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 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 7 3 23
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 -6
Contract jobs citing SQL 70 102 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 13.57% 19.17% 7.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 57.38% 56.35% 29.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 79 27
10th Percentile £319 £360 £309
25th Percentile £400 £412 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% +14.06% +7.94%
75th Percentile £603 £575 £494
90th Percentile £610 £624 £609
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% +68.00%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.60 £22.00
90th Percentile - £38.24 -
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £40.59 £16.23
% change year-on-year +4.71% +150.09% -28.61%

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 122 181 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 23.64% 34.02% 23.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 135 87
10th Percentile £311 £323 £300
25th Percentile £380 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £591 £575 £554
90th Percentile £617 £638 £632
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +23.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £25.93 £20.60
25th Percentile £41.25 £31.21 £21.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +73.91% -22.03%
75th Percentile £43.75 £52.88 £28.00
90th Percentile - £60.60 £32.20
North West median hourly rate £48.43 £44.05 £49.75
% change year-on-year +9.96% -11.47% +65.83%

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 18 May 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 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
Knutsford -2 20 £572 +4.09% 1
Macclesfield -1 17 £500 +12.68%
Crewe -2 10 £590 +4.80% 1
Chester 0 6 £300 -29.41% 18
Warrington +3 4 £475 +35.71% 22
Runcorn -2 2 - - 5
Wilmslow - 1 £363 - 3
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 (12.86%) SAS
2 7 (10.00%) Apache
3 6 (8.57%) Apache Spark
4 5 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.43%) CMS
5 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (11.43%) CATIA
2 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (11.43%) DELMIA
1 8 (11.43%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.43%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.71%) Power Platform
2 16 (22.86%) Snowflake
3 8 (11.43%) AWS
4 7 (10.00%) Azure
4 7 (10.00%) Serverless
5 6 (8.57%) Collibra
5 6 (8.57%) Power Automate
6 5 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 5 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.43%) dbt
9 1 (1.43%) GitHub
9 1 (1.43%) OCI
9 1 (1.43%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.14%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 18 (25.71%) Power BI
3 9 (12.86%) Data Lake
3 9 (12.86%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (11.43%) Big Data
5 7 (10.00%) Tableau
6 6 (8.57%) Ataccama
6 6 (8.57%) Qlik Sense
7 5 (7.14%) Data Mining
7 5 (7.14%) MySQL
8 3 (4.29%) Metadata
8 3 (4.29%) NoSQL
8 3 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (4.29%) RDBMS
8 3 (4.29%) Relational Database
8 3 (4.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.86%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (18.57%) JIRA
2 9 (12.86%) Git
3 7 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (8.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 22 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 16 (22.86%) Pharmaceutical
3 11 (15.71%) Manufacturing
4 9 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (12.86%) Finance
5 7 (10.00%) Banking
6 3 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.86%) Retail
8 1 (1.43%) Automotive
8 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.43%) Law
8 1 (1.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (21.43%) Analyst
2 12 (17.14%) Developer
3 11 (15.71%) Data Analyst
3 11 (15.71%) Lead
4 9 (12.86%) Data Quality Analyst
4 9 (12.86%) QA Analyst
4 9 (12.86%) Quality Analyst
4 9 (12.86%) Senior
5 8 (11.43%) Senior Analyst
5 8 (11.43%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
5 8 (11.43%) Senior QA Analyst
5 8 (11.43%) Senior Quality Analyst
5 8 (11.43%) Support Team Leader
6 7 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) Project Manager
6 7 (10.00%) Team Leader
7 5 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Manufacturing Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.00%) .NET
1 7 (10.00%) XML
2 5 (7.14%) .NET Framework
2 5 (7.14%) Entity Framework
2 5 (7.14%) JSON
3 4 (5.71%) .NET Core
4 3 (4.29%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.29%) CSS
4 3 (4.29%) HTML
4 3 (4.29%) React
5 2 (2.86%) jQuery
5 2 (2.86%) Node.js
5 2 (2.86%) ODBC
5 2 (2.86%) REST
6 1 (1.43%) CSS3
6 1 (1.43%) HTML5
6 1 (1.43%) KnockoutJS
6 1 (1.43%) RESTful
6 1 (1.43%) Sass
6 1 (1.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.14%) Life Science
3 2 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.43%) CMDB
4 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.43%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.43%) Insider Threat
4 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.29%) Unix
2 2 (2.86%) Android
2 2 (2.86%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.43%) Linux
3 1 (1.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (31.43%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (24.29%) Agile
2 17 (24.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (22.86%) Data Management
3 16 (22.86%) ETL
4 14 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (18.57%) Analytics
6 12 (17.14%) Project Management
6 12 (17.14%) Software Engineering
7 11 (15.71%) Validation
8 10 (14.29%) Data Analytics
9 9 (12.86%) Configuration Management
9 9 (12.86%) Data Analysis
9 9 (12.86%) DevOps
9 9 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (11.43%) CI/CD
10 8 (11.43%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (11.43%) Requirements Gathering
10 8 (11.43%) Visualisation
10 8 (11.43%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.14%) Python
2 13 (18.57%) C#
3 7 (10.00%) Java
3 7 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 6 (8.57%) Shell Script
5 5 (7.14%) Search Processing Language
6 4 (5.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (5.71%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.29%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.43%) Bicep
8 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (5.71%) Degree
2 3 (4.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.86%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.71%) Data Quality
2 9 (12.86%) QA
3 5 (7.14%) GAMP
3 5 (7.14%) GxP
4 1 (1.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (12.86%) SAP
2 8 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.43%) Oracle
2 8 (11.43%) Siemens
3 7 (10.00%) Avaloq
4 6 (8.57%) Alteryx
4 6 (8.57%) Dataiku
4 6 (8.57%) Trillium
5 5 (7.14%) Informatica
5 5 (7.14%) Splunk
5 5 (7.14%) Talend
6 1 (1.43%) BMC
6 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.43%) Google
6 1 (1.43%) VMware