SQL Optimisation Contracts in Cheshire

SQL Optimisation
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring SQL Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SQL Optimisation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.19% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - -
North West median daily rate £314 £400 -
% change year-on-year -21.50% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

SQL Optimisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 501 463 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 95.07% 83.57% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 311 290
10th Percentile £313 £310 £288
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £588
90th Percentile £667 £638 £651
North West median daily rate £456 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -7.88% -1.00% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 28
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.00 £16.75
25th Percentile £17.46 £17.72 £22.50
Median hourly rate £38.50 £36.50 £29.26
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% +24.74% +34.34%
75th Percentile £73.81 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 - £40.00
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £30.27
% change year-on-year +6.67% -0.89% +27.72%

SQL Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Optimisation in Cheshire

SQL Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 24 June 2025. 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
Knutsford - 1 £470 -
SQL Optimisation
North West

SQL Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL