SQL Contracts in Bedfordshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 7 16
Rank change year-on-year -22 +9 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 4 32 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 1.65% 17.30% 10.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.05% 72.73% 71.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 25 18
10th Percentile £372 £316 £263
25th Percentile £385 £331 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £488 £344
Median % change year-on-year -15.90% +41.82% -19.12%
75th Percentile £453 £600 £550
90th Percentile £481 - £583
East of England median daily rate £450 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +5.88% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £36.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -14.29% +62.79%

All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 19 44 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 7.82% 23.78% 14.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 33 21
10th Percentile - £320 £263
25th Percentile £363 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +42.86% -17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £561
90th Percentile £568 - £575
East of England median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £53.25 - £32.15
25th Percentile £56.25 - £42.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £61.31
90th Percentile £71.75 - £63.68
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year - +16.07% +24.44%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Bedfordshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Bedfordshire

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bedfordshire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Bedfordshire

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Luton -24 2 £463 -11.06% 6
Dunstable - 1 £395 -
SQL
East of England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 1 (25.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (25.00%) Collibra
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Ataccama
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (25.00%) Power Query
2 1 (25.00%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Quality Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior QA Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Quality Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Angular 2
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) HTML5
1 1 (25.00%) Java Concurrency
1 1 (25.00%) JPA
1 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) API Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Alteryx
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (25.00%) Dataiku
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Trillium