SQL Optimisation Contract Job Trends in the North West

SQL Optimisation
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 158 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SQL Optimisation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.068% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.080% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £530 £275 £650
% change year-on-year +92.64% -57.69% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.00 - -
England median hourly rate £62.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,490 1,813 2,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.04% 90.06% 86.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,570 1,122 1,611
10th Percentile £213 £276 £306
25th Percentile £363 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 115 265
10th Percentile £18.34 £16.14 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.85 £13.73
Median hourly rate £45.00 £31.76 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.69% +41.16% -39.84%
75th Percentile £65.25 £59.08 £45.00
90th Percentile £75.87 £79.35 £54.20
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

SQL Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

SQL Optimisation job vacancy trend in the North West

SQL Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SQL Optimisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SQL Optimisation

SQL Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 12 March 2026. 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
Manchester - 2 £650 - 2
SQL Optimisation
England

SQL Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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