SQL Optimisation Contracts

SQL Optimisation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 689 842
Rank change year-on-year +128 +153 -191
Contract jobs citing SQL Optimisation 18 11 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.018% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.020% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 9
10th Percentile £350 £500 £463
25th Percentile £479 £509 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £498
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +8.04% -17.08%
75th Percentile - £569 £570
90th Percentile - £629 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £625 £498
% change year-on-year -12.00% +25.63% +42.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £50.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

SQL Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Optimisation in the UK

SQL Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Optimisation.

Daily rate trend for SQL Optimisation in the UK

SQL Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Optimisation over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Optimisation in the UK

SQL Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Optimisation.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Optimisation in the UK

SQL Optimisation
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 April 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
UK excluding London +83 16 £550 -12.00% 2
Scotland - 12 £575 -
Work from Home +123 8 £500 -9.09% 2
England +114 6 £400 -28.89% 3
London +111 2 £725 +20.83% 1
North West - 2 £400 -
North of England - 2 £400 -
South West +22 1 £425 -32.00%
West Midlands - 1 £300 - 1
Midlands - 1 £300 - 1

SQL Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Apache
1 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
1 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.56%) Serverless
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (66.67%) Metadata
1 12 (66.67%) Oracle Database
2 2 (11.11%) Apache Hive
2 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (11.11%) Big Data
2 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 2 (11.11%) Power BI
3 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.56%) Impala
3 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.56%) Spark SQL
3 1 (5.56%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 13 (72.22%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) Travis CI
General
1 14 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 11 (61.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Senior
2 6 (33.33%) Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Applications Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Database Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Design Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Database Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Design Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Database Designer
5 2 (11.11%) Database Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Designer
5 2 (11.11%) Power BI Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Full Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 11 (61.11%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (55.56%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (22.22%) ETL
5 2 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.11%) Data Extraction
5 2 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
6 1 (5.56%) Analytics
6 1 (5.56%) Code Quality
6 1 (5.56%) Containerisation
6 1 (5.56%) Data Architecture
6 1 (5.56%) Event-Driven
6 1 (5.56%) Full Stack Development
6 1 (5.56%) Process Improvement
6 1 (5.56%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) SQL
2 13 (72.22%) PL/SQL
3 3 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 12 (66.67%) Degree
2 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Confluent