Database Optimisation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Database Optimisation
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Database Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Database Optimisation over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 - 518
Rank change year-on-year - - -97
Contract jobs citing Database Optimisation 13 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% - 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% - 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £463 - £324
25th Percentile £474 - £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 - £419
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.25%
75th Percentile £682 - £502
90th Percentile £700 - £538
UK median daily rate £518 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -12.29% +2.61% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Database Optimisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,415 21,396 27,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.54% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,848 19,199
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £689 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 1,314 1,359
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.17
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.63 £14.04
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.21
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Database Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Database Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Database Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Database Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Database Optimisation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Database Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Database Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Optimisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Database Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Database Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Database Optimisation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Database Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Database Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
South West - 6 £660 - 4
North of England - 5 £483 - 4
North West - 2 £575 - 3
Scotland - 2 £475 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £490 - 1
North East - 1 £475 -
Database Optimisation
UK

Database Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) CloudBees
1 1 (7.69%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
3 1 (7.69%) Data Hub
3 1 (7.69%) DB2
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.69%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
1 6 (46.15%) Systems Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Active Directory Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Administrator
2 4 (30.77%) DBA
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Active Directory Specialist
4 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL Developer
4 2 (15.38%) SQL DBA
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Developer
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Architect
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL DBA
5 1 (7.69%) Cassandra Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Ingres DBA
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Data Fabric
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Windows
2 6 (46.15%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Data Management
2 6 (46.15%) Data Migration
2 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
2 6 (46.15%) Migration
3 5 (38.46%) Identity Management
4 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
5 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Monitoring
6 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
6 1 (7.69%) Configuration Management
6 1 (7.69%) DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) ETL
6 1 (7.69%) High Availability
6 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
6 1 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Go
3 1 (7.69%) Groovy
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Ruby
3 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Brio
3 1 (7.69%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) F5