OLTP Contracts in England

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for OLTP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OLTP over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 619 721
Rank change year-on-year +114 +102 -150
Contract jobs citing OLTP 33 36 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.089% 0.071% 0.089%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.54% 0.40% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 27 39
10th Percentile £413 £359 £458
25th Percentile £461 £506 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £586 £975 £719
90th Percentile £691 £1,013 £788
UK median daily rate £489 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -11.09% +2.33% -6.52%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

OLTP 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 advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,163 9,072 14,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.67% 17.97% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,417 6,507 10,368
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
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 £656
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 166 169
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £33.05 £22.38
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.09% +36.58% +70.00%
75th Percentile £56.74 £70.19 £61.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.64%

OLTP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing OLTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for OLTP in England

OLTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for OLTP in England

OLTP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OLTP in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OLTP in England

OLTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for OLTP in England

OLTP
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 OLTP within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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 +100 18 £475 -32.14% 5
North of England +37 6 £489 -2.20% 7
North West +28 6 £489 -2.20% 3
West Midlands +30 2 £573 +19.27% 1
Midlands +26 2 £573 +19.27% 3
South East +17 2 £488 -11.36% 3
South West - 2 £675 - 2
OLTP
UK

OLTP
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 5 (15.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (12.12%) Confluence
3 3 (9.09%) CICS
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 20 (60.61%) Azure
2 11 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 9 (27.27%) Serverless
4 7 (21.21%) AWS
4 7 (21.21%) Azure API Management
4 7 (21.21%) Azure Batch
4 7 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (21.21%) Azure Functions
4 7 (21.21%) Azure Key Vault
4 7 (21.21%) Azure Logic Apps
4 7 (21.21%) Azure Service Bus
4 7 (21.21%) Azure Storage
4 7 (21.21%) Power Automate
4 7 (21.21%) PowerApps
5 5 (15.15%) Apigee
5 5 (15.15%) GCP
5 5 (15.15%) Kong
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (6.06%) PaaS
6 2 (6.06%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (60.61%) OLAP
2 15 (45.45%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (39.39%) Data Lake
4 9 (27.27%) Big Data
4 9 (27.27%) SQL Server
5 7 (21.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (18.18%) MongoDB
7 5 (15.15%) Oracle OLAP
8 4 (12.12%) Metadata
8 4 (12.12%) Power BI
9 3 (9.09%) DB2
9 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (6.06%) Hadoop
10 2 (6.06%) Impala
10 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
10 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
10 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (6.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Git
1 7 (21.21%) Visual Studio Team System
2 5 (15.15%) JIRA
3 2 (6.06%) kappa
4 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (48.48%) Finance
2 10 (30.30%) Banking
2 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (54.55%) Architect
2 13 (39.39%) Data Architect
3 9 (27.27%) Developer
4 5 (15.15%) AWS Architect
4 5 (15.15%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (12.12%) Senior
5 4 (12.12%) Senior Architect
5 4 (12.12%) Senior Data Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Applications Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Data Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Consultant
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Data Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) DevOps Consultant
7 2 (6.06%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (33.33%) Web Services
2 10 (30.30%) Kafka
3 7 (21.21%) .NET
3 7 (21.21%) ARM Templates
4 6 (18.18%) JSON
4 6 (18.18%) XML
5 5 (15.15%) IBM Integration Bus
5 5 (15.15%) J2EE
5 5 (15.15%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (15.15%) SOAP
6 4 (12.12%) Apache Camel
6 4 (12.12%) Spring
6 4 (12.12%) Spring Boot
6 4 (12.12%) Spring Integration
7 2 (6.06%) Middleware
8 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) DataPower
2 3 (9.09%) Mainframe
2 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.09%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) zOS
2 1 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Migration
2 12 (36.36%) API Management
3 11 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 11 (33.33%) DevOps
3 11 (33.33%) Microservices
3 11 (33.33%) SOA
4 10 (30.30%) Analytics
5 8 (24.24%) Architectural Patterns
5 8 (24.24%) Data Migration
5 8 (24.24%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (24.24%) Enterprise Architecture
5 8 (24.24%) Roadmaps
6 7 (21.21%) BDD
6 7 (21.21%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (21.21%) Deployment Automation
6 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (21.21%) TDD
6 7 (21.21%) Test Automation
7 6 (18.18%) Data Governance
7 6 (18.18%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) Java
2 7 (21.21%) C#
2 7 (21.21%) PowerShell
3 4 (12.12%) SQL
4 3 (9.09%) COBOL
4 3 (9.09%) REXX
5 1 (3.03%) Python
5 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 3 (9.09%) GDPR
2 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Terraform
2 4 (12.12%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.03%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.18%) Oracle
3 5 (15.15%) Google
3 5 (15.15%) IBM
3 5 (15.15%) TSYS
4 3 (9.09%) Databricks
5 1 (3.03%) Salesforce