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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 15 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 -11 +7
Contract jobs citing SQL 127 167 407
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 8.92% 9.30% 15.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.09% 30.53% 38.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 127 271
10th Percentile £306 £313 £313
25th Percentile £394 £397 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -2.63% +18.75%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £563
90th Percentile £625 £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 £16.23
% change year-on-year +4.71% +150.09% -28.61%

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 422 547 1,067
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 29.66% 30.47% 40.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 426 823
10th Percentile £350 £344 £360
25th Percentile £406 £413 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -2.44% +20.59%
75th Percentile £538 £598 £600
90th Percentile £625 £653 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +23.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 19
10th Percentile £52.50 £41.25 -
25th Percentile £57.50 £43.13 £14.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -9.52% +110.00%
75th Percentile £77.75 £57.38 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.80 £62.55 £81.00
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 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 16 May 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 16 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
Stockport +4 5 £413 +3.13% 3
Bolton +4 2 £525 - 4
Salford +2 1 £475 - 7
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 (3.15%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.57%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.79%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (0.79%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (9.45%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.57%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.36%) Aareon QL
2 2 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.79%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.79%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (27.56%) Azure
2 31 (24.41%) Power Platform
3 17 (13.39%) AWS
4 11 (8.66%) GCP
5 9 (7.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (7.09%) Google Analytics
6 8 (6.30%) Snowflake
7 7 (5.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (4.72%) Amazon ELB
8 6 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (4.72%) Power Automate
9 4 (3.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (3.15%) GitHub
9 4 (3.15%) Google Tag Manager
9 4 (3.15%) npm
9 4 (3.15%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.94%) DNS
1 5 (3.94%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.15%) DHCP
2 4 (3.15%) Firewall
3 2 (1.57%) Network Security
3 2 (1.57%) WAN
4 1 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.79%) Internet
4 1 (0.79%) LAN
4 1 (0.79%) NAS
4 1 (0.79%) SAN
4 1 (0.79%) VLAN
4 1 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (24.41%) Power BI
2 21 (16.54%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (13.39%) Data Lake
4 16 (12.60%) SQL Server
5 12 (9.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (7.09%) BigQuery
7 8 (6.30%) Tableau
8 7 (5.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (4.72%) DynamoDB
9 6 (4.72%) MySQL
9 6 (4.72%) NoSQL
10 5 (3.94%) Relational Database
10 5 (3.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (3.15%) Redis
11 4 (3.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (2.36%) Big Data
12 3 (2.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 3 (2.36%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (7.87%) Git
2 6 (4.72%) SonarQube
3 4 (3.15%) Jasmine
3 4 (3.15%) Karma Test Runner
3 4 (3.15%) Mocha
3 4 (3.15%) TeamCity
3 4 (3.15%) webpack
4 3 (2.36%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.79%) JMeter
5 1 (0.79%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.79%) Postman
5 1 (0.79%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.79%) RStudio
5 1 (0.79%) Selenium
5 1 (0.79%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.79%) SpecFlow
General
1 25 (19.69%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.51%) Retail
4 6 (4.72%) Finance
5 5 (3.94%) Marketing
6 4 (3.15%) Legal
6 4 (3.15%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.57%) German Language
7 2 (1.57%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.79%) Automotive
8 1 (0.79%) Banking
8 1 (0.79%) Games
8 1 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (42.52%) Developer
2 21 (16.54%) Analyst
3 17 (13.39%) Data Analyst
4 15 (11.81%) Software Developer
5 10 (7.87%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 9 (7.09%) Architect
7 8 (6.30%) .NET Developer
7 8 (6.30%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (4.72%) Power BI Developer
8 6 (4.72%) Senior
8 6 (4.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (3.94%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (3.94%) Azure Architect
9 5 (3.94%) C# Developer
9 5 (3.94%) Performance Analyst
10 4 (3.15%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 4 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.15%) Integration Developer
10 4 (3.15%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.81%) HTML
2 13 (10.24%) .NET
3 7 (5.51%) Kafka
3 7 (5.51%) RESTful
4 5 (3.94%) AngularJS
4 5 (3.94%) Node.js
4 5 (3.94%) React
4 5 (3.94%) Web Services
5 4 (3.15%) .NET Framework
6 3 (2.36%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.36%) CSS
6 3 (2.36%) PySpark
7 2 (1.57%) REST
8 1 (0.79%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.79%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.79%) Django
8 1 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.79%) Playwright
8 1 (0.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.94%) Algorithms
1 5 (3.94%) Data Structures
1 5 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.15%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.36%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.36%) Smartphone
4 2 (1.57%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.57%) Clustering
4 2 (1.57%) CMDB
4 2 (1.57%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.57%) Data Fabric
4 2 (1.57%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.57%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.79%) Online Gambling
5 1 (0.79%) Online Games
5 1 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.15%) Windows
2 2 (1.57%) Linux
2 2 (1.57%) VMS
2 2 (1.57%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (1.57%) zOS
3 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (22.83%) Business Intelligence
2 26 (20.47%) Analytics
3 25 (19.69%) Agile
4 23 (18.11%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (17.32%) ETL
6 17 (13.39%) Visualisation
7 16 (12.60%) CI/CD
7 16 (12.60%) Software Engineering
8 15 (11.81%) Code Quality
9 13 (10.24%) Data Modelling
10 12 (9.45%) Artificial Intelligence
10 12 (9.45%) Conversational UI
11 11 (8.66%) Data Integration
11 11 (8.66%) Data Visualisation
11 11 (8.66%) DevOps
11 11 (8.66%) Migration
12 10 (7.87%) CRM
13 9 (7.09%) Data Architecture
13 9 (7.09%) E-Commerce
13 9 (7.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 39 (30.71%) Python
2 27 (21.26%) C#
3 21 (16.54%) JavaScript
4 9 (7.09%) Go
4 9 (7.09%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.51%) Bash
5 7 (5.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (4.72%) Java
7 3 (2.36%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.57%) C++
8 2 (1.57%) PHP
8 2 (1.57%) R
9 1 (0.79%) Bicep
9 1 (0.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (12.60%) Degree
2 4 (3.15%) SC Cleared
2 4 (3.15%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.36%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.57%) CCNA
4 2 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.30%) QA
2 7 (5.51%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.15%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.36%) ISO 22301
4 3 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (7.87%) Docker
2 5 (3.94%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.79%) Firmware
6 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (7.87%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.51%) Terraform
3 6 (4.72%) Ansible
3 6 (4.72%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.57%) Nagios
4 2 (1.57%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.79%) Control-M
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.79%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.79%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.45%) PayPal
3 11 (8.66%) Google
4 8 (6.30%) Databricks
4 8 (6.30%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.51%) Splunk
6 3 (2.36%) Aareon
6 3 (2.36%) Oracle
6 3 (2.36%) VMware
7 2 (1.57%) F5
7 2 (1.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (1.57%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.79%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.79%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.79%) Cisco
8 1 (0.79%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.79%) Meraki
8 1 (0.79%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (0.79%) Teradata
8 1 (0.79%) Veeam