Database Optimisation Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Database Optimisation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Database Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 528 526
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 +187
Permanent jobs citing Database Optimisation 6 30 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.083% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% 0.094% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3 23 32
10th Percentile £49,000 £37,500 £47,625
25th Percentile £53,125 £56,250 £58,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -27.79% +59.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £84,056
90th Percentile £76,000 £68,750 £95,966
UK median annual salary £72,500 £57,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year +26.09% -27.79% +32.72%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,410 32,047 30,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.40% 89.07% 88.63%
Number of salaries quoted 19,288 14,407 22,672
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,971
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.83% -5.51%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Database Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Database Optimisation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Database Optimisation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Database Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Database Optimisation

Database Optimisation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Database Optimisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Database Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Database Optimisation
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Database Optimisation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 January 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 +20 2 - - 3
North of England +9 2 - - 3
South West -2 2 £80,000 +20.75%
South East +25 1 £47,500 -29.63% 1
East of England +13 1 £60,000 +4.35%
Database Optimisation
UK

Database Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (33.33%) PowerApps
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (16.67%) Blazor
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) jQuery
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Server Management
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) Data Science
4 1 (16.67%) Decarbonisation
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes