Hybrid/Remote RDBMS Contract Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring RDBMS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 299 346
Rank change year-on-year +22 +47 +73
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 30 38 61
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.30% 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.54% 1.48% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 29 48
10th Percentile £333 £333 £350
25th Percentile £448 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -0.47% -7.46%
75th Percentile £813 £550 £669
90th Percentile £824 £600 £748
UK median daily rate £470 £475 £511
% change year-on-year -1.05% -7.09% -9.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £76.25
Median hourly rate - - £77.50
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £73.13
% change year-on-year - - +41.03%

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 1,946 2,569 3,661
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.78% 20.16% 18.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,340 1,821 2,629
10th Percentile £350 £345 £369
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £645 £675 £650
90th Percentile £825 £850 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £545
% change year-on-year -6.19% -2.20% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 23 63
10th Percentile £23.41 £18.66 £20.58
25th Percentile £34.81 £20.17 £33.02
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -38.10% -1.87%
75th Percentile £75.00 £44.63 £67.38
90th Percentile £87.50 £63.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +24.29% -36.36% +22.22%

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 Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing RDBMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing RDBMS

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 18 September 2025.

RDBMS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing RDBMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing RDBMS

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 2 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (6.67%) OpenEdge
2 1 (3.33%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 16 (53.33%) AWS
2 7 (23.33%) Serverless
3 6 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 6 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
3 6 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
4 5 (16.67%) Azure
5 4 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (13.33%) AWS Fargate
5 4 (13.33%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (10.00%) GCP
6 3 (10.00%) GitHub
6 3 (10.00%) PaaS
6 3 (10.00%) SaaS
7 2 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (6.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Firewall
1 2 (6.67%) MPLS
1 2 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 11 (36.67%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (33.33%) NoSQL
4 7 (23.33%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (23.33%) MySQL
5 5 (16.67%) Data Lake
5 5 (16.67%) DynamoDB
6 4 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (13.33%) Big Data
6 4 (13.33%) Metadata
6 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
7 3 (10.00%) Data Vault
7 3 (10.00%) DataStage
7 3 (10.00%) DB2
7 3 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (6.67%) BigQuery
8 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
8 2 (6.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Git
2 4 (13.33%) ER Studio
2 4 (13.33%) ERwin
2 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (13.33%) JUnit
2 4 (13.33%) Maven
3 3 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (10.00%) Gradle
3 3 (10.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (6.67%) SonarLint
5 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (3.33%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.33%) JIRA
5 1 (3.33%) Log4j
5 1 (3.33%) Mockito
5 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.33%) Subversion
5 1 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (23.33%) Finance
2 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Front Office
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) Senior
2 7 (23.33%) Senior Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Architect
3 4 (13.33%) Data Modeller
3 4 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 3 (10.00%) AWS Developer
4 3 (10.00%) DBA
4 3 (10.00%) Endur Developer
4 3 (10.00%) OpenLink Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Data Centre Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Data Centre Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Data Migration Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Energy Trading Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Java Technical Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Migration Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) React Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) Spring Boot
2 5 (16.67%) Kafka
3 4 (13.33%) RESTful
3 4 (13.33%) Spring
4 3 (10.00%) Node.js
4 3 (10.00%) React
4 3 (10.00%) REST
5 2 (6.67%) .NET
5 2 (6.67%) AWS CDK
5 2 (6.67%) Celery
5 2 (6.67%) Dropwizard
5 2 (6.67%) GraphQL
5 2 (6.67%) J2EE
5 2 (6.67%) JWT
5 2 (6.67%) Micronaut
5 2 (6.67%) Svelte
5 2 (6.67%) Web Services
5 2 (6.67%) XML
6 1 (3.33%) CSS
6 1 (3.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 4 (13.33%) Replication
3 3 (10.00%) Clustering
3 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (10.00%) Swaptions
3 3 (10.00%) Video on Demand
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.67%) N-Tier
5 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.33%) Data Fabric
5 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Unix
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Agile
1 9 (30.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (20.00%) High Availability
2 6 (20.00%) Microservices
2 6 (20.00%) Migration
2 6 (20.00%) SDLC
2 6 (20.00%) TDD
3 5 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 5 (16.67%) DevOps
3 5 (16.67%) ETL
3 5 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 4 (13.33%) Data Governance
4 4 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (13.33%) Mentoring
4 4 (13.33%) Metadata Management
4 4 (13.33%) Scrum
4 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) Python
1 11 (36.67%) SQL
2 9 (30.00%) Java
3 6 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.00%) Bash
5 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (10.00%) VB
6 2 (6.67%) C#
7 1 (3.33%) Perl
7 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.33%) OCP
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
2 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (3.33%) Kibana
3 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Oracle
1 6 (20.00%) Sybase
2 3 (10.00%) OpenLink
2 3 (10.00%) TIBCO
3 2 (6.67%) Citrix
3 2 (6.67%) Gigya
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Veeam
3 2 (6.67%) VMware
3 2 (6.67%) Zerto
4 1 (3.33%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.33%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (3.33%) Informatica
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) Splunk