Database Tuning Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Database Performance Tuning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 556 614
Rank change year-on-year +182 +58 +209
Permanent jobs citing Database Tuning 23 36 59
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.12% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 23 32 57
10th Percentile £53,500 £32,550 £53,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £44,438 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £72,500 £61,125 £60,000
90th Percentile - £65,000 £71,652
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Database Tuning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Database Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Database Tuning trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Database Tuning
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Database Tuning.

Database Tuning salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Database Tuning
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Database Tuning over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Database Tuning salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Database Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) AWS
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (8.70%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.35%) GCP
3 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (69.57%) PostgreSQL
1 16 (69.57%) SQL Server
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle Database
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle Exadata
General
1 15 (65.22%) Law
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Database Team Leader
1 11 (47.83%) Development Team Leader
1 11 (47.83%) Lead
1 11 (47.83%) Team Leader
2 6 (26.09%) DBA
3 4 (17.39%) Database Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Oracle Applications DBA
3 4 (17.39%) Oracle DBA
4 3 (13.04%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Senior DBA
6 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Reliability Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Reliability Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior SQL DBA
6 1 (4.35%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) Middleware
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle Fusion
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (4.35%) Laravel
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
2 1 (4.35%) Spring
2 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.35%) Legacy Code
1 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
1 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
1 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (86.96%) Linux
2 5 (21.74%) Windows
3 4 (17.39%) Unix
4 1 (4.35%) AIX
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 19 (82.61%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (69.57%) Agile
4 15 (65.22%) Coaching
4 15 (65.22%) Data Migration
4 15 (65.22%) Database Migration
4 15 (65.22%) Migration
4 15 (65.22%) PRINCE2
5 13 (56.52%) Mentoring
6 4 (17.39%) Data Management
7 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (8.70%) DevOps
7 2 (8.70%) Performance Monitoring
7 2 (8.70%) Proactive Maintenance
7 2 (8.70%) Problem Management
7 2 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (4.35%) CI/CD
8 1 (4.35%) Containerisation
8 1 (4.35%) Observability
8 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (91.30%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) PL/SQL
2 4 (17.39%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.35%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) PHP
3 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) OCA
1 4 (17.39%) OCP
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (65.22%) ISO 9001
2 4 (17.39%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.35%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (4.35%) Grafana
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat