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

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 7 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL 10 17 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derby 10.99% 12.32% 10.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.56% 65.38% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 8
10th Percentile £405 £178 £398
25th Percentile £443 £310 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £322 £475
Median % change year-on-year +66.85% -32.21% +26.67%
75th Percentile £621 £588 £491
90th Percentile £627 - £500
Derbyshire median daily rate £537 £322 £438
% change year-on-year +66.85% -26.40% +12.90%
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 18 26 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 19.78% 18.84% 29.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 20
10th Percentile £405 £256 £363
25th Percentile £443 £310 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £418 £475
Median % change year-on-year +42.75% -12.11% +2.15%
75th Percentile £627 £556 £506
90th Percentile £693 £588 £584
Derbyshire median daily rate £596 £418 £463
% change year-on-year +42.75% -9.73% +1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £23.00 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +166.97%

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in Derby

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Derby over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
1 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Integration Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) CSS
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Validation
2 3 (30.00%) Analytics
2 3 (30.00%) API Integration
2 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (30.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (20.00%) ETL
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) Web Development
4 1 (10.00%) Benchmarking
4 1 (10.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) SAP
3 2 (20.00%) OpenAI
4 1 (10.00%) Cognos
4 1 (10.00%) IBM
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle