoadRunner
6 1 (2.22%) Toad
General
1 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.33%) Banking
4 5 (11.11%) Back Office
5 4 (8.89%) Finance
5 4 (8.89%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (8.89%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (4.44%) Front Office
6 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Developer
2 9 (20.00%) DBA
3 7 (15.56%) Data Modeller
4 6 (13.33%) Java Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Analyst
5 5 (11.11%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 4 (8.89%) Python Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Systems Analyst
7 3 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Active Directory Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Administrator
8 2 (4.44%) Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Consultant
8 2 (4.44%) CyberArk Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Endur Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 2 (4.44%) OpenLink Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (24.44%) Kafka
2 8 (17.78%) XML
3 7 (15.56%) Spring Boot
4 6 (13.33%) JSON
5 5 (11.11%) Spring
6 4 (8.89%) Middleware
7 3 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (6.67%) REST
8 2 (4.44%) CSS
8 2 (4.44%) HTML
8 2 (4.44%) Node.js
8 2 (4.44%) Swing
9 1 (2.22%) .NET
9 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
9 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
9 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET
9 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (2.22%) Entity Framework
9 1 (2.22%) HTML5 Canvas
9 1 (2.22%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Data Fabric
2 2 (4.44%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (4.44%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (4.44%) Fixed Income
2 2 (4.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.44%) Swaptions
3 1 (2.22%) Clustering
3 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.22%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.22%) Replication
3 1 (2.22%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 12 (26.67%) Linux
2 7 (15.56%) Unix
3 6 (13.33%) Windows
4 3 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.22%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) Agile
2 16 (35.56%) DevOps
3 13 (28.89%) CI/CD
3 13 (28.89%) Data Modelling
4 8 (17.78%) Database Security
5 7 (15.56%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (15.56%) ETL
6 6 (13.33%) Logical Data Model
6 6 (13.33%) Mentoring
6 6 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (13.33%) Physical Data Model
6 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (11.11%) Data Architecture
7 5 (11.11%) Data Strategy
7 5 (11.11%) High Availability
7 5 (11.11%) Migration
7 5 (11.11%) Software Engineering
8 4 (8.89%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (8.89%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 22 (48.89%) SQL
2 11 (24.44%) Python
3 10 (22.22%) Java
4 6 (13.33%) PL/SQL
5 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 5 (11.11%) Perl
6 4 (8.89%) Ruby
7 2 (4.44%) C#
7 2 (4.44%) C++
7 2 (4.44%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.44%) VB
8 1 (2.22%) Bash
8 1 (2.22%) Groovy
8 1 (2.22%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.44%) QA
3 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.22%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.22%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.67%) Docker
3 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.67%) Kibana
2 3 (6.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (2.22%) Grafana
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 22 (48.89%) Oracle
2 7 (15.56%) Sybase
3 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.89%) Splunk
5 3 (6.67%) AppDynamics
5 3 (6.67%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.44%) CyberArk
6 2 (4.44%) OpenLink
6 2 (4.44%) Talend
6 2 (4.44%) TIBCO
7 1 (2.22%) Ariba
7 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.22%) IBM
7 1 (2.22%) Informatica
7 1 (2.22%) Pega
7 1 (2.22%) Qualys
7 1 (2.22%) SAP
7 1 (2.22%) Sparx
7 1 (2.22%) StreamSets