OLTP Contracts in England

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring OLTP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OLTP 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 476 525 604
Rank change year-on-year +49 +79 +114
Contract jobs citing OLTP 10 34 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.040% 0.091% 0.062%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.21% 0.52% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 26
10th Percentile - £441 £359
25th Percentile £400 £459 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £489 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.81% -11.09% -6.38%
75th Percentile £697 £642 £975
90th Percentile £714 £730 £1,013
UK median daily rate £625 £489 £550
% change year-on-year +27.81% -11.09% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,691 6,499 8,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.68% 17.36% 17.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,259 4,685 5,825
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £418 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 142 153
10th Percentile £18.89 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.63 £20.77 £32.30
Median hourly rate £33.50 £40.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.26% -30.43% +43.21%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.87 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £71.50 £82.90
UK median hourly rate £34.99 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -12.53% -30.43% +43.21%

OLTP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OLTP in England

OLTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for OLTP in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OLTP in England over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OLTP in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for OLTP in England

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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 OLTP 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 +31 7 £663 +40.96% 9
Midlands +14 3 £400 - 2
West Midlands +8 3 £400 - 2
OLTP
UK

OLTP
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) SAP BPC
2 1 (10.00%) SAP CAR
2 1 (10.00%) SAP EWM
2 1 (10.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Collibra
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (40.00%) OLAP
2 4 (40.00%) SAP BW
2 4 (40.00%) SAP HANA
3 3 (30.00%) Big Data
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (30.00%) SAP Data Services
4 2 (20.00%) Power BI
5 1 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) ERwin
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Billing
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (10.00%) General Ledger
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Principal Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Principal Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Team Leader
3 2 (20.00%) GCP Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Monitoring Team Leader
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Team Leader
3 2 (20.00%) Platform Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Development Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Web Services
2 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (20.00%) gRPC
2 2 (20.00%) Node.js
2 2 (20.00%) Pyramid
2 2 (20.00%) React
2 2 (20.00%) REST
2 2 (20.00%) SOAP
2 2 (20.00%) Spring
2 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (10.00%) Taxonomies
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Analytics
1 5 (50.00%) Observability
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Batch Processing
2 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (30.00%) Data Strategy
2 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) Low Latency
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Analysis
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Metrics
2 3 (30.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) Go
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) Scala
4 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) SLA
2 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
1 4 (40.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Informatica
3 1 (10.00%) Sparx