Database Optimisation Contracts

Database Optimisation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Database Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Database Optimisation over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 553 693 843
Rank change year-on-year +140 +150 -164
Contract jobs citing Database Optimisation 47 23 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.039% 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.043% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 23 12
10th Percentile £313 £317 £443
25th Percentile £418 £500 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.29% +2.61% +15.00%
75th Percentile £627 £605 £634
90th Percentile £682 £610 £854
UK excluding London median daily rate £648 - £419
% change year-on-year - - -16.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Database Optimisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Database Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Database Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Database Optimisation in the UK

Database Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Database Optimisation.

Daily rate trend for Database Optimisation in the UK

Database Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Optimisation over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Database Optimisation in the UK

Database Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Database Optimisation.

Hourly rate trend for Database Optimisation in the UK

Database Optimisation
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Database Optimisation within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +135 38 £535 -9.32% 26
London +118 27 £523 -11.44% 13
Work from Home +130 17 £520 -13.33% 7
UK excluding London - 13 £648 - 14
South West - 6 £660 - 5
North of England - 5 £483 - 4
Yorkshire - 2 £490 - 1
North West - 2 £575 - 3
Scotland - 2 £475 - 2
North East - 1 £475 -

Database Optimisation
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 1 (2.13%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.02%) Azure
2 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.26%) AWS
3 2 (4.26%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (2.13%) CloudBees
4 1 (2.13%) Datadog
4 1 (2.13%) GCP
4 1 (2.13%) OCI
4 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.13%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (44.68%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.64%) MySQL
3 4 (8.51%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.13%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.13%) Data Hub
5 1 (2.13%) DB2
5 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.13%) Ingres
5 1 (2.13%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (2.13%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.13%) Power BI
5 1 (2.13%) Redis
5 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.13%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (48.94%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.38%) Back Office
4 2 (4.26%) Finance
5 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (57.45%) Developer
2 15 (31.91%) Senior
2 15 (31.91%) Senior Developer
3 8 (17.02%) Senior Software Developer
3 8 (17.02%) Software Developer
4 7 (14.89%) Architect
5 6 (12.77%) Backend Developer
5 6 (12.77%) DBA
5 6 (12.77%) Systems Architect
6 5 (10.64%) .NET Developer
7 4 (8.51%) Active Directory Architect
7 4 (8.51%) Administrator
7 4 (8.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (8.51%) Lead
8 3 (6.38%) Java Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Senior Backend Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Technical Leader
9 2 (4.26%) Oracle DBA
9 2 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (4.26%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) .NET
2 7 (14.89%) AngularJS
3 5 (10.64%) CSS
3 5 (10.64%) HTML
3 5 (10.64%) React
3 5 (10.64%) RESTful
3 5 (10.64%) Vue
4 3 (6.38%) XML
5 2 (4.26%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.13%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.13%) Kafka
6 1 (2.13%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (2.13%) REST
6 1 (2.13%) Spring
6 1 (2.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (31.91%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (17.02%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.13%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Windows
2 6 (12.77%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.26%) Unix
4 1 (2.13%) Linux
4 1 (2.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (57.45%) Agile
2 20 (42.55%) Content Management
3 19 (40.43%) Design Patterns
4 18 (38.30%) Software Engineering
5 15 (31.91%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (27.66%) SDLC
7 10 (21.28%) Data Modelling
8 8 (17.02%) Migration
9 7 (14.89%) Data Migration
10 6 (12.77%) Data Management
10 6 (12.77%) DevOps
11 5 (10.64%) API Development
11 5 (10.64%) API Integration
11 5 (10.64%) CI/CD
11 5 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (10.64%) Front End Development
11 5 (10.64%) Identity Management
11 5 (10.64%) User Experience
11 5 (10.64%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 5 (10.64%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 34 (72.34%) SQL
2 27 (57.45%) JavaScript
3 23 (48.94%) Java
3 23 (48.94%) PowerShell
4 21 (44.68%) C#
5 2 (4.26%) Bicep
5 2 (4.26%) PL/SQL
5 2 (4.26%) Python
5 2 (4.26%) Scala
6 1 (2.13%) Bash
6 1 (2.13%) C
6 1 (2.13%) Go
6 1 (2.13%) Groovy
6 1 (2.13%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.13%) Ruby
6 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (42.55%) Degree
2 7 (14.89%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.26%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (36.17%) PCI DSS
2 6 (12.77%) QA
3 5 (10.64%) Accessibility
4 2 (4.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (17.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.13%) Ansible
1 1 (2.13%) Argo
1 1 (2.13%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 11 (23.40%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.77%) Oracle
3 2 (4.26%) Databricks
4 1 (2.13%) Brio
4 1 (2.13%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.13%) F5
4 1 (2.13%) Yardi