SQL Contracts in the East Midlands

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 76 120 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.81% 11.64% 11.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.78% 39.47% 42.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 103 113
10th Percentile £275 £223 £270
25th Percentile £358 £328 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £388
Median % change year-on-year - +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £544 £480 £488
90th Percentile £638 £538 £500
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 10
10th Percentile £12.63 £28.83 £19.63
25th Percentile £21.73 £32.36 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £38.24 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.09% +9.26% +55.56%
75th Percentile £33.25 £44.12 -
90th Percentile £44.44 £47.65 -
England median hourly rate £43.50 £49.28 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.73% +40.81% +33.33%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 196 304 380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 25.29% 29.49% 27.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 261 299
10th Percentile £288 £290 £313
25th Percentile £356 £355 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £413
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +6.06% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £500
90th Percentile £604 £650 £569
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.28% +2.33% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 15
10th Percentile £15.66 £18.87 £20.10
25th Percentile £22.12 £26.48 £27.63
Median hourly rate £25.00 £38.24 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +9.26% -22.22%
75th Percentile £31.00 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £40.71 £61.88 £46.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.18 £50.10
% change year-on-year +2.17% +22.11% +15.84%

SQL
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 8 May 2024.

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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 8 May 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
Northamptonshire +3 22 £394 -1.56% 22
Nottinghamshire +1 19 £340 -28.42% 45
Leicestershire -3 16 £388 -3.13% 38
Derbyshire +8 10 £488 +8.33% 29
Lincolnshire +18 9 £525 - 11
SQL
England

SQL
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 3 (3.95%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.95%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.63%) Apache
2 2 (2.63%) Confluence
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.63%) SAS
3 1 (1.32%) Appian
3 1 (1.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (15.79%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.63%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.05%) Azure
2 12 (15.79%) Power Platform
3 8 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (9.21%) AWS
5 4 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.95%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.63%) dbt
7 2 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.63%) Serverless
8 1 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.32%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.32%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.32%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.32%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.32%) GCP
8 1 (1.32%) IaaS
8 1 (1.32%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.89%) Fibre Channel
2 5 (6.58%) SAN
3 2 (2.63%) DNS
3 2 (2.63%) VoIP
3 2 (2.63%) VPN
4 1 (1.32%) Network Security
4 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.47%) Power BI
2 10 (13.16%) Data Lake
2 10 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (13.16%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.89%) Hadoop
4 5 (6.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (6.58%) Impala
4 5 (6.58%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.26%) Big Data
5 4 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.26%) Oracle Database
6 3 (3.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (3.95%) Pentaho
6 3 (3.95%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (3.95%) Tableau
7 2 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.63%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.63%) SAP HANA
7 2 (2.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (2.63%) Selenium
2 2 (2.63%) TestRail
3 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (19.74%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (14.47%) Finance
4 6 (7.89%) Banking
5 3 (3.95%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.95%) Retail
6 2 (2.63%) Front Office
6 2 (2.63%) Marketing
6 2 (2.63%) Police
7 1 (1.32%) Advertising
7 1 (1.32%) Back Office
7 1 (1.32%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (28.95%) Analyst
1 22 (28.95%) Developer
2 13 (17.11%) Software Developer
3 11 (14.47%) Data Analyst
3 11 (14.47%) Data Engineer
4 6 (7.89%) Architect
5 5 (6.58%) Senior
6 4 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 4 (5.26%) Oracle Developer
6 4 (5.26%) PL/SQL Developer
6 4 (5.26%) SQL Developer
7 3 (3.95%) Azure Architect
7 3 (3.95%) Business Analyst
7 3 (3.95%) Data Architect
7 3 (3.95%) Storage Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) Business Data Analyst
8 2 (2.63%) Process Mapping Analyst
8 2 (2.63%) Software Analyst
8 2 (2.63%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.42%) HTML
2 5 (6.58%) .NET
3 2 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (2.63%) Vue
4 1 (1.32%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.32%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.32%) Apache Beam
4 1 (1.32%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (1.32%) CSS
4 1 (1.32%) Kafka
4 1 (1.32%) Middleware
4 1 (1.32%) React
4 1 (1.32%) SPFx
4 1 (1.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.58%) HP Storage
1 5 (6.58%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (3.95%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.63%) Wiki
4 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.32%) Clustering
4 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.32%) FMCG
4 1 (1.32%) Insider Threat
4 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.32%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.32%) NHS
4 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.11%) Windows
2 7 (9.21%) Linux
3 5 (6.58%) AIX
3 5 (6.58%) Solaris
4 4 (5.26%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.95%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.63%) Windows 7
6 2 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (27.63%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (17.11%) Agile
2 13 (17.11%) Artificial Intelligence
2 13 (17.11%) Code Quality
3 12 (15.79%) Conversational UI
3 12 (15.79%) Data Modelling
3 12 (15.79%) Software Engineering
3 12 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
4 11 (14.47%) Analytics
4 11 (14.47%) ETL
5 8 (10.53%) Data Analytics
5 8 (10.53%) Migration
6 7 (9.21%) Data Analysis
6 7 (9.21%) Logistic Regression
6 7 (9.21%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (9.21%) Project Delivery
7 6 (7.89%) Data Engineering
7 6 (7.89%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (7.89%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 30 (39.47%) Python
2 19 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 16 (21.05%) C#
4 7 (9.21%) R
5 5 (6.58%) Java
5 5 (6.58%) Scala
5 5 (6.58%) T-SQL
6 4 (5.26%) PL/SQL
6 4 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.63%) Bash
8 1 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.32%) PHP
8 1 (1.32%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (1.32%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.32%) VB
8 1 (1.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (25.00%) Degree
2 11 (14.47%) Security Cleared
3 10 (13.16%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.63%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.63%) MCSE
6 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.32%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.32%) ISEB
6 1 (1.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.32%) MCITP
6 1 (1.32%) MCTS
6 1 (1.32%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.58%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.63%) GDPR
2 2 (2.63%) QA
3 1 (1.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 6 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (6.58%) EMC NetWorker
1 5 (6.58%) HP Data Protector
1 5 (6.58%) NetBackup
2 4 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (1.32%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.32%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (18.42%) Oracle
2 12 (15.79%) PayPal
3 11 (14.47%) Microsoft
4 6 (7.89%) Databricks
4 6 (7.89%) EMC
5 5 (6.58%) Brocade
5 5 (6.58%) Cisco
5 5 (6.58%) HP
5 5 (6.58%) Symantec
6 3 (3.95%) Informatica
6 3 (3.95%) Talend
7 2 (2.63%) SAP
8 1 (1.32%) Capita
8 1 (1.32%) JDA
8 1 (1.32%) Sage
8 1 (1.32%) Splunk