SQL Optimisation Contracts

SQL Optimisation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SQL Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Optimisation over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 678 831
Rank change year-on-year +127 +153 -141
Contract jobs citing SQL Optimisation 20 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.016% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.018% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 6 3
10th Percentile £335 £500 -
25th Percentile £446 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -17.39%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £529
90th Percentile - £631 £554
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £625 £570
% change year-on-year -16.00% +9.65% +62.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £50.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

SQL Optimisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Optimisation in the UK

SQL Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Optimisation over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Optimisation in the UK

SQL Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Optimisation in the UK

SQL Optimisation
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Optimisation within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +74 17 £525 -16.00% 1
Scotland - 12 £575 -
Work from Home +112 9 £425 -22.73% 2
England +112 7 £400 -34.69% 1
London +99 2 £725 +20.83%
Midlands - 2 £300 - 1
North West - 2 £400 -
West Midlands - 2 £300 - 1
North of England - 2 £400 -
South West +6 1 £425 -32.00%

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Apache
1 2 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (10.00%) AWS
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
1 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.00%) Serverless
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (60.00%) Metadata
1 12 (60.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (10.00%) Apache Hive
2 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (10.00%) Big Data
2 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.00%) Power BI
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.00%) Impala
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) Spark SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 13 (65.00%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) Travis CI
General
1 14 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (55.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Senior
2 6 (30.00%) Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Applications Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Database Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Design Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Database Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Design Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Database Designer
5 2 (10.00%) Database Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Designer
5 2 (10.00%) Full Stack Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Power BI Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Computer Science
2 11 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) ETL
5 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (10.00%) Code Quality
6 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (10.00%) Data Extraction
6 2 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (10.00%) Event-Driven
6 2 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
6 2 (10.00%) Microservices
6 2 (10.00%) Visualisation
7 1 (5.00%) Analytics
7 1 (5.00%) Machine Learning
7 1 (5.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) SQL
2 13 (65.00%) PL/SQL
3 4 (20.00%) Python
4 2 (10.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (65.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 13 (65.00%) Degree
2 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Confluent