SQL Contracts in Essex

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 13 12
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL 14 19 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 17.50% 8.56% 10.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.89% 19.79% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 18
10th Percentile - - £177
25th Percentile £315 £263 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £300 £236
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +27.17% -44.88%
75th Percentile £318 £488 £276
90th Percentile £320 £560 £383
East of England median daily rate £459 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +1.94% +5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £64.00 - £19.13
25th Percentile £115.00 - £19.69
Median hourly rate £200.00 - £22.25
75th Percentile - - £25.69
90th Percentile - - £26.78
East of England median hourly rate £63.00 £36.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +75.00% +20.00% -14.29%

All Programming Languages
Essex

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 36 96 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 45.00% 43.24% 33.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 51 46
10th Percentile £315 £275 £209
25th Percentile £318 £388 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £485 £478
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +1.57% -1.55%
75th Percentile £486 £569 £529
90th Percentile £488 £600 £585
East of England median daily rate £479 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +0.79% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 3
10th Percentile £32.00 - £19.50
25th Percentile £35.00 £52.50 £20.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 £59.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% +138.00% -60.70%
75th Percentile £200.00 £80.00 £46.63
90th Percentile - - £58.10
East of England median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.54% - +16.07%

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

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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

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Essex

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in Essex over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in Essex

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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 1 May 2025. 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
Basildon +12 9 £317 -42.45% 66
Southend-on-Sea - 3 - -
SQL
East of England

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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 4 (28.57%) Apache
1 4 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (21.43%) Confluence
3 2 (14.29%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) GCP
2 5 (35.71%) Power Platform
3 3 (21.43%) dbt
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub
3 3 (21.43%) Vertex AI
4 2 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) Azure
5 1 (7.14%) Google Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Power BI
1 5 (35.71%) Tableau
2 4 (28.57%) BigQuery
2 4 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (21.43%) Looker
3 3 (21.43%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
1 3 (21.43%) TestRail
2 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Automotive
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Data Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) QA Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) GCP Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Fraud Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Report Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) SQL DBA
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Reporting Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Tableau Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) PySpark
2 4 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 4 (28.57%) React
3 3 (21.43%) Kafka
3 3 (21.43%) NumPy
3 3 (21.43%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Data Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) Data Security
2 6 (42.86%) User Stories
3 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (35.71%) Visualisation
4 4 (28.57%) Analytics
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 4 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
4 4 (28.57%) ETL
4 4 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (21.43%) Critical Thinking
5 3 (21.43%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (21.43%) Data Ingestion
5 3 (21.43%) Data Science
5 3 (21.43%) DataOps
5 3 (21.43%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (21.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) GDPR
2 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 3 (21.43%) QA
3 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Google
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Checkmarx
3 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.14%) SAP