SQL Optimisation Jobs in the UK excluding London

SQL Optimisation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SQL Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 565 763 731
Rank change year-on-year +198 -32 +111
Permanent jobs citing SQL Optimisation 17 8 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.011% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% 0.013% 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 15 7 6
10th Percentile £47,150 £44,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,250 £47,500 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £56,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £64,250 £76,875
UK median annual salary £67,500 £51,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year +31.71% -31.67% +36.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,156 59,884 56,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.91% 83.47% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 17,178 41,267 29,022
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

SQL Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SQL Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Optimisation in the UK excluding London

SQL Optimisation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Optimisation in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SQL Optimisation in the UK excluding London

SQL Optimisation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Optimisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Optimisation in the UK excluding London

SQL Optimisation
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 May 2025. 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
North of England - 13 £75,000 - 15
North West - 10 £75,000 - 4
Yorkshire - 3 £67,500 - 11
South East - 2 - - 10
South West +102 1 £55,000 -4.35%
Midlands +57 1 £28,375 -54.60% 2
East Midlands +29 1 £28,375 -54.60%
SQL Optimisation
UK

SQL Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) AWS
2 6 (35.29%) Serverless
3 5 (29.41%) Azure
4 4 (23.53%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (11.76%) Metadata
2 2 (11.76%) Metadata Repository
2 2 (11.76%) MySQL
2 2 (11.76%) Pentaho
2 2 (11.76%) Triplestore
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) NUnit
2 1 (5.88%) Subversion
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Lead
2 4 (23.53%) Data Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Team Leader
3 3 (17.65%) Engineering Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Leader
4 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Data Migration Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Analytics Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Backend Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analytics Manager
5 1 (5.88%) ERP Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Junior Backend Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Junior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Migration Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) PHP Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) PHP Team Leader
5 1 (5.88%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) AngularJS
1 6 (35.29%) Laravel
1 6 (35.29%) Vue
2 3 (17.65%) Serverless Framework
3 2 (11.76%) Apache Jena
3 2 (11.76%) CSS
3 2 (11.76%) HTML
3 2 (11.76%) XML
4 1 (5.88%) .NET
4 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.88%) JWT
4 1 (5.88%) OAuth
4 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Low-Code
2 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Coaching
1 8 (47.06%) Migration
1 8 (47.06%) Software Engineering
2 6 (35.29%) Agile
2 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
2 6 (35.29%) Data Management
2 6 (35.29%) Data Migration
2 6 (35.29%) ETL
2 6 (35.29%) Mentoring
2 6 (35.29%) People Management
2 6 (35.29%) Roadmaps
3 5 (29.41%) Data Engineering
3 5 (29.41%) Data Governance
3 5 (29.41%) DevOps
3 5 (29.41%) Market Research
3 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (29.41%) User Experience
4 4 (23.53%) Technical Debt
5 3 (17.65%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (47.06%) Python
3 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
3 6 (35.29%) PHP
3 6 (35.29%) TypeScript
4 3 (17.65%) Java
5 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
5 2 (11.76%) SPARQL
6 1 (5.88%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (11.76%) Dublin Core
2 2 (11.76%) QA
3 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Databricks
2 2 (11.76%) Informatica
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) Talend
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft