RDBMS Contracts

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for RDBMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RDBMS over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 441 434 449
Rank change year-on-year -7 +15 -10
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 134 264 465
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.47% 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.84% 2.67% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 176 263
10th Percentile £346 £416 £413
25th Percentile £400 £495 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +6.19% +9.71%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £700
90th Percentile £668 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £527 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.27% +10.00% +16.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £62.84 £25.79
25th Percentile - £63.83 £34.48
Median hourly rate £40.50 £66.56 £50.20
Median % change year-on-year -39.15% +32.59% +2.59%
75th Percentile - £68.20 £53.35
90th Percentile - £68.53 £54.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.50 £66.56 £51.85
% change year-on-year -39.15% +28.38% +20.95%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

RDBMS is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,300 9,902 17,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 17.66% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,235 7,035 12,303
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% -0.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £754 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 179 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.45
25th Percentile £20.77 £33.70 £21.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £56.88 £73.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.75 £80.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.86%

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 1 June 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 13 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 1 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
England -23 115 £520 -13.33% 40
London +20 81 £500 -16.67% 20
Work from Home +54 45 £525 -14.43% 25
UK excluding London -2 39 £527 -4.27% 23
North of England +12 12 £534 -16.56% 6
North West +12 12 £534 -14.80% 4
South East +10 11 £406 -26.14% 5
Midlands +10 8 £356 -35.27% 3
East Midlands +16 6 £356 +1.71%
Scotland +21 4 £338 -10.58% 2
Wales - 3 £643 - 1
West Midlands -3 2 £420 -24.49% 3
East of England +2 1 £675 +3.85% 3

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 15 (11.19%) JBoss
2 11 (8.21%) Apache
3 9 (6.72%) nginx
3 9 (6.72%) Oracle Workflow
3 9 (6.72%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.99%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.24%) SAS
6 2 (1.49%) Confluence
6 2 (1.49%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.49%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.75%) CMS
7 1 (0.75%) CoreMedia CMS
7 1 (0.75%) GemFire
7 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.75%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.75%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (6.72%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.75%) Endur
2 1 (0.75%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 62 (46.27%) AWS
2 40 (29.85%) Azure
3 19 (14.18%) Serverless
4 17 (12.69%) GCP
5 13 (9.70%) GitHub
6 11 (8.21%) Amazon S3
7 9 (6.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (5.22%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (5.22%) Cloud Functions
9 7 (5.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (3.73%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.73%) IaaS
10 5 (3.73%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.99%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (2.99%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (2.24%) Power Platform
12 3 (2.24%) SaaS
13 2 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.21%) DNS
1 11 (8.21%) Firewall
2 3 (2.24%) SSL
2 3 (2.24%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.49%) VPN
4 1 (0.75%) HTTP
4 1 (0.75%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 43 (32.09%) SQL Server
3 41 (30.60%) PostgreSQL
4 35 (26.12%) NoSQL
5 21 (15.67%) MySQL
6 17 (12.69%) MongoDB
7 12 (8.96%) Data Lake
8 10 (7.46%) Oracle Reports
9 9 (6.72%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (6.72%) DB2
10 7 (5.22%) Big Data
10 7 (5.22%) BigQuery
10 7 (5.22%) Metadata
11 5 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (3.73%) Oracle Database
11 5 (3.73%) Star Schema
11 5 (3.73%) Sybase ASE
12 4 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (2.24%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (14.18%) Git
1 19 (14.18%) Jenkins
2 10 (7.46%) GitLab
3 8 (5.97%) JIRA
3 8 (5.97%) SonarQube
4 6 (4.48%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (3.73%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (3.73%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (3.73%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.99%) Subversion
7 3 (2.24%) Burp Suite
7 3 (2.24%) ERwin
7 3 (2.24%) JUnit
8 2 (1.49%) Ant
8 2 (1.49%) AppScan
8 2 (1.49%) ER Studio
8 2 (1.49%) Gradle
8 2 (1.49%) Maven
9 1 (0.75%) FitNesse
9 1 (0.75%) Selenium
General
1 34 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.39%) Finance
3 28 (20.90%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.94%) Public Sector
5 13 (9.70%) Banking
6 4 (2.99%) Back Office
7 3 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.49%) Games
8 2 (1.49%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.49%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.49%) Marketing
8 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.75%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.75%) Legal
9 1 (0.75%) Local Government
9 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (18.66%) Architect
2 20 (14.93%) DBA
2 20 (14.93%) Developer
3 14 (10.45%) Data Modeller
4 10 (7.46%) Senior
4 10 (7.46%) Technical Architect
5 9 (6.72%) Analyst
5 9 (6.72%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 8 (5.97%) Consultant
6 8 (5.97%) Support Engineer
7 7 (5.22%) Applications Support
7 7 (5.22%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (4.48%) Java Architect
8 6 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.73%) AWS Architect
9 5 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) Data Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) Linux Support
9 5 (3.73%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.69%) XML
2 16 (11.94%) JSON
3 15 (11.19%) Middleware
4 14 (10.45%) Spring Boot
5 12 (8.96%) HTML
6 11 (8.21%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (7.46%) IBM Integration Bus
7 10 (7.46%) Kafka
8 8 (5.97%) .NET
8 8 (5.97%) HTML5
9 7 (5.22%) OAuth
9 7 (5.22%) REST
10 5 (3.73%) RESTful
11 4 (2.99%) .NET Framework
11 4 (2.99%) ASP.NET
11 4 (2.99%) Spring
12 3 (2.24%) React
13 2 (1.49%) CSS
13 2 (1.49%) jQuery
13 2 (1.49%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.46%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (6.72%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.97%) Public Cloud
4 7 (5.22%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.22%) Replication
5 6 (4.48%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.48%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.99%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (2.24%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.24%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.24%) Smart Meter
8 2 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.49%) Clustering
8 2 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.49%) IoT
8 2 (1.49%) Mashup
8 2 (1.49%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 53 (39.55%) Linux
2 38 (28.36%) Windows
3 36 (26.87%) Unix
4 29 (21.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (11.19%) Windows Server
6 5 (3.73%) VMS
7 1 (0.75%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (29.10%) Agile
2 32 (23.88%) Data Modelling
2 32 (23.88%) DevOps
3 22 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (15.67%) Microservices
5 19 (14.18%) CI/CD
6 16 (11.94%) Containerisation
6 16 (11.94%) Scrum
7 15 (11.19%) Incident Management
7 15 (11.19%) Migration
8 14 (10.45%) Analytics
8 14 (10.45%) ETL
8 14 (10.45%) Runbook
9 12 (8.96%) Database Security
9 12 (8.96%) Physical Data Model
9 12 (8.96%) Workflow
10 11 (8.21%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (8.21%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (7.46%) Logical Data Model
11 10 (7.46%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (38.81%) SQL
2 40 (29.85%) Python
3 27 (20.15%) Java
4 16 (11.94%) JavaScript
4 16 (11.94%) Shell Script
5 15 (11.19%) PowerShell
6 13 (9.70%) Bash
6 13 (9.70%) T-SQL
7 11 (8.21%) Perl
8 8 (5.97%) C#
9 7 (5.22%) TypeScript
10 5 (3.73%) C++
11 4 (2.99%) C
11 4 (2.99%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.99%) VB
12 3 (2.24%) PHP
12 3 (2.24%) R
12 3 (2.24%) Scala
13 2 (1.49%) Groovy
13 2 (1.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (17.16%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.45%) Degree
4 6 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.73%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.73%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.24%) SANS
7 2 (1.49%) CISA
7 2 (1.49%) CRISC
7 2 (1.49%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.43%) QA
2 4 (2.99%) ISO 15022
3 2 (1.49%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.75%) COPPA
4 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.75%) EMIR
4 1 (0.75%) FATCA
4 1 (0.75%) GDPR
4 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.75%) MiFID
4 1 (0.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (11.19%) Active Directory
1 15 (11.19%) Docker
2 5 (3.73%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 5 (3.73%) vSphere
3 2 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.75%) KVM
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (23.88%) Kubernetes
2 19 (14.18%) Terraform
3 16 (11.94%) Ansible
4 11 (8.21%) Progress Chef
5 7 (5.22%) Grafana
5 7 (5.22%) Nagios
6 6 (4.48%) Graylog
6 6 (4.48%) Kibana
6 6 (4.48%) Packer
6 6 (4.48%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.48%) Puppet
7 5 (3.73%) vRealize
8 2 (1.49%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.49%) Nessus
8 2 (1.49%) WebInspect
9 1 (0.75%) Control-M
9 1 (0.75%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.75%) Ganglia
9 1 (0.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.75%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 63 (47.01%) Oracle
2 25 (18.66%) Microsoft
3 15 (11.19%) IBM
3 15 (11.19%) Red Hat
4 12 (8.96%) Google
4 12 (8.96%) Splunk
5 10 (7.46%) Veritas
6 9 (6.72%) CyberArk
6 9 (6.72%) Temenos
7 8 (5.97%) Sybase
8 6 (4.48%) AppDynamics
8 6 (4.48%) SAP
8 6 (4.48%) Sparx
8 6 (4.48%) VMware
9 5 (3.73%) Arqiva
9 5 (3.73%) ServiceNow
9 5 (3.73%) Sun
10 3 (2.24%) Ab Initio
10 3 (2.24%) Talend
10 3 (2.24%) Teradata