OLTP Job Trends in the North of England

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
England > North of England

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 - 309
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Permanent jobs citing OLTP 2 0 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.009% - 0.092%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.12% - 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £40,500
25th Percentile £45,000 - £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 - £63,750
90th Percentile - - £73,725
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -3.70%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

OLTP falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,639 1,015 1,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.99% 10.79% 12.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,202 691 956
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £67,813
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £84,964
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.17%

OLTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OLTP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

OLTP job vacancy trend in the North of England

OLTP
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OLTP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing OLTP

OLTP
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OLTP within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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
North West - 2 £50,000 -
OLTP
England

OLTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Superset
1 1 (50.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) dbt
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) OLAP
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Metabase
2 1 (50.00%) OLAP Cube
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (50.00%) Star Schema
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Billing
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Database Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) pgvector
1 1 (50.00%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Competitor Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Trend Micro