Database Tuning Contracts with Work from Home Options

Database Performance Tuning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 444 614
Rank change year-on-year +119 +170 -139
Contract jobs citing Database Tuning 19 27 9
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.11% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.12% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 22 8
10th Percentile £425 - £411
25th Percentile £444 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -13.33% +21.62%
75th Percentile £500 £586 £600
90th Percentile £515 £649 £608
UK median daily rate £558 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +11.50% -4.76% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,413 23,039 40,643
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.76% 91.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,290 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 529 544
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.58
25th Percentile £25.38 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Database Tuning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Database Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Database Tuning trend for jobs with a WFH option

Database Tuning
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Database Tuning.

Database Tuning daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Database Tuning
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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.26%) dbt
3 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) Oracle Database
2 7 (36.84%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (31.58%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.26%) MySQL
5 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle Discoverer
5 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Maven
2 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 7 (36.84%) Banking
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (78.95%) DBA
2 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 8 (42.11%) Oracle DBA
2 8 (42.11%) SQL DBA
3 7 (36.84%) Java Developer
3 7 (36.84%) Oracle Developer
3 7 (36.84%) SQL Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Administrator
4 3 (15.79%) DV Cleared DBA
4 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 3 (15.79%) Senior
5 2 (10.53%) Database Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Database Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Database Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Database Specialist
6 1 (5.26%) MongoDB DBA
6 1 (5.26%) MongoDB Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior DBA
6 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) Hibernate
1 7 (36.84%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (36.84%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Clustering
2 2 (10.53%) Replication
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (42.11%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (42.11%) Software Engineering
3 7 (36.84%) Information Security
3 7 (36.84%) SDLC
3 7 (36.84%) Software Architecture
4 5 (26.32%) Database Security
5 4 (21.05%) DevOps
6 3 (15.79%) Agile
6 3 (15.79%) Migration
7 2 (10.53%) Business Case
7 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis
7 2 (10.53%) Database Migration
7 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (10.53%) High Availability
8 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
8 1 (5.26%) Data Pipeline
8 1 (5.26%) Data Science
8 1 (5.26%) Innovative Thinking
8 1 (5.26%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 16 (84.21%) SQL
2 7 (36.84%) Java
3 5 (26.32%) Bash
3 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 5 (26.32%) Python
4 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) OCP
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.26%) IFRS
1 1 (5.26%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Ansible
1 2 (10.53%) Data Guard
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks