SQL Optimisation Contracts in the East of England

SQL Optimisation
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SQL Optimisation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.079% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
England median daily rate £475 £400 £613
% change year-on-year +18.75% -34.69% +5.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,113 1,342 1,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.19% 83.88% 87.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 522 965
10th Percentile £200 £200 £226
25th Percentile £364 £311 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £704
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 499 355
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.98 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +90.48% +6.01%
75th Percentile £65.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.80 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +62.40%

SQL Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Optimisation in the East of England

SQL Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Optimisation in the East of England

SQL Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the East of 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Suffolk - 1 £500 - 1
SQL Optimisation
England

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Developer
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) MediatR
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CQRS
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft