OLTP Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 410 563 578
Rank change year-on-year +153 +15 +163
Permanent jobs citing OLTP 20 22 81
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.065% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.57% 0.28% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 19 19 53
10th Percentile - £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £71,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +4.84%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,491 7,722 10,462
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.22% 22.85% 24.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,414 6,198 7,181
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £95,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

OLTP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

OLTP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

OLTP
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

OLTP salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

OLTP
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

OLTP salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OLTP
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (10.00%) Big Data
1 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (90.00%) Developer
1 18 (90.00%) Oracle Developer
1 18 (90.00%) Senior
1 18 (90.00%) Senior Developer
1 18 (90.00%) Senior Oracle Developer
2 15 (75.00%) PL/SQL Developer
2 15 (75.00%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
2 15 (75.00%) Senior SQL Developer
2 15 (75.00%) SQL Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (80.00%) HTML
1 16 (80.00%) SOAP
1 16 (80.00%) XML
2 2 (10.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 16 (80.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (10.00%) Agile
2 2 (10.00%) Conceptual Models
2 2 (10.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (10.00%) Data Science
2 2 (10.00%) Logical Data Model
2 2 (10.00%) Physical Data Model
2 2 (10.00%) Scrum
2 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 18 (90.00%) PL/SQL
1 18 (90.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 18 (90.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Databricks