SQL Contracts in Basildon

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Basildon requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 14 11
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing SQL 9 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basildon 47.37% 2.04% 4.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 64.29% 4.17% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £315 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £317 £550 £160
Median % change year-on-year -42.45% +243.75% -63.22%
75th Percentile £319 £563 -
90th Percentile £320 - -
Essex median daily rate £318 £300 £236
% change year-on-year +6.00% +27.17% -44.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
Essex median hourly rate £200.00 - £22.25
% change year-on-year - - -17.53%

All Programming Languages
Basildon

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Basildon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14 24 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 73.68% 48.98% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 10
10th Percentile £315 £520 £390
25th Percentile £317 £538 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% +20.00% -0.40%
75th Percentile £488 - £505
90th Percentile £488 £675 £564
Essex median daily rate £400 £485 £478
% change year-on-year -17.53% +1.57% -1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 1
10th Percentile £32.00 - -
25th Percentile £35.00 £52.50 £65.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £59.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.77% -9.16% +7.06%
75th Percentile £45.00 £80.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £48.00 - -
Essex median hourly rate £50.00 £59.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -15.97% +138.00% -60.70%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Basildon

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Basildon

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Basildon

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Basildon

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basildon 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 (44.44%) Apache
1 4 (44.44%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (33.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) GCP
2 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
3 3 (33.33%) dbt
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub
3 3 (33.33%) Vertex AI
4 1 (11.11%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) BigQuery
1 4 (44.44%) Power BI
1 4 (44.44%) Tableau
2 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (33.33%) Looker
3 2 (22.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
1 3 (33.33%) TestRail
2 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (77.78%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Automotive
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Data Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) QA Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) GCP Data Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) DBA
4 1 (11.11%) Designer
4 1 (11.11%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) SQL DBA
4 1 (11.11%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) PySpark
2 4 (44.44%) AngularJS
2 4 (44.44%) React
3 3 (33.33%) Kafka
3 3 (33.33%) NumPy
3 3 (33.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) Data Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) Data Security
2 5 (55.56%) User Stories
3 4 (44.44%) Analytics
3 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Data Governance
3 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (44.44%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (44.44%) Technical Architecture
3 4 (44.44%) Visualisation
4 3 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (33.33%) Data Management
4 3 (33.33%) Data Science
4 3 (33.33%) DataOps
4 3 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (33.33%) ETL
4 3 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (33.33%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) GDPR
2 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Checkmarx
2 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) SAP