OLTP Contract Job Trends in Central London

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring OLTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 132 144
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 -
Contract jobs citing OLTP 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.10% 0.043% 0.037%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.54% 0.21% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £467 - -
25th Percentile £474 - £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 - £570
75th Percentile £504 - £585
90th Percentile £508 - -
London median daily rate £600 £563 £673
% change year-on-year +6.67% -16.36% +28.10%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central London

OLTP falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 370 468 540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 18.61% 20.07% 19.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 309 378
10th Percentile £338 £411 £375
25th Percentile £413 £486 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £595
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -1.68% +3.48%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £747 £800 £800
London median daily rate £525 £569 £570
% change year-on-year -7.73% -0.18% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £32.10 £37.20 -
25th Percentile £32.25 £37.88 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -34.48%
75th Percentile £49.88 £41.38 -
90th Percentile £58.20 £41.60 -
London median hourly rate £43.50 £42.75 £45.53
% change year-on-year +1.75% -6.10% -17.22%

OLTP
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OLTP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

OLTP job vacancy trend in Central London

OLTP
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing OLTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing OLTP

OLTP
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OLTP within the Central London region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. 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
City of London +2 2 £493 - 1
OLTP
London

OLTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) BASE24
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Local Government
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) EMV
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (50.00%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Fintech
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Key Management
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) COBOL
2 1 (50.00%) Korn
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) ProC
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 8583
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle