SQL Optimisation Contracts in London

SQL Optimisation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 346 389 491
Rank change year-on-year +43 +102 +96
Contract jobs citing SQL Optimisation 7 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.056% 0.011% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% 0.013% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £424 - -
25th Percentile £441 £688 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year -37.93% +20.83% +17.07%
75th Percentile £456 £763 £625
90th Percentile £468 - -
England median daily rate £450 £400 £563
% change year-on-year +12.50% -28.89% +2.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

SQL Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Optimisation in London

SQL Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Optimisation in London

SQL Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London - 2 - - 1
West London +12 1 - - 2
SQL Optimisation
England

SQL Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (42.86%) Snowflake Schema
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) Star Schema
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) DBA
1 3 (42.86%) SQL DBA
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Gen AI Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
3 1 (14.29%) React Developer
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
1 1 (14.29%) Flask
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) SQLAlchemy
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) ETL
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Database Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Database Security
4 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (28.57%) High Availability
4 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 2 (28.57%) Workload Management
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) API Development
5 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Wealth Management
5 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Teradata
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Informatica
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle