Database Optimisation Contract Job Trends in the South East

Database Optimisation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Database Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Database Optimisation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.055% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.062% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
England median daily rate £625 £468 £450
% change year-on-year +33.55% +4.00% -13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,211 3,586 4,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 88.87% 83.61% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,015 2,165 3,285
10th Percentile £213 £259 £239
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 181 257
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.00 £24.50
Median hourly rate £20.79 £58.49 £54.37
Median % change year-on-year -64.46% +7.58% +55.34%
75th Percentile £41.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

Database Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Database Optimisation job vacancy trend in the South East

Database Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Database Optimisation
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Database Optimisation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Database Optimisation

Database Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Hampshire - 1 £400 -
Surrey - 1 - -
Database Optimisation
England

Database Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Teradata