OLTP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for OLTP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OLTP over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 436 483
Rank change year-on-year +56 +47 -63
Contract jobs citing OLTP 14 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.069% 0.043% 0.052%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.55% 0.28% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 11
10th Percentile £464 £445 £325
25th Percentile £487 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% - +6.87%
75th Percentile £666 £575 £625
90th Percentile £724 - £650
UK median daily rate £489 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.09% - -8.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

OLTP is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,561 3,510 5,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.64% 15.17% 17.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,816 2,518 3,857
10th Percentile £313 £338 £326
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £580 £594 £586
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £549
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 108 131
10th Percentile £13.52 £21.14 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £30.54 £20.75
Median hourly rate £39.25 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.64% +57.14% +45.83%
75th Percentile £60.50 £69.06 £61.08
90th Percentile £74.75 £76.43 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +27.78% +69.81%

OLTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for OLTP in the UK excluding London

OLTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for OLTP in the UK excluding London

OLTP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OLTP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OLTP in the UK excluding London

OLTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for OLTP in the UK excluding London

OLTP
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 OLTP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
North of England +34 7 £489 +2.95% 8
North West +20 7 £489 +2.95% 4
West Midlands +22 3 £573 +19.27% 2
Midlands +19 3 £573 +19.27% 4
South East +18 2 £475 -13.64% 2
South West - 2 £675 - 2
OLTP
UK

OLTP
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (42.86%) Confluence
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (50.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 10 (71.43%) AWS
3 7 (50.00%) Apigee
3 7 (50.00%) Kong
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (85.71%) OLAP
2 7 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 7 (50.00%) Oracle OLAP
3 5 (35.71%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (21.43%) Data Lake
4 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
5 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (14.29%) Hadoop
5 2 (14.29%) Impala
5 2 (14.29%) Metadata
5 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
5 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (14.29%) Tableau
6 1 (7.14%) Big Data
6 1 (7.14%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) kappa
General
1 11 (78.57%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Banking
3 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Architect
2 7 (50.00%) AWS Architect
3 5 (35.71%) Data Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Solution Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) SOAP
2 7 (50.00%) IBM Integration Bus
2 7 (50.00%) J2EE
2 7 (50.00%) Kafka
2 7 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (50.00%) Web Services
3 6 (42.86%) Apache Camel
3 6 (42.86%) Spring
3 6 (42.86%) Spring Boot
3 6 (42.86%) Spring Integration
4 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) DataPower
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Taxonomies
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Enterprise Architecture
1 9 (64.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (57.14%) Design Patterns
3 7 (50.00%) API Management
3 7 (50.00%) CQRS
3 7 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 7 (50.00%) DevOps
3 7 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 7 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 7 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 7 (50.00%) Microservices
3 7 (50.00%) OO
3 7 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
3 7 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 7 (50.00%) SOA
4 6 (42.86%) Technical Debt
4 6 (42.86%) TOGAF
5 4 (28.57%) Data Strategy
5 4 (28.57%) IT Strategy
6 3 (21.43%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) IBM
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle
1 7 (50.00%) TSYS
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce