RDBMS Contracts in the Midlands

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 144 167
Rank change year-on-year +17 +23 -28
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 8 21 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.30% 0.64% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.86% 3.85% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 18
10th Percentile - £406 £366
25th Percentile - £506 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -35.27% +12.82% +8.33%
75th Percentile £369 £644 £575
90th Percentile £406 £650 £850
England median daily rate £520 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -13.33% +6.19% +11.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.50 - -
England median hourly rate £40.50 - £50.20
% change year-on-year - - +2.59%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 429 546 957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.91% 16.73% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 369 716
10th Percentile £284 £313 £313
25th Percentile £356 £381 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £540
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
England median daily rate £529 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 17
10th Percentile - £21.04 £17.90
25th Percentile - £24.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £25.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% -27.86% +55.56%
75th Percentile £27.49 £26.48 -
90th Percentile £40.50 £31.64 £45.67
England median hourly rate £40.13 £56.95 £45.00
% change year-on-year -29.54% +26.56% +83.67%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in the Midlands

RDBMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for RDBMS in the Midlands

RDBMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for RDBMS in the Midlands

RDBMS
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 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
East Midlands +17 6 £356 +1.71%
West Midlands +8 2 £420 -24.49% 5
RDBMS
England

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (62.50%) JBoss
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (62.50%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Bitbucket Server
1 5 (62.50%) CA Release Automation
1 5 (62.50%) Git
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
1 5 (62.50%) JIRA
1 5 (62.50%) SonarQube
1 5 (62.50%) Sonatype Nexus
1 5 (62.50%) TeamCity
2 1 (12.50%) Ant
2 1 (12.50%) Gradle
2 1 (12.50%) JUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Maven
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (62.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) Windows
3 5 (62.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Build Automation
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) Code Quality
1 5 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (62.50%) Deployment Automation
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
1 5 (62.50%) Microservices
1 5 (62.50%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Database Security
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) Perl
3 2 (25.00%) C
3 2 (25.00%) C++
3 2 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) Scala
4 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kibana
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
1 5 (62.50%) Progress Chef
2 1 (12.50%) Data Guard
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) AppDynamics
1 5 (62.50%) Red Hat
1 5 (62.50%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) EMC
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle