Database Optimisation Contracts in England

Database Optimisation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Database Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Database Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 449 503 629
Rank change year-on-year +54 +126 +133
Contract jobs citing Database Optimisation 36 39 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.10% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.12% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 31 23
10th Percentile £410 £418 £317
25th Percentile £513 £483 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £545 £590
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -7.63% +2.61%
75th Percentile £638 £674 £605
90th Percentile £645 £700 £610
UK median daily rate £563 £520 £590
% change year-on-year +8.17% -11.86% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.87 - -
Median hourly rate £63.75 - -
75th Percentile £65.62 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.75 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Database Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Optimisation in England

Database Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Database Optimisation in England

Database Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Optimisation in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Database Optimisation in England

Database Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Database Optimisation in England

Database Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +41 31 £575 +9.52% 19
North West +19 4 £625 +8.70% 11
North of England +18 4 £625 +29.53% 20
South West +43 3 £625 -5.30% 12
West Midlands - 1 - - 8
South East - 1 - - 23
Midlands - 1 - - 17
Database Optimisation
UK

Database Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (41.67%) Azure
2 11 (30.56%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (22.22%) AWS
4 7 (19.44%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (11.11%) GCP
6 2 (5.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) SQL Server
2 6 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (13.89%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (11.11%) Oracle Database
5 3 (8.33%) Data Mining
5 3 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 3 (8.33%) Tableau
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (5.56%) Metadata
6 2 (5.56%) MySQL
6 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.78%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (2.78%) OLAP
7 1 (2.78%) OLAP Cube
7 1 (2.78%) Power BI
7 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket
1 2 (5.56%) GitLab
1 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.56%) JMeter
1 2 (5.56%) Selenium
1 2 (5.56%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 16 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 11 (30.56%) Back Office
3 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.33%) Banking
5 2 (5.56%) Finance
6 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Lead
2 11 (30.56%) Technical Leader
3 7 (19.44%) Senior
4 5 (13.89%) Architect
4 5 (13.89%) DBA
5 4 (11.11%) Administrator
5 4 (11.11%) Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Data Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Data Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Database Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Performance Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Performance Test Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Test Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Access VBA Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (41.67%) .NET
2 4 (11.11%) Kafka
3 3 (8.33%) CSS
3 3 (8.33%) D3.js
4 2 (5.56%) .NET Core
4 2 (5.56%) ASP.NET
4 2 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (5.56%) HTML
4 2 (5.56%) RESTful
5 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.78%) Django
5 1 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.78%) FHIR
5 1 (2.78%) JSON
5 1 (2.78%) MDX
5 1 (2.78%) React
5 1 (2.78%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Clustering
4 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.78%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.78%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.78%) NHS
4 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) DevOps
2 13 (36.11%) Agile
3 11 (30.56%) Clean Code
3 11 (30.56%) OO
3 11 (30.56%) OOD
3 11 (30.56%) TDD
4 10 (27.78%) Content Management
5 8 (22.22%) Data Modelling
5 8 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
6 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
6 7 (19.44%) Data Architecture
6 7 (19.44%) Design Patterns
6 7 (19.44%) Migration
7 6 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (13.89%) Data Integration
8 5 (13.89%) High Availability
9 4 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
9 4 (11.11%) ETL
9 4 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (75.00%) SQL
2 14 (38.89%) Java
3 13 (36.11%) C#
3 13 (36.11%) JavaScript
4 11 (30.56%) PowerShell
5 7 (19.44%) Python
6 3 (8.33%) T-SQL
7 2 (5.56%) Bash
7 2 (5.56%) C++
7 2 (5.56%) PL/SQL
7 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.78%) Ruby
8 1 (2.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.22%) PCI DSS
2 4 (11.11%) QA
3 2 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (5.56%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (2.78%) HL7
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (5.56%) Ansible
3 2 (5.56%) Terraform
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 14 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 10 (27.78%) Oracle
3 2 (5.56%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) Databricks
4 1 (2.78%) IFS