Database Optimisation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Database Optimisation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 750 728
Rank change year-on-year +204 -22 +125
Permanent jobs citing Database Optimisation 34 25 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.087% 0.034% 0.046%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.094% 0.041% 0.049%
Number of salaries quoted 32 20 27
10th Percentile £40,125 £50,375 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £58,750 £37,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% +26.21%
75th Percentile £61,250 £72,250 £67,500
90th Percentile - £76,250 -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £71,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -19.58% +10.00% +23.81%

All Process and 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 36,163 61,036 55,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.74% 82.48% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17,188 42,006 28,807
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,336 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Database Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Database Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Database Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Database Optimisation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Database Optimisation in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Database Optimisation in the UK excluding London

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 29 May 2025.

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 29 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
North of England +53 11 £57,500 +2.22% 2
Midlands +69 10 £57,500 -23.33% 5
West Midlands +62 7 £57,500 -23.33% 2
East of England - 5 £57,500 - 1
South West +118 4 £40,000 -40.74% 4
South East +86 4 £60,000 -15.49% 9
Yorkshire +61 4 £52,500 +16.67%
North West +10 4 £57,500 -14.81% 2
East Midlands - 3 £57,500 - 3
North East - 3 £57,500 -
Database Optimisation
UK

Database Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 26 (76.47%) Azure
2 23 (67.65%) Power Platform
3 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (11.76%) Azure Stack
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (11.76%) Power Automate
4 2 (5.88%) AWS
5 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (88.24%) SQL Server
2 22 (64.71%) Power BI
3 6 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (11.76%) FileMaker
5 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (8.82%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Git
General
1 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (85.29%) Developer
2 20 (58.82%) SQL Developer
3 16 (47.06%) Database Developer
3 16 (47.06%) SQL Database Developer
4 5 (14.71%) Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) .NET Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Analyst Developer
5 4 (11.76%) IT Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) IT Support
5 4 (11.76%) IT Support Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) DBA
6 2 (5.88%) SQL DBA
7 1 (2.94%) Database Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Mid-Level PHP Developer
7 1 (2.94%) PHP Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Python Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) REST
2 4 (11.76%) .NET
2 4 (11.76%) .NET Framework
2 4 (11.76%) ASP.NET
2 4 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (11.76%) ASP.NET Web API
2 4 (11.76%) Entity Framework
2 4 (11.76%) LINQ
2 4 (11.76%) Web Services
3 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (5.88%) jQuery
4 2 (5.88%) Laravel
4 2 (5.88%) Symfony
5 1 (2.94%) CodeIgniter
5 1 (2.94%) Django
5 1 (2.94%) Kafka
5 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.94%) RESTful
5 1 (2.94%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (70.59%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (64.71%) Business Intelligence
3 20 (58.82%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 17 (50.00%) Analytics
4 17 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 16 (47.06%) Critical Thinking
6 6 (17.65%) API Integration
7 5 (14.71%) Agile
7 5 (14.71%) CI/CD
7 5 (14.71%) Computer Science
7 5 (14.71%) Microservices
8 4 (11.76%) B2B
8 4 (11.76%) DevOps
8 4 (11.76%) MVC
8 4 (11.76%) Software Testing
8 4 (11.76%) Structured Programming
8 4 (11.76%) Visualisation
9 2 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
10 1 (2.94%) High Availability
10 1 (2.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 31 (91.18%) SQL
2 24 (70.59%) T-SQL
3 8 (23.53%) C#
4 5 (14.71%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.88%) PHP
6 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (47.06%) DBS Check
2 5 (14.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (14.71%) Degree
3 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Grafana
2 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (82.35%) Microsoft