SQL Optimisation Contracts in the UK excluding London

SQL Optimisation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 326 382 460
Rank change year-on-year +56 +78 +49
Contract jobs citing SQL Optimisation 10 17 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.082% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.097% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 1
10th Percentile - £320 -
25th Percentile £263 £413 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -16.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile - £575 £638
90th Percentile £469 - -
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -18.18% +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
UK median hourly rate - - £50.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

SQL Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Optimisation in the UK excluding London

SQL Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Optimisation in the UK excluding London

SQL Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Optimisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Optimisation in the UK excluding London

SQL Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Optimisation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Optimisation in the UK excluding London

SQL Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
North of England +21 4 £275 -31.25% 3
Yorkshire - 4 £275 - 2
Scotland +4 3 £463 -19.57% 1
South East - 3 £450 - 4
SQL Optimisation
UK

SQL Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) DBA
1 5 (50.00%) SQL DBA
2 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Data Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Data Structures
1 4 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 5 (50.00%) Database Security
1 5 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 4 (40.00%) Database Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (40.00%) ETL
2 4 (40.00%) High Availability
2 4 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) Data Encryption
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Teradata