Hybrid/Remote OLTP Contract Job Trends

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring OLTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 291 365
Rank change year-on-year -24 +74 +131
Contract jobs citing OLTP 10 17 8
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.094% 0.16% 0.048%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.51% 0.79% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 8
10th Percentile £426 - £463
25th Percentile £447 £615 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £630 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +20.00% -3.67%
75th Percentile £640 £645 £585
90th Percentile - - £605
UK median daily rate £603 £600 £513
% change year-on-year +0.42% +17.07% -3.76%

All Database & BI Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,971 2,148 2,956
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 18.54% 20.12% 17.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,352 1,489 2,217
10th Percentile £315 £356 £354
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £638
90th Percentile £720 £800 £714
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 27 51
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.59 £15.52
25th Percentile £37.00 £26.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £64.00 £35.00 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year +82.86% +33.38% -59.63%
75th Percentile £82.25 £64.75 £62.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £66.00 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +42.86% -17.65% -25.26%

OLTP
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OLTP and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

OLTP job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

OLTP
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OLTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OLTP

OLTP
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OLTP over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

OLTP daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

OLTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Apache
1 3 (30.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) BASE24
1 3 (30.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Amazon S3
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (30.00%) Azure
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) Collibra
4 3 (30.00%) GCP
4 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (30.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
5 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) OLAP
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (30.00%) BigQuery
4 3 (30.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (30.00%) DynamoDB
4 3 (30.00%) Mixpanel
4 3 (30.00%) NonStop SQL
4 3 (30.00%) Power BI
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (10.00%) Metadata
5 1 (10.00%) MySQL
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Data Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Lead Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Principal Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Kafka
2 3 (30.00%) Great Expectations
2 3 (30.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (30.00%) EMV
2 3 (30.00%) Tandem
3 1 (10.00%) Clustering
3 1 (10.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (60.00%) Analytics
2 6 (60.00%) ETL
2 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) Data Architecture
3 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Observability
3 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (30.00%) AI
4 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (30.00%) Data Privacy
4 3 (30.00%) Dimensional Modelling
4 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (30.00%) High Availability
4 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (30.00%) MapReduce
4 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (30.00%) Monte Carlo Method
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) C
2 3 (30.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL Certification
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) GDPR
2 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (30.00%) ISO 8583
2 3 (30.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (10.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Databricks
1 3 (30.00%) Google
1 3 (30.00%) HP
2 1 (10.00%) Percona