Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OLTP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OLTP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 872 842 1038
Rank change year-on-year -30 +196 -210
Permanent jobs citing OLTP 35 105 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.19% 0.52% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 29 78 147
10th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,500 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +6.00% +9.17%
75th Percentile £71,250 £84,688 £85,000
90th Percentile £71,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +28.57% -4.55%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,414 20,218 47,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.54% 21.36% 28.29%
Number of salaries quoted 12,548 12,894 20,996
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,675 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OLTP.

Salary trend for OLTP in the UK

OLTP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OLTP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for OLTP in the UK

OLTP
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OLTP within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -32 35 £65,000 -3.70% 20
UK excluding London -62 30 £67,500 - 22
Work from Home -9 22 £67,500 +3.85% 19
South East -12 14 £67,500 - 4
North of England +28 8 £50,000 - 7
North West -2 8 £50,000 - 3
South West -38 5 £43,500 - 2
London +76 4 £37,500 -46.43% 2
East of England -5 2 £70,000 -17.65%
Midlands -14 1 £45,000 -14.29% 5
West Midlands -15 1 £45,000 -14.29% 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 3 (8.57%) Tomcat
1 3 (8.57%) WildFly
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Temenos T24
1 1 (2.86%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.14%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) AWS
3 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.71%) OCI
5 1 (2.86%) Apigee
5 1 (2.86%) Azure API Management
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Batch
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.86%) Kong
5 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (45.71%) SQL Server
2 8 (22.86%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (17.14%) MySQL
4 6 (17.14%) Relational Database
5 3 (8.57%) OLAP
5 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (8.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
6 2 (5.71%) Power BI
6 2 (5.71%) Tableau
7 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.86%) Big Data
7 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.86%) MariaDB
7 1 (2.86%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Git
2 4 (11.43%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Games
2 4 (11.43%) Law
3 2 (5.71%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (71.43%) Developer
2 16 (45.71%) SQL Developer
3 15 (42.86%) Senior
3 15 (42.86%) Senior Developer
4 14 (40.00%) Oracle Developer
5 13 (37.14%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 8 (22.86%) Senior SQL Developer
7 7 (20.00%) DBA
7 7 (20.00%) PL/SQL Developer
8 6 (17.14%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
8 6 (17.14%) SQL Server Developer
9 5 (14.29%) Administrator
10 4 (11.43%) T-SQL Developer
11 2 (5.71%) Architect
11 2 (5.71%) Environment Manager
11 2 (5.71%) Oracle DBA
11 2 (5.71%) Senior SQL Server Developer
11 2 (5.71%) SQL DBA
12 1 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 1 (2.86%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (40.00%) SOAP
1 14 (40.00%) XML
2 13 (37.14%) HTML
3 3 (8.57%) .NET
4 2 (5.71%) Web Services
5 1 (2.86%) Apache Camel
5 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.86%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (2.86%) J2EE
5 1 (2.86%) JSON
5 1 (2.86%) Kafka
5 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.86%) Spring
5 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.86%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Learning Management System
2 3 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.71%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.86%) DataPower
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (37.14%) Software Testing
3 10 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 6 (17.14%) Agile
4 6 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (14.29%) Security Patching
6 3 (8.57%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (8.57%) Computer Science
6 3 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (8.57%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (8.57%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (8.57%) Scrum
6 3 (8.57%) Server Management
7 2 (5.71%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (5.71%) Data Migration
7 2 (5.71%) DevOps
7 2 (5.71%) High Availability
7 2 (5.71%) IT Governance
7 2 (5.71%) Microservices
7 2 (5.71%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (88.57%) SQL
2 14 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 11 (31.43%) T-SQL
4 4 (11.43%) Java
5 2 (5.71%) PHP
6 1 (2.86%) C#
6 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Ansible
2 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (57.14%) Oracle
2 1 (2.86%) Databricks
2 1 (2.86%) IBM
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) TSYS