SQL Contracts in Exeter

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Devon > Exeter

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Exeter 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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 20 25
Rank change year-on-year +13 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing SQL 10 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Exeter 18.52% 2.52% 1.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.56% 25.00% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 1
10th Percentile £309 - -
25th Percentile £321 £388 £813
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £825
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -48.48% +106.25%
75th Percentile £505 £463 £838
90th Percentile £520 - -
Devon median daily rate £400 £425 £550
% change year-on-year -5.88% -22.73% +83.33%

All Programming Languages
Exeter

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 Exeter.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 18 12 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Exeter 33.33% 10.08% 35.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 25
10th Percentile £310 £329 £425
25th Percentile £338 £381 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -29.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £520 £525 £675
90th Percentile £527 £600 £725
Devon median daily rate £425 £463 £563
% change year-on-year -8.11% -17.78% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - £51.00
Devon median hourly rate - - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Exeter

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Exeter

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Exeter

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Exeter

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Exeter over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Exeter

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Exeter

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Exeter

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Exeter 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 (20.00%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (30.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (20.00%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (20.00%) Power BI
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Database Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) DBA
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) CSS
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (20.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) ETL
2 4 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Data Management
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (20.00%) Database Security
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Statistics
3 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Web Development
3 2 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Perl
2 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (20.00%) MCSE
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
1 2 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce