Database Optimisation Jobs in the Thames Valley

Database Optimisation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Database Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Database Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 248 -
Rank change year-on-year +73 - -
Permanent jobs citing Database Optimisation 3 5 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.099% 0.074% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.087% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
75th Percentile £62,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £71,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -15.49% +67.06% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Database Optimisation 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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,830 5,747 5,804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.09% 85.19% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,225 4,024 3,153
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Database Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Database Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Database Optimisation in the Thames Valley

Database Optimisation
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Database Optimisation in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Database Optimisation in the Thames Valley

Database Optimisation
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Database Optimisation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Buckinghamshire - 2 £60,000 - 5
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 3
Database Optimisation
South East

Database Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DBA
1 2 (66.67%) SQL DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Django
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Flask
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus