OLTP Contracts with Work from Home Options

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 321 440 587
Rank change year-on-year +119 +147 -122
Contract jobs citing OLTP 20 15 32
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.061% 0.072%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.69% 0.32% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £423 £600 £463
25th Percentile £482 £650 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £925 £638
Median % change year-on-year -46.54% +45.10% +8.51%
75th Percentile £601 £1,013 £788
90th Percentile £706 - -
UK median daily rate £489 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.09% - -8.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,878 4,713 9,623
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.55% 19.02% 21.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,121 3,444 7,002
10th Percentile £356 £388 £373
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £549
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 79 89
10th Percentile £18.60 £22.16 £19.80
25th Percentile £22.43 £40.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +36.84% +48.44%
75th Percentile £62.25 £74.38 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +27.78% +69.81%

OLTP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OLTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OLTP trend for jobs with a WFH option

OLTP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OLTP.

OLTP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OLTP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing OLTP over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

OLTP daily rate 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 5 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (20.00%) Confluence
3 2 (10.00%) CICS
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) AWS
3 5 (25.00%) Apigee
3 5 (25.00%) Kong
3 5 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (25.00%) Serverless
4 4 (20.00%) Azure API Management
4 4 (20.00%) Azure Batch
4 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 4 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (20.00%) Azure Storage
4 4 (20.00%) Power Automate
4 4 (20.00%) PowerApps
5 3 (15.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.00%) Matillion
6 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (70.00%) OLAP
2 6 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 5 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 5 (25.00%) Oracle OLAP
4 4 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (15.00%) Big Data
5 3 (15.00%) Metadata
6 2 (10.00%) DB2
6 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
7 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (5.00%) Data Vault
7 1 (5.00%) Power BI
7 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
7 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
2 4 (20.00%) Git
2 4 (20.00%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (5.00%) kappa
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (40.00%) Banking
3 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Architect
2 7 (35.00%) Data Architect
3 5 (25.00%) AWS Architect
4 4 (20.00%) Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Architect
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Data Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Applications Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) DB2 Specialist
6 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Lead
6 2 (10.00%) Lead Developer
6 2 (10.00%) z/OS Specialist
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) Kafka
1 8 (40.00%) Web Services
2 5 (25.00%) IBM Integration Bus
2 5 (25.00%) J2EE
2 5 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (25.00%) SOAP
3 4 (20.00%) .NET
3 4 (20.00%) Apache Camel
3 4 (20.00%) ARM Templates
3 4 (20.00%) Spring
3 4 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (20.00%) Spring Integration
4 3 (15.00%) JSON
4 3 (15.00%) XML
5 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) DataPower
2 2 (10.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Taxonomies
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) API Management
2 8 (40.00%) DevOps
2 8 (40.00%) Microservices
2 8 (40.00%) SOA
3 7 (35.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (30.00%) Analytics
4 6 (30.00%) Design Patterns
4 6 (30.00%) Migration
5 5 (25.00%) CQRS
5 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 5 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (25.00%) Event-Driven
5 5 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (25.00%) OO
5 5 (25.00%) OOA/OOD
5 5 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (20.00%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) C#
2 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.00%) COBOL
3 2 (10.00%) REXX
3 2 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) IBM
2 5 (25.00%) Oracle
2 5 (25.00%) TSYS
3 3 (15.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce