Database Optimisation Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Database Optimisation
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Database Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 135 -
Rank change year-on-year -50 - -
Contract jobs citing Database Optimisation 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.086% 0.082% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.094% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £390 - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.56% - -
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile £519 - -
England median daily rate £445 £625 £520
% change year-on-year -28.80% +20.19% +9.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,867 2,129 2,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.32% 87.47% 80.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,392 1,368 1,512
10th Percentile £307 £220 £263
25th Percentile £404 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £671 £639 £688
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 173 116
10th Percentile £13.77 £12.62 £12.20
25th Percentile £17.64 £16.11 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.52 £21.39 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.31% +18.83% -34.55%
75th Percentile £47.50 £27.21 £37.50
90th Percentile £70.41 £50.00 £55.63
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%

Database Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Database Optimisation job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Database Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Database Optimisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Database Optimisation

Database Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 July 2026. 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 Midlands -49 3 £445 -
East Midlands - 1 £525 - 2
Database Optimisation
England

Database Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (25.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) OLAP
2 1 (25.00%) OLTP
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (25.00%) DBA
3 1 (25.00%) Power BI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Database Security
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) OCP
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle