SQL Optimisation Job Trends in Cheshire

SQL Optimisation
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring SQL Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 95 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Permanent jobs citing SQL Optimisation 2 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.12% 0.14% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.16% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - -
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £52,500 £75,000 -
% change year-on-year -30.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,133 643 1,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 65.83% 88.20% 73.58%
Number of salaries quoted 906 279 719
10th Percentile £29,038 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,595 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £61,000
90th Percentile £75,250 £71,250 £70,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £51,364
% change year-on-year +9.88% -2.55% -6.61%

SQL Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

SQL Optimisation job vacancy trend in Cheshire

SQL Optimisation
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing SQL Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing SQL Optimisation

SQL Optimisation
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Optimisation within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 30 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Chester - 2 £52,500 - 1
SQL Optimisation
North West

SQL Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MariaDB
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) PHP Developer
1 2 (100.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Laravel
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (100.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CRUD
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI