SQL Optimisation Contracts in the City of London

SQL Optimisation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SQL Optimisation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Central London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

SQL Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing SQL Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Optimisation in the City of London

SQL Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Optimisation in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SQL Optimisation in the City of London

SQL Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (50.00%) Star Schema
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Gen AI Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (50.00%) React Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) SQLAlchemy
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Wealth Management
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
2 1 (50.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Teradata