Database Optimisation Jobs

Database Optimisation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Database Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Database Optimisation 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 858 905 1194
Rank change year-on-year +47 +289 -288
Permanent jobs citing Database Optimisation 49 42 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.044% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.046% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 44 42 26
10th Percentile £52,750 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,063 £44,518 £49,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% +23.81% -22.22%
75th Percentile £91,991 £76,875 £64,375
90th Percentile £118,750 £95,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +26.21% -20.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Database Optimisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Database Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Database Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Database Optimisation in the UK

Database Optimisation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Database Optimisation.

Salary trend for Database Optimisation in the UK

Database Optimisation
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Database Optimisation in the UK

Database Optimisation
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Database Optimisation 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 +46 46 £71,500 +10.00% 19
Work from Home +58 33 £71,750 +10.38% 12
UK excluding London -30 25 £67,500 +3.85% 9
London +123 23 £87,610 +6.19% 9
South East +8 17 £71,000 +67.06% 2
South West - 3 £67,500 - 4
North of England +24 2 £56,250 -13.46% 3
Scotland -66 2 £47,500 -36.67%
North West -14 1 £67,500 +3.85%
Midlands -18 1 £75,000 +76.47%
West Midlands -19 1 £75,000 +76.47%
Yorkshire - 1 £45,000 - 3

Database Optimisation
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 (6.12%) Apache
2 2 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.08%) CMS
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.04%) Confluence
3 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.04%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (2.04%) Elementor
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.04%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 28 (57.14%) AWS
2 25 (51.02%) GCP
3 23 (46.94%) Azure
4 6 (12.24%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.20%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (10.20%) PaaS
6 3 (6.12%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.12%) Pulumi
6 3 (6.12%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.08%) Firebase
7 2 (4.08%) GitHub
7 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.08%) Google Analytics
7 2 (4.08%) Serverless
8 1 (2.04%) Basecamp
8 1 (2.04%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.04%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) DHCP
1 1 (2.04%) DNS
1 1 (2.04%) HTTP
1 1 (2.04%) MQTT
1 1 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (61.22%) SQL Server
2 16 (32.65%) MongoDB
3 13 (26.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 12 (24.49%) BigQuery
4 12 (24.49%) Data Hub
4 12 (24.49%) DB2
5 9 (18.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (10.20%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (8.16%) MySQL
8 3 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
8 3 (6.12%) Power BI
8 3 (6.12%) Redis
8 3 (6.12%) Relational Database
9 2 (4.08%) Big Data
9 2 (4.08%) Data Lake
9 2 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (4.08%) Tableau
10 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Git
2 3 (6.12%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.08%) CircleCI
3 2 (4.08%) GitLab
4 1 (2.04%) MLflow
4 1 (2.04%) YouTrack
General
1 19 (38.78%) Social Skills
2 13 (26.53%) Banking
2 13 (26.53%) Finance
3 12 (24.49%) Financial Institution
4 5 (10.20%) Law
5 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.04%) Automotive
7 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 14 (28.57%) Lead
2 12 (24.49%) Developer
3 11 (22.45%) DBA
4 8 (16.33%) Database Engineer
5 7 (14.29%) Senior
6 6 (12.24%) SQL DBA
7 5 (10.20%) Azure Developer
7 5 (10.20%) Data Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Technical Leader
9 2 (4.08%) Backend Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Operations Manager
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Site Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 1 (2.04%) AWS Engineer
10 1 (2.04%) IT Analyst
10 1 (2.04%) Optimisation Engineer
10 1 (2.04%) Senior WordPress Developer
10 1 (2.04%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) .NET
2 5 (10.20%) AngularJS
2 5 (10.20%) Node.js
3 4 (8.16%) CSS
3 4 (8.16%) HTML
4 3 (6.12%) .NET Framework
4 3 (6.12%) FastAPI
4 3 (6.12%) React
5 2 (4.08%) Express.js
5 2 (4.08%) Kafka
6 1 (2.04%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (2.04%) CSS3
6 1 (2.04%) JSON
6 1 (2.04%) Laravel
6 1 (2.04%) PySpark
6 1 (2.04%) PyTorch
6 1 (2.04%) REST
6 1 (2.04%) scikit-learn
6 1 (2.04%) TensorFlow
6 1 (2.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.49%) Cyberattack
1 12 (24.49%) Data Fabric
1 12 (24.49%) Public Cloud
2 11 (22.45%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.12%) Robotics
4 2 (4.08%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.04%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (30.61%) Linux
2 12 (24.49%) Windows
2 12 (24.49%) zOS
3 1 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.98%) Disaster Recovery
2 18 (36.73%) ETL
3 15 (30.61%) Analytics
4 14 (28.57%) Data Management
5 13 (26.53%) Data Protection
6 12 (24.49%) Decision-Making
6 12 (24.49%) Incident Response
6 12 (24.49%) Validation
7 11 (22.45%) Capacity Planning
7 11 (22.45%) Data Security
7 11 (22.45%) Data Validation
8 10 (20.41%) Agile
8 10 (20.41%) Mentoring
9 9 (18.37%) CI/CD
9 9 (18.37%) DevOps
10 7 (14.29%) Containerisation
10 7 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (12.24%) Test Automation
12 5 (10.20%) Data Analysis
12 5 (10.20%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (79.59%) SQL
2 9 (18.37%) Python
3 4 (8.16%) C#
3 4 (8.16%) Java
4 3 (6.12%) C++
4 3 (6.12%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.12%) Scala
5 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.08%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.04%) Bash
6 1 (2.04%) PHP
6 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) Degree
2 6 (12.24%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.08%) QA
2 2 (4.08%) SLA
3 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) Grafana
2 2 (4.08%) Ansible
2 2 (4.08%) Terraform
3 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (34.69%) Google
2 13 (26.53%) Databricks
2 13 (26.53%) Microsoft
3 12 (24.49%) F5
3 12 (24.49%) Oracle
4 3 (6.12%) Facebook
5 2 (4.08%) RedGate
6 1 (2.04%) Adobe
6 1 (2.04%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.04%) Hotjar
6 1 (2.04%) SAP
6 1 (2.04%) StreamSets
6 1 (2.04%) Talend
6 1 (2.04%) WooCommerce