Database Optimisation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Database Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Database Optimisation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 855 925 1166
Rank change year-on-year +70 +241 -279
Permanent jobs citing Database Optimisation 47 47 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.046% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.049% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 42 47 28
10th Percentile £51,750 £36,250 £41,900
25th Percentile £61,250 £46,250 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.08% +23.81% -22.22%
75th Percentile £91,991 £67,500 £69,375
90th Percentile £121,250 £88,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +26.21% -23.70%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Database Optimisation in the UK

Database Optimisation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Database Optimisation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Database Optimisation in the UK

Database Optimisation
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Database Optimisation within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +98 44 £75,000 +15.38% 15
Work from Home +81 33 £73,500 +13.08% 5
London +114 24 £87,610 +34.78% 6
UK excluding London -2 22 £67,500 +3.85% 10
South East +13 15 £71,000 +67.06% 1
North of England +39 2 £63,875 -1.73% 3
North West 0 2 £63,875 -1.73% 2
Scotland - 2 £47,500 - 1
South West - 2 £62,500 - 4
West Midlands +5 1 £75,000 +76.47% 1
Midlands -17 1 £75,000 +76.47% 1

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 2 (4.26%) Apache
1 2 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.13%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 25 (53.19%) AWS
2 24 (51.06%) GCP
3 21 (44.68%) Azure
4 7 (14.89%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.64%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (10.64%) PaaS
6 4 (8.51%) Pulumi
7 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
7 3 (6.38%) Snowflake
8 2 (4.26%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.26%) Firebase
8 2 (4.26%) Google Analytics
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.13%) GitHub
9 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.13%) IaaS
9 1 (2.13%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) DHCP
1 2 (4.26%) DNS
1 2 (4.26%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.13%) HTTP
2 1 (2.13%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (59.57%) SQL Server
2 15 (31.91%) MongoDB
3 13 (27.66%) BigQuery
3 13 (27.66%) Data Hub
3 13 (27.66%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 12 (25.53%) DB2
5 9 (19.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (8.51%) MySQL
7 4 (8.51%) Redis
8 3 (6.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (6.38%) Power BI
8 3 (6.38%) Relational Database
9 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
9 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (2.13%) Data Mining
10 1 (2.13%) Hadoop
10 1 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (2.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Git
2 1 (2.13%) CircleCI
2 1 (2.13%) GitLab
2 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 15 (31.91%) Finance
3 14 (29.79%) Banking
4 12 (25.53%) Financial Institution
5 5 (10.64%) Law
6 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.13%) Automotive
8 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Local Government
8 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (27.66%) Lead
2 11 (23.40%) Developer
3 9 (19.15%) DBA
4 8 (17.02%) Database Engineer
5 7 (14.89%) Senior
6 5 (10.64%) Azure Developer
7 4 (8.51%) Data Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) SQL DBA
7 4 (8.51%) Technical Leader
8 2 (4.26%) Analyst
8 2 (4.26%) Backend Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Operations Manager
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Data Engineer
9 1 (2.13%) AWS Data Engineer
9 1 (2.13%) AWS Engineer
9 1 (2.13%) CloudOps Manager
9 1 (2.13%) Full Stack Developer
9 1 (2.13%) IT Analyst
9 1 (2.13%) Optimisation Engineer
9 1 (2.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.02%) .NET
2 5 (10.64%) AngularJS
3 4 (8.51%) FastAPI
3 4 (8.51%) HTML
3 4 (8.51%) Node.js
4 3 (6.38%) .NET Framework
4 3 (6.38%) CSS
5 2 (4.26%) Express.js
5 2 (4.26%) HTML5
5 2 (4.26%) React
6 1 (2.13%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (2.13%) COM
6 1 (2.13%) CSS3
6 1 (2.13%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.13%) Kafka
6 1 (2.13%) Laravel
6 1 (2.13%) PySpark
6 1 (2.13%) RESTful
6 1 (2.13%) Vue
6 1 (2.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.53%) Cyberattack
1 12 (25.53%) Data Fabric
1 12 (25.53%) Public Cloud
2 9 (19.15%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.38%) Robotics
4 2 (4.26%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.13%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.13%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 14 (29.79%) Linux
2 12 (25.53%) Windows
2 12 (25.53%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (48.94%) Disaster Recovery
2 17 (36.17%) ETL
3 15 (31.91%) Analytics
4 13 (27.66%) Data Management
5 12 (25.53%) Incident Response
6 11 (23.40%) Agile
6 11 (23.40%) Data Protection
7 10 (21.28%) Capacity Planning
7 10 (21.28%) Validation
8 9 (19.15%) Data Validation
8 9 (19.15%) Decision-Making
8 9 (19.15%) Mentoring
9 8 (17.02%) Containerisation
9 8 (17.02%) Data Security
9 8 (17.02%) DevOps
10 7 (14.89%) CI/CD
10 7 (14.89%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (12.77%) Test Automation
12 5 (10.64%) Integration Testing
12 5 (10.64%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (78.72%) SQL
2 9 (19.15%) Python
3 4 (8.51%) C#
3 4 (8.51%) C++
3 4 (8.51%) Java
4 3 (6.38%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.26%) Bash
5 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.26%) PHP
5 2 (4.26%) Scala
5 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) Degree
2 6 (12.77%) SC Cleared
2 6 (12.77%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.26%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.26%) QA
3 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Grafana
2 2 (4.26%) Ansible
3 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (31.91%) Google
2 13 (27.66%) Databricks
2 13 (27.66%) Microsoft
3 12 (25.53%) F5
3 12 (25.53%) Oracle
4 3 (6.38%) Facebook
5 2 (4.26%) SAP
6 1 (2.13%) Talend