SQL Contracts in Blackpool

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Lancashire > Blackpool

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Blackpool 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 - 10
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs citing SQL 4 0 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Blackpool 21.05% - 16.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 57.14% - 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 10
10th Percentile £385 - £500
25th Percentile £400 - £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £635
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.00%
75th Percentile £475 - £645
90th Percentile - - £655
Lancashire median daily rate £450 £400 £620
% change year-on-year +12.50% -35.48% +24.00%

All Programming Languages
Blackpool

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 Blackpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 7 0 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool 36.84% - 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 17
10th Percentile £385 - £515
25th Percentile £400 - £611
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.62%
75th Percentile £475 - £645
90th Percentile - - £650
Lancashire median daily rate £450 £413 £621
% change year-on-year +9.09% -33.60% +24.25%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Blackpool

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Blackpool

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Blackpool

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Blackpool

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Blackpool

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Blackpool 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DBA
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Runbook
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bicep
1 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform