SQL Contracts in Coventry

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Coventry 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 12 15 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +9
Contract jobs citing SQL 7 12 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 7.22% 8.39% 16.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.33% 33.33% 56.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 33
10th Percentile £371 £275 £363
25th Percentile £383 £408 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £463 £575 £480
90th Percentile £485 £600 £535
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +8.82% -19.05% +16.67%

All Programming Languages
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 30 36 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 30.93% 25.17% 28.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 25 50
10th Percentile £378 £295 £351
25th Percentile £386 £413 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% - -
75th Percentile £470 £538 £525
90th Percentile £549 £575 £655
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £456 £525
% change year-on-year +4.11% -13.10% +14.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £23.22
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.50 £57.50 £29.32
% change year-on-year -52.17% +96.13% +68.59%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Coventry

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Coventry

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Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Coventry over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Coventry

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Coventry

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Data Lake
2 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (28.57%) Power BI
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (14.29%) Metadata
4 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
4 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 1 (14.29%) Spark SQL
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) ER Studio
1 1 (14.29%) ERwin
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Modeller
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) ETL Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
2 4 (57.14%) Machine Learning
3 3 (42.86%) API Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Data Transformation
3 3 (42.86%) ERP
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Data Management
5 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Dimensional Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) Metadata Management
5 1 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) R
2 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks