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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 513 621
Rank change year-on-year +50 +108 +137
Contract jobs citing Database Optimisation 23 46 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.092% 0.12% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.14% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 38 12
10th Percentile £401 £418 £451
25th Percentile £411 £450 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £523 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.87% -9.13% -3.36%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £600
90th Percentile - £708 -
UK median daily rate £450 £508 £575
% change year-on-year -11.33% -11.74% +6.98%

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 22,947 31,985 42,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.37% 85.42% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,830 20,733 29,654
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,102 2,360 1,544
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.25
25th Percentile £17.82 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.53 £64.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.54 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +32 17 £625 +20.19% 25
Midlands - 2 £450 - 3
North of England +14 1 £415 -33.06% 1
North West +1 1 £415 -46.45% 1
South East - 1 - - 4
West Midlands - 1 - - 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) AWS
2 6 (26.09%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.35%) Serverless
5 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
3 4 (17.39%) Metadata
3 4 (17.39%) Oracle Database
3 4 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (13.04%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
5 2 (8.70%) MySQL
5 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (4.35%) Big Data
6 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
6 1 (4.35%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.35%) OLAP Cube
6 1 (4.35%) Power BI
6 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) GitLab
1 2 (8.70%) JMeter
1 2 (8.70%) Selenium
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 3 (13.04%) Finance
1 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Banking
3 1 (4.35%) Front Office
3 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Data Engineer
1 4 (17.39%) DBA
1 4 (17.39%) Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Administrator
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (8.70%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Database Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Performance Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Performance Test Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Test Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (4.35%) IFS Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Python Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.35%) SQL DBA
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Kafka
2 3 (13.04%) .NET
3 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
3 2 (8.70%) React
3 2 (8.70%) RESTful
4 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (4.35%) CSS
4 1 (4.35%) Django
4 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.35%) FHIR
4 1 (4.35%) JSON
4 1 (4.35%) MDX
4 1 (4.35%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (4.35%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.70%) Digital Media
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.35%) Clustering
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Educational Technology
3 1 (4.35%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Data Pipeline
2 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
2 7 (30.43%) Data Modelling
3 6 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (26.09%) Data Integration
3 6 (26.09%) High Availability
3 6 (26.09%) Performance Optimisation
3 6 (26.09%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (21.74%) Actionable Insight
4 5 (21.74%) Agile
4 5 (21.74%) Analytics
4 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
4 5 (21.74%) ETL
5 4 (17.39%) DevOps
5 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
6 3 (13.04%) Data Architecture
6 3 (13.04%) Data Engineering
6 3 (13.04%) Data Migration
6 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Python
1 11 (47.83%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) C++
2 4 (17.39%) Shell Script
3 3 (13.04%) Java
4 2 (8.70%) Bash
4 2 (8.70%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.35%) HL7
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) Ansible
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) Databricks
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) IFS