Database Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Database Optimisation
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Database Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Database Optimisation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.45% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Database Optimisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 198 103 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 88.79% 90.35% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 70 101
10th Percentile £265 £296 £235
25th Percentile £406 £408 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £573 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £625
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £471 £475
% change year-on-year +0.80% -0.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 24
10th Percentile - £16.28 £15.51
25th Percentile £14.64 £17.46 £25.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £23.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% -38.26% +81.71%
75th Percentile £27.50 £60.00 £66.38
90th Percentile £34.48 £62.00 £75.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.50 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year +1.66% +8.20% -3.23%

Database Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Database Optimisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Database Optimisation job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Database Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Celery
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) SQLAlchemy
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) LIMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Informatics
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker