OLTP Contract Job Trends in the North West

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring OLTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 119 135
Rank change year-on-year -19 +16 +36
Contract jobs citing OLTP 3 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.12% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.82% 1.38% 0.95%
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
England median daily rate £600 £563 £500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +12.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 368 289 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.83% 13.34% 15.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 181 302
10th Percentile £313 £313 £306
25th Percentile £363 £402 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £513 £575 £611
90th Percentile £600 £640 £675
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 11
10th Percentile £57.35 £22.72 -
25th Percentile £60.18 £23.87 £46.18
Median hourly rate £74.26 £25.43 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +192.02% -51.56% -19.23%
75th Percentile £83.25 £65.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.40 £66.43 £65.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £36.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +24.14% -21.50% -10.76%

OLTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

OLTP job vacancy trend in the North West

OLTP
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing OLTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing OLTP

OLTP
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OLTP within the North West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Manchester -13 3 £485 - 3
OLTP
England

OLTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Local Government
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Key Management
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (100.00%) ProC
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle