SQL Contracts in the Home Counties

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Home Counties

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Home Counties 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SQL 4 0 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Home Counties 50.00% - 17.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 80.00% - 34.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 16
10th Percentile - - £413
25th Percentile - - £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £500
75th Percentile - - £547
90th Percentile - - £725
South East median daily rate £475 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -6.86% +2.00% +8.40%

All Programming Languages
Home Counties

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 the Home Counties with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5 5 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties 62.50% 20.83% 48.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 46
10th Percentile - £425 £444
25th Percentile £463 £450 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £1,100 £613
Median % change year-on-year -56.82% +79.59% -23.44%
75th Percentile £488 - £659
90th Percentile - - £788
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the Home Counties

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Home Counties

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in the Home Counties.

Daily rate trend for SQL in the Home Counties

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Home Counties

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in the Home Counties.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the Home Counties

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Home Counties 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Applications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Applications Support
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Senior SQL DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Storytelling
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) F#
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA