SQL Optimisation Job Trends in London

SQL Optimisation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring SQL Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 415 457
Rank change year-on-year +35 +42 +209
Permanent jobs citing SQL Optimisation 2 11 2
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.014% 0.071% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.075% 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £58,750
25th Percentile £76,250 - £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.90%
75th Percentile £78,750 - £71,875
90th Percentile - - £72,250
England median annual salary £72,500 - £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -16.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,668 14,701 17,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.31% 94.75% 92.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8,096 8,041 14,306
10th Percentile £36,750 £43,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,357 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £121,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

SQL Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SQL Optimisation job vacancy trend in London

SQL Optimisation
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SQL Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing SQL Optimisation

SQL Optimisation
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Optimisation within the London region over the 6 months to 22 January 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
Central London +24 2 £77,500 - 1
SQL Optimisation
England

SQL Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform