OLTP Contract Job Trends in London

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring OLTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 360 420
Rank change year-on-year -11 +60 +111
Contract jobs citing OLTP 5 21 8
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.035% 0.13% 0.040%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.17% 0.62% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £593 £478 £463
25th Percentile £596 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £563 £775
Median % change year-on-year +7.11% -27.42% +47.62%
75th Percentile £626 £630 £888
90th Percentile £633 £639 £923
England median daily rate £508 £563 £500
% change year-on-year -9.78% +12.50% -4.76%

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 2,941 3,404 3,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.78% 21.53% 19.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,048 2,385 2,763
10th Percentile £363 £363 £381
25th Percentile £425 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £651 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £838 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 22 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.81 £20.13
25th Percentile £30.69 £36.25 £35.06
Median hourly rate £50.75 £42.75 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year +18.71% -6.10% -17.22%
75th Percentile £70.50 £53.75 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.50 £76.95 £78.00
England median hourly rate £44.25 £35.00 £48.45
% change year-on-year +26.43% -27.76% -3.11%

OLTP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OLTP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

OLTP job vacancy trend in London

OLTP
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OLTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OLTP

OLTP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OLTP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OLTP

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 22 November 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
West London - 2 £614 -
OLTP
England

OLTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Collibra
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) OLAP
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (40.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (40.00%) Mixpanel
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (20.00%) Data Vault
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata
3 1 (20.00%) MySQL
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 1 (20.00%) Local Government
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Principal Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Principal Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 5 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Observability
3 3 (60.00%) RBAC
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Batch Processing
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Data Privacy
4 2 (40.00%) Dimensional Modelling
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) LLM
4 2 (40.00%) Logical Data Model
4 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (40.00%) MapReduce
4 2 (40.00%) Monte Carlo Method
4 2 (40.00%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL Certification
1 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
2 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
1 2 (40.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Percona