Database Tuning Contract Job Trends in Merton

Database Performance Tuning
South London > Merton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merton requiring Database Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Database Tuning 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merton 6.45% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
South London median daily rate £300 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merton

Database Tuning 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 Merton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19 24 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merton 61.29% 85.71% 75.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 15
10th Percentile £210 £255 £116
25th Percentile £248 £325 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £488
90th Percentile £530 £520 £500
South London median daily rate £511 £528 £525
% change year-on-year -3.08% +0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 9
10th Percentile £54.52 - £26.63
25th Percentile £54.55 £68.80 £40.82
Median hourly rate £63.50 £73.60 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year -13.72% +47.55% +13.08%
75th Percentile £66.50 £80.80 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.74 £82.24 £74.65
South London median hourly rate £63.50 £46.55 £30.00
% change year-on-year +36.41% +55.17% -31.99%

Database Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Database Tuning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Merton.

Database Tuning job vacancy trend in Merton

Database Tuning
Contract Job Locations in Merton

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Database Tuning within the Merton region over the 6 months to 26 December 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
Wimbledon - 2 £300 -
Database Tuning
South London

Database Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merton 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) DBA
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Database Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle