OLTP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 123 125 139
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 -
Contract jobs citing OLTP 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% 0.049% 0.039%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.58% 0.23% 0.20%
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 - -
Central London median daily rate £493 - £570

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 347 428 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.25% 20.77% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 278 351
10th Percentile £339 £407 £375
25th Percentile £414 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £594
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -1.52% +1.11%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £698
90th Percentile £749 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £585 £595
% change year-on-year -10.26% -1.68% +3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £32.10 - -
25th Percentile £32.25 £36.75 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +1.32% -34.48%
75th Percentile £49.88 £40.25 -
90th Percentile £58.20 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -34.48%

OLTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

OLTP job vacancy trend in the City of London

OLTP
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OLTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OLTP

OLTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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