SQL Optimisation Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

SQL Optimisation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 588 660
Rank change year-on-year +204 +72 +185
Permanent jobs citing SQL Optimisation 13 4 13
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.087% 0.012% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.093% 0.013% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 11 4 13
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 -
25th Percentile £51,000 £48,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £52,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -30.00% +50.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £57,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £64,250 -
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

SQL Optimisation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SQL Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SQL Optimisation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SQL Optimisation
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SQL Optimisation.

SQL Optimisation salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Optimisation
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SQL Optimisation over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

SQL Optimisation salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Serverless
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (15.38%) Azure
5 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (15.38%) Metadata
3 2 (15.38%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (15.38%) MySQL
3 2 (15.38%) Pentaho
3 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (15.38%) Power BI
3 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 2 (15.38%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) NUnit
2 1 (7.69%) Subversion
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Lead
2 3 (23.08%) Team Leader
2 3 (23.08%) Technical Leader
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Data Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Data Migration Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Data Migration Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) ERP Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Migration Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Analytics Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Backend Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics Manager
4 1 (7.69%) DBA
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Junior Backend Developer
4 1 (7.69%) PHP Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) PHP Team Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) AngularJS
1 5 (38.46%) Laravel
1 5 (38.46%) Vue
2 3 (23.08%) Serverless Framework
3 2 (15.38%) Apache Jena
3 2 (15.38%) XML
4 1 (7.69%) .NET
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.69%) CSS
4 1 (7.69%) HTML
4 1 (7.69%) JWT
4 1 (7.69%) OAuth
4 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
1 2 (15.38%) Low-Code
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Migration
2 6 (46.15%) Data Management
2 6 (46.15%) Data Migration
2 6 (46.15%) ETL
2 6 (46.15%) Software Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Coaching
3 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (38.46%) User Experience
4 4 (30.77%) Data Extraction
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Market Research
4 4 (30.77%) Technical Debt
4 4 (30.77%) Validation
5 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 3 (23.08%) Code Quality
5 3 (23.08%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
5 3 (23.08%) People Management
5 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 5 (38.46%) PHP
2 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
3 4 (30.77%) Python
4 2 (15.38%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
4 2 (15.38%) SPARQL
5 1 (7.69%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
1 2 (15.38%) Dublin Core
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Informatica
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
1 2 (15.38%) Talend