SQL Contracts in Cambridgeshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 36 24 17
Rank change year-on-year -12 -7 -10
Contract jobs citing SQL 19 36 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 3.85% 6.06% 9.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.39% 20.57% 32.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 22 56
10th Percentile - £275 £285
25th Percentile £463 £405 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +5.88% -4.23%
75th Percentile £538 £520 £478
90th Percentile £575 £593 £531
East of England median daily rate £450 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +5.88% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £27.24 - -
25th Percentile £30.34 - £12.30
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £12.90
75th Percentile £36.50 - £17.25
90th Percentile - - £22.65
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
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 98 175 249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 19.88% 29.46% 29.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 119 157
10th Percentile £405 £353 £301
25th Percentile £439 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £563 £525 £525
90th Percentile £594 £578 £560
East of England median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 13
10th Percentile £33.48 £22.50 £12.39
25th Percentile £35.52 £42.25 £24.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £66.25 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £68.10 - -
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 Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Cambridgeshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Cambridgeshire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Cambridgeshire

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Cambridgeshire 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
Cambridge -5 9 £550 +22.22% 28
Peterborough -8 2 - - 6
SQL
East of England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Power Platform
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (21.05%) Power Automate
2 4 (21.05%) PowerApps
3 1 (5.26%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) NoSQL
2 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.53%) Looker
3 2 (10.53%) Power BI
3 2 (10.53%) Tableau
4 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.26%) Ingres
4 1 (5.26%) Metadata
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Git
1 7 (36.84%) JUnit
1 7 (36.84%) Mockito
2 5 (26.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Aerospace
3 2 (10.53%) Automotive
3 2 (10.53%) Military
3 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Local Government
4 1 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Applications Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Systems Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Data Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Data Scientist
4 2 (10.53%) Embedded Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Power BI Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Data Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) SSIS Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) Drools
1 7 (36.84%) Quarkus
1 7 (36.84%) RESTful
1 7 (36.84%) Spring
1 7 (36.84%) Spring Boot
2 4 (21.05%) .NET
2 4 (21.05%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (10.53%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Containerisation
1 7 (36.84%) Decision Table
1 7 (36.84%) Microservices
1 7 (36.84%) TDD
2 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (21.05%) Web Development
3 4 (21.05%) Workflow
4 3 (15.79%) Analytics
4 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (10.53%) A/B Testing
5 2 (10.53%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (10.53%) Customer Segmentation
5 2 (10.53%) Customer Service
5 2 (10.53%) Data Science
5 2 (10.53%) Data Transformation
5 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
5 2 (10.53%) Experimental Design
5 2 (10.53%) Market Segmentation
5 2 (10.53%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Java
2 6 (31.58%) C
3 4 (21.05%) C#
4 3 (15.79%) Python
5 2 (10.53%) R
5 2 (10.53%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Capita
1 1 (5.26%) Northgate
1 1 (5.26%) Red Hat