SQL Contracts in Belfast

SQL (Structured Query Language)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast 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 6 6 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing SQL 33 19 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 22.45% 15.32% 15.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.00% 55.88% 47.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 12 18
10th Percentile £295 £318 £400
25th Percentile £325 £328 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -8.33% -3.74%
75th Percentile £507 £453 £494
90th Percentile £643 £506 £540
County Antrim median daily rate £410 £413 £450
% change year-on-year -0.61% -8.33% -3.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.25
Median hourly rate £22.48 - £13.50
75th Percentile - - £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £22.48 - £13.50

All Programming Languages
Belfast

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 Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 60 34 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 40.82% 27.42% 33.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 18 34
10th Percentile £273 £318 £400
25th Percentile £325 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £443 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -1.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £517 £505 £537
90th Percentile £627 £575 £635
County Antrim median daily rate £425 £443 £450
% change year-on-year -3.95% -1.67% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £27.03 - -
25th Percentile £33.86 - £13.25
Median hourly rate £47.85 £16.12 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +196.85% +19.41% -
75th Percentile £64.47 - £13.75
90th Percentile £72.87 - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £47.85 £31.25 £13.50
% change year-on-year +53.13% +131.48% -28.95%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Belfast

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Belfast

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Belfast over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Belfast

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Belfast

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 5 (15.15%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.06%) Apache
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (3.03%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (3.03%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) OpenShift
2 4 (12.12%) OCI
3 3 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.03%) AWS
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.03%) Azure
4 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.03%) SaaS
4 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) NoSQL
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (9.09%) Apache Hive
3 3 (9.09%) Big Data
3 3 (9.09%) Flink
3 3 (9.09%) Impala
3 3 (9.09%) Tableau
4 2 (6.06%) HBase
4 2 (6.06%) MySQL
4 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (3.03%) GIS
5 1 (3.03%) Metadata
5 1 (3.03%) Power BI
5 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Git
2 4 (12.12%) Ant
2 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.12%) Maven
2 4 (12.12%) Subversion
3 1 (3.03%) GitLab
3 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 23 (69.70%) Finance
2 11 (33.33%) Banking
2 11 (33.33%) Front Office
3 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
4 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (18.18%) Investment Banking
5 5 (15.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (15.15%) Law
6 4 (12.12%) Wholesale Banking
7 2 (6.06%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (60.61%) Developer
2 13 (39.39%) Java Developer
3 10 (30.30%) Software Engineer
4 8 (24.24%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 6 (18.18%) Java Engineer
5 6 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) .NET Developer
6 4 (12.12%) .NET Software Developer
6 4 (12.12%) .NET Software Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) Analyst
6 4 (12.12%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (12.12%) C# Developer
6 4 (12.12%) C# Software Developer
6 4 (12.12%) C# Software Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) Java Software Developer
7 3 (9.09%) Data Analyst
8 2 (6.06%) Functional Consultant
8 2 (6.06%) Junior Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Junior Java Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) Apache Avro
1 7 (21.21%) JSON
1 7 (21.21%) Web Services
2 6 (18.18%) Spring Boot
2 6 (18.18%) XML
3 5 (15.15%) Kafka
3 5 (15.15%) RESTful
4 4 (12.12%) .NET
4 4 (12.12%) AngularJS
4 4 (12.12%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (12.12%) React
5 3 (9.09%) REST
5 3 (9.09%) SOAP
6 2 (6.06%) Hibernate
6 2 (6.06%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (36.36%) Equities
2 9 (27.27%) Derivative
2 9 (27.27%) Equity Derivative
2 9 (27.27%) Product Ownership
3 3 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 3 (9.09%) Credit Risk
3 3 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 3 (9.09%) Fixed Income
4 2 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.03%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.21%) Unix
2 5 (15.15%) Linux
2 5 (15.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (30.30%) Software Engineering
3 9 (27.27%) Agile
4 8 (24.24%) Clean Code
5 7 (21.21%) DevOps
5 7 (21.21%) High Availability
6 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 5 (15.15%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (15.15%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (15.15%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (15.15%) Mentoring
7 5 (15.15%) Microservices
8 4 (12.12%) Analytics
8 4 (12.12%) Data Analysis
8 4 (12.12%) Data Management
8 4 (12.12%) Low Latency
8 4 (12.12%) OO
8 4 (12.12%) OOA/OOD
8 4 (12.12%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (12.12%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 15 (45.45%) Java
2 6 (18.18%) Python
3 4 (12.12%) C#
4 1 (3.03%) C++
4 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.03%) R
4 1 (3.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.03%) MiFID
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) HDFS
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Oracle
2 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.03%) Citrix
3 1 (3.03%) TIBCO
3 1 (3.03%) Zscaler