Database Optimisation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Database Optimisation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Database Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Database Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 - 501
Rank change year-on-year - - -67
Contract jobs citing Database Optimisation 21 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.098% - 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 2
10th Percentile £450 - £514
25th Percentile £463 - £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 - £638
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.50%
75th Percentile £683 - £703
90th Percentile £735 - £731
UK median daily rate £515 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -10.43% - +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Database Optimisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Database Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Database Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Database Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Database Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Database Optimisation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Database Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Database Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Database Optimisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Database Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Database Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Database Optimisation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Database Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Database Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Database Optimisation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West - 9 £648 - 2
Scotland - 6 £475 -
North of England - 6 £620 - 2
North West - 3 £775 -
Yorkshire - 2 £490 - 2
North East - 1 £475 -
Database Optimisation
UK

Database Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (14.29%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Amazon S3
1 5 (23.81%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) CloudBees
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 8 (38.10%) Oracle Database
3 5 (23.81%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (23.81%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (19.05%) MongoDB
5 3 (14.29%) BigQuery
5 3 (14.29%) Data Hub
5 3 (14.29%) DB2
5 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (4.76%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Local Government
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Architect
2 6 (28.57%) Systems Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Active Directory Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Administrator
3 4 (19.05%) DBA
3 4 (19.05%) PL/SQL Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Database Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
4 3 (14.29%) SQL Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Active Directory Specialist
5 2 (9.52%) Lead
5 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) SQL DBA
5 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Architect
5 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Specialist
5 2 (9.52%) Technical Leader
6 1 (4.76%) Ingres DBA
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Data Fabric
1 3 (14.29%) Housing Association
1 3 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Windows
2 8 (38.10%) Unix
3 6 (28.57%) Linux
3 6 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 3 (14.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (38.10%) Data Management
3 6 (28.57%) Data Migration
3 6 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 6 (28.57%) Migration
4 5 (23.81%) Identity Management
5 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
5 4 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (14.29%) API Development
6 3 (14.29%) Data Extraction
6 3 (14.29%) ETL
6 3 (14.29%) Incident Response
7 2 (9.52%) Benchmarking
7 2 (9.52%) Customer Service
7 2 (9.52%) Data Security
7 2 (9.52%) Housing Management
7 2 (9.52%) Performance Monitoring
8 1 (4.76%) Configuration Management
8 1 (4.76%) High Availability
8 1 (4.76%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 20 (95.24%) SQL
2 8 (38.10%) PL/SQL
3 2 (9.52%) Python
4 1 (4.76%) Bash
4 1 (4.76%) Go
4 1 (4.76%) Groovy
4 1 (4.76%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) Ruby
4 1 (4.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Oracle
2 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) Databricks
3 3 (14.29%) F5
3 3 (14.29%) NEC
4 1 (4.76%) Brio