Hybrid/Remote SQL Optimisation Contract Job Trends

SQL Optimisation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring SQL Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 322 371
Rank change year-on-year +21 +49 +183
Contract jobs citing SQL Optimisation 7 3 2
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.069% 0.025% 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.076% 0.029% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £651
25th Percentile £475 - £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £663
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.77%
75th Percentile £575 - £678
90th Percentile £635 - £684
UK median daily rate £494 £414 £550
% change year-on-year +19.34% -24.77% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £36.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,254 10,475 15,370
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.04% 88.94% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,117 6,583 10,495
10th Percentile £330 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 216 369
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £20.43 £22.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.14 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.43% -29.92% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.07
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.70
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%

SQL Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL Optimisation and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SQL Optimisation job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

SQL Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SQL Optimisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SQL Optimisation

SQL Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SQL Optimisation over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

SQL Optimisation daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

SQL Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Apache
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Snowflake
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) dbt
4 1 (14.29%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 1 (14.29%) Advertising
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Backend Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Database Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Optimisation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Developer
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) MediatR
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Clustering
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (42.86%) Data Integration
2 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
2 3 (42.86%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) CQRS
4 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Load Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Personalization
4 1 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Refactoring
4 1 (14.29%) Runbook
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) AWK
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) sed
2 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) GPFS
1 1 (14.29%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Informatica
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Teradata
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud