Database Tuning Job Trends in London

Database Performance Tuning
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Database Tuning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 422 443
Rank change year-on-year +51 +21 +220
Permanent jobs citing Database Tuning 3 8 9
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.021% 0.052% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% 0.055% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £70,000 £48,625 £65,250
25th Percentile £71,875 £50,313 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £53,750 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +48.84% -40.28% +10.77%
75th Percentile £85,625 £60,313 £112,500
90th Percentile £86,000 £65,375 £121,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +39.13% -4.17% +9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,269 14,580 16,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.64% 94.60% 92.41%
Number of salaries quoted 7,845 8,006 13,563
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £121,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Database Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Database Tuning relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Database Tuning job vacancy trend in London

Database Tuning
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Database Tuning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Database Tuning

Database Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) PHP Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior PHP Developer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (66.67%) Go
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) PHP
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle