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 9 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 4 11
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 15 16 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 12.50% 16.49% 10.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.88% 48.48% 44.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 20
10th Percentile £220 £275 £356
25th Percentile £253 £390 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £475 £406
Median % change year-on-year -34.21% +16.92% -9.72%
75th Percentile £444 £625 £488
90th Percentile £510 £626 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £453 £428 £500
% change year-on-year +5.96% -14.50% +1.01%

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 43 33 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 35.83% 34.02% 24.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 39
10th Percentile £259 £275 £250
25th Percentile £306 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £418
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.78% -7.22%
75th Percentile £498 £519 £500
90th Percentile £563 £626 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -5.90% -1.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £23.22
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £55.63 £24.63
% change year-on-year -10.11% +125.89% -57.54%

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 9 August 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 6 (40.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 6 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (40.00%) Collibra
3 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
5 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) GitHub
5 4 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (20.00%) AWS
6 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (20.00%) Serverless
7 2 (13.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
8 1 (6.67%) Datadog
8 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (46.67%) Delta Lake
2 6 (40.00%) GIS
3 5 (33.33%) Oracle Database
3 5 (33.33%) Power BI
4 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
5 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (13.33%) DB2
6 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (6.67%) Big Data
7 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
7 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) ER Studio
1 1 (6.67%) ERwin
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Automotive
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Data Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Data Migration Specialist
3 3 (20.00%) Migration Specialist
3 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) SCCM Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Cognos Support
4 2 (13.33%) Platform Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (6.67%) Administrator
5 1 (6.67%) Business Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Business Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Data Modeller
5 1 (6.67%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Junior Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Junior Business Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Junior Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) IoT
1 6 (40.00%) SCADA
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (13.33%) Replication
4 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Analytics
2 8 (53.33%) ETL
3 7 (46.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (46.67%) Data Governance
4 6 (40.00%) High Availability
4 6 (40.00%) Machine Learning
5 5 (33.33%) Data Mapping
5 5 (33.33%) DevOps
5 5 (33.33%) ITIL
6 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (26.67%) Data Architecture
6 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
6 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (26.67%) Migration
7 3 (20.00%) Batch Processing
7 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (20.00%) RBAC
7 3 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (26.67%) Bicep
4 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (13.33%) VBScript
6 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.67%) R
6 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 5 (33.33%) GDPR
2 3 (20.00%) SLA
3 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) SCCM
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Databricks
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (46.67%) Oracle
3 6 (40.00%) Informatica
3 6 (40.00%) SAP
4 2 (13.33%) Cognos
4 2 (13.33%) IBM