RDBMS Contracts

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring RDBMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RDBMS over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 449 485 450
Rank change year-on-year +36 -35 -57
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 117 161 467
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.32% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.70% 1.92% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 110 274
10th Percentile £341 £368 £417
25th Percentile £400 £407 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £565
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -10.62% +7.88%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £688
90th Percentile £600 £753 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £470 £540
% change year-on-year -2.82% -13.06% +17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £64.16 £49.23
25th Percentile - £67.11 £49.65
Median hourly rate - £73.13 £51.85
Median % change year-on-year - +41.03% +9.16%
75th Percentile - £78.75 £54.30
90th Percentile - - £54.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £66.56 £51.85
% change year-on-year - +28.38% -11.74%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 6,879 8,365 16,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.92% 16.78% 19.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,726 5,839 11,849
10th Percentile £350 £363 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -1.82% +6.80%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 156 160
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.94 £15.73
25th Percentile £21.25 £32.32 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +22.22% +50.00%
75th Percentile £59.95 £73.75 £65.38
90th Percentile £71.95 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -45.45% +57.14% +27.27%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDBMS over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Top 14 Contract 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 September 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
England +61 94 £520 -9.57% 60
London +74 70 £520 -10.54% 19
Work from Home +69 38 £493 -4.73% 38
UK excluding London +5 31 £456 -2.82% 53
South East +29 8 £425 - 14
South West +19 8 £550 -8.71% 9
Scotland +8 4 £338 -24.43% 11
Northern Ireland - 4 £456 - 1
North of England +23 3 £391 -32.09% 10
East of England +24 2 - - 5
North West +12 2 £391 -34.23% 9
West Midlands +2 2 £700 +36.59% 4
Midlands -1 2 £700 +50.54% 5
Yorkshire +15 1 - - 1

RDBMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (6.84%) SAS
2 7 (5.98%) Apache
3 5 (4.27%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (4.27%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (3.42%) GemFire
4 4 (3.42%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.56%) CICS
5 3 (2.56%) Tomcat
5 3 (2.56%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.56%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.71%) CMS
6 2 (1.71%) Confluence
6 2 (1.71%) ThingWorx
6 2 (1.71%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.85%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.85%) Appian
7 1 (0.85%) JBoss
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.56%) Adobe Captivate
3 2 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.27%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (4.27%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (3.42%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 4 (3.42%) Oracle iProcurement
2 4 (3.42%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (3.42%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.71%) Q-Pulse
4 1 (0.85%) Endur
4 1 (0.85%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 27 (23.08%) AWS
2 25 (21.37%) Azure
3 9 (7.69%) GCP
4 8 (6.84%) Amazon S3
5 5 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.42%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (3.42%) Serverless
7 3 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (2.56%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.71%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (1.71%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.71%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (1.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.71%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.71%) SaaS
8 2 (1.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.27%) Internet
2 2 (1.71%) AMQP
2 2 (1.71%) SSL
2 2 (1.71%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 46 (39.32%) SQL Server
3 20 (17.09%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (15.38%) Oracle Database
5 15 (12.82%) NoSQL
6 9 (7.69%) DB2
6 9 (7.69%) MySQL
7 5 (4.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 5 (4.27%) Redis
8 4 (3.42%) Apache Ignite
8 4 (3.42%) Big Data
8 4 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.56%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.56%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.71%) KNIME
10 2 (1.71%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.71%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (9.40%) Jenkins
2 8 (6.84%) Git
3 5 (4.27%) JIRA
3 5 (4.27%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (2.56%) Maven
5 2 (1.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.71%) Flyway
5 2 (1.71%) git-flow
5 2 (1.71%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (0.85%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (0.85%) GitLab
6 1 (0.85%) Gradle
6 1 (0.85%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.85%) Mocha
6 1 (0.85%) Mockito
6 1 (0.85%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.85%) Spock
6 1 (0.85%) TeamCity
General
1 50 (42.74%) Social Skills
2 30 (25.64%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (23.93%) Finance
4 17 (14.53%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.13%) Banking
6 4 (3.42%) Back Office
6 4 (3.42%) Front Office
6 4 (3.42%) General Ledger
7 3 (2.56%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.56%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.71%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.71%) Marketing
8 2 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.85%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.85%) Electronics
9 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.85%) Law
9 1 (0.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (34.19%) Developer
2 11 (9.40%) Analyst
3 10 (8.55%) Consultant
3 10 (8.55%) CyberArk Specialist
4 9 (7.69%) Architect
5 8 (6.84%) DBA
5 8 (6.84%) Senior
5 8 (6.84%) Software Developer
6 7 (5.98%) Java Developer
6 7 (5.98%) Senior Developer
7 6 (5.13%) Lead
7 6 (5.13%) Technical Architect
8 5 (4.27%) .NET Developer
8 5 (4.27%) C# Developer
8 5 (4.27%) CyberArk Consultant
8 5 (4.27%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.27%) Data Modeller
8 5 (4.27%) Oracle Developer
9 4 (3.42%) Active Directory Engineer
9 4 (3.42%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (23.93%) Middleware
2 14 (11.97%) XML
3 12 (10.26%) .NET
4 10 (8.55%) REST
5 9 (7.69%) HTML
6 8 (6.84%) HTML5
6 8 (6.84%) Web Services
7 7 (5.98%) JSON
7 7 (5.98%) RESTful
7 7 (5.98%) Spring
8 6 (5.13%) ASP.NET
9 5 (4.27%) J2EE
9 5 (4.27%) Kafka
10 4 (3.42%) .NET Framework
10 4 (3.42%) JMS
10 4 (3.42%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (2.56%) Spring Boot
12 2 (1.71%) Node.js
12 2 (1.71%) PySpark
12 2 (1.71%) React
Miscellaneous
1 24 (20.51%) Onboarding
2 10 (8.55%) Data Structures
3 6 (5.13%) Algorithms
3 6 (5.13%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.27%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (2.56%) e-Learning
6 3 (2.56%) Learning Management System
6 3 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.56%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.56%) VSAM
7 2 (1.71%) Equities
7 2 (1.71%) IoT
7 2 (1.71%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.71%) Mashup
7 2 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.71%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (42.74%) Linux
2 38 (32.48%) Unix
3 37 (31.62%) Windows
4 15 (12.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.56%) AIX
5 3 (2.56%) Solaris
5 3 (2.56%) zOS
6 2 (1.71%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (42.74%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (26.50%) Agile
3 26 (22.22%) DevOps
4 23 (19.66%) Identity Management
5 19 (16.24%) CI/CD
6 18 (15.38%) Analytics
6 18 (15.38%) Time Management
7 17 (14.53%) Design Patterns
8 13 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (11.11%) Microservices
8 13 (11.11%) Software Engineering
9 12 (10.26%) Data Modelling
10 11 (9.40%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (9.40%) Computer Science
10 11 (9.40%) Scrum
10 11 (9.40%) Unit Testing
11 9 (7.69%) Integration Testing
11 9 (7.69%) Migration
11 9 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
12 8 (6.84%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 65 (55.56%) SQL
2 27 (23.08%) Python
3 26 (22.22%) Java
4 14 (11.97%) JavaScript
5 12 (10.26%) C#
6 7 (5.98%) Bash
6 7 (5.98%) T-SQL
7 6 (5.13%) Perl
7 6 (5.13%) PL/SQL
7 6 (5.13%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.42%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.42%) Scala
8 4 (3.42%) VB
9 3 (2.56%) C++
9 3 (2.56%) COBOL
9 3 (2.56%) JCL
9 3 (2.56%) Tcl
9 3 (2.56%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.71%) Gremlin
10 2 (1.71%) R
Qualifications
1 42 (35.90%) Security Cleared
2 37 (31.62%) SC Cleared
3 22 (18.80%) Degree
4 10 (8.55%) DV Cleared
5 6 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.42%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.71%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.71%) CISA
7 2 (1.71%) CRISC
7 2 (1.71%) NVQ Level 3
8 1 (0.85%) ACCA
8 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.85%) CIMA
8 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (18.80%) QA
2 4 (3.42%) ISO 15022
3 3 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.85%) GDPR
4 1 (0.85%) NCSC
4 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (21.37%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.42%) Docker
3 1 (0.85%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.85%) HDFS
3 1 (0.85%) LXC
3 1 (0.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 8 (6.84%) Kubernetes
1 8 (6.84%) Terraform
2 7 (5.98%) Ansible
3 6 (5.13%) Progress Chef
4 5 (4.27%) Puppet
5 2 (1.71%) Ganglia
5 2 (1.71%) Grafana
6 1 (0.85%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.85%) Kibana
6 1 (0.85%) Oozie
Vendors
1 56 (47.86%) Oracle
2 32 (27.35%) Microsoft
3 24 (20.51%) CyberArk
4 5 (4.27%) Google
4 5 (4.27%) IBM
4 5 (4.27%) Sparx
4 5 (4.27%) TIBCO
5 4 (3.42%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.42%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.42%) SAP
5 4 (3.42%) Solace
6 3 (2.56%) Adobe
6 3 (2.56%) Databricks
6 3 (2.56%) Unisys
7 2 (1.71%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.71%) Informatica
7 2 (1.71%) Kepware
7 2 (1.71%) PTC
7 2 (1.71%) Splunk
7 2 (1.71%) Sybase