Database Tuning Contracts with Work from Home 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 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 432 610
Rank change year-on-year +107 +178 -106
Contract jobs citing Database Tuning 16 25 13
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.10% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.12% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 20 11
10th Percentile £494 - £250
25th Percentile £522 £450 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £647 £609 £594
90th Percentile £671 £653 £600
UK median daily rate £558 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +11.50% +2.56% +8.33%

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 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Database Tuning over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

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 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) dbt
2 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.25%) MySQL
4 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Maven
2 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 7 (43.75%) Banking
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) DBA
2 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 8 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
2 8 (50.00%) SQL DBA
3 7 (43.75%) Java Developer
3 7 (43.75%) Oracle Developer
3 7 (43.75%) SQL Developer
4 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared DBA
4 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 2 (12.50%) Administrator
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Specialist
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Specialist
6 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Database Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Database Specialist
6 1 (6.25%) MongoDB DBA
6 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) Hibernate
1 7 (43.75%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (43.75%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Clustering
2 2 (12.50%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (43.75%) Information Security
2 7 (43.75%) SDLC
2 7 (43.75%) Software Architecture
3 6 (37.50%) Database Security
4 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (12.50%) High Availability
6 1 (6.25%) Actionable Insight
6 1 (6.25%) Analytics
6 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
6 1 (6.25%) Data Engineering
6 1 (6.25%) Data Governance
6 1 (6.25%) Data Ingestion
6 1 (6.25%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (6.25%) Data Science
6 1 (6.25%) DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) ETL Development
6 1 (6.25%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) SQL
2 7 (43.75%) Java
3 5 (31.25%) Bash
3 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 5 (31.25%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) DV Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) OCP
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) IFRS
1 1 (6.25%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Data Guard
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks