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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 653 779
Rank change year-on-year +120 +126 -139
Contract jobs citing OLTP 38 34 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.060% 0.074%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.52% 0.33% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 41
10th Percentile £450 £359 £438
25th Percentile £461 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £634 £975 £675
90th Percentile £724 £1,013 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £532 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.38% - +2.94%

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 7,304 10,170 17,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.15% 17.86% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,237 7,238 12,433
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £549
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £751 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +11.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 178 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £22.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +27.37% +75.24%
75th Percentile £61.53 £73.41 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £79.28 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £56.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year -29.08% +61.14% +45.83%

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 18 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 18 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 +112 36 £495 -10.09% 18
Work from Home +114 20 £495 -46.54% 23
London +97 20 £470 -34.04% 2
UK excluding London +62 13 £532 +1.38% 21
North of England +37 7 £489 +2.95% 8
North West +25 7 £489 +2.95% 4
Midlands +24 3 £573 +19.27% 4
West Midlands +24 3 £573 +19.27% 2
South West - 2 £675 - 2
South East +29 1 £475 -13.64% 2

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 6 (15.79%) Confluence
1 6 (15.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (13.16%) CICS
Applications
1 7 (18.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 25 (65.79%) Azure
2 13 (34.21%) Power Platform
3 10 (26.32%) AWS
4 9 (23.68%) Serverless
5 7 (18.42%) Apigee
5 7 (18.42%) Azure API Management
5 7 (18.42%) Azure Batch
5 7 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (18.42%) Azure Functions
5 7 (18.42%) Azure Key Vault
5 7 (18.42%) Azure Logic Apps
5 7 (18.42%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (18.42%) Azure Storage
5 7 (18.42%) Kong
5 7 (18.42%) Power Automate
5 7 (18.42%) PowerApps
6 6 (15.79%) GCP
7 3 (7.89%) IaaS
7 3 (7.89%) PaaS
7 3 (7.89%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (65.79%) OLAP
2 17 (44.74%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (39.47%) Data Lake
4 12 (31.58%) Big Data
5 9 (23.68%) SQL Server
6 7 (18.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (18.42%) MongoDB
6 7 (18.42%) Oracle OLAP
7 6 (15.79%) DB2
7 6 (15.79%) Power BI
8 4 (10.53%) Metadata
9 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
10 2 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (2.63%) Data Vault
11 1 (2.63%) Hadoop
11 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Git
1 7 (18.42%) JIRA
1 7 (18.42%) Visual Studio Team System
2 2 (5.26%) kappa
General
1 18 (47.37%) Finance
2 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
3 12 (31.58%) Banking
4 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.16%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (60.53%) Architect
2 16 (42.11%) Data Architect
3 8 (21.05%) Developer
4 7 (18.42%) AWS Architect
4 7 (18.42%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (13.16%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (10.53%) Azure Architect
6 4 (10.53%) Azure Data Architect
6 4 (10.53%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 4 (10.53%) DB2 Specialist
6 4 (10.53%) Senior
6 4 (10.53%) Senior Architect
6 4 (10.53%) Senior Data Architect
6 4 (10.53%) z/OS Specialist
7 3 (7.89%) Applications Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Data Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Consultant
8 2 (5.26%) Lead Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (34.21%) Web Services
2 12 (31.58%) Kafka
3 8 (21.05%) SOAP
4 7 (18.42%) .NET
4 7 (18.42%) ARM Templates
4 7 (18.42%) IBM Integration Bus
4 7 (18.42%) J2EE
4 7 (18.42%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (15.79%) Apache Camel
5 6 (15.79%) JSON
5 6 (15.79%) Spring
5 6 (15.79%) Spring Boot
5 6 (15.79%) Spring Integration
5 6 (15.79%) XML
6 3 (7.89%) Middleware
7 1 (2.63%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) DataPower
2 5 (13.16%) Mainframe
2 5 (13.16%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.89%) Taxonomies
4 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) API Management
1 14 (36.84%) DevOps
1 14 (36.84%) Migration
2 13 (34.21%) Analytics
2 13 (34.21%) Data Modelling
2 13 (34.21%) Microservices
2 13 (34.21%) SOA
3 10 (26.32%) Architectural Patterns
3 10 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (26.32%) Enterprise Architecture
3 10 (26.32%) Roadmaps
4 9 (23.68%) Data Migration
4 9 (23.68%) Design Patterns
4 9 (23.68%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (21.05%) Capacity Planning
5 8 (21.05%) Data Governance
5 8 (21.05%) Data Security
5 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (18.42%) Deployment Automation
6 7 (18.42%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 13 (34.21%) Java
2 7 (18.42%) C#
2 7 (18.42%) PowerShell
3 5 (13.16%) COBOL
3 5 (13.16%) REXX
4 3 (7.89%) SQL
5 1 (2.63%) Python
5 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) Data Quality
1 5 (13.16%) GDPR
2 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Terraform
2 6 (15.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.42%) IBM
2 7 (18.42%) Oracle
2 7 (18.42%) TSYS
3 5 (13.16%) Databricks
3 5 (13.16%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce