SQL Contracts in Cheshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 3 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 +21 -10
Contract jobs citing SQL 73 104 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.60% 19.48% 6.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 58.40% 54.74% 29.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 82 25
10th Percentile £350 £363 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% +15.85% +1.19%
75th Percentile £601 £575 £500
90th Percentile £610 £636 £616
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - £24.17 -
25th Percentile £41.25 £26.81 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £31.21 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.20% +48.60% +68.00%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.60 £22.00
90th Percentile - £38.24 -
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £40.59 £19.25
% change year-on-year +4.71% +110.91% -15.35%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 125 190 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 25.00% 35.58% 23.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 143 83
10th Percentile £311 £320 £313
25th Percentile £376 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £550
90th Percentile £610 £634 £632
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +23.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile - £25.93 £20.30
25th Percentile £41.25 £31.21 £20.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +73.91% -22.03%
75th Percentile £43.75 £52.88 £26.25
90th Percentile - £60.60 £27.30
North West median hourly rate £48.43 £44.05 £33.50
% change year-on-year +9.96% +31.48% +11.67%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Cheshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Cheshire

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Cheshire over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Cheshire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Cheshire

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 9 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
Macclesfield +1 21 £500 +12.68%
Knutsford -1 20 £572 +4.09% 1
Crewe -2 10 £590 +4.80% 1
Chester -1 6 £300 -29.41% 16
Warrington +1 4 £475 +11.76% 13
Runcorn -2 2 - - 3
Wilmslow - 1 £363 - 3
SQL
North West

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 9 (12.33%) SAS
2 7 (9.59%) Apache
3 6 (8.22%) Apache Spark
4 5 (6.85%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.37%) CMS
5 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (10.96%) CATIA
2 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (6.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (10.96%) DELMIA
1 8 (10.96%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 20 (27.40%) Power Platform
2 17 (23.29%) Snowflake
3 10 (13.70%) AWS
4 7 (9.59%) Azure
4 7 (9.59%) Serverless
5 6 (8.22%) Collibra
5 6 (8.22%) Power Automate
6 5 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (6.85%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (6.85%) Amazon S3
6 5 (6.85%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (2.74%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.74%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.37%) dbt
9 1 (1.37%) GitHub
9 1 (1.37%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.85%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (27.40%) Power BI
1 20 (27.40%) SQL Server
2 9 (12.33%) Data Lake
3 8 (10.96%) Big Data
3 8 (10.96%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (10.96%) Tableau
4 6 (8.22%) Ataccama
4 6 (8.22%) Qlik Sense
5 5 (6.85%) Data Mining
5 5 (6.85%) MySQL
6 3 (4.11%) Metadata
6 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (4.11%) RDBMS
6 3 (4.11%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (17.81%) JIRA
2 9 (12.33%) Git
3 7 (9.59%) Jenkins
4 6 (8.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 22 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.66%) Pharmaceutical
3 12 (16.44%) Finance
4 11 (15.07%) Manufacturing
5 10 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (9.59%) Banking
7 3 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.74%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.37%) Automotive
9 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.37%) Law
9 1 (1.37%) Legal
9 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (26.03%) Analyst
2 15 (20.55%) Data Analyst
3 11 (15.07%) Developer
3 11 (15.07%) Lead
4 9 (12.33%) Data Quality Analyst
4 9 (12.33%) QA Analyst
4 9 (12.33%) Quality Analyst
4 9 (12.33%) Senior
5 8 (10.96%) Senior Analyst
5 8 (10.96%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
5 8 (10.96%) Senior QA Analyst
5 8 (10.96%) Senior Quality Analyst
5 8 (10.96%) Support Team Leader
6 7 (9.59%) Data Engineer
6 7 (9.59%) Project Manager
6 7 (9.59%) Team Leader
7 5 (6.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Manufacturing Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Splunk Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.59%) .NET
1 7 (9.59%) XML
2 5 (6.85%) .NET Framework
2 5 (6.85%) Entity Framework
2 5 (6.85%) JSON
3 4 (5.48%) .NET Core
4 3 (4.11%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.11%) CSS
4 3 (4.11%) HTML
4 3 (4.11%) React
5 2 (2.74%) jQuery
5 2 (2.74%) Node.js
5 2 (2.74%) ODBC
5 2 (2.74%) REST
6 1 (1.37%) CSS3
6 1 (1.37%) HTML5
6 1 (1.37%) KnockoutJS
6 1 (1.37%) NancyFx
6 1 (1.37%) RESTful
6 1 (1.37%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.22%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.85%) Life Science
3 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.74%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.37%) CMDB
4 1 (1.37%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.37%) Insider Threat
4 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.11%) Unix
2 2 (2.74%) Android
2 2 (2.74%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.37%) Linux
3 1 (1.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.88%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (23.29%) Agile
2 17 (23.29%) Analytics
2 17 (23.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (21.92%) Data Management
3 16 (21.92%) ETL
4 14 (19.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (16.44%) Project Management
5 12 (16.44%) Software Engineering
6 11 (15.07%) Data Analysis
6 11 (15.07%) Validation
7 10 (13.70%) Data Analytics
7 10 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (13.70%) Visualisation
8 9 (12.33%) Configuration Management
8 9 (12.33%) DevOps
9 8 (10.96%) Data Architecture
9 8 (10.96%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (10.96%) PLM
9 8 (10.96%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 22 (30.14%) Python
2 13 (17.81%) C#
3 7 (9.59%) Java
3 7 (9.59%) PL/SQL
4 6 (8.22%) Shell Script
5 5 (6.85%) Search Processing Language
6 4 (5.48%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.74%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.37%) Bicep
9 1 (1.37%) Julia
9 1 (1.37%) R
9 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (8.22%) Degree
2 3 (4.11%) Master's Degree
2 3 (4.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.37%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.07%) Data Quality
2 9 (12.33%) QA
3 5 (6.85%) GAMP
3 5 (6.85%) GxP
4 1 (1.37%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (16.44%) SAP
2 8 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.96%) Oracle
2 8 (10.96%) Siemens
3 7 (9.59%) Avaloq
4 6 (8.22%) Alteryx
4 6 (8.22%) Dataiku
4 6 (8.22%) Trillium
5 5 (6.85%) Informatica
5 5 (6.85%) Splunk
5 5 (6.85%) Talend
6 3 (4.11%) Google
7 2 (2.74%) Databricks
8 1 (1.37%) BMC
8 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.37%) VMware