Database Tuning Jobs in England

Database Performance Tuning
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Database Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Database Tuning over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 656 735 863
Rank change year-on-year +79 +128 +214
Permanent jobs citing Database Tuning 33 96 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.068% 0.11% 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.072% 0.13% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 29 61 65
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,000 £48,800
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 -
90th Percentile £138,000 - £79,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Database Tuning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,979 73,257 86,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.14% 85.46% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,654 53,821 51,155
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,410 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Database Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Database Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Database Tuning in England

Database Tuning
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Database Tuning in England.

Salary trend for Database Tuning in England

Database Tuning
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Database Tuning in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Database Tuning in England

Database Tuning
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Database Tuning within the England region over the 6 months to 14 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +119 13 £130,000 +116.67% 16
Midlands +64 10 £48,750 -17.02% 1
North of England +38 6 £62,500 +19.05% 3
North West -5 6 £62,500 +13.64% 2
West Midlands +54 5 £60,000 - 1
East Midlands +36 5 £37,500 -21.05%
South East +82 2 £57,500 -4.17% 9
Database Tuning
UK

Database Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (6.06%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (15.15%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 8 (24.24%) AWS
2 7 (21.21%) Azure
3 5 (15.15%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (15.15%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.06%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.03%) GCP
6 1 (3.03%) OCI
6 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (54.55%) SQL Server
2 9 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (21.21%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (18.18%) Oracle Database
4 6 (18.18%) Oracle Exadata
5 5 (15.15%) Data Lake
5 5 (15.15%) Power BI
5 5 (15.15%) RDBMS
5 5 (15.15%) Relational Database
5 5 (15.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (6.06%) Big Data
6 2 (6.06%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (6.06%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Git
General
1 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 8 (24.24%) Law
3 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (18.18%) Finance
5 4 (12.12%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.03%) Legal
6 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Developer
2 7 (21.21%) DBA
3 6 (18.18%) Lead
3 6 (18.18%) Oracle DBA
4 5 (15.15%) Analyst
5 4 (12.12%) Database Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Database Team Leader
5 4 (12.12%) Development Team Leader
5 4 (12.12%) Oracle Applications DBA
5 4 (12.12%) SQL Analyst
5 4 (12.12%) SQL Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Team Leader
6 3 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Administrator
7 2 (6.06%) Data Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Snowflake Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) Middleware
1 6 (18.18%) Oracle Fusion
1 6 (18.18%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 6 (18.18%) REST
2 4 (12.12%) .NET
2 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET
2 4 (12.12%) HTML
2 4 (12.12%) SOAP
2 4 (12.12%) XML
3 3 (9.09%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (3.03%) Laravel
4 1 (3.03%) RESTful
4 1 (3.03%) Spring
4 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Hedge funds
2 3 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (57.58%) Linux
2 6 (18.18%) Unix
2 6 (18.18%) Windows
3 5 (15.15%) CentOS
3 5 (15.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (63.64%) Performance Tuning
2 19 (57.58%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (45.45%) Migration
4 13 (39.39%) Data Migration
5 12 (36.36%) Database Migration
6 11 (33.33%) Agile
7 9 (27.27%) Data Management
8 8 (24.24%) Coaching
8 8 (24.24%) PRINCE2
9 7 (21.21%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
10 6 (18.18%) Containerisation
10 6 (18.18%) Data Analysis
10 6 (18.18%) Data Modelling
10 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
10 6 (18.18%) Validation
11 5 (15.15%) ERP
11 5 (15.15%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (15.15%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 27 (81.82%) SQL
2 9 (27.27%) Python
2 9 (27.27%) T-SQL
3 8 (24.24%) PL/SQL
4 5 (15.15%) Shell Script
5 4 (12.12%) C#
6 3 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 2 (6.06%) Bash
8 1 (3.03%) Java
8 1 (3.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) OCA
1 4 (12.12%) OCP
1 4 (12.12%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (24.24%) ISO 9001
2 5 (15.15%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Grafana
1 6 (18.18%) Oracle RMAN
1 6 (18.18%) Prometheus
2 5 (15.15%) Ansible
3 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 9 (27.27%) Oracle
3 2 (6.06%) Informatica