SQL Optimisation Contracts in the UK excluding London

SQL Optimisation
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SQL Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Optimisation over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 442 507
Rank change year-on-year +62 +65 -75
Contract jobs citing SQL Optimisation 17 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.082% 0.008% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.097% 0.009% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 1 1
10th Percentile £320 - -
25th Percentile £413 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £570
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +9.65% +62.86%
75th Percentile £575 £638 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

SQL Optimisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,590 21,477 27,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.75% 89.51% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,508 14,895 19,183
10th Percentile £250 £255 £231
25th Percentile £380 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.63%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,305 1,364
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.81 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £46.11
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -

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 2024.

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 2024. 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
Scotland - 12 £575 -
Midlands - 2 £300 - 1
North West - 2 £400 -
West Midlands - 2 £300 - 1
North of England - 2 £400 -
South West +16 1 £425 -32.00% 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
1 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (70.59%) Metadata
1 12 (70.59%) Oracle Database
2 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (76.47%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) Travis CI
General
1 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 10 (58.82%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Senior
2 6 (35.29%) Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Senior Applications Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Database Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Design Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Database Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Design Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Database Designer
5 2 (11.76%) Database Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Designer
5 2 (11.76%) Full Stack Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Power BI Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Database Developer
6 1 (5.88%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Computer Science
2 10 (58.82%) Performance Tuning
2 10 (58.82%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
3 2 (11.76%) Code Quality
3 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
3 2 (11.76%) Data Extraction
3 2 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) ETL
3 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven
3 2 (11.76%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (11.76%) Microservices
3 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) SQL
2 13 (76.47%) PL/SQL
3 2 (11.76%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (70.59%) Computer Science Degree
1 12 (70.59%) Degree
2 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) Confluent