SQL Contracts in Gloucestershire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 20 11
Rank change year-on-year -17 -9 +7
Contract jobs citing SQL 19 47 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 4.37% 10.78% 12.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.07% 23.04% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 32 52
10th Percentile £400 £414 £364
25th Percentile £463 £450 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £528 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% +8.21% +4.84%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £564
90th Percentile £610 £673 £588
South West median daily rate £538 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +7.50% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £72.00 -
25th Percentile - £74.25 £11.75
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year - +524.00% -70.84%
75th Percentile - - £13.25
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate - £57.50 £54.25
% change year-on-year - +5.99% +48.90%

All Programming Languages
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 135 204 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 31.03% 46.79% 37.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 125 161
10th Percentile £363 £363 £388
25th Percentile £475 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +5.77% +9.47%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £625
90th Percentile £706 £725 £658
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 2
10th Percentile £70.50 £54.30 £16.58
25th Percentile £71.25 £70.50 £23.81
Median hourly rate £72.50 £78.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% +115.17% -27.50%
75th Percentile £73.75 - £48.31
90th Percentile £74.50 £88.80 £55.33
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +26.98%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Gloucestershire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Gloucestershire

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Gloucestershire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Gloucestershire

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 25 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
Cheltenham -2 12 £550 -21.43% 6
Gloucester -5 6 £450 -11.33% 4
SQL
South West

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (42.11%) Amazon S3
2 8 (42.11%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (42.11%) Serverless
3 7 (36.84%) OpenShift
4 3 (15.79%) Azure
4 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
5 2 (10.53%) PaaS
6 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) Network Security
2 5 (26.32%) AMQP
3 2 (10.53%) Firewall
4 1 (5.26%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (31.58%) InfluxDB
2 6 (31.58%) Relational Database
3 3 (15.79%) Power BI
4 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.26%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) JMeter
2 1 (5.26%) Robot Framework
2 1 (5.26%) Selenium
General
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) QA Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) QA Tester
3 2 (10.53%) Site Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Tester
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Applications Support
4 1 (5.26%) Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) DataStage Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) ERP Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Data Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) VMS
3 1 (5.26%) Unix
3 1 (5.26%) Windows
3 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 7 (36.84%) DevOps
3 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
3 6 (31.58%) Event-Driven
3 6 (31.58%) Observability
3 6 (31.58%) Service Management
4 5 (26.32%) Configuration Management
5 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.79%) Scrum
5 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
6 2 (10.53%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (10.53%) Code Quality
6 2 (10.53%) Conflict Resolution
6 2 (10.53%) Cost Control
6 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Situational Awareness
6 2 (10.53%) Test Scripting
6 2 (10.53%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) Go
2 6 (31.58%) Java
2 6 (31.58%) Shell Script
3 4 (21.05%) C
4 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.26%) Bash
5 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) DV Cleared
1 10 (52.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
1 2 (10.53%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) Docker
2 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
3 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (52.63%) Kubernetes
1 10 (52.63%) Terraform
2 9 (47.37%) Grafana
2 9 (47.37%) Prometheus
3 8 (42.11%) Docker Swarm
4 7 (36.84%) Ansible
5 6 (31.58%) Progress Chef
6 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (5.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) VMware
2 2 (10.53%) CA
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Infor
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk