SQL Optimisation Contracts in Northern Ireland

SQL Optimisation
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SQL Optimisation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.83% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £473 £400 £613
% change year-on-year +18.13% -34.69% +4.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 216 111 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 90.00% 74.50% 81.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 57 70
10th Percentile £263 £153 £200
25th Percentile £325 £185 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +3.03% -13.16%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £524
90th Percentile £625 £650 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 17 7
10th Percentile £12.66 £12.25 £13.23
25th Percentile £14.78 £21.19 £13.23
Median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.91
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +73.83% +26.74%
75th Percentile £25.15 £31.88 -
90th Percentile - £40.25 £15.55
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £41.80
% change year-on-year -39.40% -0.72% +57.74%

SQL Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Optimisation in Northern Ireland

SQL Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 15 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
County Antrim - 2 - -
SQL Optimisation
UK

SQL Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL