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 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 394 377 400
Rank change year-on-year -17 +23 -63
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Developer 151 299 465
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.60% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.63% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 244 380
10th Percentile £376 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +8.57%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £572
90th Percentile £822 £710 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £486
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.14% +12.25%
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 34,183 47,267 67,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,703 33,560 48,361
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,401 1,881
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

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 5 May 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 5 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
London +40 93 £600 - 27
South East +8 21 £525 +2.44% 7
Midlands +20 19 £488 +2.63% 29
North of England +22 15 £450 -1.10% 10
West Midlands +14 15 £500 -1.23% 16
North West +16 8 £438 -0.57% 6
Yorkshire +23 7 £450 -5.26% 4
East Midlands +19 4 £388 +9.15% 13
East of England +8 3 £300 -45.45% 2
South West +6 1 £225 -47.06% 1
SQL Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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.

1 148 (98.01%) SQL
2 56 (37.09%) SQL Server
3 47 (31.13%) Oracle
4 45 (29.80%) Agile
5 37 (24.50%) PL/SQL
6 36 (23.84%) C#
7 28 (18.54%) Finance
7 28 (18.54%) Azure
8 26 (17.22%) .NET
8 26 (17.22%) Data Modelling
8 26 (17.22%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (16.56%) DevOps
10 24 (15.89%) Microsoft
11 22 (14.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 21 (13.91%) Java
12 21 (13.91%) Unix
13 20 (13.25%) Scrum
14 19 (12.58%) SDLC
15 18 (11.92%) Banking
15 18 (11.92%) Python
16 17 (11.26%) PostgreSQL
16 17 (11.26%) Oracle Database
16 17 (11.26%) Social Skills
17 16 (10.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 16 (10.60%) Software Engineering
18 15 (9.93%) ETL
18 15 (9.93%) Unit Testing
18 15 (9.93%) Power Platform
18 15 (9.93%) Public Sector
18 15 (9.93%) 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 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.66%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) SAP GTS
2 1 (0.66%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.66%) Epicor Tropos
2 1 (0.66%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 28 (18.54%) Azure
2 15 (9.93%) Azure DevOps
2 15 (9.93%) Power Platform
3 11 (7.28%) AWS
4 9 (5.96%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (3.97%) Serverless
6 5 (3.31%) Azure Functions
7 4 (2.65%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (2.65%) PaaS
7 4 (2.65%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.99%) OCI
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.32%) Apigee
9 2 (1.32%) Azure API Management
9 2 (1.32%) GCP
9 2 (1.32%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.32%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (37.09%) SQL Server
2 22 (14.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (11.26%) Oracle Database
3 17 (11.26%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (10.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (9.93%) Power BI
6 13 (8.61%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (6.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (4.64%) Relational Database
8 7 (4.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (3.31%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.65%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.65%) Oracle Database 11g
10 4 (2.65%) Tableau
11 3 (1.99%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.99%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (1.32%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.32%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.66%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 14 (9.27%) Git
2 7 (4.64%) Maven
3 6 (3.97%) JIRA
3 6 (3.97%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (2.65%) Ant
4 4 (2.65%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (2.65%) Oracle APEX
4 4 (2.65%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.32%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.32%) JUnit
5 2 (1.32%) Mockito
5 2 (1.32%) Postman
6 1 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.66%) GoCD
6 1 (0.66%) NUnit
6 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 28 (18.54%) Finance
2 18 (11.92%) Banking
3 17 (11.26%) Social Skills
4 15 (9.93%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.31%) Retail Banking
7 4 (2.65%) Back Office
7 4 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.65%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Local Government
9 2 (1.32%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.32%) Marketing
10 1 (0.66%) Electronics
10 1 (0.66%) Front Office
10 1 (0.66%) Law
10 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Retail
10 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (17.22%) .NET
2 10 (6.62%) Hibernate
2 10 (6.62%) JPA
3 7 (4.64%) .NET Core
3 7 (4.64%) .NET Framework
4 6 (3.97%) AngularJS
4 6 (3.97%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.99%) React
5 3 (1.99%) REST
6 2 (1.32%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.32%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.32%) jQuery
6 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.32%) OpenAPI
6 2 (1.32%) Spring
6 2 (1.32%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.32%) Swagger
7 1 (0.66%) Ajax
7 1 (0.66%) Web Services
7 1 (0.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.96%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (4.64%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.64%) Market Risk
2 7 (4.64%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.31%) Hedge funds
4 5 (3.31%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.99%) Derivative
6 2 (1.32%) Credit Derivative
6 2 (1.32%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.66%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.66%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.66%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.66%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.91%) Unix
2 4 (2.65%) Linux
3 3 (1.99%) VMS
4 2 (1.32%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (29.80%) Agile
2 26 (17.22%) Business Intelligence
2 26 (17.22%) Data Modelling
3 25 (16.56%) DevOps
4 20 (13.25%) Scrum
5 19 (12.58%) SDLC
6 16 (10.60%) Software Engineering
7 15 (9.93%) ETL
7 15 (9.93%) Unit Testing
8 14 (9.27%) Migration
8 14 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (9.27%) User Acceptance Testing
9 13 (8.61%) Physical Data Model
9 13 (8.61%) Software Testing
10 12 (7.95%) TDD
11 10 (6.62%) CI/CD
11 10 (6.62%) OO
12 9 (5.96%) Database Tuning
13 8 (5.30%) System Testing
14 7 (4.64%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 148 (98.01%) SQL
2 37 (24.50%) PL/SQL
3 36 (23.84%) C#
4 21 (13.91%) Java
5 18 (11.92%) Python
6 14 (9.27%) JavaScript
7 12 (7.95%) T-SQL
8 10 (6.62%) Perl
9 7 (4.64%) Bash
9 7 (4.64%) Bourne shell
9 7 (4.64%) Korn
10 3 (1.99%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.32%) C
11 2 (1.32%) COBOL
11 2 (1.32%) DCL
11 2 (1.32%) VB
12 1 (0.66%) R
12 1 (0.66%) Scala
12 1 (0.66%) VBA
12 1 (0.66%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (7.95%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.62%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.66%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.65%) MiFID
2 2 (1.32%) QA
3 1 (0.66%) EMIR
3 1 (0.66%) FATCA
3 1 (0.66%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.66%) IFRS
System Software
1 3 (1.99%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (1.32%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.66%) Control-M
Vendors
1 47 (31.13%) Oracle
2 24 (15.89%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.97%) Salesforce
3 6 (3.97%) Sparx
4 3 (1.99%) SAP
5 2 (1.32%) Murex
6 1 (0.66%) Databricks
6 1 (0.66%) IBM
6 1 (0.66%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (0.66%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.66%) Sybase
6 1 (0.66%) Workday