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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 627 737 838
Rank change year-on-year +110 +101 +269
Permanent jobs citing Database Tuning 32 98 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.066% 0.11% 0.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.070% 0.13% 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 27 58 63
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,000 £46,400
25th Percentile £50,625 £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 £141,000 - £77,500
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 45,650 74,784 82,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.04% 84.16% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 22,641 54,521 49,313
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £34,334
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
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 29 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 29 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 +106 13 £130,000 +116.67% 21
Midlands +63 10 £48,750 -17.02% 31
North of England +32 7 £62,500 +25.00% 34
North West -2 7 £62,500 +13.64% 15
West Midlands +56 5 £60,000 - 17
East Midlands +37 5 £37,500 -21.05% 12
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:

Business Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (15.63%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) AWS
2 6 (18.75%) Azure
3 5 (15.63%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (15.63%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.13%) GCP
6 1 (3.13%) OCI
6 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (59.38%) SQL Server
2 9 (28.13%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (18.75%) Oracle Database
3 6 (18.75%) Oracle Exadata
4 5 (15.63%) Data Lake
4 5 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (15.63%) Power BI
4 5 (15.63%) RDBMS
4 5 (15.63%) Relational Database
4 5 (15.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Law
3 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Finance
4 4 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Developer
2 6 (18.75%) Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) DBA
2 6 (18.75%) Lead
2 6 (18.75%) Oracle DBA
3 4 (12.50%) Database Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Database Team Leader
3 4 (12.50%) Development Team Leader
3 4 (12.50%) Oracle Applications DBA
3 4 (12.50%) SQL Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) SQL Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Team Leader
4 3 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Reliability Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) Middleware
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle Fusion
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 5 (15.63%) HTML
3 4 (12.50%) .NET
3 4 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 4 (12.50%) REST
3 4 (12.50%) SOAP
3 4 (12.50%) XML
4 3 (9.38%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (3.13%) CSS
5 1 (3.13%) Laravel
5 1 (3.13%) RESTful
5 1 (3.13%) Spring
5 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Hedge funds
2 3 (9.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (59.38%) Linux
2 7 (21.88%) Unix
3 6 (18.75%) Windows
4 5 (15.63%) CentOS
4 5 (15.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) Performance Tuning
2 17 (53.13%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (43.75%) Migration
4 13 (40.63%) Data Migration
5 12 (37.50%) Database Migration
6 10 (31.25%) Agile
7 9 (28.13%) Data Management
8 8 (25.00%) Coaching
8 8 (25.00%) PRINCE2
9 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
9 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
9 6 (18.75%) Data Analysis
9 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (18.75%) Mentoring
9 6 (18.75%) Validation
10 5 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (15.63%) ERP
10 5 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (15.63%) Technical Architecture
11 4 (12.50%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 26 (81.25%) SQL
2 9 (28.13%) T-SQL
3 7 (21.88%) Python
4 6 (18.75%) PL/SQL
5 5 (15.63%) Shell Script
6 4 (12.50%) C#
7 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
8 2 (6.25%) Bash
9 1 (3.13%) Java
9 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
9 1 (3.13%) Perl
9 1 (3.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) OCA
1 4 (12.50%) OCP
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.00%) ISO 9001
2 5 (15.63%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Grafana
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle RMAN
1 6 (18.75%) Prometheus
2 5 (15.63%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) Rollbar