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 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 17 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 581 | 456 | 428 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -125 | -28 | +48 |
| Contract jobs citing RDBMS | 110 | 112 | 132 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the UK | 0.20% | 0.34% | 0.35% |
| As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category | 1.34% | 1.85% | 1.98% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 72 | 79 | 87 |
| 10th Percentile | £383 | £323 | £350 |
| 25th Percentile | £457 | £408 | £400 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £600 | £550 | £475 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +9.09% | +15.79% | -5.00% |
| 75th Percentile | £688 | £638 | £550 |
| 90th Percentile | £725 | £813 | £595 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £514 | £450 | £436 |
| % change year-on-year | +14.22% | +3.15% | -4.12% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Median hourly rate | - | £52.50 | - |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate | - | - | - |
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.
| 6 months to 17 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills | 8,183 | 6,055 | 6,669 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK | 14.80% | 18.18% | 17.80% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 5,443 | 4,072 | 4,487 |
| 10th Percentile | £356 | £340 | £350 |
| 25th Percentile | £419 | £413 | £425 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £505 | £500 | £528 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +1.00% | -5.21% | -1.95% |
| 75th Percentile | £623 | £625 | £650 |
| 90th Percentile | £713 | £738 | £788 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £475 | £475 | £485 |
| % change year-on-year | - | -2.06% | -3.00% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 309 | 82 | 90 |
| 10th Percentile | £16.70 | £20.67 | £17.50 |
| 25th Percentile | £21.25 | £29.00 | £21.25 |
| Median hourly rate | £40.18 | £39.48 | £33.22 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +1.77% | +18.86% | -34.94% |
| 75th Percentile | £57.50 | £64.69 | £61.19 |
| 90th Percentile | £74.68 | £80.00 | £71.50 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate | £41.36 | £35.49 | £30.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +16.53% | +18.30% | -40.63% |
RDBMS Job Vacancy Trend
Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RDBMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.
RDBMS Daily Rate Trend
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 October 2026.
RDBMS Hourly Rate Trend
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 17 October 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 | -137 | 87 | £571 | +3.82% | 50 |
| UK excluding London | -112 | 56 | £514 | +14.22% | 16 |
| London | -104 | 37 | £600 | -2.04% | 35 |
| Work from Home | -65 | 36 | £600 | +6.67% | 16 |
| North of England | -66 | 31 | £625 | +30.55% | 4 |
| North West | -34 | 23 | £625 | +55.47% | 4 |
| Midlands | -31 | 10 | £480 | - | 2 |
| West Midlands | -34 | 8 | £486 | - | 1 |
| South West | -34 | 7 | £565 | +2.73% | 1 |
| Yorkshire | -35 | 7 | £555 | -3.57% | |
| Scotland | -25 | 5 | £488 | +39.29% | 2 |
| North East | - | 4 | - | - | |
| South East | -67 | 2 | £297 | -33.26% | 3 |
| East Midlands | - | 2 | £335 | - | 1 |
| Northern Ireland | - | 1 | - | - | 2 |
RDBMS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Database & Business Intelligence
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Relational Database | 100.0% | 110 |
| 2 | Oracle Database | 34.5% | 38 |
| 3 | SQL Server | 32.7% | 36 |
| 4 | PostgreSQL | 29.1% | 32 |
| 5 | MongoDB | 20.0% | 22 |
| 6 | NoSQL | 15.5% | 17 |
| 7 | Oracle Exadata | 14.5% | 16 |
| 8 | MySQL | 12.7% | 14 |
| 9 | Ingres | 5.5% | 6 |
| 10 | Data Warehouse | 4.5% | 5 |
| 10 | Hazelcast | 4.5% | 5 |
| 10 | Metadata | 4.5% | 5 |
| 10 | Power BI | 4.5% | 5 |
| 10 | Redis | 4.5% | 5 |
| 15 | Apache Cassandra | 3.6% | 4 |
| 15 | Big Data | 3.6% | 4 |
| 17 | Data Lake | 2.7% | 3 |
| 17 | Elasticsearch | 2.7% | 3 |
| 17 | Hadoop | 2.7% | 3 |
| 17 | Oracle Database 10g | 2.7% | 3 |