SQL Developer Contracts in England

SQL Developer
UK > England

The median SQL Developer daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 372 381
Rank change year-on-year -3 +9 -37
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Developer 160 318 476
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.63% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.66% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 263 384
10th Percentile £363 £363 £324
25th Percentile £425 £450 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £486
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +9.00% +11.14%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £575
90th Percentile £768 £711 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% +13.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £42.02
UK median hourly rate - - £42.02
% change year-on-year - - +40.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured SQL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Developer in England

SQL Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Developer in England

SQL Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Developer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Developer in England

SQL Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Developer in England

SQL Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Developer within the 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
London +17 99 £600 - 30
South East +12 22 £513 -2.38% 6
Midlands +14 20 £488 - 20
West Midlands +21 16 £500 - 11
North of England +22 15 £450 -4.26% 12
North West +4 8 £438 -4.37% 7
Yorkshire +23 7 £450 -5.26% 5
East Midlands +18 4 £388 +9.15% 9
East of England +8 3 £300 -45.45% 2
South West +4 2 £305 -34.05% 1
SQL Developer
UK

SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, SQL Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 157 (98.13%) SQL
2 59 (36.88%) SQL Server
3 50 (31.25%) Oracle
4 46 (28.75%) Agile
5 39 (24.38%) PL/SQL
6 38 (23.75%) C#
7 32 (20.00%) Finance
8 30 (18.75%) Azure
9 29 (18.13%) Data Modelling
10 27 (16.88%) .NET
11 26 (16.25%) Business Intelligence
12 25 (15.63%) Microsoft
12 25 (15.63%) DevOps
13 22 (13.75%) Java
13 22 (13.75%) Unix
13 22 (13.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 21 (13.13%) Scrum
15 20 (12.50%) SDLC
16 19 (11.88%) Banking
17 18 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
17 18 (11.25%) Python
17 18 (11.25%) Oracle Database
17 18 (11.25%) Social Skills
18 17 (10.63%) ETL
18 17 (10.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 16 (10.00%) Software Engineering
19 16 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
19 16 (10.00%) JavaScript
20 15 (9.38%) Unit Testing
20 15 (9.38%) Power BI

SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.63%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.25%) SAP GTS
2 1 (0.63%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.63%) Epicor Tropos
2 1 (0.63%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 30 (18.75%) Azure
2 15 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
2 15 (9.38%) Power Platform
3 11 (6.88%) AWS
4 9 (5.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (3.75%) Serverless
6 5 (3.13%) Azure Functions
7 4 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (2.50%) PaaS
7 4 (2.50%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.88%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.88%) OCI
9 2 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.25%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.25%) Apigee
9 2 (1.25%) Azure API Management
9 2 (1.25%) GCP
9 2 (1.25%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (36.88%) SQL Server
2 22 (13.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 18 (11.25%) Oracle Database
3 18 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (10.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (9.38%) Power BI
7 11 (6.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (5.00%) Relational Database
9 7 (4.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (3.75%) Tableau
11 5 (3.13%) Oracle Database 11g
11 5 (3.13%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.50%) Data Lake
12 4 (2.50%) NoSQL
12 4 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (1.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.88%) Hadoop
14 2 (1.25%) MongoDB
14 2 (1.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (8.13%) Git
2 7 (4.38%) Maven
3 6 (3.75%) JIRA
3 6 (3.75%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (3.13%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.50%) Ant
5 4 (2.50%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (1.88%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.25%) JUnit
7 2 (1.25%) Mockito
7 2 (1.25%) Postman
8 1 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.63%) GitLab
8 1 (0.63%) GoCD
8 1 (0.63%) NUnit
8 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 32 (20.00%) Finance
2 19 (11.88%) Banking
3 18 (11.25%) Social Skills
4 15 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.13%) Retail Banking
7 3 (1.88%) Back Office
7 3 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.88%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.25%) Agriculture
8 2 (1.25%) Local Government
8 2 (1.25%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.25%) Marketing
9 1 (0.63%) Electronics
9 1 (0.63%) Front Office
9 1 (0.63%) Law
9 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Retail
9 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (16.88%) .NET
2 10 (6.25%) Hibernate
2 10 (6.25%) JPA
3 7 (4.38%) .NET Core
3 7 (4.38%) .NET Framework
4 6 (3.75%) AngularJS
4 6 (3.75%) ASP.NET
5 4 (2.50%) REST
6 3 (1.88%) React
7 2 (1.25%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.25%) Entity Framework
7 2 (1.25%) gRPC
7 2 (1.25%) jQuery
7 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.25%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.25%) Spring
7 2 (1.25%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.25%) Swagger
7 2 (1.25%) Web Services
8 1 (0.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (4.38%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.38%) Market Risk
2 7 (4.38%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.13%) Hedge funds
4 5 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.50%) Derivative
6 2 (1.25%) Credit Derivative
6 2 (1.25%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.25%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.63%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.75%) Unix
2 4 (2.50%) Linux
3 3 (1.88%) VMS
4 2 (1.25%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (28.75%) Agile
2 29 (18.13%) Data Modelling
3 26 (16.25%) Business Intelligence
4 25 (15.63%) DevOps
5 21 (13.13%) Scrum
6 20 (12.50%) SDLC
7 17 (10.63%) ETL
8 16 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 15 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (9.38%) Unit Testing
10 14 (8.75%) Migration
10 14 (8.75%) Physical Data Model
10 14 (8.75%) User Acceptance Testing
11 13 (8.13%) Software Testing
11 13 (8.13%) TDD
12 10 (6.25%) CI/CD
12 10 (6.25%) OO
13 9 (5.63%) Database Tuning
14 8 (5.00%) Performance Tuning
14 8 (5.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 157 (98.13%) SQL
2 39 (24.38%) PL/SQL
3 38 (23.75%) C#
4 22 (13.75%) Java
5 18 (11.25%) Python
6 16 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 13 (8.13%) T-SQL
8 10 (6.25%) Perl
9 7 (4.38%) Bash
9 7 (4.38%) Bourne shell
9 7 (4.38%) Korn
10 4 (2.50%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.88%) COBOL
12 2 (1.25%) C
12 2 (1.25%) DCL
12 2 (1.25%) VB
13 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.63%) R
13 1 (0.63%) Scala
13 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.50%) MiFID
2 2 (1.25%) QA
3 1 (0.63%) EMIR
3 1 (0.63%) FATCA
3 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.63%) IFRS
System Software
1 3 (1.88%) Docker
2 2 (1.25%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (1.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.63%) Control-M
Vendors
1 50 (31.25%) Oracle
2 25 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.38%) Salesforce
3 7 (4.38%) Sparx
4 3 (1.88%) SAP
5 2 (1.25%) IBM
5 2 (1.25%) Murex
6 1 (0.63%) Databricks
6 1 (0.63%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.63%) Sybase
6 1 (0.63%) Workday