SQL Optimisation Contracts in England

SQL Optimisation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SQL Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Optimisation over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 641 765
Rank change year-on-year +99 +124 -153
Contract jobs citing SQL Optimisation 7 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.019% 0.010% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.011% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 4
10th Percentile £275 £525 -
25th Percentile £294 £544 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +17.07% -14.58%
75th Percentile £450 £631 £571
90th Percentile £606 £635 £574
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,794 44,158 63,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,826 30,977 45,197
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,562 1,739
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

SQL Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SQL Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Optimisation in England

SQL Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Optimisation in England.

Daily rate trend for SQL Optimisation in England

SQL Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Optimisation in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Optimisation in England

SQL Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Optimisation in England.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Optimisation in England

SQL Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Optimisation within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London +95 2 £725 +20.83% 1
Midlands - 2 £300 - 1
North West - 2 £400 -
West Midlands - 2 £300 - 1
North of England - 2 £400 -
South West +17 1 £425 -32.00% 1
SQL Optimisation
UK

SQL Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (28.57%) Apache
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Hive
1 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Impala
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) Spark SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) Travis CI
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle APEX
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Full Stack Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Applications Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
1 4 (57.14%) ETL
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Data Extraction
3 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 2 (28.57%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Confluent
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle