Database Tuning Jobs

Database Performance Tuning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Database Tuning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Database Tuning 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 806 863 1175
Rank change year-on-year +57 +312 -275
Permanent jobs citing Database Tuning 101 84 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.096% 0.089% 0.051%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.093% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 58 73 55
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,958 £45,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £67,888
90th Percentile - £77,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +13.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Database Tuning 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 Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Database Tuning in the UK

Database Tuning
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Database Tuning in the UK

Database Tuning
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Database Tuning in the UK

Database Tuning
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Database Tuning 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 +64 99 £55,000 -8.33% 10
UK excluding London -6 93 £55,000 - 6
South West +8 41 £52,500 -
Work from Home +24 34 £52,500 -4.55% 7
South East -26 20 £60,000 - 2
North of England +46 19 £50,000 +2.04% 1
North West +6 16 £55,000 +12.24%
London +112 8 £60,000 -20.00% 5
Midlands - 7 £58,750 - 2
West Midlands - 5 £60,000 - 2
East of England -3 4 £57,500 +53.33%
Yorkshire - 3 £35,000 - 1
Scotland -70 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 £47,500 -

Database Tuning
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 1 (0.99%) IIS
1 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
1 1 (0.99%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 21 (20.79%) Azure
2 8 (7.92%) Power Platform
3 6 (5.94%) AWS
4 2 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (1.98%) GCP
5 1 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.99%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.87%) SNMP
1 13 (12.87%) SSH
1 13 (12.87%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.98%) DNS
2 2 (1.98%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (40.59%) MongoDB
2 30 (29.70%) SQL Server
3 19 (18.81%) Relational Database
3 19 (18.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 16 (15.84%) MySQL
4 16 (15.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (7.92%) Power BI
6 6 (5.94%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.96%) OLAP
7 4 (3.96%) OLAP Cube
7 4 (3.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (2.97%) SAP Data Services
9 2 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (12.87%) Eclipse
2 4 (3.96%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.98%) JIRA
4 1 (0.99%) Git
General
1 56 (55.45%) Finance
2 20 (19.80%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.96%) Legal
6 3 (2.97%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.97%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.97%) Retail
7 2 (1.98%) Banking
7 2 (1.98%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.98%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.98%) Law
7 2 (1.98%) Marketing
8 1 (0.99%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 58 (57.43%) DBA
2 53 (52.48%) Administrator
3 32 (31.68%) DV Cleared DBA
4 18 (17.82%) Support Engineer
5 16 (15.84%) Senior
6 14 (13.86%) SQL DBA
6 14 (13.86%) Technical Engineer
6 14 (13.86%) Technical Support
6 14 (13.86%) Technical Support Engineer
7 13 (12.87%) Senior Support Engineer
7 13 (12.87%) Senior Technical Engineer
7 13 (12.87%) Senior Technical Support
7 13 (12.87%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
8 10 (9.90%) Lead
9 8 (7.92%) Developer
10 5 (4.95%) Analyst
11 4 (3.96%) Applications Engineer
11 4 (3.96%) Applications Support
11 4 (3.96%) Financial Analyst
11 4 (3.96%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.85%) REST
1 15 (14.85%) SOAP
1 15 (14.85%) Web Services
2 13 (12.87%) Ajax
2 13 (12.87%) AngularJS
2 13 (12.87%) CSS
2 13 (12.87%) HTML
2 13 (12.87%) JDBC
2 13 (12.87%) ODBC
2 13 (12.87%) XHTML
2 13 (12.87%) XML
3 4 (3.96%) MDX
4 3 (2.97%) .NET
5 2 (1.98%) Kafka
5 2 (1.98%) React
5 2 (1.98%) Spring
5 2 (1.98%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (1.98%) Spring Integration
5 2 (1.98%) Symfony
6 1 (0.99%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.83%) Replication
2 13 (12.87%) CMDB
3 8 (7.92%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.94%) Clustering
4 6 (5.94%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.94%) PMI
5 4 (3.96%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.97%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.98%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.98%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.99%) CCTV
8 1 (0.99%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 60 (59.41%) Linux
2 59 (58.42%) Windows
3 35 (34.65%) CentOS
3 35 (34.65%) Windows Server 2012
3 35 (34.65%) Windows Server 2016
3 35 (34.65%) Windows Server 2019
4 13 (12.87%) Unix
5 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (49.50%) Mentoring
2 44 (43.56%) Performance Tuning
3 39 (38.61%) Performance Monitoring
4 37 (36.63%) User Experience
5 35 (34.65%) Capacity Management
5 35 (34.65%) Storage Management
6 27 (26.73%) Actionable Insight
7 26 (25.74%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (15.84%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (15.84%) High Availability
9 14 (13.86%) Computer Science
9 14 (13.86%) OO
9 14 (13.86%) OOP
10 13 (12.87%) Data Extraction
10 13 (12.87%) ITIL
10 13 (12.87%) ITSM
10 13 (12.87%) Network Management
11 12 (11.88%) Database Security
12 11 (10.89%) Configuration Management
13 8 (7.92%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 82 (81.19%) SQL
2 52 (51.49%) PowerShell
3 35 (34.65%) Bash
4 23 (22.77%) T-SQL
5 19 (18.81%) Java
6 15 (14.85%) JavaScript
7 13 (12.87%) Perl
7 13 (12.87%) Python
8 2 (1.98%) C#
8 2 (1.98%) PHP
Qualifications
1 38 (37.62%) Security Cleared
2 35 (34.65%) DV Cleared
3 14 (13.86%) Degree
4 6 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.94%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (1.98%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 2 (1.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (12.87%) WMI
2 2 (1.98%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 50 (49.50%) Microsoft
2 48 (47.52%) Oracle
3 35 (34.65%) Red Hat
4 13 (12.87%) Splunk
5 4 (3.96%) Aderant
5 4 (3.96%) IBM
6 2 (1.98%) Cognos
6 2 (1.98%) New Relic
6 2 (1.98%) SAP