OLTP Contracts in the West Midlands

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring OLTP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OLTP over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 115 130
Rank change year-on-year +13 +15 +45
Contract jobs citing OLTP 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.20% 0.049% 0.045%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.15% 0.34% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £480
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.43%
75th Percentile - - £505
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £513 £489 £550
% change year-on-year +4.81% -11.09% -8.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 261 298 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.55% 14.53% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 222 236
10th Percentile £287 £300 £313
25th Percentile £410 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +7.14%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £603
90th Percentile £638 £723 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £16.67 £34.59 £24.13
25th Percentile £18.74 £35.57 £24.31
Median hourly rate £29.33 £37.22 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.19% +47.39% -
75th Percentile £33.88 £38.86 £30.48
90th Percentile £34.54 £39.84 £33.24
England median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -17.23% -31.73% +37.86%

OLTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing OLTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for OLTP in the West Midlands

OLTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OLTP in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for OLTP in the West Midlands

OLTP
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 OLTP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Warwickshire - 3 £400 - 6
OLTP
England

OLTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
1 3 (100.00%) Team Leader
2 2 (66.67%) Monitoring Team Leader
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Team Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft