Database Tuning Jobs

Database Performance Tuning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 675 813 878
Rank change year-on-year +138 +65 +270
Permanent jobs citing Database Tuning 39 98 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.071% 0.098% 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.076% 0.12% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 35 59 75
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,000 £41,075
25th Percentile £56,875 £47,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £71,652
90th Percentile £135,000 - £79,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,521 85,132 94,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.87% 85.14% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 25,367 59,760 55,710
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,078 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Database Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Tuning in the UK

Database Tuning
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Database Tuning in the UK

Database Tuning
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Database Tuning over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Database Tuning in the UK

Database Tuning
Top 12 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 22 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
England +95 31 £62,500 +13.64% 22
Work from Home +124 21 £65,000 +23.81% 19
UK excluding London +119 21 £60,000 +9.09% 7
London +123 12 £130,000 +116.67% 16
Midlands +60 10 £48,750 -17.02%
North of England +38 6 £62,500 +19.05% 3
North West -11 6 £62,500 +13.64% 1
West Midlands +68 5 £60,000 -
East Midlands +32 5 £37,500 -21.05%
Scotland +127 3 £67,500 - 1
South East +73 1 £57,500 -4.17% 3
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -

Database Tuning
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 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.56%) Confluence
1 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (12.82%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.51%) AWS
2 7 (17.95%) Azure
3 6 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 5 (12.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.13%) GCP
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.56%) OCI
7 1 (2.56%) Rubrik
7 1 (2.56%) Serverless
7 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) DHCP
1 1 (2.56%) DNS
1 1 (2.56%) Firewall
1 1 (2.56%) NAS
1 1 (2.56%) SAN
1 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 16 (41.03%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (15.38%) Oracle Database
3 6 (15.38%) Oracle Exadata
3 6 (15.38%) Power BI
4 5 (12.82%) Data Lake
4 5 (12.82%) RDBMS
4 5 (12.82%) Relational Database
4 5 (12.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.56%) Big Data
6 1 (2.56%) MySQL
6 1 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Git
General
1 15 (38.46%) Law
1 15 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Finance
3 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Lead
2 11 (28.21%) Database Team Leader
2 11 (28.21%) Development Team Leader
2 11 (28.21%) Team Leader
3 8 (20.51%) Developer
4 6 (15.38%) Analyst
4 6 (15.38%) DBA
4 6 (15.38%) Oracle DBA
5 4 (10.26%) Database Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Oracle Applications DBA
5 4 (10.26%) SQL Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) SQL Developer
6 3 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Administrator
7 2 (5.13%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Data Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Senior
8 1 (2.56%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) Middleware
1 6 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
1 6 (15.38%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 5 (12.82%) REST
3 4 (10.26%) .NET
3 4 (10.26%) ASP.NET
3 4 (10.26%) HTML
3 4 (10.26%) SOAP
3 4 (10.26%) XML
4 3 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (2.56%) Laravel
5 1 (2.56%) RESTful
5 1 (2.56%) Spring
5 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Hedge funds
2 3 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (69.23%) Linux
2 7 (17.95%) Windows
3 6 (15.38%) Unix
4 5 (12.82%) CentOS
4 5 (12.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (71.79%) Performance Tuning
2 26 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (53.85%) Migration
4 20 (51.28%) Data Migration
5 19 (48.72%) Database Migration
6 17 (43.59%) Agile
7 15 (38.46%) Coaching
7 15 (38.46%) PRINCE2
8 13 (33.33%) Mentoring
9 9 (23.08%) Data Management
10 7 (17.95%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
10 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
11 6 (15.38%) Data Analysis
11 6 (15.38%) Validation
12 5 (12.82%) Data Modelling
12 5 (12.82%) ERP
12 5 (12.82%) Platform Engineering
12 5 (12.82%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 32 (82.05%) SQL
2 9 (23.08%) Python
2 9 (23.08%) T-SQL
3 7 (17.95%) PL/SQL
4 5 (12.82%) Shell Script
5 4 (10.26%) C#
5 4 (10.26%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.13%) Bash
7 1 (2.56%) Java
7 1 (2.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) OCA
1 4 (10.26%) OCP
1 4 (10.26%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (7.69%) Degree
3 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.56%) CCNA
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (38.46%) ISO 9001
2 5 (12.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.56%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Ansible
1 6 (15.38%) Grafana
1 6 (15.38%) Oracle RMAN
1 6 (15.38%) Prometheus
2 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) Terraform
3 1 (2.56%) Nessus
3 1 (2.56%) OpenVAS
3 1 (2.56%) QRadar
Vendors
1 20 (51.28%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.51%) Oracle
3 1 (2.56%) Cisco
3 1 (2.56%) Google
3 1 (2.56%) Informatica
3 1 (2.56%) Qualys
3 1 (2.56%) SolarWinds
3 1 (2.56%) Splunk
3 1 (2.56%) VMware