Database Tuning Jobs in the UK excluding London

Database Performance Tuning
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Database Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Database Tuning over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 550 672 692
Rank change year-on-year +122 +20 +149
Permanent jobs citing Database Tuning 21 93 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.058% 0.15% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 21 54 58
10th Percentile - £33,000 £43,537
25th Percentile £36,250 £47,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £66,250 £64,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £71,652
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Database Tuning 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 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -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 Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Tuning in the UK excluding London

Database Tuning
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Database Tuning in the UK excluding London

Database Tuning
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Database Tuning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Database Tuning in the UK excluding London

Database Tuning
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 Tuning within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Midlands +63 10 £48,750 -17.02% 1
North of England +29 7 £62,500 +25.00% 2
North West -8 7 £62,500 +13.64% 1
West Midlands +64 5 £60,000 - 1
East Midlands +42 5 £37,500 -21.05%
Scotland +125 3 £67,500 - 1
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -
Database Tuning
UK

Database Tuning
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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (19.05%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) GCP
2 1 (4.76%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DHCP
1 1 (4.76%) DNS
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) NAS
1 1 (4.76%) SAN
1 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (76.19%) SQL Server
2 9 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (28.57%) Power BI
4 5 (23.81%) Data Lake
4 5 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (23.81%) Oracle Database
4 5 (23.81%) Oracle Exadata
4 5 (23.81%) RDBMS
4 5 (23.81%) Relational Database
4 5 (23.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (9.52%) MySQL
5 2 (9.52%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 9 (42.86%) Law
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Analyst
2 5 (23.81%) Database Team Leader
2 5 (23.81%) DBA
2 5 (23.81%) Development Team Leader
2 5 (23.81%) Lead
2 5 (23.81%) Oracle DBA
2 5 (23.81%) Team Leader
3 4 (19.05%) Database Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Oracle Applications DBA
3 4 (19.05%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Database Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) IT Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) Middleware
1 5 (23.81%) Oracle Fusion
1 5 (23.81%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.76%) Replication
1 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (71.43%) Linux
2 6 (28.57%) Windows
3 5 (23.81%) Unix
4 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Performance Tuning
2 14 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (47.62%) Migration
4 9 (42.86%) Agile
4 9 (42.86%) Coaching
4 9 (42.86%) Data Migration
4 9 (42.86%) Database Migration
4 9 (42.86%) PRINCE2
5 7 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 6 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (28.57%) Data Analysis
6 6 (28.57%) Validation
7 5 (23.81%) Data Management
7 5 (23.81%) ERP
7 5 (23.81%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (9.52%) Business Continuity
8 2 (9.52%) Data Protection
8 2 (9.52%) High Availability
8 2 (9.52%) Task Automation
9 1 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 20 (95.24%) SQL
2 5 (23.81%) PL/SQL
2 5 (23.81%) Shell Script
2 5 (23.81%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) OCA
1 4 (19.05%) OCP
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.76%) CCNA
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (42.86%) ISO 9001
2 5 (23.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
1 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
1 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Nessus
2 1 (4.76%) OpenVAS
2 1 (4.76%) QRadar
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 6 (28.57%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Qualys
3 1 (4.76%) Rollbar
3 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk
3 1 (4.76%) VMware