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 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 688 850 868
Rank change year-on-year +162 +18 +145
Permanent jobs citing OLTP 30 34 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.034% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.39% 0.19% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 29 27 78
10th Percentile - £40,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £43,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% +4.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £84,688
90th Percentile £82,500 £71,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +23.81%

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 7,663 18,272 21,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.72% 18.29% 21.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,959 12,519 13,364
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £83,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OLTP in the UK

OLTP
Top 6 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 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
England +161 30 £67,500 - 16
UK excluding London +170 26 £67,500 - 10
South East +97 23 £67,500 - 5
Work from Home +110 18 £67,500 - 11
London +124 4 £77,500 +106.67% 8
East of England +43 3 £83,750 +19.64%

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 3 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.33%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (6.67%) dbt
3 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.67%) Serverless
3 2 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.00%) OLAP
2 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.67%) Apache Hive
3 2 (6.67%) Big Data
3 2 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 2 (6.67%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.67%) Power BI
3 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
3 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.33%) MySQL
General
1 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Banking
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Retail
4 1 (3.33%) Games
4 1 (3.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (80.00%) Developer
2 23 (76.67%) Oracle Developer
2 23 (76.67%) Senior
2 23 (76.67%) Senior Developer
2 23 (76.67%) Senior Oracle Developer
3 15 (50.00%) PL/SQL Developer
3 15 (50.00%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
3 15 (50.00%) Senior SQL Developer
3 15 (50.00%) SQL Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Data Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Data Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Data Integration Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (3.33%) PHP Developer
5 1 (3.33%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (70.00%) HTML
2 14 (46.67%) SOAP
2 14 (46.67%) XML
3 7 (23.33%) JSON
4 3 (10.00%) Kafka
4 3 (10.00%) Node.js
5 2 (6.67%) Spring
6 1 (3.33%) Laravel
6 1 (3.33%) NestJS
6 1 (3.33%) React
6 1 (3.33%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
1 14 (46.67%) Software Testing
2 7 (23.33%) Clean Code
2 7 (23.33%) Configuration Management
2 7 (23.33%) Issue Tracking
3 5 (16.67%) Agile
4 4 (13.33%) DevOps
5 3 (10.00%) CQRS
5 3 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (10.00%) High Availability
6 2 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (6.67%) Incident Management
6 2 (6.67%) Multithreading
6 2 (6.67%) Project Management
6 2 (6.67%) Scrum
6 2 (6.67%) Software Engineering
6 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (6.67%) Stress Testing
6 2 (6.67%) TDD
6 2 (6.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (90.00%) SQL
2 23 (76.67%) PL/SQL
3 9 (30.00%) Java
4 8 (26.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.33%) PHP
6 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) GDPR
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
2 2 (6.67%) SLA
Vendors
1 23 (76.67%) Oracle
2 2 (6.67%) Databricks
2 2 (6.67%) Google