SQL Contracts in County Antrim

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 11 8
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 34 14 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 20.24% 10.94% 12.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.97% 43.75% 45.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 8 11
10th Percentile - £317 £400
25th Percentile £325 £328 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £559 £435 £508
90th Percentile £628 £436 £550
Northern Ireland median daily rate £418 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +4.38% -11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.25
Median hourly rate - - £13.50
75th Percentile - - £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate - - £13.50

All Programming Languages
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 63 32 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 37.50% 25.00% 27.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 18 25
10th Percentile £288 £328 -
25th Percentile £325 £384 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £569 £613 £588
90th Percentile £621 £675 £650
Northern Ireland median daily rate £460 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -16.36% +22.22% -8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.98 £30.63 £13.25
Median hourly rate £73.23 £31.25 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +134.32% +131.48% -28.95%
75th Percentile £78.47 £31.88 £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £73.23 £31.25 £13.50
% change year-on-year +134.32% +131.48% -28.95%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in County Antrim

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in County Antrim

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in County Antrim over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in County Antrim

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in County Antrim

SQL
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 29 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
Belfast +4 34 £418 +4.38% 159
SQL
Northern Ireland

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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 (14.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.88%) Apache
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.94%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (2.94%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.71%) OCI
2 4 (11.76%) OpenShift
3 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.94%) AWS
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.94%) Azure
4 1 (2.94%) SaaS
4 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) NoSQL
2 5 (14.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 5 (14.71%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (11.76%) Tableau
4 3 (8.82%) Apache Hive
4 3 (8.82%) Big Data
4 3 (8.82%) Impala
4 3 (8.82%) Power BI
5 2 (5.88%) HBase
5 2 (5.88%) MySQL
5 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.94%) GIS
6 1 (2.94%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Git
2 4 (11.76%) Ant
2 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.76%) Maven
2 4 (11.76%) Subversion
3 2 (5.88%) JIRA
4 1 (2.94%) GitLab
General
1 25 (73.53%) Finance
2 15 (44.12%) Banking
3 12 (35.29%) Front Office
4 8 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (23.53%) Investment Banking
5 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
6 4 (11.76%) Wholesale Banking
7 3 (8.82%) Financial Institution
8 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (5.88%) Law
9 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (50.00%) Developer
2 10 (29.41%) Java Developer
2 10 (29.41%) Software Engineer
3 8 (23.53%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 7 (20.59%) Analyst
5 6 (17.65%) Java Engineer
5 6 (17.65%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (14.71%) Data Analyst
7 4 (11.76%) .NET Developer
7 4 (11.76%) .NET Software Developer
7 4 (11.76%) .NET Software Engineer
7 4 (11.76%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (11.76%) C# Developer
7 4 (11.76%) C# Software Developer
7 4 (11.76%) C# Software Engineer
7 4 (11.76%) Java Software Developer
8 3 (8.82%) Business Analyst
9 2 (5.88%) Consultant
9 2 (5.88%) Junior
9 2 (5.88%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) Web Services
2 7 (20.59%) Apache Avro
2 7 (20.59%) JSON
3 6 (17.65%) Spring Boot
3 6 (17.65%) XML
4 5 (14.71%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (14.71%) RESTful
5 4 (11.76%) .NET
5 4 (11.76%) AngularJS
5 4 (11.76%) React
5 4 (11.76%) REST
5 4 (11.76%) SOAP
6 2 (5.88%) Hibernate
6 2 (5.88%) Kafka
6 2 (5.88%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Equities
2 9 (26.47%) Derivative
2 9 (26.47%) Equity Derivative
2 9 (26.47%) Product Ownership
3 4 (11.76%) Data Structures
4 3 (8.82%) Algorithms
4 3 (8.82%) Market Risk
5 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.94%) Blockchain
6 1 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.94%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Unix
2 5 (14.71%) Linux
2 5 (14.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (29.41%) Software Engineering
3 8 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (20.59%) DevOps
4 7 (20.59%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (17.65%) Agile
5 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 6 (17.65%) Data Analysis
6 5 (14.71%) Clean Code
6 5 (14.71%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (14.71%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (11.76%) Analytics
7 4 (11.76%) Code Quality
7 4 (11.76%) Concurrent Programming
7 4 (11.76%) Design Patterns
7 4 (11.76%) High Availability
7 4 (11.76%) Low Latency
7 4 (11.76%) OOA/OOD
7 4 (11.76%) SDLC
7 4 (11.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) Java
2 7 (20.59%) Python
3 4 (11.76%) C#
4 1 (2.94%) C++
4 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.94%) R
4 1 (2.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) Degree
1 2 (5.88%) Master's Degree
1 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.94%) ISEB
2 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.94%) PMP
2 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) MiFID
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) HDFS
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Oracle
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) Citrix
3 1 (2.94%) TIBCO
3 1 (2.94%) Zscaler