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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 400 451
Rank change year-on-year -145 +51 -1
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 98 127 137
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.43% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.27% 2.29% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 83 97
10th Percentile £400 £369 £338
25th Percentile £440 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year +17.56% -13.46% -13.33%
75th Percentile £663 £550 £575
90th Percentile £781 £675 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £449 £527
% change year-on-year +5.85% -14.77% -4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £27.21 -
25th Percentile £41.25 £36.23 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +29.63% -39.15%
75th Percentile £43.75 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £21.40 £40.50
% change year-on-year - -47.16% -39.15%

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 7,716 5,539 7,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.24% 18.55% 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,143 3,774 5,388
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £781
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 98 156
10th Percentile £14.85 £19.49 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.88 £20.77
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -12.50% -31.73%
75th Percentile £69.11 £65.63 £54.34
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.09 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.85 £33.47
% change year-on-year +20.11% -4.84% -39.92%

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 20 June 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 15 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 20 June 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 -106 91 £540 +20.00% 21
UK excluding London -134 49 £475 +5.85% 19
London -68 47 £625 +23.76% 10
Work from Home -65 22 £525 +17.06% 7
North of England -79 21 £416 -0.74% 7
North West -47 16 £416 -0.75% 2
Midlands -52 12 £478 -3.24%
West Midlands -53 11 £475 +5.56%
South West -30 6 £565 -13.08% 2
Yorkshire -59 5 £528 -8.17% 3
South East -64 5 £290 -49.57% 3
Scotland -26 3 £475 +5.56% 2
Wales - 2 £475 - 1
East Midlands -17 1 £540 +0.56%
North East - 1 - - 2

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 12 (12.24%) Apache Spark
2 10 (10.20%) Confluence
3 8 (8.16%) Apache
4 7 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (6.12%) Tuxedo
6 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (3.06%) IIS
8 2 (2.04%) Appian
8 2 (2.04%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (1.02%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (8.16%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (8.16%) Finacle
2 6 (6.12%) Summit
3 2 (2.04%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.04%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (2.04%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (1.02%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (1.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 33 (33.67%) AWS
2 18 (18.37%) GCP
3 15 (15.31%) Azure
4 14 (14.29%) GitHub
5 8 (8.16%) Power Platform
6 7 (7.14%) dbt
6 7 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (6.12%) Cloud Functions
8 5 (5.10%) Amazon S3
8 5 (5.10%) Snowflake
9 4 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (4.08%) Apigee
9 4 (4.08%) Cloud Run
9 4 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (4.08%) IaaS
9 4 (4.08%) Kong
9 4 (4.08%) OCI
9 4 (4.08%) Serverless
10 3 (3.06%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) Internet
1 1 (1.02%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 30 (30.61%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (30.61%) SQL Server
3 28 (28.57%) MongoDB
4 27 (27.55%) Oracle Database
5 26 (26.53%) NoSQL
6 13 (13.27%) MySQL
7 9 (9.18%) Big Data
7 9 (9.18%) Ingres
8 8 (8.16%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (8.16%) Metadata
8 8 (8.16%) Power BI
9 7 (7.14%) BigQuery
9 7 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (6.12%) Hadoop
11 5 (5.10%) Data Lake
11 5 (5.10%) Oracle Exadata
11 5 (5.10%) Parquet
12 4 (4.08%) Power Query
12 4 (4.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (25.51%) Git
2 13 (13.27%) GitLab
3 11 (11.22%) JIRA
4 9 (9.18%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (8.16%) Jenkins
5 8 (8.16%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (5.10%) Liquibase
7 4 (4.08%) Gradle
7 4 (4.08%) Maven
7 4 (4.08%) Snyk
8 3 (3.06%) ER Studio
9 2 (2.04%) Claude Code
9 2 (2.04%) JDeveloper
10 1 (1.02%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.02%) ERwin
10 1 (1.02%) JMeter
10 1 (1.02%) JUnit
10 1 (1.02%) Postman
10 1 (1.02%) Selenium
10 1 (1.02%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (38.78%) Finance
2 28 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 25 (25.51%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (20.41%) Public Sector
5 18 (18.37%) Banking
6 13 (13.27%) Front Office
7 8 (8.16%) Back Office
8 6 (6.12%) Investment Banking
9 5 (5.10%) Military
10 2 (2.04%) General Ledger
10 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.02%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (27.55%) Developer
2 26 (26.53%) Senior
3 15 (15.31%) Data Engineer
4 14 (14.29%) DBA
5 8 (8.16%) Applications Support
5 8 (8.16%) Java Developer
5 8 (8.16%) Systems Support
6 7 (7.14%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 7 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (6.12%) Business Analyst
7 6 (6.12%) Python Developer
7 6 (6.12%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.12%) Summit Business Analyst
8 5 (5.10%) Database Specialist
8 5 (5.10%) Energy Trading Developer
8 5 (5.10%) SQL Developer
9 4 (4.08%) Big Data Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Hadoop Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Oracle Specialist
9 4 (4.08%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (23.47%) Kafka
2 18 (18.37%) XML
3 14 (14.29%) JSON
4 13 (13.27%) Spring
5 12 (12.24%) Spring Boot
6 9 (9.18%) Apache Avro
6 9 (9.18%) REST
7 8 (8.16%) React
8 7 (7.14%) ADO
8 7 (7.14%) COM
8 7 (7.14%) ODBC
8 7 (7.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 6 (6.12%) Apache Beam
10 5 (5.10%) GraphQL
10 5 (5.10%) OAuth
10 5 (5.10%) Web Services
11 4 (4.08%) .NET
11 4 (4.08%) JPA
11 4 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (4.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.20%) Derivative
2 8 (8.16%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (8.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 7 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.12%) Credit Risk
4 6 (6.12%) Fixed Income
4 6 (6.12%) Low-Code
4 6 (6.12%) Market Risk
4 6 (6.12%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.10%) Public Cloud
5 5 (5.10%) Replication
6 3 (3.06%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.06%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.04%) Blockchain
7 2 (2.04%) Clustering
7 2 (2.04%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.04%) OTC Derivatives
7 2 (2.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.37%) Linux
2 11 (11.22%) Windows
3 8 (8.16%) Unix
4 4 (4.08%) AIX
5 1 (1.02%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (34.69%) Agile
2 30 (30.61%) DevOps
3 25 (25.51%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (24.49%) CI/CD
5 22 (22.45%) Performance Tuning
6 19 (19.39%) User Acceptance Testing
7 17 (17.35%) ETL
8 16 (16.33%) Validation
9 15 (15.31%) Migration
10 14 (14.29%) Data Migration
11 13 (13.27%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (12.24%) Analytics
13 11 (11.22%) Data Engineering
13 11 (11.22%) Infrastructure as Code
14 10 (10.20%) Business Intelligence
14 10 (10.20%) Data Modelling
14 10 (10.20%) Data Protection
14 10 (10.20%) SDLC
14 10 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
15 9 (9.18%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 66 (67.35%) SQL
2 25 (25.51%) Python
3 24 (24.49%) Java
4 10 (10.20%) PL/SQL
5 8 (8.16%) VB
5 8 (8.16%) VB6
6 6 (6.12%) C#
6 6 (6.12%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.12%) Scala
7 5 (5.10%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.10%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.08%) C
8 4 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (3.06%) R
10 2 (2.04%) Bash
10 2 (2.04%) Perl
10 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.31%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.12%) Degree
4 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.04%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.29%) QA
2 6 (6.12%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.10%) GDPR
4 3 (3.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (2.04%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.04%) NIST
6 1 (1.02%) ISO 22301
6 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (11.22%) Docker
2 6 (6.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 18 (18.37%) Terraform
2 12 (12.24%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.18%) Ansible
4 6 (6.12%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.10%) Grafana
6 4 (4.08%) Argo
6 4 (4.08%) Data Guard
6 4 (4.08%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.02%) Puppet
7 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (59.18%) Oracle
2 11 (11.22%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.14%) Actian
3 7 (7.14%) Google
4 4 (4.08%) Alteryx
4 4 (4.08%) Informatica
5 3 (3.06%) Databricks
5 3 (3.06%) SAP
6 2 (2.04%) Adobe
6 2 (2.04%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.04%) Guidewire
6 2 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.04%) Sybase
7 1 (1.02%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.02%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.02%) NetApp
7 1 (1.02%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.02%) Solace
7 1 (1.02%) Splunk
7 1 (1.02%) Varonis