SQL Contracts in Cheshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 3 20
Rank change year-on-year -5 +17 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 68 100 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 13.57% 18.55% 7.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.40% 51.28% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 80 28
10th Percentile £334 £361 £289
25th Percentile £413 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £531 £423
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +25.74% +14.19%
75th Percentile £606 £575 £491
90th Percentile £610 £638 £606
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - £24.17 -
25th Percentile £41.25 £26.81 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £31.21 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.20% +48.60% -
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.60 £22.00
90th Percentile - £38.24 -
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £40.59 £27.50
% change year-on-year +4.71% +47.60% +20.96%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 125 195 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 24.95% 36.18% 23.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 150 89
10th Percentile £311 £319 £300
25th Percentile £393 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £582 £575 £538
90th Percentile £611 £638 £631
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile - £25.93 £20.80
25th Percentile £41.25 £31.21 £22.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +63.27% -27.94%
75th Percentile £43.75 £52.88 £26.50
90th Percentile - £60.60 £27.40
North West median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £41.50
% change year-on-year +19.32% -2.19% +22.06%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Cheshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Cheshire

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Cheshire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Cheshire

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Macclesfield -4 21 £500 +12.68%
Knutsford -5 17 £577 +4.82% 1
Crewe 0 10 £590 +4.80%
Chester +1 6 £300 -44.19% 18
Warrington +4 3 £475 +11.76% 13
Runcorn -1 2 - - 2
Wilmslow - 1 £363 - 4
SQL
North West

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 9 (13.24%) SAS
2 5 (7.35%) Apache
2 5 (7.35%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (7.35%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.47%) CMS
3 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (11.76%) CATIA
2 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (11.76%) DELMIA
1 8 (11.76%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 20 (29.41%) Power Platform
2 17 (25.00%) Snowflake
3 9 (13.24%) AWS
4 7 (10.29%) Serverless
5 6 (8.82%) Collibra
5 6 (8.82%) Power Automate
6 5 (7.35%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (7.35%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (7.35%) Amazon S3
6 5 (7.35%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (7.35%) Azure
7 3 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.94%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.47%) dbt
9 1 (1.47%) GitHub
9 1 (1.47%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (29.41%) Power BI
2 19 (27.94%) SQL Server
3 9 (13.24%) Data Lake
4 8 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (11.76%) Tableau
5 7 (10.29%) Big Data
6 6 (8.82%) Ataccama
6 6 (8.82%) Qlik Sense
7 5 (7.35%) Data Mining
8 3 (4.41%) Metadata
8 3 (4.41%) RDBMS
8 3 (4.41%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.94%) MySQL
9 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (19.12%) JIRA
2 8 (11.76%) Git
3 6 (8.82%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 18 (26.47%) Pharmaceutical
1 18 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.18%) Finance
2 11 (16.18%) Manufacturing
3 9 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.88%) Banking
5 3 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Automotive
6 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (26.47%) Analyst
2 14 (20.59%) Data Analyst
3 11 (16.18%) Lead
4 9 (13.24%) Data Quality Analyst
4 9 (13.24%) QA Analyst
4 9 (13.24%) Quality Analyst
4 9 (13.24%) Senior
5 8 (11.76%) Developer
5 8 (11.76%) Senior Analyst
5 8 (11.76%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
5 8 (11.76%) Senior QA Analyst
5 8 (11.76%) Senior Quality Analyst
5 8 (11.76%) Support Team Leader
6 7 (10.29%) Data Engineer
6 7 (10.29%) Project Manager
6 7 (10.29%) Team Leader
7 5 (7.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Manufacturing Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Splunk Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.29%) .NET
2 5 (7.35%) .NET Framework
2 5 (7.35%) Entity Framework
2 5 (7.35%) JSON
2 5 (7.35%) XML
3 4 (5.88%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.94%) ODBC
4 2 (2.94%) REST
5 1 (1.47%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (1.47%) CSS
5 1 (1.47%) CSS3
5 1 (1.47%) HTML
5 1 (1.47%) HTML5
5 1 (1.47%) KnockoutJS
5 1 (1.47%) NancyFx
5 1 (1.47%) React
5 1 (1.47%) Sass
5 1 (1.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.82%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.35%) Life Science
3 2 (2.94%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.47%) CMDB
4 1 (1.47%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.47%) Insider Threat
4 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.47%) Linux
1 1 (1.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (33.82%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (25.00%) Agile
2 17 (25.00%) Analytics
2 17 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (23.53%) ETL
4 15 (22.06%) Data Management
5 13 (19.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (17.65%) Project Management
6 12 (17.65%) Software Engineering
7 11 (16.18%) Data Analysis
8 10 (14.71%) Data Analytics
8 10 (14.71%) Visualisation
9 9 (13.24%) Configuration Management
9 9 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (13.24%) Validation
10 8 (11.76%) Data Architecture
10 8 (11.76%) DevOps
10 8 (11.76%) PLM
10 8 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
10 8 (11.76%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 20 (29.41%) Python
2 11 (16.18%) C#
3 7 (10.29%) PL/SQL
4 5 (7.35%) Java
4 5 (7.35%) Search Processing Language
4 5 (7.35%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.94%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.94%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.47%) Bicep
6 1 (1.47%) Julia
6 1 (1.47%) R
6 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (7.35%) Degree
2 3 (4.41%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.94%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.71%) Data Quality
2 9 (13.24%) QA
3 5 (7.35%) GAMP
3 5 (7.35%) GxP
Systems Management
1 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (17.65%) SAP
2 8 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.76%) Siemens
3 7 (10.29%) Avaloq
3 7 (10.29%) Oracle
4 6 (8.82%) Alteryx
4 6 (8.82%) Dataiku
4 6 (8.82%) Trillium
5 5 (7.35%) Informatica
5 5 (7.35%) Splunk
5 5 (7.35%) Talend
6 2 (2.94%) Databricks
6 2 (2.94%) Google
7 1 (1.47%) BMC
7 1 (1.47%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.47%) VMware