Database Tuning Contracts

Database Performance Tuning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Database Tuning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Database Tuning over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 653 842
Rank change year-on-year +102 +189 -177
Contract jobs citing Database Tuning 40 54 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.090% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.100% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 27 15
10th Percentile £413 - £406
25th Percentile £425 £450 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.75% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £725 £583 £581
90th Percentile £734 £660 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £555 £419
% change year-on-year -23.42% +32.54% -3.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Database Tuning 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,683 54,210 80,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.89% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,351 37,527 56,743
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.36%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,427 1,790 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.07 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +86.50% -8.17%

Database Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Database Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Database Tuning in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Database Tuning.

Daily rate trend for Database Tuning in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Tuning over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Database Tuning in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Database Tuning.

Hourly rate trend for Database Tuning in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 23 April 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
England +106 31 £700 +55.56% 10
London +94 22 £700 +55.56% 3
Work from Home +117 20 £475 +5.56% 3
UK excluding London +57 15 £425 -23.42% 7
Scotland +34 7 £425 -23.42%
South West +26 7 £225 -65.38% 2
South East - 1 £558 - 3

Database Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (42.50%) AWS
2 6 (15.00%) Azure
3 4 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.50%) dbt
4 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (42.50%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (37.50%) Oracle Database
3 12 (30.00%) SQL Server
4 10 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (17.50%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (12.50%) MySQL
7 4 (10.00%) NoSQL
7 4 (10.00%) Oracle Database 11g
8 3 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (7.50%) Oracle Database 10g
8 3 (7.50%) Oracle Discoverer
9 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
9 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
9 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
9 1 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Maven
2 5 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Forms
General
1 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Banking
3 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) German Language
4 3 (7.50%) Finance
4 3 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (60.00%) DBA
2 13 (32.50%) Developer
3 12 (30.00%) SQL DBA
4 10 (25.00%) SQL Developer
5 9 (22.50%) Administrator
5 9 (22.50%) Oracle DBA
5 9 (22.50%) Senior
6 8 (20.00%) Oracle Developer
7 7 (17.50%) Java Developer
8 6 (15.00%) Database Engineer
8 6 (15.00%) Senior Database Engineer
9 4 (10.00%) AWS Administrator
9 4 (10.00%) DV Cleared DBA
9 4 (10.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
10 3 (7.50%) Analyst
10 3 (7.50%) Cloud Administrator
10 3 (7.50%) Data Analyst
10 3 (7.50%) Senior DBA
11 2 (5.00%) C# Developer
11 2 (5.00%) Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) Hibernate
1 7 (17.50%) JPA
2 2 (5.00%) .NET
2 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (5.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (17.50%) Management Information System
2 6 (15.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.00%) Replication
4 3 (7.50%) Clustering
5 1 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) Performance Tuning
2 15 (37.50%) Database Security
3 12 (30.00%) DevOps
3 12 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (25.00%) Agile
5 9 (22.50%) Migration
6 8 (20.00%) SDLC
6 8 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 7 (17.50%) Information Security
7 7 (17.50%) Software Architecture
8 6 (15.00%) Business Case
8 6 (15.00%) Database Migration
8 6 (15.00%) ETL
9 5 (12.50%) High Availability
10 4 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (10.00%) ETL Development
10 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 3 (7.50%) Data Analysis
11 3 (7.50%) Data Modelling
11 3 (7.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 35 (87.50%) SQL
2 12 (30.00%) Python
3 9 (22.50%) Bash
3 9 (22.50%) JavaScript
4 8 (20.00%) Java
5 5 (12.50%) PL/SQL
6 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.50%) DV Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.50%) OCP
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.50%) IFRS
1 1 (2.50%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Ansible
1 6 (15.00%) Terraform
2 4 (10.00%) Data Guard
3 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 3 (7.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (7.50%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (55.00%) Oracle
2 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.50%) Informatica
4 1 (2.50%) Databricks
4 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow