SQL Contracts in the East Midlands

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 13 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 50 71 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.65% 9.18% 11.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.68% 36.60% 37.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 47 97
10th Percentile £296 £265 £223
25th Percentile £356 £357 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £388 £400
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% -3.13% +0.63%
75th Percentile £469 £516 £480
90th Percentile £597 £619 £538
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £14.50 £12.63 £28.83
25th Percentile £16.88 £21.73 £32.36
Median hourly rate £18.60 £27.50 £38.24
Median % change year-on-year -32.36% -28.09% +9.26%
75th Percentile £20.38 £33.25 £44.12
90th Percentile £21.95 £44.44 £47.65
England median hourly rate £48.25 £44.25 £49.28
% change year-on-year +9.04% -10.21% +40.81%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 153 194 298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 26.47% 25.10% 29.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 142 255
10th Percentile £270 £276 £294
25th Percentile £350 £356 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% - +2.41%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £538
90th Percentile £545 £600 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 5
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.66 £17.34
25th Percentile £16.88 £22.12 -
Median hourly rate £18.60 £25.00 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year -25.60% -5.59% -24.34%
75th Percentile £20.38 £31.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £21.95 £40.71 £53.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +23.10%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for SQL in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Northamptonshire +2 27 £363 -6.45% 30
Derbyshire +4 9 £612 +25.54% 30
Leicestershire -1 7 £386 +3.00% 54
Nottinghamshire -8 6 £538 +58.09% 63
Lincolnshire -5 1 - - 18
SQL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 5 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (8.00%) Confluence
3 3 (6.00%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (6.00%) SAS
4 2 (4.00%) Apache
4 2 (4.00%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.00%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (2.00%) CICS
5 1 (2.00%) JBoss
5 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.00%) WebLogic
5 1 (2.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 12 (24.00%) AWS
1 12 (24.00%) Azure
2 9 (18.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (10.00%) GCP
4 4 (8.00%) Serverless
5 3 (6.00%) Asana
5 3 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (6.00%) SaaS
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) HTTP
2 3 (6.00%) HTTPS
2 3 (6.00%) SSL
3 1 (2.00%) DHCP
3 1 (2.00%) DNS
3 1 (2.00%) LAN
3 1 (2.00%) WAN
3 1 (2.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.00%) Power BI
1 8 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (14.00%) Hadoop
3 5 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 4 (8.00%) Big Data
4 4 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (8.00%) Oracle Database
4 4 (8.00%) Tableau
5 3 (6.00%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (4.00%) Apache Hudi
6 2 (4.00%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (4.00%) DB2
6 2 (4.00%) Delta Lake
6 2 (4.00%) Flink
6 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.00%) Parquet
6 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Git
1 6 (12.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (12.00%) JIRA
2 4 (8.00%) Selenium
3 3 (6.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (6.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (6.00%) Maven
3 3 (6.00%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (4.00%) GitLab
4 2 (4.00%) JUnit
4 2 (4.00%) Mockito
4 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (4.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.00%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.00%) MagicDraw
5 1 (2.00%) PyCharm
5 1 (2.00%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.00%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.00%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (16.00%) Finance
3 5 (10.00%) Banking
4 2 (4.00%) Law
4 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Automotive
5 1 (2.00%) General Ledger
5 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.00%) Local Government
5 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (26.00%) Developer
2 6 (12.00%) Analyst
2 6 (12.00%) Data Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Consultant
3 5 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 4 (8.00%) SQL Developer
5 3 (6.00%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (6.00%) PL/SQL Developer
5 3 (6.00%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Digital Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Integration Consultant
6 2 (4.00%) IT Manager
6 2 (4.00%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Lead
6 2 (4.00%) Scala Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Web Developer
7 1 (2.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) HTML
2 6 (12.00%) CSS
3 5 (10.00%) .NET
3 5 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 5 (10.00%) JPA
3 5 (10.00%) Kafka
3 5 (10.00%) RAML
3 5 (10.00%) React
3 5 (10.00%) REST
3 5 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 5 (10.00%) Web Services
4 4 (8.00%) JSON
4 4 (8.00%) Spring
5 3 (6.00%) Hibernate
5 3 (6.00%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (6.00%) RESTful
5 3 (6.00%) Spring Batch
6 2 (4.00%) Jest
6 2 (4.00%) Node.js
6 2 (4.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
1 3 (6.00%) State Machine
2 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.00%) EPoS
3 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.00%) PMI
3 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) AIX
2 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.00%) Agile
2 12 (24.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 10 (20.00%) ETL
5 9 (18.00%) DevOps
6 8 (16.00%) Analytics
6 8 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (14.00%) Data Analytics
7 7 (14.00%) Data Modelling
7 7 (14.00%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (14.00%) Migration
8 6 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (12.00%) Microservices
8 6 (12.00%) Scrum
8 6 (12.00%) SDLC
8 6 (12.00%) Validation
9 5 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.00%) Python
2 12 (24.00%) Java
3 11 (22.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (14.00%) PL/SQL
5 4 (8.00%) C#
5 4 (8.00%) Scala
6 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.00%) R
6 2 (4.00%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.00%) Bash
7 1 (2.00%) C
7 1 (2.00%) COBOL
7 1 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.00%) JCL
7 1 (2.00%) VB
7 1 (2.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) Degree
2 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.00%) PMP
3 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.00%) QA
3 1 (2.00%) Basel III
3 1 (2.00%) IFRS
3 1 (2.00%) IFRS 9
3 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (14.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.00%) CA Wily
3 1 (2.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 11 (22.00%) Oracle
2 10 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.00%) Databricks
4 4 (8.00%) SAP
5 2 (4.00%) Google
5 2 (4.00%) Veracode
5 2 (4.00%) VMware
6 1 (2.00%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.00%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.00%) Solace
6 1 (2.00%) Splunk