SQL Contracts in the East of England

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 18 12
Rank change year-on-year -22 -6 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 85 168 267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.48% 8.09% 10.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.43% 28.14% 34.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 128 165
10th Percentile £263 £231 £263
25th Percentile £350 £320 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £488
90th Percentile £628 £600 £600
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 26
10th Percentile £24.00 £19.84 £12.53
25th Percentile £24.59 £21.53 £18.19
Median hourly rate £36.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% - +62.79%
75th Percentile £58.75 £49.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £60.00 £65.10 £56.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £49.79 £35.25
% change year-on-year -14.63% +41.23% +35.58%

All Programming Languages
East of England

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 416 597 783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.94% 28.74% 30.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 345 457
10th Percentile £302 £289 £300
25th Percentile £405 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £563
90th Percentile £634 £683 £631
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 100 91
10th Percentile £52.50 £47.50 £26.98
25th Percentile £60.00 £53.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% +24.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £77.00 £61.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

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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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -15 35 £450 -5.26% 55
Essex -4 20 £300 +27.17% 32
Cambridgeshire -11 19 £488 +8.33% 34
Suffolk +1 4 £550 +37.50% 5
Bedfordshire -21 4 £410 -15.90% 19
Norfolk +7 3 £204 -32.00% 16
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 (8.24%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.06%) Apache
2 6 (7.06%) IIS
3 3 (3.53%) SAS
4 2 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.35%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.18%) CMS
5 1 (1.18%) Luigi
5 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (9.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Utilities
Cloud Services
1 21 (24.71%) Power Platform
2 14 (16.47%) AWS
3 8 (9.41%) Azure
3 8 (9.41%) Serverless
4 7 (8.24%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (7.06%) Amazon S3
5 6 (7.06%) SaaS
6 5 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (5.88%) Google Sheets
6 5 (5.88%) Power Automate
7 4 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.71%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.71%) PowerApps
7 4 (4.71%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.53%) GCP
9 2 (2.35%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (2.35%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.00%) Power BI
2 13 (15.29%) SQL Server
3 10 (11.76%) NoSQL
4 8 (9.41%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (9.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (7.06%) Big Data
5 6 (7.06%) Tableau
6 5 (5.88%) GIS
6 5 (5.88%) Hadoop
6 5 (5.88%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.53%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.53%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.53%) Data Mining
7 3 (3.53%) Looker
7 3 (3.53%) MySQL
7 3 (3.53%) QlikView
7 3 (3.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.35%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 13 (15.29%) Git
2 9 (10.59%) JIRA
3 7 (8.24%) JUnit
3 7 (8.24%) Mockito
4 6 (7.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (3.53%) Maven
6 2 (2.35%) IntelliJ
6 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (32.94%) Social Skills
2 22 (25.88%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (17.65%) Finance
4 7 (8.24%) Aerospace
4 7 (8.24%) Retail
5 6 (7.06%) Marketing
6 5 (5.88%) Back Office
7 4 (4.71%) Games
7 4 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.71%) Urdu Language
8 3 (3.53%) Automotive
8 3 (3.53%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.35%) Local Government
9 2 (2.35%) Military
10 1 (1.18%) Aviation
10 1 (1.18%) Law
10 1 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 33 (38.82%) Developer
2 9 (10.59%) Data Engineer
3 8 (9.41%) Architect
4 7 (8.24%) Analyst
4 7 (8.24%) Data Analyst
5 6 (7.06%) Applications Developer
5 6 (7.06%) Senior
6 5 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (5.88%) Data Architect
6 5 (5.88%) Digital Transformation
6 5 (5.88%) Digital Transformation Manager
6 5 (5.88%) Python Developer
6 5 (5.88%) Transformation Manager
7 4 (4.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (4.71%) Data Scientist
7 4 (4.71%) Power BI Developer
7 4 (4.71%) Systems Developer
8 3 (3.53%) Qlik Developer
8 3 (3.53%) Salesforce Developer
8 3 (3.53%) SQL BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.76%) .NET
1 10 (11.76%) HTML
1 10 (11.76%) REST
2 8 (9.41%) CSS
2 8 (9.41%) Spring
2 8 (9.41%) Spring Boot
3 7 (8.24%) Drools
3 7 (8.24%) Quarkus
3 7 (8.24%) RESTful
4 4 (4.71%) Kafka
4 4 (4.71%) React
5 3 (3.53%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (3.53%) Visualforce
6 2 (2.35%) Node.js
6 2 (2.35%) Web Services
6 2 (2.35%) XML
7 1 (1.18%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.18%) Java Concurrency
7 1 (1.18%) NumPy
7 1 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.24%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.71%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.35%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.18%) FMCG
5 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.18%) PropTech
5 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.71%) Linux
1 4 (4.71%) Windows
1 4 (4.71%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.35%) Unix
3 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (28.24%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (18.82%) Agile
3 16 (18.82%) ETL
4 15 (17.65%) Data Modelling
5 11 (12.94%) Migration
5 11 (12.94%) Scrum
6 9 (10.59%) Data Management
6 9 (10.59%) Web Development
7 8 (9.41%) Containerisation
7 8 (9.41%) Data Analysis
7 8 (9.41%) SDLC
7 8 (9.41%) Visualisation
8 7 (8.24%) Change Management
8 7 (8.24%) Data Integration
8 7 (8.24%) Data Science
8 7 (8.24%) Microservices
8 7 (8.24%) Statistics
8 7 (8.24%) TDD
8 7 (8.24%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (27.06%) Python
2 18 (21.18%) Java
3 10 (11.76%) C#
4 7 (8.24%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.06%) C
6 3 (3.53%) Apex Code
6 3 (3.53%) PL/SQL
6 3 (3.53%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.35%) PHP
7 2 (2.35%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.35%) R
7 2 (2.35%) Scala
7 2 (2.35%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.35%) VB
7 2 (2.35%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.18%) Bash
8 1 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.18%) Jython
Qualifications
1 9 (10.59%) Degree
2 7 (8.24%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.06%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.53%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.53%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.35%) PMP
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.12%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.53%) QA
2 3 (3.53%) SLA
3 1 (1.18%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (10.59%) Docker
2 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (9.41%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.53%) Terraform
3 2 (2.35%) SCCM
3 2 (2.35%) SCOM
4 1 (1.18%) Ansible
4 1 (1.18%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (1.18%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (7.06%) Microsoft
1 6 (7.06%) Oracle
2 5 (5.88%) Google
3 4 (4.71%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.71%) SAP
4 3 (3.53%) Informatica
4 3 (3.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (2.35%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.35%) F5
5 2 (2.35%) Talend
6 1 (1.18%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.18%) Capita
6 1 (1.18%) Hortonworks
6 1 (1.18%) IBM
6 1 (1.18%) Northgate
6 1 (1.18%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.18%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.18%) Teradata
6 1 (1.18%) Trillium
6 1 (1.18%) Twitter