SQL Contracts in Derbyshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Derbyshire 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 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +11
Contract jobs citing SQL 10 17 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derbyshire 9.35% 10.06% 8.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.56% 65.38% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 11
10th Percentile £405 £178 £363
25th Percentile £443 £310 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £322 £450
Median % change year-on-year +66.85% -28.44% +16.13%
75th Percentile £621 £588 £488
90th Percentile £627 - £500
East Midlands median daily rate £375 £400 £400
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -4.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 £27.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -30.91% -60.71% +100.00%

All Programming Languages
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 18 26 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 16.82% 15.38% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 23
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 £500
90th Percentile £693 £588 £608
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -8.89% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +166.97%
75th Percentile - - £53.88
90th Percentile - - £53.95
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 £25.00 £52.75
% change year-on-year -24.00% -52.61% +50.71%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Derbyshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Derbyshire

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Derbyshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Derbyshire over the 6 months to 7 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Derbyshire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Derbyshire

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
Derby -1 10 £537 +66.85% 14
SQL
East Midlands

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derbyshire 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