RDBMS Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 337 405
Rank change year-on-year +43 +68 -28
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 47 118 219
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.32% 0.48% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.63% 2.50% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 94 147
10th Percentile £333 £402 £379
25th Percentile £406 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.13% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £556 £725 £700
90th Percentile £609 £871 £800
UK median daily rate £520 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -9.57% +1.77% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £23.18
25th Percentile - - £27.94
Median hourly rate - - £36.75
75th Percentile - - £46.44
90th Percentile - - £51.73
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,878 4,713 9,623
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.55% 19.02% 21.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,121 3,444 7,002
10th Percentile £356 £388 £373
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £549
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 79 89
10th Percentile £18.60 £22.16 £19.80
25th Percentile £22.43 £40.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +36.84% +48.44%
75th Percentile £62.25 £74.38 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +27.78% +69.81%

RDBMS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing RDBMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

RDBMS trend for jobs with a WFH option

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing RDBMS over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 8 (17.02%) JBoss
2 3 (6.38%) Apache
2 3 (6.38%) nginx
2 3 (6.38%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.13%) Confluence
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.13%) ThingWorx
3 1 (2.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 27 (57.45%) AWS
2 17 (36.17%) Serverless
3 16 (34.04%) Azure
4 5 (10.64%) Amazon S3
4 5 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.38%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (6.38%) OpenShift
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.13%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (2.13%) GCP
8 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) DNS
1 4 (8.51%) Firewall
2 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 18 (38.30%) NoSQL
3 17 (36.17%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (29.79%) SQL Server
5 11 (23.40%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (21.28%) MongoDB
7 4 (8.51%) MySQL
8 3 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (6.38%) Big Data
8 3 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (6.38%) Oracle Database
9 2 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (4.26%) DocumentDB
9 2 (4.26%) Star Schema
10 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
10 1 (2.13%) Data Vault
10 1 (2.13%) GIS
10 1 (2.13%) MS Access
10 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Git
1 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
1 5 (10.64%) JIRA
2 4 (8.51%) SonarQube
3 3 (6.38%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (6.38%) CA Release Automation
3 3 (6.38%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (6.38%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.13%) Burp Suite
4 1 (2.13%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.13%) JMeter
4 1 (2.13%) JUnit
4 1 (2.13%) Mockito
General
1 11 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.02%) Finance
2 8 (17.02%) Public Sector
3 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Banking
5 2 (4.26%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.26%) Marketing
6 1 (2.13%) Dutch Language
6 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.13%) Games
6 1 (2.13%) Legal
6 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) DBA
2 11 (23.40%) Architect
2 11 (23.40%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 7 (14.89%) Developer
4 6 (12.77%) Technical Architect
5 4 (8.51%) Analyst
5 4 (8.51%) AWS Architect
5 4 (8.51%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Applications Support
6 3 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Linux Support
6 3 (6.38%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Banking Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Data Modeller
7 2 (4.26%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.26%) SQL DBA
7 2 (4.26%) SQL Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.53%) XML
2 11 (23.40%) JSON
2 11 (23.40%) Kafka
3 5 (10.64%) .NET
3 5 (10.64%) Middleware
3 5 (10.64%) Spring Boot
4 4 (8.51%) .NET Framework
4 4 (8.51%) ASP.NET
4 4 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (8.51%) IBM Integration Bus
4 4 (8.51%) RESTful
5 3 (6.38%) HTML
5 3 (6.38%) REST
6 2 (4.26%) jQuery
6 2 (4.26%) React
6 2 (4.26%) Spring
7 1 (2.13%) Apache Camel
7 1 (2.13%) HTML5
7 1 (2.13%) Node.js
7 1 (2.13%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.38%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.26%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.26%) Video on Demand
4 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.13%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.13%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.13%) IoT
4 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Mashup
4 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.28%) Linux
2 9 (19.15%) Windows
3 7 (14.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (10.64%) Unix
5 4 (8.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (42.55%) DevOps
2 19 (40.43%) Agile
3 12 (25.53%) Database Security
4 11 (23.40%) Microservices
5 10 (21.28%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (21.28%) Mentoring
6 6 (12.77%) CI/CD
7 5 (10.64%) Data Modelling
8 4 (8.51%) Architectural Patterns
8 4 (8.51%) Computer Science
8 4 (8.51%) Design Patterns
8 4 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (8.51%) Software Architecture
8 4 (8.51%) Technical Architecture
9 3 (6.38%) Build Automation
9 3 (6.38%) Code Quality
9 3 (6.38%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (6.38%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (6.38%) Runbook
9 3 (6.38%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.91%) SQL
2 12 (25.53%) Python
3 8 (17.02%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.64%) C#
4 5 (10.64%) Java
4 5 (10.64%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.51%) Perl
5 4 (8.51%) Shell Script
6 3 (6.38%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.26%) Bash
7 2 (4.26%) PHP
7 2 (4.26%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.13%) C++
8 1 (2.13%) Go
8 1 (2.13%) R
8 1 (2.13%) Ruby
8 1 (2.13%) Tcl
8 1 (2.13%) VB
8 1 (2.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.02%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) AWS Certification
4 4 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (8.51%) Degree
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.13%) CISA
5 1 (2.13%) CRISC
5 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.13%) COPPA
1 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.13%) EMIR
1 1 (2.13%) FATCA
1 1 (2.13%) GDPR
1 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
1 1 (2.13%) MiFID
1 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 8 (17.02%) Docker
2 4 (8.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (21.28%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.51%) Kibana
2 4 (8.51%) Progress Chef
2 4 (8.51%) Terraform
3 3 (6.38%) Ansible
4 2 (4.26%) Grafana
4 2 (4.26%) Nagios
5 1 (2.13%) Control-M
5 1 (2.13%) Graylog
5 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (42.55%) Oracle
2 7 (14.89%) Red Hat
3 6 (12.77%) Microsoft
4 5 (10.64%) Splunk
5 4 (8.51%) IBM
6 3 (6.38%) AppDynamics
6 3 (6.38%) Temenos
7 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.13%) BMC
7 1 (2.13%) Checkmarx
7 1 (2.13%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.13%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.13%) Kepware
7 1 (2.13%) PTC
7 1 (2.13%) Sybase