SQL Contracts in Lancashire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
North West > Lancashire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 14 8
Rank change year-on-year -11 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL 7 21 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 3.59% 8.68% 14.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.14% 37.50% 43.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 28
10th Percentile - £381 £359
25th Percentile - £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year +34.83% -6.32% +26.67%
75th Percentile - £498 £500
90th Percentile - £600 £601
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 5
10th Percentile - £26.89 £26.07
25th Percentile £37.63 £37.80 £37.25
Median hourly rate £46.18 £40.59 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year +13.77% +2.16% +80.59%
75th Percentile - £52.99 £42.75
90th Percentile - £55.03 £46.95
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £40.59 £27.50
% change year-on-year +4.71% +47.60% +25.00%

All Programming Languages
Lancashire

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 Lancashire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 29 56 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 14.87% 23.14% 33.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 25 62
10th Percentile £506 £269 £351
25th Percentile £534 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% +15.79% +26.67%
75th Percentile £644 £600 £536
90th Percentile £650 £663 £700
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 14
10th Percentile £39.28 £17.09 £27.53
25th Percentile £45.88 £24.16 £37.25
Median hourly rate £46.18 £40.59 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.77% -4.49% +29.77%
75th Percentile £48.43 £50.59 £44.45
90th Percentile £49.69 £54.69 £50.94
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 Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Lancashire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Lancashire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Lancashire

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 29 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
Preston +6 6 - - 5
Ormskirk - 1 £600 -
SQL
North West

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 6 (85.71%) SharePoint
1 6 (85.71%) SharePoint 2010
1 6 (85.71%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Metadata
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Power View
1 6 (85.71%) PowerPivot
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 6 (85.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) SharePoint Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) CSS
1 6 (85.71%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Information Architecture
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (85.71%) ITIL
1 6 (85.71%) Metadata Management
1 6 (85.71%) Statistics
2 1 (14.29%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Budget Responsibility
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
2 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
2 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
2 1 (14.29%) Data Security
2 1 (14.29%) ETL
2 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
1 6 (85.71%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Anaplan