Database Tuning Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Database Performance Tuning
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Database Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Database Tuning 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.099% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £513 £500 £700
% change year-on-year +2.50% -28.57% +55.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Database Tuning 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,528 1,205 1,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.27% 88.60% 83.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,655 799 1,065
10th Percentile £305 £199 £275
25th Percentile £402 £386 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% - -2.34%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £650 £675 £735
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 57 114
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £11.08
25th Percentile £17.09 £14.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £27.24 £18.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.33% -20.00% +26.98%
75th Percentile £60.37 £24.22 £41.44
90th Percentile £70.98 £35.15 £58.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.74% -9.60% -9.09%

Database Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Database Tuning job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Database Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Database Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Database Tuning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Database Tuning

Database Tuning
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 April 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
Birmingham - 2 - - 1
Solihull - 2 - -
Shropshire - 1 £550 - 1
Database Tuning
England

Database Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS KMS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (66.67%) DynamoDB
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) DbUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) jMock
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) Mockito
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) JPA
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) PowerMock
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Batch
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Biometrics
2 2 (66.67%) BPMN
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) Postfix
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Data Guard
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Atlassian
1 2 (66.67%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle