SQL Contracts in Derby

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Derby 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 11 16 23
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 -7
Contract jobs citing SQL 6 10 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derby 7.32% 6.80% 2.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.15% 52.63% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 2
10th Percentile £497 £160 £408
25th Percentile £567 £228 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £617 £488 £440
Median % change year-on-year +26.46% +10.80% +17.33%
75th Percentile £627 £588 £460
90th Percentile £629 £591 £472
Derbyshire median daily rate £617 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +26.46% +8.33% +18.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £23.00 - -

All Programming Languages
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13 19 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 15.85% 12.93% 23.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 26
10th Percentile £398 £162 -
25th Percentile £459 £250 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year +11.30% +7.53% -
75th Percentile £627 £575 £540
90th Percentile £651 £588 £577
Derbyshire median daily rate £557 £500 £480
% change year-on-year +11.30% +4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £45.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £55.00
90th Percentile - - -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £23.00 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +138.10%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Derby

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derby

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Derby

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Derby

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Derby

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derby 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
1 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
1 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) API Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
3 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Kanban
3 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle