SQL Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

SQL Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median SQL Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 329 306
Rank change year-on-year +6 -23 -9
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Developer 71 122 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.52% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.55% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 99 186
10th Percentile £325 £354 £316
25th Percentile £400 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £436
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +11.17% +9.06%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £536
90th Percentile £621 £628 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £486
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.02% +11.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,943 22,066 29,076
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.30% 95.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,549 15,423 20,326
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,262 1,138 1,451
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.99
90th Percentile £73.98 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured SQL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Developer in the UK excluding London

SQL Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SQL Developer in the UK excluding London

SQL Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Developer in the UK excluding London

SQL Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Developer in the UK excluding London

SQL Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
South East +8 21 £525 - 11
Midlands +18 19 £488 +2.63% 27
North of England +25 15 £450 +2.27% 12
West Midlands +10 15 £500 -1.23% 14
Wales +25 10 £390 -23.90% 2
North West +13 8 £438 +1.16% 7
Yorkshire +22 7 £450 -5.26% 5
Scotland +37 5 £538 +13.16% 5
East Midlands +22 4 £388 +9.15% 13
East of England +7 3 £300 -45.45% 2
South West +2 1 £225 -47.06% 1
SQL Developer
UK

SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, SQL Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 70 (98.59%) SQL
2 27 (38.03%) Oracle
3 23 (32.39%) PL/SQL
4 20 (28.17%) SQL Server
5 19 (26.76%) Agile
6 14 (19.72%) Scrum
6 14 (19.72%) Azure
7 13 (18.31%) Software Testing
7 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
7 13 (18.31%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (16.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (16.90%) Security Cleared
9 11 (15.49%) Unix
10 10 (14.08%) Git
10 10 (14.08%) SC Cleared
10 10 (14.08%) DevOps
10 10 (14.08%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (12.68%) User Acceptance Testing
12 8 (11.27%) System Testing
12 8 (11.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (11.27%) Power Platform
12 8 (11.27%) Power BI
12 8 (11.27%) Social Skills
13 7 (9.86%) Public Sector
13 7 (9.86%) Unit Testing
13 7 (9.86%) Korn
13 7 (9.86%) Bourne shell
13 7 (9.86%) Bash
13 7 (9.86%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (9.86%) T-SQL

SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (1.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.72%) Azure
2 10 (14.08%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (11.27%) Power Platform
4 5 (7.04%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (7.04%) Azure Functions
4 5 (7.04%) Serverless
5 3 (4.23%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (4.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (4.23%) OCI
6 2 (2.82%) Apigee
6 2 (2.82%) AWS
6 2 (2.82%) Azure API Management
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (2.82%) GCP
6 2 (2.82%) PaaS
6 2 (2.82%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.82%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.17%) SQL Server
2 12 (16.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (11.27%) Power BI
3 8 (11.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (9.86%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (8.45%) Oracle Database
6 5 (7.04%) Relational Database
7 4 (5.63%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.82%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (1.41%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.41%) Impala
10 1 (1.41%) Metadata
10 1 (1.41%) OLTP
10 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (14.08%) Git
2 6 (8.45%) JIRA
3 5 (7.04%) Oracle APEX
3 5 (7.04%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (5.63%) Ant
5 3 (4.23%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (2.82%) Postman
7 1 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (1.41%) tSQLt
General
1 8 (11.27%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.86%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.82%) Banking
4 2 (2.82%) Finance
5 1 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Local Government
5 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.41%) Marketing
5 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.63%) .NET
2 2 (2.82%) .NET Framework
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (2.82%) OpenAPI
2 2 (2.82%) Swagger
2 2 (2.82%) XML
3 1 (1.41%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.41%) Ajax
3 1 (1.41%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.41%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.41%) FHIR
3 1 (1.41%) HTML
3 1 (1.41%) jQuery
3 1 (1.41%) React
3 1 (1.41%) REST
3 1 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.04%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.23%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.41%) Clustering
3 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.41%) NHS
3 1 (1.41%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (26.76%) Agile
2 14 (19.72%) Scrum
3 13 (18.31%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (18.31%) Software Testing
4 10 (14.08%) DevOps
5 9 (12.68%) User Acceptance Testing
6 8 (11.27%) System Testing
7 7 (9.86%) Unit Testing
8 6 (8.45%) Data Modelling
8 6 (8.45%) ETL
8 6 (8.45%) Migration
8 6 (8.45%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (7.04%) CAFM
9 5 (7.04%) OO
9 5 (7.04%) SOLID
9 5 (7.04%) TDD
10 4 (5.63%) Data Integration
10 4 (5.63%) Database Security
10 4 (5.63%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (5.63%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 70 (98.59%) SQL
2 23 (32.39%) PL/SQL
3 7 (9.86%) Bash
3 7 (9.86%) Bourne shell
3 7 (9.86%) JavaScript
3 7 (9.86%) Korn
3 7 (9.86%) T-SQL
4 4 (5.63%) C#
5 3 (4.23%) Java
6 2 (2.82%) VB
7 1 (1.41%) PHP
7 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.41%) Python
7 1 (1.41%) VBA
7 1 (1.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (16.90%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.41%) HIPAA
1 1 (1.41%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.41%) Control-M
Vendors
1 27 (38.03%) Oracle
2 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.63%) RedGate
4 1 (1.41%) PeopleSoft
4 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.41%) Workday