SQL Optimisation Contracts with Work from Home Options

SQL Optimisation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 468 609
Rank change year-on-year +133 +141 -128
Contract jobs citing SQL Optimisation 9 6 10
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.059% 0.023% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% 0.026% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 1
10th Percentile £275 £500 -
25th Percentile £350 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -3.51% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £606 -
90th Percentile - £631 -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -12.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,387 22,922 40,601
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.93% 89.77% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,971 16,192 29,477
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 528 542
10th Percentile £15.08 £18.68 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.81 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.13 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

SQL Optimisation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SQL Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SQL Optimisation trend for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SQL Optimisation.

SQL Optimisation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SQL Optimisation over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

SQL Optimisation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Metadata
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle Database
2 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 2 (22.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) Travis CI
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Database Designer
2 2 (22.22%) Designer
2 2 (22.22%) Full Stack Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Power BI Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Database Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Applications Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Database Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Operations Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Computer Science
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
3 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 2 (22.22%) Data Extraction
3 2 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) ETL
3 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
3 2 (22.22%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (22.22%) Microservices
3 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) PL/SQL
3 2 (22.22%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
2 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Confluent