SQL Contracts in the East of England

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 37 17
Rank change year-on-year +18 -20 -5
Contract jobs citing SQL 77 85 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 8.16% 4.45% 8.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.17% 20.33% 28.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 49 128
10th Percentile £321 £263 £231
25th Percentile £413 £350 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £660 £628 £600
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 6
10th Percentile £30.49 £24.00 £19.66
25th Percentile £31.64 £24.59 £21.05
Median hourly rate £63.00 £36.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% +20.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £78.19 £58.75 £57.13
90th Percentile £164.68 £60.00 £65.25
England median hourly rate £44.50 £42.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.71% -15.00% +40.85%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 247 418 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 26.17% 21.88% 28.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 184 344
10th Percentile £315 £302 £289
25th Percentile £408 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.79% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £572 £563 £575
90th Percentile £675 £634 £684
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 144 99
10th Percentile £32.31 £52.50 £48.50
25th Percentile £59.00 £60.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% - +16.07%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £88.75 £77.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year - +1.07% +23.68%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in the East of England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in the East of England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Hertfordshire +17 23 £538 +19.44% 39
Cambridgeshire +11 19 £438 -10.26% 44
Essex +11 14 £318 +6.00% 22
Bedfordshire +4 8 £650 +58.54% 14
Suffolk -4 7 £751 +36.55% 18
Norfolk +8 6 £450 +120.59% 9
SQL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 7 (9.09%) WebSphere
2 4 (5.19%) Apache
2 4 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.90%) Confluence
4 2 (2.60%) IIS
5 1 (1.30%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (11.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (7.79%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) SAP ERP
1 3 (3.90%) SAP EWM
1 3 (3.90%) SAP GTS
1 3 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.88%) AWS
1 13 (16.88%) Azure
1 13 (16.88%) Power Platform
2 7 (9.09%) GCP
2 7 (9.09%) SaaS
3 4 (5.19%) dbt
4 3 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (3.90%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (3.90%) GitHub
4 3 (3.90%) PowerApps
4 3 (3.90%) Snowflake
4 3 (3.90%) Vertex AI
5 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (2.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.30%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.30%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.60%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (2.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.29%) Power BI
2 10 (12.99%) MongoDB
2 10 (12.99%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (10.39%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (10.39%) Metadata
4 7 (9.09%) DB2
5 5 (6.49%) Tableau
6 4 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (5.19%) BigQuery
6 4 (5.19%) Data Mining
7 3 (3.90%) Looker
7 3 (3.90%) Oracle Database
7 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.60%) InfluxDB
8 2 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.30%) MS Access
9 1 (1.30%) MySQL
9 1 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.30%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Git
2 3 (3.90%) JIRA
2 3 (3.90%) TestRail
3 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.30%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.30%) Hudson
3 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.30%) Postman
3 1 (1.30%) Selenium
3 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 25 (32.47%) Social Skills
2 18 (23.38%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.99%) Finance
4 5 (6.49%) Automotive
5 3 (3.90%) Law
5 3 (3.90%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (3.90%) Retail
6 1 (1.30%) Banking
6 1 (1.30%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.30%) Marketing
6 1 (1.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (33.77%) Developer
2 13 (16.88%) Architect
3 11 (14.29%) Analyst
3 11 (14.29%) Senior
4 8 (10.39%) Software Developer
5 7 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 6 (7.79%) Trainer
7 5 (6.49%) Data Analyst
7 5 (6.49%) Data Architect
7 5 (6.49%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (6.49%) Systems Architect
8 4 (5.19%) Cloud Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Information Architect
8 4 (5.19%) Information Systems Architect
8 4 (5.19%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) IFS Consultant
9 3 (3.90%) IFS Developer
9 3 (3.90%) SAP Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) HTML
2 6 (7.79%) PySpark
2 6 (7.79%) React
3 5 (6.49%) .NET
3 5 (6.49%) Alpine.js
3 5 (6.49%) CSS
3 5 (6.49%) Kafka
3 5 (6.49%) Laravel
3 5 (6.49%) Tailwind CSS
4 4 (5.19%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.19%) Web Services
5 3 (3.90%) NumPy
5 3 (3.90%) Pandas
6 2 (2.60%) Node.js
6 2 (2.60%) REST
6 2 (2.60%) RESTful
6 2 (2.60%) XML
7 1 (1.30%) JSON
7 1 (1.30%) MDX
7 1 (1.30%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.58%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.49%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.19%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.19%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.60%) FMCG
4 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.60%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.60%) Replication
5 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Life Science
5 1 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.30%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.90%) Linux
1 3 (3.90%) Unix
1 3 (3.90%) Windows
1 3 (3.90%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.30%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (20.78%) Agile
3 14 (18.18%) Migration
3 14 (18.18%) Visualisation
4 13 (16.88%) Analytics
4 13 (16.88%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (16.88%) Data Visualisation
5 11 (14.29%) Data Management
5 11 (14.29%) ERP
5 11 (14.29%) ETL
6 10 (12.99%) CI/CD
6 10 (12.99%) Software Engineering
7 9 (11.69%) Artificial Intelligence
7 9 (11.69%) Data Modelling
7 9 (11.69%) Data Science
8 8 (10.39%) Code Quality
8 8 (10.39%) Data Engineering
8 8 (10.39%) Data Migration
8 8 (10.39%) Project Management
9 7 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 22 (28.57%) Python
2 9 (11.69%) JavaScript
3 8 (10.39%) C#
4 7 (9.09%) PL/SQL
5 6 (7.79%) C++
6 5 (6.49%) PHP
7 4 (5.19%) Java
8 3 (3.90%) ABAP
8 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.30%) Bicep
9 1 (1.30%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (23.38%) Degree
2 10 (12.99%) Security Cleared
3 9 (11.69%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.69%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.79%) GDPR
3 4 (5.19%) QA
4 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.30%) SLA
4 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (12.99%) Active Directory
2 8 (10.39%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.60%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (6.49%) Terraform
2 2 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (10.39%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.09%) Oracle
3 6 (7.79%) IFS
3 6 (7.79%) PayPal
4 5 (6.49%) SAP
5 3 (3.90%) Google
6 2 (2.60%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.30%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.30%) Cognos
7 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.30%) IBM
7 1 (1.30%) Perfecto Mobile
7 1 (1.30%) Sybase