SQL Optimisation Job Trends in the City of London

SQL Optimisation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring SQL Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 138 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Permanent jobs citing SQL Optimisation 4 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.10% 0.19% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.20% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - -
75th Percentile £78,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £77,500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,118 2,019 2,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 81.67% 95.96% 92.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,197 1,513 2,481
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £98,750 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £121,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

SQL Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

SQL Optimisation job vacancy trend in the City of London

SQL Optimisation
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SQL Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SQL Optimisation

SQL Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
1 4 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 4 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform