SQL Contracts in Manchester

SQL (Structured Query Language)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 17 15 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 -11 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL 121 169 407
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 7.89% 8.91% 15.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.71% 29.60% 38.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 128 279
10th Percentile £291 £309 £313
25th Percentile £386 £389 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £569
90th Percentile £600 £650 £638
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - £13.67
25th Percentile - - £14.25
Median hourly rate - £66.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year - +355.17% -38.22%
75th Percentile - - £16.23
90th Percentile - - £29.75
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £40.59 £27.50
% change year-on-year +4.71% +47.60% +20.96%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 453 571 1,059
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 29.55% 30.10% 40.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 445 835
10th Percentile £338 £343 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +17.80%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £613 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 12
10th Percentile - £39.10 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £40.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 £15.37
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% +192.87% -54.47%
75th Percentile £81.00 £48.75 £39.38
90th Percentile £82.90 £59.10 £56.25
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Manchester

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Manchester

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Manchester

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Manchester

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Manchester 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
Stockport +4 5 £413 +3.13% 1
Bolton +4 2 £525 - 2
SQL
North West

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (3.31%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.65%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.83%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (0.83%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (9.92%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.65%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Aareon QL
2 2 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.83%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.83%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.83%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 33 (27.27%) Azure
2 27 (22.31%) Power Platform
3 18 (14.88%) AWS
4 11 (9.09%) GCP
5 9 (7.44%) Google Analytics
6 8 (6.61%) Snowflake
7 6 (4.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (4.96%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (4.96%) Amazon ELB
7 6 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (4.96%) Power Automate
8 5 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (3.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (3.31%) Google Tag Manager
9 4 (3.31%) npm
9 4 (3.31%) Yarn
10 3 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (2.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.31%) DNS
1 4 (3.31%) Firewall
1 4 (3.31%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.48%) DHCP
3 1 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.83%) LAN
3 1 (0.83%) NAS
3 1 (0.83%) Network Security
3 1 (0.83%) SAN
3 1 (0.83%) WAN
3 1 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (22.31%) Power BI
2 18 (14.88%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (11.57%) Data Lake
4 11 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 8 (6.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (6.61%) BigQuery
6 7 (5.79%) Tableau
7 6 (4.96%) DynamoDB
7 6 (4.96%) MySQL
7 6 (4.96%) NoSQL
7 6 (4.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (4.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (3.31%) Redis
9 4 (3.31%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.48%) Big Data
10 3 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.65%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.65%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (9.09%) Git
2 6 (4.96%) SonarQube
3 4 (3.31%) Jasmine
3 4 (3.31%) Karma Test Runner
3 4 (3.31%) Mocha
3 4 (3.31%) TeamCity
3 4 (3.31%) webpack
4 3 (2.48%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.65%) Postman
5 2 (1.65%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.83%) JIRA
6 1 (0.83%) JMeter
6 1 (0.83%) Maven
6 1 (0.83%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.83%) RStudio
6 1 (0.83%) Selenium
6 1 (0.83%) SpecFlow
General
1 23 (19.01%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.79%) Retail
4 6 (4.96%) Finance
5 5 (4.13%) Marketing
6 4 (3.31%) Legal
6 4 (3.31%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.48%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.65%) German Language
9 1 (0.83%) Automotive
9 1 (0.83%) Banking
9 1 (0.83%) French Language
9 1 (0.83%) Games
9 1 (0.83%) Law
9 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (42.98%) Developer
2 20 (16.53%) Analyst
3 15 (12.40%) Data Analyst
3 15 (12.40%) Software Developer
4 8 (6.61%) .NET Developer
4 8 (6.61%) Architect
4 8 (6.61%) Data Engineer
5 7 (5.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 6 (4.96%) Senior
6 6 (4.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 5 (4.13%) C# Developer
7 5 (4.13%) Performance Analyst
7 5 (4.13%) Power BI Developer
8 4 (3.31%) Azure Architect
8 4 (3.31%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Power BI Analyst
8 4 (3.31%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.40%) HTML
2 13 (10.74%) .NET
3 8 (6.61%) RESTful
4 7 (5.79%) Kafka
5 6 (4.96%) Node.js
6 5 (4.13%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.13%) React
6 5 (4.13%) Web Services
7 4 (3.31%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.48%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.48%) CSS
8 3 (2.48%) PySpark
9 2 (1.65%) REST
10 1 (0.83%) ASP.NET
10 1 (0.83%) Django
10 1 (0.83%) Hugging Face
10 1 (0.83%) Playwright
10 1 (0.83%) PyTorch
10 1 (0.83%) SOAP
10 1 (0.83%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.13%) Algorithms
1 5 (4.13%) Data Structures
1 5 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (4.13%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.48%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.48%) Smartphone
4 2 (1.65%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.65%) Clustering
4 2 (1.65%) CMDB
4 2 (1.65%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.65%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.83%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.83%) IoT
5 1 (0.83%) Online Games
5 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.65%) Windows
1 2 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (0.83%) Linux
2 1 (0.83%) VMS
2 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (0.83%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (21.49%) Agile
1 26 (21.49%) Business Intelligence
2 22 (18.18%) Analytics
3 20 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (14.05%) ETL
5 16 (13.22%) Software Engineering
6 15 (12.40%) CI/CD
6 15 (12.40%) Code Quality
6 15 (12.40%) Visualisation
7 13 (10.74%) Artificial Intelligence
8 12 (9.92%) Conversational UI
8 12 (9.92%) Data Modelling
9 11 (9.09%) DevOps
10 10 (8.26%) CRM
10 10 (8.26%) Migration
11 9 (7.44%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (7.44%) Data Visualisation
11 9 (7.44%) E-Commerce
11 9 (7.44%) Test Automation
12 8 (6.61%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 40 (33.06%) Python
2 27 (22.31%) C#
3 21 (17.36%) JavaScript
4 9 (7.44%) Go
4 9 (7.44%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.79%) Bash
5 7 (5.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (4.96%) Java
7 2 (1.65%) C++
7 2 (1.65%) PHP
7 2 (1.65%) R
7 2 (1.65%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.83%) Scala
8 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.83%) X++
Qualifications
1 14 (11.57%) Degree
2 3 (2.48%) Azure Certification
2 3 (2.48%) SC Cleared
2 3 (2.48%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.65%) CCNA
3 2 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.65%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.61%) QA
2 6 (4.96%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.31%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.48%) ISO 22301
4 3 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (8.26%) Docker
2 3 (2.48%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (8.26%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.96%) Ansible
2 6 (4.96%) HP Fortify
2 6 (4.96%) Terraform
3 2 (1.65%) Nagios
3 2 (1.65%) ZABBIX
4 1 (0.83%) Control-M
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.83%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (9.92%) PayPal
2 11 (9.09%) Google
2 11 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.61%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.79%) Databricks
4 7 (5.79%) Splunk
5 3 (2.48%) Aareon
6 2 (1.65%) Oracle
6 2 (1.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (1.65%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.65%) VMware
7 1 (0.83%) Ab Initio
7 1 (0.83%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.83%) Cisco
7 1 (0.83%) Citrix
7 1 (0.83%) Dell
7 1 (0.83%) EMC
7 1 (0.83%) F5
7 1 (0.83%) HP
7 1 (0.83%) Teradata