RDBMS Contract Job Trends

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring RDBMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 446 456
Rank change year-on-year -120 +10 +20
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 115 113 117
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.34% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.40% 1.89% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 80 81
10th Percentile £400 £316 £341
25th Percentile £457 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -1.05% -6.86%
75th Percentile £688 £613 £550
90th Percentile £725 £813 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £450 £456
% change year-on-year +10.25% -1.37% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £27.21 -
25th Percentile £41.25 £36.23 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% - -
75th Percentile £43.75 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £21.40 -

All Database & BI Skills
UK

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 requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8,243 5,967 6,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.08% 18.12% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,501 3,995 4,734
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% -1.47%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £710 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 93 86
10th Percentile £16.42 £22.85 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.00 £29.33 £20.88
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +14.29% -36.36%
75th Percentile £60.50 £65.00 £61.19
90th Percentile £75.40 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.30% +18.30% -45.21%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RDBMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

RDBMS job vacancy trend in the UK

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RDBMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDBMS over the 6 months to 17 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RDBMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RDBMS

RDBMS
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the UK over the 6 months to 17 September 2026. 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
England -122 94 £565 +11.33% 126
UK excluding London -115 58 £496 +10.25% 50
London -91 44 £600 -12.73% 81
Work from Home -49 35 £600 - 26
North of England -73 29 £625 +49.25% 12
North West -35 22 £625 +53.94% 5
Midlands -38 12 £480 - 6
West Midlands -45 9 £480 - 2
South West -42 6 £565 +2.73% 4
Yorkshire -47 6 £528 -8.17% 4
Scotland -34 5 £475 +5.56% 3
North East - 4 - - 3
South East -72 3 £294 +31.91% 20
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 4
Wales - 2 £475 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 5

RDBMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (8.70%) Confluence
2 8 (6.96%) Apache Spark
3 7 (6.09%) Apache
4 6 (5.22%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (5.22%) Tuxedo
5 4 (3.48%) IIS
6 2 (1.74%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.87%) Appian
7 1 (0.87%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (9.57%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (8.70%) Finacle
2 3 (2.61%) Summit
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.87%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 45 (39.13%) AWS
2 17 (14.78%) GCP
3 15 (13.04%) GitHub
3 15 (13.04%) OCI
4 14 (12.17%) Azure
5 8 (6.96%) Power Platform
6 7 (6.09%) dbt
6 7 (6.09%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (5.22%) Cloud Functions
8 5 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (4.35%) Apigee
8 5 (4.35%) Cloud Run
8 5 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (4.35%) Kong
8 5 (4.35%) Snowflake
9 4 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.48%) IaaS
9 4 (3.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.74%) Internet
1 2 (1.74%) Intranet
1 2 (1.74%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 41 (35.65%) Oracle Database
3 33 (28.70%) SQL Server
4 31 (26.96%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (20.00%) MongoDB
6 19 (16.52%) NoSQL
7 16 (13.91%) Oracle Exadata
8 12 (10.43%) MySQL
9 8 (6.96%) Metadata
10 7 (6.09%) BigQuery
10 7 (6.09%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (6.09%) Power BI
11 6 (5.22%) Big Data
11 6 (5.22%) Ingres
12 5 (4.35%) Hazelcast
12 5 (4.35%) Parquet
12 5 (4.35%) Redis
13 4 (3.48%) Flink
13 4 (3.48%) Power Query
13 4 (3.48%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 35 (30.43%) Git
2 27 (23.48%) GitLab
3 13 (11.30%) Jenkins
4 10 (8.70%) JIRA
5 6 (5.22%) Gradle
5 6 (5.22%) Maven
5 6 (5.22%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (5.22%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (4.35%) Claude Code
6 5 (4.35%) Liquibase
7 4 (3.48%) ER Studio
7 4 (3.48%) Snyk
8 2 (1.74%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.74%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.74%) ERwin
8 2 (1.74%) git-flow
8 2 (1.74%) JDeveloper
8 2 (1.74%) JMeter
8 2 (1.74%) Postman
8 2 (1.74%) Selenium
General
1 37 (32.17%) Analytical Skills
2 35 (30.43%) Finance
3 30 (26.09%) Social Skills
4 23 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 19 (16.52%) Banking
6 13 (11.30%) Front Office
7 11 (9.57%) Back Office
8 5 (4.35%) Military
9 3 (2.61%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.74%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.74%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (33.91%) Developer
1 39 (33.91%) Senior
2 15 (13.04%) Senior Developer
3 14 (12.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (11.30%) Java Developer
5 12 (10.43%) Data Engineer
6 10 (8.70%) Applications Support
6 10 (8.70%) DBA
6 10 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (8.70%) Systems Support
7 9 (7.83%) Analyst
8 8 (6.96%) Analyst Developer
8 8 (6.96%) Data Analyst
8 8 (6.96%) Developer Analyst
8 8 (6.96%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (6.96%) Senior Data Analyst
8 8 (6.96%) Senior Systems Analyst
8 8 (6.96%) Senior Systems Developer
8 8 (6.96%) Systems Analyst
8 8 (6.96%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (26.96%) Terraform
2 23 (20.00%) Kafka
3 18 (15.65%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 16 (13.91%) Spring
4 16 (13.91%) Spring Boot
5 14 (12.17%) XML
6 12 (10.43%) .NET
6 12 (10.43%) JSON
7 11 (9.57%) REST
8 10 (8.70%) Apache Avro
8 10 (8.70%) ODBC
8 10 (8.70%) React
8 10 (8.70%) Web Services
9 8 (6.96%) JWT
9 8 (6.96%) Middleware
10 7 (6.09%) OAuth
11 6 (5.22%) Apache Beam
11 6 (5.22%) OAuth2
11 6 (5.22%) RESTful
11 6 (5.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.30%) Public Cloud
2 10 (8.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (8.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 8 (6.96%) Data Structures
3 8 (6.96%) Replication
4 7 (6.09%) Derivative
5 6 (5.22%) Algorithms
5 6 (5.22%) Low-Code
5 6 (5.22%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.35%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.61%) Credit Risk
7 3 (2.61%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.61%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.74%) Blockchain
8 2 (1.74%) Clustering
8 2 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.74%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.74%) OTC Derivatives
8 2 (1.74%) PKI
8 2 (1.74%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 29 (25.22%) Linux
2 23 (20.00%) AIX
3 19 (16.52%) Windows
4 16 (13.91%) Unix
5 8 (6.96%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.87%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (30.43%) DevOps
2 34 (29.57%) CI/CD
3 33 (28.70%) Agile
4 26 (22.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (22.61%) Performance Tuning
5 25 (21.74%) Migration
6 24 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (18.26%) Validation
8 20 (17.39%) Data Migration
9 17 (14.78%) User Acceptance Testing
10 16 (13.91%) Data Modelling
11 14 (12.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 14 (12.17%) Microservices
12 13 (11.30%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (11.30%) ETL
13 12 (10.43%) Analytics
13 12 (10.43%) Software Engineering
13 12 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (9.57%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 66 (57.39%) SQL
2 33 (28.70%) Java
3 26 (22.61%) Python
4 16 (13.91%) C#
5 13 (11.30%) PL/SQL
6 8 (6.96%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.22%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.22%) VB
7 6 (5.22%) VB6
8 5 (4.35%) Scala
9 4 (3.48%) C
9 4 (3.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (3.48%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.61%) Perl
10 3 (2.61%) R
11 2 (1.74%) Bash
11 2 (1.74%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.87%) MUMPS
12 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (23.48%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.96%) Degree
4 2 (1.74%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.87%) CISSP
5 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.04%) QA
2 9 (7.83%) GDPR
3 8 (6.96%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.87%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.87%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.87%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (15.65%) Oracle RAC
2 12 (10.43%) Docker
3 5 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (18.26%) Ansible
2 16 (13.91%) Data Guard
2 16 (13.91%) Oracle RMAN
3 9 (7.83%) Kubernetes
4 8 (6.96%) Prometheus
5 7 (6.09%) Grafana
6 5 (4.35%) Argo
7 1 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (62.61%) Oracle
2 11 (9.57%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.09%) Google
4 5 (4.35%) Actian
4 5 (4.35%) BeyondTrust
4 5 (4.35%) Bomgar
4 5 (4.35%) VMware
5 3 (2.61%) Alteryx
5 3 (2.61%) Databricks
5 3 (2.61%) SAP
5 3 (2.61%) Sybase
6 2 (1.74%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.74%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.74%) IBM
6 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.74%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.74%) Solace
6 2 (1.74%) Sparx
7 1 (0.87%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.87%) Splunk