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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 852 922 1178
Rank change year-on-year +70 +256 -284
Permanent jobs citing Database Optimisation 47 47 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.047% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.049% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 42 47 27
10th Percentile £51,750 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £48,750 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% +23.81% -22.22%
75th Percentile £91,991 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £121,250 £91,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,250 £65,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +6.54% +26.21% -23.70%

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 85,026 95,219 153,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.30% 95.60% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,821 55,995 82,364
10th Percentile £29,079 £34,000 £33,695
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Database Optimisation in the UK

Database Optimisation
Top 11 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 16 May 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 +94 44 £75,000 +15.38% 15
Work from Home +77 33 £71,750 +10.38% 5
London +129 23 £87,610 +34.78% 7
UK excluding London -13 23 £69,250 +6.54% 8
South East +17 17 £71,000 +67.06% 1
South West - 2 £62,500 - 4
Scotland - 2 £47,500 -
North of England +26 1 £67,500 +3.85% 2
West Midlands +6 1 £75,000 +76.47% 1
Midlands -9 1 £75,000 +76.47% 1
North West -14 1 £67,500 +3.85% 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 2 (4.26%) Apache
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.13%) CMS
2 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 26 (55.32%) AWS
2 24 (51.06%) GCP
3 22 (46.81%) Azure
4 6 (12.77%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.64%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (10.64%) PaaS
6 4 (8.51%) Pulumi
7 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
7 3 (6.38%) Snowflake
8 2 (4.26%) Firebase
8 2 (4.26%) Google Analytics
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.13%) GitHub
9 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.13%) IaaS
9 1 (2.13%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) DHCP
1 1 (2.13%) DNS
1 1 (2.13%) HTTP
1 1 (2.13%) MQTT
1 1 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (63.83%) SQL Server
2 15 (31.91%) MongoDB
3 13 (27.66%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 12 (25.53%) BigQuery
4 12 (25.53%) Data Hub
4 12 (25.53%) DB2
5 9 (19.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (8.51%) MySQL
7 4 (8.51%) Redis
8 3 (6.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (6.38%) Power BI
8 3 (6.38%) Relational Database
9 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
9 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (2.13%) Data Mining
10 1 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (2.13%) Star Schema
10 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Git
2 1 (2.13%) CircleCI
2 1 (2.13%) GitLab
2 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (36.17%) Social Skills
2 13 (27.66%) Banking
2 13 (27.66%) Finance
3 12 (25.53%) Financial Institution
4 5 (10.64%) Law
5 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.13%) Automotive
7 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Lead
2 11 (23.40%) DBA
2 11 (23.40%) Developer
3 8 (17.02%) Database Engineer
4 7 (14.89%) Senior
5 6 (12.77%) SQL DBA
6 5 (10.64%) Azure Developer
7 4 (8.51%) Data Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Technical Leader
8 2 (4.26%) Backend Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Operations Manager
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Data Engineer
9 1 (2.13%) C# Developer
9 1 (2.13%) Infrastructure Manager
9 1 (2.13%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
9 1 (2.13%) IT Infrastructure Manager
9 1 (2.13%) IT Operations Manager
9 1 (2.13%) Senior C# Developer
9 1 (2.13%) Site Engineer
9 1 (2.13%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.02%) .NET
2 5 (10.64%) AngularJS
3 4 (8.51%) FastAPI
3 4 (8.51%) HTML
3 4 (8.51%) Node.js
4 3 (6.38%) .NET Framework
4 3 (6.38%) CSS
5 2 (4.26%) Express.js
5 2 (4.26%) HTML5
5 2 (4.26%) React
6 1 (2.13%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (2.13%) COM
6 1 (2.13%) CSS3
6 1 (2.13%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.13%) Kafka
6 1 (2.13%) Laravel
6 1 (2.13%) PySpark
6 1 (2.13%) RESTful
6 1 (2.13%) Vue
6 1 (2.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.53%) Cyberattack
1 12 (25.53%) Data Fabric
1 12 (25.53%) Public Cloud
2 11 (23.40%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.38%) Robotics
4 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.13%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.13%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 14 (29.79%) Linux
2 12 (25.53%) Windows
2 12 (25.53%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (51.06%) Disaster Recovery
2 17 (36.17%) ETL
3 15 (31.91%) Analytics
4 13 (27.66%) Data Management
4 13 (27.66%) Data Protection
5 12 (25.53%) Incident Response
5 12 (25.53%) Validation
6 11 (23.40%) Capacity Planning
6 11 (23.40%) Data Validation
6 11 (23.40%) Decision-Making
7 10 (21.28%) Agile
7 10 (21.28%) Data Security
7 10 (21.28%) Mentoring
8 8 (17.02%) DevOps
9 7 (14.89%) CI/CD
9 7 (14.89%) Containerisation
9 7 (14.89%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (12.77%) Test Automation
11 5 (10.64%) Integration Testing
11 5 (10.64%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (80.85%) SQL
2 9 (19.15%) Python
3 4 (8.51%) C#
3 4 (8.51%) C++
3 4 (8.51%) Java
4 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.26%) PHP
4 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.26%) Scala
4 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.13%) Bash
5 1 (2.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (14.89%) Degree
2 6 (12.77%) SC Cleared
2 6 (12.77%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.26%) QA
3 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Grafana
2 1 (2.13%) Ansible
2 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (34.04%) Google
2 13 (27.66%) Databricks
3 12 (25.53%) F5
3 12 (25.53%) Microsoft
3 12 (25.53%) Oracle
4 3 (6.38%) Facebook
5 2 (4.26%) RedGate
6 1 (2.13%) SAP
6 1 (2.13%) Talend