Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 671 779
Rank change year-on-year +116 +108 -154
Contract jobs citing OLTP 36 34 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.059% 0.078%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.49% 0.33% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 25 43
10th Percentile £447 £359 £443
25th Percentile £459 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £586 £975 £688
90th Percentile £691 £1,013 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -10.59% +4.76% +2.69%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,289 10,416 17,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.93% 17.96% 20.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,212 7,410 12,430
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 186 184
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.69
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £21.69
Median hourly rate £40.13 £60.00 £42.92
Median % change year-on-year -33.13% +39.80% +59.07%
75th Percentile £61.60 £73.74 £62.24
90th Percentile £74.25 £81.25 £74.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £56.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year -29.76% +62.71% +42.86%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OLTP.

Daily rate trend for OLTP in the UK

OLTP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OLTP over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OLTP in the UK

OLTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OLTP.

Hourly rate trend for OLTP in the UK

OLTP
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England +116 34 £489 -11.09% 22
London +85 20 £470 -34.04% 4
Work from Home +131 19 £489 -47.14% 25
UK excluding London +53 11 £492 -10.59% 21
North of England +33 5 £489 -2.20% 8
North West +19 5 £489 -2.20% 4
Midlands +35 3 £573 +19.27% 3
West Midlands +22 3 £573 +19.27% 1
South West - 2 £675 - 2
South East +21 1 £475 -13.64% 3

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 5 (13.89%) CICS
1 5 (13.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 23 (63.89%) Azure
2 13 (36.11%) Power Platform
3 9 (25.00%) Serverless
4 8 (22.22%) AWS
5 7 (19.44%) Azure API Management
5 7 (19.44%) Azure Batch
5 7 (19.44%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (19.44%) Azure Functions
5 7 (19.44%) Azure Key Vault
5 7 (19.44%) Azure Logic Apps
5 7 (19.44%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (19.44%) Azure Storage
5 7 (19.44%) Power Automate
5 7 (19.44%) PowerApps
6 6 (16.67%) GCP
7 5 (13.89%) Apigee
7 5 (13.89%) Kong
8 3 (8.33%) IaaS
8 3 (8.33%) PaaS
8 3 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (63.89%) OLAP
2 17 (47.22%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (41.67%) Data Lake
4 12 (33.33%) Big Data
5 9 (25.00%) SQL Server
6 7 (19.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (16.67%) DB2
7 6 (16.67%) Oracle OLAP
7 6 (16.67%) Power BI
8 5 (13.89%) MongoDB
9 4 (11.11%) Metadata
10 3 (8.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
11 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
12 1 (2.78%) Impala
12 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
12 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Git
1 7 (19.44%) Visual Studio Team System
2 5 (13.89%) JIRA
3 2 (5.56%) kappa
General
1 16 (44.44%) Finance
2 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
3 10 (27.78%) Banking
4 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (58.33%) Architect
2 16 (44.44%) Data Architect
3 8 (22.22%) Developer
4 7 (19.44%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (13.89%) AWS Architect
6 4 (11.11%) Azure Architect
6 4 (11.11%) Azure Data Architect
6 4 (11.11%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 4 (11.11%) DB2 Specialist
6 4 (11.11%) Senior
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Architect
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Data Architect
6 4 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (11.11%) z/OS Specialist
7 3 (8.33%) Applications Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (8.33%) Enterprise Data Architect
8 2 (5.56%) Consultant
8 2 (5.56%) DevOps Consultant
8 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (30.56%) Web Services
2 10 (27.78%) Kafka
3 7 (19.44%) .NET
3 7 (19.44%) ARM Templates
4 6 (16.67%) JSON
4 6 (16.67%) SOAP
4 6 (16.67%) XML
5 5 (13.89%) IBM Integration Bus
5 5 (13.89%) J2EE
5 5 (13.89%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (11.11%) Apache Camel
6 4 (11.11%) Spring
6 4 (11.11%) Spring Boot
6 4 (11.11%) Spring Integration
7 3 (8.33%) Middleware
8 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
8 1 (2.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) DataPower
1 5 (13.89%) Mainframe
1 5 (13.89%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.33%) Taxonomies
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Migration
2 13 (36.11%) Analytics
2 13 (36.11%) Data Modelling
3 12 (33.33%) API Management
3 12 (33.33%) DevOps
4 11 (30.56%) Microservices
4 11 (30.56%) SOA
5 10 (27.78%) Architectural Patterns
5 10 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (27.78%) Roadmaps
6 9 (25.00%) Data Migration
7 8 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
7 8 (22.22%) Data Governance
7 8 (22.22%) Data Security
7 8 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
7 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (19.44%) Data Engineering
8 7 (19.44%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (19.44%) Design Patterns
8 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (30.56%) Java
2 7 (19.44%) C#
2 7 (19.44%) PowerShell
3 5 (13.89%) COBOL
3 5 (13.89%) REXX
4 3 (8.33%) SQL
5 1 (2.78%) Python
5 1 (2.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Data Quality
1 5 (13.89%) GDPR
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Terraform
2 4 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.67%) Oracle
3 5 (13.89%) Databricks
3 5 (13.89%) Google
3 5 (13.89%) IBM
3 5 (13.89%) TSYS
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce