OLTP Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring OLTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 84 97
Rank change year-on-year -8 +13 +32
Contract jobs citing OLTP 1 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.086% 0.28% 0.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.46% 1.69% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £332
25th Percentile £480 - £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.48%
75th Percentile £490 - £413
90th Percentile - - £458
North West median daily rate £485 - £375
% change year-on-year - - -35.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 217 177 274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 18.63% 16.42% 17.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 111 205
10th Percentile £313 £375 £314
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £625
90th Percentile £600 £650 £684
North West median daily rate £425 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -10.53% -7.32% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile £56.88 - £57.00
25th Percentile £61.56 £24.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £71.25 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% - -
75th Percentile £79.06 - £71.25
90th Percentile £82.63 £67.85 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £69.38 £25.43 £52.50
% change year-on-year +172.83% -51.56% -19.23%

OLTP
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

OLTP job vacancy trend in Manchester

OLTP
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing OLTP

OLTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL Developer
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) ProC
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle