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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 427 416 463
Rank change year-on-year -11 +47 -52
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 115 233 353
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.49% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.84% 2.77% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 157 208
10th Percentile £358 £446 £425
25th Percentile £405 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +11.65%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £700
90th Percentile £650 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £510 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +11.22%
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 6,263 8,425 13,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.96% 17.65% 19.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,520 6,057 10,008
10th Percentile £350 £375 £368
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £663
90th Percentile £788 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.50% -0.05% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 157 166
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.56
25th Percentile £20.77 £32.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.96
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +36.39% +71.83%
75th Percentile £55.00 £75.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £82.70 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £44.48
% change year-on-year -33.33% +34.91% +64.97%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +25 81 £500 -16.67% 25
North of England +18 12 £534 -16.56% 7
North West +7 12 £534 -14.80% 5
South East +9 11 £406 -26.14% 5
Midlands +12 8 £356 -35.27% 3
East Midlands +14 6 £356 +1.71%
West Midlands -2 2 £420 -24.49% 3
East of England +5 1 £675 +3.85% 3
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 11 (9.57%) JBoss
2 8 (6.96%) Apache
2 8 (6.96%) Oracle Workflow
3 6 (5.22%) nginx
3 6 (5.22%) Tomcat
4 4 (3.48%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.61%) SAS
6 2 (1.74%) SharePoint
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 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (5.22%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.87%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 50 (43.48%) AWS
2 29 (25.22%) Azure
3 16 (13.91%) GCP
3 16 (13.91%) Serverless
4 12 (10.43%) GitHub
5 10 (8.70%) Amazon S3
6 7 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (6.09%) Cloud Functions
6 7 (6.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 6 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (4.35%) IaaS
8 5 (4.35%) OpenShift
9 4 (3.48%) Amazon EventBridge
9 4 (3.48%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (2.61%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.61%) SaaS
11 1 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
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 37 (32.17%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (28.70%) SQL Server
4 29 (25.22%) NoSQL
5 18 (15.65%) MySQL
6 16 (13.91%) MongoDB
7 12 (10.43%) Data Lake
8 9 (7.83%) DB2
8 9 (7.83%) Oracle Reports
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%) DynamoDB
14 3 (2.61%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 18 (15.65%) Git
2 17 (14.78%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.83%) 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%) Mockito
8 1 (0.87%) Vagrant
General
1 27 (23.48%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.00%) Finance
3 22 (19.13%) Analytical Skills
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%) Financial Institution
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 18 (15.65%) DBA
3 17 (14.78%) Developer
4 14 (12.17%) Data Modeller
5 9 (7.83%) Technical Architect
6 8 (6.96%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 8 (6.96%) Senior
6 8 (6.96%) Support Engineer
7 7 (6.09%) Consultant
8 6 (5.22%) Java Architect
8 6 (5.22%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Analyst
9 5 (4.35%) AWS Architect
9 5 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) GCP Architect
9 5 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.48%) Applications Support
10 4 (3.48%) Data Architect
10 4 (3.48%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.04%) XML
2 14 (12.17%) JSON
2 14 (12.17%) Spring Boot
3 10 (8.70%) HTML
3 10 (8.70%) Middleware
4 9 (7.83%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (7.83%) Kafka
5 7 (6.09%) .NET
5 7 (6.09%) OAuth
6 6 (5.22%) HTML5
6 6 (5.22%) IBM Integration Bus
7 5 (4.35%) REST
7 5 (4.35%) RESTful
8 4 (3.48%) .NET Framework
8 4 (3.48%) ASP.NET
8 4 (3.48%) Spring
9 2 (1.74%) CSS
9 2 (1.74%) Django
9 2 (1.74%) jQuery
9 2 (1.74%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (6.09%) Onboarding
2 7 (6.09%) Replication
3 6 (5.22%) Cloud Native
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 44 (38.26%) Linux
2 31 (26.96%) Unix
3 30 (26.09%) Windows
4 24 (20.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (8.70%) Windows Server
6 5 (4.35%) VMS
7 1 (0.87%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (26.09%) Data Modelling
2 29 (25.22%) Agile
3 25 (21.74%) DevOps
4 20 (17.39%) Microservices
5 18 (15.65%) CI/CD
5 18 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (13.04%) Migration
7 14 (12.17%) Containerisation
7 14 (12.17%) Scrum
8 13 (11.30%) ETL
9 12 (10.43%) Analytics
9 12 (10.43%) Incident Management
9 12 (10.43%) Physical Data Model
10 11 (9.57%) Database Security
10 11 (9.57%) Runbook
10 11 (9.57%) Workflow
11 10 (8.70%) Build Automation
11 10 (8.70%) Computer Science
11 10 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (8.70%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 44 (38.26%) SQL
2 38 (33.04%) Python
3 24 (20.87%) Java
4 15 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 13 (11.30%) Shell Script
5 13 (11.30%) T-SQL
6 12 (10.43%) Bash
7 11 (9.57%) Perl
7 11 (9.57%) PowerShell
8 7 (6.09%) C#
9 6 (5.22%) TypeScript
10 5 (4.35%) C++
11 4 (3.48%) C
12 3 (2.61%) PL/SQL
12 3 (2.61%) R
12 3 (2.61%) Scala
12 3 (2.61%) VB
13 2 (1.74%) Groovy
13 2 (1.74%) PHP
13 2 (1.74%) VBA
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%) CISA
7 2 (1.74%) CRISC
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 2 (1.74%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.87%) COPPA
4 1 (0.87%) EMIR
4 1 (0.87%) FATCA
4 1 (0.87%) GDPR
4 1 (0.87%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.87%) MiFID
4 1 (0.87%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (11.30%) Active Directory
1 13 (11.30%) Docker
2 5 (4.35%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 5 (4.35%) vSphere
3 2 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.87%) KVM
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.87%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (25.22%) Kubernetes
2 15 (13.04%) Terraform
3 13 (11.30%) Ansible
4 10 (8.70%) Progress Chef
5 6 (5.22%) Kibana
5 6 (5.22%) Packer
6 5 (4.35%) Puppet
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
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 54 (46.96%) Oracle
2 18 (15.65%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.43%) Google
3 12 (10.43%) Red Hat
4 11 (9.57%) IBM
5 10 (8.70%) Splunk
5 10 (8.70%) Veritas
6 7 (6.09%) CyberArk
6 7 (6.09%) Sybase
7 6 (5.22%) AppDynamics
7 6 (5.22%) SAP
7 6 (5.22%) Sparx
7 6 (5.22%) Temenos
7 6 (5.22%) VMware
8 5 (4.35%) Arqiva
8 5 (4.35%) ServiceNow
8 5 (4.35%) Sun
9 3 (2.61%) Ab Initio
9 3 (2.61%) Talend
9 3 (2.61%) Teradata