Database Optimisation Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Database Optimisation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Database Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Database Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 326 462
Rank change year-on-year +36 +136 +163
Contract jobs citing Database Optimisation 14 19 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.12% 0.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.14% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 15
10th Percentile £474 £313 £563
25th Percentile £538 £410 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -13.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £603 £575 £610
90th Percentile £635 £632 -
UK median daily rate £563 £520 £590
% change year-on-year +8.17% -11.86% +2.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Database Optimisation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Database Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Database Optimisation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Database Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Database Optimisation.

Database Optimisation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Database Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Database Optimisation over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Database Optimisation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Database Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 4 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (14.29%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.14%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.14%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 2 (14.29%) JMeter
1 2 (14.29%) Selenium
1 2 (14.29%) SonarQube
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Back Office
3 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Lead
2 5 (35.71%) Technical Leader
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Performance Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Performance Test Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Geospatial Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Technical Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Team Leader
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) CSS
3 2 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (14.29%) HTML
3 2 (14.29%) RESTful
4 1 (7.14%) Django
4 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (7.14%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Educational Technology
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Clean Code
2 6 (42.86%) Content Management
2 6 (42.86%) OO
2 6 (42.86%) OOD
2 6 (42.86%) TDD
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) Design Patterns
3 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Analysis
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) QA Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) SQL
2 9 (64.29%) Java
3 8 (57.14%) C#
3 8 (57.14%) JavaScript
4 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
5 3 (21.43%) T-SQL
6 2 (14.29%) Python
7 1 (7.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) PCI DSS
2 2 (14.29%) Government Security Classifications
2 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Informatica
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Teradata