RDBMS Contracts in England

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 432 422 467
Rank change year-on-year -10 +45 -35
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 118 223 350
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.47% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.84% 2.71% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 153 203
10th Percentile £356 £442 £425
25th Percentile £400 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £705
90th Percentile £650 £800 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -16.67% +5.26% +10.68%
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 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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,409 8,241 13,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.09% 17.52% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,613 5,916 9,942
10th Percentile £350 £365 £369
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 £669
90th Percentile £800 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 154 165
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.50
25th Percentile £20.77 £32.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +37.86% +72.48%
75th Percentile £52.83 £75.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.30 £82.85 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £43.95
% change year-on-year -31.73% +33.31% +62.78%

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 13 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 13 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 +14 85 £500 -16.67% 12
North of England +6 12 £534 -16.56% 9
North West +5 11 £534 -14.80% 7
South East +18 10 £406 -20.73% 6
Midlands +4 8 £356 -35.27% 2
East Midlands +11 6 £356 +1.71%
West Midlands +1 2 £420 -24.49% 2
Yorkshire +12 1 - - 2
East of England +2 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 (9.32%) JBoss
2 9 (7.63%) Apache
2 9 (7.63%) Oracle Workflow
3 7 (5.93%) Tomcat
4 6 (5.08%) nginx
5 5 (4.24%) Apache Spark
6 3 (2.54%) SAS
7 2 (1.69%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.85%) CMS
8 1 (0.85%) Confluence
8 1 (0.85%) CoreMedia CMS
8 1 (0.85%) GemFire
8 1 (0.85%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.85%) ThingWorx
8 1 (0.85%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.85%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.69%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.85%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 6 (5.08%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.85%) Hyperion Planning
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 51 (43.22%) AWS
2 30 (25.42%) Azure
3 16 (13.56%) GCP
4 15 (12.71%) Serverless
5 13 (11.02%) GitHub
6 10 (8.47%) Amazon S3
7 8 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (5.93%) Cloud Functions
8 7 (5.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 6 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.24%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (4.24%) OpenShift
11 4 (3.39%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (3.39%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (3.39%) IaaS
12 3 (2.54%) Power Platform
12 3 (2.54%) SaaS
13 2 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.78%) DNS
2 7 (5.93%) Firewall
3 3 (2.54%) SSL
4 2 (1.69%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.85%) HTTP
5 1 (0.85%) Internet
5 1 (0.85%) SAN
5 1 (0.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 37 (31.36%) SQL Server
3 35 (29.66%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (24.58%) NoSQL
5 19 (16.10%) MySQL
6 15 (12.71%) MongoDB
7 13 (11.02%) Data Lake
8 9 (7.63%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (7.63%) DB2
9 8 (6.78%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (5.93%) Big Data
10 7 (5.93%) BigQuery
10 7 (5.93%) Metadata
11 5 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (4.24%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (4.24%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (4.24%) Sybase ASE
12 4 (3.39%) Oracle Database
12 4 (3.39%) Star Schema
13 3 (2.54%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 19 (16.10%) Jenkins
2 17 (14.41%) Git
3 8 (6.78%) GitLab
4 6 (5.08%) JIRA
4 6 (5.08%) SonarQube
4 6 (5.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (4.24%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (4.24%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (4.24%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.54%) ERwin
6 3 (2.54%) JUnit
6 3 (2.54%) Subversion
7 2 (1.69%) Ant
7 2 (1.69%) ER Studio
7 2 (1.69%) Gradle
7 2 (1.69%) Maven
8 1 (0.85%) AppScan
8 1 (0.85%) FitNesse
8 1 (0.85%) JMeter
8 1 (0.85%) Selenium
General
1 29 (24.58%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.03%) Finance
3 23 (19.49%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.02%) Public Sector
5 11 (9.32%) Banking
6 4 (3.39%) Back Office
7 3 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.69%) Games
8 2 (1.69%) Marketing
8 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.85%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.85%) Legal
9 1 (0.85%) Local Government
9 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (19.49%) Architect
2 18 (15.25%) Developer
3 17 (14.41%) DBA
4 14 (11.86%) Data Modeller
5 9 (7.63%) Senior
5 9 (7.63%) Technical Architect
6 8 (6.78%) Consultant
6 8 (6.78%) Support Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 6 (5.08%) Analyst
8 6 (5.08%) Java Architect
9 5 (4.24%) AWS Architect
9 5 (4.24%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) GCP Architect
9 5 (4.24%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.39%) Applications Support
10 4 (3.39%) Data Architect
10 4 (3.39%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.71%) XML
2 14 (11.86%) Spring Boot
3 13 (11.02%) JSON
4 10 (8.47%) HTML
4 10 (8.47%) Middleware
5 9 (7.63%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (6.78%) Kafka
7 7 (5.93%) .NET
7 7 (5.93%) OAuth
8 6 (5.08%) HTML5
8 6 (5.08%) IBM Integration Bus
8 6 (5.08%) REST
9 5 (4.24%) RESTful
10 4 (3.39%) .NET Framework
10 4 (3.39%) ASP.NET
10 4 (3.39%) Spring
11 2 (1.69%) CSS
11 2 (1.69%) Django
11 2 (1.69%) J2EE
11 2 (1.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.63%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (5.93%) Onboarding
2 7 (5.93%) Replication
3 6 (5.08%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.08%) Data Structures
3 6 (5.08%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.39%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.39%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.54%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.54%) Smart Meter
6 2 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.69%) Clustering
6 2 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.69%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.69%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.85%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.85%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 46 (38.98%) Linux
2 31 (26.27%) Unix
2 31 (26.27%) Windows
3 24 (20.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (8.47%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.39%) VMS
6 1 (0.85%) AIX
6 1 (0.85%) CentOS
6 1 (0.85%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (25.42%) Data Modelling
2 29 (24.58%) Agile
3 24 (20.34%) DevOps
4 20 (16.95%) Microservices
5 19 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (15.25%) CI/CD
7 15 (12.71%) Migration
8 14 (11.86%) Analytics
8 14 (11.86%) ETL
8 14 (11.86%) Scrum
9 13 (11.02%) Containerisation
10 12 (10.17%) Incident Management
10 12 (10.17%) Physical Data Model
10 12 (10.17%) Workflow
11 11 (9.32%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (8.47%) Computer Science
12 10 (8.47%) Database Security
12 10 (8.47%) Design Patterns
12 10 (8.47%) Logical Data Model
12 10 (8.47%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 47 (39.83%) SQL
2 37 (31.36%) Python
3 25 (21.19%) Java
4 15 (12.71%) JavaScript
4 15 (12.71%) Shell Script
5 13 (11.02%) T-SQL
6 11 (9.32%) Bash
6 11 (9.32%) Perl
6 11 (9.32%) PowerShell
7 7 (5.93%) C#
8 6 (5.08%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.24%) C++
10 4 (3.39%) C
10 4 (3.39%) PL/SQL
10 4 (3.39%) Scala
11 3 (2.54%) R
11 3 (2.54%) VB
12 2 (1.69%) Gremlin
12 2 (1.69%) PHP
12 2 (1.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (15.25%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.56%) Degree
3 15 (12.71%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.24%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.39%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.69%) CISA
7 2 (1.69%) CRISC
7 2 (1.69%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.86%) QA
2 4 (3.39%) ISO 15022
3 2 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.85%) COPPA
4 1 (0.85%) EMIR
4 1 (0.85%) FATCA
4 1 (0.85%) GDPR
4 1 (0.85%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.85%) MiFID
4 1 (0.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (11.02%) Active Directory
1 13 (11.02%) Docker
2 5 (4.24%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 4 (3.39%) vSphere
4 2 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.85%) KVM
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (23.73%) Kubernetes
2 17 (14.41%) Terraform
3 14 (11.86%) Ansible
4 12 (10.17%) Progress Chef
5 7 (5.93%) Puppet
6 6 (5.08%) Kibana
7 5 (4.24%) Packer
8 4 (3.39%) Grafana
8 4 (3.39%) Graylog
8 4 (3.39%) Nagios
8 4 (3.39%) Prometheus
8 4 (3.39%) vRealize
9 2 (1.69%) Ganglia
10 1 (0.85%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.85%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.85%) Nessus
10 1 (0.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.85%) VxRail
10 1 (0.85%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 55 (46.61%) Oracle
2 19 (16.10%) Microsoft
3 13 (11.02%) Red Hat
4 12 (10.17%) Google
4 12 (10.17%) IBM
5 10 (8.47%) Splunk
6 9 (7.63%) Veritas
7 7 (5.93%) CyberArk
7 7 (5.93%) Sybase
8 6 (5.08%) AppDynamics
8 6 (5.08%) SAP
8 6 (5.08%) Sparx
8 6 (5.08%) Temenos
9 5 (4.24%) ServiceNow
9 5 (4.24%) Sun
9 5 (4.24%) VMware
10 4 (3.39%) Arqiva
11 3 (2.54%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (2.54%) Talend
11 3 (2.54%) Teradata