SQL Contracts in the East Midlands

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 13 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 70 124 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.14% 11.88% 11.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.84% 39.74% 41.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 106 114
10th Percentile £263 £223 £264
25th Percentile £363 £313 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £400 £389
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% +2.89% +3.67%
75th Percentile £584 £480 £484
90th Percentile £663 £538 £500
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 12
10th Percentile £12.63 £31.18 -
25th Percentile £21.73 £38.24 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +42.86% +55.56%
75th Percentile £33.25 £55.00 -
90th Percentile £44.44 £58.00 -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £49.79 £35.25
% change year-on-year -14.63% +41.23% +35.58%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 185 312 397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 24.15% 29.89% 27.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 269 311
10th Percentile £280 £269 £313
25th Percentile £356 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £420
Median % change year-on-year - +1.19% +12.00%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £500
90th Percentile £625 £630 £575
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 17
10th Percentile £15.66 £20.39 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.12 £26.48 £20.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +42.86% -22.22%
75th Percentile £31.00 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £40.71 £63.50 £45.67
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the East Midlands

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for SQL in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the East Midlands 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
Nottinghamshire -5 18 £340 -30.26% 37
Leicestershire -2 17 £400 -3.03% 34
Northamptonshire -3 16 £410 +32.26% 22
Derbyshire +8 10 £488 +8.33% 24
Lincolnshire +18 9 £525 - 11
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.86%) Apache
2 2 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.86%) Confluence
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.86%) SAS
3 1 (1.43%) Appian
3 1 (1.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (18.57%) Chatbot
2 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 15 (21.43%) Azure
2 13 (18.57%) Power Platform
3 7 (10.00%) AWS
3 7 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.29%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.86%) SaaS
7 1 (1.43%) Azure App Service
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.43%) dbt
7 1 (1.43%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.43%) GCP
7 1 (1.43%) IaaS
7 1 (1.43%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.57%) Fibre Channel
2 5 (7.14%) SAN
3 2 (2.86%) DNS
3 2 (2.86%) VoIP
3 2 (2.86%) VPN
4 1 (1.43%) Network Security
4 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.14%) Power BI
2 10 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (12.86%) Data Lake
3 9 (12.86%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.71%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.71%) Oracle Database
6 3 (4.29%) Big Data
6 3 (4.29%) Pentaho
6 3 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (4.29%) RDBMS
6 3 (4.29%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (4.29%) Tableau
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.86%) MySQL
7 2 (2.86%) OLAP
7 2 (2.86%) SAP HANA
7 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (2.86%) Selenium
2 2 (2.86%) TestRail
3 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (17.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.57%) Finance
4 5 (7.14%) Banking
5 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.29%) Retail
6 2 (2.86%) Front Office
6 2 (2.86%) Marketing
6 2 (2.86%) Police
7 1 (1.43%) Advertising
7 1 (1.43%) Back Office
7 1 (1.43%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (31.43%) Developer
2 17 (24.29%) Analyst
3 13 (18.57%) Software Developer
4 10 (14.29%) Data Engineer
5 7 (10.00%) Architect
6 6 (8.57%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 4 (5.71%) Oracle Developer
7 4 (5.71%) PL/SQL Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Senior
7 4 (5.71%) SQL Developer
8 3 (4.29%) Azure Architect
8 3 (4.29%) Business Analyst
8 3 (4.29%) Data Architect
8 3 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.29%) Storage Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) Process Mapping Analyst
9 2 (2.86%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.00%) HTML
2 5 (7.14%) .NET
3 2 (2.86%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (2.86%) Vue
4 1 (1.43%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.43%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.43%) Apache Beam
4 1 (1.43%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.43%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.43%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (1.43%) CSS
4 1 (1.43%) Kafka
4 1 (1.43%) Middleware
4 1 (1.43%) React
4 1 (1.43%) SPFx
4 1 (1.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) HP Storage
2 3 (4.29%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.86%) Wiki
4 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.43%) Clustering
4 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.43%) Insider Threat
4 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.43%) NHS
4 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.14%) Windows
2 7 (10.00%) Linux
3 5 (7.14%) AIX
3 5 (7.14%) Solaris
4 4 (5.71%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.86%) Windows 7
5 2 (2.86%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (18.57%) Artificial Intelligence
2 13 (18.57%) Conversational UI
3 12 (17.14%) Agile
3 12 (17.14%) Code Quality
3 12 (17.14%) Software Engineering
3 12 (17.14%) User Acceptance Testing
4 11 (15.71%) Data Modelling
4 11 (15.71%) ETL
5 9 (12.86%) Migration
6 7 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 7 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (10.00%) Project Delivery
7 6 (8.57%) Analytics
7 6 (8.57%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (8.57%) Statistics
8 5 (7.14%) Data Governance
8 5 (7.14%) ITIL
8 5 (7.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (34.29%) Python
2 19 (27.14%) JavaScript
3 16 (22.86%) C#
4 5 (7.14%) Java
4 5 (7.14%) Scala
4 5 (7.14%) T-SQL
5 4 (5.71%) PL/SQL
5 4 (5.71%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.86%) Bash
6 2 (2.86%) R
7 1 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.43%) PHP
7 1 (1.43%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.43%) VB
7 1 (1.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (24.29%) Degree
2 11 (15.71%) Security Cleared
3 10 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.86%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.86%) MCSE
6 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.43%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.43%) ISEB
6 1 (1.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.86%) GDPR
2 2 (2.86%) QA
3 1 (1.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 5 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.43%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (7.14%) EMC NetWorker
1 5 (7.14%) HP Data Protector
1 5 (7.14%) NetBackup
2 4 (5.71%) Terraform
3 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.43%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.43%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (20.00%) Oracle
2 12 (17.14%) PayPal
3 11 (15.71%) Microsoft
4 6 (8.57%) EMC
5 5 (7.14%) Brocade
5 5 (7.14%) Cisco
5 5 (7.14%) Databricks
5 5 (7.14%) HP
5 5 (7.14%) Symantec
6 3 (4.29%) Informatica
6 3 (4.29%) Talend
7 2 (2.86%) SAP
8 1 (1.43%) Capita
8 1 (1.43%) JDA
8 1 (1.43%) Splunk