SQL Contracts in Cheshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 23 8 3
Rank change year-on-year -15 -5 +17
Contract jobs citing SQL 37 69 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 8.24% 13.69% 18.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.82% 53.49% 52.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 57 81
10th Percentile £321 £337 £363
25th Percentile £352 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £387 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -22.60% -4.76% +24.26%
75th Percentile £488 £606 £575
90th Percentile £547 £610 £638
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - £24.17
25th Percentile - £41.25 £26.81
Median hourly rate - £42.50 £31.21
Median % change year-on-year - +36.20% +48.60%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £35.60
90th Percentile - - £38.24
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £42.50 £40.59
% change year-on-year +64.71% +4.71% +47.60%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 133 129 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 29.62% 25.60% 35.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 103 146
10th Percentile £323 £311 £315
25th Percentile £358 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.16% -2.20% +23.15%
75th Percentile £500 £582 £575
90th Percentile £600 £610 £638
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile - - £25.93
25th Percentile - £41.25 £31.21
Median hourly rate £86.00 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.35% +6.25% +63.27%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £52.88
90th Percentile - - £60.60
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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
Knutsford -4 19 £380 -34.08% 4
Chester -7 5 - - 55
Warrington -4 3 £390 -17.89% 53
Wilmslow +4 1 - - 5
Alderley Edge - 1 £575 - 1
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 6 (16.22%) Tomcat
2 5 (13.51%) Mattermost
2 5 (13.51%) Skype for Business
3 4 (10.81%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (8.11%) Apache
4 3 (8.11%) JBoss
4 3 (8.11%) nginx
4 3 (8.11%) WebLogic
4 3 (8.11%) WebSphere
5 2 (5.41%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (5.41%) Confluence
5 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
6 1 (2.70%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (37.84%) AWS
2 6 (16.22%) Azure
3 5 (13.51%) GitHub
4 4 (10.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (10.81%) Power Platform
5 3 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (8.11%) AWS KMS
5 3 (8.11%) GCP
6 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) Skype
1 5 (13.51%) Softphone
1 5 (13.51%) Unified Communications
1 5 (13.51%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (10.81%) Data Lake
3 4 (10.81%) MongoDB
3 4 (10.81%) Power BI
4 3 (8.11%) Bigtable
4 3 (8.11%) Data Vault
4 3 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (8.11%) DB2
4 3 (8.11%) Tableau
5 2 (5.41%) GIS
5 2 (5.41%) Hadoop
5 2 (5.41%) MSDE
5 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (32.43%) Git
2 6 (16.22%) JIRA
3 5 (13.51%) Jenkins
4 4 (10.81%) Bitbucket
4 4 (10.81%) GitLab
5 3 (8.11%) ER Studio
5 3 (8.11%) ERwin
6 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.70%) Toad
General
1 16 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.03%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.41%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) Developer
1 8 (21.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Analyst
2 6 (16.22%) AWS DevOps
2 6 (16.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Messaging Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Messaging Support
3 5 (13.51%) Messaging Support Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Operations Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Operations Support Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Support Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Messaging Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Messaging Support Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Operational Support Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Operations Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Operations Support Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Support Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) .NET
2 5 (13.51%) Spring Boot
2 5 (13.51%) XMPP
3 4 (10.81%) RAML
3 4 (10.81%) REST
3 4 (10.81%) Spring
4 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
4 3 (8.11%) EJB
4 3 (8.11%) J2EE
4 3 (8.11%) JSP
4 3 (8.11%) OAuth
4 3 (8.11%) Servlets
4 3 (8.11%) SOAP
4 3 (8.11%) Web Services
4 3 (8.11%) WSDL
5 2 (5.41%) CSS3
5 2 (5.41%) HTML5
5 2 (5.41%) Node.js
5 2 (5.41%) PySpark
5 2 (5.41%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.81%) Private Cloud
2 4 (10.81%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.11%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.41%) Clustering
4 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.70%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.70%) Insider Threat
5 1 (2.70%) Replication
5 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.41%) Unix
3 2 (5.41%) Windows
3 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) DevOps
2 10 (27.03%) Agile
2 10 (27.03%) CI/CD
3 9 (24.32%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (18.92%) ETL
6 6 (16.22%) Capacity Planning
6 6 (16.22%) High Availability
7 5 (13.51%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (13.51%) B2B
7 5 (13.51%) Data Migration
7 5 (13.51%) Data Modelling
7 5 (13.51%) ITIL
7 5 (13.51%) Migration
7 5 (13.51%) Problem Management
7 5 (13.51%) Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (13.51%) SDLC
8 4 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (10.81%) Data Mapping
8 4 (10.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) PowerShell
1 10 (27.03%) Python
2 5 (13.51%) Java
2 5 (13.51%) JavaScript
3 4 (10.81%) Bash
4 2 (5.41%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.70%) C#
5 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.70%) R
5 1 (2.70%) Ruby
5 1 (2.70%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.70%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) SCOM
2 5 (13.51%) Ansible
2 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.81%) Progress Chef
4 3 (8.11%) Kibana
4 3 (8.11%) Terraform
5 1 (2.70%) Perfmon
5 1 (2.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (24.32%) Oracle
2 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
3 6 (16.22%) Splunk
4 5 (13.51%) Cisco
4 5 (13.51%) Red Hat
5 3 (8.11%) AppDynamics
5 3 (8.11%) Databricks
5 3 (8.11%) IDERA
6 2 (5.41%) Sage
7 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.70%) Infoblox
7 1 (2.70%) Ping Identity
7 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.70%) TIBCO
7 1 (2.70%) VMware