SQL Optimisation Jobs

SQL Optimisation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 665 903 951
Rank change year-on-year +238 +48 +265
Permanent jobs citing SQL Optimisation 25 11 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.011% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.050% 0.013% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 15 10 14
10th Percentile £45,650 £46,625 £51,625
25th Percentile £51,000 £47,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £51,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.71% -31.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £77,500 £59,375 £88,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £69,125 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +35.00% -20.00% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49,871 84,627 98,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.42% 85.89% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,694 59,744 58,120
10th Percentile £30,375 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,000 £72,500 £81,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

SQL Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SQL Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Optimisation in the UK

SQL Optimisation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Optimisation.

Salary trend for SQL Optimisation in the UK

SQL Optimisation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Optimisation over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Optimisation in the UK

SQL Optimisation
Top 11 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 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
England +195 24 £71,250 +23.91% 17
UK excluding London +215 15 £67,500 +35.00% 7
Work from Home +164 13 £75,000 +42.86% 9
North of England - 11 £75,000 - 3
North West - 9 £75,000 - 1
London +127 8 - - 10
Yorkshire - 2 £67,500 - 2
South East - 2 - - 3
South West +110 1 £55,000 -4.35%
Midlands +55 1 £28,375 -54.60% 1
East Midlands +44 1 £28,375 -54.60%

SQL Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 18 (72.00%) AWS
2 14 (56.00%) Serverless
3 5 (20.00%) Azure
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (32.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (8.00%) Metadata
4 2 (8.00%) Metadata Repository
4 2 (8.00%) MySQL
4 2 (8.00%) Pentaho
4 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.00%) Power BI
4 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (8.00%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) NUnit
2 1 (4.00%) Subversion
General
1 11 (44.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (32.00%) Electronics
2 8 (32.00%) Manufacturing
3 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Health Technology
5 1 (4.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Automation Engineer
1 8 (32.00%) Reliability Engineer
1 8 (32.00%) Robotics Engineer
1 8 (32.00%) Systems Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Lead
3 3 (12.00%) Data Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Team Leader
3 3 (12.00%) Technical Leader
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Data Migration Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Data Migration Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (8.00%) ERP Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Migration Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) JSON
2 6 (24.00%) AngularJS
2 6 (24.00%) Laravel
2 6 (24.00%) Vue
3 3 (12.00%) CSS
3 3 (12.00%) HTML
3 3 (12.00%) Serverless Framework
4 2 (8.00%) .NET
4 2 (8.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (8.00%) Apache Jena
4 2 (8.00%) XML
5 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (4.00%) CSS3
5 1 (4.00%) Entity Framework
5 1 (4.00%) HTML5
5 1 (4.00%) jQuery
5 1 (4.00%) JWT
5 1 (4.00%) OAuth
5 1 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Product Ownership
1 8 (32.00%) Robotics
1 8 (32.00%) SCADA
2 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (48.00%) Data Extraction
3 10 (40.00%) Analytics
3 10 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 10 (40.00%) Process Improvement
4 9 (36.00%) Microservices
5 8 (32.00%) Actionable Insight
5 8 (32.00%) API Integration
5 8 (32.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (32.00%) Data Analytics
5 8 (32.00%) Escalation Management
5 8 (32.00%) Manufacturing Engineering
5 8 (32.00%) Mathematics
5 8 (32.00%) Mechatronics
5 8 (32.00%) Migration
5 8 (32.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 8 (32.00%) Six Sigma
5 8 (32.00%) Statistical Analysis
5 8 (32.00%) Statistics
5 8 (32.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) SQL
2 14 (56.00%) Python
3 8 (32.00%) C
3 8 (32.00%) R
4 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (24.00%) PHP
5 6 (24.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (8.00%) C#
6 2 (8.00%) Java
6 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (8.00%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (32.00%) Degree
1 8 (32.00%) Numerate Degree
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (36.00%) SLA
2 3 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (8.00%) Dublin Core
3 2 (8.00%) QA
4 1 (4.00%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
2 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Databricks
1 2 (8.00%) Informatica
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle
1 2 (8.00%) Talend