OLTP Job Trends in the North West

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring OLTP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 - 226
Rank change year-on-year - - -23
Permanent jobs citing OLTP 2 0 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.016% - 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.25% - 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £41,875
25th Percentile £45,000 - £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 - £63,750
90th Percentile - - £80,375
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 800 626 975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.22% 12.03% 13.28%
Number of salaries quoted 579 377 461
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,900 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

OLTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

OLTP job vacancy trend in the North West

OLTP
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing OLTP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing OLTP

OLTP
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OLTP within the North West region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Manchester - 2 £50,000 - 1
OLTP
England

OLTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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