Database Tuning Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Database Performance Tuning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Database Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Database Tuning over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 329 447
Rank change year-on-year +70 +118 +167
Contract jobs citing Database Tuning 43 20 27
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.43% 0.13% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.15% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 22
10th Percentile £332 £428 -
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +14.63% -2.56% -13.33%
75th Percentile £567 £497 £586
90th Percentile £581 £514 £649
UK median daily rate £542 £529 £500
% change year-on-year +2.55% +5.75% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,017 13,465 23,106
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.06% 87.90% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,189 8,984 16,334
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 221 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Database Tuning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Database Tuning
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 Tuning.

Database Tuning daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Database Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Database Tuning over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Database Tuning daily rate histogram 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 5 (11.63%) AWS
2 3 (6.98%) Azure
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.33%) Datadog
3 1 (2.33%) GitHub
3 1 (2.33%) IaaS
3 1 (2.33%) OCI
3 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.33%) PaaS
3 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (67.44%) Relational Database
2 28 (65.12%) MongoDB
3 26 (60.47%) DB2
4 7 (16.28%) SQL Server
5 6 (13.95%) Oracle Database
6 4 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (6.98%) RDBMS
8 2 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (4.65%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (2.33%) MySQL
9 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
9 1 (2.33%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (2.33%) Power BI
9 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (60.47%) JUnit
2 1 (2.33%) Git
2 1 (2.33%) IntelliJ
2 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.33%) JIRA
2 1 (2.33%) JMeter
2 1 (2.33%) JProfiler
2 1 (2.33%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.33%) Toad
General
1 33 (76.74%) Analytical Skills
1 33 (76.74%) Social Skills
2 30 (69.77%) Finance
3 25 (58.14%) Banking
4 23 (53.49%) Investment Banking
5 12 (27.91%) Front Office
6 1 (2.33%) Back Office
6 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 29 (67.44%) Developer
2 26 (60.47%) Java Developer
3 20 (46.51%) SQL Developer
4 18 (41.86%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 13 (30.23%) Senior
6 11 (25.58%) Linux Developer
6 11 (25.58%) Senior Developer
6 11 (25.58%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
6 11 (25.58%) Senior Java Developer
6 11 (25.58%) Senior SQL Developer
7 7 (16.28%) Sybase Developer
8 5 (11.63%) Analyst
8 5 (11.63%) SQL Analyst
9 4 (9.30%) Data Analyst
9 4 (9.30%) Database Analyst
9 4 (9.30%) Database Engineer
9 4 (9.30%) DBA
9 4 (9.30%) Fund Data Analyst
9 4 (9.30%) Performance Analyst
9 4 (9.30%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (60.47%) Kafka
1 26 (60.47%) Spring
2 24 (55.81%) JMS
3 2 (4.65%) MSMQ
4 1 (2.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 26 (60.47%) Data Structures
2 25 (58.14%) Equities
3 4 (9.30%) Hedge funds
3 4 (9.30%) Reference Data
4 3 (6.98%) Clustering
4 3 (6.98%) Derivative
4 3 (6.98%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (6.98%) Replication
5 1 (2.33%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 30 (69.77%) Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Windows
3 2 (4.65%) AIX
3 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.65%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (97.67%) Performance Tuning
2 28 (65.12%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (62.79%) Agile
3 27 (62.79%) SDLC
4 26 (60.47%) Open Source
5 23 (53.49%) Multithreading
6 6 (13.95%) Migration
7 5 (11.63%) High Availability
7 5 (11.63%) Software Engineering
7 5 (11.63%) Test Automation
7 5 (11.63%) Validation
8 4 (9.30%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (6.98%) Database Security
10 2 (4.65%) Analytics
10 2 (4.65%) Computer Science
10 2 (4.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (4.65%) Data Modelling
10 2 (4.65%) ITIL
10 2 (4.65%) Service Management
10 2 (4.65%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (93.02%) SQL
2 28 (65.12%) Python
3 27 (62.79%) Java
4 26 (60.47%) Shell Script
5 4 (9.30%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.65%) Bash
6 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.33%) Groovy
7 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
1 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.33%) GDPR
2 1 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (4.65%) Data Guard
3 1 (2.33%) Ansible
3 1 (2.33%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Flashback
3 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 27 (62.79%) Sybase
2 12 (27.91%) Oracle
3 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.65%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.65%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.33%) Dell
5 1 (2.33%) IDERA
5 1 (2.33%) Qualys
5 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.33%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.33%) Splunk
5 1 (2.33%) VMware