OLTP Jobs in the UK excluding London

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OLTP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OLTP over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 730 689
Rank change year-on-year +170 -41 +68
Permanent jobs citing OLTP 26 29 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.066% 0.040% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.58% 0.24% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 25 24 39
10th Percentile - £42,800 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £46,563 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% +23.81%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £79,500 £72,125 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +4.84%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,500 12,332 11,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.36% 17.21% 19.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,889 8,128 6,715
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £69,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

OLTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for OLTP in the UK excluding London

OLTP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for OLTP in the UK excluding London

OLTP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OLTP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OLTP in the UK excluding London

OLTP
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 OLTP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
South East +97 23 £67,500 - 5
East of England +43 3 £83,750 +19.64%
OLTP
UK

OLTP
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 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.69%) dbt
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon MSK
2 1 (3.85%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.69%) Apache Hive
2 2 (7.69%) Big Data
2 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.85%) MySQL
General
1 9 (34.62%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Retail
4 1 (3.85%) Games
4 1 (3.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (92.31%) Developer
2 23 (88.46%) Oracle Developer
2 23 (88.46%) Senior
2 23 (88.46%) Senior Developer
2 23 (88.46%) Senior Oracle Developer
3 15 (57.69%) PL/SQL Developer
3 15 (57.69%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
3 15 (57.69%) Senior SQL Developer
3 15 (57.69%) SQL Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.85%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (80.77%) HTML
2 14 (53.85%) SOAP
2 14 (53.85%) XML
3 7 (26.92%) JSON
4 3 (11.54%) Kafka
5 1 (3.85%) Laravel
5 1 (3.85%) NestJS
5 1 (3.85%) Node.js
5 1 (3.85%) React
5 1 (3.85%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.85%) Online Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
1 14 (53.85%) Software Testing
2 7 (26.92%) Clean Code
2 7 (26.92%) Configuration Management
2 7 (26.92%) Issue Tracking
3 2 (7.69%) Agile
3 2 (7.69%) Conceptual Models
3 2 (7.69%) Data Engineering
3 2 (7.69%) Data Modelling
3 2 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (7.69%) Data Science
3 2 (7.69%) Logical Data Model
3 2 (7.69%) Physical Data Model
3 2 (7.69%) Scrum
3 2 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (7.69%) Waterfall
4 1 (3.85%) DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (3.85%) High Availability
4 1 (3.85%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 23 (88.46%) PL/SQL
1 23 (88.46%) SQL
2 8 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 7 (26.92%) Java
4 1 (3.85%) PHP
4 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Degree
Vendors
1 23 (88.46%) Oracle
2 2 (7.69%) Databricks