RDBMS Contracts in England

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for RDBMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RDBMS over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 422 411 461
Rank change year-on-year -11 +50 -39
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 115 256 342
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.53% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.85% 2.98% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 172 200
10th Percentile £363 £425 £450
25th Percentile £413 £492 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +5.26% +13.89%
75th Percentile £569 £700 £700
90th Percentile £650 £798 £813
UK median daily rate £520 £575 £566
% change year-on-year -9.57% +1.59% +13.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £25.79
25th Percentile - - £34.48
Median hourly rate £40.50 - £50.20
75th Percentile - - £53.35
90th Percentile - - £54.49
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £66.56 £50.20
% change year-on-year -39.15% +32.59% +2.59%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

RDBMS is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,216 8,600 13,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.08% 17.85% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,487 6,193 10,127
10th Percentile £355 £375 £365
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £656
90th Percentile £788 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £545
% change year-on-year -3.67% - +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 162 173
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.93 £31.84 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.13 £58.59 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.52% +30.20% +83.67%
75th Percentile £59.44 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £74.75 £82.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +30.43% +73.58%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in England

RDBMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for RDBMS in England

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDBMS in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RDBMS in England

RDBMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for RDBMS in England

RDBMS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
London +15 76 £500 -16.67% 27
North of England +8 16 £534 +9.01% 10
North West +3 16 £534 +10.16% 6
South East +12 11 £406 -26.14% 6
Midlands +14 8 £356 -35.27% 6
East Midlands +17 6 £356 +1.71% 1
West Midlands +9 2 £420 -24.49% 5
East of England +6 1 £675 +3.85% 4
RDBMS
UK

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (10.43%) JBoss
2 9 (7.83%) Apache
3 8 (6.96%) Oracle Workflow
4 6 (5.22%) nginx
4 6 (5.22%) Tomcat
5 5 (4.35%) Apache Spark
6 3 (2.61%) SAS
7 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.87%) CMS
7 1 (0.87%) Confluence
7 1 (0.87%) CoreMedia CMS
7 1 (0.87%) GemFire
7 1 (0.87%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.87%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.74%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (5.22%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.87%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 51 (44.35%) AWS
2 30 (26.09%) Azure
3 21 (18.26%) Serverless
4 17 (14.78%) GCP
5 12 (10.43%) GitHub
6 10 (8.70%) Amazon S3
7 7 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (6.09%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (6.09%) Cloud Functions
7 7 (6.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (4.35%) IaaS
9 5 (4.35%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.48%) Amazon EventBridge
10 4 (3.48%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (2.61%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.61%) SaaS
12 2 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.87%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.96%) DNS
2 7 (6.09%) Firewall
3 3 (2.61%) SSL
4 2 (1.74%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.87%) HTTP
5 1 (0.87%) SAN
5 1 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 41 (35.65%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (28.70%) NoSQL
4 31 (26.96%) SQL Server
5 20 (17.39%) MongoDB
6 17 (14.78%) MySQL
7 12 (10.43%) Data Lake
7 12 (10.43%) Oracle Reports
8 9 (7.83%) DB2
9 8 (6.96%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (6.09%) BigQuery
10 7 (6.09%) Metadata
11 6 (5.22%) Big Data
12 5 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (4.35%) Sybase ASE
13 4 (3.48%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (3.48%) Star Schema
14 3 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (2.61%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (15.65%) Git
2 15 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.96%) GitLab
4 6 (5.22%) JIRA
4 6 (5.22%) SonarQube
4 6 (5.22%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (4.35%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (4.35%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (4.35%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.61%) ERwin
6 3 (2.61%) JUnit
6 3 (2.61%) Subversion
7 2 (1.74%) Ant
7 2 (1.74%) ER Studio
7 2 (1.74%) Gradle
7 2 (1.74%) Maven
8 1 (0.87%) AppScan
8 1 (0.87%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.87%) Selenium
8 1 (0.87%) Vagrant
General
1 27 (23.48%) Social Skills
2 22 (19.13%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (18.26%) Finance
4 13 (11.30%) Public Sector
5 10 (8.70%) Banking
6 4 (3.48%) Back Office
7 3 (2.61%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Games
8 2 (1.74%) Marketing
8 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.87%) Legal
9 1 (0.87%) Local Government
9 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (20.00%) Architect
2 22 (19.13%) DBA
3 17 (14.78%) Developer
4 13 (11.30%) Data Modeller
5 12 (10.43%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 9 (7.83%) Technical Architect
7 8 (6.96%) Support Engineer
8 7 (6.09%) Senior
9 6 (5.22%) Consultant
9 6 (5.22%) Java Architect
9 6 (5.22%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) AWS Architect
10 5 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) GCP Architect
10 5 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.48%) Applications Support
11 4 (3.48%) Data Architect
11 4 (3.48%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (16.52%) XML
2 18 (15.65%) JSON
3 15 (13.04%) Spring Boot
4 13 (11.30%) Kafka
5 10 (8.70%) Middleware
6 9 (7.83%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (7.83%) HTML
7 7 (6.09%) .NET
7 7 (6.09%) OAuth
8 6 (5.22%) IBM Integration Bus
9 5 (4.35%) HTML5
9 5 (4.35%) REST
9 5 (4.35%) RESTful
9 5 (4.35%) Spring
10 4 (3.48%) .NET Framework
10 4 (3.48%) ASP.NET
11 2 (1.74%) CSS
11 2 (1.74%) Django
11 2 (1.74%) jQuery
11 2 (1.74%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (6.09%) Replication
3 6 (5.22%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.22%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.22%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.48%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (2.61%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.61%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.61%) Smart Meter
7 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.74%) Clustering
7 2 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.74%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.74%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.74%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 42 (36.52%) Linux
2 30 (26.09%) Unix
3 28 (24.35%) Windows
4 23 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (8.70%) Windows Server
6 5 (4.35%) VMS
7 1 (0.87%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (29.57%) Agile
2 29 (25.22%) Data Modelling
3 28 (24.35%) DevOps
4 21 (18.26%) Microservices
5 18 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (14.78%) CI/CD
7 15 (13.04%) Database Security
7 15 (13.04%) Migration
8 14 (12.17%) Containerisation
8 14 (12.17%) Scrum
9 13 (11.30%) ETL
10 12 (10.43%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (10.43%) Incident Management
10 12 (10.43%) Mentoring
11 11 (9.57%) Physical Data Model
11 11 (9.57%) Runbook
12 10 (8.70%) Build Automation
12 10 (8.70%) Computer Science
12 10 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
13 9 (7.83%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 42 (36.52%) SQL
2 37 (32.17%) Python
3 24 (20.87%) Java
4 13 (11.30%) JavaScript
4 13 (11.30%) T-SQL
5 12 (10.43%) Bash
5 12 (10.43%) Shell Script
6 11 (9.57%) Perl
6 11 (9.57%) PowerShell
7 7 (6.09%) C#
8 6 (5.22%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.35%) C++
10 4 (3.48%) C
11 3 (2.61%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.61%) Scala
12 2 (1.74%) Groovy
12 2 (1.74%) PHP
13 1 (0.87%) Korn
13 1 (0.87%) R
13 1 (0.87%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.91%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.17%) Degree
4 6 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.35%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.48%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.74%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.87%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.17%) QA
2 4 (3.48%) ISO 15022
3 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.87%) COPPA
3 1 (0.87%) EMIR
3 1 (0.87%) FATCA
3 1 (0.87%) GDPR
3 1 (0.87%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.87%) MiFID
3 1 (0.87%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (13.04%) Docker
2 12 (10.43%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.35%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 5 (4.35%) vSphere
4 2 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.87%) KVM
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.87%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (25.22%) Kubernetes
2 14 (12.17%) Terraform
3 12 (10.43%) Ansible
4 9 (7.83%) Progress Chef
5 6 (5.22%) Kibana
5 6 (5.22%) Packer
6 5 (4.35%) vRealize
7 4 (3.48%) Grafana
7 4 (3.48%) Graylog
7 4 (3.48%) Nagios
7 4 (3.48%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.48%) Puppet
8 1 (0.87%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.87%) Ganglia
8 1 (0.87%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.87%) Nessus
8 1 (0.87%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.87%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.87%) VxRail
8 1 (0.87%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 56 (48.70%) Oracle
2 15 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 13 (11.30%) Red Hat
4 12 (10.43%) Google
5 11 (9.57%) IBM
6 10 (8.70%) Splunk
6 10 (8.70%) Veritas
7 7 (6.09%) Sybase
8 6 (5.22%) AppDynamics
8 6 (5.22%) CyberArk
8 6 (5.22%) SAP
8 6 (5.22%) Temenos
8 6 (5.22%) VMware
9 5 (4.35%) Arqiva
9 5 (4.35%) ServiceNow
9 5 (4.35%) Sparx
9 5 (4.35%) Sun
10 3 (2.61%) Ab Initio
10 3 (2.61%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (2.61%) Talend