SQL Optimisation Job Trends in Birmingham

SQL Optimisation
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring SQL Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 - 146
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SQL Optimisation 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.044% - 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.059% - 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £50,000
75th Percentile £57,500 - £52,500
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £48,000 - £50,000

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

SQL Optimisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,700 1,435 1,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 74.56% 94.35% 85.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,217 807 1,633
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £31,800
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,000 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

SQL Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL Optimisation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

SQL Optimisation job vacancy trend in Birmingham

SQL Optimisation
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SQL Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SQL Optimisation

SQL Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL