SQL Contracts in Essex

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East of England > Essex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 16 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 20 25 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 8.89% 10.37% 12.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.62% 31.25% 32.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 31
10th Percentile £263 £177 £200
25th Percentile £266 £208 £292
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £236 £428
Median % change year-on-year +27.17% -44.88% +61.81%
75th Percentile £484 £276 £463
90th Percentile £559 £383 £498
East of England median daily rate £450 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +5.88% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £19.13 -
25th Percentile - £19.69 -
Median hourly rate - £22.25 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year - -17.53% +17.87%
75th Percentile - £25.69 £45.00
90th Percentile - £26.78 £64.39
East of England median hourly rate £36.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.86% - +62.79%

All Programming Languages
Essex

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 Essex with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 97 80 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 43.11% 33.20% 38.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 46 100
10th Percentile £275 £209 £274
25th Percentile £349 £250 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £478 £485
Median % change year-on-year +1.57% -1.55% +7.78%
75th Percentile £566 £529 £598
90th Percentile £600 £585 £631
East of England median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 10
10th Percentile - £19.50 £26.98
25th Percentile £52.50 £20.63 £31.49
Median hourly rate £59.50 £25.00 £59.31
Median % change year-on-year +138.00% -57.85% +18.62%
75th Percentile £80.00 £46.63 £73.28
90th Percentile - £58.10 £77.32
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year - +16.07% +24.44%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Essex

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Essex

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Essex

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Essex

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Essex 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
Harlow +8 4 £275 -21.43%
Brentwood - 3 £425 - 3
Basildon -3 1 £550 +243.75% 3
Thurrock - 1 £550 - 2
SQL
East of England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 2 (10.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (10.00%) IIS
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.00%) Luigi
2 1 (5.00%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Utilities
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (25.00%) Google Sheets
3 4 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (10.00%) AWS
4 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) OCI
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) Power BI
2 5 (25.00%) GIS
3 2 (10.00%) Big Data
3 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.00%) Data Mining
4 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (5.00%) Parquet
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.00%) Tableau
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Back Office
3 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (25.00%) Retail
4 4 (20.00%) Urdu Language
5 1 (5.00%) Local Government
5 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Digital Transformation
2 5 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Manager
2 5 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Transformation Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Power BI Developer
3 3 (15.00%) SQL BI Developer
3 3 (15.00%) SQL Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Data Science Manager
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Web Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Migration Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Avro
2 1 (5.00%) JSON
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) NumPy
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (5.00%) Pandas
2 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
1 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (30.00%) Data Analysis
4 5 (25.00%) Line Management
4 5 (25.00%) Service Management
5 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (15.00%) Data Science
6 3 (15.00%) ETL
7 2 (10.00%) DevOps
7 2 (10.00%) Load Balancing
7 2 (10.00%) Migration
8 1 (5.00%) Agile
8 1 (5.00%) Computer Science
8 1 (5.00%) Data Cleansing
8 1 (5.00%) Data Migration
8 1 (5.00%) Data Protection
8 1 (5.00%) Statistics
8 1 (5.00%) Unit Testing
8 1 (5.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.00%) Jython
3 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Scala
3 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) SCCM
1 2 (10.00%) SCOM
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) F5
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Hortonworks
3 1 (5.00%) Informatica
3 1 (5.00%) Liquidlogic
3 1 (5.00%) Teradata