Database Optimisation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Database Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Database Optimisation over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 832 930 1145
Rank change year-on-year +98 +215 -274
Permanent jobs citing Database Optimisation 62 55 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.052% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.074% 0.054% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 44 53 27
10th Percentile £52,750 £36,800 £40,500
25th Percentile £61,063 £46,250 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £65,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.31% +26.21% -22.26%
75th Percentile £91,991 £67,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £88,750 £77,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £45,250
% change year-on-year +4.17% +32.60% -32.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Database Optimisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,343 100,922 147,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.11% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,769 59,097 83,311
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,488
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Database Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Database Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Database Optimisation in the UK

Database Optimisation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Database Optimisation in the UK

Database Optimisation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Database Optimisation over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Database Optimisation in the UK

Database Optimisation
Top 9 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
England +131 59 £80,000 +23.08% 19
Work from Home +127 49 £73,500 +13.08% 9
London +176 33 £87,610 +34.78% 10
UK excluding London +17 28 £62,500 +4.17% 10
South East +31 15 £71,000 +67.06% 1
South West - 8 £58,875 - 2
North of England +38 3 £60,249 -7.31% 2
North West -2 3 £60,249 -7.31% 2
Scotland - 2 £47,500 - 2

Database Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (20.97%) Apache
2 12 (19.35%) Apache Spark
3 4 (6.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.61%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (6.45%) SAP Business One
2 1 (1.61%) Academy Housing
Cloud Services
1 40 (64.52%) GCP
2 24 (38.71%) AWS
3 23 (37.10%) Azure
4 15 (24.19%) Power Platform
5 12 (19.35%) GitHub
5 12 (19.35%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (19.35%) Vertex AI
6 9 (14.52%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (8.06%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (8.06%) PaaS
8 4 (6.45%) Entra ID
8 4 (6.45%) Pulumi
9 2 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.23%) Firebase
9 2 (3.23%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.61%) IaaS
10 1 (1.61%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.61%) Sentry
10 1 (1.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) DHCP
1 4 (6.45%) DNS
1 4 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.61%) HTTP
2 1 (1.61%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (45.16%) SQL Server
2 27 (43.55%) BigQuery
3 18 (29.03%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (25.81%) MySQL
5 15 (24.19%) Data Hub
5 15 (24.19%) Power BI
5 15 (24.19%) Relational Database
6 14 (22.58%) MongoDB
6 14 (22.58%) NoSQL
7 13 (20.97%) Data Lake
7 13 (20.97%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 13 (20.97%) Tableau
8 12 (19.35%) Big Data
8 12 (19.35%) Bigtable
8 12 (19.35%) DB2
8 12 (19.35%) Looker
9 10 (16.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (6.45%) Redis
11 3 (4.84%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 12 (19.35%) Jenkins
2 6 (9.68%) Git
3 1 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (50.00%) Finance
2 28 (45.16%) Banking
3 19 (30.65%) Social Skills
4 12 (19.35%) Financial Institution
4 12 (19.35%) Retail
5 9 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (11.29%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (8.06%) Law
8 3 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (3.23%) Local Government
9 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (33.87%) Lead
2 12 (19.35%) Developer
3 9 (14.52%) DBA
4 8 (12.90%) Database Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) Head of Engineering
6 5 (8.06%) Analyst
6 5 (8.06%) Azure Developer
6 5 (8.06%) Senior
7 4 (6.45%) SQL DBA
7 4 (6.45%) Technical Leader
8 3 (4.84%) Data Analyst
9 2 (3.23%) Backend Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Data Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Database Analyst
9 2 (3.23%) Operations Manager
9 2 (3.23%) SQL Developer
10 1 (1.61%) AWS Data Engineer
10 1 (1.61%) CloudOps Manager
10 1 (1.61%) Power Apps Consultant
10 1 (1.61%) T-SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.97%) Kafka
2 8 (12.90%) .NET
3 5 (8.06%) AngularJS
4 4 (6.45%) FastAPI
4 4 (6.45%) HTML
4 4 (6.45%) Node.js
5 3 (4.84%) .NET Framework
5 3 (4.84%) CSS
6 2 (3.23%) Express.js
6 2 (3.23%) HTML5
6 2 (3.23%) React
7 1 (1.61%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.61%) COM
7 1 (1.61%) CSS3
7 1 (1.61%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.61%) Laravel
7 1 (1.61%) RESTful
7 1 (1.61%) Vue
7 1 (1.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.35%) Cyberattack
1 12 (19.35%) Data Fabric
1 12 (19.35%) Public Cloud
2 9 (14.52%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.45%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.45%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.84%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.84%) Robotics
5 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.61%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.61%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 14 (22.58%) Linux
2 12 (19.35%) Windows
2 12 (19.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.16%) ETL
2 27 (43.55%) Analytics
3 25 (40.32%) Agile
3 25 (40.32%) Disaster Recovery
4 18 (29.03%) CI/CD
5 17 (27.42%) Data Pipeline
6 16 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
6 16 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (24.19%) Artificial Intelligence
7 15 (24.19%) Decision-Making
7 15 (24.19%) Machine Learning
8 14 (22.58%) Data Management
8 14 (22.58%) Data Visualisation
8 14 (22.58%) Visualisation
9 13 (20.97%) Data Analytics
10 12 (19.35%) Capacity Planning
10 12 (19.35%) Cloud Security
10 12 (19.35%) Data Engineering
10 12 (19.35%) Data Integration
10 12 (19.35%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 38 (61.29%) SQL
2 7 (11.29%) Python
3 5 (8.06%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.45%) Bash
4 4 (6.45%) C#
4 4 (6.45%) C++
4 4 (6.45%) Java
5 3 (4.84%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.23%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.23%) PHP
6 2 (3.23%) Scala
7 1 (1.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (14.52%) Degree
2 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared
2 6 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.06%) Docker
2 4 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (19.35%) Terraform
2 4 (6.45%) Ansible
2 4 (6.45%) Grafana
3 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (46.77%) Google
2 16 (25.81%) Microsoft
3 13 (20.97%) Databricks
4 12 (19.35%) F5
4 12 (19.35%) Oracle
5 4 (6.45%) SAP
6 3 (4.84%) Facebook
7 1 (1.61%) Capita
7 1 (1.61%) Talend