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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 9 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 36 14 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 22.36% 11.29% 12.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.38% 46.67% 45.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 8 11
10th Percentile - £317 £400
25th Percentile £325 £328 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £435 £508
90th Percentile £626 £436 £550
County Antrim median daily rate £425 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.25
Median hourly rate £51.80 - £13.50
75th Percentile - - £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £51.80 - £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 65 30 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 40.37% 24.19% 28.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 18 25
10th Percentile £294 £328 -
25th Percentile £325 £384 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £563 £613 £588
90th Percentile £619 £675 £650
County Antrim median daily rate £470 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -6.00% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £53.42 - -
25th Percentile £55.85 - £13.25
Median hourly rate £62.51 - £13.50
75th Percentile £71.80 - £13.75
90th Percentile £75.80 - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £62.51 £31.25 £13.50
% change year-on-year +100.04% +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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Belfast over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Belfast

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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 (13.89%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.56%) Apache
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.78%) IIS
3 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (2.78%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.89%) OCI
2 4 (11.11%) OpenShift
3 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.78%) AWS
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.78%) Azure
4 1 (2.78%) SaaS
4 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) NoSQL
2 5 (13.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 5 (13.89%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (11.11%) Tableau
4 3 (8.33%) Apache Hive
4 3 (8.33%) Big Data
4 3 (8.33%) Impala
4 3 (8.33%) Power BI
5 2 (5.56%) HBase
5 2 (5.56%) MySQL
5 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.78%) GIS
6 1 (2.78%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Git
2 4 (11.11%) Ant
2 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.11%) Maven
2 4 (11.11%) Subversion
3 2 (5.56%) JIRA
4 1 (2.78%) GitLab
General
1 26 (72.22%) Finance
2 16 (44.44%) Banking
3 12 (33.33%) Front Office
4 10 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (25.00%) Investment Banking
6 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
7 4 (11.11%) Wholesale Banking
8 3 (8.33%) Financial Institution
9 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (5.56%) Law
10 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (47.22%) Developer
2 10 (27.78%) Java Developer
2 10 (27.78%) Software Engineer
3 9 (25.00%) Analyst
4 8 (22.22%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 6 (16.67%) Data Analyst
5 6 (16.67%) Java Engineer
5 6 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) .NET Developer
6 4 (11.11%) .NET Software Developer
6 4 (11.11%) .NET Software Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Business Analyst
6 4 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (11.11%) C# Developer
6 4 (11.11%) C# Software Developer
6 4 (11.11%) C# Software Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Java Software Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Core Java Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) Web Services
2 7 (19.44%) Apache Avro
2 7 (19.44%) JSON
3 6 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 6 (16.67%) XML
4 5 (13.89%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (13.89%) RESTful
5 4 (11.11%) .NET
5 4 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 4 (11.11%) React
5 4 (11.11%) REST
5 4 (11.11%) SOAP
6 2 (5.56%) Hibernate
6 2 (5.56%) Kafka
6 2 (5.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (30.56%) Equities
2 10 (27.78%) Derivative
3 9 (25.00%) Equity Derivative
3 9 (25.00%) Product Ownership
4 4 (11.11%) Data Structures
5 3 (8.33%) Algorithms
5 3 (8.33%) Market Risk
6 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.78%) Blockchain
7 1 (2.78%) Fixed Income
7 1 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (2.78%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Unix
2 5 (13.89%) Linux
2 5 (13.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (27.78%) Software Engineering
3 9 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
5 7 (19.44%) Data Analysis
5 7 (19.44%) DevOps
6 6 (16.67%) Agile
6 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 5 (13.89%) Clean Code
7 5 (13.89%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (11.11%) Analytics
8 4 (11.11%) Code Quality
8 4 (11.11%) Concurrent Programming
8 4 (11.11%) High Availability
8 4 (11.11%) Low Latency
8 4 (11.11%) OO
8 4 (11.11%) OOA/OOD
8 4 (11.11%) SDLC
8 4 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) Java
2 7 (19.44%) Python
3 4 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (2.78%) C++
4 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.78%) R
4 1 (2.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (5.56%) Degree
1 2 (5.56%) Master's Degree
1 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.78%) ISEB
2 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.78%) PMP
2 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.56%) MiFID
3 1 (2.78%) Basel III
3 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) HDFS
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Oracle
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.78%) Citrix
3 1 (2.78%) TIBCO
3 1 (2.78%) Zscaler