SQL Optimisation Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

SQL Optimisation
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring SQL Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 - 111
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SQL Optimisation 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.031% - 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £300
75th Percentile - - £325
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +27.78% +12.50% -34.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,735 1,286 1,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.62% 88.69% 82.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,789 815 1,106
10th Percentile £313 £202 £263
25th Percentile £405 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -2.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £676 £660 £731
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 72 118
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.11
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.32 £14.31
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.15% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £66.54 £31.19 £40.38
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +4.17%

SQL Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

SQL Optimisation job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

SQL Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

SQL Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
Shropshire - 1 £575 - 1
SQL Optimisation
England

SQL Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Pentaho
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Sage
1 1 (100.00%) Talend