Database Optimisation Contracts in London

Database Optimisation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 322 363 470
Rank change year-on-year +41 +107 +115
Contract jobs citing Database Optimisation 31 28 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.16% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.18% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 22
10th Percentile £416 £418 £298
25th Percentile £513 £480 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £590
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -11.02% -1.67%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £608
90th Percentile £646 £680 £610
England median daily rate £575 £545 £590
% change year-on-year +5.50% -7.63% +2.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Database Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Optimisation in London

Database Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Database Optimisation in London

Database Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Database Optimisation in London

Database Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Database Optimisation in London

Database Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +8 6 £550 +14.58%
East London +14 4 £625 +38.89%
Database Optimisation
England

Database Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (45.16%) Azure
2 11 (35.48%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (22.58%) AWS
3 7 (22.58%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (12.90%) GCP
5 2 (6.45%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (16.13%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.90%) Oracle Database
3 3 (9.68%) Data Mining
3 3 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (9.68%) Tableau
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.45%) Metadata
4 2 (6.45%) MySQL
4 2 (6.45%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.23%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (3.23%) MS Access
5 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket
1 2 (6.45%) GitLab
1 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.45%) JMeter
1 2 (6.45%) Selenium
1 2 (6.45%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 11 (35.48%) Back Office
3 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.68%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Lead
2 11 (35.48%) Technical Leader
3 5 (16.13%) Architect
3 5 (16.13%) Senior
4 3 (9.68%) Data Architect
4 3 (9.68%) DBA
4 3 (9.68%) Oracle DBA
4 3 (9.68%) Senior Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Senior Data Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Administrator
5 2 (6.45%) Database Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Performance Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Performance Test Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Lead Technical Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.23%) VBA Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (48.39%) .NET
2 3 (9.68%) CSS
2 3 (9.68%) D3.js
3 2 (6.45%) .NET Core
3 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET
3 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (6.45%) HTML
3 2 (6.45%) Kafka
3 2 (6.45%) RESTful
4 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.23%) Django
4 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.23%) FHIR
4 1 (3.23%) React
4 1 (3.23%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.68%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Clustering
4 1 (3.23%) Digital Media
4 1 (3.23%) Educational Technology
4 1 (3.23%) NHS
4 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) DevOps
2 11 (35.48%) Agile
2 11 (35.48%) Clean Code
2 11 (35.48%) OO
2 11 (35.48%) OOD
2 11 (35.48%) TDD
3 10 (32.26%) Content Management
4 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
4 7 (22.58%) Data Modelling
4 7 (22.58%) Design Patterns
4 7 (22.58%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (19.35%) Migration
6 5 (16.13%) Data Architecture
6 5 (16.13%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (16.13%) High Availability
7 4 (12.90%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (12.90%) Data Integration
7 4 (12.90%) Data Science
7 4 (12.90%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (12.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (74.19%) SQL
2 14 (45.16%) Java
3 13 (41.94%) C#
3 13 (41.94%) JavaScript
4 11 (35.48%) PowerShell
5 6 (19.35%) Python
6 3 (9.68%) T-SQL
7 2 (6.45%) Bash
7 2 (6.45%) C++
7 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.23%) PL/SQL
8 1 (3.23%) Ruby
8 1 (3.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) PCI DSS
2 3 (9.68%) QA
3 2 (6.45%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (6.45%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (3.23%) HL7
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Ansible
3 2 (6.45%) Terraform
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 14 (45.16%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.81%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) Databricks