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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 438 424 465
Rank change year-on-year -14 +41 -42
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 136 295 446
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.52% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.87% 2.89% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 197 253
10th Percentile £356 £410 £425
25th Percentile £410 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £575 £566
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +1.59% +13.20%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £700
90th Percentile £650 £775 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £528 £506 £500
% change year-on-year +4.30% +1.25% +17.65%
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 7,263 10,212 17,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.07% 17.88% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,202 7,271 12,451
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 180 194
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.37
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £22.43
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £61.60 £73.75 £64.94
90th Percentile £74.00 £82.55 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £56.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year -29.76% +62.71% +43.44%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -32 117 £523 -12.92% 51
London +13 77 £500 -16.67% 25
Work from Home +56 48 £534 -5.07% 38
UK excluding London 0 45 £528 +4.30% 34
North of England +3 16 £534 +9.01% 10
North West +3 16 £534 +10.16% 6
South East +20 12 £438 -20.45% 6
Midlands +19 8 £356 -35.27% 5
East Midlands +19 6 £356 +1.71%
Scotland +27 4 £338 -10.58% 6
Wales - 4 £621 - 2
West Midlands +2 2 £420 -24.49% 5
East of England +8 1 £675 +3.85% 4

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 16 (11.76%) JBoss
2 12 (8.82%) Apache
3 9 (6.62%) nginx
3 9 (6.62%) Oracle Workflow
3 9 (6.62%) Tomcat
4 5 (3.68%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.21%) SAS
6 2 (1.47%) Confluence
6 2 (1.47%) ThingWorx
7 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.74%) CMS
7 1 (0.74%) CoreMedia CMS
7 1 (0.74%) GemFire
7 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.74%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.21%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (6.62%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.74%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 66 (48.53%) AWS
2 43 (31.62%) Azure
3 24 (17.65%) Serverless
4 18 (13.24%) GCP
5 13 (9.56%) GitHub
6 12 (8.82%) Amazon S3
7 10 (7.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (5.15%) Cloud Functions
10 7 (5.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (3.68%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.68%) IaaS
11 5 (3.68%) OpenShift
12 4 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.94%) Amazon EventBridge
12 4 (2.94%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (2.21%) Power Platform
13 3 (2.21%) SaaS
13 3 (2.21%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.82%) Firewall
2 11 (8.09%) DNS
3 4 (2.94%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.21%) SSL
4 3 (2.21%) VPN
5 1 (0.74%) HTTP
5 1 (0.74%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 46 (33.82%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (30.88%) SQL Server
4 40 (29.41%) NoSQL
5 23 (16.91%) MySQL
6 22 (16.18%) MongoDB
7 13 (9.56%) Oracle Reports
8 12 (8.82%) Data Lake
9 9 (6.62%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (6.62%) DB2
10 7 (5.15%) Big Data
10 7 (5.15%) BigQuery
10 7 (5.15%) Metadata
11 6 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (3.68%) Oracle Database
12 5 (3.68%) Star Schema
12 5 (3.68%) Sybase ASE
13 4 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 19 (13.97%) Git
2 17 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.62%) GitLab
4 8 (5.88%) JIRA
4 8 (5.88%) SonarQube
5 6 (4.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (3.68%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (3.68%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (3.68%) TeamCity
7 4 (2.94%) Subversion
8 3 (2.21%) Burp Suite
8 3 (2.21%) ERwin
8 3 (2.21%) JUnit
9 2 (1.47%) Ant
9 2 (1.47%) AppScan
9 2 (1.47%) ER Studio
9 2 (1.47%) Gradle
9 2 (1.47%) Maven
10 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.74%) Selenium
General
1 35 (25.74%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (20.59%) Finance
3 16 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.56%) Banking
5 4 (2.94%) Back Office
6 3 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.47%) Games
7 2 (1.47%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.47%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.47%) Marketing
7 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.74%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.74%) Legal
8 1 (0.74%) Local Government
8 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (19.12%) DBA
2 25 (18.38%) Architect
3 20 (14.71%) Developer
4 13 (9.56%) Data Modeller
4 13 (9.56%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 10 (7.35%) Technical Architect
6 9 (6.62%) Senior
7 8 (5.88%) Consultant
7 8 (5.88%) Support Engineer
8 7 (5.15%) Analyst
8 7 (5.15%) Applications Support
8 7 (5.15%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (4.41%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.41%) Java Architect
9 6 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.68%) AWS Architect
10 5 (3.68%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Linux Support
10 5 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.44%) XML
2 20 (14.71%) JSON
3 15 (11.03%) Middleware
3 15 (11.03%) Spring Boot
4 14 (10.29%) Kafka
5 12 (8.82%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (8.09%) HTML
7 10 (7.35%) IBM Integration Bus
8 8 (5.88%) .NET
9 7 (5.15%) HTML5
9 7 (5.15%) OAuth
9 7 (5.15%) REST
10 5 (3.68%) RESTful
10 5 (3.68%) Spring
11 4 (2.94%) .NET Framework
11 4 (2.94%) ASP.NET
12 3 (2.21%) React
13 2 (1.47%) CSS
13 2 (1.47%) jQuery
13 2 (1.47%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.35%) Linux Command Line
1 10 (7.35%) Public Cloud
2 8 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.15%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.15%) Replication
4 6 (4.41%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.41%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (2.21%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.21%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.21%) Smart Meter
7 2 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.47%) Clustering
7 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.47%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.47%) IoT
7 2 (1.47%) Mashup
7 2 (1.47%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 52 (38.24%) Linux
2 37 (27.21%) Windows
3 35 (25.74%) Unix
4 28 (20.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (11.03%) Windows Server
6 5 (3.68%) VMS
7 1 (0.74%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (32.35%) Agile
2 35 (25.74%) DevOps
3 30 (22.06%) Data Modelling
4 22 (16.18%) Microservices
4 22 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (13.24%) CI/CD
6 16 (11.76%) Containerisation
6 16 (11.76%) Database Security
6 16 (11.76%) Migration
6 16 (11.76%) Scrum
7 15 (11.03%) ETL
7 15 (11.03%) Incident Management
8 14 (10.29%) Runbook
9 13 (9.56%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (9.56%) Mentoring
10 11 (8.09%) Analytics
10 11 (8.09%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (8.09%) Physical Data Model
11 10 (7.35%) Build Automation
11 10 (7.35%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (38.97%) SQL
2 39 (28.68%) Python
3 26 (19.12%) Java
4 16 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 15 (11.03%) Shell Script
6 14 (10.29%) JavaScript
6 14 (10.29%) T-SQL
7 13 (9.56%) Bash
8 11 (8.09%) Perl
9 8 (5.88%) C#
10 7 (5.15%) TypeScript
11 5 (3.68%) C++
12 4 (2.94%) C
12 4 (2.94%) PL/SQL
13 3 (2.21%) PHP
13 3 (2.21%) Scala
14 2 (1.47%) Groovy
15 1 (0.74%) Korn
15 1 (0.74%) Ruby
15 1 (0.74%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 23 (16.91%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.29%) Degree
4 6 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.68%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.68%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.21%) SANS
7 2 (1.47%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.71%) QA
2 4 (2.94%) ISO 15022
3 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.74%) COPPA
3 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.74%) EMIR
3 1 (0.74%) FATCA
3 1 (0.74%) GDPR
3 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.74%) MiFID
3 1 (0.74%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (12.50%) Docker
2 14 (10.29%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.68%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 5 (3.68%) vSphere
4 2 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.74%) KVM
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 19 (13.97%) Terraform
3 16 (11.76%) Ansible
4 10 (7.35%) Progress Chef
5 8 (5.88%) Grafana
5 8 (5.88%) Nagios
6 7 (5.15%) Graylog
6 7 (5.15%) Prometheus
7 6 (4.41%) Kibana
7 6 (4.41%) Packer
8 5 (3.68%) Puppet
8 5 (3.68%) vRealize
9 2 (1.47%) HP Fortify
9 2 (1.47%) Nessus
9 2 (1.47%) WebInspect
10 1 (0.74%) Control-M
10 1 (0.74%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.74%) Ganglia
10 1 (0.74%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 64 (47.06%) Oracle
2 23 (16.91%) Microsoft
3 16 (11.76%) Red Hat
4 15 (11.03%) IBM
5 13 (9.56%) Splunk
6 12 (8.82%) Google
7 10 (7.35%) Veritas
8 9 (6.62%) Temenos
9 8 (5.88%) CyberArk
10 7 (5.15%) Sybase
11 6 (4.41%) AppDynamics
11 6 (4.41%) SAP
11 6 (4.41%) VMware
12 5 (3.68%) Arqiva
12 5 (3.68%) ServiceNow
12 5 (3.68%) Sparx
12 5 (3.68%) Sun
13 3 (2.21%) Ab Initio
13 3 (2.21%) BiZZdesign
13 3 (2.21%) Teradata