SQL Optimisation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SQL Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Optimisation over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 883 973 1176
Rank change year-on-year +90 +203 -292
Permanent jobs citing SQL Optimisation 11 16 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.015% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.016% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 10 16 13
10th Percentile £46,625 £51,875 £42,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £72,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.31% +31.82% +6.80%
75th Percentile £59,375 £84,375 £61,250
90th Percentile £69,125 £90,000 £68,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +44.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

SQL 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 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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%

SQL Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Optimisation in the UK

SQL Optimisation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SQL Optimisation in the UK

SQL Optimisation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Optimisation over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Optimisation in the UK

SQL Optimisation
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Optimisation within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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
UK excluding London +5 8 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Scotland - 6 £50,000 -
England +99 5 £57,500 -20.69% 2
Work from Home +90 4 £52,500 -27.59% 2
London +121 1 £65,000 -27.78%
South West -21 1 £57,500 -17.86%
East Midlands - 1 £62,500 -
Midlands - 1 £62,500 - 1

SQL 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 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) SaaS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Relational Database
2 6 (54.55%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
4 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
5 1 (9.09%) Big Data
5 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
5 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
5 1 (9.09%) MySQL
5 1 (9.09%) Power BI
5 1 (9.09%) Tableau
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Games
3 2 (18.18%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Backend Developer
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) ETL Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Snowflake Developer
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Laravel
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
1 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
2 4 (36.36%) ETL
3 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (18.18%) Data Extraction
4 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) Data Science
4 2 (18.18%) Data Security
4 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 1 (9.09%) Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) Data Architecture
5 1 (9.09%) Data Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (9.09%) Database Migration
5 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 1 (9.09%) Open Source
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (63.64%) Python
3 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
4 5 (45.45%) C#
4 5 (45.45%) C++
4 5 (45.45%) Go
4 5 (45.45%) Java
4 5 (45.45%) TypeScript
5 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (9.09%) PHP
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google