SQL Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Manchester

SQL Optimisation
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring SQL Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SQL Optimisation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £650 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £62.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,253 906 1,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 85.76% 91.15% 86.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 817 606 950
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £459 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.82% -8.25% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 34 76
10th Percentile £19.75 £15.27 £12.45
25th Percentile £23.00 £20.50 £13.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% +25.00% -32.03%
75th Percentile £70.00 £54.25 £58.13
90th Percentile £79.20 £63.50 £72.50
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £31.76 £22.50
% change year-on-year +41.69% +41.16% -39.84%

SQL Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL Optimisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

SQL Optimisation job vacancy trend in Manchester

SQL Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SQL Optimisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SQL Optimisation

SQL Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle