OLTP Contracts in London

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 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 340 371 468
Rank change year-on-year +31 +97 +95
Contract jobs citing OLTP 13 20 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.11% 0.092%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.46% 0.52% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 19
10th Percentile £533 £424 £359
25th Percentile £563 £450 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £470 £700
Median % change year-on-year +32.98% -32.86% -3.45%
75th Percentile £688 £611 £994
90th Percentile £710 £704 £1,013
England median daily rate £625 £489 £550
% change year-on-year +27.81% -11.09% -4.35%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,800 3,842 5,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.31% 21.55% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,981 2,833 4,047
10th Percentile £375 £378 £400
25th Percentile £450 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.17% -1.71%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 37 53
10th Percentile £22.27 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £28.03 £25.79 £24.50
Median hourly rate £39.31 £50.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £76.50 £64.73 £88.30
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

OLTP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for OLTP in London

OLTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for OLTP in London

OLTP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for OLTP in London

OLTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for OLTP in London

OLTP
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 OLTP 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 +6 3 - - 2
OLTP
England

OLTP
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) SAP BPC
1 3 (23.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (7.69%) SAP CAR
2 1 (7.69%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) Collibra
4 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) dbt
5 1 (7.69%) SaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) NoSQL
2 4 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (30.77%) OLAP
2 4 (30.77%) SAP BW
2 4 (30.77%) SAP HANA
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (23.08%) Big Data
3 3 (23.08%) Couchbase
3 3 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (23.08%) SAP Data Services
4 2 (15.38%) Metadata
4 2 (15.38%) Power BI
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
5 1 (7.69%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) ER Studio
2 1 (7.69%) ERwin
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Billing
5 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 1 (7.69%) General Ledger
5 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Data Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) DBA
2 3 (23.08%) Principal Data Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Data Modeller
3 2 (15.38%) GCP Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Platform Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
4 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Development Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) SAP Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Kafka
1 3 (23.08%) Web Services
2 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
2 2 (15.38%) GraphQL
2 2 (15.38%) gRPC
2 2 (15.38%) Node.js
2 2 (15.38%) Pyramid
2 2 (15.38%) React
2 2 (15.38%) REST
2 2 (15.38%) SOAP
2 2 (15.38%) Spring
2 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (23.08%) iPad
1 3 (23.08%) Replication
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (15.38%) Reference Data
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Hedge funds
3 1 (7.69%) Taxonomies
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Analytics
2 6 (46.15%) Containerisation
3 5 (38.46%) Data Modelling
3 5 (38.46%) Observability
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) Data Strategy
5 3 (23.08%) E-Commerce
5 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (23.08%) Low Latency
5 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
5 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Architectural Design
6 2 (15.38%) DevOps
6 2 (15.38%) Domain Models
6 2 (15.38%) Logical Data Model
6 2 (15.38%) Microservices
6 2 (15.38%) SDLC
6 2 (15.38%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) Python
3 5 (38.46%) Java
3 5 (38.46%) Scala
4 2 (15.38%) C#
4 2 (15.38%) Go
4 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
5 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 2 (15.38%) ISO 20022
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
2 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) SAP
2 3 (23.08%) Sparx
2 3 (23.08%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.69%) Google
4 1 (7.69%) Informatica
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle