Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 810 795 1072
Rank change year-on-year -15 +277 -179
Permanent jobs citing OLTP 32 92 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.22% 0.54% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 28 71 140
10th Percentile £38,375 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £46,563 £48,750 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £71,250 £78,750 £93,125
90th Percentile £74,750 £97,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +22.73% +1.85%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 14,713 16,902 48,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.28% 20.95% 27.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9,555 11,871 21,175
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,942 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

OLTP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OLTP in the UK

OLTP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OLTP.

Salary trend for OLTP in the UK

OLTP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OLTP over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for OLTP in the UK

OLTP
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OLTP within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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 -22 32 £67,500 - 5
UK excluding London -56 27 £67,500 - 3
Work from Home +7 20 £67,500 +8.87% 5
South East +1 15 £67,500 - 1
North of England +3 8 £50,000 -2.44% 2
North West -8 7 £50,000 - 2
London +49 5 £80,000 +33.33% 2
West Midlands -4 3 £45,000 -14.29%
Midlands -21 3 £45,000 -14.29%
Yorkshire +53 1 £52,500 +2.44%
East of England -6 1 £70,000 -6.67%

OLTP
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 (6.25%) Confluence
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) Azure
2 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.25%) Apigee
3 2 (6.25%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) Kong
3 2 (6.25%) Matillion
3 2 (6.25%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.13%) Azure API Management
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Batch
4 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Storage
4 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 7 (21.88%) OLAP
3 4 (12.50%) Oracle OLAP
4 3 (9.38%) Data Lake
4 3 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (6.25%) Metadata
5 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 2 (6.25%) Power BI
5 2 (6.25%) Tableau
6 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.13%) Big Data
6 1 (3.13%) MariaDB
6 1 (3.13%) MySQL
6 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) ERwin
2 2 (6.25%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) MagicDraw
3 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 9 (28.13%) Law
2 4 (12.50%) Banking
2 4 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.25%) Investment Banking
3 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Games
Job Titles
1 25 (78.13%) Developer
2 16 (50.00%) Senior
2 16 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 15 (46.88%) Oracle Developer
3 15 (46.88%) Senior Oracle Developer
4 9 (28.13%) SQL Developer
5 8 (25.00%) SQL Server Developer
6 7 (21.88%) T-SQL Developer
7 3 (9.38%) Architect
8 2 (6.25%) AWS Architect
8 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
9 1 (3.13%) Analyst
9 1 (3.13%) Data Analyst
9 1 (3.13%) Lead
9 1 (3.13%) Lead Architect
9 1 (3.13%) MySQL DBA
9 1 (3.13%) Principal Developer
9 1 (3.13%) Senior SQL Developer
9 1 (3.13%) Senior SQL Server Developer
9 1 (3.13%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (53.13%) SOAP
2 16 (50.00%) XML
3 15 (46.88%) HTML
4 3 (9.38%) Web Services
5 2 (6.25%) Apache Camel
5 2 (6.25%) IBM Integration Bus
5 2 (6.25%) J2EE
5 2 (6.25%) Kafka
5 2 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (6.25%) Spring
5 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
5 2 (6.25%) Spring Integration
6 1 (3.13%) .NET
6 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
6 1 (3.13%) JSON
6 1 (3.13%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 2 (6.25%) DataPower
1 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
1 2 (6.25%) Reference Data
1 2 (6.25%) Taxonomies
2 1 (3.13%) Replication
2 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (46.88%) Software Testing
3 8 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (12.50%) OO
5 3 (9.38%) API Management
5 3 (9.38%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (9.38%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (9.38%) Data Migration
5 3 (9.38%) DevOps
5 3 (9.38%) Microservices
5 3 (9.38%) Migration
5 3 (9.38%) SOA
6 2 (6.25%) Architectural Design
6 2 (6.25%) Architecture Governance
6 2 (6.25%) Budget Management
6 2 (6.25%) Design Patterns
6 2 (6.25%) Event-Driven
6 2 (6.25%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 24 (75.00%) SQL
2 15 (46.88%) PL/SQL
3 9 (28.13%) T-SQL
4 3 (9.38%) Java
5 1 (3.13%) C#
5 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (59.38%) Oracle
2 2 (6.25%) IBM
2 2 (6.25%) TSYS
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft